Sage Francis "The Best of Times"

Spoken word artist and rapper, Sage Francis, takes us through a beautiful coming of age story highlighting the trials and tribulations, the highs and lows and the truths and lies of life.

It was beautiful, it was brutal, it was cruel,
It was business as usual,
Heaven, it was Hell,
I used to wonder if I'd live to see twelve. 


When I did I figured out I was immortal,
Loved to dance but couldn't make it to the formal,
Couldn't bare watching my imaginary girlfriend bust a move with any other dudes,
Tone Loc was talking about a wild thing,
I was still caught up in some child things,
Scared of a God who couldn't spare the rod,
It was clearly a brim-stone and fire thing,
Pyromaniac, kleptomaniac,
Couldn't explain my desire to steal that fire,
Now I add it to my rider,
Like "please don't please don't throw me in that patch of brier!"


It was the best of times, it was the end of times.
-Sage Francis


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