Sign of the Times-Immortal Technique

[00:00.61]Intro: traditional Lakota Sioux song [00:56.26]Verse 1 [01:02.45]Imagine the Word of God without religious groupies [01:05.39]Imagine a savior born in a Mexican hooptie [01:08.18]Persecuted single mother in a modern manger [01:10.96]You'd crucify him again like a ******' stranger [01:13.71]Tears of the anger are worth more than diamonds or rubies [01:16.56]Imagine bein' locked up since juvie [01:18.70]Imagine changin' your life and still goin' out like Tookie [01:21.88]Imagine ****** talkin' **** when they never knew me [01:24.72]Imagine a movie that depicted the pain in your life [01:27.61]Like them kids in Afghanistan chasin' a kite [01:30.20]For most of the world, that's what it's like [01:32.29]Imagine if the woman you suppose to love for the rest of your life [01:35.54]Is set to marry someone else at the end of the night [01:38.27]They say you fight the greatest jihad in your heart and your mind [01:41.22]And fight the hardest when you start from behind [01:43.37]So I dream the impossible all the time [01:46.16]**** a Masonic design — America's future is mine [01:49.05]Repeat that to yourself, 'cause if culture's a crime [01:51.64]Them numbers tatted on your arm aren't too far behind [01:54.44]They can only conquer you after they've murdered your mind [01:57.18]So rise up, ************, like the sign of the times [01:59.92]I feel my body weakenin', but my spirit is fine [02:02.61]Ready to go to war with devils at the drop of a dime [02:05.41]And fight with my rebel army until the stars are aligned [02:08.84]Break: Lakota [02:20.00]Verse 2 [02:20.02]Nostradamus was a white man's prophet [02:22.24]Who predicated European supremacist logic [02:24.64]Because the pilgrims and Conquistador columns [02:27.57]Killed more innocent people than Hitler and Stalin [02:30.27]I guess the fortune-tellers skipped an antichrist or two [02:33.50]Brother, give this to the OG's doin' life with you [02:36.25]And pray for the problems with the Pope psychology [02:38.69]So the Vatican will offer an apology (for what?) [02:41.48]For destroyin' the people's liberation theology [02:44.12]Snatchin' the spirit of Jesus from people in poverty [02:46.87]Business decisions like keepin' people in prisons [02:49.60]But had the opposite effect: incarceratin' religion [02:52.39]That type of crooked politics imposed on a populous [02:55.53]Is obvious if you read the Northwood documents [02:58.32]Forget the compliments for what I recorded [03:00.52]And live for revolution instead of always dyin' for it [03:03.96]Remember a bullet can never stop me [03:06.15]My legions are led by the spirit Haile Selassie, watch me [03:09.38]Even if I'm shot in the chakra, I will prosper [03:12.07]Doppler effect, bumpin' music out a helicopter [03:14.97]Tellin' the Persians, "Dig up Zoroaster!" [03:18.09]And tell them I came back as the son of the Ahura Mazda [03:21.27]Fish out the Philistine Dagon from the shores of Gaza [03:24.42]And call Quetzalcoatl flyin' over La Raza [03:27.26]This is my message to the older gods [03:29.26]I'll sacrifice you all to the revolution, like the Romanovs [03:32.43]Lost in the desert like the Hebrews of Israel [03:35.13]The blood clot system tried to kill me like sickle-cell [03:38.02]But I survived, and I'm alive to fight another day [03:40.61]Cocooned in a coma, I can still hear my mother pray [03:43.35]Sister cryin' out to God, "Please let my brother stay!" [03:46.15]Walkin' towards the light, but somethin' is pullin' me the other way [04:06.47]Outro: Cornel West [04:07.97]Immortal Technique [04:10.01]Rise up, young brother! [04:12.00]It is not your time to die