The movie ran through me The glamour subdue me The tabloid untie me I'm empty please fill me Mister anchor assure me That Baghdad is burning Your voice it is so soothing That cunning mantra of killing I need you my witness To dress this up so bloodless To numb me and purge me now Of thoughts of blaming you Yes the car is our wheelchair My witness your coughing Oily silence mocks the legless Ones who travel now in coffins On the corner The jury's sleepless We found your weakness And it's right outside our door Now testify
Now testify It's right outside our door Now testify Yes testify It's right outside our door
With precision you feed me My witness I'm hungry Your temple it calms me So I can carry on My slaving sweating the skin right off my bones On a bed of fire I'm choking on the smoke that fills my home The wrecking ball rushing Witness your blushing The pipeline is gushing While here we lie in tombs While on the corner The jury's sleepless We found your weakness And it's right outside your door Now testify Yeah testify It's right outside our door Now testify Now testify It's right outside our door
Mass graves for the pump and the price is set Mass graves for the pump and the price is set Mass graves for the pump and the price is set Mass graves for the pump and the price is set
Who controls the past now controls the future Who controls the present now controls the past Who controls the past now controls the future Who controls the present now?
Now testify Testify It's right outside our door Now testify Testify It's right outside our door
Well I been watchin' while you been coughin i've been drinking life while you been nausous and so i drink to health while you kill yourself and i got just one thing that i can offer
go and save yourself take it out on me go and and save yourself take it out on me yea
well i'm not a martyr i'm not a prophet and i won't preach to you but heres a caution you better understand that i won't hold your hand but if it helps you mend then i won't stop it
*go and save yourself take it out on me go and save yourself take it out on me go and save yourself take it out on me go and save yourself take it out on me yea
go if you want and i'll see you in the bottom where you crawl on my skin and put the blame on me so you don't feel a thing
In with the early dawn moving right along i couldn't buy an eye of sleep and in the aching night under satellite i was not recieved with the stolen parts a telephone in my heart someone get me a priest to put my mind to bed this ringing in my head is this a cure is or is this a disease
*hey hey i said near as i can figure you gave me life now show me how to live hey hey i said near as i can figure you gave me life now show me how to live
in the afterbirth on the quiet earth let this things remind me you thought you made amend you better think again before my row defines you
*Repeat
and in your waiting hands i will land and roll out of my skin and in your final hours i will stand ready to begin ready to begin ready to begin ready to begin
hey hey i said near as i can figure you gave me life now show me how to live hey hey i said near as i can figure you gave me life now show me how to live show me how to live show me how to live show me how to live show me how to live
Houses haunted i just want to go for a ride out an on thought i'd set this room a light left alone forever and for crimes unclear with my patience gone someone take me far from here
burn that gasoline yea burn that gasoline
new day only another day in solitude houses honest clearly more than i can bare drain me all before i set my world on fire i am gone the sun will never set tonight
burn that gasoline yea burn that gasoline
no more forests only a can on red says danger on it i have found another way
burn that gasoline yea burn that gasoline burn it all the way burn it all the way
when you wanted me i came to you when you wanted someone else i lived through when you asked for that i set myself on fire and if i go far away i know you'll find another slave
cause now i'm freed from what you want now i'm free from what you need now i'm free from what you are
when you wanted love i cut my veins and when you wanted love i bled myself again now all i've had i still love you i'd give you up forever and here i go far away i know you you'll find another slave
cause now i'm free from what you are now i'm free from what you need now i'm free from what you are
than a vision came to me when you came along i gave you everything but then you wanted more
cause now i'm free from what you want now i'm free from what you need now i'm free from what you are hey now i'm free from what you want now i'm freed from what you need now im free
On a cold wet afternoon no room for love and emptiness by a freeway i confess i was lost in the pages of a book full of death reading how we'll die alone and if a god will lay to rest
anywhere we want to go in your house i long to be room by room patiently i'll wait for you there like a stone i'll wait for you there alone
and on my death bed i will prey to the gods and the angels like a pagan to anyone who will take me to heaven to a place i would recall i was there so long ago the sky was bruised the world was black and there you led me on
in your house i long to be room by room patiently i'll wait for you there liek a stone i'll wait for you there alone
in all i read till the day was gone and i sat in regret in all the things i've done for all that i've blessed and all that i've wronged in dreams till my death i will wonder on
in your house i long to be room by room patiently i'll wait for you there like a stone i'll wait for you there alone alone
