Master Songtext
von Riru Kīya

I was born where the concrete gardens grow
Where little girls learn fast which way the wild wind blows
Mama worked doubles, daddy worked the road
So I worked the dictionary till the pages overflowed
They said be soft, be sweet, be something small
I said, I′d rather be the architect than just a wall
Now I move through rooms like I designed the space
Every calculation drawn across my face
He tried to tell me love was something you pursue
Like I was something to be won, like I didn't have a clue
But I studied every textbook that he never read
Psychology of power, how to move inside his head
Not to manipulate, but to liberate the truth
That a woman′s greatest weapon is the mirror of her youth
Not her face, her focus, not her form, her fire
I am what I build, not what men desire


This is mastery, not mystery
I wrote the code, I hold the key
Every move deliberate, every word a strategy
They call it magick, I call it mastery
From the bottom to the summit, every step was mine to take
I don't break, I bend the world until it shapes


In the boardroom where they thought I'd never stand
I brought blueprints for a kingdom they couldn′t understand
They spoke in numbers, I translated into song
Showed them profit margins where they thought they′d done no wrong
Too emotional, they labeled what they feared
Couldn't comprehend a mind that′s engineered
To feel deeply and still calculate the odds
To weep at midnight and still move like a god
My sister called me crying from a city far away
Said her dreams were getting smaller with the coming of each day
I didn't tell her wait, or pray or hold on tight
I bought her a ticket, showed her how to own the night
Not with fists, but with finesse, not with rage, but with resolve
Every problem has a solution if you′re willing to evolve
Now she runs her own table, deals her own hand
We don't need permission to possess the land
And they ask me don′t I get tired
Don't the weight of all this wanting ever make me weak
I tell them mastery is not the absence of the fire
It's the discipline to burn exactly what you seek
I am not the flame, I am the hand that guides it
I am not the storm, I am the eye inside it

The critics wrote me off as just another voice
Said my metaphors were pretty but I wouldn′t make the choice
To be commercial or be conscious, pick a side and stay
I constructed my own lane and I paved it all the way
Now they study how I did it, write their little essays
On the architecture of a woman unafraid
To be complicated in a world that loves the simple
To be both the spark and the temple
So when they carve my name in whatever stone remains
Let it read that I was curious, that I used my brains
That I loved without losing, that I fought without hate
That I opened every door and then I held it wide for grace
Not for glory, not for gold, but for the craft itself
The mastery of living, of becoming more than self
And if you hear this humming in your bones like a decree
Know that mastery is possible, just choose, and then be free

This is mastery, not mystery
I wrote the code, I hold the key
Every move deliberate, every word a strategy
They call it magick, I call it mastery
From the bottom to the summit, every step was mine to take
I don′t break, I bend the world until it shapes

Master
Master