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From West 10 to the West Bank, |
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I write righteous rhymes with my right and wrestle the devil with my left hand, |
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Never work for a Zionist, never been a yes man, |
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My art is like Rembrandt painting pictures of death camps, |
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The average person is allergic to the words of wisdom, |
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This is for everyone of Saddam's Kurdish murder victims, |
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And all the pure souls that never had the chance to speak, |
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Truth pumps in my arteries and causes my heart to beat, |
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For soldiers haunted and tortured by guilty memories, |
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Who realised too late to reveal their real enemy, |
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It's all dead wrong |
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For every victim of racist persecution from Auschwitz to Hebron, |
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My words may sting cowards, |
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For people that were atomised by the Thermate in the Twin Towers |
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Those living through the wars, |
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Ask me what I do this for, |
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Put the world in its place before it put you in yours, |
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Chorus - Rochelle Rose & Lowkey |
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Rochelle Rose: What happens under darkness shall come to light, |
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Can't silence us even though you try, |
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Lowkey: You can try to avoid us but it's pointless |
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You can never avoid the voices of the voiceless |
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Rochelle Rose: Take our freedom, Can't take our pride, |
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Come what may we will survive, |
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Lowkey: You can try to avoid us but it's pointless, |
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You can never avoid the voices of the voiceless |
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Verse 2 - Immortal Technique |
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Keep my third eye hidden under my New York fitted, |
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A crazy unmarried man that deserves to be committed, |
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The future is encrypted in my troubled lyrics, |
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Dream that I've been somewhere for weeks, then wake up in a couple minutes, |
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Sweat dripping with visions of population control, |
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Thoughts overflowing my world like the melting of the North Pole, |
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My people are targeted by military crack committees, |
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So I'm bucking at the feds like natives in Rapid City, |
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Reality savage, my words are like a riot in Paris, |
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The voice of the voiceless, that voice is social imbalance, |
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So stand strong or sit harder in your mental palace, |
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Blinded inside a Kingdom united to its old habits, |
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But now, Middle Passage coming, War Chant, African drumming, |
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Gatling gun humming, |
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Rapid fire mechanism, reckless living, |
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That checks the rhythm of perfectionism, |
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Slave condition, |
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While you're singing God save the system, |
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Chorus - Rochelle Rose & Lowkey |
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Rochelle Rose: What happens under darkness shall come to light, |
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Can't silence us even though you try, |
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Lowkey: You can try to avoid us but it's pointless |
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You can never avoid the voices of the voiceless |
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Rochelle Rose: Take our freedom, Can't take our pride, |
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Come what may we will survive, |
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Lowkey: You can try to avoid us but it's pointless, |
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You can never avoid the voices of the voiceless |
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Verse 3 - Lowkey |
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Detain my body, but you can't imprison my mind, |
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If it's my time I'll probably die with my fist in the sky, |
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These are the thoughts of a man who can't escape from his coma, |
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Cries of a young virgin girl who got raped by them soldiers, |
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Verse 4 - Immortal Technique |
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Birthing a screaming bastard, post colonial nation, |
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Subject to childhood diseases, famine, war and inflation, |
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Education molded you into your masters image, |
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And you forgot who the **** you were before the war was finished |
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Verse 5 - Lowkey |
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You're hearing the ghosts of Nagasaki, you're hearing Hiroshima, |
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Beautiful babies being born with the weirdest features, |
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You might never see me in the charts, |
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But Inshallah my seed can see peace in Iraq, |
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Verse 6 - Immortal Technique |
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But peace and freedom can never be given, |
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That's historically forbidden, Cos only collision is the recipe, |
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Changing the course of destiny, so I'm strapped with weaponry, |
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Lowkey & Immortal Technique |
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'Cause the government don't give a f-ck about protecting me. |
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Chorus - Rochelle Rose & Lowkey |
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Rochelle Rose: What happens under darkness shall come to light, |
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Can't silence us even though you try, |
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Lowkey: You can try to avoid us but it's pointless |
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You can never avoid the voices of the voiceless |
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Rochelle Rose: Take our freedom, Can't take our pride, |
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Come what may we will survive, |
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Lowkey: You can try to avoid us but it's pointless, |
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You can never avoid the voices of the voiceless |
