Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth - GZA/Killah Priest.mp3

[00:00.00] 作词 : Bogart, Reed
[00:00.15] 作曲 : Gary Grice/Robert F. "Prince Rakeem" Diggs
[00:00.30]The Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth
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[00:11.28]Life is a test many quest the universe
[00:13.50]And through my research, I felt the joy and the hurt
[00:16.01]The first shall be last and the last shall be first
[00:18.62]The basic instructions before leaving earth
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[00:32.39]Knowledge is wisdom, this goes back when I was twelve
[00:34.58]I loved doing right but I was trapped in Hell
[00:37.09]Had mad ideas, sad eyes and tears
[00:39.70]Years of fears but yo my foes couldn't bear
[00:42.44]I searched for the truth since my youth
[00:44.95]And went to church since birth but it wasn't worth the loot
[00:47.38]That I was paying plus the praying
[00:50.28]I didn't like staying cause of busy-bodies and dizzy hotties
[00:52.97]That the preacher had souped up with lies
[00:55.77]Had me cooped up looking at loot, butt and thighs
[00:58.30]During the service he swallowed up the poor
[01:01.25]And after they heard this, they wallowed on the floor
[01:03.47]But I ignored and explored my history that was untold
[01:06.74]And watched mysteries unfold
[01:08.72]And dropped a jewel like Solomon but never followed men
[01:12.22]Cause if you do your brain is more hollow than
[01:14.18]Space oblivia or the abyss
[01:15.96]With no trace of trivia left with the hiss
[01:19.30]Does it pay to be deaf, dumb and blind?
[01:22.07]From a slave we was kept from the mind
[01:24.48]And from the caves he crept from behind
[01:27.04]And what he gave was the sect of the swine
[01:29.83]When the Bible, it condemned the pig
[01:32.36]I don't mean to pull your hems or flip your wigs
[01:35.00]But we used to wear a turban but now we're in the urban
[01:37.88]No more wearing beanies and dress like a genie
[01:40.57]No hocus pocus cause I focus on the facts
[01:43.05]And put it on the tracks and embroid it through the wax
[01:45.71]I speak on Jacob, it might take up some time
[01:48.35]And too much knowledge, it might break up the rhyme
[01:50.94]I did it anyway just to wake up the mind
[01:53.58]Of those who kiss stones or prays on the carpet
[01:56.34]Those who sit home or sell books by the market
[01:58.93]Need to chill and get their mind revived
[02:01.70]For years religion did nothing but divide
[02:04.29]The Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth
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[02:07.42]Life is a test many quest the universe
[02:09.46]And through my research, I felt the joy and the hurt
[02:11.94]The first shall be last and the last shall be first
[02:14.89]The basic instructions before leaving earth
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[02:28.42]I strolled through the books of Job to unfold
[02:30.46]And open bibles, instead of hoping on revivals
[02:33.15]Calling on His name and screaming hallelujah
[02:35.68]When he hardly knew ya, that's how the devil's fooled ya
[02:38.51]See look into my eyes brethren, that's the lies of a Reverend
[02:41.59]Why should you die to go to heaven?
[02:43.83]The Earth is already in space, the bible I embrace
[02:46.97]A difficult task I had to take
[02:49.09]I studied till my eyes was swollen, and only arose when
[02:53.34]I found out that we were the chosen
[02:54.49]I deal with the truth, and build with the youth
[02:57.37]And teach my son as he kneels on the stoop
[02:59.59]Son, life is a pool of sin, corrupted with foolish men
[03:03.14]And women with wicked minds, who build picket signs
[03:05.46]To illegalize abortion, the evil eye distortion
[03:07.89]I quiz Son with my wisdom
[03:10.38]Before I converted, I was perverted, and knowledge was asserted
[03:13.54]The study of wisdom, I preferred it
[03:15.60]The understanding, it gave me mental freedom
[03:18.00]I even learnt Caucasians were really the Tribe of Edam
[03:21.11]The white image of Christ is really Cesare Borgia
[03:23.91]And uhh, the second son of Pope Alexander
[03:26.68]The Sixth of Rome, and once the picture was shown
[03:29.16]That's how the devils tricked my dome
[03:31.22]I prophesized to save a man, but no one gave a damn
[03:34.49]For my nation - the seed of Abraham
[03:36.73]Blessed with the tongue of Hebrew
[03:39.01]Now we're strung on needles, and some are plungin evils
[03:41.85]So study and be wise in these days of darkness
[03:44.60]Peace to my nephew Marcus
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[03:47.65]The basic instructions before leaving earth
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[03:50.06]Life is a test many quest the universe
[03:52.38]And through my research, I felt the joy and the hurt
[03:55.04]The first shall be last and the last shall be first
[03:57.60]The basic instructions before leaving earth
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