Layered Prayers

[Canibus:]

Yea, ayo Mother Earth absorbs the blood I bleed

Hip-Hop is my blood - I believe

That I am not free, and neither are you

The only time I feel free is when I'm rhyming in the booth

The Lion on the loose is not a reckless recluse

But really a dictator with his neck in a noose

For war crimes; Hardcore rhymes from a warped mind

That enjoyed the dark matter in the void before time

The innocent murmured, murmured because they worshipped him

They let the serpent in but it never occurred to them

They deity regards emcees like me

Piously, check the degree, see if it's me

On planet Earth I design mankind's rebirth

A marvel of water and rock salt from a verse

The Moon, the Sun and the Stars

I am who you are, together, we all form God

I laugh at the creation of it, the explanation of it

Not the original but man's imitation of it

They took Hip-Hop and changed the subject

Then I brought Hip-Hop back and made you love it

Through deterrence, detention and prevention

Never write the wrong sentence

If I ever said it I meant it

The insatiable, inescapable regiment

What's the weight? Add four more plates, I bench it

Skinny-ass nigga, grab your neck with a pen-grip

Bend it through telepathic suggestion

I rap so serious, the vocal myriad

Occurred intermittently over protracted periods

Rap 'til you get delirious, wack niggaz get furious

Keep dissin' me, your girl's gettin' curious

Darth Vader on the cross-fader releasin' the raw data

This is called hard jaw-breaker labour

When I see you I'ma battle you, then tackle you

Then grapple you, then probably snap you in two

Yo, ain't that the truth?, outside the booth

Air combat maneuvers without no computer

Space wings that cause pings MOTHAFUCKA!!!

We gon' dogfight above cloud cover

High in the friendly skies, where unfriendlies

Where frendlies and unfrendlies die

You and I race to the Sun, I just got back

The race is done, ages have ended and ages have begun

Cognisance saturation, I am the one

Tell me where chain-gun Germaine came from?

Dara-I-Suf, the river of caves

My ribcage look like miniature shim blades

When I bathe in the waters below

Still waters run deep, King Cthulhu told me so

Magna-dome under Yellowstone inside the bowels of the Earth

I'ma show you the power of the verse

'Cause man cannot establish dominance over man

Indefinitely; man only respects God's energy

Telluric energy, drawn from the bowels of the Earth

I'ma show you the power of the verse

Telluric energy, drawn from the bowels of the Earth

I'ma show you the power of the verse