Travel light
The bags of life need handles tight gripped
Cause man knows it’s vital
Bright candle light in manholes
Like you got closed mind
Yes you are confined
Freedom’s natural as time moving, riot shooting
Now its Kaffirs and Boers aside
Doing Pantsula Jive
That’s two thousand five
Sing hallelujah survive
Better to just shoot up and die
See that the truest of signs
Lead back to you as divine
You decide, who defines
Human pursuit through what eyes
When nothings perfect
Rise above the surface
Trials are there for purpose, signs
What you interpret
Defines what you on earth for
Rely on human effort and signs
When it all goes downhill
And you sitting inside
With a flat wheel
Turn the window up
Better be alert
Get a gear-lock and a tow truck with a bit of luck
I told you
It’s a game of casino poker
When the lottery roll over
Close but,
No Philly blunt, no videos
No silly hoes, no millions
But so what
You are bigger than a photo-op
With a foremost pop star
Know your chakra
How to grow to adult
From a stone that was sown
In the soil to a thrown like Shaka
I got soul but I am no Sinatra
Rhythm hit me hard like Malombo drums
Keep faith in God if you go through drama
Lift fist up if you know the signs

When nothings perfect
Rise above the surface
Trials are there for purpose, signs
What you interpret
Defines what you on earth for
Rely on human effort and signs
When nothings perfect
Rise above the surface
Trials are there for purpose, signs
What you interpret
Defines what you on earth for
Rely on human effort and signs
In a world with a dark and a bleak past
Who can up and tangle with these stats
Few if not trample each lap
Like an animal jungle free perhaps
It’s the way of the dreamer path, or
It’s the latest VISA passport
Break down when you need to fast forward
Stay south when the beast is up north
Kick rhymes and they say that I am a poet
Its life and its played just like a sport
But it’s not the sought
With Nikes on
Walk soft them souls just might be wore out
Torn and that resolves nothing
Sure as mountains raw shouting
Molten rock on floors that resolves nothing
Sure as mountains raw shouting
Molten rock on floors my eyes saw the signs are raw
When nothings perfect
Rise above the surface
Trials are there for purpose, signs
What you interpret
Defines what you on earth for
Rely on human effort and signs

© Tumi and the Volume