Genius-gza Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth Lyrics

Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth Lyrics

The Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth (3X)

 

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 Life is a test many quest the universe 

 And through my research, I felt the joy and the hurt

 The first shall be last and the last shall be first

 The basic instructions before leaving earth

 

 Verse One:

 

 Knowledge this wisdom, this goes back when I was twelve

 I loved doing right but I was trapped in hell

 Had mad ideas, sad eyes and tears

 Years of fears, but yo my foes couldn't bear

 I searched for the truth since my youth

 And went to church since birth, but it wasn't worth the loot

 that I was paying, plus the praying

 I didn't like staying cuz of busy-bodies and dizzy hotties

 That the preacher had souped up with lies

 Had me cooped up lookin at loot, butt, and thighs

 Durin the service, he swallowed up the poor

 And after they heard this, they wallowed on the floor

 But I ignored, and explored my history that was untold

 And watched mysteries unfold

 And dropped a jewel like Solomon, but never followed men

 cause if you do your brain is more hollow than

 Space oblivia, or the abyss

 With no trace of trivia, left with the hiss

 Does it pay to be deaf, dumb and blind?

 From a slave we was kept from the mind

 And from the caves he crept from behind

 And what he gave, was the sect of the swine

 When the bible, it condemned the pig

 I don't mean to pull your hems or flip your wigs

 But we used to wear a turban, but now we're in the urban

 No more wearing beanies and dress like a genie

 No hocus pocus cause I focus on the facts

 And put it on the tracks and brought it through the wax

 I speak on Jacob, it might take up some time

 And too much knowledge, it might break up the ryhme

 I did it anyway just to wake up the mind

 of those who kiss stones or prays on the carpet

 Those who sit home, or sell books by the market

 Need to chill and get their mind revived

 For years religion did nothing but divide

 The basic instructions before leaving earth

 

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 Verse Two:

 

 I strolled through the books of Job to unfold

 And open bibles, instead of hoping on revivals

 Calling on His name and screaming hallelujah

 when he hardly knew ya, that's how the devil's fooled ya

 See look into my eyes brethren, that's the lies of a Reverend

 Why should you die to go to heaven?

 The Earth is already in space, the bible I embrace

 A difficult task I had to take

 I studied till my eyes was swollen, and only arose when

 I found out that we were the chosen

 I deal with the truth, and build with the youth

 And teach my son as he kneels on the stoop

 Son, life is a pool of sin, corrupted wth foolish men

 and women with wicked minds, who build picket signs

 to legalize abortion, the evil eye distortion

 I quiz Son with my wisdom

 Before I converted, I was perverted, and knowledge was asserted

 The study of wisdom, I perferred it

 The understanding, it gave me mental freedom

 I even learnt Caucasians were really the Tribe of Edam

 The white image, of Christ, is really Cesare Borgia

 and uhh, the second son of Pope Alexander

 The Sixth of Rome, and once the picture was shown

 That's how the devils tricked my dome

 I prophesized to save a man, but no one gave a damn

 for my nation - the seed of Abraham

 Blessed with the tongue of Hebrew

 Now we're strung on needles, and some are plungin evils

 So study and be wise in these days of darkness

 Peace to my nephew Marcus

 

 The basic instructions before leaving earth

 

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