Memories Live - Reflection Eternal.mp3

[00:00.13]Yo you know what we got to do man we need to get a whole CD
[00:06.07]Get a collection of all the music and everything we've ever done
[00:14.86]Bringing back sweet memories
[00:19.96]Bringing back sweet memories
[00:25.25]Bringing back sweet memories
[00:31.75]Life living in Flatbush and going to house parties
[00:34.86]Red lights bumping life is what you make it then sorry
[00:37.55]In my lifetime ain't done too many things
[00:39.95]Better than watching your first son put his sentences together
[00:42.81]Yo it kinda make me think of way back when
[00:45.27]I was the portrait of the artist as a young man
[00:47.91]All them teenage dreams of rapping writing rhymes on napkins
[00:50.93]Was really visualization making this s**t actually happen
[00:53.63]It's like something come through me that truly just consume me
[00:56.25]Speaking through the voices of the spirits speaking to me
[00:58.41]I think back in the day I absorbed everything like a sponge
[01:01.39]Took a plunge into my past to share with my son
[01:08.13]Bringing back sweet memories
[01:14.75]Like thoughts out the back of my mind
[01:16.55]Going back in some time
[01:17.41]Like when you used to cut and had to go to the back of the line
[01:20.40]Look back and you find tracks that make you relax and recline
[01:22.81]Now cats rap about packing a nine when they lacking divine
[01:25.79]Inspiration running out of topics of conversation
[01:28.23]Well I drop it in the pocket because rocking's my occupation
[01:30.92]I do it remarkably spark up a leaf
[01:33.75]And possibly you could follow me tap into your chi
[01:36.59]Utilize your memory to help you see clearly then get back to me
[01:41.84]Actually nothing's new under the sun
[01:43.90]So when life be stressing me
[01:45.24]My remedy is 'bringing back sweet memories'
[01:47.58]Like the faces that are woven in the fabric of my consciousness
[01:49.79]From cities where making 21's a big accomplishment
[01:52.35]Like when my people understood their prominence
[01:55.07]And my past life visions of the continent
[01:57.59]Like the first time I saw KRS live rockin' it
[02:00.30]I heard Resurrection by Common Sense
[02:02.94]Dominant in my psyche I chose my direction like Spike Lee
[02:05.56]To speak my life through mics and I never take it lightly
[02:08.41]It might be something you did to bring you down when you were high
[02:11.37]But that karma's a b***h you steady asking God why
[02:13.97]Like when my parents first split up
[02:15.71]Yo I was illin'
[02:16.98]Seems like some years they was together for the sake of the children
[02:19.34]And I love them for that I don't know if they saw that
[02:21.90]So I'ma say it and convey it when the world play it
[02:25.01]I'ma say it and convey it when the world play it
[02:27.43]I'ma say it and convey it when the world play it
[02:33.86]Bringing back sweet memories
[02:40.53]Bringing back sweet memories
[02:44.55]Bringing back sweet memories
[02:51.88]Like black is beautiful names from the seventies
[02:54.29]Let me tap into your energy fields of dreams become my property
[02:57.96]When I reach my destiny like a prophecy
[02:59.65]Especially when I 'm 'bringing back sweet memories'
[03:02.31]I got deep into my mind see I got a treasury
[03:04.75]That float through my head like a sweet melody
[03:07.46]What you telling me reflection is a collection of memories
[03:10.01]Definitely this is how hiphop was meant to be
[03:12.75]Eventually I knew I'd run into Hi-Teknology
[03:15.40]It was only a matter of time like centuries
[03:17.90]Check the recipe or technique to how it sound so sweet
[03:20.56]I freak with word power my man speak with beats
[03:23.39]If I could make it in New York I figured anywhere I'd make it
[03:26.04]Came to Cincinnati linked with Mood and we did Sacred
[03:29.09]Hi-Tek beats became my favorite
[03:30.70]Hussle on the Side was the cut
[03:32.17]We started to put songs together like 'What!'
[03:34.35]Travelled the world came back to the crib
[03:36.34]And hit the motherland yeah this year we put in work and got some other plans
[03:39.65]In fact that's where I'll take the fam when the Reflection joint is done
[03:42.63]By the time you hear this I'll be basking in African sun
[03:45.25]Like Wow!
[03:49.54]We made it