The Pick, The Sickle & The Shovel

[killah priest]
Yo, there's still time
As the door close, the cold wind blows
Down america like the wall of jericho
Some will walk the sheet close
Many are called but few are chose
Who knows until the day they be exposed
Ufo's surround the globe
The world is prepared to explode
So i grab hold of the north pole
Not tryin to meet the lost soul, at the crossroad
We're bein sucked up into the black hole
Young becomes old, mighty clouds roll
Unfold the scrolls that were foretold
By the forefathers, the end of the world saga
Streets flooded with lava, mommas and pappas
Toddlers, hip-hoppers, and rastas
Rock stars and mobsters, above streets in helicopter
Filled with doctors, readin the death roster
Guts spillin out like pasta
Sky, misty, often tipsy, from off the whiskey
The gypsy, told me, my chances, were risky
Cops, pull up and frisk me
But never could they get me, too shifty
I will go, into my dungeon, and summon up the second comin
People started runnin,
Aliens with hair like rastafarians
Captured, placed inside of aquariums, studied by scientists
This is it, the apocalypse
I see the mother ship, above the cliff, over egypt
It made me sea sick
I see the eclipse, and the abyss, the night shifts

Chorus: hell razah (repeat 2x)

It's repentance day! repent for your sins
When the gates of heaven open up and hell's closin in!

[grym reaper]
The archangel imprison my soul into a prism
Usin cell division and molecular collision within me
He listen and analyze the heartbeat and rhythms
Of children livin brutalized
My ears became used to the vibes of ruined lives
Sounds in the chamber i was hiden in
Was so spine-tinglin i was tremblin
Envisionin the fear, here within a new millenium
Where rain became toxic, the air's stale and noxious
Comets hit co-ops with force that made blocks split
Flocks tried to escape a fate that made even hardrocks slide
As nuclear dropped out of the sky,
Causin burns too severe, for hydroperoxide and sodium oxide
Deep down outta basements
Fish turned lopside and upside down from atomic facelifts
Through the blackness i saw john the baptist, on the atlas
Holdin the masters to my psalm under his arm
But long before i even wrote 'em
23 elders each wrote me a psalm
And placed them within my motor neurons
It contained the aproximate date of the apocalypse
Deposited in scripts of the 20th century prophets
The clock ticks, tick, tick, tick upon the land borders
I count down the manslaughter
Military camcorders under ocean waters
Red october causin fish to grow arms, legs, tits, and double heads
Mutating the eggs as the radiation spreads over the water beds
I watch mother nature as she bled
Grym, was placed in skin casing
To begin lacing hyms through the basement
Won't be no escapin from the south to the north
Where you run ten paces and your face is fallin off!

Chorus

[hell razah]
Raised in hell, waitin for angels like rafael
Comin from space to trace, they race
Thrown in jail cells i had a purpose since the sperm cell
To bail out and get braille
For the blinded children in israel
Kids kill forget the bill
For, dollar bills and drug deals by the mayor
Controls the people livin legal
Sit back and chill, until time will reveal
Two thousand and one holy men with force fields
Levitatin space ships, earthquake hits, united states splits
Projects turn to snake pits
Secrets of the masons came to revelations
Babylon destroyed by the nations aggravations
Riots in the train stations, criminals grabbin cops
Snakes rattlin, angels draggin
Seven head dragons out the roman empire, surrounded with fire
Liars in the pentagon drop their nuclear bombs, ran, panic
But still, was trapped on the planet
Died before the mothership landed
Only the chosen ones understand it
Some can't cause of tv brain damage, no time to be romantic
This day your independence and repentance, pentance, pentance

"now i see the light, my whole life is moving in one direction.
I see that now, there never has been any choice for me."

Chorus

[gatekeeper]
In '97 don't be alarmed, gravediggaz drop
(da bomb! da bomb! da bomb!)
G, r, a, v, e, d (da bomb!)
I, double g, a to the zig zag z
Droppin' (da bomb!)

