Are you listening when I'm speaking multisyllabically Systematically breaking down reality grammatically The teacher and the student, are you following the lesson Or is my intellectual blessing too stressing for your mind To find the hidden meanings intertwined between the lines I design Time after time I climb linguistic mountains Fountains of knowledge flow but do you know How to process the depth when I profess Complex concepts that perplex the intellect Respect the architecture of my verbal infrastructure The structure might rupture if you can't capture The rapture of abstraction in every fraction Of my lyrical transaction, are you tracking Or am I packing too much data for your mental apparatus Status quo gets shattered when I chatter Matter of fact the matter that I scatter Ladder to the higher plane but can your brain sustain The strain of intellectual gain I'm providing Are you sliding into understanding or commanding Your confusion while I'm using words as tools The rules of engagement when I'm arranging thoughts Caught between the simple and the intricate Are you intimate with complexity? Are you listening, are you getting it Or am I speaking over heads, over heads Are you listening, are you getting it The teacher speaks but who's ready, who's ready Rise up, rise up, trust in us, trust in us Rise up, rise up, must we adjust, must we adjust Rise up, rise up, trust in us, trust in us Rise up, rise up, are you listening? Philosophical phenomenology, my methodology Psychology meets cosmology in my terminology The child in you while I'm teaching you Reaching you through frequencies that frequently Sequentially challenge your mentality The reality of duality in my lyrical formality Personality split between the simple and the scholar Follow the dollar or follow the knowledge College of hard knocks but I stock Intellectual blocks that shock the system Listen when I glisten with wisdom The prism of perception when I mention Dimensions of attention, did I mention The tension between comprehension and pretension Extension of thought beyond what you were taught Caught in the matrix of linguistics Statistics show most miss the ballistics Of syllables fired at rapid rates Gates of understanding demand commanding Your focus while I notice many Penny for your thoughts but my thoughts cost dollars Scholars of the game but are you following The wallowing in complexity I'm swallowing Your simplicity with my multiplicity Are you listening, are you getting it Or am I speaking over heads, over heads Are you listening, are you getting it The teacher speaks but who's ready, who's ready Rise up, rise up, trust in us, trust in us Rise up, rise up, must we adjust, must we adjust Rise up, rise up, trust in us, trust in us Rise up, rise up, collective thrust, collective thrust This song itself becomes the question it's asking Tasking your mind to find the design Behind the rhyme scheme's extreme complexity Perplexity by design, are you fine With working harder for the message Or do you prefer the less dense Sense of understanding, demanding Nothing from your intellect? Circularity in my particularity The clarity comes through the obscurity Security blanket of intellectual superiority Priority given to the mind that can bind The concepts I find in the recesses Processes of higher thinking, linking Ideas that sink deeper than the surface Purpose of my wordplay is to work your Brain like a muscle, hustle through the puzzle Of my verbal shuffle, trouble with the struggle Of comprehension, mention the dimension Of attention required to be inspired By the tired clichés I've retired Fired up by the complexity I manifest Test yourself against my lyrical conquest Best believe the leaves of my mental tree Free your mind to find the bind That ties knowledge to the wise Rise to the occasion or remain patient In your station of confusion The illusion of conclusion when I'm using Words as weapons against mental lethargy Energy required to be inspired By the higher frequencies I'm speaking Are you seeking understanding? Are you listening, are you getting it Or am I speaking over heads, over heads Are you listening, are you getting it The teacher speaks but who's ready, who's ready Rise up, rise up, trust in us, trust in us Rise up, rise up, must we adjust, must we adjust Rise up, rise up, trust in us, trust in us Rise up, rise up, are you listening?
