When You're Gone - Markis Precise, Brother Ali

You can diagnosis darkness

And in the middle of night, that’s alright

But the one that brings life

Can prescribe and distribute light

For the love of love

The life of life

For the hope of hope

For the light of light

For the love of love

For the life of life

For the death of death

For the light

I was in all my pain and then you came

Relieved my troubled soul

And into this worn-out heart you poured your love

If only you could know

And when you heal me, you reveal me

And I hear you clearly in my song

So if we’re leaving, I keep singing

So you will still be here when you’re gone

Okay, I’m here for the healing, I’m here for the wholeness

I’m here for that feeling that the pit of my soul gets

With me and my loved one in the midst of the closeness

The barriers don’t exist, I’m here for the nosis

I’m here for that medicine, ain’t here for no pettiness

I no longer get energy from being competitive

Don’t know if it’s my second daughter, third baby on the way

Or if it’s the fourth decade I met the other day

But I have zero energy at time for what ain’t feeding me and mine

I don’t cut people off, I redefine

I’m here for the village life, nobody leave the tribe

Here for that intimacy in me you see inside

I’m not here for your opinion, I’m here for your truth

I do hear ya, my face full of tears is the proof

I’m here now because nothing else is guaranteed

I’m trying to be here for the people that’s here for me

I was in all my pain and then you came

Relieved my troubled soul

And into this worn-out heart you poured your love

If only you could know

And when you heal me, you reveal me

And I hear you clearly in my song

So if we’re leaving, I keep singing

So you will still be here when you’re gone

Enter the world of meaning, the

Sacred, the reason, the

State of your being, the

Place of convening

They say seeing’s believing

But that could be deceiving

Depending on which instrument does the receiving

The eye sees the form, the function, the allure, the seduction

Only the healthy heart knows the substance

Your vessel is oh so illustrious

But one day you’re confronted with the fact it can only pour what’s within

We know the art of truly living is learning how to die

We gon' paint this one vivid in the sky

To twinkle in your eye, the magic and the crackle in your voice

Your quotables attracted to the source, all I wanna be known for

My greatest virtue is that I learned from you

And loved you and served you

And that I belong to you, and when I long for you

I can say whatever I am and write songs for you

I was in all my pain and then you came

Relieved my troubled soul

And into this worn-out heart you poured your love

If only you could know

And when you heal me, you reveal me

And I hear you clearly in my song

So if we’re leaving, I keep singing

So you will still be here when you’re gone

For the love of love

For the life of life

For the hope of hope

For the light of light

For the love of love

For the life of life

For the death of death

For the light

When you’re gone

Be here when you’re gone