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Imagine I'm here, evaporating as we speak.
And if you imagine I'm here,
I swear you'll feel this breath I breathe.
And all these particles
in this heart of gold,
I've got love in this soul to give,
and I'd love to give it.
All to you.
Don't hesitate to choose to
breathe this love.
Inhale this love I've got.
Exhale this love I've got.
Breathe in this love, I'm, only here but for a moment.
(Repeat)
I want you to feel my love.
I want you to feel this.
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Portrait
04:07
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You can switch paces, or switch faces.
I'll still make it. Its so basic.
You can taste it. So, dont hate this.
Just be patient. I'll be right here.
So give me two seconds while I go get it.
Give me one second, and I'll flip it to a minute.
I could take some pyrite, turn it to a grammy.
And thats golden. Thats golden.
Like the frames that I put up on your walls.
And around your heart.
And I'll shamelessly put all of my heart into my art.
While I craft the fixture,
paint the picture,
colors bright so you get the picture.
(Repeat x2)
Then Ima copyright this picture.
Hang it while I'm countin all these figures.
Figured cuz I love you I'd deliver
Rivers filled with garnet stones and green emeralds
And lady you should know that
no one can replicate the caliber of love I'd give to you lady, or I'd give to this painting.
No.
Its a coveted piece of my art
Exhibiting visions so sharp.
Transparent, each stroke is with thought.
A look in my mind.
While I craft the fixture,
paint the picture,
colors bright so you get the picture.
(Repeat x2)
I got insane touch
with my paintbrush
And I aint in no rush
I like to take my time and
Reach the climax
Then take it higher.
So basically, what I'm sayin is just this
I need you to understand
I'm in love with you
but I got things to do
before I give you all I can
And if you would listen to all I gotta say then baby we'll be, happy. you'll see
I want to give all my love to you, you girl.
My heart is beatin'.
Love is the color.
No point in paint if you can't share with others.
When you're a lover,
this is the struggle.
Try share your love,
and it on-leads to trouble.
Dun dun duh dun.
Got you feeling like dun dun duh dun.
Got you feeling like dun dun duh dun.
Dun dun, duh dun.
Dun dun, duh dun.
Dun dun duh dun.
Dun dun duh dun.
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3. |
Gold Mind
03:38
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I've been fiending for trouble. Looking for sanity.
Found this gold in the rubble. double the sum of a tragedy.
Hate the way that it feels, kills, steals from my soul.
But I still love the fix I get from this gold.
I fell in love with a face. And I know its lust, but I can't
Love what I know is right. I'm chained between the dark and the light.
Hindsight's 20/20.
Envision them 20, 20's
Sittin on them 20's.
Plenty of them women gimme.
But all that glitters aint gold in the light.
And sometimes gold don't glow in the light.
See, I've been fiending for trouble. Looking for sanity.
Found this gold in the rubble. double the sum of a tragedy.
Hate the way that it feels, kills, steals from my soul.
But I still love the fix I get from this gold.
(Chopped and Screwed)
Hindsight's 20/20.
Envision them 20, 20's
Sittin on them 20's.
Plenty of them women gimme.
How you win in the night when that dark is bleeding black diamonds.
And dime and nickels aint buyin. what you need so you will buy in.
Your heart is gripped by them vices. You sick and tired of fightin.
That temporary sufficin. That gold life is enticin.
But I know where the true gold lies. since gold lied.
It aint in stores, its where your soul lies. Its a gold mind.
See,
I've been fiending for trouble. Looking for sanity.
Found this gold in the rubble. double the sum of a tragedy.
Hate the way that it feels, kills, steals from my soul.
But I still love the fix I get from this gold.
How you gon win,
when your soul's in trouble?
You can't eat, you can't sleep.
It's gettin tougher, I'm like,
Where you gon run when everything you love is wrong?
Hindsight's 20.
Envision them 20's.
Sittin on them 20's, Plenty of them women, gimme.
How you gon win if you aint right within?
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Virgins
02:21
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I got this virgin mind, virgin eyes thirstin for them virgin thighs.
What we gettin into tonight?
