* this song originally appeared on GZA/Genius' "Liquid Swords"
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The Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth (3X)
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Chorus: repeat 2X
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Life is a test many quest the universe
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And through my research, I felt the joy and the hurt
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The first shall be last and the last shall be first
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The basic instructions before leaving earth
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Verse One:
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Knowledge this wisdom, this goes back when I was twelve
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I loved doing right but I was trapped in hell
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Had mad ideas, sad eyes and tears
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Years of fears, but yo my foes couldn't bear
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I searched for the truth since my youth
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And went to church since birth, but it wasn't worth the loot
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that I was paying, plus the praying
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I didn't like staying cuz of busy-bodies and dizzy hotties
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That the preacher had souped up with lies
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Had me cooped up lookin at loot, butt, and thighs
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Durin the service, he swallowed up the poor
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And after they heard this, they wallowed on the floor
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But I ignored, and explored my history that was untold
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And watched mysteries unfold
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And dropped a jewel like Solomon, but never followed men
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cause if you do your brain is more hollow than
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Space oblivia, or the abyss
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With no trace of trivia, left with the hiss
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Does it pay to be deaf, dumb and blind?
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From a slave we was kept from the mind
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And from the caves he crept from behind
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And what he gave, was the sect of the swine
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When the bible, it condemned the pig
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I don't mean to pull your hems or flip your wigs
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But we used to wear a turban, but now we're in the urban
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No more wearing beanies and dress like a genie
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No hocus pocus cause I focus on the facts
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And put it on the tracks and brought it through the wax
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I speak on Jacob, it might take up some time
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And too much knowledge, it might break up the rhyme
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I did it anyway just to wake up the mind
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of those who kiss stones or prays on the carpet
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Those who sit home, or sell books by the market
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Need to chill and get their mind revived
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For years religion did nothing but divide
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The basic instructions before leaving earth
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Chorus
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Verse Two:
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I strolled through the books of Job to unfold
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And open bibles, instead of hoping on revivals
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Calling on His name and screaming hallelujah
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when he hardly knew ya, that's how the devil's fooled ya
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See look into my eyes brethren, that's the lies of a Reverand
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Why should you die to go to heaven?
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The Earth is already in space, the bible I embrace
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A difficult task I had to take
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I studied till my eyes was swollen, and only arose when
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I found out that we were the chosen
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I deal with the truth, and build with the youth
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And teach my son as he kneels on the stoop
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Son, life is a pool of sin, corrupted with foolish men
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and women with wicked minds, who build picket signs
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to legalize abortion, the evil eye distortion
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I quiz Son with my wisdom
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Before I converted, I was perverted, and knowledge was asserted
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The study of wisdom, I perferred it
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The understanding, it gave me mental freedom
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I even learnt Caucasians were really the Tribe of Edam
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The white image, of Christ, is really Cesare Borgia
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and uhh, the second son of Pope Alexander
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The Sixth of Rome, and once the picture was shown
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That's how the devils tricked my dome
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I prophesized to save a man, but no one gave a damn
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for my nation - the seed of Abraham
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Blessed with the tongue of Hebrew
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Now we're strung on needles, and some are plungin evils
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So study and be wise in these days of darkness
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Peace to my nephew Marcus
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The basic instructions before leaving earth
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Chorus: repeat to fade
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B.I.B.L.E. (Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth)
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