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Resolution [for Miles]

from 80 Million Isms by Tallisman

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I’ve been talking loud for about an hour now but still ain’t saying nothing
Deeds they speak louder but not if you’re displaying nothing
If I continue wasting time yours & mines saying nothing
I got a feeling in the back of my mind that I’m betraying something
Gone astray from something… probably dismaying someone…
Should be conveying something…
I gots to pray & come again… Ya Bahá'u-l Abhá!
Sometimes less is more but the trick is to gauge
Sometimes you’re saying more when there’s less ink on the page
Sometimes you get more when you’ve got less to gain
The less you gave the more was taken so it’s more or less the same…
I guess what I’m saying is that
Sometimes less is more this is reality
But am I left with less if I lose this victims mentality?
Surely to answer yes to this would be a fallacy
Each of us would gain from that loss that’s how it be! / Now let me see on this record I’ve lamented many things
Like the current state of hip-hop & the content that we bring
& the state of the art form when we only out for material gain
But many mc’z before me have said the same
Blabbed about skills on the mic
& kids lacking temperance that would kill for some Nikes
& coastal music beefs that could steal someone’s life
But a ton of mc’z before me have said the likes
80 million isms & I’ve told stories
Crazy cops busting caps & acting like they ain’t sorry
& the aftermath what happens when my peoples acting horny
But a million mc’z said all that before me
Just in case you haven’t seen
I’ll make this evident
I ain’t in this game just for the green
But the last thing I wanna do man is just sing the blues man
So I’m looking for solutions we need some resolution
The last thing I wanna do man is just sing the blues man
I’m looking for solutions we need some resolutions…

It's a new dawn... a new day.

Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity. Be worthy of the trust of thy neighbour, and look upon him with a bright and friendly face. Be a treasure to the poor, an admonisher to the rich, an answerer of the cry of the needy, a preserver of the sanctity of thy pledge. Be fair in thy judgement, and guarded in thy speech. Be unjust to no man, and show all meekness to all men. Be as a lamp unto them that walk in darkness, a joy to the sorrowful, a sea for the thirsty, a haven for the distressed, an upholder and defender of the victim of oppression. Let integrity and uprightness distinguish all thine acts. Be a home for the stranger, a balm to the suffering, a tower of strength for the fugitive. Be eyes to the blind, and a guiding light unto the feet of the erring. Be an ornament to the countenance of truth, a crown to the brow of fidelity, a pillar of the temple righteousness, a breath of life to the body of mankind, an ensign of the hosts of justice, a luminary above the horizon of virtue, a dew to the soil of the human heart, an ark on the ocean of knowledge, a sun in the heaven of bounty, a gem on the diadem of wisdom, a shining light in the firmament of thy generation, a fruit upon the tree of humility.

It's a new dawn it's a new day it's a new life for me,

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from 80 Million Isms, released March 21, 2002
Written, Arranged, Produced, Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Tallis 'Tallisman' Newkirk.

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