Toast to the Dead-Immortal Technique

[ti:Toast to the Dead] [ar:Immortal Technique] [al:The Martyr] [00:02.48]Chorus: [00:03.08]Rest in Peace [00:03.76]Here's another warriors song, rep this life to the fullest [00:07.57]Mothaf**ka, say yo' prayers! [00:10.96]For brothers who died from black-on-black violence [00:13.83]Rest in Peace [00:14.60]You ain't payin' respect when you' 'spose to [00:17.24]Rep this life to the fullest [00:18.85]Rest in Peace [00:19.83]This ain't for y'all, this' a toast to them [00:22.87]Rest in Peace [00:24.53] [00:24.91]Immortal Technique - Verse 1 [00:25.49]Here's a toast to the dead [00:26.53]If you don't drink, smoke to the head [00:28.45]For the freedom fighters killed by the feds [00:30.83]For those who died hard in the streets soaking in red [00:33.52]And died slow asleep in a dream choking in bed [00:36.47]Here's a toast to the dead for my enemies that are gone [00:40.49]I'm not a coward so, celebrating that would be wrong [00:42.75]I pray to God that your soul will come back again [00:45.16]So I can see you in the next life and finish it then [00:48.22]A toast to the dead for criminals, burning in hell [00:50.99]I wonder how many presidents are burning as well [00:53.78]Emperors, Popes, Senators, Generals [00:56.46]Amputees feelin' unlucky until they see the vegetables [00:59.16]A toast to the dead for those who I've forgotten [01:02.13]Written out of the history by the corrupted and rotten [01:04.65]Black saints whitewashed during La Reconquista [01:07.34]Thousands of Indios Spaniards used to conquer the Incas [01:10.38]F-ck a moment of silence! I need a moment of violence! [01:13.03]Like the nineteenth century Caribbean Islands [01:15.79]Long live those who came before, that paved the way for me [01:18.95]The warriors and scientists that came before slavery [01:21.68]And if that last lyric was predictable [01:24.74]Take your clairvoyance and apply it to your life in the physical [01:27.82]Presumptuous half-hearted homunculus [01:29.85]Self-destruction is the power without knowing what the function is [01:33.04] [01:33.50]Chorus: [01:34.07]Rest in Peace [01:38.47]Here's another warriors song, rep this life to the fullest [01:39.47]Rest in Peace [01:40.24]Mothaf**ka, say yo' prayers! [01:41.27]For brothers who died from black-on-black violence [01:43.87]Rest in Peace [01:44.58]You ain't payin' respect when you' 'spose to [01:47.22]Rep this life to the fullest [01:49.03]Rest in Peace [01:49.96]This ain't for y'all, this' a toast to them [01:53.03]Rest in Peace [01:54.51] [01:54.99]Immortal Technique - Verse 2 [01:55.58]Here's a toast to the dead, for all of my fam [01:58.07]I will never let an idea die with a man [02:00.87]My rhymes are like Nazca lines designed to give a view-of-this [02:04.16]J.Dilla's still alive as long as his music is [02:07.11]A toast to the dead for rap legends and pioneers [02:09.77]Your legacy won't be forsaken as long as I am here [02:12.60]Knowledge of the past and, wisdom of the present [02:15.24]I'll teach and leave in the hands of a worthy lieutenant [02:17.96]A toast to the dead, for children with cancer and aids [02:21.37]A cure exists and you probably, could have been saved [02:24.27]Sad to see, medicine divorce morality [02:26.27]Corporate homewreckers, pimpin' up a salary [02:29.32]A toast to the dead, for those that've died today [02:32.38]The victims and those exonerated by DNA [02:35.03]The only thing worse than giving freedom to the guilty [02:37.71]Is killing the innocent, and leavin' your soul filthy [02:40.57]Immortal Technique, remember me when I'm gone [02:42.92]I encrypted my lyrics to stay alive in a song [02:45.78]So you'll always keep a piece, of my spirit inside [02:48.66]When you struggle to complete what I started before I died [02:51.59]But some of you, won't survive the changes the earth makes [02:54.69]Swallowed by tsunamis, hurricanes and earthquakes [02:57.62]And that's just the first stage of 'you-can-not-reverse-ways' [03:00.45]And realise that we are one, regardless of our birthplace [03:03.11] [03:03.87]Chorus: [03:04.47]Here's another warriors song, rep this life to the fullest [03:07.85]Rest in Peace [03:08.80]Mothaf**ka, say yo' prayers! [03:11.27]For brothers who died from black-on-black violence [03:14.11]Rest in Peace [03:14.88]You ain't payin' respect when you' 'spose to [03:17.86]Rep this life to the fullest [03:19.03]Rest in Peace [03:20.09]This ain't for y'all, this' a toast to them [03:22.99]Rest in Peace