Akala – Our Way The Way Lyrics
Lyrics
Ayanna Witter Johnson
- How do we, how do we find our way?
- How do we, how do we find our way?
Akala
- Talk fights wars
- Silence is never to blame
- Talk's forever changing
- Silence is always the same
- Talk likes to play
- But silence is not a game
- Talk only confuses
- Silence only explains
Verse 1
- So they talk
- And talk and talk and talk a lot
- But behind their talk is not
- Any action
- That goes with the rhetoric
- Its bullshit even if you ain't smelling it
- The word is the word
- Even if you're misspelling it
- If there's a heaven
- There's a hell in it
- If it exists, they're selling it
- Got no riches? then tenements
- Is where you live, with relatives
- That's just good biz, development
- Selling a wedding a funeral, sell
- The ugly the beautiful and the unusual, sell
- A life, a death, a dress an adress
- Or a desk or a pound of flesh
- All is acceptable, not regrettableWhen we make a person a decimal
- Line syllable rhyme typical
- Would it be better to mime lyrical
- Im just giving you my individual
- Spin on the things that ive seen in the physical
- I wanna know
- Ayanna Witter Johnson
- How do we, how do we find our way?
- When they have, so many things to say
- How do we, how do we find our way?
- When they have, so many things to say
Akala
- Talk is the fool
- Silence is always the wise
- Talk is the rule
- Silence is only a guide
- Talk is the tool
- But silence is in the mind
- Talkings mostly the cruel
- Silence is mostly the kind
Verse 2
- See they say so many things
- But then they clip so many wings
- Cos all they really wanna do is win
- And they dont want anyone against
- They try to dismiss our right to resist
- Or to fight with the fist you gotta be joking
- Writing a diss, or reciting a myth, or lighting a spliff
- You must be toking or
- Punch drunk off power abused, used
- In the only way that it has been
- Ever since any time that I can tell
- Maybe its nature we're battling
- The propaganda; new form of
- The hunters trap that's left for the prey
- But these predators will only
- Get fed from filling our heads
- With the words that they say
- More or less, you are more or lessIf you have more or you can guess the rest
- The story is an old one
- In my time on this earth I have told some
- With a Line syllable rhyme typical
- Would it be better to mime lyrical
- Im just giving you my individual
- Spin on the things that ive seen in the physical
- I wanna know
Ayanna Witter Johnson
- How do we, how do we find our way?
- How do we, how do we find our way?
Akala
- They say so much, so much they say dont they?
- They say so much, so much they say dont they?
- They say so much, so much they say dont they?
- They say so much, so much they say dont they?
Verse 3
- A word only defines another word
- So tell me whats in a name?
- Does the word blood, really tell you
- What it is that flows in my veins?
- May sound odd
- That a poet would try to persuade you
- The words you relate to
- Are nothing compared to the nothing that happens when nothing
- They say do they do
- I suppose what I mean is this
- If i really had peace of mind
- I probably wouldn't speak that much
- And I probably would not write these rhymes
Ayanna Witter Johnson
- How do we, how do we find our way?
- When they have, so many things to say
- How do we, how do we find our way?
- When they have, so many things to say
Akala
- So many things to say
- So many things to say
- So many things to say
- So many things to say