RECORDED: JUNE 2000
THE STORY: We had yet to do a song with all three members. This was the first one. It was kind of a "kill two birds with one stone" kind of idea because we had the opportunity to get some more songs done for the album as well as get a track done for the "To the Ends of the Earth" compilation put out by DJ Trey-Qel of Future Shock (Just in case you're wondering, it's still not out yet). This is how the creation of the song originally known as "Half Full, Half Empty" came about. An intersesting time indeed during the creation of the track, we had some conflicts but it turned out pretty decent. Andrew Down was present at the recording of this song at the Dark Matter Studios. Originally we were going to do another song in this session called "Orientation" over an Oriental beat with DJ Disoriental on the cuts (didn't work out) and Falice saying stuff in Chinese. No dice! :)
LYRICS: 
NDIT: Complete release of all past hip-hop
standards takes place, erased canvas is now
ready for a new embrace. Unsheath my ink, and
allow tongue to finally think, finally think..
BELO: I'm talkin' about the way we rhyme, the
way I find time to talk about the strain on my
frame, combined talkin about the stain of sin, I
heard a man talkin' to the lame with no precept
for fame. He spoke words and instantly He
healed him.
NDIT: Now a new journey begins, a lyrical
attempt to bring minds beyond simple origins.
Organize all that concentration and focus on this
organic mental saturation. Your brain is a sponge
craving for truth to start soakin' in.
BELO: I was once condemned, then saved- never
again to see the grave. This man Jesus
pre-destined me to demonstrate freedom and
start living salvation. In a world where I'm pacing
like a nervous wreck. Trying to figure out What
D. Heck is placing me, you and all of us behind
empty words that serve no real direction. I'd
rather swerve into traffic oncoming and learn a
lesson. To mean what I say, acknowledge my
imperfection. Live the fullest of days and never
rest till the sun sets with...
TK: The rhythmic flow articulated, wordsmiths
preaching good news to those illiterate. Sick,
because as humans, that's what we are,
represent, re-present the omnipotent, not a local
metropolis. You say Word, why don't you read
it? For real, most wrappers contain corroding
candy disposed into waste baskets following
consumption by the consumer but this brotha's
heard another rumor...
BELO: True, ah TK, we supposed to reach out
with real nutrients that reside within
omnipotence. I'm talkin' bout, walkin' bout in
humility focus. Livin' dipped in the abundance of
His eternal well, my optics now properly seeing
and my heart believing, (leaving lives are swell?)
with love. Hip-Hop is just a cover up for what?
It's just a cover up for what?

NDIT: Whether our rhymes are half full or half
empty, to a dehydrated hip-hop head, it's
definitely plenty.

TK: My mind's divided into factions: what I
desire and what I know as Truth- solid, never
changing, no re-arranging no renovatin', pupils
dilatin' on the amazement of a God who loves
even me! The tree from which all life spwns: an
invisible force seen with your heart and not your
retina, insead-a followin' the mass rebellion I
choose this course in life, a part of His written
story.
NDIT: Sorry if you're expecting less but this
verse is dedicated to the glory, poetry extracted
from raw Truth to ingest. Does His promise raise
hands in protest? Insead, extend those limbs in
praise to the highest. I accept no worship. I'm
here to make it easier to digest like a Father's
open invitation, or perhaps a Son's lifelong
dedication. Concentration, is now needed to gain
a full understanding. This is an example of using
the simplest words to describe the most
confounding script.
BELO: I've waited till now to make it but I
tripped. In my realization of my weaknesses my
strength is now stretching out to grasp the
source of power: the Creator. But that's
physically impossible so the gospel be the fader,
connecting the 1 and 2's transforming Jesus to
me and you and breaking silence to the Jews
violence, cold war the Son of Man. All for a
purpose instilled within His plan. Know who I
am- just another formed being chosen to walk
the dark earth with new vision seeing- marks
with my eternal soul, so I'll eternally flow and
stand. From this until the very next land.
NDIT: Observe understanding, beginning to
expand, conserve the urge to label intelligent
rhymes a contrebande, audible salt in a world
made of bland. There's enough here to go
around, just put out your hand, your hand, your
hand.

NDIT: Whether our rhymes are half full or half
empty, to a dehydrated Hip Hop head, it's
definitely plenty.
BELO: It's definitely plenty.
TK: Yeah.