Own Light (What Hearts Are For)

You're not using your heart for

What hearts are for

They've been trying to shut us down our whole life

I thank God for healing

You ain't got to get me lit, I got my own light

Thank God for listening

Listen, you've been trying to build me up my whole life

I thank God for building

You ain't got to get me lit, I got my own light

I thank God I'm living

Sometime, I feel like a stranger

Maybe I ain't from here

World going crazy

How could that be unclear?

Know that I'm a soldier

Hearts are my battleground

Sword in the holster

Had to come back around

I ain't tryna hide away

I just had to meditate

I ain't got a lot to say

But the ancestors may

Speaking to the whole globe

Numbers don't occur to me

You can listen solo

'Cause you're the whole world to me

I jump in with both feet

Nothing low-key

You can find me where I'm supposed be

Where my folks be

If you listen very closely

You know who chose me

Nothing that I own owns me

And so, I'm so free

I remember being hungry

Needing groceries

Night time, getting no sleep

Till my nose bleed

Got a message to the police

You're not using your heart for

What hearts are for

They've been trying to shut us down our whole life

I thank God for healing

You ain't got to get me lit, I got my own light

Thank God for listening

Listen, you've been trying to build me up my whole life

I thank God for building

You ain't got to get me lit, I got my own light

I thank God I'm living

Not for one second

I believe what you're telling me

I know you invent the disease

And sell the remedy

Universe is sending me

Centuries of memories

So the very breath that I breathe

Is all I ever need

I got that Muhammad Ali

Up in my pedigree

Yes, I be speaking my peace

Up in my seventies

Ain't worried about you threatening me

I'm just being honest

I ain't buying fear

Just because it's all you got left

We just want to make love

Till we wake up

I believe whoever made us

Envisioned greatness

And you know they want to paint us

With the same brush

Want to entertain us

Till we fill our grave up

Alright, okay, but

When it's all said and it's all done

And I look back at the trophies I won

I will only count one

I'm using my heart for

What hearts are for

They've been trying to shut us down our whole life

I thank God for healing

You ain't got to get me lit, I got my own light

Thank God for listening

Listen, you've been trying to build me up my whole life

I thank God for building

You ain't got to get me lit, I got my own light

I thank God I'm living

And I know who I am

I know whose I am

On your wings, I fly

In your shoes, I stand

I'm animated by love

I don't move by chance

Any stage I touch

Or any place I stand

There y'all land

Living in the world as it is

Cracked vessel, I am

No more and no less than a man

Any possessions that I have are just in my hand

I'm balancing the best that I can

I'm not making no claims, but

I'm using my heart for

What hearts are for

All the beauty in this whole life, uh

I thank God for healing

And you ain't got to get me lit, I got my own light, light, uh

I thank God for listening

Listen, you've been trying to build me up my whole life, uh

I thank God for building

You ain't got to get me lit, I got my own light, light

I thank God I'm living

Just reflecting all the beauty in this whole life