Voices Of The Voiceless-Lowkey

[00:01.63]"Voices Of The Voiceless" [00:05.00](with Immortal Technique) [00:06.61][Lowkey] [00:46.04]From West 10 to the West Bank, [00:48.14]I write righteous rhymes with my right and wrestle the devil with my left hand, [00:52.20]Never work for a Zionist, never been a yes man, [00:55.09]My art is like Rembrandt painting pictures of death camps, [00:58.12]The average person is allergic to the words of wisdom, [01:01.13]This is for everyone of Saddam’s Kurdish murder victims, [01:03.94]And all the pure souls that never had the chance to speak, [01:06.61]Truth pumps in my arteries and causes my heart to beat, [01:09.45]For soldiers haunted and tortured by guilty memories, [01:12.29]Who realized too late to reveal their real enemy, [01:15.18]It’s all dead wrong [01:16.83]For every victim of racist persecution from Auschwitz to Hebron, [01:21.03]My words may sting cowards, [01:23.32]For people that were atomized by the Thermate in the Twin Towers [01:27.15]Those living through the wars, [01:28.57]Ask me what I do this for, [01:29.76]Put the world in its place before it put you in yours, [01:32.08][Chorus] [01:32.41][Rochelle Rose] [01:32.99]What happens under darkness shall come to light, [01:35.56]Can’t silence us even though you try, [01:37.89][Lowkey] [01:38.15]You can try to avoid us but it’s pointless [01:41.16]You can never avoid the voices of the voiceless [01:44.01][Rochelle Rose] [01:44.52]Take our freedom, Can’t take our pride, [01:47.07]Come what may we will survive, [01:49.70][Lowkey] [01:50.01]You can try to avoid us but it’s pointless, [01:52.83]You can never avoid the voices of the voiceless [01:55.51][Immortal Technique] [01:55.90]Keep my third eye hidden under my New York fitted, [01:58.45]A crazy unmarried man that deserves to be committed, [02:01.28]The future is encrypted in my troubled lyrics, [02:03.98]Dream that I’ve been somewhere for weeks, then wake up in a couple minutes, [02:07.36]Sweat dripping with visions of population control, [02:10.07]Thoughts overflowing my world like the melting of the North Pole, [02:13.22]My people are targeted by military crack committees, [02:16.00]So I’m bucking at the feds like natives in Rapid City, [02:19.04]Reality savage, my words are like a riot in Paris, [02:22.30]The voice of the voiceless, that voice is social imbalance, [02:24.68]So stand strong or sit harder in your mental palace, [02:27.58]Blinded inside a Kingdom united to its old habits, [02:30.67]But now, Middle Passage coming, War Chant, African drumming, [02:33.71]Gatling gun humming, [02:34.91]Rapid fire mechanism, reckless living, [02:36.66]That checks the rhythm of perfectionism, [02:39.17]Slave condition, [02:39.98]While you’re singing God save the system, [02:41.87][Chorus] [02:42.07][Rochelle Rose] [02:42.48]What happens under darkness shall come to light, [02:44.81]Can’t silence us even though you try, [02:47.58][Lowkey] [02:47.88]You can try to avoid us but it’s pointless [02:50.63]You can never avoid the voices of the voiceless [02:53.17][Rochelle Rose] [02:53.46]Take our freedom, Can’t take our pride, [02:56.27]Come what may we will survive, [02:59.19][Lowkey] [02:59.42]You can try to avoid us but it’s pointless, [03:02.24]You can never avoid the voices of the voiceless [03:05.04][Lowkey] [03:05.24]Detain my body, but you can’t imprison my mind, [03:07.69]If it’s my time I’ll probably die with my fist in the sky, [03:10.58]These are the thoughts of a man who can’t escape from his coma, [03:13.49]Cries of a young virgin girl who got raped by them soldiers, [03:16.33][Immortal Technique] [03:16.56]Birthing a screaming bastard, post colonial nation, [03:19.38]Subject to childhood diseases, famine, war and inflation, [03:22.22]Education molded you into your masters image, [03:25.00]And you forgot who the f*ck you were before the war was finished [03:27.74][Lowkey] [03:27.93]You’re hearing the ghosts of Nagasaki, you’re hearing Hiroshima, [03:31.41]Beautiful babies being born with the weirdest features, [03:34.44]You might never see me in the charts, [03:36.48]But Inshallah my seed can see peace in Iraq, [03:39.65][Immortal Technique] [03:39.86]But peace and freedom can never be given, [03:41.87]That’s historically forbidden, cause only collision is the recipe, [03:45.57]Changing the course of destiny, so I’m strapped with weaponry, [03:48.14][Lowkey & Immortal Technique] [03:48.48]‘Cause the government don’t give a f*ck about protecting me. [03:54.33][Chorus] [03:54.60][Rochelle Rose] [03:54.98]What happens under darkness shall come to light, [03:55.35]Can’t silence us even though you try, [03:57.15][Lowkey] [03:57.54]You can try to avoid us but it’s pointless [04:00.08]You can never avoid the voices of the voiceless [04:03.66][Rochelle Rose] [04:04.00]Take our freedom, can’t take our pride, [04:06.01]Come what may we will survive, [04:08.86][Lowkey] [04:09.19]You can try to avoid us but it’s pointless, [04:11.75]You can never avoid the voices of the voiceless [04:15.20]