[grym reaper]
Ay yo i really hate snakes
I feel like bustin' off rounds in they face
But that would be exhibitin' the same weak traits
Shit is deep like bass, enemies get beat, lock breaks
From dusk to dawn i thrust upon the scene
Always conscious i was born supreme
No wonder i run with a hundred twenty three nine hundred and ninety nine
Thousand convicts
Wanted by the beast in the hellified streets
With nullified beef and combat swamp rats
And ghetto playgrounds where scenes is tragic
Everyday seein' decayin' brown fabrics (da bomb!)
A thirty pound addict with a hundred dollar day habit
True master! broadcast the havocism i'm babblin'
Mic's turnin' to javelins
Stabbin' mcs in the abdomen and laughin' at 'em (hahahahaha!)

[gatekeeper]
Gravediggaz a cannibal for swoops and bats
Sweat rocks as the jock and they counter react
Occupation i'm a blizzard, gate keep freak the reason
For the break, i been around as long as the rza
The ripper, graveyards known for plenty more
Rugged raw, puttin' hardcore kicks on double doors
Your future's at stake, big mistake
You moved! (da bomb!) mmm-mm you can't escape, checkmate
The flashy nigga, underground digga
Nigga think his head big enough, i make it bigga
The trank, i bust all blank, when i intake
There forsake, my lyrics are fatter then phil brakes
The bed rocker, snatch doctor
This little bagandian rocker
I'm phantom of the opera
Check it, the mic is my crystal ball
And when i'm on it i'm open like a mall

You say you got gats, bust 'em where it's at
While you bustin' caps i drop the (da bomb!)
Mmmm now what you gonna do, kid
Where ya gonna run son when i drop the (da bomb!)
Mmmm to my bigga niggas
Representing gravediggaz worldwide stars drop the (da bomb!)
Mmmm don't be alarmed
Your persona ain't on from the three alarm from the (da bomb!)
G, r, a, v, e, d (da bomb!)
I, double g, a to the zig zag z
Droppin' (da bomb!)

[grym reaper]
I possess intellect to reflect
One of the best flows
Within the metro-politan
Got more styles than a chinaman
Anywhere ya find the grym
My mind i bring
Disaster to areas
Faster than spots in iraq that got blown from aircraft carriers
Carry your whack ass outta my war zone
Or get slapped in the jaw bone
From the megawatts of the raw pone
Missed the tour rooms through
Cities and stadiums, halls and paladiums
All over the mediteranean seas
I'm terrorizin' mcs like an iranian
Seizin' a boeing 747
24/7 we're flowin' professionally
You see spots keep glowin' at the gravediggaz showin'
We master the art exceptionally

[gatekeeper]
No doubt when i precipitate the walls vibration
Thought skies cover your fake ass lacerations
Check it, forever your rest, black hood the event
Brothers in the new york streets that represent
Squeeze ya coal, 32 below
Send a chill through your bow
Catch your fuckin' nerve like a snow cone
You get stuffed like an envelope, yo
Won't even think twice, i'll slice the fuckin' rope
Save your salvation
Ruin your reputation
Get ready for a brief devastation
Forty clicks up the creek
If i hear a squeek
The nigga gate keep never ever retreats
Brooklyn street perpendicular
The order for manslaughter is vehicular
Terrified flashbacks
Gaspin' for your airsac
The mere factor of unleashin' my second chapter

You say you got gats, bust 'em where it's at
While your bustin' caps i drop the (da bomb!)
Now what ya gonna do kid
Where ya gonna run son when i drop the (da bomb!)
(da bomb!)
Yo, gravediggaz, the undertaker, gate keep, rzarector, grym reap
Collectively droppin' (da bomb!)
G, r, a, v, e, d (da bomb!)
I, double g, a to the zig zag z

[rza]
The pit, the pit (ohhhh my!)
Yo, 1, 2
Dun dunna dunna dun.
All ya'll mentally dead muthafuckas.
We come to break ya'll some information and ressurect you
From the mentality of fool in this.
Yo, yo.