he was standing at the rock gathering the fog getting there with no directions and underneath the arch turned into a march and there he found a spot to set this fucker on
set if off set it on my children set it right set it off set it off my children allright set it off set it on my children set it fire set it off set it on my children
suddenly a shot ripped into his heart he needed some attention and there he played his card going into shock the last thing that he said was set this fucker on
set if off set it on my children set it right set it off set it off my children allright set it off set it on my children set it fire set it off set it on my children
alright (6x)
jesus at the back door everything is alright all we need is some direction everytime the wind blows everything you don't know turns into a revelation it all ends up inside your head time is wasted
set if off set it on my children set it right set it off set it off my children allright set it off set it on my children set it fire set it off set it on my children
Once upon a time I was on a mind to lay your burden down and leave you where you stood you believed i could you'd seen it done before i could read your thoughts and tell you what you saw and never say a word but now that is gone over with and done and never to return
i can tell you why people die alone i can tell you why the shadow on the sun
staring at the loss looking for the cause and never really sure nothing but a hole to live without a soul and nothing to be learned
i can tell you why people go insane i can show you how you could do the same i can tell you why the end will never come i can tell you on the shadow on the sun
shapes of every size move behind my eyes doors inside my head bolted from within every drop of flame lights a candle in memory of the one who lived inside my skin
i can tell you why people go insane i can show you how you could do the same i can tell you why the end will never come i can tell you on the shadow on the sun
shadow on the sun shadow on the sun shadow on the sun shadow on the sun shadow on the sun shadow on the sun shadow on the sun sun sun
Pearls that swim the rift of me long and weary my road has been i was lost in the cities alone in the hills no sorrow i feel for anything i feel yea
i am not your rolling wheels i am a highway i am not your carpet ride i am the sky
friends and liars don't wait for me cause i'll get on all by myself put millions of miles under my heels and still too close to you i feel
i am not your rolling wheels i am the highway i am not your carpet ride i am the sky i am not your blowing wind i am the sky here i am not your automn moon i am the night the night
i am not your rolling wheels i am the highway i am not your carpet rag i am the sky i am not your blowing wind i am the lightining i am not your automon i am the night
Met a man locked away for things he hadn't done innocense on a ball and chain never feel the sun a grin on his face roses in his hands but when he smiled at me i could understand
if you're free you'll never see the walls if you're head is clear you'll never freefall if you're out right you never fear the wrong if you're head is high you never fear at all
there was a daughter of a man took his life too young she swore she'd never do those things then did just what he'd done and a boy whose gone insane voices in his head no one knows what they say now his mothers dead
if you're free you'll never see the walls if you're head is clear you'll never freefall if you're right you never fear the wrong if you're head is high you never fear at all
cuttin me down cuttin me down
there was a man who had a face it looked alot like me i saw him in the mirror and i fought him in the street then when he turned away i shot him in the head then i came to realize i had killed myself
if you're free you'll never see the walls if you're head is clear you'll never freefall if you're right you never fear the wrong if you're head is high you never fear
well if you set your mind to fallin i know that you can you got everything you wanted you've done everything you plan so let me make an offer i'm only trying to help you can make your loan just a little longer all you got to do is share the wealth
oh no don't you keep your good luck to yourself oh no don't you keep your good luck to yourself
i know you've got problems i see it in your eyes but if you want to live to see the morning leave it up to your brother or you get a surprise
oh no don't you keep your good luck to yourself oh no don't you keep your good luck to yourself
yea yea oh yea yea yea oh
well it's time to see you've got to give or your gonna see hey it's time to see you've got to give if you wanna believe you will breathe it's time to see
(oh no don't you keep your good luck to yourself) (oh no don't you keep your good luck to yourself)
I was on my way to the center of the sun when i lost my wings and i fell into the crowd and they carried me to a hole in the ground and they burried me where no one can see and no one would be around
i i am a virus i i live in silence i
I was on my way to a city in the clouds when i lost my mind and i had to settle down then i had a dream of an island in the sea where the lepers die where no one survives where no one can hear there cries
i i am a virus i i live in silence i
just like heathens thinking on our feat believe in god we're one step two step three steps towards the graveyards hello to the memory it seems that we forgot
i i am a virus i i live in silence i i live in silence si...el...ence...
