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Beneath The Surface
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On a man-made lake, there's a sheet of thin ice
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Where unskilled skaters cut figure-eight twice
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That's sixteen, uncut, direct from the cold
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Head on a soul, the result, death by the bulk in a vault
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And spoke about the average lost permission
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That was seen by a king in a prophetic vision
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Like a plane crash from a bomb blast
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Special broadcast slot time wit Comcast
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That kept the jury quiet and now the riots perform
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While satanic man, now hangin' his dawn
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I swing on you fake radio personalities
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And boost your ratings with hypes behind casualties
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Fire a shot wit low-pressure water gun play
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Instantly slap your fire like it's Palm Sunday
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I fashion the first jewel from the elements, the earth fumes
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And built it to a complex, network of communications
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You're up against a hopeless situation
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I screen every vehicle through enemy observation
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Swarmin' unpredictably, we spread terror
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Increase the fog significantly, change the era
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Check my wind pattern, it's headin' west
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Success is freedom but failure can mean death
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Humans sweat aim shovels, dig up debris and rubble
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Permanent damage caused by the W
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Now who callously urge you to merge through
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And think the workers'll serve you?
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The sonic marvel who just dropped the next novel
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World-wide rapidly, more to marble
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It's accountless, amount of MC's I save
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Then them same niggas wanna squander those gifts I gave
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Scratch underneath the surface
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But as your purpose lie
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Seems our will is worthless
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Like we're pawns beneath the sky
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Face a race by reason
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And that is just a win
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For empty soul I breathe in
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Keep myself from givin' in
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Love and hatred, home is most sacred
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Both species, they lay naked in the tombs of the oasis
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Think back on niggas I ate wit, spend a day wit
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Guns we played wit, niggas I relate wit
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We broke bread
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I heard through a vine, niggas worked for the fed
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Sent out secretly to take my head
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I layed back and meditate to the words they said
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Skip town for a month and grew some dreads
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Had a friend tell my family I was dead
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Return at the last fall of the autumn leaf
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Operate the plan accordingly, in case the feds are recording me
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Sign all documents using forgery
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'Cuz just the mere thought of me
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I'm like Solomon, spoke bluntly
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Told the world I'm black [Incomprehensible]
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And howls from the grave hunt me
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The smell of death's upon me
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I dwell in the hills like Ghandi
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Been in the presence of mad peasants
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And old kings, who sold everything on a quest for God's divine
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Slept in caves to get a clear mind
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Who prayed three times
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When the moon lit and when the sun rise
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I met dwellers in the deserts, talked to shepherds
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Been in the mouth of many leopards
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Felt the death kiss of Satan's mistress
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Walked through vacant districts
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Before religions studied pagan scriptures
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Two philosophers and physicians on a cure missions
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Who harden they hearts, to warn the weak and sick and inflicted
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Candles lit, gamble wit a bitch
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Who made me love her, when I touch her
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Soft paws, high claws, bees wit sweet honey in they mouth
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Had bitter stingers at they tail
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Walked through the chambers of death
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Take a whole lawn to hell
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Embracin' her was like embracin' the third rail
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Scratch underneath the surface
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But as your purpose lie
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Seems our will is worthless
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Like we're pawns beneath the sky
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Face a race by reason
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And that is just a win
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For empty soul I breathe in
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Keep myself from givin' in
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Scratch underneath the surface
GZA/Genius - Breaker, Breaker
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