Upholding The Veneer Of A Lesser Estate-Cipher/MF Doom

[ti:Upholding The Veneer Of A Lesser Estate] [ar:Cipher;MF Doom] [al:Children Of God's Fire] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Upholding The Veneer Of A Lesser Estate - Cipher/MF Doom [00:00.92]Open your eyes [00:02.28]Still heavy and inflamed by late night television and tears [00:05.87] [00:07.38]Tears you attribute to lack of sleep [00:09.99]While ignoring your soul sick weariness [00:11.81] [00:13.24]Stretch out your hands [00:14.86]Still crippled and burnt from keyboards and cigarettes [00:17.63] [00:19.57]Cigarettes filled with tobacco [00:21.56] [00:22.32]That out of mere historical curiosity [00:24.13] [00:25.05]You wonder how would have burned if harvested by slave [00:28.21] [00:29.10]How sweet cane cut by a nubile wench would have tasted [00:33.35] [00:34.64]How soft to the touch cotton [00:36.83]Picked by a strong buck would have felt [00:39.42] [00:40.29]How effective indigo dye of yesteryear [00:42.21] [00:43.16]Would be at disguising your inadequacies [00:45.06] [00:46.99]How fulfilling it would be to reclaim land still damp [00:50.51]With the blood of first nations [00:52.03] [00:53.59]Imagine all this while we fuel wars with beautiful diamonds [00:57.52]And kill infants with horrible ignorance [00:59.48] [01:01.21]A 500 year harvest of catholic church green-housed [01:05.05]White-supremacist- manicured new growth patriarchs [01:08.79] [01:10.25]Rotten five century fruit betrays it's genetically modified [01:14.75]Socially engineered design [01:15.69] [01:17.56]Hurry hurry faster We haven't much time [01:23.50] [01:24.80]We're still vomiting salt so our bodies can come home [01:28.56] [01:29.97]We're still walking on water [01:32.27]Aided by the buoyant remains of our brethren [01:34.52] [01:36.28]We appear like messiahs [01:38.22]But from below we stand hollow [01:39.90]On the still rotting corpse of inherited shame [01:42.77] [01:44.09]Come woman [01:45.29] [01:45.86]Show no deference to vacant effigies [01:48.10] [01:49.17]Place this mirror womb to the face of humanity and betray Godhead proffered mythologies [01:54.90] [01:55.93]Come man [01:57.04] [01:58.03]Burn your conscience [01:59.21] [01:59.88]Burn it slowly [02:00.66] [02:01.49]Betray us never again [02:02.84] [02:03.99]Hurry gger [02:04.71] [02:05.69]Hurry [02:06.04] [02:07.02]Time is running out [02:08.27] [02:09.15]Come Child [02:10.13] [02:10.98]Kill if you half to [02:12.73] [02:13.96]We will burden you no more [02:15.52] [02:16.42]Come child Bring this world to its implosive end [02:21.97] [02:23.05]The time has come [02:24.00] [02:25.38]This is the harbinger of a new age [02:27.41] [02:28.46]We are the children of God's fire