“Start it up, ladies and gentlemen, start it up!

Memory Lane is the song we’re playing tonight…

Johnny James, please stand up!  This is a man I have recognized for quite some time…

This one goes out to you, my man!  You had my back when I didn’t have mine.”

This is a time where everyone wonders what you meant.

Try walkin’ up the stage

Try lookin’ that reflective one-way mirror in the eye

It’s a sheen of nothing but pure, illogical obsequious behavior wanting to please

But you know what he’s all about.

Watch out the for sheen of green

Watch out for the reflective one-way mirror eye

Watch out for the “friend” who really is the Dean

Two sided blade, is the role he plays

Two sided blade, is the pain you’ll feel for days

It’ll educate you, yeah, don’t do that again

But as for the other end, it’ll make you squawk like a hen!

It’s a bit like Elijah Muhammad’s teachings, or so the goes the description

“It’ll hurt and stab you, but it’ll strengthen you.”

It’s been burnished deliberately to cut you when your time comes

And grow and cultivate inside you, like a tropic echeveria

So watch your step, as you come up to that rostrum

It’s the showdown.  Don’t blow it.

Watch this, your hand is pulsating

Five-fingered weapon of destruction, wound up to spring

Your studying his movements like some kind of hydrokinetics exam

Do you pull out the grin or deliver the wham?

“It’s not the hand you’re given, it’s how you play with the cards.”

Two sided blade, is the role he plays

Two sided blade, is the pain you’ll feel for days

It’ll educate you, yeah, don’t do that again

But as for the other end, it’ll make you squawk like a hen!

Here’s to those nights you ruined that quote:  “Love comforteth like sunshine after rain…

 
Love’s gentle spring doth always fresh remain.”

Here’s to those nights you stole the leggings, to the nights you succeeded me