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The w0nd3r's monthly views have tripled in the past few months and passed 5000 views this weekend. I know this is not a huge number but as a friend reminded me I haven't promoted, advertised or marketed it so its circulation so far has been purely due to its content and readers sharing it.
So to all of you reading from the United Kingdom to the United States and from China to Canada:
It still amazes me that people around the world read these words, that we live in a time where many of us are lucky enough to be able to publish at a click. A teacher recently told me that a few hundred years ago if you wanted to publish in the UK you would have to find a monastery and pay monks to do the writing by hand. If you were publishing a book this process could take months.
I challenge you to share your gifts in service - if you already are I challenge you to take yourself to another level. Some of you reading this now have books within you, songs, dreams or schemes which will never come to life without you. Even if someone else gets there first their work will never bear your unique signature.
"And I'm saying to you that...what you've got, what you showed up with, that if you don't give it, it won't be given. And that if you don't do it, we all suffer. Life is less for all of us. All of us have got something to do."
Les Brown
Please do continue to share these posts if you find them interesting or useful.
Thank you for your support, you are appreciated.
Dx
Lyrics
[Verse 1: I]
Well there's no I in team, but there's an I in win
And every guy wanna win, so folks is eying him
The I in pride, they say pride puts the I in sin
Put self at the center, I and I come in
Cause I am imperfect; none of us is iron men
Please, be my third eye when the light gets dim
Even my story's not mine, where do I begin?
Not with I, I'm reminded, see the I in him
In my enemy, especially, him and I are twins
I've got to love him as I love I, him and I are kin
Take the thing out of my own eye then see
If the word is where the world begin
And at the end of the word friend is where I am
And all them become I and I them
So who am I then? Just dust in the wind with a pen
And a grin, I'm going in, I'm going in
[Hook 1]
Like yes
We all in agreement
And if you hear the song and you feel it
Put your palms to the ceiling
Like yes, yes and all my people like yes
It go, yes
We all in agreement
And if you hear the song and you feel it
Put your palms to the ceiling
Like yes, yes and all my people like yes
[Verse 2: Myself]
Huh
What can I say for myself? Where I'm at is where I stationed myself
So I'm grateful, I do OK for myself
I wanna do better for y'all, I'm afraid of myself
God said, "You trust me, now have some faith in yourself"
When I made my first record I would say to myself
"I'm glad to share this, I don't just want to play for myself"
The thing with rapping is it helps me get away from myself
Put these thoughts and feelings out so they don't stay on the shelf
Stay in my soul cause I find the more I stay to myself
The less I find the real me the more I stray from myself
And can't relate to no one else, I don't have to make a way for myself
Just make my thoughts point away from myself
And what else
[Hook 2]
We all in agreement
And if you hear the song and you feel it
Put your palms to the ceiling
Like yes, yes and all my people like yes
It go, yes
Everybody like
We all in agreement
And if you hear the song and you feel it
Put your palms to the ceiling
Like yes, yes and all my people like yes
Everybody like
[Verse 3: We]
And we are greater than the sum of us
All greater than some of us, greater than each piece apart
We are a body, an army
Greater than any single art, peace and love in our hearts
And we are who we are behind doors in secret
In the deep depths of recesses we aren't free yet
We are how we treat our sick folk and widows
Rich with broken hearts broken and crippled
The soul is weak, we are not what we eat
But what comes out of our mouths when we speak
Most of y'all don't speak truth, can't play me playboy
I'm no kid, I don't play Wii
We are parents, cherished, proud, and embarrassed
We've come a long way, but we're still not there yet
And we don't always get along
Me, myself, and I, when we do we in tune like the song
Singing
[Hook 2]
[Verse 1: I]
Well there's no I in team, but there's an I in win
And every guy wanna win, so folks is eying him
The I in pride, they say pride puts the I in sin
Put self at the center, I and I come in
Cause I am imperfect; none of us is iron men
Please, be my third eye when the light gets dim
Even my story's not mine, where do I begin?
Not with I, I'm reminded, see the I in him
In my enemy, especially, him and I are twins
I've got to love him as I love I, him and I are kin
Take the thing out of my own eye then see
If the word is where the world begin
And at the end of the word friend is where I am
And all them become I and I them
So who am I then? Just dust in the wind with a pen
And a grin, I'm going in, I'm going in
[Hook 1]
Like yes
We all in agreement
And if you hear the song and you feel it
Put your palms to the ceiling
Like yes, yes and all my people like yes
It go, yes
We all in agreement
And if you hear the song and you feel it
Put your palms to the ceiling
Like yes, yes and all my people like yes
[Verse 2: Myself]
Huh
What can I say for myself? Where I'm at is where I stationed myself
So I'm grateful, I do OK for myself
I wanna do better for y'all, I'm afraid of myself
God said, "You trust me, now have some faith in yourself"
When I made my first record I would say to myself
"I'm glad to share this, I don't just want to play for myself"
The thing with rapping is it helps me get away from myself
Put these thoughts and feelings out so they don't stay on the shelf
Stay in my soul cause I find the more I stay to myself
The less I find the real me the more I stray from myself
And can't relate to no one else, I don't have to make a way for myself
Just make my thoughts point away from myself
And what else
[Hook 2]
We all in agreement
And if you hear the song and you feel it
Put your palms to the ceiling
Like yes, yes and all my people like yes
It go, yes
Everybody like
We all in agreement
And if you hear the song and you feel it
Put your palms to the ceiling
Like yes, yes and all my people like yes
Everybody like
[Verse 3: We]
And we are greater than the sum of us
All greater than some of us, greater than each piece apart
We are a body, an army
Greater than any single art, peace and love in our hearts
And we are who we are behind doors in secret
In the deep depths of recesses we aren't free yet
We are how we treat our sick folk and widows
Rich with broken hearts broken and crippled
The soul is weak, we are not what we eat
But what comes out of our mouths when we speak
Most of y'all don't speak truth, can't play me playboy
I'm no kid, I don't play Wii
We are parents, cherished, proud, and embarrassed
We've come a long way, but we're still not there yet
And we don't always get along
Me, myself, and I, when we do we in tune like the song
Singing
[Hook 2]
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