[rza]
We come away and chop the heads of these snakes
It's better off they dyin in a pit fulla snakes
Mistake inside your self, that be the first head you take
It's better off you dyin in a pit fulla snakes

[rza]
The marijuana got my karma glowin
Gold armor, surround my body
I'm reachin a high state of nirvana
But wanna chop and imitate
To bite, the livin spirits
Golden livin tablets
Transmitted by the abbot
Blood related king to king david's mighty men
I appear in the atmosphere like nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, carbon
Dioxide,
Helium, xenon, argon, neon, freon, be gone
I travel beyond
The range where sick sounds grave
You can't respond
Dynamic semantics makes your mind go frantic
Hand picked gods
Razor sharp be my standard
Breakin from bondage and white garments
Eye ball as black as onyx
Hair gonna grow as long as a comet's tail
Escape from hell
Watch the gods be real
What makes rain and hail, snow and earthquakes?
Goin through crisis, or mad devices
I thought girls was made of sugar and spices
Always wanted to fuck 'em like isis
While others bow down, percival, cyrus
I'm inside my lab stabbin rhymes on black papyrus
Your weight couldn't measure a snow flake
How you gonna shine on a god while you rotate
I dislocate your head, your neck, your back, your legs, your kneecap
Back smack your ass bitch
And splatter your gall bladder
My mathematical data
Terror far beyond the stars of william shatner
The rattler can't deport on my speed of thought
Then escape new york in east london or import

[gatekeeper]
Stronger currents than my brains runnin rapid
Hereditary practice pierce hoes through metal jackets
War commander
Niggas get caught up in the exhaust pipe
Get the frost right or suffer frost bite
Isle of the king
Maniac barbarian, sort of romanian
Underground, subterranean
Five stepper grandson of nefar
The rest of ya'll heffers, thimble
Ya'll resembled uncle fester
God biding escape
Through telepathic gates
Integrate, causin one mind to elevate
Stagnate competition, like an earthquake
Causin the earth to shake
On release day, diggin more graves
Master 4 tay or black cherries block
Freshly picked out the cemetary, bear the plot

Chorus

[grym reaper]
Yo, projectiles lace the project ailes
Organic, saw panic when i wreck shit and smile
With more props than new york city got blocks
I cripple your whole knot till your air drip of snot
First encounter of hell, is facin grym
Lacin human shells with radiation untill cell mu

Verse one: too poetic/grym reaper

Yo, hah yo, rahh, yo, yo
Yo, yo, yo...
Yo, i got stress on my brain that causes chest pains
Inside the best frames ghetto blood clots is scored by slug shots
And drug spots, well if you're too poor to move out
Or get a new house, it's like livin in a war walkin through shootouts
And you doubt god exists, when hard fists
Be poundin on your head like jackhammers
You're trapped in the black drama, you hear the laughter
Seconds after that you fade out, you're played out, you're laid out
Your heart nearly gave out, you're lucky that you made out
With just a few scars when the beating ends
The streets [sniff] let ya breathe again
But evil men, will soon be on the receiving end
Of universal law, i'm callin on the meek and the poor
To fight back and never forfeit the day you have to go to war
With forces that are armed upon the seven continental borders
A mental fortress is essentials to absorb this
My sword hits the human orb until it orbits
In the art of war kids see grym reap be morbid
Since pieces of the lost civilization in the past
Had my photographs etched inside of pyramids
To laugh at this revelation, without 365 days of concentration
And twenty-four hour meditation, would be foolishly pagan
I'm ancient as 'amen', see i stay grym
Throwin fools in in a pit full of pit bulls to be shaken
Or strapped to the crossroads of hell and inner sin
Which trap the sinners in, to sell such in sing-sing
I bring grym tidings, tidal-ed/titled your wave all not exciting
Stop riding the dick, start writin your own shit
Cause i stick figures that think they fat and can't rap wind blast
I make em slim fast, lookin like stick figures
I'm all that, i bag chips at concerts and shows
Get more panties than hoes that boost victoria secret clothes
Foes is tagged like ex-foes toes at the coroner's
Kids with cold feet rise and fall like the barometer
Grym will mentally chop your career
See shit is locked down here, like penitentiary blocks in tears
Escape outta your ducts every time you hear my name
You better duck fate, or catch a fuckin face full of duct tape
You get smacked like a trick that sniffed off her money
Then smoked like rzarector with the blunts dipped in honey

