Manifest - General Woods

'Cause I remember It was four hundred years or more Since you came to crucify And they were taken far away from home There were promises of paradise But if they had been told that day That they would be sold this way To satisfy the souls of chosen men See I had to look carefully At the shame of my ancestry To redefine the story line again Hey, if I was taken for a day and shown another way Now every child can learn a different thing See I tried a million times but I had to change my mind Oh, sadness was the best thing I can bring On the inside he was dead and this is what he said As he took away the bloom above the clouds Oh, superiority was clearly meant to be So destiny will manifest in time So where has love all gone? A troubled trail of tears will tell the take Of how I was put down where I don't belong Woman, child and man for sale For ethical slavery is just an absurdity How can you be alive when you are dead? With these chains of hypocrisy, the shame of my ancestry Forever stained by blood in which you tread Hey, if I was taken for a day and shown another way Oh, now every child can learn a different thing See I tried a million times but I had to change my mind Oh, sadness was the best thing I can bring On the inside he was dead, oh, and this is what he said As he took away the bloom above the clouds Oh, superiority was clearly meant to be So destiny will manifest in time So where has the love all gone So wanna know where, wanna know where Wanna know where, wanna know where Somebody tell me where the love has all gone

I woke up this morning I was feeling kind of high It was me, Jesus Christ and Haile Selassie Selassie said greetings in the name of the most high, Jah Rhastafari, Christ, took a sip of the Amaretto, Passed it down the table said today I'll be betrayed by one you 12 disciples Give me a clue who could do this to you? The kid on the block who makes less money than you. Crooked cops pulled up, they offered him 20 pieces of silver All he got to do is deliver the savior Right on Bergen St. from bad luck to good luck My cup runneth over, pass it down, guzzle up The time has arrived, the prophecy will manifest I saw death, I got scared, butterflies on my chest Father if possible, pass this cup before me, But it's too late I chose my destiny in Gethsemane. You see I loved hard once, but the love wasn't returned I found out the man I'd die for, he wasn't even concerned And time it turned, He tried to burn me like a perm Though my eyes saw the deception, My heart wouldn't let me learn From um, some, dumb woman, was I, And everytime he'd lie, he would cry and inside I'd die. My heart must have died a thousand deaths Compared myself to Toni Braxton thought I'd never catch my breath Nothing left, he stole the heart beating from my chest I tried to call the cops, that type of thief you can't arrest Pain suppressed, will lead to cardiac arrest Diamonds deserve diamonds, but he convinced me I was worth less When my peoples would protest, I told them mind their business, cause my s*** was complex More than just the sex I was blessed, but couldn't feel it like when I was caressed I'd spend nights clutching my breasts overwhelmed by God's test I was God's best contemplating death with a Gillette But no man is ever worth the paradise MANIFEST Gun-clap Shell cap, Got them crawling on they back Come through with the Fu They be who the F**k is that It's unpredictable, when my tongue performs like Jujitsu Cut you with my lyrics, stab you with my pencil Lethal injection, witness protection Refugee camp's under investigation Gunshot bursts in all directions For the wack MC's we read your revelations Discharge through your pores Get raw and kill Boors I can Capleton when I'm on a Tour Some manifest, with slugs in they chest God bless all the Cowboys in the Wild Wild West