Pharoahe Monch-Verse 1:
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Yo
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Truth had me up against the ropes
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and semi-conscious without no boxing skills
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Fear of it makes hair on my neck grow like minoxodil
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Watchin the clock is ill when, faced wit the truth
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Parallels observing, amateur video tapes of
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Twenty-one top notch NYPD cops get ill
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Fill they minds not to kill still son, never revealed
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True feelings, we speakin on the truth right now in itself is healing
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See The Creator, created existence and balance
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At right angles, unless it was conceived and stated
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So whoever shall stray away from right lives wrong
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The deliverance of the word false opposite of truth off course
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Sure as my slave name sending
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Troy Donald Jamerson paves the path, enabling truth
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To stay stable and cling to EARTH!
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Sorta similar to the way static electricity sting see
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Truth brings light, light refracts off the mirror
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Visions of yourself and error could never clearer
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The truth is that you ugly, not on the outside
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But in the inside on the outside you frontin you lovely
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The discovery of these things and all are well-hidden
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But when you in denial of self it is forbidden, that's the truth
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(*In due time, we will find*)
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Common-Verse 2:
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Let the truth be told from young souls that become old
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From days spent in the jungle, where must one go
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To find it, time is real, we can't rewind it
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Out of everybody I met, who told the truth? Time did
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We find kids speakin cuz it's naturally in us
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But the false prophets by tellin us we born sinners
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Venders of hate, got me battlin my own mind state
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At a divine rate, I ain't in this just to rhyme great
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See the truth in the thighs of a stripper, the eyes of my nigga
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If it's only one, then why should it differ
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So constantly I seek it
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Wonderin why I gotta drink a six pack to speak it
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Took a picture of the truth and tried to develop it
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Had proof, it was only recognized by the intelligent
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Took the negative and positive, cuz niggas got to live
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Said I got to get more than I'm given
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Cuz truth'll never be heard in religion
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After searchin the world, on the inside what was hidden
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It was the truth
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(*Truth, truth, truth, truth, truth, truth
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In due time, we will find*)
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Talib Kweli-Verse 3:
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Check it, on my neck I still got marks from the nooses
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The truth it produces, fear that got niggas on the run like Carl Lewis
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The truth is my crew is the smoothest bits of saliva juices like the roots is
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More organic than acoustics
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Heavenly roll set you free and kill you in the same breath
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That shit you gotta get off your chest before your death, unless
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The way you speak is lighter than a pamphlet
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Cuz the truth give the words the weight of a planet goddammit
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I ran wit what God planted in my heart and I understand it
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To be the bring the light to the dark, breathe some life in this art
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This must be the truth (why?) cuz we keep marchin on (true)
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The truth lay the foundation of what we rockin on (true)
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You can't see it if you blind but we will always prevail (true)
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Life is like the open sea, the truth is the wind in our sail
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And in the end, our names is on the lips of dying men
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If ever crushed in the earth, we always rise again
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When the words of lying men sound lush like the sound of a violin
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The truth is there, it's just the heart you gotta find it in
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(*You will find*)
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The Truth
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Talib Kweli |