| Black boy | 
| Lost in the dust | 
| And found in the heavens | 
| You understand what I’m saying? | 
| That your destiny is in eternity | 
| You never were originated | 
| And you’ll never be destroyed | 
| Your destiny is with the people of the earth | 
| Who came out of you | 
| And now they are returning | 
| So does your job to prepare yourself | 
| For what is to come | 
| What is past is past | 
| But it’ll last forever | 
| Because it prepared for you | 
| The future that you have before you | 
| When I was a little boy in Mississippi | 
| We sang every morning when we went to school | 
| And I could feel the energy of all my students | 
| We enjoyed school so much | 
| Because we sang every morning before we started | 
| At sundawn we would play a game called «hide and seek» | 
| And in that game | 
| One person would say this riddle | 
| Last night, night before, 24 robbers at my door | 
| I got up, and let 'em in | 
| Hit 'em in the head with a rolling pin | 
| And then we could go | 
| And seek out the first person we could find hiding | 
| And that person became it | 
| And then they would go and sing | 
| Last night, night before, 24 robbers at my door | 
| I got up, and let 'em in | 
| Hit 'em in the head with a rolling pin | 
| Now, when I was maybe 30, something | 
| I looked up at the stars one night | 
| And it startled me because I felt something | 
| And no one told me that the stars have feelings | 
| And so it took me out of the world that we were all | 
| Sequested in | 
| And it allowed me to go on to the world of eternity | 
| And I’ve been there now, 50 years coming | 
| And it’s taught me | 
| This, rolling pin gives us that authority | 
| Because it is the only symbol in the hands of Orion | 
| In ancient Egypt, Archimid | 
| It was called a scroll | 
| In the Bible, in the fourth and fifth chapter of the revelation | 
| It’s called a man with a book in his hands | 
| But we found out it was the rolling pin that we were talking about | 
| The 24 robbers are the 24 stars surrounding the constellation called Orion | 
| And so, I got up, and let 'em in | 
| Means that he crossed the milky way | 
| Which is the galaxy that we are part of | 
| And I hit 'em in the head with a rolling pin | 
| Meant that, in that rolling pin is the knowledge of our eternity | 
| I think that, it’s what it means to be a black boy | 
| To be lost, to be envious, and selfish | 
| To be misguided and confused | 
| But, somehow, to realize, that you’re the whole package | 
| And it’s your responsibility to find your eternity on this earth |