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[00:00.61]Intro: traditional Lakota Sioux song
[00:56.26]Verse 1
[01:02.45]Imagine the Word of God without religious groupies
[01:05.39]Imagine a savior born in a Mexican hooptie
[01:08.18]Persecuted single mother in a modern manger
[01:10.96]You'd crucify him again like a fuckin' stranger
[01:13.71]Tears of the anger are worth more than diamonds or rubies
[01:16.56]Imagine bein' locked up since juvie
[01:18.70]Imagine changin' your life and still goin' out like Tookie
[01:21.88]Imagine niggas talkin' shit when they never knew me
[01:24.72]Imagine a movie that depicted the pain in your life
[01:27.61]Like them kids in Afghanistan chasin' a kite
[01:30.20]For most of the world, that's what it's like
[01:32.29]Imagine if the woman you suppose to love for the rest of your life
[01:35.54]Is set to marry someone else at the end of the night
[01:38.27]They say you fight the greatest jihad in your heart and your mind
[01:41.22]And fight the hardest when you start from behind
[01:43.37]So I dream the impossible all the time
[01:46.16]Fuck a Masonic design — America's future is mine
[01:49.05]Repeat that to yourself, 'cause if culture's a crime
[01:51.64]Them numbers tatted on your arm aren't too far behind
[01:54.44]They can only conquer you after they've murdered your mind
[01:57.18]So rise up, motherfucker, like the sign of the times
[01:59.92]I feel my body weakenin', but my spirit is fine
[02:02.61]Ready to go to war with devils at the drop of a dime
[02:05.41]And fight with my rebel army until the stars are aligned
[02:08.84]Break: Lakota
[02:20.00]Verse 2
[02:20.02]Nostradamus was a white man's prophet
[02:22.24]Who predicated European supremacist logic
[02:24.64]Because the pilgrims and Conquistador columns
[02:27.57]Killed more innocent people than Hitler and Stalin
[02:30.27]I guess the fortune-tellers skipped an antichrist or two
[02:33.50]Brother, give this to the OG's doin' life with you
[02:36.25]And pray for the problems with the Pope psychology
[02:38.69]So the Vatican will offer an apology (for what?)
[02:41.48]For destroyin' the people's liberation theology
[02:44.12]Snatchin' the spirit of Jesus from people in poverty
[02:46.87]Business decisions like keepin' people in prisons
[02:49.60]But had the opposite effect: incarceratin' religion
[02:52.39]That type of crooked politics imposed on a populous
[02:55.53]Is obvious if you read the Northwood documents
[02:58.32]Forget the compliments for what I recorded
[03:00.52]And live for revolution instead of always dyin' for it
[03:03.96]Remember a bullet can never stop me
[03:06.15]My legions are led by the spirit Haile Selassie, watch me
[03:09.38]Even if I'm shot in the chakra, I will prosper
[03:12.07]Doppler effect, bumpin' music out a helicopter
[03:14.97]Tellin' the Persians, "Dig up Zoroaster!"
[03:18.09]And tell them I came back as the son of the Ahura Mazda
[03:21.27]Fish out the Philistine Dagon from the shores of Gaza
[03:24.42]And call Quetzalcoatl flyin' over La Raza
[03:27.26]This is my message to the older gods
[03:29.26]I'll sacrifice you all to the revolution, like the Romanovs
[03:32.43]Lost in the desert like the Hebrews of Israel
[03:35.13]The blood clot system tried to kill me like sickle-cell
[03:38.02]But I survived, and I'm alive to fight another day
[03:40.61]Cocooned in a coma, I can still hear my mother pray
[03:43.35]Sister cryin' out to God, "Please let my brother stay!"
[03:46.15]Walkin' towards the light, but somethin' is pullin' me the other way
[04:06.47]Outro: Cornel West
[04:07.97]Immortal Technique
[04:10.01]Rise up, young brother!
[04:12.00]It is not your time to die