The Internationale

You have to learn how to See for yourself, Hear for yourself And think for yourself And then judge for yourself. Dear Mister Cadillac, From all of us party people in the place. You bout' to witness something from the get down, That you never seen before. We bout' to reveal, And drop a jewel. And show why the DJ is king Not no damn tool. Now, lets rock yall, To the beat, yall. Lets rock, yall To the beat, the beat. Lets tell em through our oral history, Passed down from Mozambique, yall. Now, lets rock yall, To the beat, yall. Lets rock, yall To the beat, the beat. Lets tell em through our oral history, About masters of ceremony Standin' on the street corner talkin jive, Around a burnin trash can just slappin five. Everything we would say would end with a rhyme, So we memorized em and said em ten at a time. Then we noticed, People started callin us poets. Three Kings threw parties everybody was goin'. Here's a story a fantasy about a fly homeboy who came to me Once upon a time light came from dark. On the ocean the man came on his ark, he wasn't Noah, This before BC time, He was the first MC, And he came to rhyme. He had a staff in his hand no magic wand, He said his ancestors had passed it on. You gotta use this tool, To teach the fools. There's 26 letters in the alphabet for you, Got adjectives nouns verbs. Bam spoke, we heard To build an army. Knowledge is the word. But there's people on welfare Home from Nam. Junkies everywhere with holes in their arms. Prostitution on a big time high and its crazy. Young teenage girl, She threw away her baby. Everybodys unemployed, Vacant buildings. Slumlords don't care They making millions so its up to us to be the host with the most. Politicians acting like its all our fault, So I speak at 100, 000 volts. Tell the news to the world the Bronx is no joke, Puttin' art on the subway trains so names can be seen through Brooklyn Bronx and Harlem and Queens. Hey! Hey! Hey yo Dizzee, Why don't you tell Cadillac How you get up? If hardship got you down, Get up! That job you wanted shot you down, Get up! Labeled you a problem child, Get up! Tag your name, Get up! Bomb walls, Get up! I'm a frustrated artist, blow me, Get up! Michelangelo ain't got shit on me, Get up! In the house Butch, Kase and Dondi, Get up! Blade, Lee, Chain 3 and comet, Get up! Phase 2, Get up! Hey you, Get up! Everything that we dreamed came true, Get up! Mitch and Noc 167, Get up! Iz the wiz and it just gets better, Get up! Lady Pink, Get up! Stay High, Get up! Team and Tracy and 168, Get up! The mayor considers me nobody, Ed Koch'll know my name when the train rolls by him. I see you B-boys and B-girls, In the cipher. Its time to burn our adversary, And let em know. Our Dj Shaolin cuts as sharp as a knife If you dare challenge him, he will chop off your life. Ayo mamas boy, You think a band can do this shit? Check out the melting pot of musical madness cut up by your brother. DJ Shaolin fantastic, Protege of Grandmaster. Hey yo, tell your fat mother that Shaolin's the DJ that we call conductor Cause Shaolin Fantastic's A bad mother-

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There's a high wind blowin, & the stars are shining bright, Oh what a night, this is gonna be-- I think I'll let the world sleep without me. I got one eye open, one eye closed. & My thin body's trembling beneath the bedclothes, My hearts beatin' against the roof of my mouth --It's almost time to get out of this house. I got one hand on the radio, one hand on the wheel, I got my right foot on the floorboard,-- & I'm preparing to kill or be killed. There's a high wind blowin', & the stars are shining bright. & The rain upon the tarmac, --helps me sail through the traffic lights, I'm heading down to the dock of the bay, --to feel the power of the waves, I'm gonna move up close to that wind, & Wrestle with the thoughts solitude always brings. Y'see I'm stuck between hell & the deep blue sea, & I know that water's sucked under better man than me, I was just another western guy, --with desires that couldn't be satisfied, So one day, I asked the angels for inspiration, --but the devil bought me a drink, & He's been buying them ever since, He's had the liquor on my tongue --feel like the sea upon the sand, He's had me signing confessions --from this shaking hand, He's had me struggling to hang onto hope-- Like a drunken sailor in a tugboat With a bottle of vodka in my overcoat, & My dog eared bible lost--overboard Y'see he tricked me into temptation, So I've tricked him into this confrontation, I never said I was the man I appeared to be Not the flesh wrapped around the bones of necessity. Or the soul on fire--scribbling thoughts for posterity. I'm gonna have little lucifer, runnin' off to purgatory, --with his tail between his legs, I'm gonna teach him a lesson --he ain't ever gonna forget. All the vultures & crows are fixin up some tombstones But they won't be chewing the meat off my bones. There's a high wind blowin' & the stars are shining bright. Me & him are gonna have a little knife fight, --in the bowels of the big city skyline, Oh this feelin' inside runs dark & deep --Tonight my hearts not thumping --A Mercy Beat I was just another western guy, With desires that couldn't be--satisfied.