Immortal Technique - Leaving the Past lyrics

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[Verse 1]

They told me I would never make it, I would never achieve it

Reality is nurishment, but people don't believe it

I guess its hard to stomach the truth like a bulimick

its a dirty game and nobody is willing to clean it

But this is for the paralygics, people dreamin' of runnin'

ladies married to men who dont please 'em, dreamin' of comin'

urbanly murderous like David Berkowitz when I'm gunnin'

Some cowards on the internet didn't think I would sell

scared to talk shit in person, cuz they stuck in a shell

and couldn't understand the pain of being stuck in a cell

Hell is not a place you go, if you not a christian

it's the failure of your lifes greatest ambition

It's a bad decision to blindly follow any religion

I don't see the difference in between the raw and the wrong

Soldiers emptyin' the clips at little kids and they moms

I'm just like a desperate motherfucker strapped to a bomb

Humanity is gone, smoked up in a gravity bong

by a democrat republican Cheech and Chong

Immortal Technique, you never heard me preachin' a song

I'm not controversial, I'm just speakin' the facts

Put your hands in the air like you got the heat to your back

and shake your body like a baby born addicted to crack

And since life is a gamble like the crabstables at Vegas

I freestyle my destiny, it's not written in pages

[Verse 2]

I hate it when they tell us how far we came to be

as if our peoples history started with slavery

Painfully I discovered the shit they kept us secret

this is the exodus like the black jews out of Egypt

I keep it reality based wit the music I make

brought the truth to your face with the style I run wit

like the navy missile that shot down flight eighthundred

I'm like the africans who came here before Colombus

and from the 15hundreds until after the model

I watch Latin America get raped in the sorrow

You see the spanjards never left Espace the Cologne

and if you don't believe me, you can click on Uni Mission

I never seen so much racism in all of my life

every program and newscast, all of them white

It's like a part tide with 10 percent ruling the rest

that type of stress 'll make me put the fucking tool to your chest

Step in my way nigga, I wouldn't wanna be ya

I burn slow like (a) pissing drunk with gonnorrhea

I'll do a freak show in North Korea, burning the flag

while Jay Edgar Hoover politicians dress up in drag

Try to confuse you, makin' it hard to follow this:

capitalism en democracy are not synonymous

You swallow propaganda like a birth control pill

sellin' your soul to the eye on the back of the dollar bill

But that will never be me, cuz I am leavin' the past

like an abused wife with the kids, leavin' your ass

Like a drug addict clean and sober, leavin' the stash

unbreakable Technique leavin' the plane crash

I'm out with the black box and I refuse to return

I spit reality, instead of what you usually learn

and I refuse to be concerned with condecending advice

cuz I am the only motherfucker that could change my life

[Ending]

Some people think I won't make it

but I know that I will

Escape the emptiness

cuz that shit is slow and it kills

the flow and the skill

I made y'all believe that it last

You can make the future

but it starts with LEAVING THE PAST