What Will They Say

[Intro: Kinetik] This song was written in the spirit of my grandparents John Matthew Watt, who passed away on the 21st of July 1993 And Delzeta Watt, who passed away on the 3rd of January 2007 I miss them dearly [Verse 1: Kinetik] So easily we're getting caught up in the extra living We keep our house and our car in the best condition And for the next position We get rich or die trying irrespective of the repetition But the funniest thing in this world where money is king We're the slaves to the ways that the currency brings And cause of that very lust we keep our treasuries stuffed So we can live heavy and plush but it can never be enough It's that tragic And it seems that we care less about our characters and even more about our tax brackets And now our basic needs are like make believe cause we're fixated by the face of greed But after the last breath when we're stiff as a board When we're in the past tense and then we're shipped to the morgue Know whatever we make here, we can't take it there And we'll be empty handed when we go and visit the Lord [Hook: Kinetik] So what will they say when you close your eyes And what will they say when your life goes by And what will they say when your time is through And when it's over, what will they say about you What will they say when you close your eyes And what will they say when your life goes by And what will they say when your time is through And when it's over, what will they say about you [Verse 2: Kinetik] Way before the u-stream and the computer screens I was renowned as a person in pursuit of dreams My lofty aspirations became an afterthought I stopped reaching for the sky as if my arms were short And it's not as if I didn't try Cause even though my feet were on the ground, my head was in the sky Just merely drifting, bitter and pessimistic And looking at the world as an enemy Then one day I took a trip to the cemetery I felt a mixture of peace with serenity I read a tombstone that sticks in my memory It said this person had left with a legacy And I was frozen, truly overcome with emotion Cause one day I know that I'll return to the essence So as my minutes turn into seconds, I question Will you laugh or cry when you remember me? [Hook] [Outro: Ileen Mitchell] The hour of departure has arrived and we go our separate ways; I to die and you to live. These are the words of Socrates and it demonstrates that life and death is but a meeting place. It is a place of passing on the baton from one to another. Therefore, it is of vast importance that the lessons we learn from living is safely transported into the hearts and minds of those who yet remain One will need to fight for what they need; but not by using man-made arsenals, but through the education of the mind and the re-positioning of our thought processes, by bringing it into line with that which was purposed for us before our birth. We are here to fulfill our full potential and not take it with us to the graveyard. In so doing, the graveyard will become richer for it and lies poorer for us not delivering that which we were sent here to do It is said by keen thinkers like Dr. Maya Angelou that we are standing on the shoulders of those who have gone this way before. So as we are now in a place of transition; supported by the past and reaching up to the future, continue to excel, continue to do right, continue to achieve, continue to invest in those looking up to you, because one day, they too will be standing on your shoulders