Leaving the Past-Immortal Technique

[ti:Leaving The Past] [ar:Immortal Technique] [al:Revolutionary Vol.2] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.35]Leaving The Past - Immortal Technique [00:04.85] [00:11.71][Verse 1] [00:12.59] [00:22.45]They told me I would never make it I would never achieve it [00:25.25]Reality is nurishment but people don't believe it [00:27.44] [00:28.13]I guess its hard to stomach the truth like a bulimic [00:30.24] [00:30.87]Its a dirty game and nobody is willing to clean it [00:33.49]But this is for the paraplegic people dreamin' of runnin' [00:36.33]Ladies married to men who don't please 'em dreamin' of comin' [00:39.01]Verbally murderous like David Berkowitz when I'm gunnin' [00:41.94]Some cowards on the internet didn't think I would sell [00:44.68]Scared to talk sh*t in person cause they stuck in a shell [00:47.55]And couldn't understand the pain of being stuck in a cell [00:50.11]Hell is not a place you go if you not a Christian [00:53.05]It's the failure of your life's greatest ambition [00:55.04] [00:55.72]It's a bad decision to blindly follow any religion [00:57.78] [00:58.79]I don't see the difference in between the raw and the wrong [01:01.35]Soldiers emptyin' their clips at little kids and their moms [01:03.59] [01:04.27]I'm just like a desperate motherf**ker strapped to a bomb [01:07.14]Humanity is gone smoked up in a gravity bong [01:09.09] [01:09.76]By a democrat republican Cheech and Chong [01:11.82] [01:12.57]Immortal Technique you never heard me preachin' a song [01:15.26]I'm not controversial I'm just speakin' the facts [01:18.19]Put your hands in the air like you got the heat to your back [01:20.93]And shake your body like a baby born addicted to crack [01:22.93] [01:23.62]And since life is a gamble like the craps tables at Vegas [01:26.49]I freestyle my destiny it's not written in pages [01:29.05] [01:32.60][Verse 2] [01:34.97] [01:51.96]I hate it when they tell us how far we came to be [01:54.38]As if our peoples history started with slavery [01:56.57] [01:57.25]Painfully I discovered the sh*t they kept a secret [01:59.37] [01:59.93]This is the exodus like the black Jews out of Egypt [02:02.19] [02:03.05]I keep it reality based with the music I make [02:04.86] [02:05.49]Brought the truth to your face with the style I run wit [02:07.87] [02:08.42]Like the navy missile that shot down flight eighthundred [02:10.61] [02:11.17]I'm like the Africans who came here before Colombus [02:13.11] [02:13.97]And from the 15hundreds until after the model [02:15.97] [02:16.53]I watch Latin America get raped in the sorrow [02:18.53] [02:19.54]You see the Spaniards never left despues de Colon [02:21.35] [02:22.27]And if you don't believe me you can click on Univision [02:24.83]I never seen so much racism in all of my life [02:27.52]Every program and newscast all of them white [02:30.57]It's like Apartheid with 10 percent ruling the rest [02:32.69] [02:33.38]That type of stress 'll make me put the f**king tool to your chest [02:36.31]Step in my way ni**a I wouldn't wanna be ya [02:38.30] [02:38.99]I burn slow like pissing drunk with gonorrhea [02:41.65]I'll do a freak show in North Korea burning the flag [02:44.70]While Jay Edgar Hoover politicians dress up in drag [02:46.88] [02:47.46]Try to confuse you makin' it hard to follow this: [02:50.19]Capitalism and democracy are not synonymous [02:51.82] [02:52.75]You swallow propaganda like a birth control pill [02:54.81] [02:55.50]Sellin' your soul to the eye on the back of the dollar bill [02:58.68]But that will never be me cause I am leavin' the past [03:01.37]Like an abused wife with the kids leavin' your a** [03:04.23]Like a drug addict clean and sober leavin' the stash [03:07.04]Unbreakable Technique leavin' the plane crash [03:09.86]I'm out with the black box and I refuse to return [03:11.97] [03:12.53]I spit reality instead of what you usually learn [03:14.40] [03:14.91]And I refuse to be concerned with condescending advice [03:17.09] [03:18.10]Cause I am the only motherf**ker that could change my life [03:20.59] [03:26.39][Ending] [03:27.57] [03:43.12]Some people think I won't make it [03:44.61]But I know that I will [03:45.80]Escape the emptiness [03:46.92]Cause that sh*t is slow and it kills [03:48.80]The flow and the skill [03:49.85]I made y'all believe it at last [03:51.16] [03:51.84]You can make the future [03:52.84]But it starts with LEAVING THE PAST