Liquid Swords [Intro One: not included on 7″ single] When I was little… my father was famous. He was the greatest sam-urai 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. {*woman screams*} That was the night everything changed {*voice fades*} [Intro Two: RZA] See, sometimes… You gotta flash em back See niggaz 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 Do the knowledge… yo! [Chorus: RZA, GZA] When the MC’s came, to live our their name And to perform (forrrrm) Some had, to snort cocaine (caiiinnne) to act insane (sannne) with before Pete Rock-ed it on, now gone that the mental plane (plaaanne) to spark the brain (brainnn) with the building to be born Yo RZA flip the track with the what to gut Check em check chicka icka etta UHH [Verse One: GZA] Fake niggaz 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 …
Video Rating: 4 / 5
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