| Black boy
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| Lost in the dust
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| And found in the heavens
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| You understand what I’m saying?
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| That your destiny is in eternity
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| You never were originated
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| And you’ll never be destroyed
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| Your destiny is with the people of the earth
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| Who came out of you
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| And now they are returning
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| So does your job to prepare yourself
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| For what is to come
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| What is past is past
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| But it’ll last forever
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| Because it prepared for you
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| The future that you have before you
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| When I was a little boy in Mississippi
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| We sang every morning when we went to school
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| And I could feel the energy of all my students
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| We enjoyed school so much
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| Because we sang every morning before we started
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| At sundawn we would play a game called «hide and seek»
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| And in that game
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| One person would say this riddle
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| Last night, night before, 24 robbers at my door
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| I got up, and let 'em in
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| Hit 'em in the head with a rolling pin
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| And then we could go
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| And seek out the first person we could find hiding
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| And that person became it
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| And then they would go and sing
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| Last night, night before, 24 robbers at my door
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| I got up, and let 'em in
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| Hit 'em in the head with a rolling pin
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| Now, when I was maybe 30, something
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| I looked up at the stars one night
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| And it startled me because I felt something
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| And no one told me that the stars have feelings
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| And so it took me out of the world that we were all
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| Sequested in
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| And it allowed me to go on to the world of eternity
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| And I’ve been there now, 50 years coming
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| And it’s taught me
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| This, rolling pin gives us that authority
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| Because it is the only symbol in the hands of Orion
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| In ancient Egypt, Archimid
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| It was called a scroll
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| In the Bible, in the fourth and fifth chapter of the revelation
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| It’s called a man with a book in his hands
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| But we found out it was the rolling pin that we were talking about
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| The 24 robbers are the 24 stars surrounding the constellation called Orion
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| And so, I got up, and let 'em in
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| Means that he crossed the milky way
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| Which is the galaxy that we are part of
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| And I hit 'em in the head with a rolling pin
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| Meant that, in that rolling pin is the knowledge of our eternity
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| I think that, it’s what it means to be a black boy
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| To be lost, to be envious, and selfish
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| To be misguided and confused
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| But, somehow, to realize, that you’re the whole package
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| And it’s your responsibility to find your eternity on this earth |