Immortal Technique - Leaving The Past Lyrics
[Verse 1]They told me I would never make it, I would never achieve itReality is nurishment, but people don't believe itI guess its hard to stomach the truth like a bulimickits a dirty game and nobody is willing to clean itBut this is for the paralygics, people dreamin' of runnin'ladies married to men who dont please 'em, dreamin' of comin'urbanly murderous like David Berkowitz when I'm gunnin'Some cowards on the internet didn't think I would sellscared to talk shit in person, cuz they stuck in a shelland couldn't understand the pain of being stuck in a cellHell is not a place you go, if you not a christianit's the failure of your lifes greatest ambitionIt's a bad decision to blindly follow any religionI don't see the difference in between the raw and the wrongSoldiers emptyin' the clips at little kids and they momsI'm just like a desperate mother*****er strapped to a bombHumanity is gone, smoked up in a gravity bongby a democrat republican Cheech and ChongImmortal Technique, you never heard me preachin' a songI'm not controversial, I'm just speakin' the factsPut your hands in the air like you got the heat to your backand shake your body like a baby born addicted to crackAnd since life is a gamble like the crabstables at VegasI freestyle my destiny, it's not written in pages[Verse 2]I hate it when they tell us how far we came to beas if our peoples history started with slaveryPainfully I discovered the shit they kept us secretthis is the exodus like the black jews out of EgyptI keep it reality based wit the music I makebrought the truth to your face with the style I run witlike the navy miss
