A mist halos the meadow and a soft w...s a whisper through the trees ...The ghostly forms of blue and gray ...d I can almost hear the cannons blast ...Standin' in the presence of the past ...The first few waves cam...When the day was finally ove...In the spot where some you...Standin' in the presence of the past ...Father fightin' son ...By the time the sun was settin' ...Looked like the South had won ...Standin' in the presence of the past ...Sunrise caught the rebels sleepin' and...Till the peach tree blossoms...Standin' in the presence of the past ...Father slayin' son ...From the looks of this old graveyard ...Standin' in the prescence of the past ...A mist halos the meadow and a soft w...s a whisper through the trees

A mist halos the meadow and a soft w...s a whisper through the trees...The ghostly forms of blue and gray...d I can almost hear the cannons blast...Standin' in the presence of the past...The first few waves cam...When the day was finally ove...In the spot where some you...Standin' in the presence of the past...Father fightin' son...By the time the sun was settin'...Looked like the South had won...Standin' in the presence of the past...Sunrise caught the rebels sleepin' and...Till the peach tree blossoms...Standin' in the presence of the past...Father slayin' son...From the looks of this old graveyard...Standin' in the prescence of the past...A mist halos the meadow and a soft w...s a whisper through the trees

When I rearrange the pieces of the puzzle of my past ...I sigh at the heartaches, relive the laughs ...And I think about the moments that have l...And the too few faces that shine a little light in the dark ...The sun of sixteen summers had put halos in your hair ...To be the first to make you a...But you were the one ...ho made my mother's son a man ...But the nights that you came you talked of things, I found I h...ou brought my fears of people to a sure an...To be the first to make you a...But you were the one ...ho made my mother's son a man ...Do you remember the night when you turned out the light ...for graphic telling of all the details ...t first sweet taste of the heaven here in this...To be the first to make you a...But you were the one ...ho made my mother's son a man

virgin bitches with halos ...Carried the cross and uppercuts...I speak to the heads and raise the dead like Lazarus ...Led the fucking lambs to the slaughter, and walk...hen it's frozen, in the ground influence an...like the unicorn and you nee...erebral flows flood the Earth with a, megah...And the first shall be last and the last shall be first...Because the Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away ...(On the planet) Earth, it was my place of birth ...Born to be the sole controller, of the universe ... Drinking with the Lord and shoot dice...l I fornicated with the hoe and ...caught the claps so, my first communion consists of ...Let the commandments begin ...For the believing, in the evening, when I cov...I be the coming like when Ma...The hostile gospel, I a...e his only begotten Son ...And knowing the Judas in my crew ...I hit the planet like a plagu...The Book of Revelations red dra...lls concealed until the Seventh Seal reveal...The messiah comes back igniting the fever in the rap world game ...(The hit after) The three headed raptor...You hear the HemisFear trinity r...Pubic hair of lamb's wool, and feet of burned brass ...n your platinum ass son ...Instead I arrive the Golden Child, every...when the divine styler is sp...The hip-hop martyr who ... 4Pac, so I'm livin the Thug Life in the afterlife ... be walking through the pearly gates ...if my name ain't in the Book of Life I'm snuffing S...Drinking the blood of Jesus Christ and pi...You're not from the tribe of Judah, so why you l...Come watch the Zion, I'm signifyin...the next shit to wreck shit and see the Exodus

Scared of losing all the time...He was a friend of mine...Inside a glass of water...With ripples and the rhymes...Oh that is just the way it was,...Inside a glass of water,...With riddles and the rhymes...Cling to the mast...hole life living in the past...The hollowest of halos...g plastic figurines of leaders...Cling to the mast...hole life living in the past... done, just glasses of water.

as she watches her son die...Yeah, he's the only heaven in her ...ere there is shadow of turning...? and halos...She'll never be the same...ft a wound, deep in the womb... as she watches her son die...She's never been the same...ft a wound, deep in the womb...She could think of nothing to say now...ng through a forest of blues clouds

Our crooked halos and I, I fall to yo...Son you raise it to me, as my feet, my feet they hit the ground. ...raced these lessons of our days, ...We're better of here yeah, we're better of dead.

I was one of the chosen few, to be b...dy's son, I'm proud of who I am. ... went through a lot of good women, and sho...If I never see the pearly gates, I've walked through the promised land. ..., it would be about the same to me. ...roads ain't streets of gold, but I'm a hap..., it would be about the same to me.

co is some mother's son...And she tears the halos from their saints

Good deeds and halos...Taps me on the shoulder...Said son are you lost...lways wondered what the fuss is all about...Tryin to slip past the authority...t up here we're all the same