In my hour of need on the sea of grey on my knees i prey to you help me find the bones of the dying dead
will you light my way won't you light my way won't you light my way won't you light my way
the bullet is a man from time to time he strays i compare my life to theres to this i remain and unwilling to listen to your answers and i'm not ashamed to tell you i need you today
won't you light my way won't you light my way won't you light my way won't you light my way
and so when i'm lost and i'm tired and depressed and when my mind goes astray won't you light my way don't save it for another day don't save it for another day hey! don't save it for another day hey! don't save it for another day hey! don't save it for another day
won't you light my way won't you light my way won't you light my way won't you light my way
The first time i saw you you were chasin down a cyclone all alone in the field with railyards and clovers i kept rollin on never thought you'd wind up chasin me
i settle down i won't hesitate to hit the highway before you leave me to waste no i'll settle up and i'll help you find something to drive before you drown yourself
your tired of walkin and you loathe the ground the sideway belly touched your feet black moons to slowly to hold you down with ring hand you take it out on me
settle down i won't hesitate to hit the highway before you leave me to waste saddle up and i'll help you find something to drive before you drive me insane
so get yourself a car drive it all alone get ourself a car and ride it on the wind get yourself a car and drive it all alone get yourself a car and ride it on the wind yea
yea we'll settle down i won't hesitate to hit the highway before you leave me to waste settle up and i'll help you find something to drive before you drive me insane
get yourself a car and drive it all alone get yourself a car and ride it on the wind get yourself a car and drive it all alone get yourself a car and ride it on the wind
Roll me on your frozen fields break my bones to watch them heal drown me in your thirsty veins where i watch and i wait and pray for the rain
curl like smoke and breathe again down your throat inside your ribs and through your spine and every nerve where i watch and i wait and you too the herd
and if you don't feel me now sun will rise still i'm in grief of the coming night in the last remaining light
seven moons and seven suns heaven waits for tose who run down your winter and underneith your waves when you watch and you wait and pray for the day
and if you don't believe the sun will rise stand alone and greet the coming night and in the last remaining light
and if you don't believe the sun will rise stand alone and greet the coming night and in the last remaining light light light light
Calm Like a Bomb Feel the funk blast (whispered) Feel the funk blast (whispered) Well feel the funk blast Well feel the funk blast Well feel the funk blast Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Check it Out Yo Yo Yo
I be walkin god like a dog My narrative fearless Word war returns to burn Like Baldwin home from Paris, Uh Like steel from a furnace I was born landless Yes its tha native son Born of Zapatas guns Stroll through the shanties And tha cities remains Same bodies buried hungry But with different last names The vultures robbin everything Leave nothing but chains Pick a point on the globe Yes tha pictures tha same Theres a bank, theres a church, a myth and a hearse A mall and a loan, a child dead at birth Theres a widow pig parrot A rebel to tame A whitehooded judge A syringe and a vein
And the riot be the rhyme of the unheard
What ya say? What ya say? What ya say? What? What ya say? What ya say? What ya say? What? What ya say? What ya say? What ya say? What? What ya say? What ya say? What ya say? What?