Verse two: prince rakeem/rzarector

Rotate your head like a gyro, my hair grows in knotty spirals
Feet resembles christ's description from the bible
Water-walker, immune to all physical torture
Pull out fast in a porsche, upon a double-crosser
My penis rise up in the morning like a phoenix
And blast iron cells into a low blooded 'nemic
The imperial - material's venerial
Mc's get murdered in serial, you can't fuck with the material
Unorthodox paradox, my shit is seen wide-screen magnavox
Grabs thought like doctor octopus
Cause war like the grandson of kush
I'm hangin devil's heads on a evergreen bush
Sugar-frosted sorceresses bitches get exhausted
Pussy lips be drippin, like leaky faucets
Undercover c-cyphers sprayed up like windshield wipers
While i'm guzzlin piper's, changin my son's shitty-ass diapers
Dime piece trapped in sync like many time piece
You get stampeded by the wildabeast
A rap dast' plus tracks black like chow yun fat
Oppositional forces get their eardrums flat
Common denominator, i swing the mic saber like vader
He was fooled by the inter-pre-atation made from a traitor
Mc's get their wigs blown, trounced off my fistbone
Choked from my death, every time they break a wishbone
Eventually, i knew the whole world would mention me
Potentially, i have the key to make g's
Mc's breeze on my tracks, i rock the fruit with the trees
Killa bees spread rapid like diseases
See it's, like the second comin of jesus, of nazareth
Be fabulous, raise the dead crowd up like lazarus
Hazardous vocabulary attacks be beautiful
Acoustical notes we provoke, it comes out musically dope
Niggaz realize they just can't cope
The hair, bustin out the head resembles fire and smoke loc

Verse three: frukwan/gatekeeper

I blast watts in circuits like general monk-monk was turkish
My science is divided deep into your central nervous
Pervert area codes peep this murder
I'm boxed-in, suckin hologram tits, inhalin oxygen
Parallel world of crab niggas and sea shells mix
I pierce my dick and sword right through you pelvics
I'm hell stricken bomb, wrapped in trees of palm
Physical existence is descendants of allah
I travel at high rates, weaker men are primates
That either migrate or get burnt to the stake
I feed off lyrical light beams of amphetimene
My terminology is panatomic like lobotomy
Crazy el loco, gas niggaz like sunoco
Flush em like presto, blast in your chest bone
I raise from the shore, like sodom and gomorrah
With traction, flashin a 4-wheel drive ford explorer
While mucus lies within the center of the rubik's
The roots of the wine induced the enzymes inside your nucleus
Turmoil boilin appointed, niggaz rubbin off my style like a ointment
Lost in the sahara, from trial and error
Confused with 3 meals for sister sara
Rahh! bearer, digestin minerals in abundance
Because the dead is not known to return from the dungeons

Hidden emotions, you and i control it
Don't get pissed cause this is how we show it
Hidden emotions, you and i control it
Don't get pissed cause this is how we show it

[grym reaper (gatekeeper)]
Like the older you get the more you regret
(yaknowi'msayin, wanna know what we like?)
Do the knowledge, do the knowledge of this
Check it, yo

[grym reaper]
Ever watch a hard rock when he got a seed?
Turn a whole hundred and eighty degrees
The nigga that you never saw smile before
It's like the warrior at peace with the child at your door
It's mad wild how he holds the mold
It's so fragile knowin that this little soul is agile
Meanwhile deep in his thoughts
Is how do i protect it from the streets and the courts
There's stress and strain tryin to maintain
When you're poor workin odd jobs for small change
You either rap, rob, girls slob knobs
And niggas sell crack, weed or coke for the mob

[gatekeeper]
The al corleone idol was his mentor, gangster
That came up short
You're needin dentures
Built his rep for killin aztecs in distortion
Front page news for the projects
Carried the weight for his mom's operation
25 years workin for the train station
Cause he was black the community reacts
Summer tricks, picnic for kids, he gave it back
He ain't accept it, grinned and helped the church, clear his debit
Wind up helpin young brothers makin records
When the people lookin at cha from the outside
Open your mouth wide and say "aiiight!"

