Like a massive Guardian...A view of all around ... encroaching on its brief...Don't destroy history...Let history survive, keep indus...ten to the massage, a voice from the past

Yeah, yeah Roc-A-Fella ...ll we hustle out of a sense of, hopelessn...Sort of a desperation ...A brother gotta admir...brains was fried to a fricassee, can't li...ng poverty, however brief ... to be, soon to see a mill'in ...e main event, I bet a trip to Maui on it ...the one that starts a G up ...And we can have a pleasant time, sipp...Like a Lexus, if driven wr...confederation, dead a nation, EXPLODE ...verload the mind of a said patient ...True this, history school us to spend ...vel, meditated like a Buddhist ...Roc-A-Fella y'all

and a long history of brief romances ...Got a box of hurt and a bag of shame

Yeah, yeah Roc-A-Fella ...ll we hustle out of a sense of, hopelessn...Sort of a desperation ...A brother gotta admir...brains was fried to a fricassee, can't li...ng poverty, however brief ... to be, soon to see a mill'in ...e main event, I bet a trip to Maui on it ...the one that starts a G up ...And we can have a pleasant time, sipp...Like a Lexus, if driven wr...confederation, dead a nation, EXPLODE ...verload the mind of a said patient ...True this, history school us to spend ...vel, meditated like a Buddhist ...Roc-A-Fella y'all

Yeah, yeah Roc-A-Fella ...ll we hustle out of a sense of, hopelessn...Sort of a desperation ...A brother gotta admir...brains was fried to a fricassee, can't li...ng poverty, however brief ... to be, soon to see a mill'in ...e main event, I bet a trip to Maui on it ...the one that starts a G up ...And we can have a pleasant time, sipp...Like a Lexus, if driven wr...confederation, dead a nation, EXPLODE ...verload the mind of a said patient ...True this, history school us to spend ...vel, meditated like a Buddhist ...Roc-A-Fella y'all

[Lil' O] (H.A.W.K) ...t more bitches than a damn hoe house (com...That be knockin' on a nigga door (nigga d...I'm a gorilla (yeah) ...e block on dots and a hummy ...Young mommies want a hog that ain't cuff...They want a jigga with figures ...d wig splitters and a little game that gi...ure you can step to a hog ...Let off a hundred rounds drum...Run you off like a scared dog with you...want to be a baller when this G-...[H.A.W.K] ...I'm a outlaw (outlaw) ...A hustler run the blo...If a nigga got beef I kn...Steal you like a thief make the asswhippin' brief ...Or you ass is history (Bye-bye!) ... bullet shells left a trail from the M-16...A thug that hang on a...I'm a death wish to nigga...I'm a do what I'm suppose

Yeah, yeah Roc-A-Fella...ll we hustle out of a sense of, hopelessn...Sort of a desperation...A brother gotta admir...brains was fried to a fricassee, can't li...ng poverty, however brief... to be, soon to see a mill'in...e main event, I bet a trip to Maui on it...the one that starts a G up...And we can have a pleasant time, sipp...Like a Lexus, if driven wr...confederation, dead a nation, EXPLODE...verload the mind of a said patient...True this, history school us to spend ...vel, meditated like a Buddhist...Roc-A-Fella y'all

Yeah, yeah Roc-A-Fella...ll we hustle out of a sense of, hopelessn...Sort of a desperation...A brother gotta admir...brains was fried to a fricassee, can't li...ng poverty, however brief... to be, soon to see a mill'in...e main event, I bet a trip to Maui on it...the one that starts a G up...And we can have a pleasant time, sipp...Like a Lexus, if driven wr...confederation, dead a nation, EXPLODE...verload the mind of a said patient...True this, history school us to spend ...vel, meditated like a Buddhist...Roc-A-Fella y'all

[Lil' O] (H.A.W.K)...t more bitches than a damn hoe house (com...That be knockin' on a nigga door (nigga d...I'm a gorilla (yeah)...e block on dots and a hummy...Young mommies want a hog that ain't cuff...They want a jigga with figures ...d wig splitters and a little game that gi...ure you can step to a hog...Let off a hundred rounds drum...Run you off like a scared dog with you...want to be a baller when this G-...[H.A.W.K]...I'm a outlaw (outlaw)...A hustler run the blo...If a nigga got beef I kn...Steal you like a thief make the asswhippin' brief...Or you ass is history (Bye-bye!)... bullet shells left a trail from the M-16...A thug that hang on a...I'm a death wish to nigga...I'm a do what I'm suppose

