Key: A minor
Verse 1
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Forbidden knowledge
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can destroy mankind
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Verse 2
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I spend large hours of my days alone
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I don't believe we share this universal
space alone
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I think we got a lot from
them, they gave us phones
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Internet an d now we all know what
is forbidden knowledge
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Forbidden knowledge is too great for
a man
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Think if man could read your mind, you
think that man understands
How to use it with integrity,
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not conquering land
Would it be good if we increased the
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lifespan, well that's forbidden knowledge
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Forbidden knowledge
can destroy mankind
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We can grow out of con trol like
cancer under the skin of Mother Nature
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Busy cities much alike to a tumor
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Too many cells, the residents,
the body's pollutor
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I say woosah and alley- oop the chubby
doobie to Judah
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Child of Jacob, I know my history,
I know we are moors
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There's a universe in her afro,
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hold us back though
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Power in the black folk,
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well that's forbidden knowledge
At first they want to keep us
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separate but equal
But it's not so we fight against
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the hatred and evil
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Now they let us think we got it
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and they killin' our people
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Why does history repeat like a sequel? Well
that's forbidden knowledge
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Is God a man watching
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TV like people?
Rewinding his favorite parts to
play it back like it's TiVo
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Have I wrote this shit be
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fore? It all feels like a redo
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Deja vu is left to die like our dreams do, but that's
forbidden knowledge
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I had some shocking memories as
a kid
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Waking up onto a table,
a lab, some typa bizz
Too vivid to be a nightmare, mom would
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tell me that shit
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Can't remember anything that they
did, guess that's forbidden knowledge
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Forbidden knowledge
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Verse 3
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Are
dreams another kind of preview to Heaven?
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We manifest our reality based on our
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personality
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Karma from shit we did since
the day we were seven
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You share toys? Or did you
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masturbate at eleven
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Just a 90s baby, a millennial kid
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Indigos are on the rise
to make perennial shift
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Hope this music stands long
as Redwood Sequoias
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Pyr amids and stones,
like stones from Stonehenge
Come on, let the future
tell the truth
Cause you a shell of you
You played your cards
wrong, now you got hell in you
Be glad I still retain respect
for you
Cause I got bullets that'll kill yah if your vest is
hell and heaven- proof
I'll never understand your corporate
greed
Just a group of people, all they
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want is more than they need
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Signing off on papers, blinded
to the pain overseas
Blood resulting from the ink that they bleed,
that's forbidden knowledge
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Verse 4
Forbidden knowledge
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So who put the liquor store on the street
across from the gun shop?
The park a hop skip in the dark
'way from the gunshots
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That rang out in the neigh borhood where
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the youth's misunderstood
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Fighting over concrete squares
but the laws just ain't no good
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I think their agenda's meant to kill us
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all
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How good is education
long as you can ball?
Standin' on the couch inside the
club and hit the mall
Barely feed a bum,
but you buy it all
Think they laughin' at us, cause
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while we're watchin' some cable
They was talkin' 'bout the economy,
sharecroppers and stables
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How to keep the horse runnin'
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his course, give him some blinders
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So he lack remorse for
whoever's right beside him
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His own kind,
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I pray you dig deeper
If you don't find,
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what you're lookin' for on the surface
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The knowledge that you need can't be
Nextel chirpin'
You're every bit of worth
it, not worthless
You're kings and queens,
were meant for better things
Than flexin' on the scene,
or burstin' out the seams
Of your blouse you told yourself you'd never wear
outside your mama's house
Cause the energy it lends puts strong women down,
down
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Brother, look, you don't need to go
to jail to read you a book
I wonder what Malcolm found after
goin' to Mecca
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Or the mindstate of Martin after vis
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itin' Selma
The leaders that were slain
for speakin' the topic
On the schemers and the reapers of
forbidden knowledge
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