Angels & Demons - Immortal Technique.mp3

[00:01.82]What do you see when you're in the dark
[00:04.60]and the demons come?
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[00:07.79]I see you.
[00:09.13]
[00:10.82]I see you standing over the grave of another dead president
[00:15.51]
[00:26.76]I see angels above me
[00:30.07]Demons below me
[00:32.63]Fighting over heaven, heaven, heaven
[00:37.63]It's real
[00:39.10]America's nightmare; young, black, and just don't give a ****
[00:43.15]Run up in the courtroom and wet 'em up
[00:45.38]Got nothing to lose but my handcuffs
[00:47.56]
[00:48.22]Every man must choose to lay down or stand up
[00:51.25]It's war time, everything is fair, no fear
[00:54.05]When they say the homie murdered the judge, I don't care
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[00:57.08]**** 'em, he deserved it, long as the homie get away
[01:00.53]And don't get caught for the crime, I encourage it
[01:03.57]We rootin' for the villain in black
[01:06.16]Pourin' out Absolut, salute, niggas is shootin' back
[01:09.42]In self defense we bang the pistol like
[01:12.41]Larry Davis or Brian Nichols
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[01:14.98]Every pig, every public official, the boomerang
[01:18.08]Is coming back to get you, you reap what you sow
[01:21.31]The system you created created a monster
[01:24.26]And now you scared cause it's coming back to haunt you
[01:26.70]
[01:27.35]I see angels above me
[01:30.09]Demons below me
[01:32.57]Fighting over heaven, heaven, heaven
[01:37.68]It's real
[01:39.00]I see angels above me
[01:41.93]Demons below me
[01:44.64]Fighting over heaven, heaven, heaven
[01:49.59]It's real
[01:50.27]Since we gonna take the blame,
[01:51.89]I'm a rep my name to get my aim right
[01:54.09]Let's have an overthrow and after party in the same night
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[01:57.14]Same height as Huey, same muscle build as Malcolm
[01:59.45]
[02:00.54]With the same circumstances in the hood, you know the outcome
[02:03.24]And read it in the news about your sergeant and your captain
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[02:06.00]Don't take this as a warning, just another nigga rappin'
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[02:09.20]**** the way we organizing, **** the training and the grapplin'
[02:12.12]And **** them Uncle Toms who call police because we smack them
[02:15.15]And **** you sympathizers with your middle class reactions
[02:17.10]Cause we bangin' on the system, G'd up, **** the factions
[02:21.13]And if you didn't know, the G was for George Jackson
[02:24.13]And long live his warrior spirit packin' the Magnum
[02:26.44]
[02:27.14]Watching over the soldiers, knowin' niggas be blackin'
[02:29.96]When we really need to be disciplined in our ways and actions
[02:32.65]
[02:33.19]When we get some freedom you niggas can start braggin'
[02:36.01]Till then, inside the blood of my eye, you see the dragon
[02:39.15]I see angels above me
[02:41.89]Demons below me
[02:44.62]Fighting over heaven, heaven, heaven
[02:49.64]It's real
[02:50.83]I see angels above me
[02:54.03]Demons below me
[02:56.42]Fighting over heaven, heaven, heaven
[03:01.17]It's real
[03:02.55]
[03:03.07]I'm like the birth of baby Mohammed, the movement I started
[03:05.81]
[03:06.37]Can spar with the hardest, the martyr regarded as Spartacus-hearted
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[03:09.88]It doesn't matter whose missiles can shoot the farthest
[03:12.47]When you're a target in an Afghan Tutoberg Forest
[03:15.58]Close quarters combat over corrupted elections
[03:18.57]Bilderberg is like cancer, it grows an infection
[03:21.54]Nepotism is the gold and the conductor's connection
[03:24.57]And ignorance is the prison that the people are kept in
[03:26.94]
[03:27.46]The military ain't there for the people's protection
[03:30.14]
[03:30.69]They're just there to protect an investment
[03:32.97]That's why people get arrested, electrocuted, molested
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[03:35.91]Connected streets are infested with those tired of protestin'
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[03:39.50]Traumatized children grow to guerilla garrisons
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[03:42.35]9/11 generations pale in comparison
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[03:45.11]And you will learn a lesson repeated through history
[03:47.93]That no matter what you think, occupation is not victory
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[04:03.27]Somalia, Kashmir
[04:06.50]Nigeria, Palestine
[04:09.67]Iraq, bring it back
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[04:14.84]I see angels above me
[04:18.29]Demons below me
[04:20.64]Fighting over heaven, heaven, heaven
[04:25.32]It's real
[04:27.18]Angels above me
[04:30.00]Demons below me
[04:32.66]Fighting over heaven, heaven, heaven
[04:37.30]It's real
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