Immortal Technique - Crimes of the Heart lyrics

Yeah
I turned 21 in prison locked up at night
Now I walk around free
It seems like another life
Another roll with some other dice
Another ho or a loving wife
People come and go some really you never know
Intellectual midgets that really never grow
Fake love that hangs on like
"can I hold you though?"
And old friends will look at
You like "yo, yea, i told you so"
A toast to the brokenhearted
Who never finished what they fuckin' started
People who go out and try to
Be a rebel at night
Try to make up for the fact
That they settled in life
It's like a fight between the devil
And Christ over the limelight
Spiritual celebrity poker
But the whole deck is full of jokers
And every year that you get older
The stakes get higher
Gambling with a bunch of fakes and liars
Real talk 'cause the real New York
Is the pain and the suffering of lost love
Staring off into the distance in
The midst of the club
Depression and emptiness that lead to suicide
And the struggle inside of yourself
That keeps you alive
Survived and medicated stalked by sobriety
The life that you live now
Tortured by memories violently
I pray inside of me that one
Day you could be forgiven
For murdering the beautiful world we
Used to live in

Crimes of the heart crimes of the heart

Love, doesn't need a complicated metaphor
And sometimes nothin' needs to
Be said at all
Sometimes a person you're with is
Not your one and only
And you just fuck with them because
You afraid to be lonely
And when you come back it's too late
So you overcompensate, like victims of rape
Full of self hate
Lost in the affection to strangers around you
Instead of the only person that ever
Gave a fuck about you
Thought you were happy so you
Didn't come check me
But then when he cheated
Or treated you incorrectly
You conveniently realized you could
Never forget me and tried to crawl back
In my life unexpectedly
These are my indictments of those
Who claim to be righteous
And leave a trail of broken hearts
On their way to enlightenment
But I can't give into
Hatred or pass judgment
Even towards every illusion I've
Been in love with cause the heart that
Betrays it'self willingly
Is like a nation that
Trades freedom for stability
It's so seductive to be cold and corrupted
And isolated and try to
Be an independent republic
But liberty to be loved on
The surface is worthless
The sacrifice of revolution with no purpose
Take it from a criminal
Searching for his redemption
Cursing at God desperately trying
To get his attention

Crimes of the heart crimes of the heart

Looking for the shining light
Who's it gonna be
Who'll walk the line with me tonight?
Round we go, won't cross
Climbing through the endless night
Who's it gonna be
Who'll walk the line with me this time?
Climbing through the endless night
Endless night

Crimes of the heart