GENIUS / GZA - B.i.b.l.e lyrics

BASIC INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE LEAVING EARTH (2x)(CHORUS 2x)

the basic instructions before leaving earth

life is a test may we quest the universeand through my research, i felt the joy and the hurt

the first shall be last and the last shall be first

knowledge is wisdom, this goes back when i was twelve

i love doing right but i was trapped in hellhad bad ideas, sad eyes and tears

years of fear, but yo my foes couldn't beari searched for the truces in youth

and with the church's birthbut it wasn's worth the loot, that i was paying

plus the prayingi didn't like stayingcause of bizzie-bodiesand dizzy-oddies

that the preach-ass souped up the lies

had couped up lookin at loot, butt, and thighs

durin the service, he swallowed up the poor

and after they heard this, they wallowed on the floor

buti ignored, and explored my history that was untold

and watched mysteries unfoldand dropped the jewel like soloman

but never followed mencause if you do your brain is more hollow then

space oblivia, or the abysswith no trace of trivia, left with a hiss

doesn't pay to be deaf dumb or blindfrom a slave he was kept from the mind

and from a cave he crept from behinda what he gave was a sack of the swine

when the bible, that condemned the pig

i don't mean to pull your hems or flip your wigsbut we used to wear turbins

but now were in the urbanno more wearing beniesor dress like the genie

no hokus pokus cause i focus on the facts

and put it on the track or put it through the wax

i speak on jacob it might take up some time

and too much knowledge it might break up the ryhme

i did it anyway just to wake up the mind

of those who kiss stones or prays on the carpet

those who sit at home, or sell books by the market

need to chill and get their mind revived

for years religion did nothing but dividechorus

i strolled through the books of joah the unfold

and opened bibles instead of hoping on revivals

calling on his name and screaming alleuiawhen he hardly knew yathat's how the devil fooled yasee look into my eyes breverand

that's the lies of a reverandwhy should you die to go to heaven

the earth is already in spacethe bible i embracea difficult task i had to take

i studied till my eyes were swollenand only arose when

i found out that we were the choseni deal with the truthand build what they use

and take my son as he kneels on the stoolson, life is a pool of sin

corrupted wth foolish menand women with wicked mindwho build picket signs

who legalize abortionthe evil eye extortion

i quiz some with my wisdom, before i convertedi was perverted

and knowledge was assertedthe study of wisdom, i perferred it

to understand it it gave me mental freedom

i even look caucasion, but really the tropoedom

the white image, of christ, is really ceaser or yea, and ah

the second son of pope alexanderthe six of rome, and once the picture was shown

thats how the devils tricked my domei prophesized to save a manbut no one gave a damnfrom my nation, the seed of abraham

blessed with the tongue of hebrewnow we're strung on needles

and some are pleasure evilsto study and be wise in these days of darkness

peace to my nephew marcuschorus