Sword that/anytime they running they mouth I tell them/sword that/you don’t want the god at your house/we gon’ sword that/if I gotta say it again/we gon’/sword that/come on/sword that/come on
We built on the Moorish science temple/to Zionist principles/from eden/to the contemporary diet for cannibals/from Chem Trails to Kim Cantrell/no exaggeration/anatomization/free slave/fifth generation/UNIA flag adorning my leather bracelet/can’t turn your back on the past if you never faced it/from warriors to gangsters/whips to spliff/spears and four fifths/adrenal glands/pumping endorphins/while I mighty morph and transport into a storm/cold and hot form cross currents/gravity takes place/whence I evaporate to a barely visible vapor/I de evolve into a great lake/or maybe to the red sea/I’ve never been/falling I crash land to descend on pharaoh and all his wicked men/I’m not drunk/I don’t drink/I’m just thinking/maybe I should go to sleep/damn
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There’s a thief in the temple/alibi the book of malachi/understanding knowledge cipher/
I got the hands of a stone mason/I build foundations/and nations/of education/destroy the fortified walls of capitalism for recreation/I’m frustrated/I love you/why all the hatred/carrying hood dreams/like a wooden beam/Juda’s blood kin/achy ligaments/laboring for the king/ever since I rose up out the chocha/my cross to bear/via delarose/until the shows over/they lash me/I cry out but can’t stop laughing/the sun blackens/my voice raspy/really I’m just on the block with the Tenach/war of the words/heat seeking scriptures verse twenty gauge doctrine/I left the Baptist/apostolic/and pentacostals/they shun me for Thomas’ gospel/this feels like the first century at Massada/the passion of Israel’s jewel/stigmata
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There’s a thief in the temple/alibi/the book or malachi/understanding/knowledge/cipher/Eddie Low Lifer Long/strong arming Ha Shem’s covenant/governed by brother like the devil disciple Apollos/oops/I’ve entered the realm of conspiracy/heretic’s spiritually throw onyx stones when the 7s are near me/a bloody tear drop/from the eyes of the holy mother mary/or shall I say Isis/Semiramis/Nimrod’s stargate/lead us to a crystal in modern day atlantis/one hundred forty four thousand leagues under ha shamayim/the seeds of the supplanted/trade your birth right/for five mics/the source of all enchantment/with a legion of styles/melting wax/like a pocket/with chapstick/unraveled to time travel/I’m half baffled/sporadically/grafting these letters to form words/for scores on the triple word/with my mind/scrabbled/I’m babbling