sodes II & III: The History of the Great Wars ...e the fortress like a coruscating sea, painting the stygian heavens the colour of flame. And the high summer's night passed swiftly. At length, the dawn approached tentatively, and with the first signs of the newborn sun etching its promise upon the skies, the martial preparations commenced in earnest. A brief and perfunctory exchange between the Imperial Herald and the fortification's Watch Commander held no surprises, and the Emperor's banner was duly driven into the seared earth before Gul-Kothoth with a chilling finality. Vast siege engines and powerful ballistae were hauled inexorably into position, alongside a battery of katapelte and petrobolos. The one hundred thousand strong Imperial Frontier Army, having planted their regimental blazons into the arid soil, waited with a disciplined patience born of never having met defeat in pitched battle or siege, the dreaded Imperial War-Leopards straining noisily against their iron-link leashes to the rear of the cohorts of conscripts and auxillieries. The pitiless Iron Phalanx and their Lord Militant Commander had assumed position at the head of the army's Alpha Wing, polished swords, spears and poll-axes reflecting the glow from the myriad torches and braziers which still burned about the Imperial Host. And behind them were drawn up the legendary Legion of the Ebon Tiger, Pride of the Emperor, the infantry and cavalry famed throughout the Great Northern Continent, personal regiment of the feared general Baalthus Vane. True to their martial reputation, the six thousand strong Legion were inscrutible in their jet black armour, their sable banner billowing in the chill breeze which skittered over the plain. And finally, astride his azure-shaffroned warhorse and surrounded by his elite guard, the silvern-armoured Emperor Koord himself studied the precipitious gates with a disdainful scrutiny. At the Emperor's right hand was the renowned Swordmaster of Kyrman'ku, an eastern bladesman of preternatural skill and the most revered and expensive mercenary in the Imperium. At his left, the infamous Ogre-Mage of the Black Lake brooded silently, swathed in a stygian cloak and f...ne of the many foes a general must face u...lf! In the hands of a skilled thaumaturgist, it is said that the Crown may be used as a weapon of unparalle... the Trinity is but a myth! No antiquated trinket weilded by a religious fanatic w...t enough to prepare a contingency should ...And so it was that a terrible and inesti...ers while I prepare a reception worthy of...d at the command of a decurion, a volley of armour-piercing shafts screamed skywards to rain down mercilessly upon the foe. And even as this transpired, the Emperor's Prime Sorcerer, emissary of the Imperial Court and master of those arts which speak to man in narcotic dreams from the darkest and most silent places, summoned forth that black potency which lay entwined in stygian tendrils within his mind... an ireful power born of they who writhed upon the shores of Pangaea before man's progenitors ever erected their lofty spires to the restless skies. And yet Vyrgothia's Master Wizard, unrivalled Arch-Mage and adept of that lost Eastern order who journey beyond the boundaries of time and space upon those nebulous wings born of the sacred Azure Lotus, rose to meet this power which lapped at the periphery of his mind like a midnight tide, and ...sk painting the sky a deep crimson exceed...Like the prow of a blood-hungry vessel of war rending the waves of a midnight sea, a luminescent blade of shrieking cerulean light lanced from the legendary black circlet locked tight within the gnarled hand of the Master Wizard, and clove mercilessly into the glorious ranks of the Imperium. And all who were touched by this ruinous arc of coruscating radiance knew no more... Men and beasts reduced to blackened husks, charred shells of smouldering ash, lifeless effigies which toppled to the seared earth to be dissipated by the whispering breath of the wind. Again and again the ravaging radiance smote the ranks of the Empire, leaving a noisome charnel-pit of nightmare in its crackling wake. The forces of the Imperium were plunged into a howling vortex of disarray, and, faced with the unthinkable prospect of defeat, the unprecedented first routing of the Emperor's glorious army began to become a grim reality. Yet f...e'll damn well take a few of these bastar...r fearsome words in a tongue which was ancient ere the gleaming stars shifted upon the fathomless countenance of the distant heavens, words which in truth were not words, but rather a resonant key which would aspire to unlock a dire power which had reposed shackled since the fall of the legendary Shadow King himself, whose ebon circlet's power they even now sought to thwart. The incantation they gave voice to in the midst of that sanguineous turmoil which engulfed them was not so much heard by those within earshot as perceived, sensed as a vague disturbance in the fabric of reality, as fuliginous ripples on the surface of a hitherto still and placid pool, growing ever larger and more far reaching; an unnerving and unnamable sense of change which insinuated itself into the mind of the listener and suggested with a cold and disturbing quasi-certainty that something of preternaturally ineffable magnitude was transpiring, as surely as a festering and gangrenous corpse would split to spill its noisome gore. And as that maddeningly implacable incantation reached its resounding climax, a momentary silence e...AN / ROBERTS, BYRON A.

Yeah, yeah Roc-A-Fella ...ll we hustle out of a sense of, hopelessn...Sort of a desperation ...A brother gotta admir...brains was fried to a fricassee, can't li...ng poverty, however brief ... to be, soon to see a mill'in ...e main event, I bet a trip to Maui on it ...the one that starts a G up ...And we can have a pleasant time, sipp...Like a Lexus, if driven wr...confederation, dead a nation, EXPLODE ...verload the mind of a said patient ...True this, history school us to spend ...vel, meditated like a Buddhist ...Roc-A-Fella y'all

and 'I'll give you a call' ...I'm not a push-over, so don't...I'm not a sidewalk, so don't ...I'm not a dancer, that's what...This is a warning, a due day is dawning ...First time in history you thought to buy a paper ...Like a rican rides a caddy I'm with this...in is when it's too brief ...don't compare me to a sucker mc ...Try your best, a useful strategy ...n can you be called a sucker mc

Yeah, yeah Roc-A-Fella...ll we hustle out of a sense of, hopelessn...Sort of a desperation...A brother gotta admir...brains was fried to a fricassee, can't li...ng poverty, however brief... to be, soon to see a mill'in...e main event, I bet a trip to Maui on it...the one that starts a G up...And we can have a pleasant time, sipp...Like a Lexus, if driven wr...confederation, dead a nation, EXPLODE...verload the mind of a said patient...True this, history school us to spend ...vel, meditated like a Buddhist...Roc-A-Fella y'all

[Lil' O] (H.A.W.K)...t more bitches than a damn hoe house (com...That be knockin' on a nigga door (nigga d...I'm a gorilla (yeah)...e block on dots and a hummy...Young mommies want a hog that ain't cuff...They want a jigga with figures ...d wig splitters and a little game that gi...ure you can step to a hog...Let off a hundred rounds drum...Run you off like a scared dog with you...want to be a baller when this G-...[H.A.W.K]...I'm a outlaw (outlaw)...A hustler run the blo...If a nigga got beef I kn...Steal you like a thief make the asswhippin' brief...Or you ass is history (Bye-bye!)... bullet shells left a trail from the M-16...A thug that hang on a...I'm a death wish to nigga...I'm a do what I'm suppose