GZA - Liquid Swords lyrics

When I was little, my father was famous
He was the greatest samurai in the empire
And he was the Shogun's decapitator
He cut off the heads of 131 lords
It was a bad time for the empire
The Shogun just stayed inside his castle
And he never came out
People said his brain was infected by devils
My father would come home
He would forget about the killings
He wasn't scared of the Shogun
But the Shogun was scared of him
Maybe that was the problem then, one night
The Shogun sent his ninja spies to our house
They were supposed to kill my
Father but they didn't
That was the night everything changed

See, sometimes you gotta flash 'em back
See, niggas don't know where
This shit started
Y'all know where it came from i'm sayin'
We gonna take y'all back to the source
Do the knowledge, yo

When the MC's came to live out the name
And to perform, some had
To snort cocaine, to act insane
Before Pete Rocked it on
Now on with the mental plane
To spark the brain
With the building to be born
Yo, RZA, flip the track with the what to cut

Fake niggas get flipped in mic fights
I swing swords and cut clowns
Shit is too swift to bite
You record and write it down
I flow like the blood on a murder scene
Like a syringe
On some wild out shit to insert a fiend
But it was your op to shop stolen art
Catch a swollen heart from not rollin' smart
I put mad pressure on phony
Wack rhymes that get hurt
Shit's played like zodiac
Signs on sweatshirts
That's minimum and feminine like sandals
My minimum table stacks a verse on a gamble
Energy is felt once the cards are dealt
With the impact of roundhouse
Kicks from black belts
That attack the mic-phones like
Cyclones or typhoon
I represent from midnight to high noon
I don't waste ink, nigga, I think
I drop megaton bombs more
Faster than you blink
'Cause rhyme thoughts travel at
A tremendous speed
Through clouds of smoke of
Natural blends of weed
Only under one circumstance
That's if I'm blunted turn that shit up
My Clan in Da Front want it

Now, when the MC's came to live out the name
And to perform, some had
To snort cocaine, to act insane
Before Pete Rocked it on
Now on with the mental plane
To spark the brain
With the building to be born
Yo, the RZA flip the track
With the what to cut

I'm on a Mission that
Niggas say is Impossible
But when I swing my swords
They all choppable
I be the body dropper, the heartbeat stopper
Child educator, plus head amputator
'Cause niggas' styles are old
Like Mark 5 sneakers
Lyrics are weak like clock radio speakers
Don't even stop in my station and attack
While your plan failed
Get derailed like Amtrak
What the fuck for? Down by law, I make law
I be justice, I sentence that ass two-to-four
'Round the clock, that state pen time
Check it but the pens I be stickin' with
You can't state the crime
Came through with the Wu, slid off on the DL
I'm low-key like seashells
I rock these bells
Now come aboard, it's Medina bound
Enter the chamber
And it's a whole different sound
It's a wide entrance
Small exit like a funnel
So deep, it's picked up on radios in tunnels
Niggas are fascinated how the shit begin
Get vaccinated
My logo is branded in your skin

When the MC's came to live out the name
And to perform, some had
To snort cocaine, to act insane
Before Pete Rocked it on
Now on with the mental plane
To spark the brain
With the building to be born
Yo, RZA flip the track with the what to cut