Alone at last, we can sit and fight And I've lost all faith in this blurring light But stay right here, we can change our plight We're storming through this, despite what's right One final fight, for this tonight Whoa, with knives and pens we made our plight Lay your heart down, the end's in sight Conscience begs for you to do what's right Everyday it's still the same dull knife Stab it through and justify your pride One final fight, for this tonight Whoa, with knives and pens we made our plight Whoa and I can't go on without your love You lost, you never held on We tried our best Turn out the light Turn out the light One final fight, for this tonight Whoa, with knives and pens we made our plight Whoa and I can't go on without your love You lost, you never held on We tried our best Turn out the light Turn out the light

When I was little, my father was famous He was the greatest Samurai in the empire And he was the Shogun's decapitator He cut off the heads of a hundred and thirty-one lords It was a bad time for the empire The Shogun just stayed inside his castle and he never came out People said his brain was infected by devils My father would come home, he would forget about the killings He wasn't scared of the Shogun, but the Shogun was scared of him Maybe that was the problem Then, one night, the Shogun sent his Ninja spies to our house They were supposed to kill my father, but they didn't That was the night everything changed See, sometimes You gotta flash 'em back See niggas don't know where this shit started Y'all know where it came from I'm sayin' we gonna take y'all back to the source The knowledge, yo When the MCs came to live out their name And to perform Some had to snort cocaine to act insane But before Pete Rocked it on Now on with the mental plane to spark the brain With the building to be born Yo RZA, flip the track with the what to cut Fake niggas get flipped In mic fights, I swing swords and cut clown Shit is too swift to bite, you record and write it down I flow like the blood on a murder scene, like a syringe On some wild out shit to insert a fiend But it was your op, the shop stolen art Catch a swollen heart from not rollin' smart I put mad pressure on phony wack rhymes that get hurt Shit's played like zodiac signs on sweatshirts That's minimum, and feminine like sandals My minimum table stacks a verse on a gamble Energy is felt once the cards are dealt With the impact of roundhouse kicks from black belts That attack, the mic-phones like cyclones or typhoon I represent from midnight to high noon I don't waste ink, nigga I think I drop megaton bombs more faster than you blink 'Cause rhyme thoughts travel at a tremendous speed Clouds of smoke, of natural blends of weed Only under one circumstance is if I'm blunted Turn that shit up, my clan in the front want it Now when the MCs came to live out the name And to perform Some had to snort cocaine to act insane Before Pete Rocked it on Now on with the mental plane just to spark the brain With the building to be born Yo, the RZA flip the track with the what to cut I'm on a mission that niggas say is Impossible But when I swing my swords, they all choppable I be the body dropper, the heartbeat stopper Child educator, plus head amputator 'Cause niggas styles are old like Mark 5 sneakers Lyrics are weak like clock radio speakers Don't even stop in my station and attack While your plan failed, get derailed, like Amtrak What the fuck for? Down by law, I make law I be justice, I sentence that ass two to four 'Round the clock, that state pen time check it With the pens I be stickin' but you can't state the crime Came through with the Wu, slid off on the DL I'm low-key like seashells, I rock these bells (when the MCs) Now come aboard, it's Medina bound Enter the chamber, and it's a whole different sound It's a wide entrance, small exit like a funnel So deep, it's picked up on radios in tunnels Niggas are fascinated how the shit begin Get vaccinated, my logo is branded in your skin When the MCs came to live out the name And to perform Some had to snort cocaine to act insane Before Pete Rocked it on Now on with the mental plane just to spark the brain With the building to be born Yo RZA flip the track with the what to cut

Overseas while you're back west Sleeping off the restlessness Everything will be fine Just gotta keep my mind on your bed and your bed on my mind I'm so sore from sleeping on the floor I never see your face anymore (Maybe I'll come back around) I'm so sore from sleeping on the floor I want what we had before (You made me come back) Stifled there but you still walk in place I'm distant now they say I'm rude of late I pass up sleep as my mind debates The message I put forth Just admit if you're not sure All they'll know is second best But it still brings the restlessness Don't think that it's fine I lie because this distance is poison It fucks with my mind I'm so sore Can you give me some more space to grow what was sewn before I'm so sore Stomach's on the floor I swear I always wake up before Can't help but dwell on what you're doing I'm much too slow for the pace that you're moving A piece of us will stay unmoving But how's it ever going to feel the same again? Stifled there but you still walk in place I'm distant now they say I'm rude of late I pass up sleep as my mind debates The message I put forth Just admit if you're not sure Stifled there but you still walk in place I'm distant now they say I'm rude of late I pass up sleep as my mind debates The message I put forth Just admit if you're not sure

Say what you need to say for the last time State all the premises figuring you'll be just fine So I'll get mine you get yours And if we're both happy it's settled forevermore Holding the impression of a man when I was still a boy Said no regrets but it's hard not to feel any remorse I'm still debating whether I have even found the source Of all my discomfort and blunt discourse But I know what I want and don't need what I get I invest my ideas but get swallowed in debt And the only release is to yell and to sweat Until my clothes are soaking wet Stay under my skin Tear me limb from limb Plague me to an end I can't believe I always thought I would be there for you For now I'll learn and settle for less Shut my eyes and get some rest Feel the pulse beneath this sunken chest And maybe one day I can be there for you Isn't it true that if it hadn't been for me you'd still have no place safe to fall And all this time I thought I knew when I had no idea at all All is fair in love and war You have your gifts some say they're poor But I don't care about any of that anymore Let us depart and return when we have grown some more I wish I could say that I've seen this before The depth of the bottom the taste of the floor It leaves me restless and tired and sore But you won't break my mind just yet I battle this alone I don't want to push you I just want to grieve I don't want to push you I just want to leave

Give up and go home alone, and suffer some more This head of stone lets no one in anymore 'Cause my effort is never enough I'll start unpacking all of my stuff 'Cause I've come to know my place So let's wreck everything I've built except the base You have no idea how unproductive it is To fall in and out of you as often as I do And lately, I've been feeling grey, but today I'm alright No thanks to you Think I'll go and roam outside your boundary Walk on the ridge far away from the city Friends of friends prove untrustworthy Be gone, just like you were at the last party No SOS until the bottles are empty Now my hunger isn't wasted anymore 'Cause I'm younger, but I'm tired and I'm sore Now my hunger (I know where you've been) Isn't wasted anymore (you're ruining men, never again will I let someone in) 'Cause I'm younger (I know where you've been) But I'm tired and I'm sore (you're ruining men, never again will I let someone in) You have no idea how unproductive it is To fall in and out of you as often as I do And lately, I've been feeling grey, but today I'm alright No thanks to you You have no idea how unproductive it is To fall in and out of you as often as I do And lately, I've been feeling grey, but today I'm alright No thanks to you

Led you so far down I could tell you'd never been Told me that time's near And how it will change everything? I'm not so open like the window you are The glass just reflects the scar Told me that you had to leave But how the fuck does that change anything? Your glare is the faintest no brightness to show I made the best of what I thought was impossible You were the spade I used to dig this hole Blistered my skin to the bone Swear all the pain's done No trace or tremor here Or am I still numb? Have I been this whole year? So let me bite down Feel the clench in my teeth 'Til I come around Then relapse and repeat Then relapse and repeat Your glare is the faintest no brightness to show I made the best of what I thought was impossible You were the spade I used to dig this hole Blistered my skin to the bone Now you're gone Now you're gone Now you're gone Now you're gone Now you're