Why We Speak [Feat. Q-Tip & Esperanza Spalding]

L'eau
Terre (ah, ah)
Feu (ah, ah, ah)
Air (ah, ah, ah, ah)

Coeur de l'eau, coeur de terre
Ils s'étouffent dans votre papier cadeau, mmm
I cut the bow and remember
Vous n'avez jamais eu la liberté de donner (donner pas de prix)
C'est dans l'esprit de la terre
Ce qui n'a pas de prix, n'a pas de prix

Tout est durci maintenant
Qui peut même encore pleurer
We got a long way left to burn
But it's easier when you know water is alive in you
(Nous sommes réveillés maintenant)
It's love alive (une cuisse a la porte)
Et l'arbre de vie (ah), et l'œuf cosmique
Et le sang de la terre

Se souvenir
Se souvenir (while we speak the English)
Se souvenir (while we speak the French)
Se souvenir (while we speak the Spanish)
Se souvenir (and bargain with the vendors)
Se souvenir (not to sell our souls)
Se souvenir (in between, remember how to speak)
L'eau (out of my mouth before I had to say)
Nobody ever asked us if we wanted it

Je me suis souvenu
Toutes les sept couleurs du ciel
Et c'est dans le cœur de mon ventre

Tout est durci maintenant
Qui peut même encore pleurer
We got a long way left to go
But it's easier when you know whatever's alive in you
(Nous sommes réveillés)
Oh, love alive (maintenant et puis en avant)
Et l'arbre de vie (ah), et l'œuf cosmique
Et le sang de la terre

Sometimes in life when you go too far
The truth will bring you to who you are
Sometimes in life when you go too far
The truth will bring you to who you are
Sometimes in life when you go too far
The truth will bring you to who you are
Sometimes in life when you go too far
The truth will bring you to who you are

Life can bring you down when you're living in it
These circles and cycles go 'round, though you even spin it
But you stoppin' it when your shoulder is a reminder
To not run yourself in the ground, to yourself be kinder

Sometimes, I got real cast by truth even in the rearview
Driving aimlessly around with nowhere to stay to
She ain't, they should be them, the vibes like an abstract poet
If somebody asks who you are, well, you better know it
Better know it, better know it (better know it, better know it, better know it)
Ehh (better know it, better know it, better know it)

(Pa pa, pa pa, pum) se souvenir
(Pa pa, pa pa, pum) se souvenir (while we speak the English)
Se souvenir (while we speak the French)
Se souvenir (while we speak the Spanish)
Se souvenir (while we, ah)
Se souvenir (and bargain with the vendors)
Not to sell our souls
In between, remember how to speak
(L'eau) how we speak, (air) how she speaks
(Out of my mouth before I had to say)
Nobody ever asked us if we wanted it, ah (air)

To remember after all their sage disaster are done (I remember after all their sage disaster are done)
(Se souvenir)
(Se souvenir)
Se souvenir

How to cry
How to ground
How to burn
How to breathe

Se souvenir (to remember after all their sage disaster are won)
How to ground
How to burn
How to breath (se souvenir)

L'arbre de vie, l'œuf cosmique
Et le sang de la terre (se souvenir)
L'arbre de vie, l'œuf cosmique
Et le sang de la terre

We got a lot left to unlearn
But it's easier when you know water is alive in you
It's alive

L'arbre de vie, l'œuf cosmique
Et le sang
Coeur de l'eau, coeur de terre
Se souvenir (souvenir, souvenir, souvenir)