Cross My Heart

Intro: child and killah priest

[child] one two, one two

[killah priest] no doubt

[child] the microphones on...

[killah priest] cross my heart, hope to die

[child] I've been waiting along time for this

[killah priest] here we go killah priest, '97, '98....

[killah priest]

It's the byzantine king, supreme, all kneel kiss the ring

Into a ilohean, I blow steam from the families of the mackabees

Smack emcees watch them scream your majesty, make them suffer

The capacity of tragedy, hold the crowd down like gravity

Back the fuck off, stop grabbing me, hands off me, niggas start to bore me

I'm getting sleepy, I need some coffee, me and my wu-bandits

We carry niggas deep in the canvas, body bandage, like some mummies

You fucking dummies, you can't take nothing from me

It's the longest waited, the most anticipated, the album hesitated

Scream the name out killah priest, I leave the blood spilling in the street

I'm from the dark hills of brownsville, the seven shields on windmills

Across the killing fields, never forget it, tell them rap critics

I speak in arithmics, so they can never get it, I'm too scientific

Lyrics explicit, I roll with thirsty niggas, theifs and killers

Tigers, gorillas, faces like godzilla

We stomp rappers and smile like a calm-della, we got iller

Cross my heart both hope to die, we multiply, by the hundred

Fuckin by the thousand, see me outside your show browsin

Beatin up your soundman

Playa haters and players, we give um' cold stares

Any last prayers...

[inspectah deck]

Yo, yo, concrete techniques, bomb beats and cause casualities

My facalty, hold it down like gravity, rapidly

Sweatin' like weapons to adolescence, ghetto residence

Quick to pass since your present, state of the slum

Kill 4 play the drums

Face 1, their course was now, the snake tounge, I'm deep into this

I sometimes gasp for air, deadly warfare

Hot block cop and gold stares, shots clear

Like fireworks on july the 4th, weapons get torn, fugitive slidin off

My force is combined, new world, 2009

Digital, criminals, we make mills in cyber-crime

It's all planned ahead, 2 times

I see the chimes through a great mind

The heaviest chain could not bind

(chorus, killah priest)

We stare you eye to eye

We tell the truth no lie

We cross our heart and hope to die.. hope to die..

[genius/gza]

High ranked officials and armed tanks with missles, blood drizzle

Simple fact, you slept on the issue, that before you started jerkin

Joysticks and segas, I was rockin' off 100 watt amps in cerwin-vega

To fine tune it, ship enough units

Emcees ask, who be those rhyme killers in mask

No doubt, difficult task, the last in the square, beware

Infinite amount of darts is in the air, I'm victorious

With no opponents, I blast through components, with microphonics

Watch the whole world live the moment, anything in time

Became approaching this, are incompable of speech, remains motionless

(chorus 2x)

Hope to die..