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[ti:Leaving The Past] |
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[ar:Immortal Technique] |
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[al:Revolutionary Vol. 1] |
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They told me I would never make it, I would never achieve it |
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Reality is nourishment, but people don't believe it |
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I guess it's hard to stomach the truth like a bulimic |
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It's a dirty game and nobody is willin' to clean it |
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But this is for the paraplegic people dreamin' of runnin' |
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Ladies married to men who don't please 'em, dreamin' of comin' |
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Verbally murderous like David Berkowitz when I'm gunnin' |
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Some cowards on the Internet didn't think I would sell |
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Scared to talk shit in person 'cause they stuck in a shell |
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And couldn't understand the pain of bein' stuck in a cell |
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Hell is not a place you go if you're not a Christian |
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It's the failure of your life's greatest ambition |
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It's a bad decision to blindly follow any religion |
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I don't see the difference in between the wrong and the wrong |
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Soldiers emptyin' the clips at little kids and they moms |
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Are just like a desperate motherfucker strapped to a bomb |
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Humanity's gone, smoked up in a gravity bong |
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By a Democrat-Republican Cheech and Chong |
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Immortal Technique, you never heard me preach in a song |
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I'm not controversial, I'm just speakin' the facts |
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Put your hands in the air like you got the heat to your back |
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And shake your body like a baby born addicted to crack |
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And since life's a gamble like the craps tables at Vegas |
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I freestyle my destiny, it's not written in pages |
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I hate it when they tell us how far we came to be |
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As if our people's history started with slavery |
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Painfully I discovered the shit they kept us secret |
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This is the exodus, like the black Jews out of Egypt |
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I keep it reality based with the music I make |
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Blow up the truth in your face with the style I run with |
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Like the Navy missile that shot down Flight 800 |
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I'm like the Africans who came here before Colombus |
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And from the 1500s until after the morrow |
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I watched Latin America get raped in the sorrow |
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You see, the Spaniards never left despues de Colon |
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And if you don't believe me, you can click on Univision |
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I never seen so much racism in all of my life |
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Every program and newscaster, all of them white |
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It's like apartheid with 10 percent rulin' the rest |
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That type of stress will make me put the fuckin' tool to your chest |
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Step in my way, nigga, I wouldn't wanna be ya |
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I burn slow like pissin' drunk with gonorrhea |
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I'll do a free show in North Korea, burnin' the flag |
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While J. Edgar Hoover politicians dress up in drag |
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Try to confuse you, makin' it hard to follow this: |
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Capitalism and democracy are not synonymous |
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You swallow propaganda like a birth control pill |
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Sellin' your soul to the eye on the back of the dollar bill |
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But that will never be me 'cause I'm leavin' the past |
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Like an abused wife with the kids, leavin' your ass |
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Like a drug addict clean and sober, leavin' the stash |
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Unbreakable Technique, leavin' the plane crash |
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I'm out with the black box and I refuse to return |
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I spit reality instead of what you usually learn |
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And I refuse to be concerned with condescendin' advice |
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'Cause I'm the only motherfucker that could change my life |
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Some people think I won't make it, but I know that I will |
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Escape the emptiness 'cause that shit is slow and it kills |
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The flow and the skill, I made y'all believe that it last |
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You can make the future, but it starts with leavin' the past |
