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"The Truth" by Pharoahe Monch ft. Common & Talib Kweli

10/27/2015

 
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"The Truth"
Written by Pharoahe Monch, Common, Talib Kweli and Diamond D
[Pharoahe Monch]
Yo
Truth had me up against the ropes
Semi-concious without no boxing skills
Fear of it makes hair on my neck g
row 
Like minoxodil
Watchin' the clock is ill when, faced with the truth
Parallels observing, amateur video tapes of
Twenty-one top notch NYPD cops get ill
Fill they minds not to kill 

Still some never revealed true feelings
Speaking on the truth right now, in itself, is healing
See The Creator, created existence and balance
At right angles, unless it was conceived and stated
So whoever shall stray away from right lives wrong
The deliverance of the word false 

Opposite of truth off course
Sure as my slave name descending
Troy Donald Jamerson paves the path

Enabling truth to stay stable and cling to EARTH!
Sorta similar to the way static electricity sting see
Truth brings light, light refracts off the mirror
Visions of yourself and error could never be clearer
The truth is that you ugly

Not on the outside, but in the inside
On the outside you fronting you lovely
The discovery of these things 

And all are well-hidden
But when you in denial of self 

It is forbidden, that's the truth

In due time we will find

[Common]
See it everywhere, gotta recognize it
Let the truth be told 

From young souls that become old
From days spent in the jungle

Where must one go to find it
Time is real, we can't rewind it
Out of everybody I met

Who told the truth? Time did
We find kids speakin' 'cause it's naturally in us
But the false prophets by tellin' us w
e born sinners Vendors of hate got me battlin' my own mind state
At a divine rate, I ain't in this just to rhyme great
See the truth in the thighs of a stripper

The eyes of my nigga
If it's only one, then why should it differ
So constantly I seek it
Wonderin why I gotta drink a six pack to speak it
Took a picture of the truth and tried to develop it
Had proof, it was only recognized by the intelligent
Took the negative and positive

'Cause niggas got to live
Said I got to give more than I'm given
'Cause truth'll never be heard in religion
After searchin' the world

On the inside, what was hidden?
It was the truth

Truth, truth, truth, truth, truth, truth
In due time, we will find

[Talib Kweli]
Check it, on my neck 

I still got marks from the nooses
The truth it produces

Fear that got niggas on the run like Carl Lewis
The truth is my crew is 

The smoothest spitters of saliva juices
Like The Roots is, more organic than acoustics
Heavenly, what will set you free 

And kill you in the same breath
That shit you gotta get off your chest 

Before your death, unless
The way you speak is lighter than a pamphlet
'Cause the truth give the words t
he weight 
Of a planet, goddammit
I ran with what God planted in my heart 
And I understand it to be 
To bring some light to the dark
Breathe some life in this art
This must be the truth (why?) 

'Cause we keep marchin on (true)
The truth lay the foundation 

Of what we rockin on (true)
You can't see it if you blind 

But we will always prevail (true)
Life is like the open sea

The truth is the wind in our sail
And in the end, our names is on the lips 

Of dying men
If ever crushed to the earth, we always rise again
When the words of lying men 

Sound lush like the sound of a violin
The truth is there

It's just the heart you gotta find it in
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Diamond D

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