B.I.B.L.E. (Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth) chords by The Genius, GZA
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Basic Instruction
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Before Leaving Earth
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Life is a test,
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many quests to universe
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And through my research
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I felt the joy and the hurt
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The first should be last
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and the last should be first
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Basic Instruction
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Before Leaving Earth
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Life is a test,
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many quests to universe
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And through my research
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I felt the joy and the hurt
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The first should be last
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and the last should be first
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The basic instructions
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before I even ac
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knowledged his wisdom
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This goes back when I was twelve
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I loved doing right
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but I was trapped in hell
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Had mad ideas, sad eyes and tears
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Years of fears but yo when
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foes couldn't bear
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I searched for the truth since my youth
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And went to church since birth
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But it wasn't worth the loot
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that I was paying
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Plus the praying, I didn't like staying
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Cause of busy bodies and dizzy hotties
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That the preacher
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had souped up the lies
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Had me cooped up looking at Luke
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Bucking thighs
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Jew in the service,
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he swallowed up the poor
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And after they heard this,
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they wallowed on the floor
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But I ignored, and explored
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my history that was untold
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And watched mysteries unfold
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And dropped a jewel like Solomon,
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but never followed men
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Cause if you do, your brain is more hollow
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than Space Oblivion, or the Abyss
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Where no trace of trivia,
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left with the hiss
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Does it pay to be deaf, dumb, blind?
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From a slave, he was kept from the mind
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And from the caves,
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he crept from behind
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And what he gave was a
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sect of the swine
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When the Bible, they condemned the pig
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I don't mean to pull your hymns
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or flip your wigs
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But we used to wear turban,
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but now we in the urban
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No more wearing beanies
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or dressed like a genie
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No hope is broken
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cause I focus on the facts
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And put it on the tracks
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and pour it through the wax
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I speak on Jacob,
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it might take up some time
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And too much knowledge,
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it might break up the rhyme
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I did it anyway just to wake up the mind
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Of those who kissed stones
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of praise on the carpet
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Those who sit home
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and sell books by the market
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Need to chill and get they mind revived
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For years, religion did nothing but divide
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The basic instructions
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before leaving earth
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Life is a test, maybe quest to universe
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And through my research
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I felt the joy and I heard
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The first shall be last
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and the last shall be first
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The basic instructions
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before leaving earth
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Life is a test, maybe quest to universe
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And through my research
I felt the joy and I heard
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The first shall be last
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and the last shall be first
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The basic instructions before leaving earth
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I stroll through the books of Job to unfold
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And open bibles instead of
hoping on revivals
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Calling on his name
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and screaming hallelujah
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When he hallelujah,
that's how the devil fooled ya
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See, look into my eyes, brethren
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That's the lies of a reverend
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Why should you die to go to heaven?
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The earth is already a space
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The Bible I embrace
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A difficult task I had to take
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I studied till my eyes were swollen
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And only a rose went
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I found out that we were the chosen
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I deal with the truth
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and build with the youth
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And teach my son
as he kneels on the stool
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Son, life is a pool of sin
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Corrupted with foolish men
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And women with wicked minds
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Who build picket signs
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The legalize abortion
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The evil eye extortion
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I quit, son, with my wisdom
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Before I converted, I was perverted
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And knowledge was asserted
The study of wisdom, I perverted
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The understanding,
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it gave me mental freedom
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I even learned Caucasian
But really, the tribe of Edom
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The white image of Christ
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It's really Caesar, or yeah, Ander
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The second son of Pope Alexander,
the sixth of Rome
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And once the picture was shown
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That's how the devils tricked my dome
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I prophesied to save a man
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But no one gave a damn
From my nation, the seed of Abraham
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Blessed with the tongue of Hebrew
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Now we strung on needles
And some are plunging evils
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So study and be wise
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In these days of darkness
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Peace to my nephew Marcus
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The base of destruction
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The first shall be last
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and the last shall be first
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The basic instructions be
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fore leaving earth
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Life is a test, may be quest to universe
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And through my research
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I thought that you had a herd
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The first shall be last
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and the last shall be first
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The basic instructions
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before leaving earth
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Life is a test,
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may be quest to universe
And through my research
I thought that you had a herd
B.I.B.L.E. (Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth)
The Genius, GZA
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