Take, Hold, Fire-Mr. Lif

[ti:Take, Hold, Fire] [ar:Mr. Lif] [al:Mo' Mega] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Take, Hold, Fire - Mr. Lif [00:03.07]Take my check [00:03.81]Take my intellect [00:04.47]Take my self-respect [00:05.71]Ban my dialect [00:06.62]Hang me from a tree [00:07.88]Slice my neck [00:08.80]Take my head as a monument [00:10.05]Of the hatred of opposites [00:11.42]Take the time to sell my culture [00:12.90]Count how you profited [00:14.03]Take a break [00:15.01]Take two [00:15.75]What's it gonna take to make you [00:17.79]Understand the man I equate to [00:19.69]I create crews [00:21.22]One thousand, two thousand [00:23.47]F**k it, bring the whole [00:24.55]Central housing [00:25.49]Take a trip to free brothers [00:26.73]From penitentiaries [00:28.07]Judges steady handing out centuries [00:30.09]That ni**a got life for [00:31.32]Growing w**d [00:32.01]Ah! See the plan? [00:33.28]He could never be a man [00:34.75]Never get to help his fam [00:36.10]Just like Apartheid [00:37.37]That didn't die back in '91 [00:39.05]Parents were subject to [00:40.31]Interference [00:41.56]If they caught you late [00:42.65]Trying to raise a son or daughter [00:44.22]They'd use a gun or a knife as [00:45.84]They summoned slaughter [00:47.22]And I wish I could ring [00:48.47]The blood out of your clothes [00:49.92]Give you back your afros [00:51.24]And your strong black nose [00:52.65]But what's done is done [00:53.84]Who's gone is gone [00:54.94]Once again, the sun illuminates [00:57.09]Bodies at dawn [00:58.16]And I yawn and grow weary [00:59.48]Succumbed to old theory [01:01.06]That strips my wits of thoughts [01:02.51]I used to hold dearly [01:03.65]So clearly the gold nearly [01:05.27]Ended existence [01:06.43]A young brother who hungers, [01:07.99]Lying there shiftless [01:09.39]A rich brother who hovers, [01:10.75]Hoarding his riches [01:11.95]A fatal divide [01:13.37]Acts of the colonized [01:14.62]It's a worldwide unwise data [01:16.65]That leaks when we speak [01:18.39]Repeats 'till decency depletes [01:19.90]Then leaks through our moral [01:21.60]Fabric forming havoc [01:23.15]We're left reminiscing [01:24.36]What was written on a tablet [01:26.09]It's a path we've forgotten [01:27.39]Lost in our heads [01:28.62]And I know they're listening [01:29.69]So P.S. f**k the feds! [01:31.56] [01:39.94]And I know they're listening [01:40.80]So P.S. f**k the feds! [01:42.54]Hold weight, hold water, [01:43.79]Hold your head above the latter [01:45.22]While I'm at it, [01:46.09]Hope your story holds a little [01:47.54]When it matters [01:48.60]The mold inside his holding cell [01:49.81]Became proof of the leak [01:51.08]Now he holds his tongue [01:51.95]Behind his teeth in a room [01:52.95]With police [01:53.86]One call alloted, tried to [01:55.08]Holler at his cousin [01:56.18]Who couldn't hold his liquor, [01:57.56]Let alone hold the discussion [01:59.03]20 seconds in he pass out [02:00.66]On the hold button [02:01.77]'Till his quarter ran out with [02:03.05]The dreams of ever holding [02:04.02]Something [02:04.62]No, it isn't folklore [02:05.86]Yes, it's morbid [02:07.04]If he hold heat, he'd probably [02:08.46]Hold grudges, not horses [02:09.85]We grew up in the hold [02:11.22]It now hit it [02:12.33]When hold it down meant [02:13.38]It was better to hold the crown, [02:14.74]Not the image [02:15.43]You bow to a gimmick, [02:16.68]You bound to hold back [02:17.69]The incentive [02:18.11]Which your friends will hold [02:19.06]Against you [02:19.70]When you haul back to the village [02:21.15]Fall back, crawl back to the killers [02:23.19]Who couldn't hold a candle to [02:24.53]The actual definition of "illest" [02:26.63] [02:28.65]Little man said I was fired [02:30.06]Under artificial fire up in the sky [02:32.01]Florescent tungsten hovered [02:33.54]Over cubicle design [02:34.94]Interrupted just before final [02:35.97]Synaptic nerve could fire [02:37.62]And I lost count right as I got up to [02:39.24]The last digit in Pi [02:40.44]What a fiery piece of trash [02:42.28]Why, I ought to fire the boomstick [02:43.59]In your face and tell the tribe [02:45.11]That it was magic [02:46.02]You tried to take my soul [02:46.91]But now it's [02:47.57]Fire in the hole [02:48.60]And I'm fired up [02:49.27]Walking through the office [02:50.26]Firing automatics [02:51.20]You didn't start the fire [02:52.60]You simply sparked it [02:53.61]Next time you light a fire under [02:55.09]My a** better hope that you're [02:56.15]Flame retardant [02:56.97]Arson is in my bent heart [02:58.25]You're begging to see the [02:59.15]Billow [02:59.48]Of the smokes of the fires of Odin [03:00.98]Enter the fire starter [03:02.50]See, every little monotonous moment [03:04.18]That I punched the clock [03:05.17]Was equivalent [03:05.53]To furnace fuel [03:06.45]In the form of a [03:07.26]Fiery rock [03:08.14]Welcome to trial by fire measured [03:09.14]In Celsius [03:09.84]You can fire me from the job [03:11.23]But I promise I'm walking out [03:12.36]The office healthiest [03:13.76]Take Take Take Hold Hold Hold [03:16.36]Fire Fire Fire Fire [03:19.07]Take Take Take Take [03:20.47]Hold Hold Hold Hold [03:21.83]Fire Fire Fire Fire Fire [03:24.42]Take Take Take Hold Hold Hold [03:27.61]Fire Fire Fire Fire [03:30.06]Take Take Take Take [03:31.58]Hold Hold Hold Hold [03:33.06]Fire Fire Fire Fire Fire