Moment for Life

"Moment for Life" by Nicki Minaj is today's song.

There are two lines that really stick in my mind from this one, "Greatness is what we on the brink of" and "Cause everybody dies but not everybody lives". Ultimately we're all sitting on the edge of being awesome but for some, they never really take that last step. Years later when opportunity may have passed, many may reach an end and realise that they never really lived (well, not to the full greatness that they could have).

This theme is also present in the movie Treasure Planet when John Silver says of Jim Hawkins: "You got the makings of greatness in you, but you gotta take the helm and chart your own course! Stick to it, no matter the squalls! And when the time comes, you'll get the chance to really test the cut of your sails and show what you're made of! And... well, I hope I'm there, catching some of the light coming off you that day."

We all have the making of greatness, sometimes we need to be the one charting a course, or at times simply catching a bit of light because sometimes that's the best way to see forward.

I fly with the stars in the skies
I am no longer trying to survive
I believe that life is a prize
But to live doesn't mean you're alive
Don't worry 'bout me and who I fire
I get what I desire, it's my empire
And yes I call the shots, I am the umpire
I sprinkle holy water upon the vampire
In this very moment I'm king
In this very moment I slay Goliath with the sling
In this very moment I bring, put it on everything
I will retire with the ring
And I will retire with the crown, yes
No, I'm not lucky, I'm blessed, yes
Clap for the heavy weight champ, me
But I couldn't do it all alone, we
Young money raised me, threw about and praised me
South side Jamaica, Queens and it's crazy
Cause I'm still hood, Hollywood couldn't change me
Shout out to my haters, sorry
That you couldn't phase me
Ain't being cocky, we just being sophisticated
Best believe that what we done this moment
Will by syndicated, I don't know
This night just remind me of
Everything they deprived me of
Put your drinks up
It's a celebration every time we link up
We done did everything they could think of
Greatness is what we on the brink of

Wish that I could have this moment
For life, for life, for life
Cause in this moment I just feel so
Alive, alive, alive

Wish that I could have this moment
For life, for life, for life
Cause in this moment I just feel so
Alive, alive, alive

When I tell them hoes bow, bow, bow to me
Drop down to your knees
Young Money, the mafia, that's what the world sees
I'm in a Dominican, they call me Ortiz
Throwing talk at all these pregnant bitches
Just aiming at 'em to please
Shout out to the C.O, 500 degrees
Shout out to the Homie though we on separate teams
Niggas wanna be friends, I could waste the denim
It was supposed to be all year
We didn't get the memo
A young king, pay me in gold
Forty got a bunch of weed, he ain't even rolled
These niggas be dropping sounds
They ain't even cold
Wheezy on top and that nigga ain't even home
Yet, yeah, be very afraid
These other rappers getting bodied & carried away
Fuck it, me and Nicki may get married today
And all the bitches that be
Hating can catch the bouquet
Ooh, yeah, you a star in my eyes
You and all them white girls, party of five
Are we drinking a little more alcohol, you decide
I can't believe we really made it
I'm partly surprised
I swear, damn, this one for the books
Man, I swear this shit as fun as it looks, man
I'm really trying to make it more than what it is
Cause everybody dies but not everybody lives

Wish that I could have this moment
For life, for life, for life
Cause in this moment I just feel so
Alive, alive, alive

Wish that I could have this moment
For life, for life, for life
Cause in this moment I just feel so
Alive, alive, alive

This is my moment
I waited all my
Life, I can tell it's time
Drifting away, I'm
One with the sunsets
I have become alive

Wish that I could have this moment
For life, for life, for life
Cause in this moment I just feel so
Alive, alive, alive

Wish that I could have this moment
For life, for life, for life
Cause in this moment I just feel so
Alive, alive, alive

There's only one way to truly feel alive... that's simply to live.

Fly

Ah radio play, sometimes you come to the rescue.

Today's song, "Fly" by Nicki Minaj and featuring Rihanna is a track that I rather enjoy even though it's about as far from my usual scene as can be.

I guess it's the chorus that I find inspirational. I've lived by the motto that failure simply isn't an option. Sure sometimes you lose, and sometimes you win... but as long as you put in the fight you've hardly failed. I think this might just be the anti Jessie Clegg intro when he questions why he came at all.

I came to win, to fight, to conquer, to thrive
I came to win, to survive, to prosper, to rise
to fly
to fly

I wish today it will rain all day
maybe that will kinda make the pain go away
trying to forgive you for abandoning me
praying but I think I'm still an angel away
angel away, yeah strange in a way
maybe that is why I chase strangers away
they got their guns out aiming at me
but I become near when they aiming at me
me, me, me against them
me against enemies, me against friends
somehow they both seem to become one
A sea full of sharks and they all see blood
they start coming and I start rising
must be surprising, I'm just summising
win, thrive, soar, higher, higher, higher
more fire

I came to win, to fight, to conquer, to thrive
I came to win, to survive, to prosper, to rise
to fly
to fly

Everybody wanna try to box me in
suffocating everytime it locks me in
paint they own pictures than they crop me in
but I will remain where the top begins
cause I am not a word, I am not a line
I am not a girl that can every be defined
I am not fly, I am levitation
I represent an entire generation
I hear the criticism loud and clear
that is how I know that the time is near
so we become alive in a time of fear
and I aint got no muthafucking time to spare
cry my eyes out for days upon days
such a heavy burden placed upon me
but when you go hard your nay's become yay's
Yankee Stadium with Jay's and Kanye's

I came to win, to fight, to conquer, to thrive
I came to win, to survive, to prosper, to rise
to fly
to fly

Get ready for it
get ready for it
get ready for it
I came to win
get ready for it
get ready for it
I came to win

I came to win, to fight, to conquer, to thrive
I came to win, to survive, to prosper, to rise
to fly
to fly

So when we sit back and wonder why it is that we are where we are... it's quite simply to fly.