Prompt: gangsta rap, west coast hip hop,
Lyrics
[Intro: Spoken Word - Narrator] Take this kiss upon the brow! [Verse 1: Male Vocalist, aggressive delivery] And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow- You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; [Pre-chorus: Male Vocalist, emotional] Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? [Chorus: Male Vocalist, scream] All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream. [Verse 2: Male Vocalist, aggressive delivery] I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand- [Pre-chorus: Male Vocalist, emotional] How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep- while I weep! O God! can I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp? O God! can I not save One from the pitiless wave? [Chorus: Male Vocalist, scream - Repeated with added echo] Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream? [Outro: Spoken Word - Narrator, fade out] O God! can I not save one from the pitiless wave?