Key: Bb minor
Intro 1
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I'm rated
Verse 1
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"R"...this is a warn ing,
ya better void
Poets are paranoid, DJ's destroyed
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'Cause I came back to
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attack others in spite
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Strike like lightnin',
it's quite frightenin'
But don't be afraid in the dark, in a park
Not a scream or a cry, or a bark,
more like a spark
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Tremble like a alcoholic,
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muscles tighten up
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What's that, lighten up,
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you see a sight but
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Suddenly you feel like
you're in a horror flick
You grab your heart then wish
for tomorrow quick
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Music's the clue,
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when I come your warned
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Apocolypse Now,
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when I'm done, ya gone
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Haven't you ever heard
of a MC- murderer?
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This is the death
penalty,and I'm servin' a
Death wish, so come on, step to this
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Hysterical idea for a lyrical
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professionist
Friday the thirteenth,
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walking down Elm Street
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You come in my realm ya get beat
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This is off limits,
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so your visions are blurry
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All ya see is the meters at a volume
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Pumping lyrics of fury
Interlude 1
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Terror
Verse 2
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in the styles, never error- files
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Indeed I'm known- your exiled!
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For those that oppose to
be level or next to this
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I ain't a devil and this
ain't the exorcist
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Worse than a nightmare,
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you don't have to sleep a wink
The pain's a migraine every time
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ya think
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Flashbacks interfere, ya start to hear
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The R- A- K- I- M in your ear
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Then the beat is hysterical
That makes Eric go get a ax
and chops the wack
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Soon the lyrical format is superior
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Faces of death remain
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MC'sdecaying,
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'cause they never stayed
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The scene of a crime every
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night at the show
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The fiend of a rhyme on the
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mic that you know
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It's only one capable,
breaks- the unbreakable
Melodies- unmakable, pattern-
unecscapable
A horn if want the style I posses
I bless the child, the earth,
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the gods and bomb the rest
For those that envy a MC it can be
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Hazardous to your health so be friendly
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A matter of life and death,
just like a etch- a- sketch
Shake 'till your clear,
make it disappear, make the next
After the ceremony,
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let the rhyme rest in peace
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If not, my soul'll release
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The scene is recreated, reincarnated,
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updated, I'm glad you made it
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'Cause you're about to see
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a disasterous sight
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A performance never again performed on
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Outro 1
Lyrics of fury
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