Wipe it up Wipe it away Wipe it down Hate abounds When you look around The birds flew the coop As the darkness drew The race we're in Is about to get its due I'm just sitting In this shell of mine Look through holes Wondering what's on the inside A mental vacancy Too much complacency And laughing at the past Ain't the cure for me Trying to get some want Some peace Looking for balance A little harmony So ante up my friend We've been dealt a hand It's the time we paid the price For the wages of sin Tsk, tsk, the wages of sin The wages of sin my friend Tsk, tsk, the wages of sin The wages of sin Tsk, tsk, the wages of sin The wages of sin my friend Tsk, tsk, the wages of sin The wages of sin (Wages of sin, wages of sin) Wipe it up Wipe it away Wipe it down Nothing's found Till the truth is found Looking for paths Beyond this lunacy I burned my hand While touching history Never can agree Always disagree Our heads are full of waste A mental eulogy So now we paid the price From our father's dice Wouldn't do the things they did But now I wear their vice You gotta reel it in 'Cause the hook is in Clearing out the space Where the mind has been Roaming through the zone Sometimes all alone When my skully gets full Then my dome gets blown Tsk, tsk, the wages of sin The wages of sin my friend Tsk, tsk, the wages of sin The wages of sin Tsk, tsk, the wages of sin The wages of sin my friend Tsk, tsk, the wages of sin The wages of sin Don't be surprised By the cries The look of angry eyes No matter how white A lie is still a lie Hereditary, sorta scary But something I was born with Being raised south of the Mason-Dixon line Is sometimes hard to admit 'Cause I'm into hip hop When DJ Scott LaRock died I cried an eyeful But the long and the short Is my skin is white So my people say I ain't right Now I turn to the brothers Who said I'm the other man Stuck in the middle again A middle cla** WASP into hip hop The unforgivable sin Tsk, tsk, the wages of sin The wages of sin my friend Tsk, tsk, the wages of sin The wages of sin Tsk, tsk, the wages of sin The wages of sin my friend Tsk, tsk, the wages of sin The wages of sin (Tsk, tsk, tsk) Let your mind rewind back the time Hit the bu*ton erace (Wages of sin, wages of sin) Tsk, tsk, the wages of sin The wages of sin my friend Tsk, tsk, the wages of sin The wages of sin Tsk, tsk, the wages of sin The wages of sin my friend Tsk, tsk, the wages of sin The wages of sin