Lauryn Hill - The Mystery of Iniquity lyrics
[Lauryn Hill - The Mystery of Iniquity lyrics]
It's the mystery of iniquity
Said it's the misery of Inequity
Said it's the history of Inequity
When it all, all falls down
Telling you all, it all falls down
Children, eat your bread
Little children, eat your bread
'Cause it all, all falls down
Telling you all, it all falls down
Yo! Y'all can't handle the truth
In a courtroom of lies
Perjures the jurors, witness despised
Crooked lawyers, false indictments publicized
It's entertainment, the arraignments
The subpoenas high profile gladiators in
Bloodthirsty arenas
Enter the Dragon, black-robe crooked balance
Souls bought and sold and
Paroled for thirty talents
Court reporter catch the circus on the paper
File it in the system not
Acknowledged by the Maker
Swearing by the bible blatantly blasphemous
Publicly perpetrating that "In God We Trust"
Cross-examined by a master manipulator
The faster intimidator receiving
The judge's favor
Deceiving sabers doing injury
To their neighbors for status, gratis
Apparatus and legal waivers
See the bailiff representing security
Holding the word of God soliciting perjury
The prosecution, political prostitution
The more money you pay
The further away solution
Legal actors, Babylon's benefactors
Masquerading as the agency for the clients
Hypocritical giants, morally non-compliant
Orally armed to do bodily harm
Polluted, recruited and suited judicial charm
And the defense isn't making any sense
Faking the confidence of
Escaping the consequence
That a defendant is depending on the system
Totally void of judgment purposely
Made to twist 'em
Emotional victim blackmailed by the henchmen
Framed by intentions
Inventions whereby they lynch men
Enter the false witness
Slandering the accused
Planting the seed openly showing
He's being used
To discredit, edit, headed for the alleged
Smearing the individual fearing
The unsuspected
Expert witness (the paid authority)
Made a priority to deceive the majority
Of disinterested peers
Dodging duty for years hating the process
Waiting to be returning to their careers
Do we expect the system made for the elect
To possibly judge correct? Properly
Serve and protect?
Materially corrupt, spiritually amuck
Oblivious to the cause, prosperously bankrupt
Blind leading the blind, guilty never defined
Filthy as swine
A generation purin it's own mind
Legal extortion, blown out of proportion
In vein deceit, the truth is obsolete
Only two positions: victimizer or victim
Both end up in destruction
Trusting this crooked system
Mafia with diplomas keeping us in a coma
Trying to own a piece
Of the "American Corona"
The Revolving Door, insanity every floor
Skyscraping, paper chasing
What are we working for?
Empty traditions, reaching social positions
Teaching ambition to support
The family superstition?
When the Son of Perdition
Is Commander in Chief
The standard is Thief brethren
Can we candidly speak?
Woe to the men, trusted in the chariots dem'
Leaning on horses
They run their intellectual sources
Counterfeit wisdom creating the
Illusion of freedom confusion consumes them
Every word they speak it
Turns them outwardly white
Internally they absent of light
Trapped in the night and bonded to
The Cain of the night
Under the curse, evil men waxing more worse
Faxing the first
Angelic being cast to the earth
It's time for rebirth
Burnin up the branch and the root
The empty pursuit's of every tree
Bearing the wrong fruit
Turn and be healed, let him who stole
No longer steal
Oh it's real, surrender for Jehovah is real
How long will you sleep
Troubled by the thoughts that YOU keep
The idols YOU heap
Causing the destruction you reap
Judgment has come
Find it and return to the One
Abandon the flesh
Self-interest: Broadway to death
Pride and the Greed
Hide and subdividing the seed
The knowledge of Good and Evil is
What caused us to lie caused us to die
Let your emotions be crucified
Renounce all your thoughts
Repent and let your mind be re taught
You'll find what you sought
Was based on the deception you bought
A perception of naught where
The majority remains caught
Loving a lie, not realizing in Adam, all die
Loving a lie, not realizing in Adam, all die
Loving a lie, not realizing in Adam, all die
Loving a lie, not realizing in Adam, all die
It's the mystery of iniquity
Said it's the history of Inequity
Said it's the misery of Inequity
When it all, all falls down, yeah
