I Heard You Had a Voice Like an Angel

[Verse 1] I heard you had a voice like an angel I heard a strange tale about a saint that fell, music became jail These bars I hear you wrapped in 'em Wove in the beats like the clothing of sheep, wolves tracks, spin 'em DJ's, CD's, C-notes, G's thrown On D's, we'll be kings like T.I., hope I heard you even sang when you spoke And the emotion you evoked got you choked When your beauty struck a vocal chord broke, boatless dove overboard Looked upon the ocean, caught your reflection before the Lord's I heard you had a voice like an angel Strange though, you were blinded by the light Shining from your own halo, fell off Sort of like a rainbow when heaven watched your faint glow fade slow I heard you had a voice like an angel [Verse 2] I heard that fame's a killer that can murder great princes Like Kurt Cobain singing Purple Rain from a distance Hope home ain't a virtual game Nor this cursed place Earth where the dollars and the karma don't circulate The world's a stage and you know this play well Gee I bet you even know how it ends, pray tell Had a voice like an angel, now you score the drama scenes The comedy's the fact we enact what you want to be Had some old songs still stuck in your memory Distorted though, so you sort of re-assembled melodies And fine-tune and turned 'em into single after single In this industry you built so sinfully simple for You to write cause a song is what your life was The destiny of stars is their light must fight dusk With sparks of brilliance to ignite us And of all the billions of stars you were by far the brightest I heard you had a voice like an angel Now it's just a light hush [Verse 3] But now you keep everybody's eyes on charts and schedules And the trends, trying to stack gold bars and medals They want vessels void and dark as space Fools wanna make stars instead of music that's smart or special Because art at a level that's real can be harder to peddle Business prefers a market that settles For second rate, kill the true artists martyr the rebels That's the system and it's straight from the heart of the devil See, merchants of dreams sold to souls eyes-wide shut Passing the buck to purchase a pass to buy stuff Working in this circus get hired up To walk over have-knots on a tight rope tied up in my gut It's a delicate balance, developing talent Into persons that we worship, yo it's a hell of a challenge I heard you had a voice like an angel And don't really sing no more but you still running the game so If we don't behave like them, they call us crazy And if we won't slave for them, they call us lazy Lately, I've started to see why you hate me Hearing this voice, it must be painful To the ears when for years you had a voice like an angel [Break] If you don't behave like them, they call you crazy And if you won't slave for them, they call you lazy Well I say... They wanna take your mind, turn it into a prison And lock you inside then they call that living Well I say... [x2] I heard you had a voice like an angel [Outro] They say smile for the camera They say smile for the camera Smile for the camera While they take your children Smile for the camera While we rape your women Smile for the camera While we make our millions Smile for the camera While we make our buildings Smile for the camera Smile for the camera They say smile for the camera...