lessings in life to the children ...Words of a old man with silver hai...ccurred to me, this old nigga's words could... leave it no matter the price ...As long as I survive, coppin' the five ...Circle the block where the beef's at ...And park in front of my enemy's eyes ...nd keeps lurkin' to earth ...very nigga toned in the pain and heavy meta...It's blitz nigga the streets glory many ...Of lust, greed, and co...u paintin' pictures of my pain ...Illustrate the city in vain ...Fallin' deep into the pits of the game ...This is for the sickest state of mind ...Nickel play the nine and niggas for the dime ...Hear the sounds of them baby's cry ...In the ghetto with a milli...in' high to relieve the pain ...Breathin' in the game, exhalin' ...Guilts and the shame, misery and s...What the fuck will tomorrow ...With paintings of crucifixes ...to save me from all the dangers in the music business ...er it started losin the friendships ...rivin' past them in the lively fashion, dia...s, blue stones, red bones and black ones ... flesh hates my own bones ...art, my heart makes the songs ... my songs come from the father

All the brothers are gone...I can see the passing refugees...Calling loud in the dark ravine...Flowing back along the village river bed...As the water flows underne...All the brothers have gone ...I had the meanest heart you'v...f I could crawl out of this yawning earth...We'd smoke gold in the dreamland too...wing by my river to the sea...By my mean old spirit in the tree...I turned my face to the sound above...Old bones are just food for the trees...s lies and fires in the hills...Down the living streets...Flowing down the river to the sea...Flowing mean old bones in the stream...If these old bones could ever sail a w...ey'd flow just like the river Nile

All the brothers are gone ...I can see the passing refugees ...Calling loud in the dark ravine ...Flowing back along the village river bed ...As the water flows underne...All the brothers have gone ...I had the meanest heart you'v...f I could crawl out of this yawning earth ...We'd smoke gold in the dreamland too ...wing by my river to the sea ...By my mean old spirit in the tree ...I turned my face to the sound above ...Old bones are just food for the trees ...s lies and fires in the hills ...Down the living streets ...Flowing down the river to the sea ...Flowing mean old bones in the stream ...If these old bones could ever sail a w...ey'd flow just like the river Nile

nd set sail towards the sun,...She's like the rose without a thor...She's like the sunflower that never looks back at the sun...s like a diamond in the rough...She's like the first girl on this earth that you wanted to ... father says I have the wrong face...We set sail, as the night gets long,...She's like the rose without a thor...She's like the sunflower that never looks back at the sun...She's like the diamond in the rough...She's like the first girl on this earth that you wanted to ...Oh, lonely bones... I'm coming through the sun...Oh, lonely bones... I'm coming through the sun...This old word will make you ...This old word will make you

I remember a time of chaos ...time of war ...as men began to feed o...only the scavengers survived...touched of a blase ...a firestorm of fear ...the answer is written in their bones ...I remember an old man ..."looking into the eyes of a nova, ...the bursting flames, the roar of it's energy ...rintly echoing down the corridors of time, ...aid "is like a bolt of lightning, ... for a moment, till the last spark of life fades ...ready way out among the stars... ...among the ruins of the past ...I shelter from the storm ...y mind is numb from the lonliness ...and the rain that never sto...w rotting are their bones ...raging waters grind the earth ...the sea that witnessed ...empty of life ...as in the heaven so below ...the sun has now forever...the cold that now desce...as light grows dim, I ...the stars are calling m...I am ridint the wind that has no na...the fire that burns wit...caught by the spell on which all ...the answer is written i

I remember a time of chaos ...time of war ...as men began to feed o...only the scavengers survived...touched of a blase ...a firestorm of fear ...the answer is written in their bones ...I remember an old man ..."looking into the eyes of a nova, ...the bursting flames, the roar of it's energy ...rintly echoing down the corridors of time, ...aid "is like a bolt of lightning, ... for a moment, till the last spark of life fades ...ready way out among the stars... ...among the ruins of the past ...I shelter from the storm ...y mind is numb from the lonliness ...and the rain that never sto...w rotting are their bones ...raging waters grind the earth ...the sea that witnessed ...empty of life ...as in the heaven so below ...the sun has now forever...the cold that now desce...as light grows dim, I ...the stars are calling m...I am ridint the wind that has no na...the fire that burns wit...caught by the spell on which all ...the answer is written i

world, digging for bones ...The untraceable ones co...on the Brand Nubian dot co...d be mentioned with the Portier, not the Gualtier ...In the 80 years, from tear...Talked about by old jacks with slacks ...Can I move the black is my first a...Build with the Gods and the bright sunshine ...o was first to walk the Earth ...Gave birth to the Universe, uh ...Afflicted with the curse of the slave ...redicted to inherit the earth in the last days ...Now as we take you home, w...hen or when you get the chance ...ch a glance through the power lens, see if ...G-O-D in the dance, reporting fr... got you hanging by the seat of your pants ...nce when we came to the game ...ed so no one sounds the same ...and one-half ounces of brain ...ure you bow down to the king ...ume run longer than the Nile ...in the land of the lost where my peopl...Do the knowledge, black, look at the way that we act ... or each other with the gat ...The only race of people who kill sel...Rhymes full of protein like rice a...The maker, the owner, the cream of the Earth ...to be black because the black man's first ...ls I'm heard around the Universe (Yeah, yea

