More Beautiful Than Silence lyrics - K'naan

[Chorus:]

Turn the light off

There's a light on in your heart

So let it be your guidance, guidance

Open your mouth if what you'd say

Could be more beautiful than silence, silence

OK, ain't it funny how the talkers always talking?

Never firing, but always say they cocking

And they're cocky until they in the parking lots

Suddenly they got Parkinson, they can hardly talk.

No karate buddy, no Pilates buddy

It's a new game, no Atari buddy!

Body chalk, well I'm used to bodies chopped

I've seen shit to give new meaning to the body shop

Look, I know you think I'm so righteous,

But mother fucker, I'm also into rifles

They try to tell these niggers I'm a baby in these diapers

I'm on my own shit, like this

I don't disseminate, I got my name in services

I don't discriminate, I got friends who are snipers

But some of them ended up being lifeless

Cause they kept silent, survivors.

[Chorus:]

Turn the light off

There's a light on in your heart

So let it be your guidance, guidance

Open your mouth if what you'd say

Could be more beautiful than silence, silence

I'm the quiet type, breathe and steady

Never small talk speak when necessary

In the streets, I see niggers chopped with machetes

My Jamaican girl say "talk to me baby!"

What's on your mind? can't say cemetery

Death do us part, memories, I marry

Got a library with no lies buried

And all the books look like they're made of strawberries.

It ain't easy being me

Cause my own fans can't relate to my streets

And my streets can't relate to dough in the yeast

But I'm beast, so I make bread on release.

I'm releasing my demons

Give the beat it's life like I gave a fetus semen

Feel the kick in your belly, that's freedom breathing

And don't say nothing, cause now we're dreaming!

[Chorus:]

Turn the light off

There's a light on in your heart

So let it be your guidance, guidance

Open your mouth if what you'd say

Could be more beautiful than silence, silence

Oh, oh, oh, oh, silence, silence

Oh, oh, oh, oh, silence, silence

Oh, oh, oh, oh, silence, silence

Oh, oh, oh, oh, silence, silence