GZA/Genius
Beneath The Surface
Beneath The Surface
[Genius/GZA]
On a manmade lake there's a sheet of thin ice
Where unskilled skaters cut figure eight twice
That's sixteen uncut, direct from the cold
Head on a soul, the result, death by the boat
In a vault, it spoke about the average lord's permission
That was seen by a king in a prophetic vision
Like a plane crash from a bomb blast
Special broadcast, slot time with Comcast
That kept the jury quiet and now the riot perform
While satanic man now hangin his dorm
I swing on you fake radio personalities
To boost your ratings put hypes behind casualties
Fire a shot with low-pressure water gun play
Instantly slap you five like it's Palm Sunday
I fashion the first jewel from the elements, the earth view
And built it to a complex network of communications
You're up against a hopeless situation
I screen every vehicle through enemy observation
Swarmin unpredictably we spread terror
Increase the fog significantly, change the era
Check my wind pattern it's headin west
Success is freedom but failure can mean death
Humans sweat and aim shovels
Dig up debris and rubble
Permanent damage caused by the devil
You now who callously urge you to merge through
And dick the workers who serve you
The sonic marvel who just dropped the next novel
Worldwide rapidly hard to marble
It's accountless, amount of MCs I save
Then them same niggas wanna squander those gifts I gave
[RES]
Chorus:
Scratch underneath the surface
Where does your purpose lie
It seems our will is worthless
Like we're pawns beneath the sky
Face erased by reason
And pass just as the wind
For empty soul I breathe in
Keep myself from givin in
[Killah Priest]
Love and hatred, home is most sacred
Most species they lay naked in the tombs of oasis
Think back on niggas I ate wit, spend a day wit
Guns we play wit, niggas I relate wit
We broke bread
I heard through a vine niggas worked for the fed
Sent out secretly to take my head
I laid back and meditate to the words they said
Skip town for a month and grew some dreds
Had a friend tell my family I was dead
Return at the last fall of the autumn leaf
Operate the plan accordingly in case the feds are recording me
Sign all documents using forgery
Cause just the mere thought of me
I'm like Solomon, spoke bluntly
Told the world I'm black and comely
Hounds from the grave hunt me
The smell of death's upon me, I dwell in the hills like Ghandi
Been in the presence of mad peasants and old kings
Who sold everything on a quest for God's divine
Slept in caves to get a clear mind
Who prayed three times when the moon lit and when the sun rise
I met dwellars in the deserts, talked to shepherds
Been in the mouth of many leopards
Felt the death kiss of Satan's mistress
Walked through vacant districts
But foreign religions studied pagan scriptures
Two philosophers and physicians on a cure missions
Who harden their hearts to warn the weak and sick
And inflicted, candles lit, gamble with a bitch
Who made me love her, when I touch her
Soft paws, high claws
Bees with sweet honey in they mouth
Had bitter stingers at they tail
Walked through the chambers of death
Take a hold onto hell
Embracin her was like embracin the third rail
Chorus
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