You've been lost in the desert 25 years or ...ell me your a ghost of a man Lord, ...You old gold minin' hobo ...Put the bacon on to fry ...Well, the sun's comin' up and the mule's waitin' for ...a one room shack By the Santa Fe track ...It's an old lick of earth ...creamin' for a drop of rain ...And the road might lead to the rainbow's end ...A dusty old desert town...You old gold minin' hobo ...here's a buzzard in the sky ...kin' your skinflint bones ...Throw a curse on the land ...Well the desert is a lonely ...Lord, you might as well be dead...You old gold minin' hobo ...You old gold minin' hobo ...You old gold minin' hobo

Intro: Raekwon the Chef, Method Man ...rd up, look out for the cops [Wu-Tang five ...az got garbage down the way, word up ...(C.R.E.A.M. get the money) Here we here...Verse One: Raekwon the Chef ...I grew up on the crime side, the New York Times side...ds, moms bounced on old men ...ng youth, yo rockin the gold tooth, 'Lo goo...as just a dream for the teen, who was a fie...The combination made my...off, and try to get the dough all ...Figured out I went the wrong route ...pect mine, or anger the tech nine ...hick-POW! Move from the gate now ...Get the money ...two long hard years of still strugglin ...I peep at the shape of the streets ...And stay awake to the ways of the world cause shit is...; I went to jail at the age of 15 ...The court played me sho...Handcuffed in back of a bus, forty of us ...Life as a shorty shouldn't ...But as the world turns I learn...Living in the world no different ...Smokin bones in the staircase ...I guess that's the time when I'm not d...o give up so I seek the Old Earth ...o learn to overcome the heartaches and pain...stray shots, all on the block that stays ho...To kick the truth to the young black youth ...get the money

In the underpass, the blind man stands. W...-seller, breath out of time -...r warriors changing the names they advertise from the station...From the typing pool goes the mini-skirted prince...Fertile earth-mother, your burial mound is fifty feet down in the Baker...What the Hell?...Walking down the gutter thinking, "How the Hell am I today?"... you but thanks all the same....weight on me," said the pig-me to the...in his assault upon the mountain....In the doorway of the stars, between Blan...bulging. Dressed to the left, divulging the wrinkles of his...g bell-end tears in the pocket of her resistance....ol. And he shudders as he comes -...lowly turns me into the Marylebone Road....ragging one foot in the gutter -...In the midnight echo of the shop that sells che...Old Lady Grey; Crash-ba...king plaster - Move the old lady on....ed to sleep here in the crowded emptiness....I'll pay the bill and make her w...ng-wells or wishing bones....I have no house in the country I have no m...ll be a minstrel in the gallery....paint you a picture of the queen....It's just the nonsense that it se... drift down through the Baker Street valley...Talking to the gutter-stinking, winking in the same old way....my eye but I looked the other way....r warriors changing the names they advertise from the station...In the underpass, the blind man stands. W...-seller, breath out of time -

ses rotting through the night...Scorched earth the policy...The reason for the siege...The pendulum it shaves the blade...The strafing air blood ...Encircle the front lines...Supreme art of strategy...Playing on the minds...Indication of triumph...The number that are dea...Sport the war, war support...The sport is war, total...The final swing is not ...Sport the war, war support...The sport is war, total...The final swing is not ...rhead break through the lines...Soldiers of attraction...Old in its time...Deep in the Rhine...Center of the web...Bones shining in the night...Campaign of elimination...Sport the war, war support...The sport is war, total...When the end is a slaughter...The final swing is not

I kiss the earth and choke ...And the war within me ragin...Yhe sweet smell of the street ...I described it as I did ...I tried to find the words to buy you ...ough to your pretty bones like kindness ...The bad old days and so on ...I kiss the floor and joke ..."You're not the only child round he...Round the ruins, round the view ...The Helen & Menelaus Sn...The pain is so extraord...Pain's the best all purpose pr...You were one of my better creations

Awakened in the nighttime I'm fight...r I'll soon be cold as ice ... longer do I trifle bones growing too old ...Cry their tears of dreadful mourn in t...ake from this heart the bitter part ...The world they will destroy me or put me in the ground ...Cry their tears of dreadful mourn in t...Staring at the ceiling the tubes glow in the dark ...Knock of death upon my door ...yes for I have seen the hell in which we li...now from one man on earth who loved this life...or it's all cold to the touch ..., hear my plea soon the darkness I will see