[Intro: RZA (Daddy-O)]
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Yeah, you knowwhatimean?
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Cuz yo, this right here
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Is called Knowledge of Self
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When you apply that to yourself, you know yourself
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You understand, yo, it's gonna get your third eye opened
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You can see things for what they are, and not what they appear to be
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Wanna kick the knowledge and pass this information to you?
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Yo, there go the God right there, yo Peace, Born Knowledge
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Peace God (Peace what up Bobby?)
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Yo, yo... don't even call me Bobby no more, man (What I call you?)
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My name is Prince Rakeem (Today's Mathematics?)
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I see Today's Mathematics is being wisdom
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Let me explain to you this way, God, the way I see it
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[Chorus: female singer sample]
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Ever since my Birth (no one there!)
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I've had no one to care (worried all I know... yeah!)
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[RZA]
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They say wisdom, is the wise words spoken
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By a brother attemptin' to open
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The graves, of these mentally dead slaves
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Who've been lost on a cross, for decades
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And centuries, lookin' for the liberty
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But receive nothin', but misery
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And hard times, and things of that nature
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By the devil in a genocide caper
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Little Boy Peep, has lost his sheep
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But I found 'em, in a deep long sleep
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Nine thousand miles away from home
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Livin' the life of a modern-day Flintstone
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We the people, supposed to be equal
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But the men who wrote that, they was evil
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Slave owners, who did not include us
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They just used us, and abused us
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First they trick you, then mentally kill you
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And use technologies, to rebuild you
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This whole plan was a perfect scam
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See that's why they called it, the Six Million Dollar Man
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Six is the limitation of the Devil
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In the Million square miles of land that he settles
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Put you in a three piece suit, give you loot
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Chemicals in your head to make you look cute
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They use you as a fool to deceive your own people
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And fillin' my children head with pins and needles
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But I'll take out the pins you inserted
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And I'll avenge all my mothers that you murdered
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And brutalized, by this modern form of slavery
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To speak the truth it takes bravery
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And no man could stop my flow
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Because I know what I speak and I speak what I know
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[Hook: RZA]
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What, becomes of a broken family?
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Dreams are crushed and there's no more family
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[Chorus 2X with RZA]
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[RZA]
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Yo, as a life can be slowed down 20 frames per second
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Seen through Panavision
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The inner light inside my mind's shines expands the prism
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A man of wisdom, victorious and the glorious
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Sight beyond sight we stand up as Divine Warriors
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Who smite with the mighty right hand of God
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Yield the holy sword, swings the holy rod
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Then bathe in the pond of Nirvana, escape the realm of Karma
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Allow the true grace of God to shine through my persona
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And build the reconstructional terms that's constructive
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As we destroy the negative germs that's destructive
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Productively, sincerely, we uphold the righteous banner
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With the gold touch of Midas, mold the righteous hammer
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And anvil, to the sound of Man-drill
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Ignite to the speed of light cause time to stand still
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Rewrite the script of Egypt, who made the Holy Bible
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Or Koran, how long ago, who made the Holy Title?
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Of I Self Lord And Master, who control the vital
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Parts of your heart, who wrote the wise recitals?
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Ruler Zig-Zag-Zig Allah, Arm-Leg-Leg-Arm-Head
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Still puzzled like the jigsaw
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[Chorus to fade]
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The Birth
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RZA |