Study the Son Rise

Study the Sonrise — Full Performance Edition

(Low hum. Darkness. A single beam glows over a microphone.)

🎙️ SPEAKER

Hi Tilla Sonrise.
We think we need to study you.
There’ve been rumors—
you’re just a little too different.
Some say, “He’s wow… maybe off his rocker,”
but none will say, “He’s God’s child.”

So we gon’ study you,
we gon’ listen to your message.
Sometimes you talk about Breakfast in Bed,
sometimes about Diapers,
sometimes you talk about 666 — The Revolution.
Sometimes you say Somebody Loves Me,
and sometimes Please Leave Us Alone.

They see the Scarlet Letter
as if your words were written in blood.
The people really wanna know— who are you?
‘Cause you ain’t just making noise— you saying something.
And we wonder:
if people started to listen to you,
how would it affect the world?


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☀️ TILLA SONRISE

You can ask “Let there be,”
because what if being was never let— then you couldn’t ask me these questions.

See— you got the question,
but I got the answers.
I would say that I am the answer,
but only because it’s not me that’s speaking now.
Do you understand me?


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🎙️ SPEAKER

Well Mr. Sonrise— if it’s not you speaking,
then who’s speaking?


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☀️ TILLA SONRISE

If I told you I AM, you’d think I was crazy.
But am I not the one speaking?
I’m not the one speaking—
I AM is speaking.

I AM everything.
I AM the answer to your questions.
I AM your thoughts.
I AM the water—
the current that carries creation.
I make you forget that you remembered that you forgot.

And I’m not speaking broader files—
I can show you broader files.
You think you something because you build mansions?
Why don’t you try building a universe?

You think I’m afraid of you, man?
If I AM is speaking, where you think you get humans?
My Daddy used to say,
“I brought you into this world and I’ll take you out.”
After that—
you think I’m worried about you, man?

(Silence — the air vibrates like thunder held back.)
Hope you paying attention…

Til the Sonrise.

Peace.
Tilla Sonrise Peace

1973 soul