From Then Till Now

[Intro: fan (Killah Priest] Peace Killah Priest (peace, wassup man?) Chilling baby (I'm with you) Yo, I wanna know what's going on Ever since that Basic Instruction Before Leaving Earth I wanna know what you gonna do for us right now It's been a while baby, we waiting I've just been chilling, been chilling (I been in the lab writing and stuff y'know? I just been on my, y'know, know what I'm saying on some) [Verse 1: Killah Priest] Guns, shootouts and crack sales Black males who pack jails, trapped in Hell No peace, cold streets, surrounded by police This whole week, buildings with no heats No lights and gas pipes with slow leaks Dog fights and lowlife throw dice The whole night thieves creeping in the midnight evenings We saw through the misty regions Go to your house, take a vial for the demons Moonlit, the lunar eclipse Prophets stand in the midst of the seven candlesticks I can't take it, beauty that was once sacred Is now getting facelifts, fake tits And fake lips, cold embraces Memory erases, from the slave ships My princess, I used to spot her from a distance Holding my infant, burning incense The moment intent for her to step into my white tents Now we step in precincts for your ebony prince The smell of frankincense, once treated like a Pharaoh With royal apparel, anointed with myrrh and aloe We used to wallow amongst the mallows We had herd sheep and cattle, now we battle Used to pass over brooks of Kidron Towers of Lebanon, the pool of Gershom We used to sing songs upon Mount Hebron How is gold turned to bronze and shhh How is gold turned to bronze We was the wisest and the richest, now we turned to snitches Women turn to bitches, in the time of harvest We was the smartest, worshipped Wisdom like the Goddess Now we act retarded, forsook the Wisdom of the Fathers We used to have a thousand flagons of wine In Palestine, now we drink Ballentine And raise up in the violent mind We used to have a hundred measures of oil Eighty measures of wheat and barley, we live Godly Listening to Bob Marley, before the devils robbed me Chasing us through the African safaris [Chorus: Killah Priest] From Then Till Now What goes up must come down What goes down comes back around again Where it all began, began, began, began From Then Till Now, From Then Till Now, From Then Till Now (repeat 2X) [Verse 2: Killah Priest] Singing holy anthems, lamping with all my handsome grandsons Hair long as Samson, inside my gold mansion They used to wear purple Pampers But now we Black Panthers, some are actors and dancers It's funny how the dollar bill have my seeds holla for meals Mother swallowing pill Roads seem hollow but still, grab a bottle to heal It's like a noose of seventh seal over Brownsville What's the difference between the ghetto and death row? I'm trapped up with kleptos, the Tec blows I'm left to say a flow, where the cries echo And echo and echo and echo and echoes From the Crystal City, near Getti Children used to grow on lilies, now they roll up Phillies But the Pyramids of Cheops is my weed spot Sometimes I eavesdrop in the books of Enoch We went from studying epistles of Paul Beneath a waterfall, rubbing crystal balls But now we spray paint initials on the wall On the wall, spray paint initials on the wall [Chorus: Killah Priest] From Then Till Now What goes up must come down What goes down comes back around again Where it all began, began, began, began From Then Till Now, From Then Till Now, From Then Till Now (repeat 3X)