Hidden emotions, you and i control it
Don't get pissed cause this is how we show it
Hidden emotions, you and i control it
Don't get pissed cause this is how we show it

[gatekeeper]
People wonder why when my man died
I didn't even cry
Melted on the inside
Now i'm becomin like a runner
Sweatin like a plumber
My heart started poundin like thunder
Yo am i ready for revenge that depends
On how my future look in the bends
Is my life worth losin
My seed, my wife
Gettin my life snatched for makin wrong right

[grym reaper]
I was always on the calm tip
Last brother to harm or bomb shit
Now i'm on some real vietnam shit
The quiet storm til the riot is on
I despise doin harm but my foes gotta be conquered
As i warn my peeps "beware the beast that creep the streets"
Spillin your plasma on the concrete
Killin the murderer, acts of war
Villains attack the poor
Women and children pack heat now
Growin up i was sad young buck
Dad said "son look don't become corrupt"
I knew he really meant well
To see me represent and excel
But yo the torments of hell lay dormant until
I try to escape out of the muck and the mire
Nearly got killed bein stuck in the fire
Like jeremiah
I weep for my peeps gettin bucked from the streets to the choir

Hidden emotions, you and i control it
Don't get pissed cause this is how we show it
Hidden emotions, you and i control it
Don't get pissed cause this is how we show it
Hidden emotions, you and i control it
Don't get pissed cause this is how we show it
Hidden emotions, you and i control it
Don't get pissed cause this is how we show it

[truemaster]
I'm lettin mines out
I can see through i can see through
Who you want me to believe you are?
Front shine and son knowin you're a fallen star
I see the look in your eyes when i pass you in my car
I been felt the vibe so i played you from afar
Your problem is you think too negative
It perpetuates your condition and cuts short your ambition
You're not a wicked one son
You need development
Don't worry when things are irrelevant
You need to let it out cause it could cause you bad health
Hidin your emotions could rob you from yourself
(gravediggaz) hide you from yourself

Hidden emotions, you and i control it
Don't get pissed cause this is how we show it
Hidden emotions, you and i control it
Don't get pissed cause this is how we show it
Hidden emotions, you and i control it
Don't get pissed cause this is how we show it
Hidden emotions, you and i control it
Don't get pissed cause this is how we show it

[grym reaper (gatekeeper)]
Yeah
The older you get the more you regret
(just let it out
If you can heed it, the only way to defeat it)
Hidden emotions, hidden emotions
(is to let out what's hidden)
We all got em
Gotta let em shine

[grym reaper (gatekeeper)]
(black woman)
She's never gonna come back
(princess)
She's never gonna come back
(i never find another honor like a track)
Yo, yo
Just knowin she's never gonna come back
I heard the gun clap
I heard the gun clap
She's never gonna come back
(i never find another honor like a track)

[grym reaper]
Yo
I saw the woman i love colored in blood
War is hell, i cut shells, was then covered in mud
As four ships hovered above, my heart griefs
But at least she didn't take the mark of the beast
Rest in peace boo
If i blessed then i'ma meet you on the other side
But for now i gotta slide
Through physical mindfields
Miserable is how my mind feels knowin it's long time to heal
Shit is real
Another black mold in a hole
God rest your soul as you travel back home
I'll carry your essence in the thoughts i'm manifestin
As pleasent memories outshine my depression
My physical stress says it's time to rest
Bein chased by the devil tryin to take my breath
Ain't a place on the earth that you can't get touched
If i get bucked let my melanin rust hit the dust

[grym reaper (gatekeeper)]
She's never gonna come back
(the queen, the princess)
She's never gonna come back
(i never find another honor like a track)
Yo, yo
Just knowin she's never gonna come back
I heard the gun clap
I heard the gun clap
She's never gonna come back
(i never find another honor like a track)

[gatekeeper]
Yo my boo was hard as corn liquor when we met
Livin jet set, everything connect
Fitted like a seam double stitched
If i had a scratch she knew where to find the itch
Many warm hugs and soapy back rubs
Candlelight's held tight at the hips every night
My soul is cold boo, i can't abandon ship
Cause of false reactions, i miss you with a passion
Your new being represents a universal mean
So rise like cream black queen
Unfortunately you died in my arms
From a stray bullet from afar
That ripped through the car
My dreams are intense with very little sense
My pretense cracked to find an honor like a track boo
I wanna follow in persuit
What i got to do, what i got to do

