leaving the past

they told me i would never make it

i would never achieve it

reality is nourishment

but people don't believe it

i guess it's hard to stomach the truth like a bulimic

it's a dirty game and nobody is willing to clean it

but this is for the paraplegic

people dreamin' of runnin'

ladies married to men who don't please 'em

dreamin' of comin'

verbally murderous like david berkowitz when i'm gunnin'

some cowards on the internet didn't think i would sell

scared to talk shit in person

'cause they stuck in a shell

and couldn't understand the pain of being stuck in a cell

hell is not a place you go

if you're not a christian

it's the failure of your life's greatest ambition

it's a bad decision to blindly follow any religion

i don't see the difference in between the wrong and the wrong

soldiers emptyin' their clips at little kids and their moms

are just like a desperate motherfucker strapped to a bomb

humanity's gone

smoked up in a gravity bong

by a democrat republican cheech and chong

immortal technique

you never heard me preach in a song

i'm not controversial

i'm just speakin' the facts

put your hands in the air like you got the heat to your back

and shake your body like a baby born addicted to crack

and since life's a gamble like the craps tables at vegas

i freestyle my destiny

it's not written in pages

i hate it when they tell us how far we came to be

as if our people's history started with slavery

painfully i discovered the shit they kept a secret

this is the exodus like the black jews out of egypt

i keep it reality based with the music i make

blow up the truth in your face with the style i run with

like the navy missile that shot down flight 800

i'm like the africans who came here before colombus

and from the fifteen hundreds until after the morrow

i watch latin america get raped in the sorrow

you see the spaniards never left despues de colon

and if you don't believe me

you can click on univision

i never seen so much racism in all of my life

every program and newscast

all of them white

it's like apartheid with 10 percent ruling the rest

that type of stress 'll make me put the fucking tool to your chest

step in my way nigga

i wouldn't wanna be ya

i burn slow like pissing drunk with gonorrhea

i'll do a free show in north korea

burning the flag

while j. edgar hoover politicians dress up in drag

try to confuse you

makin' it hard to follow this: capitalism and democracy are not synonymous

you swallow propaganda like a birth control pill

sellin' your soul to the eye on the back of the dollar bill

but that will never be me

'cause i'm leavin' the past

like an abused wife with the kids

leavin' your ass

like a drug addict clean and sober

leavin' the stash

unbreakable technique leavin' the plane crash

i'm out with the black box and i refuse to return

i spit reality

instead of what you usually learn

and i refuse to be concerned with condescending advice

'cause i'm the only motherfucker that could change my life

some people think i won't make it

but i know that i will

escape the emptiness

'cause that shit is slow and it kills

the flow and the skill

i made y'all believe that it last

you can make the future

but it starts with leaving the past