Leaving The Past

They told me I would never make it, I would never achieve it

Reality is nourishment, but people don't believe it

I guess it's hard to stomach the truth like a bulimic

It's a dirty game and nobody is willin' to clean it

But this is for the paraplegic people dreamin' of runnin'

Ladies married to men who don't please 'em, dreamin' of comin'

Verbally murderous like David Berkowitz when I'm gunnin'

Some cowards on the Internet didn't think I would sell

Scared to talk **** in person 'cause they stuck in a shell

And couldn't understand the pain of bein' stuck in a cell

Hell is not a place you go if you're not a Christian

It's the failure of your life's greatest ambition

It's a bad decision to blindly follow any religion

I don't see the difference in between the wrong and the wrong

Soldiers emptyin' the clips at little kids and they moms

Are just like a desperate ************ strapped to a bomb

Humanity's gone, smoked up in a gravity bong

By a Democrat-Republican Cheech and Chong

Immortal Technique, you never heard me preach in a song

I'm not controversial, I'm just speakin' the facts

Put your hands in the air like you got the heat to your back

And shake your body like a baby born addicted to crack

And since life's a gamble like the craps tables at Vegas

I freestyle my destiny, it's not written in pages

I hate it when they tell us how far we came to be

As if our people's history started with slavery

Painfully I discovered the **** they kept us secret

This is the exodus, like the black Jews out of Egypt

I keep it reality based with the music I make

Blow up the truth in your face with the style I run with

Like the Navy missile that shot down Flight 800

I'm like the Africans who came here before Colombus

And from the 1500s until after the morrow

I watched Latin America get raped in the sorrow

You see, the Spaniards never left despues de Colon

And if you don't believe me, you can click on Univision

I never seen so much racism in all of my life

Every program and newscaster, all of them white

It's like apartheid with 10 percent rulin' the rest

That type of stress will make me put the ******' tool to your chest

Step in my way, *****, I wouldn't wanna be ya

I burn slow like pissin' drunk with gonorrhea

I'll do a free show in North Korea, burnin' the flag

While J. Edgar Hoover politicians dress up in drag

Try to confuse you, makin' it hard to follow this:

Capitalism and democracy are not synonymous

You swallow propaganda like a birth control pill

Sellin' your soul to the eye on the back of the dollar bill

But that will never be me 'cause I'm leavin' the past

Like an abused wife with the kids, leavin' your ass

Like a drug addict clean and sober, leavin' the stash

Unbreakable Technique, leavin' the plane crash

I'm out with the black box and I refuse to return

I spit reality instead of what you usually learn

And I refuse to be concerned with condescendin' advice

'Cause I'm the only ************ that could change my life

Some people think I won't make it, but I know that I will

Escape the emptiness 'cause that **** is slow and it kills

The flow and the skill, I made y'all believe that it last

You can make the future, but it starts with leavin' the past