Immortal Technique - Leaving the Past lyrics

They told me I would never make it
I would never achieve it
Reality is nourishment
But people don't believe it
I guess it's hard to stomach
The truth like a bulimic
It's a dirty game and nobody
Is willin' to clean it
But this is for the paraplegic
People dreamin' of runnin'
Ladies married to men who don't please 'em
Dreamin' of comin'
Verbally murderous like David Berkowitz
When I'm gunnin'
Some cowards on the Internet didn't
Think I would sell
Scared to talk shit in person 'cause
They stuck in a shell
And couldn't understand the pain of
Bein' stuck in a cell
Hell is not a place you go
If you're not a Christian
It's the failure of your
Life's greatest ambition
It's a bad decision to
Blindly follow any religion
I don't see the difference in between
The wrong and the wrong
Soldiers emptyin' the clips at little
Kids and they moms
Are just like a desperate motherfucker
Strapped to a bomb
Humanity's gone, smoked up in a gravity bong
By a Democrat-Republican Cheech and Chong
Immortal Technique
You never heard me preach in a song
I'm not controversial
I'm just speakin' the facts
Put your hands in the air like you
Got the heat to your back
And shake your body like a
Baby born addicted to crack
And since life's a gamble like
The craps tables at Vegas
I freestyle my destiny
It's not written in pages


I hate it when they tell us
How far we came to be
As if our people's history
Started with slavery
Painfully I discovered the shit
They kept a secret this is the exodus
Like the black Jews out of Egypt
I keep it reality based with the music I make
Blow up the truth in your face
With the style I run with
Like the Navy missile that
Shot down Flight 800
I'm like the Africans who
Came here before Columbus
And from the 1500s until after the morrow
I watched Latin America get
Raped in the sorrow you see
The Spaniards never left después de Colon
And if you don't believe me
You can click on Univision
I never seen so much racism in all of my life
Every program and newscast, all of 'em white
It's like apartheid with 10
Percent rulin' the rest
That type of stress'll make me put
The fuckin' tool to your chest
Step in my way, nigga
I wouldn't wanna be ya
I burn slow like pissin'
Drunk with gonorrhea
I'll do a free show in North Korea
Burnin' the flag
While J edgar Hoover politicians
Dress up in drag tryna confuse you
Makin' it hard to follow this:
Capitalism and democracy are not synonymous
You swallow propaganda like a
Birth control pill
Sellin' your soul to the eye on
The back of the dollar bill
But that'll never be me 'cause
I'm leavin' the past
Like an abused wife with the kids
Leavin' your ass
Like a drug addict clean and sober
Leavin' the stash unbreakable Technique
Leavin' the plane crash
I'm out with the black box
And I refuse to return
I spit reality instead of
What you usually learn and I refuse to be
Concerned with condescending advice
'Cause I'm the only motherfucker that
Could change my life

Some people think I won't make it
But I know that I will
Escape the emptiness 'cause that shit
Is slow and it kills the flow and the skill
I made y'all believe it at last
You can make the future
But it starts with leavin' the past