Youre in for a big surprise.
And girl youre such a luscious sight,
that I just might do all them things that you want me, too.
Nahh. I really cant cuz:
Lord knows. Please believe me.
You leave the thought of passion on me too easy.
And passin up chances with you aint easy.
If you stick with me, promise i'll be pleasing.
All i need to do is get these college degrees, green cheese, i guarantee that i'll have you cheesing.
Put a ring around your finger, ring leader. Dont blink. While i speak. Think bigger (big girl.)
(Female Response)
But, what im bouta do is intimately personal. Wanna take you every place through every terminal.
Infinity high is where we're gon take our lows.
Just so you know: I'm about to go in.
Chicks'll envy you, for all things I do.
I'll make a scene or two.
Cuz of what I see in you.
(Harmonies ensue)
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I don't know what it is about singing songs (No I don't, no)
But I know every word, every note,
it can touch your soul.
I'm all about giving
and I want to give it.
I came to give it
cuz I wanna, I got to.
I want to give it.
I got to give it.
I came to give it.
cuz I wanna, I got to.
I wanna, I got to give.
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Gift
03:37
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My girl is workin hard for her lover.
This woman workin hard for her home.
My sister's workin hard as a mother.
What you need is to be treated like a queen on your throne.
I'll give it to you. Give it to you. Give it to you. Give it to.
One soft kiss so you'll feel good. Two full ears, for your issues. Three cooked meals gotta feed you.
A lifetime of love, girl I'll give what you want.
My love is in a class of her own.
This woman's puttin me to the test.
My sister know she always set the tone
she'll, never baby, never baby,
never be alone.
To see that smile, I'll give you whatever you need.
To see that smile, I'll help you fulfill your dreams.
One soft kiss so you'll feel good. Two full ears, for your issues. Three good answers cuz I hear you.
A lifetime of love, girl I'll give what you want.
And baby, I know I got problems.
But baby, we all got problems.
So let me help you solve em.
And all of my love'll be honest.
Know that you're kinda insecure so I promise.
Never have another woman.
Cuz baby you're the only woman.
For me. For me.
Darling , you're the only one for me.
One soft kiss so you'll feel good. Two full ears, for your issues. Three good answers cuz I hear you.
A lifetime of love, girl I'll give what you want.
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Air
03:00
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Settled in a place,
where I
can be and love freely.
Yeah,
Ooo Love.
I love this perfect view.
Of you.
I feel a passionate rush,
the ocean's rush.
its been such
pleasure to be chillin' like this.
And If you imagined I'm here
And
if you imagined I was here.
Well,
I'm here, and I'm here to stay.
And love.
Love, in this song,
put my heart in it,
but if you don't,
take it, cool, cuz I'm home.
I think this air should help you fly,
so take these wings and fly.
(Repeat x3)
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Baggage
01:11
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Where ever you live,
I want you to live.
I've lived around the world,
and I just get so sick of
taking this baggage with me.
Got too many bags that's heavy.
Its okay not to carry,
all the weight in the world.
Cuz you're not the only one,
and I promise you'll have more fun if
you take all that doggone luggage,
like this:
Empty out your bags.
(Repeat x5)
Out your bags.
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Clear
02:37
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Free from the mist that clutters our lives. Let all arise.
awry from the demise that settles into our minds.
The mines of volatile troubles and treble hooks latched onto our cores.
Changing course and aligning with the right path, knowing that without a doubt by trust, love, and patience, all shall pass.
The past has passed. So let it go, and Be free.
Free from the dust that blinds our eyes. Let all our eyes
see. See that you and me are swimming in the same sea.
And that if only we swam together, we could create a harmony amongst the storms we fight through.
because most of the time, the storms that we fight are me and you.
And at the root of that issue, is the issue between me and I.
Fragmented tissues that disconnect my soul from my eyes,
so that window that you get to reach through and feel me is never straightforward.
The only foreword that you get about me is an authentic truth of dishonesty.
And its this honesty that removes the clouds from my judgment.
Allowing me and you to feel the innocence of my soul.
In a sense, it doesn't matter what a judge meant to do at heart, if he doesn't make the sole right decision.
