Velvet Glove, Iron Fist

[Intro]

Concentration, Contemplation

Concentration, Contemplation

Concentration, Contemplation



Spiritually, mentally, and physically



[Verse 1 - Mazik]

Uh

When I run up on an average motherfucker

He cannot begin to comprehend the level of this type of slang

Way beyond his reach, like a zenith, like a peak, that

You know you cannot climb it

Mission accomplished, next assignment

You need alignment

And some refinement

Go and look for self and don't come back until you find it

Many die before they know just who they are

You got a wife that’s not in love with you but honey loves your car

And all the diamonds and the things you got for her, you got what you deserve

And now it's time to serve (serve)

The head upon the earth (earth)

You know the truth can hurt (hurt)

More than giving birth

It's time to take a long hart look (look)

At exactly where you stand, you got

One foot in the concrete and the other stuck in sand

You’re not going anywhere, anytime soon

The number one reason is the ego like balloon

You're not going anywhere, yo, anytime soon



[Chorus]

Velvet Glove

That you love, obey, and trust

Then an Iron Fist

That comes along and then you're crushed

Into reality

Why's it you felt deceived?

That they got you - spiritually, mentally, and physically



[Verse 2 - Benyad]

I realise God works in mysterious ways

From time to time I get a crew to get through in a phase

To listen to my inner submission, my gut feelin'

The world's so trying and the world's so revealing

At a young age, hit the stage, media blitz

America bites the young, take a swallow, then it shits

On everyone it can, Filipino, black, to Cuban

And all of son of man getting crushed by son of Uncle Sam



[Bridge - Benyad]

Damn, huh

Days go on and on

Dreams evaporating like the water on the lawn

I think I'm overdrawn

I’m living way beyond my means

A day late, a dollar short, is always how it seems



[Verse 3 - Mazik]



Levitatin’ like a pebble on a pond

I've got the knack for rising up above, I’ll never be a pawn

That can be manipulated, I'll do all manipulating

To call this shit original would be an understatement of the

Third degree, ya not

Better than me, so why

Don't you listen to me and, ah, stop trynna do me

'Cause you never ever win, with your tricks and wicked ways

Stage, phase, labyrinth in a maze

You’re stuck in all of them at once and simultaneously dying

Peace to Bob, original [?] lion Zion

From the mountain tops all the way to [?]

Like a Hiroshima-Nagasaki bomb we stop the clock



[Chorus]

Velvet Glove

That you love, obey, and trust

Then an Iron Fist

That comes along and then you're crushed

Into reality

Why's it you felt deceived?

That they got you - spiritually, mentally, and physically



[Verse 4 - Benyad]

From Toronto to Victoria

New York and California

Everything in between, pay attention all you fiends

An open letter, from the Abraham regime

It's all turned to shine now so get the sun screen

Yo we're raising, the salaries of gods we don't trust

We're burning, more calories than ABFlex Plus

Don't you ever rush

([Mazik] Remember patience is a Virtue)

The Blood is penetrating into every last tissue

Call your next of kin

Yeah we turn mice to men

Make everything Zen

A dead man walking like Sean Pen

Well I'll be suckling on Mother Earth's tits

You're lactose intolerant, and ignorant, and still can't handle

Any of it, talking that shit

Dreamin' like a sucker on the street 'bout the house you'll never get

Any of it, talking that shit

Dreamin' like a sucker on the street 'bout the ins you'll never get



[Bridge - Mazik]

Damn, huh

Days go on and on

Dreams evaporating like the water on the lawn

I think I'm overdrawn

I'm living way beyond my means

A day late, a dollar short, is always how it seems



[Chorus]

And just a

Velvet Glove

That you love, obey, and trust

Then an Iron Fist

That comes along and then you're crushed

Into reality

Why's it you felt deceived?

That they got you - spiritually, mentally, and physically



And physically

Spiritually, mentally, and physically



[Outro]

This black Madonna fortifies us

She make us strong, she gives us the bitter or tonifying aspect

So we have sweet, we have sour, which is our, our gathering

We have salty, which is salt-like

We have bitter, which is tonifying

Uh, [?]

There are sweet, sour, salty, bitter, pungent

Uh, I think that's all five of them

So, the black Madonna, [?] and seer, um

Gives us the aspects that help us differentiate between

Taste, itself