The Truth

[Pharoahe Monch]<br>Yo<br>Truth had me up against the ropes <br>and semi-concious without no boxing skills<br>Fear of it makes hair on my neck grow like minoxodil<br>Watchin the clock is ill when, faced wit the truth<br>Parallels observing, amateur video tapes of<br>Twenty-one top notch NYPD cops get ill<br>Fill they minds not to kill still son, never revealed<br>True feelings, we speakin on the truth right now in itself is healing<br>See The Creator, created existence and balance<br>At right angles, unless it was conceived and stated<br>So whoever shall stray away from right lives wrong<br>The deliverance of the word false opposite of truth off course<br>Sure as my slave name sending<br>Troy Donald Jamerson paves the path, enabling truth<br>To stay stable and cling to EARTH!<br>Sorta similar to the way static electricity sting see<br>Truth brings light, light refracts off the mirror<br>Visions of yourself and error could never clearer<br>The truth is that you ugly, not on the outside<br>But in the inside on the outside you frontin you lovely<br>The discovery of these things and all are well-hidden<br>But when you in denial of self it is forbidden, that`s the truth<br><br>[Female singer]<br>In due time we will find<br><br>[Common] *speaking behind vocals*<br>See it everywhere, gotta recognize it<br><br>Let the truth be told from young souls that become old<br>>From days spent in the jungle, where must one go<br>To find it, time is real, we can`t rewind it<br>Out of everybody I met, who told the truth? Time did<br>We find kids speakin cuz it`s naturally in us<br>But the false prophets by tellin us we born sinners<br>Venders of hate, got me battlin my own mind state<br>At a divine rate, I ain`t in this just to rhyme great<br>See the truth in the thighs of a stripper, the eyes of my nigga<br>If it`s only one, then why should it differ<br>So constantly I seek it<br>Wonderin why I gotta drink a six pack to speak it<br>Took a picture of the truth and tried to develop it<br>Had proof, it was only recognized by the intelligent<br>Took the negative and positive, cuz niggas got to live<br>Said I got to get more than I`m given<br>Cuz truth`ll never be heard in religion<br>After searchin the world, on the inside what was hidden<br>It was the truth<br><br>[Female singer]<br>Truth, truth, truth, truth, truth, truth<br>In due time, we will find<br><br>[Talib Kweli]<br>Check it, on my neck I still got marks from the nooses<br>The truth it produces, fear that got niggas on the run like Carl Lewis<br>The truth is my crew is the smoothest bits of saliva juices like the roots is<br>More organic than acoustics<br>Heavenly ? set you free and kill you in the same breath<br>That shit you gotta get off your chest before your death, unless<br>The way you speak is lighter than a pamphlet<br>Cuz the truth give the words away to the planet goddammit<br>I ran wit what God planted in my heart and I understand it<br>To be the bring the light to the dark, breathe some life in this art<br>This must be the truth (why?) cuz we keep marchin on (true)<br>The truth lay the foundation of what we rockin on (true)<br>You can`t see it if you blind but we will always prevail (true)<br>Life is like the open sea, the truth is the wind in our sail<br>And in the end, our names is on the lips of dying men<br>If ever crushed in the earth, we always rise again<br>When the words of lying men sound lush like the sound of a violin<br>The truth is there, it`s just the heart you gotta find it in<br><br>[Female singer]<br>You will find (7x)