In that same position, I have to take the accountability for myself and all that I do.
Knowing that it is impossible for me not to get right with myself before I get right with you.
So, first I clean the the window to my soul, and open it.
Letting everything that weighs down on my spirit find its way out of my spirit,
and allowing all of the light that belongs to come in.
Because once we commence living in transparency,
we can soar freely trans the parent seas of our essence as human beings.
Being who we were born to be.
Floating through life on a high of buoyancy.
Because we can always be above water
if only we choose to cease living in shame of ourselves
For that shame locks us in our shells, chaining us to our cells,
And living in hopes that one day maybe one day "I'll get to tell the story of me."
Don't wait until that day when that weight falls off.
Shed it, and let it fall off in this moment, for this one is yours. so own it.
Let us be the crystals we are.
This is Clear.
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10. |
Free [Outro]
01:37
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11. |
More [Beyond Clear]
02:30
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So it turns out that im sick
The disease is a stickler
The sickle cell research
No, no, it goes deeper.
They say its sin,
And lies within my skin.
Within my skin.
Within my skin.
They say it cant be cured unless i end
Unless i end
Unless i end.
Well no no no, i can live a life thats happy,
Aint no one can sap my love.
I gotta go tell someone that sin is not the end
of all the ways that you can love.
And if you choose to see
The people we can be.
We'd never have this disease.
And we'd be livin free.
And this is livin life! Yeah.
Livin life, yeah.
Livin life yeah.
Livin life!
Livin right , yeah.
Livin right, yeah.
Livin right, yeah.
Livin right!
Right.....
Tell me do you want some more.
(Repeats)
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12. |
Excellence [Bonus Track]
02:58
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(1st Verse)
Clear skies and all silence
I want you to feel how I flow and ride this.
Just try this art from Zai Air,
a guy that's lookin for guidance
from God and lookin to give it.
get it while he can get it.
promise you won't regret it.
Paintin portraits, on a canvas.
So can it be that I manage
and take advantage of vantages?
College kid on a campus.
A canopy for advantaged kids.
And disadvantaged kids
still feel that struggle.
That's why I bring up the lows
So I can balance out the trebles (troubles.)
(Hook)
And I want nothin less than that excellence.
than that excellence, than that excellence.
I aint bout nothin but that excellence.
but that excellence, but that excellence, yeah.
I aint bout nothin but that excellence.
excellence, excellence.
I aint bout nothin but that excellence.
but that excellence, but that excellence.
(2nd Verse)
This is a brief introduction
no competition, just something
to keep on your mind,
when you feel like you pushin for nothin.
Cuz passion is always worth it.
You worry you never worth it.
Don't worry, no one is worthy.
Unless we put in the work and
we plan to stand in our purpose
Understand that we earn it.
Ask why I add Y to earn,
the answer is Yearning.
Excellence is the price to pay,
if we're really deserving.
I just wish to be serving
schoolin kids, to keep workin.
(Hook)
And I want nothin less than that excellence.
than that excellence, than that excellence.
I aint bout nothin but that excellence.
but that excellence, but that excellence, yeah.
I aint bout nothin but that excellence.
excellence, excellence.
I aint bout nothin but that excellence.
but that excellence, but that excellence.
(3rd Verse)
California born
The son of a pair
Of students lives
People said they too young
But I still called them parents like:
"Mom and Dad," Thats parents, right?
I will never know how they fared with life.
But they fared with life,
And they fared with mine.
And they put candles where the sun wont shine
And they dismantled each fear of mine.
So i could stand up & end up fine.
Ended up fine
Here I am and it is my time
Its my time.
To shed this light
And I tell you why.
(Hook)
Cuz I want nothin less than that excellence.
than that excellence, than that excellence.
I aint bout nothin but that excellence.
but that excellence, but that excellence, yeah.
I aint bout nothin but that excellence.
excellence, excellence.
I aint bout nothin but that excellence.
but that excellence, but that excellence.
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Zai Air Atlanta, Georgia
1st Album: Clear.
19 years of life. Let passion and love lead you. Be.
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