Canibus - Layered Prayers lyrics

[Canibus:] Yea, ayo Mother Earth absorbs the blood I bleed Hip-Hop is my blood - I believe That I am not free, and neither are you The only time I feel free is when I'm rhyming in the booth The Lion on the loose is not a reckless recluse But really a dictator with his neck in a noose For war crimes; Hardcore rhymes from a warped mind That enjoyed the dark matter in the void before time The innocent murmured, murmured because they worshipped him They let the serpent in but it never occurred to them They deity regards emcees like me Piously, check the degree, see if it's me On planet Earth I design mankind's rebirth A marvel of water and rock salt from a verse The Moon, the Sun and the Stars I am who you are, together, we all form God I laugh at the creation of it, the explanation of it Not the original but man's imitation of it They took Hip-Hop and changed the subject Then I brought Hip-Hop back and made you love it Through deterrence, detention and prevention Never write the wrong sentence If I ever said it I meant it The insatiable, inescapable regiment What's the weight? Add four more plates, I bench it Skinny-a** n***a, grab your neck with a pen-grip Bend it through telepathic suggestion I rap so serious, the vocal myriad Occurred intermittently over protracted periods Rap 'til you get delirious, wack n***az get furious Keep dissin' me, your girl's gettin' curious Darth Vader on the cross-fader releasin' the raw data This is called hard jaw-breaker labour When I see you I'ma battle you, then tackle you Then grapple you, then probably snap you in two Yo, ain't that the truth?, outside the booth Air combat maneuvers without no computer Space wings that cause pings MOTHAfu*kA!!! We gon' dogfight above cloud cover High in the friendly skies, where unfriendlies Where frendlies and unfrendlies die You and I race to the Sun, I just got back The race is done, ages have ended and ages have begun Cognisance saturation, I am the one Tell me where chain-gun Germaine came from? Dara-I-Suf, the river of caves My ribcage look like miniature shim blades When I bathe in the waters below Still waters run deep, King Cthulhu told me so Magna-dome under Yellowstone inside the bowels of the Earth I'ma show you the power of the verse 'Cause man cannot establish dominance over man Indefinitely; man only respects God's energy Telluric energy, drawn from the bowels of the Earth I'ma show you the power of the verse Telluric energy, drawn from the bowels of the Earth I'ma show you the power of the verse