The Truth-Pharoahe Monch/Common/Talib Kweli

[00:14.940]Yo, truth had me up against the ropes [00:17.437]Semi-conscious without no boxing skills [00:19.434]Fear of it makes hair on my neck grow like minoxidil [00:21.685]Watching the clock is ill when faced with the truth [00:24.193]Parallels, observing amateur video tapes of [00:27.188]Twenty-one top-notch NYPD cops get ill [00:29.684]Fill their minds not to kill, still, some never revealed, true feelings [00:33.191]Me speaking on the truth right now in itself is a healing (Uh) [00:35.944]See the Creator created existence and balance [00:38.939]At right angles, unless it was conceived and stated [00:41.195]So whoever shall stray away from right lives wrong [00:43.444]The deliverance of the word "false," opposite of truths, off-course [00:46.693]Sure as my slave name sending [00:48.936]Troy Donald Jamerson paves the path, enablin' truth [00:51.686]To stay stable and cling to Earth [00:53.695]Sort of similar to the way static electricity sting (Come on), see [00:56.689]Truth brings light, light refracts off the mirror [00:59.442]Visions of yourself and error could never be clearer [01:01.939]The truth is that you ugly [01:03.690]Not on the outside, but in the inside [01:05.687]On the outside, you frontin', you lovely [01:07.689]The discovery of these things and all are well hidden [01:10.196]But when you in denial of self, it is forbidden [01:12.698]That's the truth,uh, uh(That's the truth, boy) [01:14.686]In due time, we will find(See it everywhere, gotta recognize, uh) [01:20.188]Let the truth be told from young souls that become old [01:23.695]From days spent in the jungle, where must one go to find it? [01:27.189]Time is real, we can't rewind it [01:28.944]Out of everybody I met, who told the truth? Time did [01:31.694]We find kids speakin' 'cause it's naturally in us [01:34.436]But the false prophets, by tellin' us we born sinners [01:36.944]Venders of hate, got me battlin' my own mind state [01:39.440]At a divine rate, I ain't in this just to rhyme great [01:42.190]See the truth in the thighs of a stripper, the eyes of my nigga [01:45.442]If it's only one, then why should it differ? [01:47.693]So constantly, I seek it [01:49.388]Wonder why I gotta drink a six-pack to speak it [01:52.129]Took a picture of the truth and tried to develop it [01:54.879]Had proof, it was only recognized by the intelligent [01:57.887]Took the negative and positive 'cause niggas got to live [02:00.882]Said I gotta give more than I'm given [02:03.136]'Cause truth'll never be heard in religion [02:05.133]After searchin' the world, on the inside [02:07.384]What was hidden? [02:08.082]It was the truth [02:09.834]Truth, truth, truth (Yeah) [02:12.330]Truth, truth, truth (Mm) [02:13.839]In due time, we will find (The truth is...) [02:18.589]Check it [02:19.284]On my neck, I still got marks from the nooses (Uh) [02:21.526]The truth it produces [02:22.778]Fear that got niggas on the run like Carl Lewis (Yeah) [02:25.532]The truth is, my crew is the smoothest spitters of saliva juices [02:28.530]Like The Roots is, more organic than acoustics (Uh) [02:31.030]Heavenly, what will set you free and kill you in the same breath (What?) [02:33.531]That shit you gotta get off your chest before your death [02:36.027]Unless the way you speak is lighter than a pamphlet [02:38.777]'Cause the truth give the words the weight of a planet, goddamnit [02:41.530]I ran with what God planted in my heart, and I understand it [02:44.027]To be to bring some light to the dark, breathe some life in this art [02:46.777]This must be the truth (Why?) [02:48.033]'Cause we keep marching on (True) [02:49.530]The truth lay the foundation of what we rockin' on (True) [02:52.026]You can't see it if you blind, but we will always prevail (True) [02:54.776]Life is like the open sea, the truth is the wind in our sails [02:57.529]In the end, our names is on the lips of dying men (Uh) [03:00.532]If ever crushed to the earth, we always rise again [03:03.040]When the words of lying men sound lush like the sound of a violin [03:05.783]The truth is there, it's just the heart you gotta find it in (Find it in) [03:10.034]You will find, you will find, you will find [03:20.529]You will find, you will find, you will find [03:29.783]You... oh