Artist:
Killah Priest
Album:
Heavy Mental. 1998.
Song:
From Then Till Now
Typed
by: dj.flash@pobox.com
Peace
Killah Priest
Peace,
wassup man?
Chillin
baby
I'm
with you
Yo..
I wanna know what's goin on
Ever
since that "Basic Instruction Before Leavin Earth"
I wanna know
what you gonna do for us right now
It's
been a while baby, we waitin!
I've
just been chillin, been chillin
I
been in the lab writin and stuff y'know?
I
just been on my, y'know, knowhatI'msayin on some
Guns,
shootouts and crack sales
Black
males who pack jails, trapped in hell
No
peace, cold streets, surrounded by police
this
whole week, buildings with no heats
No
lights, the gas pipes the snow leaks
Dog
fights and lowlife throw dice the whole night
Thieves,
creepin in the midnight evenings, saw through the misty regions
Go
to your house, take a vial for the demons
Moon
lit, the lunar eclipse
Prophets
stand in the midst of the seven candlesticks
I
can't take it, beauty that was once sacred
is
now gettin facelifts, fake tits, and fake lips
Cold
embraces
Memory
erases, from the slaveships
My
princess, I used to spot her from a distance
Holdin
my infant, burnin incense
The
moment intent, for her to step into my wife tents
Now
we step in pre-sents, for your ebony prince
The
smell of frankencense; once treated like a pharoah
With
royal apparel, annointed with myrrh and aloe
We
used to wallow, amongst the mallows
We
had herd sheep and cattle, now we battle
Used
to pass over Brooks of Qe'ron
Towers
of Lebanon, the pool of Gechron
We
used to sing songs, upon Mount Hebron
How
was gold turned to bronze, and shhh....?
How
was gold turned to bronze?
We
was the wisest and the richest, now we turn to snitches
Women
turn to bitches, in the time of harvest
We
was the smartest, worshipped Wisdom like the Goddess
Now
we act retarded, forsook the Wisdom of the Fathers
We
use to have a thousand flagons of wine
In
Palestine there would drink Ballentine
And
raise up in the violent mind
We
used to have a hundred measures of oil, Eighty measures of wheat and barley,
we
lived
Godly
Listening
to Bob Marley, before the devils robbed me
Chasin
us through the African safaris
From
Then Till Now
What
goes up must come down
What
goes down comes back around again
Where
it all began, began, began, began
From
Then Till Now, From Then Till Now, From Then Till Now
(repeat
2X)
Singin
holy anthems, lampin with all
my
handsome grandsons, hair long as Sampson
Inside
my gold mansion, they used to wear purple Pampers
But
now we Black Panthers, some are actors and dancers
It's
funny how the dollar bill have my seeds holler for meals
Mother
swallow a pill, roads seem hollow but still
grab
a bottle to heal, it's like a noose
of
seventh seal over Brownsville
What's
the difference between the ghetto and death row?
I'm
trapped up with cleptos, the tec blow
I'm
left in seft low, where the cries echo
and
echo and echo and echo and echo
From
the Crystal City, near Getti
Children
used to grow on lillies, now they roll up Phillies
But
the pyramids of Cheops, is my weed spot
Sometimes
I eavesdrop in the books of Enoch
We
went from studying epistles of Paul
beneath
a waterfall, rubbin crystal balls
But
now we spray paint initials on the wall
On
the wall... spray paint initials on the wall
From
Then Till Now
What
goes up must come down
What
goes down comes back around again
Where
it all began, began, began, began
From
Then Till Now, From Then Till Now, From Then Till Now
(repeat
3X)