Gol'dust-Common Market

[ti:Gol'Dust] [ar:Common Market] [al:Tobacco Road] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Gol'dust - Common Market [00:11.88]Y'all know the prophecy it's biblical; “from hill to hill” [00:14.88]In between Beacon and Capitol I travel at will [00:17.68]Atop the mount of Crown send down the edict for the Sea to achieve peace [00:21.55]The townspeople read it and weep [00:23.74]We meet in the streets a foray of glory and hype [00:26.36]Recitin' stories and arias of warrior types [00:29.73]An army of light – recreate the Normandy site [00:32.53]Deploy you appreciate the enormity right [00:35.72]This battle hymn of the republic will knock for all my soldiers [00:38.90]The block that's where we focus and plot to overthrow this [00:41.83]Echelon send a message to stop takin' our vote [00:45.08]This has got to be a joke 'cause it's not what we were told [00:48.82]Is in the promissory note of the draft the forefathers had crafted [00:51.50]Your fathers aint mine boy – I'm a bastard [00:54.56]I grasp a four-fifth in my palm I got the right to bear arms [00:57.74]Y'all keep pushin' me back I'm 'bout to blast it [01:01.12]The creed is captured in the prose my flow's ominous [01:03.74]And obviously the reason we rose to prominence [01:05.61]We're documenting history here the end's near [01:09.04]The pen bomb and grenade; the promenade of sincere [01:11.35]My folks rush to grab it and mash at full thrust [01:14.84]The first to have status and pull and hold a flush [01:17.84]For control they go nuts yo – we're rollin' back to Cali [01:21.90]Revivin' the rush for the gold dust [01:23.83]Yo we crush the precious metal to dust for distribution [01:26.58]All you gotta do is breathe to receive the restitution [01:29.26]Under pressure we become both gems and grown men [01:32.82]It's a jungle sometimes – wonder why I was thrown in [01:35.69]When my instincts seem to do more harm than good [01:38.93]It's difficult to defend against steel armed with wood [01:41.74]Maybe I was never meant to be a champion [01:44.11]I'm standin' downstream pannin' for ambition to hand in [01:47.42]Necessity was the mother of the invention of my character [01:51.22]The neighborhood good Samaritan holdin' a Derringer [01:54.10]And darin' you to thwart my path or try stoppin' [01:57.40]The establishment of armistice this is the dichotomy [01:59.83]I gotta see the reconciliation take place [02:02.89]My offering for the intercession is burnt sage and a Smith & Wesson [02:06.57]I'm guessin' God really needs neither [02:08.94]But I must if I'm entrusted as my brother's keeper [02:12.19]The challenge is discerning fam from adversaries [02:14.75]They move in similar fashion – a real man carries a [02:18.12]Heavier load; shoulders and back bowed [02:20.43]The observation is in the simple conversation you hold [02:23.61]Now look me in the eye and tell me I'm not worthy of favor [02:27.54]The crop would never pay you if not for all our labor [02:30.16]We're the spine twisted to sign dots along the waiver [02:33.18]It's hot where you gon' stay I pray God will be your savior [02:37.23] [02:37.76]When the fires of propitiation reach the plantation [02:39.38]Thirty lashes in the dirty ashes layin' the abatement [02:41.88]I'm afraid of laughing 'cause shortly after I'll be facin' the wrath [02:46.00]I ask for mercy though I'm purposely impassioned [02:48.00]And I'm certain the infraction's a forgivable offense [02:50.43]When the true lord of this land would never quibble over rent [02:52.87] [02:53.78]Wealth proffiteth no man in his last days [02:56.28]These flames will show you what you're made of dust [02:59.15]Yo the dust I was born from is this type this insight is [03:03.21]Helping me to get right and I need assistance at times [03:06.49]Be the admission disguised behind a pseudonym [03:09.36]I hope to find truth in him before these guys do him in [03:12.41]And what's a legacy worth next to mined metal yo [03:14.97]Measure me first – depression it's better we work [03:17.91]For change not for pennies if anything the commodity traded is us [03:20.96]For flakes of gold dust