Common & Sadat X feat. Talib Kweli 1999

bummin' hard / AMagic

(this song is the reason i think the way I do, in Part :))

bummin hard, because didn't do all that I could do
To seize a llfe before it flies Past You
How many "chances..?" do you Get for this
Thing? a life a fire your soul for all lt could
bring..  I've parted with mine, found it so many
times before, that I know this is a thing, one that
even can help touch Earth's good 1 Galore. There have
to be reasons, decisions for these things, maybe, just maybe
I had Thought, this is why the lion sings. I could run it up
still, crazy enough one time, or think about a Life, a one that could
still be mine . Part of how come, it's messed up yet truthful to
be me.. Because i can see all these things, I think the earth can See.
And though don't want to , and just want to live my life - I think
about these ways, I could maybe get ir Right. Part of me knowing
what makes up it, and what part of it does too Make me.  I guess, this
is the thing, that makes a Legend in all that it can Be..

life, is too frequently and poorly misconceived -

it is not about how many times you fail, yet it is about 
how many times you do Prevail. Because it is in this (sometimes 
close-timed) prevailing that you can reach your Full Sail.