Leaving The Past-Immortal Technique

[00:00.600]They told me I would never make it, I would never achieve it [00:25.080]Reality is nourishment, but people don't believe it [00:27.770]I guess it's hard to stomach the truth like a bulimic [00:30.860]It's a dirty game and nobody is willin' to clean it [00:33.440]But this is for the paraplegic people dreamin' of runnin' [00:36.130]Ladies married to men who don't please 'em, dreamin' of comin' [00:38.960]Verbally murderous like David Berkowitz when I'm gunnin' [00:41.600]Some cowards on the Internet didn't think I would sell [00:44.530]Scared to talk **** in person 'cause they stuck in a shell [00:47.180]And couldn't understand the pain of bein' stuck in a cell [00:50.000]Hell is not a place you go if you're not a Christian [00:52.740]It's the failure of your life's greatest ambition [00:55.520]It's a bad decision to blindly follow any religion [00:58.250]I don't see the difference in between the wrong and the wrong [01:01.100]Soldiers emptyin' the clips at little kids and they moms [01:03.970]Are just like a desperate ************ strapped to a bomb [01:06.660]Humanity's gone, smoked up in a gravity bong [01:09.500]By a Democrat-Republican Cheech and Chong [01:12.230]Immortal Technique, you never heard me preach in a song [01:15.000]I'm not controversial, I'm just speakin' the facts [01:17.730]Put your hands in the air like you got the heat to your back [01:20.460]And shake your body like a baby born addicted to crack [01:23.370]And since life's a gamble like the craps tables at Vegas [01:26.030]I freestyle my destiny, it's not written in pages [01:51.410]I hate it when they tell us how far we came to be [01:54.080]As if our people's history started with slavery [01:56.710]Painfully I discovered the **** they kept us secret [01:59.400]This is the exodus, like the black Jews out of Egypt [02:02.380]I keep it reality based with the music I make [02:05.470]Blow up the truth in your face with the style I run with [02:08.400]Like the Navy missile that shot down Flight 800 [02:11.190]I'm like the Africans who came here before Colombus [02:13.810]And from the 1500s until after the morrow [02:16.600]I watched Latin America get raped in the sorrow [02:19.430]You see, the Spaniards never left despues de Colon [02:22.210]And if you don't believe me, you can click on Univision [02:25.110]I never seen so much racism in all of my life [02:27.770]Every program and newscaster, all of them white [02:30.410]It's like apartheid with 10 percent rulin' the rest [02:33.250]That type of stress will make me put the ******' tool to your chest [02:35.960]Step in my way, *****, I wouldn't wanna be ya [02:38.760]I burn slow like pissin' drunk with gonorrhea [02:41.640]I'll do a free show in North Korea, burnin' the flag [02:44.360]While J. Edgar Hoover politicians dress up in drag [02:46.890]Try to confuse you, makin' it hard to follow this: [02:50.040]Capitalism and democracy are not synonymous [02:52.570]You swallow propaganda like a birth control pill [02:55.500]Sellin' your soul to the eye on the back of the dollar bill [02:58.430]But that will never be me 'cause I'm leavin' the past [03:01.100]Like an abused wife with the kids, leavin' your ass [03:03.890]Like a drug addict clean and sober, leavin' the stash [03:06.620]Unbreakable Technique, leavin' the plane crash [03:09.510]I'm out with the black box and I refuse to return [03:12.140]I spit reality instead of what you usually learn [03:14.720]And I refuse to be concerned with condescendin' advice [03:17.700]'Cause I'm the only ************ that could change my life [03:43.370]Some people think I won't make it, but I know that I will [03:46.050]Escape the emptiness 'cause that **** is slow and it kills [03:48.750]The flow and the skill, I made y'all believe that it last [03:51.590]You can make the future, but it starts with leavin' the past