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Verse 1:
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The televisions have eyes
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Your modern religion is live
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Plotting a collision world wide
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Watch the hour glass the power class
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Showing currency for world supremacy
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Burroughs is burned down deliberately son
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We ain't about whats devil level
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Smell the gun metal
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King to mo' man
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I read mouths Satan
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Feel the foul taste that run on my tongue
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Burn a L for everyone of my sons
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There so much more than just herb in my lungs
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Similar to spilt Mercury,
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With enough force
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They could've killed Hercules
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This whole nation was built
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Virtually, from capital to captivity
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The earth could be the modest ??
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You not listening
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It's cold outside
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They got the whole South side
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Using bar codes,
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Military blocks on all the state roads
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And worse, somebody's chold got hung
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They took his pants off,
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Covered his whole body with ants, and cut his hands off
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The type of shit that have your brain bleedin'
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They about to start scanning the back of niggas hands
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And get your vein readin'
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They call it New World Order
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But, son, this game is in the fourth quarter
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World War 3, don't drink the water
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Because...
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Chorus:
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These are the times that try a nigga sole
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Population control,
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We wasting time chasing gold
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They after more than your mind
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They want your nation as a whole
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It's time to take of the blindfold(I know) x2
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(A thousand men, a thousand sorrows)
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Verse 2:
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These are the times that try my thug sole
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White collar crime
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Deaf tones, gold, and drug sold
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The truth is never told
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I call it black Holocaust
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Some say all is lost
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But in the end
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Your life is all it costs
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Pronounce counter ??
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Global 2000 ??, what they plan to do
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In case of emergency
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They building mad prisons with urgency
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Son, I solemnly swear
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They keep them slugs in the air
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Until they murder me
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Shut down the government
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Revelutionaries be lovin' it
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Clinton flee the country in a bubblejet
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Trouble is yet to come,
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For each crime, they tryin' niggas three times
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Then probably prosecute me for this rhyme
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International nickel and dime hustlers
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Move weight and muscle us around
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But my army bustin' rounds
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Shells covered the ground for miles
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Street ?? from here to Capitol Hill
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And you can read it on a dollar bill
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Chorus
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I know(I know)
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The time(the time)
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They trying to take this world(world)
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Of mine(Yeah) x2
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Verse 3:
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They breakin' windows out with canisters of tear gas
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Put out the cannabis
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We fighting canibals with silver badges
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I feel the madness in the wind
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Like a premonition
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Dee got the ammunition
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Puffin' reefer while we cleaning pieces
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None of my niggas don't believe in Jesus
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We fight a war against the ?? Chevrolet Caprices
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Whatever way we find feasible
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Sometime shit be unbelievable
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I'm seeing skeletons in parked vehicles
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Put all the terrible types behind sandbags
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My philosophy is much more than snatch your handbag
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I'm talkin' shit like hand-to-hand,
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Man-to-man, clan-for-clan
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What side you stand?
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Some of us will breakdown mentally
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Some of us will pass away
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Overwhelmed by injuries
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But our victory is meant to be
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I studied the signs for twenty-two years
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And this is what it meant to me
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Chorus x2
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I know(I know)
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The time(the time)
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They tryin to take this world(world)
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Of mine x2
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These Are The Times
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| Dead Prez |
