Mystery of Iniquity (Live) - Lauryn Hill.mp3

[00:00.890]It's the mystery of iniquity...
[00:05.225]Said it's the misery of Inequity...
[00:10.662]Said it's the history of Inequity...
[00:16.178]When it all...
[00:18.722]All falls down...
[00:21.919]Telling you all...
[00:24.114]It all falls down
[00:27.621]
[00:29.333]Children...
[00:31.706]Eat your bread
[00:32.997]Little children...
[00:36.620]Eat your bread
[00:38.700]Cause it all...
[00:40.281]All falls down...
[00:43.641]Telling you all...
[00:45.549]It all falls down
[00:48.434]
[00:48.645]Yo!
[00:49.713]Y'all can't handle the truth in a courtroom of lies
[00:51.962]Perjures the jurors, witness despised
[00:54.955]Crooked lawyers, false indictments publicized
[00:57.502]Its entertainment...the arraignments
[00:59.383]The subpoenas
[01:00.147]High profile gladiators in bloodthirsty arenas
[01:02.550]Enter the Dragon
[01:03.413]Black-robe crooked-balance
[01:04.916]Souls bought and sold and paroled for thirty talents
[01:07.311]Court reporter catch the circus on the paper
[01:09.875]File it in the system not acknowledged by the Maker
[01:12.659]Swearing by the bible blatantly blasphemous
[01:14.946]Publicly perpetrating that "In God We Trust"
[01:17.545]Cross-examined by a master manipulator
[01:20.098]The faster intimidator
[01:21.582]Receiving the judge's favor
[01:23.001]Deceiving sabers doing injury to their neighbors
[01:25.490]For status, gratis, apparatus and legal waivers
[01:28.114]See the bailiff
[01:29.237]Representing security
[01:30.424]Holding the word of God soliciting perjury
[01:32.704]The prosecution
[01:33.712]Political prostitution
[01:35.461]The more money you pay, the further away solution
[01:37.883]Legal actors
[01:38.973]Babylon's benefactors
[01:40.359]Masquerading as the agency for the clients
[01:42.825]Hypocritical giants
[01:44.195]Morally non-compliant
[01:45.461]Orally armed to do bodily harm
[01:47.671]Polluted, recruited and suited judicial charm
[01:50.452]And the defense isn't making any sense
[01:52.863]Faking the confidence of escaping the consequence
[01:55.376]That a defendant is depending on the system
[01:58.197]Totally void of judgment purposely made to twist em'
[02:00.868]Emotional victim blackmailed by the henchmen
[02:03.606]Framed by intentions
[02:04.891]Inventions whereby they lynch men
[02:06.540]Enter the false witness slandering the accused
[02:09.307]Planting the seed openly showing he's being used
[02:11.711]To discredit, edit, headed for the alleged
[02:14.621]Smearing the individual fearing the unsuspected
[02:17.226]Expert witness (the paid authority)
[02:19.493]Made a priority to deceive the majority
[02:22.427]Of disinterested peers
[02:23.690]Dodging duty for years
[02:25.012]Hating the process
[02:25.821]Waiting to be returning to their careers
[02:27.830]Do we expect the system made for the elect
[02:29.994]To possibly judge correct?
[02:31.370]Properly serve and protect?
[02:32.689]Materially corrupt
[02:33.947]Spiritually amuck
[02:35.229]Oblivious to the cause
[02:36.171]Prosperously bankrupt
[02:37.736]Blind leading the blind
[02:38.862]Guilty never defined
[02:40.199]Filthy as swine
[02:41.084]A generation purin it's own mind
[02:43.509]Legal extortion
[02:44.702]Blown out of proportion
[02:46.405]In vein deceit
[02:47.573]The truth is obsolete
[02:48.826]Only two positions: victimizer or victim
[02:51.669]Both end up in destruction trusting this crooked system
[02:54.556]Mafia with diplomas keeping us in a coma
[02:56.716]Trying to own a piece of the "American Corona"
[02:59.644]The Revolving Door
[03:00.694]Insanity every floor
[03:02.033]Skyscraping, paper chasing
[03:03.551]What are we working for?
[03:05.043]Empty traditions
[03:06.095]Reaching social positions
[03:07.520]Teaching ambition to support the family superstition?
[03:11.218]When the Son of Perdition is Commander in Chief
[03:14.048]The standard is Thief
[03:15.000]Brethren can we candidly speak?
[03:16.820]Woe to the men
[03:17.744]Trusted in the chariots dem'
[03:19.365]Leaning on horses
[03:20.522]They run their intellectual sources
[03:22.040]Counterfeit wisdom creating the illusion of freedom
[03:24.760]Confusion consumes them
[03:25.901]Every word they speak it turns them outwardly white
[03:28.512]Internally they absent of light
[03:29.899]Trapped in the night and bonded to the Cain of the night
[03:32.525]Under the curse
[03:33.418]Evil men waxing more worse
[03:35.524]Faxing the first
[03:36.300]Angelic being cast to the earth
[03:38.085]It's time for rebirth
[03:39.706]Burnin up the branch and the root
[03:41.107]The empty pursuits of every tree bearing the wrong fruit
[03:43.896]Turn and be healed
[03:44.896]Let him who stole, no longer steal
[03:46.812]Oh it's real
[03:47.727]Surrender for Jehovah is real
[03:49.329]How long will you sleep
[03:50.406]Troubled by the thoughts that YOU keep
[03:52.257]The idols YOU heap
[03:53.260]Causing the destruction you reap
[03:54.893]Judgment has come
[03:56.067]Find it and return to the One
[03:57.443]Abandon the flesh
[03:58.619]Self-interest: Broadway to death
[04:00.453]Pride and the Greed
[04:01.468]Hide and subdividing the seed
[04:02.768]The knowledge of Good and Evil is what caused us to lie
[04:06.057]Caused us to die
[04:06.771]Let your emotions be crucified
[04:08.721]Renounce all your thoughts
[04:09.787]Repent and let your mind be re-taught
[04:11.502]You'll find what you sought...was based on the deception you bought
[04:14.455]A perception of naught
[04:15.509]Where the majority remains caught
[04:17.036]Loving a lie
[04:17.953]Not realizing in Adam, all die
[04:19.960]Loving a lie
[04:20.914]Not realizing in Adam, all die
[04:22.518]Loving a lie
[04:23.652]Not realizing in Adam, all die
[04:25.758]Loving a lie
[04:26.945]Not realizing in Adam, all die
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[04:29.517]It's the mystery of iniquity...
[04:34.285]Said it's the history of Inequity...
[04:39.750]Said it's the misery of Inequity...
[04:45.285]When it all...
[04:47.103]All falls down...
[04:50.415]I'm telling you all...
[04:52.454]It all falls down