[00:00.036] I was in a dark space, between a rock and a hard place[00:03.856] Knew I was alive when my heart raced[00:05.856] Buried alive, but very alive[00:08.707] They'd be very surprised to find out Harry survived[00:11.392] The boy who lived got tied up for marryin'[00:13.753] Tryna ride off into the sunset with nary goodbye[00:16.791] Shot him off his high horse, ate his American pie[00:19.670] Called out his arrogant lies, tossed him in a hole[00:22.154] The middle of nowhere you never could find[00:23.848] Where's his money now? Where his wife at?[00:26.483] Where his manager? Where his hype at?[00:29.080] Then they threw the dirt on the casket[00:31.244] And into the hunt for the baby and the basket[00:33.984] Nobody Moses, alone with the mallet[00:36.671] That's when the pen turned the stone to a tablet[00:39.389] Jailbreak stylus, I chiseled like Shawshank[00:42.201] I fought for my life, Ray Gibson, Claude Banks[00:45.188] My ideas turn a cage into shark tank[00:47.823] Tears over war paint, gotta give the Lord "Thanks"[00:50.948] Walkin' through the desert, same mighty sword[00:53.710] Not yet tired, but I might be sore[00:56.463] I was in a dark space[00:59.018] My mind was playin' tricks like Scarface[01:01.894] My pen strong like an one-inch punch[01:04.250] I eat all they cornbread, they don't want they lunch[01:06.867] I was in a dark place, it was me and my pen[01:09.531] None of my friends, none of my kin[01:12.329] None of my weapons, one of my limbs[01:15.181] One of my arms, I made a beat with my elbow first[01:18.028] Then my fist started knockin' like the bell don't work[01:20.735] In my palm was the pen from that one fable[01:23.165] The old legendary story of the lunch table[01:26.248] Then I kicked a technique that was so fatal[01:28.741] It went fall down Babylon, Jericho Dagon[01:32.177] Melt every wall in the dungeon dragon[01:34.604] We was in a dark place, now the lights back on[01:37.397] I just needed, I just needed somethin' I could rap on[01:40.129] Right then and there the roof caved, quick rubble stone[01:42.990] The kid kicked another hole, the dirt filled another hole[01:45.723] The pen in the hand of a hero arose[01:48.281] Clenched fist clawin' its way out, the highs and the lows[01:51.128][01:51.289] You'll never know[01:53.344] The high and the low[01:56.398] [?] my for[01:58.147] High and the low