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Verse 1 |
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Yea I turned 21 in prison locked up at night |
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Now I walk around free seems like another life |
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Another roll with some other dice |
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Another ho or a loving wife |
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People come and go some really you never know |
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Intellectual midgets that really never grow |
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Fake love that holds on like "can I hold you though?" |
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And old friends will look at you like "yo, yea, I told you so" |
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A toast to the broken hearted |
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Who never finished what they fuckin started |
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People who go out and try to be a rebel at night |
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Try to make up for the fact that they settled in life |
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It's like a fight between the devil & Christ over the limelight |
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Spiritual celebrity poker |
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But the whole deck is full of jokers |
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And every year that you get older |
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The stakes get higher |
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Gambling with a bunch of fakes and liars |
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Real talk cause the real New York |
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Is the pain and the suffering of lost love |
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Staring off into the distance in the midst of the club |
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Depression and emptiness that lead to suicide |
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And the struggle inside of yourself that keeps you alive |
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Survived and medicated stalked by sobriety |
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The life that you live now tortured by memories violently |
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I pray inside of me that one day you could be forgiven |
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For murdering the beautiful world we used to live in |
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Hook x2 |
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Crimes of the heart |
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Verse 2 |
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Love, doesn't need a complicated metaphor |
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And sometimes nothin' needs to be said at all |
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Sometimes a person you're with is not your one and only |
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And you just fuck with them because you afraid to be lonely |
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And when you come back its too late |
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So you overcompensate, like victims of rape, full of self-hate |
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Lost in the affection to strangers around you |
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Instead of the only person that ever gave a fuck about you |
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Thought you were happy so you didn't come check me |
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But then when he cheated or treated you incorrectly |
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You conveniently realized you could never forget me |
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And tried to crawl back in my life unexpectedly |
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These are my indictments of those who claim to be righteous |
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And leave a trail of broken hearts on their way to enlightment |
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But I can't give into hatred or pass judgment |
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Even towards every illusion I've been in love with |
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Cause the heart that betrays itself willingly |
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Is like a nation that trades freedom for stability |
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It's so seductive to be cold and corrupted |
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And isolated and try to be an independent republic |
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But liberty to be loved on the surface is worthless |
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The sacrifice of revolution with no purpose |
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Take it from a criminal searching for his redemption |
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Cursing at God desperately trying to get his attention |
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Hook x2 |
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Crimes of the heart |
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Bridge |
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Looking for the shining light |
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Who's it gonna be |
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Who'll walk the line with me tonight |
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Round we go, won't cross |
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Climbing through the endless night |
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Who's it gonna be |
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Who'll walk the line with me this time |
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Climbing through the endless night |
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Hook |
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Crimes of the heart |
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* hidden track:Rebel Arms(Featuring J. Arch & Da Circle) |
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Intro: DJ Green Lantern |
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What you thought it was over?! |
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Shit ain't over 'til we say it's over motherfucker |
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Aiyyo Tech, what you think about the rap game right about now? |
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"It's all bullshit, you know that, I know that! |
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Hey, come along with me man, we'll have a budget, huh? |
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We'll have some clout.." |
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"I didn't get into this for that!" |
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"Well that's all there is!" |
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"Well if that's all there is I've been wastin my motherfuckin time wit'chu |
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I can get more clout and more money on the STREET |
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Than I can get followin your ass..." |
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Immortal Technique |
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(Rebel arms!) Yeah... yeah, uhh, yeah |
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The game is polluted with rappers that are really snitches |
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And most DJ's are nothin but, industry bitches |
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And we don't got, no mansion or riches |
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But we got guns and knives and your children's pictures |
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And everybody loses in war, but you lose more |
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What you think we brought back the Panthers, and the Zulu for? |
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Immortal witchdoctor made himself a voodoo doll |
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For every motherfucker that fronted that I can recall |
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Fuck the industry, don't call me, you can't get with me |
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I'll leave niggas hangin like Mississippi |
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RBG to the last drop of blood in my body |
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Or the Feds drag me away, like a tsunami |
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But I'll be back, like a fresh bodybag from Iraq |
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Like a Baltimore slum, during the resurgence of crack |
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Brown and black, like the A.K. I keep in the strap |
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While we waitin on the next stock market collapse! |
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Da Circle |
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It's territorial, oratory editorial |
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Fuck around I'll be the cause of your life's memorial |
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I write rap's territorial, East Coast border zoo |
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Never crossin waters 'til I will coastally slaughter you |
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I'm better than all of you, vendetta's be mauling you |
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You're talkin cheddar, I'm a shreddar, I'll sever it off of you |
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I'll never remorse for you, no letters endorsin you |
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Pole position in the coffin is what it's, costin you |
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The cockiest bosses who control the fortunes too |
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The mortgage is of a cultural losses, through and through |
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(But it's the rebel arms!) Godspeed with devil's charms |
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The bitch-made gets switchblades in every arm |
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And this way we ix-nay on any harm |
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Cause snakes play and fakes lay like hidden bombs |
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We march in unison, the soul is true within |
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Eternal missions with church, a lifetime to do it in |
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Stronghold said it, whoop yo' bitch-ass with batons |
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The rebel arms swarm and form like Voltron |
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Slash your own beast, you heard +Mark of the East+ |
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Runnin through cop lands screamin "Fuck the police!" |
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Hormones in the water (water) they actin out of order |
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Like a pack of rabid wolves, they lambs for the slaughter |
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Crush your mandible, rip the drums like Animal |
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Eat MC's they my own kind, I'm a cannibal |
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My regimen salute me, haters wanna shoot me |
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Kool-Aid in their veins, they're lawyers tryin to sue me |
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"You sell crack and rap, did a skid bid |
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Multiple baby mamas, take care of yo' kids" |
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Guillotine rap, shackles on your neck |
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Chemical warfare where punchlines connect |
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Da Circle play the snipers, with Immortal Tech' |
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They called the block governor to drag him of the set! |
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J. Arch |
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Rebel arms out for supremacy and move non-gimmicky |
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Related to royalty on each trip you mention me |
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Twist bars illest-ly, rebel against the infantry |
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Get more than yo' feet wet when I make you a memory |
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Cats not ready because they commercially industry |
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I make house calls to those afraid to visit me |
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Disrespect, I'll smash off the petty |
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From undisclosed locates, move fast for their cheddy |
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Arch don't breakdance, yet I +Rock Steady+ |
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I jump on your scope to prove your aim not deadly |
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My shot to the top is like Mikki and Mal' smelly |
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Flow milky like the tits of a chick, that's top heavy |
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The +Technique's Immortal+ so Rebel Arm's the regiment |
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Arch status nicer than, other rappers ever been |
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My cantine's full from when the doc don't got medicine |
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Five-star general, frontline veteran |
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Outro: DJ Green Lantern |
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Invasion baby! |
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Shit ain't a fuckin game that we playin |
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Immortal Technique... |
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Oh yeah, don't forget |
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"Revolutionary Vol. 3" comin soon |
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You're not worthy, you sons-of-bitches! |