Attention!

[Hook] Beyond step one, by the time you begun I'm done In my cosmology I'm older than the sun You younger than my son that's still swimming in my sack And time does not exist in the center of a black . . . . [Verse 1] Whole continents shift when I stomp a stage My concentration strays back into the Bronze Age Copper wire in my mic transmits the signal Straight from the pilot of my lyrical dirigible I be where cars fly without birds smackin' into them Emcee from the far side of the Gernsback Continuum Perpetual motion engine, eternal pendulum Powers the pen that etches these emblems into the vintage vellum I'll let you bitches tell 'em, how I could sue Harlan Ellison For infringement if he wasn't such a gifted fella I visit the Crab Nebula on the regular Once got the head of Medusa but left it in the bed with her I told Newton, "pay attention how the apple fell," An hour later we were cruising through the asteroid belt Newton passed the joint and said, "Well Now that we know what we know we can never, ever tell." [Hook] [Verse 2] I built a clockwork rocketship and spacesuit Buried it between Milan and Florence, 1482 DaVinci dug it up and fucked it up to study it But I respected him, so I showed him some other shit Schooled him on a few things: super-strings Plutonium, Jupiter's rings, Venusian streams, lucid dreams Tried describing Hiphop and I couldn't He said, "Maybe you had to be there," so I took him to Brooklyn '85, when the flavor was crazy-size live We got some paisley ties and lived amazing lives Maybe a decade, maybe nine, either way there came a time DaVinci wanted to go back to Italy and his prime So in 1485 he built the first drum machine Took it to Cordoba, showed it to Al-Qasim Hiphop had a 500-year head start That's why where I come from it's the dominant art [Hook x2]