Patience Is the Weapon

Intro - DJ scratches and chopped soul sample

Yeah... uh...

Verse 1

Years spent stacking syllables like bricks, laying foundations

In basements with busted speakers, patience was the payment

They told me chase the wave, I told 'em dig a ditch deeper

Let the current come to you when the angle's steeper

Phonetic architecture, every consonant a corner

Vowels swinging like a pendulum, the flow a warm un-warned storm

I'm not the same kid who was praying for the placement

Now the placement prays to meet me, that's the rearrangement

Hook - Roots reggae style

(Jah know, patience a the weapon)

Let the river run, river run, river run slow

(Jah know, steady is the lesson)

Watch the seed grow, seed grow, seed grow tall

(Jah know, the fire never borrow)

Feel the rhythm roll, rhythm roll, rhythm roll deep

(Jah know, sunrise after sorrow)

Watch the mountain keep, mountain keep, mountain keep

Verse 2

Internal rhyme mechanisms, medicine for the momentum

Every bar a gearshift, watch how the syllables bend in

I used to grip the microphone like a life raft

Now the words just find the pocket and draft fast

Chop the sample, flip the break, feel the 93 lock

Dusty vinyl wisdom, this ain't a trend, it's a birth rock

They ask me where I learned to walk between the drum hits

I said I listened to the silence till the whole frame split

Hook - Roots reggae style

(Jah know, patience a the weapon)

Let the river run, river run, river run slow

(Jah know, steady is the lesson)

Watch the seed grow, seed grow, seed grow tall

(Jah know, the fire never borrow)

Feel the rhythm roll, rhythm roll, rhythm roll deep

(Jah know, sunrise after sorrow)

Watch the mountain keep, mountain keep, mountain keep

Bridge

Skrrtt... (sample cuts)

The sound was always circling

I just had to stop chasing

Let it land on me

Outro - DJ scratches over soul sample

Yeah... let it land...