We're calm like a bomb (Ignite) We're calm like a bomb (Ignite)
This aint subliminal Feel the critical mass approach horizon Tha pulse of the condemned Sound off Americas demise Tha anti-myth rhythm rock shocker Yes I spit fire Hope lies in the smoldering rubble of empires Yes back through tha shanties and tha cities remains Same bodies buried hungry, uh-huh With different last names, uh-huh The vultures robbin everyone Leave nothing but chains Pick a point here at home Yes the pictures tha same Theres a field full of slaves Some corn and some debt Theres a ditch full of bodies Tha check for the rent Theres a tap, tha phone, tha silence of stone The numb black screen That be feelin like home
And the riot be the rhyme of the unheard
What ya say? What ya say? What ya say? What? What ya say? What ya say? What ya say? What? What ya say? What ya say? What ya say? What? What ya say? What ya say? What ya say? What?
Calm like a bomb (Ignite) Calm like a bomb (Ignite) Calm like a bomb (Ignite) Calm like a bomb (Ignite)
Calm like a bomb (Ignite) Calm like a bomb (Ignite) Calm like a bomb (Ignite) Calm like a bomb (Ignite) Calm like a bomb (Ignite)
Theres a mass without roofs A prison to fill Theres a countrys soul that reads post no bills Theres a strike and a line of cops outside of tha mill Theres a right to obey And a right to kill
Theres a mass without roofs Theres a prison to fill Theres a countrys soul that reads post no bills Theres a strike and a line of cops outside of tha mill Cos theres a right to obey And theres the right to kill
The act of extraction got you number than number than numb Into your pockets, son They got you thinkin' that what you need is what they sellin'
Made you think that buyin is rebellin' From the theaters to malls, on every shore The thin line between entertainment and war The front line is everywhere There be no shelter here Suburban nightmare what you wishin for I'm as tight as the whip The truth feathered and tarred Memories erased and promise gone Trading your history for a VCR Cinema, simulated life and trauma Birthright, culture, Americana Chained to the dream they got your searchin' for The thin line between entertainment and war
There be no shelter here The front line is everywhere Hospitals not profit full The market's pull got pockets full To advertise some hip disguise View the world from American eyes The xxxx keep fiendin' for more The thin line between entertainment and war Fix the need Develop the taste
Buy the products or get laid to waste Coca-Cola is back in their veins in Saigon And Rambo troops we gotta new paradise, ugh Godzilla pure motherfuckin' filler Get your eyes off the real killer
American eyes, American eyes View the world from American eyes Bury the past, rob us blind And leave nothing behind Just stare And live the nightmare
Come on! Uggh! Come on, although ya try to discredit Ya still never edit The needle, I'll thread it Radically poetic Standin' with the fury that they had in '66 And like E-Double I'm mad Still knee-deep in the system's shit Hoover, he was a body remover I'll give ya a dose But it'll never come close To the rage built up inside of me Fist in the air, in the land of hypocrisy Movements come and movements go Leaders speak, movements cease When their heads are flown 'Cause all these punks Got bullets in their heads Departments of police, the judges, the feds Networks at work, keepin' people calm You know they went after King When he spoke out on Vietnam He turned the power to the have-nots And then came the shot Yeah! Yeah, back in this Wit' poetry, my mind I flex Flip like Wilson, vocals never lackin' dat finesse Whadda I got to, whadda I got to do to wake ya up To shake ya up, to break the structure up 'Cause blood still flows in the gutter I'm like takin' photos Mad boy kicks open the shutter Set the groove Then stick and move like I was Cassius Rep the stutter step Then bomb a left upon the fascists Yea, the several federal men Who pulled schemes on the dream And put it to an end Ya better beware Of retribution with mind war 20/20 visions and murals with metaphors Networks at work, keepin' people calm Ya know they murdered X And tried to blame it on Islam He turned the power to the have-nots And then came the shot Uggh! What was the price on his head? What was the price on his head! I think I heard a shot (5 times) I think I heard, I think I heard a shot Background 'Black nationalism' 'He may be a real contender for this position should he abandon his supposed obediance to white liberal doctrine of non-violence...and embrace black nationalism' 'Through counter-intelligence it should be possible to pinpoint potential trouble makers 'And neutralise them' Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!
