Now this time we have is all ours
Tired of waiting, make a move
You live inside your modern math
I'll be on the moon, the moon
I bet you feel good now, yeah
I bet you feel good now, yeah
Yeah, bet you feel good, bet you feel
I bet you feel good now, yeah
Remember when I used to take a rickshaw to the school shit
Way back 'fore the service had my daddy packin', movin'
I didn't speak a lick, train my tongue with the cartoon shit
'Til a youngin' firebreedin' back when he was toothless
Abled bodied, shame my pigment like I had a choice to choose it
Too foreign for the white kids, too vanilla for the Desis
Not included like double As for Casios
I grew up as a baby, last year I toured the nation off of music
Shit is crazy
I've traveled far and wide
To find my place and lay my head
They say we're all confused
I guess I am, I must confess
And if the world will end
Why not go and take my chance? (Take it)
Modern man (Okay)
Do your dance (Yeah)
Mama came across the water, like, "Fuck a border"
Like, "Fuck the future Donald wanted, you can't deport the culture"
My grandma voted and got shot at by soldiers
To me, she the Haitian Rosa, so in part, I owe her
Wish I was older so I could've met her
But instead, I write this letter like it's not a record
But it is and it's prolly a hit
Shit, Abhi gon' call me like, "Yo, Soul, they gon' party to this shit"
Just some brown kids, down since 'round 2006
When Luda had us eatin' that chicken and beer
Ain't shit different, ain't switchin' no gears
The ignorance still questionin' which pigment he is
I'm a modern boy, more than you'll ever know
23AndMe couldn't crack the code
Yeah, my DNA came from all across the globe
In more ways than one, but there's only one Soul
I've traveled far and wide
To find my place and lay my head
They say we're all confused
I guess I am, I must confess
And if the world will end
Why not go and take my chance?
Modern man, yeah
Do your dance, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
