Album: Evil Empire (1996)
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  • Lick off the shot my stories shock ya like Ellison
    Main line adrenaline Gaza to Tienanmen
    From the basement I'm dwellin' in
    I cock back tha sling to stone a settler
    And breaks him off clean, call me the upsetter
    Here comes the hands on the leashes
    The cross, the capital, the pale families, the fear and the mouthpieces
    The single sista lynch
    The cell doors crash
    And the master's drums echo, echo, echo, echo, echo, echo
    Roll right! Roll call!
    But now we're alright, we're all calm!
    Roll right! Roll call!
    And now we're alright, we're all calm!

    This hits like fists bomb with the left and don't miss
    With the sickest stilo I spark fear like pigs in the park
    Head crack, I hijack the papers
    The vapors caught fire up in your mind
    Come back rewind one time
    Here comes the hands on the leashes
    The cross, the capital, the pale families, the fear and the mouthpieces
    The single sista lynch
    The cell doors crash
    And the master's drums echo, echo, echo, echo, echo, echo
    Roll right! Roll call!
    But now we're alright, we're all calm!
    Roll right! Roll call!

    We gotta take 'em to tha seventh level
    We gotta take 'em to tha seventh level
    For their lives and my lives were never settled
    Come on, don't freeze when zero hour comes
    Come on, come on, don't freeze when zero hour comes
    Come on

    Send 'em to tha seventh level!
    Send 'em to tha seventh level!
    Send 'em to tha seventh level!
    Send 'em to tha seventh level!
    For their lives and my lives were never settled Writer/s: COMMERFORD, DE LA ROCHA, MORELLO, WILK
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Wixen Music Publishing
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  • Simon from London, England'Lick off the shot my stories shock ya like
    Ellison' Reference to Ralph Ellison who wrote the 'Invisible Man' in 1953 - a novel which addresses many of the social and intellectual issues facing the post-civil-war American Black identity.
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