"How long? Not long, 'cause what you reap is what you sow."
Greed! Causing innocent blood to flow Entire culture, lost in the overthrow They came to seize and take whatever they please Then all they gave back was death and disease My people were left with no choice but to decide To conform to a system, responsible for genocide Responsible for genocide Responsible for genocide...
'AIDS is killing the entire African nation And a vaccine is still supposedly under preparation But these governments they don't mind the procrastination They say "We'll kill them off, take their land and go there for vaction."'
My people's culture was strong, it was pure And if not for that white greed It would've endured My people were left with no choice but to decide To conform to a system Their minds enslaved Their souls encaged I feel the rage It's brutality can never be undone But the sun is not yet set The bass and drums and microphones a threat That's when ya investigate the crimes from the inside And see that they're responsible for genocide Responsible for genocide Responsible for genocide...
Ya cram ya culture down my throat Say I'm inferior when I find that I choke Ya fill my mind with a false sense of history And then you wonder why I have no identity? Well I'll strike a match and it'll catch and Spread the insight we need A tiny fire, burning bright Shedding light on the darkness of greed
A yes yes y'all And ya don't stop Shedding light on the darkness of greed
A yes yes y'all And ya don't stop Shedding light on the darkness of greed
Yo I was a fiend before I became a teen I melted microphone instead of cones of ice cream Music orientated so when hip hop was originated Fitted like pieces of puzzles complicated Shot grabbed the mic and try to say Yes y'all They tried to take it and say that I'm too small Cool Cause I don't get upset I kick a hole in the speaker pull the plug then I jet Back to the lab without a mic to grab So then I add all the rhymes I had One after the another one then I make another one To dis the opposite then ask if the brother's done I get a craving like I fiend for nicotine But I don't need a cigarette know what I mean I'm raging ripping up the stage and Don't it sound amazing cause every rhyme is made and Thought of Cuz it's sort of an addiction Magnatized by the mixing E F F E C T A smooth operator operating correctly An E F F E C T A smooth operator operating correctly E F F E C T A smooth operator operating correctly An E F F E C T A smooth operator operating correctly But back to the problem I gotta habit You can't solve it you silly rabbit The prescription is a hypertone that's thorough when I fiend for a microphone like heroin Soon as the bass kicks I need a fix Gimme a stage and a mic and a mix And I'll put you in a mood or is it a state of unawareness Beware it's the reanamator A menace to a microphone a lethal weapon An assasinator if the people ain't stepping You see a part of me that you never seen When I'm fiending for a microphone Cause I take it to the maximum I can't relax see I'm Hype as a hyperchrondriac cause the rap be one Hell of a antidote something you can't smoke More than dope you're trying to move away but you can't you're broke More than cracked up you should have backed up For those who act up need to be more than smacked up E F F E C T A smooth operator operating correctly An E F F E C T A smooth operator operating correctly An E F F E C T A smooth operator operating correctly An E F F E C T A smooth operator operating correctly A smooth operator operating correctly A smooth operator operating correctly A smooth operator operating correctly A smooth operator operating correctly
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Music orientated so when hip hop was originated originated Fitted like pieces of puzzles complicated complicated Music orientated so when hip hop was originated originated Fitted like pieces of puzzles complicated complicated Music orientated so when hip hop was originated originated Fitted like pieces of puzzles complicated complicated Music orientated so when hip hop was originated originated Fitted like pieces of puzzles complicated complicated Music orientated so when hip hop was originated Fitted like pieces of puzzles complicated Music orientated so when hip hop was originated Fitted like pieces of puzzles complicated Cause I'm an E F F E C T A smooth operator operating correctly An E F F E C T A smooth operator operating correctly An E F F E C T A smooth operator operating correctly An E F F E C T A smooth operator operating correctly A smooth operator operating correctly A smooth operator operating correctly A smooth operator operating correctly Cause I'm an E F F E C T
