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

[prince rakeem/ryzarector]
As long as you got mentally dead people
Who are living in a mental death
Meaning living in a mental grave
You need somebody to dig that grave up and bring them back to life
There's no chance for a physical dead
But there's chance for the mentally dead
(yo, one two one two two)
So we gonna come and resurrect them
That's why they call me the ryzarector
I'm out to resurrect the mental dead, by diggin up they graves
Bringin em back to the surface

Niggaz is caught up in the midst of six
You better grab ahold of your crucifix
And this is it, the black god exists
Can you understand this? let me teach you a lesson, yo
The pre-existance of the mathematical biochemical equations
The manifestations of god, earth air fire and water
Which are in it's basic formation, solid liquid and gases
That caused the land masses, and the space catalyst
And all matter that exists and is dense
Third dimension, that must be observed through physical comprehension
It takes a nerve to be struck, wisdom is the wise
Poet spoken to wake up, the dumb who've been sleeping
The fourth dimension is time, it goes inside the mind
Run the channels energized up through the back of your spine
So observe as my g energy strikes a vital nerve
One swerve of the tongue it pierces like a sword through the lung
Have you not heard, that words kill as fast as bullets
When you load negative thoughts, to the chamber of your brain
And your mouth pulls the trigger that propels
Wickedness straight from hell
From the pits of your stomach where negativity dwell
I searched the east coast and west coast down and most found
The small towns is like ghost towns, everybody moves slowed down
From uptown to bucktown give a fuck now shaolin gots the crown
And cops'll still serve you from jamaica ave. to myrtle
And cats carry more shells than turtles
Brooklyn down park hill pussies unfertile
Buy wholesale never retail get females in deep spells
If you eat well, you sleep well
Send enemies to hell
What makes hair skin epidermis fingernail
Regenerate, when everything else disintegrate
A teflon vest so bullets can't penetrate
On the corner of my block there stood this old man
A black immigrant from the land of sudan
Who used to tell stories to the children in the building
But never had a dollar to keep his pocket filled in
He bombed he knew deuteronomy the science of astronomy
But didn't know the basic principles of economy
I say the wise man don't play the role of a fool
The first thing a man must obtain is twelve jewelz
Knowledge wisdom understanding to help you achieve
Freedom, justice equality food clothing and shelter
After this, love peace and happiness
He had the nappiest head, i told him total satisfaction
Is to achieve one goal in the scheme of things
He who works like a slave, eats like a king

[rzarector (blue raspberry)]
Yo hold up stop stop
What's goin on, what's goin on
Yo what's goin on, what's goin on i'm just holdin on
(what's goin on what's goin on)
What's goin on, what's goin on
(what's goin on what's goin on)
What's goin on i'm just holdin on
(what's goin on i'm just holdin on)
What's goin on, what's goin on
(what's goin on what's goin on)
What's goin on i'm just holdin on
(what's goin on i'm just holdin on)

[rzarector]
Yo
If you could soar the sky like a bird
Would you be disturbed to see brothers on the curb smokin herb
And cops from the third precinct rush in
Like a herd
Chargin up the league with possession
Freeze em and arrest em
Strip search em then undress em
Make the youngsters come and then sign a confession
Or would you watch the cop in the chopper
With the high powered binocular cameras
Attached the bottom of his aircraft
Takin photographs of your lab
Pointin a 50 millimeter 500 shot magazine full clip gat at your back
Hoverin the projects, spotlight shinin bright
On movin targets
Infrared light at night on dark objects
Harassin citizens who hasn't been charged yet
Would you order a flock of pelicans to jam their propellers
On top see forfeit the death system failure
Take these devils off, i witness tom broke off
Mentally fry his brain and blow the smoke off
Killa bee, presidential suite, bill and hillary
Bow and kiss my feet
Auxillary security retreat
Heavy artillary sun heat
Meet the agony defeats the cavalry
Six-pack battery back, anti-gravity raps
Snaps your head inside the bear trap
You can't adapt to the habitat
The biggest jigsaw puzzle be the world map
Niggas think that they own things and man sit high upon thrones
When you die tell me what the fuck you own
When your skin flesh and bones find a permanent home
As food for worms or fossils trapped in stone

[rzarector (blue raspberry)]
What's goin on (what's goin on)
I'm just holdin on (what's goin on)
What's goin on (what's goin on)
I'm just holdin...

[gatekeeper]
Airborne planes with ultra rays
Aerosol sprays leavin tracemarks, you're picked up on radar
Trackin your moments, political opponents
Everything you own now he owns it
From the genesis exact off the tip
Undergoin metamorphosis through computers in your offices
A crystal construct a nuclear missile
Every fifth school we produce more pistols
Documented details, shocked at retails
Shipped to the ghetto for resale
Peep the calamitist dreams and destroy the thermometers
Droppin like niggas unemployed

[gatekeeper (blue raspberry)]
What's goin on, what's goin on (what's goin on)
Just holdin on, just holdin on (what's goin on)
What's goin on, what's goin on (what's goin on)
What's goin on, just holdin on (what's goin on)

[grym reaper]
Yo triple 6 is established
The average savage cabbage is tryin to live lavish
Off of the credit card balances
The magnetic strips that stick onto plastic
New world order system of society that's cast us
Masses is mastered and broadcasters speak
The media breach and your optic forefathers
Topics is wild as fiction
To lessen the friction my children beware the pale rider
Your life is slipped into a microchip
I warned you with all of the mics that i grip
Cash days fade away devils roll hard
Trappin souls inside of visa gold cards

[9th prince]
Yo this is cerebal warfare
Nuclear golden sphere attacks the hemisphere
Leaves the human fearness of the pit of urban tears
Dedicate my life to allah, each bar's a star
Far from mars, for vengeance my opponents die hard
Panasonic electronic thoughts cut short your life support
Half deceased enemies are buried alive at the wu mount enterprise
Raisin cane remain pain in the brain
Stain the mindframe
Slay like heroin bein shot in the veins
9th prince the principle, i was born invicible
Slew with a tribute to my attribute
Weak lyricists in my cipher stay mute
My wisdom is sword justice
Chop off the head of those who can't be trusted
I'm signin off as i let my knowledge be born
Sharp like a thorn
Bloods callin themselves gods, yo
What's goin on

[blue raspberry]
What's goooooiiiiiinnnn oooonnnnnn
What's goin on, what's goin on (8x)

[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