Voices of the Voiceless (feat. Immortal Technique)-Danny Gottlieb on drums

[ti:Voices of the Voiceless] [ar:Lowkey] [al:Soundtrack to the Struggle...] [00:46.24]Verse 1 - Lowkey [00:46.73]From West 10 to the West Bank, [00:47.78]I write righteous rhymes with my right and wrestle the devil with my left hand, [00:52.02]Never work for a Zionist, never been a yes man, [00:54.75]My art is like Rembrandt painting pictures of death camps, [00:57.72]The average person is allergic to the words of wisdom, [01:00.57]This is for everyone of Saddam's Kurdish murder victims, [01:03.57]And all the pure souls that never had the chance to speak, [01:06.41]Truth pumps in my arteries and causes my heart to beat, [01:09.29]For soldiers haunted and tortured by guilty memories, [01:12.03]Who realised too late to reveal their real enemy, [01:15.04]It's all dead wrong [01:16.59]For every victim of racist persecution from Auschwitz to Hebron, [01:20.77]My words may sting cowards, [01:22.41]For people that were atomised by the Thermate in the Twin Towers [01:26.82]Those living through the wars, [01:28.26]Ask me what I do this for, [01:29.65]Put the world in its place before it put you in yours, [01:32.22] [01:32.69]Chorus - Rochelle Rose & Lowkey [01:33.13]Rochelle Rose: What happens under darkness shall come to light, [01:35.41]Can't silence us even though you try, [01:38.31]Lowkey: You can try to avoid us but it's pointless [01:41.21]You can never avoid the voices of the voiceless [01:44.12]Rochelle Rose: Take our freedom, Can't take our pride, [01:46.88]Come what may we will survive, [01:49.91]Lowkey: You can try to avoid us but it's pointless, [01:52.61]You can never avoid the voices of the voiceless [01:55.34] [01:55.76]Verse 2 - Immortal Technique [01:56.21]Keep my third eye hidden under my New York fitted, [01:58.48]A crazy unmarried man that deserves to be committed, [02:01.36]The future is encrypted in my troubled lyrics, [02:03.94]Dream that I've been somewhere for weeks, then wake up in a couple minutes, [02:07.24]Sweat dripping with visions of population control, [02:09.67]Thoughts overflowing my world like the melting of the North Pole, [02:12.89]My people are targeted by military crack committees, [02:15.81]So I'm bucking at the feds like natives in Rapid City, [02:18.75]Reality savage, my words are like a riot in Paris, [02:21.67]The voice of the voiceless, that voice is social imbalance, [02:24.88]So stand strong or sit harder in your mental palace, [02:27.44]Blinded inside a Kingdom united to its old habits, [02:30.49]But now, Middle Passage coming, War Chant, African drumming, [02:33.57]Gatling gun humming, [02:34.88]Rapid fire mechanism, reckless living, [02:36.48]That checks the rhythm of perfectionism, [02:38.16]Slave condition, [02:40.01]While you're singing God save the system, [02:41.77] [02:42.26]Chorus - Rochelle Rose & Lowkey [02:42.77]Rochelle Rose: What happens under darkness shall come to light, [02:44.72]Can't silence us even though you try, [02:47.64]Lowkey: You can try to avoid us but it's pointless [02:50.61]You can never avoid the voices of the voiceless [02:53.39]Rochelle Rose: Take our freedom, Can't take our pride, [02:56.34]Come what may we will survive, [02:59.31]Lowkey: You can try to avoid us but it's pointless, [03:02.19]You can never avoid the voices of the voiceless [03:04.31] [03:04.88]Verse 3 - Lowkey [03:05.35]Detain my body, but you can't imprison my mind, [03:07.48]If it's my time I'll probably die with my fist in the sky, [03:10.39]These are the thoughts of a man who can't escape from his coma, [03:13.46]Cries of a young virgin girl who got raped by them soldiers, [03:16.30] [03:16.82]Verse 4 - Immortal Technique [03:17.31]Birthing a screaming bastard, post colonial nation, [03:19.18]Subject to childhood diseases, famine, war and inflation, [03:22.10]Education molded you into your masters image, [03:24.93]And you forgot who the f**k you were before the war was finished [03:27.77] [03:28.23]Verse 5 - Lowkey [03:28.69]You're hearing the ghosts of Nagasaki, you're hearing Hiroshima, [03:31.23]Beautiful babies being born with the weirdest features, [03:34.21]You might never see me in the charts, [03:36.40]But Inshallah my seed can see peace in Iraq, [03:39.53] [03:39.95]Verse 6 - Immortal Technique [03:40.44]But peace and freedom can never be given, [03:41.89]That's historically forbidden, Cos only collision is the recipe, [03:45.32]Changing the course of destiny, so I'm strapped with weaponry, [03:48.72] [03:49.29]Lowkey & Immortal Technique [03:49.80]'Cause the government don't give a f-ck about protecting me. [03:51.26] [03:51.76]Chorus - Rochelle Rose & Lowkey [03:52.23]Rochelle Rose: What happens under darkness shall come to light, [03:54.23]Can't silence us even though you try, [03:57.21]Lowkey: You can try to avoid us but it's pointless [03:59.90]You can never avoid the voices of the voiceless [04:04.26]Rochelle Rose: Take our freedom, Can't take our pride, [04:06.07]Come what may we will survive, [04:08.99]Lowkey: You can try to avoid us but it's pointless, [04:11.32]You can never avoid the voices of the voiceless