[grym reaper (gatekeeper)]
She's never gonna come back
(i never find another honor like a track)
She's never gonna come back
(i never find another honor like a track)
Yo, yo, yo
Just knowin she's never gonna come back
I heard the gun clap
I heard the gun clap
She's never gonna come back
(i never find another honor like a track)

She's never gonna come back
(i never find another honor like a track)
She's never gonna come back
Yo, yo, yo
Just knowin she's never gonna come back
When i heard the gun clap
I heard the gun clap
She's never gonna come back
(i never find another honor like a track)

[grym reaper]
Another casuality of war and the black-on-black crime saga
More drama for the ghetto
More human bodies ignited by metal
Yo, once they gone they never come back
Yo

[grym reaper]
I want a queen on every continent
So i can escape the government
Flee my residence, settle in
I'm militant minded, brilliant rhyme whiz
The time is now for me to shine, kids are innocent
Blinded, society got to be reminded of my diary
Cause tragically i carry thee
Misery of centuries that's sent to me
Not coincidentally intentionally cause mentally i represent the key
But it's a double-edged sword see
Tryin to be godly is hard
Especially in poverty's backyard
Where violence has taken over
Free enterprise and lies is idolized
Cause it's deep inside with allah, god or jehovah
To guide the lost tribe
You're forced to reside on the north side
Babylon is never penalized
For bein offsides, so many lost lives
I wonder how long before the herd dies
Today i heard the earth cry for the first time
It was the worst time
It was the worst time
The way i heard the earth cry

[rzarector]
I came to the shores of america disguised as a pillar
The alpha and omega and the home of the beggars, the black sellers
Who been beaten, raped, lynched, robbed and stoned
And caused to roam the earth in service cause they couldn't maintain at
Home
This dates back to 1555
When they captured the first tribe of men
And piled them in a pen
Fifty feet high
They took em all on a 9000 mile ride
And landed on the shore of a place they never seen before
But read about this inside the ancient books of war
Bonded in stainless steel, stripped of their language
Still survived the anguish of slavery but still remained nameless
Separated to portions and tricked by john haughty hawkins
And sold on the auction, taught birth control and abortion
Rulers of the first part became slaves of the worst part
The devils cursed god and reversed god
And turned god into dog and made people search hard
No relief came to the prophet of w.d. feraud
To a trauma, dropped our mommas off in bahamas and barbados
Tobagos, separated us from slave boats
Made our own brothers hate us
From virgin isle to jamaica
Trinidad, honduras, haiti, grenada
Bermuda to cayman, mental enslavement
You black gods become awaken

At night time you can hear the earth cry
How many more black gods got to die
Before we realize there's no god in the sky
The devil tricked us, that's the worst lie
At night time i can hear the earth cry
How many more black gods got to die
You realize there's no god in the sky
The devils tricked us, that's the worst lie

[gatekeeper]
Peace god for real, not a spook nor a ghost
Not unseen but seen and heard most of all
I'm god, control nine planets
Wisdom revolves around me understand it
Science, huh my rhyme's underrated
Pyramids built accordin to how we made it to be
Many shall come few shall be chosen
32 degrees below zero and you're frozen
Power of refinement my rhyme's assignment
Is to crush negative bullshit in a line
With the fusion
Cause that which is beyond 360 degrees is an illusion
Either you're deaf, dumb or blind
Stupid hypocritical, dumb 85 yo it's time
See i without me don't exist
God cypher love devine is what i miss
Check it like a visual reflection, sorta supernatural
Your know your mind detects as bein natural
Ultra gammer, the hammer's my energy
Compressed to a form of a threat toward my enemy
Cypher's a circle that consists of a whole
No beginning no ends no sides it's just a hole
Like in an event i'm a percent
Dealt out a hundred i'm 5, my degree is a black belt
Real genuine not authentic
Older than the sun moon and stars unprecedented
In north america success can be won as a game
And knowledge and understanding still one and the same
Greatest reward known to mankind
That winners never quit and quitters never win in the mind
But in time my degrees are gettin deeper
Thicker in the subconscious state of the sleeper

At night time i can hear the earth cry
Wonder how many black gods got to die
At night time i can hear the earth cry
I wonder how many black gods must die
At night time i can hear the earth cry
I wonder how many black gods must die
At night time i can hear the earth cry
I hear her cry (peace to the earth)
I cry