Jazz fusion with heavy funk and avant-garde influences. The arrangement features a prominent upright bass, a drum kit with crisp snare and active hi-hats, an acoustic piano, and a flute. The bass plays a highly syncopated, walking-style line that frequently shifts into melodic soloing. The piano provides dissonant, staccato chordal stabs and rapid-fire chromatic runs. The flute performs virtuosic, flutter-tongued passages and wide interval leaps. The drums utilize complex polyrhythms and frequent rimshots. The piece is in 4/4 time at 135 BPM, centered around a C minor tonality with frequent modal shifts. Vocal arrangements consists of bright female tenor-alto voice.

Before you read — learn how to write
You talk in tongues but the letters ain’t right

Before you preach — sharpen your lines
Knowledge hits harder when the lines are tight.

Shut your ears for the prophets 
	who can’t read 
		what they write —
They cast shadows but they’re scared of the night,
They sell visions that collapse on sight,
Building temples out of borrowed insight.

If you speak truth, then stand upright,
Don’t bend your spine just to sound polite,
Don’t dim your flame for a crowd’s delight,
	Real wisdom flames 
at a different light.

Ink your name with a soul that’s bright,
Let your flaws breathe, 
	let your wounds ignite,
Turn your scars into maps of might,
Every fracture is a door to rewrite.

So before you rise — learn how to fight,
Not with fists 
		but 
with inner sight,
Hold your ground when the winds incite,

If you speak truth, then stand upright,
Don’t bend your spine just to sound polite,
Don’t dim your flame for a crowd’s delight,
Real wisdom hums at a different height.

Ink your name with a soul that’s bright,
Let your flaws breathe, 
		let your wounds ignite,
Turn your scars into maps of might,
Every fracture is a door to rewrite.

Before you read — learn how to write
You talk in tongues but da, 
				but da 
but the letters ain't right.

Before you preach — sharpen your light
Knowledge hits harder when the lines are tight.

So before you rise — learn how to fight,
Not with fists but with inner sight,
Hold your ground when the winds incite,
And let your voice be a blade of light.