I'm telling you all, it all falls down
Said it's the misery of Inequity
Said it's the history of Inequity
When it all, all falls down
Telling you all, it all falls down
Children, eat your bread
Little children, eat your bread
'Cause it all, all falls down
Telling you all, it all falls down
Yo! Y'all can't handle the truth
In a courtroom of lies
Perjures the jurors, witness despised
Crooked lawyers, false indictments publicized
It's entertainment, the arraignments
The subpoenas high profile gladiators in
Bloodthirsty arenas
Enter the Dragon, black-robe crooked balance
Souls bought and sold and
Paroled for thirty talents
Court reporter catch the circus on the paper
File it in the system not
Acknowledged by the Maker
Swearing by the bible blatantly blasphemous
Publicly perpetrating that "In God We Trust"
Cross-examined by a master manipulator
The faster intimidator receiving
The judge's favor
Deceiving sabers doing injury
To their neighbors for status, gratis
Apparatus and legal waivers
See the bailiff representing security
Holding the word of God soliciting perjury
The prosecution, political prostitution
The more money you pay
The further away solution
Legal actors, Babylon's benefactors
Masquerading as the agency for the clients
Hypocritical giants, morally non-compliant
Orally armed to do bodily harm
Polluted, recruited and suited judicial charm
And the defense isn't making any sense
Faking the confidence of
Escaping the consequence
That a defendant is depending on the system
Totally void of judgment purposely
Made to twist 'em
Emotional victim blackmailed by the henchmen
Framed by intentions
Inventions whereby they lynch men
Enter the false witness
Slandering the accused
Planting the seed openly showing
He's being used
To discredit, edit, headed for the alleged
Smearing the individual fearing
The unsuspected
Expert witness (the paid authority)
Made a priority to deceive the majority
Of disinterested peers
Dodging duty for years hating the process
Waiting to be returning to their careers
Do we expect the system made for the elect
To possibly judge correct? Properly
Serve and protect?
Materially corrupt, spiritually amuck
Oblivious to the cause, prosperously bankrupt
Blind leading the blind, guilty never defined
Filthy as swine
A generation purin it's own mind
Legal extortion, blown out of proportion
In vein deceit, the truth is obsolete
Only two positions: victimizer or victim
Both end up in destruction
Trusting this crooked system
Mafia with diplomas keeping us in a coma
Trying to own a piece
Of the "American Corona"
The Revolving Door, insanity every floor
Skyscraping, paper chasing
What are we working for?
Empty traditions, reaching social positions
Teaching ambition to support
The family superstition?
When the Son of Perdition
Is Commander in Chief
The standard is Thief brethren
Can we candidly speak?
Woe to the men, trusted in the chariots dem'
Leaning on horses
They run their intellectual sources
Counterfeit wisdom creating the
Illusion of freedom confusion consumes them
Every word they speak it
Turns them outwardly white
Internally they absent of light
Trapped in the night and bonded to
The Cain of the night
Under the curse, evil men waxing more worse
Faxing the first
Angelic being cast to the earth
It's time for rebirth
Burnin up the branch and the root
The empty pursuit's of every tree
Bearing the wrong fruit
Turn and be healed, let him who stole
No longer steal
Oh it's real, surrender for Jehovah is real
How long will you sleep
Troubled by the thoughts that YOU keep
The idols YOU heap
Causing the destruction you reap
Judgment has come
Find it and return to the One
Abandon the flesh
Self-interest: Broadway to death
Pride and the Greed
Hide and subdividing the seed
The knowledge of Good and Evil is
What caused us to lie caused us to die
Let your emotions be crucified
Renounce all your thoughts
Repent and let your mind be re taught
You'll find what you sought
Was based on the deception you bought
A perception of naught where
The majority remains caught
Loving a lie, not realizing in Adam, all die
Loving a lie, not realizing in Adam, all die
Loving a lie, not realizing in Adam, all die
Loving a lie, not realizing in Adam, all die
It's the mystery of iniquity
Said it's the history of Inequity
Said it's the misery of Inequity
When it all, all falls down, yeah
I'm telling you all, it all falls down
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