More Beautiful Than Silence - K'NAAN

Turn the light off

There’s a light on in your heart

So let it be your guidance, guidance

Open your mouth if what you say

Could be more beautiful than silence, silence

OK, ain’t it funny how the talk is always talking?

Never firing, but always say they cockin'

When they’re cocky until they end in parking lots

Suddenly they got Parkinson, they can hardly talk.

No karate buddy, no Pilates buddy

It’s a new game, no atomic buddy!

Body talk, well I’m used to bodies chopped

I’ve seen sh*t to give new meaning to the body shop

Look, I know you think I’m so righteous

But motherf*cker, I’m also into rifles

Tryna tell these n*ggas I’m a baby in his diapers

I’m on my own sh*t, lighters

I don’t disseminate, I got my name in ciphers

I don’t discriminate, I got friends who are snipers

But some of them ended up being lifeless

'Cause they kept silent, survivors.

Turn the light off

There’s a light on in your heart

So let it be your guidance, guidance

Open your mouth if what you say

Could be more beautiful than silence, silence

I’m the quiet type, breathe in steady

Never small talk speak when necessary

In the streets, I see niggers chop with machetes

My Jamaican girl say 'talk to me baby!'

What’s on your mind can’t say cemetery

Death do us part, memories, I married

Got a library with no lies baby

And all the books look like they’re made of strawberries.

It ain’t easy being me

'Cause my own fans can’t relate to my streets

And my streets can’t relate to dough in the east

But I’m beast, so I make bread on release.

I’m releasing my demons,

Give the beat its life like I give a fetus semen.

Feel the kick in your belly, that’s freedom breathing

And don’t say nothing, 'cause now we are dreaming!

Turn the light off

There’s a light on in your heart

So let it be your guidance, guidance

Open your mouth if what you say

Could be more beautiful than silence, silence

Oh, oh, oh, silence, silence

Oh, oh, oh, silence, silence

Oh, oh, oh, silence, silence

Oh, oh, oh, silence, silence