[ti:Leaving The Past]
[ar:Immortal Technique]
[al:Revolutionary Vol. 1]
[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 shit 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 motherfucker 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 shit 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 fuckin' tool to your chest
[02:35.960]Step in my way, nigga, 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 motherfucker 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 shit 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