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lyrics

verse 1:
you can watch it spread like a crack in the cement
it ain't hard to tell, but it's hard as hell to prevent
the event horizon from rising up so frequently
that you'll be in need of psychiatric treatment before
the evening's over & all the freaks are sober
& hung over the rest of the weekend
y'all will be in the corner, feeling over the border
sweat pouring out of you while you're twitching like you're tweaking
leaning on the speaker & looking like you're over the deep end
a gee attempting to repent for all his indecency
see, i ain't seen a single celebrity recently
to heat it up on a completely different frequency
so i get it leaking just to practice what i'm preaching
i'm leaving greedy leaders with a speedy impeachment
& every single suckers catching a piece of the presentation
i'm bringing, no hesitation, let it begin...

chorus:
everybody wanted to claim the crown
but couldn't nobody hold the weight when it all came down
then i heard somebody said hiphop was dead
man, it's alive & well, it's right here, right now (x 2)

verse 2:
quite a few years ago a good homie of mine
wanted me to get down & spit a couple of rhymes
so we recorded a track to put the name on the map
& once i heard the people react i never looked back
in fact, that's where the jones came from in the first place
the birthplace of me being prepared for the worst-case
the last trace of rubble from the bubble that burst
with a thirst to diversify verse after verse
i always heard there'd be days like this
but i never knew just how high i'd have to raise my fists
i've got a good sense of keeping my head in the clouds
& i've been good since i was just playing around
now we stay laying it down, relaying the sound
started making the rounds, look at where we're taking it now
breaking it out & making the amount count
bringing every house in every town down before we bounce out
so get out now if you want to avoid the boom
when we lower it, it's likely to destroy the room
so presume the worst when you see the fumes disperse
then reverse the tune & review the verse...

chorus (x 2)
...

verse 3:
and you can keep back-tracking it to way before the rapture hit
back when cats still came attacking it immaculate
before the aim of the game became so inaccurate
& if you weren't here for that, man, you don't know the half of it
i have to admit that something disappeared
or maybe throught the bitter years i developed a different ear
but i remember hearing hits that were instantly crystal clear
as reasons why i picked this here profession & stayed this sincere
to those that listen, so with every composition
i've been trying to position my people deeper in the mission
i've been dying to keep this alive & fight for it's survival
since they left it for dead & never bothered to check the vitals
abandoned by the wayside so management could save face
when the landslide hit in exactly the same place
where they struck gold back when the story was told
then sold to the highest bidder & left broke in the bitter cold

chorus (x 2)

credits

from Smoke Signals to Satellites, released April 16, 2008

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