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 rapped in 'em   Wove in the beats   Like the clothing of sheep   Wolves tracks - spin 'em   DJs, CDs   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   Look upon the surface   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 like a rainbow when heaven watched   Your faint glow fade slow   I heard you had a voice like an angel...      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 cuz, 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...      Now you keep everyone'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-(k)nots 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 you don't behave like them   They call us crazy   And if you wont 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      If you don't behave as 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   Lock you inside   Then they call that living   Well I say...      I heard you had a voice like an angel...      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   Smile for the camera...