Sign Of The Times-Immortal Technique

[ti:Sign Of The Times] [ar:Immortal Technique] [al:The Martyr] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Sign Of The Times - Immortal Technique [01:03.47]Imagine the Word of God without religious groupies [01:04.09]Imagine a savior born in a Mexican hooptie [01:05.80]Persecuted single mother in a modern manger [01:06.37]You'd crucify him again like a f**king stranger [01:07.32]Tears of the anger are worth more than diamonds or rubies [01:09.32]Imagine being locked up since juvie [01:11.62]Imagine changing your life and still going out like Tookie [01:14.83]Imagine niggas talking sh*t when they never knew me [01:17.31]Imagine a movie that depicted the pain in your life [01:19.81]Like them kids in Afghanistan chasing a kite [01:22.08]For most of the world that's what it's like [01:24.65]Imagine if the woman you suppose to love for the rest of your life [01:28.52]Is set to marry someone else at the end of the night [01:30.81]They say you fight the greatest jihad in your heart and your mind [01:34.09]And fight the hardest when you start from behind [01:35.53]So I dreamed the impossible all the time [01:37.09]F**k a Masonic designAmericas future is mine [01:37.97]Repeat that to yourself cause if culture's a crime [01:39.72]Them numbers tatted on your arm aren't too far behind [01:41.71]They can only conquer you after they've murdered your mind [01:42.84]So rise up motherf**ker like the sign of the times [01:43.81]I feel my body weakening but my spirit is fine [01:44.82]Ready to go to war with devils at the drop of a dime [01:45.82]And fight with my rebel army until the stars are aligned [01:48.20]Nostradamus was a white man's prophet [01:48.75]Who predicated European supremacist logic [01:48.88]Because the pilgrims and Conquistador columns [01:49.81]Killed more innocent people than Hitler and Stalin [01:51.07]I guess the fortune-tellers skipped an antichrist or two [01:52.50]Brother give this to the OG's doing life with you [01:56.36]And pray for the problems with the Pope psychology [01:58.37]So the Vatican will offer an apology [01:59.19]For destroying the people's liberation theology [01:59.32]Snatching the spirit of Jesus from people in poverty [02:01.57]Business decisions like keeping people in prisons [02:03.34]But had the opposite effect: incarcerating religion [02:05.55]That type of crooked politics imposed on a populous [02:06.88]Is obvious if you read the Northwoods documents [02:08.13]Forget the compliments for what I recorded [02:10.00]And live for revolution instead of always dying for it [02:13.63] [02:21.53]Remember a bullet can never stop me [02:24.34]My legions are led by the spirit Haile Selassie watch me [02:42.50]Even if I'm shot in the chakra I will prosper [02:43.51]Doppler effect bumping music out a helicopter [02:47.01]Telling the Persians "Dig up Zoroaster" [02:49.13]And tell them I came back as the son of the Ahura Mazda [02:50.70]Fish out the Philistine Dagon from the shores of Gaza [02:54.70]And call Quetzalcoatl flying over La Raza [02:57.75]This is my message to the older gods [03:00.63]I'll sacrifice you all to the Revolution like the Romanovs [03:03.71]Lost in the desert like the Hebrews of Israel [03:07.08]The blood clot system tried to kill me like sickle-cell [03:13.91]But I survived and I'm alive to fight another day [03:18.72]Cocooned in a coma I can still hear my mother pray [03:22.90]Sister crying out to god "Please let my brother stay " [03:27.60]Walking towards the light but something's pulling me the other way [03:40.65]Immortal Technique [03:42.02]Rise up young brother [03:44.33]It is not your time to die