Looking Through Darkness - Guru/Mica Paris

You know sometimes I be lookin' through the darkness

Tryin' to find the light

Tryin' to do what's right with all my might

Lookin' through the darkness

Yeah I'm lookin' lookin' at you

Lookin' through the darkness

I see you lookin' at me hatcheck want to do

Lookin' through the darkness

Here we go take a walk with me

Now as I peer through the window of gloom

And everyday living

And all the hardships one faces to make you give in

I dig more intensely finding greater strength

A lot of heads is empty

I've got a greater rank

Than emcees not aware of situations

That'll force one to understand true stipulations

Thou shalt not bite

Thou shalt not front

Fake it if you want but for the battles I've come

'Cause I'm

Lookin' through the darkness

Yeah I'm lookin' out lookin' at you

Lookin' through the darkness

Lookin' at me my style is free

Do you want be

For me this rap life is real life

I don't have to create some false image

To make the crowd get hyped

Too many children get the wrong message

From clowns that walk around

Hopelessly lost thinkin' that they're the boss

They're in a daze

While d**e emcees don't get the front page

Me I try to channel my rage

As I travel through the city regularly

Turning the anger and frustration straight into energy

Yes you will remember me as the brother who cared

To dare to step up with his soul bared

But never fearing 'cause I've got instructions

From him to go and fight the corruption so I'm

Lookin' through the darkness

I've got to look through it

Try to try to find the light

Lookin' through the darkness

Uh maintainin'

My granddaddy always told me to keep the light shining

So as my mic illuminates

You can feel the state that I'm in

Thoroughly immersed in a verse

Way more than hardcore

I endure 'cause in myself I'm secure

Delivering syllables and selections

With profound perfection

Comin' back like the resurrection

In this session I'm professin'

That those who don't

Hear and understand never loved me

And so I planned

To take a stand as one who is firmly focused

Plus I'm mad worthy with words

I rock from east New York

All the way to the suburbs

The light keeper knowledge seeker

I switch the stress that's on my mind

Into the voice that rocks your speaker

And I get deeper than the ocean when I'm

Lookin' through the darkness

Yeah I'm lookin' through it

Lookin' through the darkness

Check it out

Lookin' through the darkness

All my life

Lookin' through the darkness

Yeah ohh yeah

Yo I'm so ill I go ill when beats with jazz

Fill my need to express myself

Like the blues I can't lose

Weak emcees they're seekin' refuge

From my barrage there's no rescue

Then I look through the madness finding sanity

I'm crazy alert I never swim in vanity

I do this rap stuff every year

Aiyyo peace to my fame especially my man

Premier as I'm

Lookin' through the darkness

Yeah lookin' out to the wilderness

Lookin' through the darkness

The jungle uhh everybody's got to rumble

Lookin' through the darkness

Lookin' through the darkness

Lookin' through the darkness

Lookin' through the darkness

Lookin' through the darkness

Lookin' through the darkness

Lookin' through the darkness