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[ti:Gol'Dust]
[ar:Common Market]
[al:Tobacco Road]
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[00:00.000]Gol'dust - Common Market
[00:11.881]Y'all know the prophecy it's biblical; “from hill to hill”
[00:14.881]In between Beacon and Capitol I travel at will
[00:17.681]Atop the mount of Crown send down the edict for the Sea to achieve peace
[00:21.551]The townspeople read it and weep
[00:23.741]We meet in the streets a foray of glory and hype
[00:26.361]Recitin' stories and arias of warrior types
[00:29.731]An army of light – recreate the Normandy site
[00:32.531]Deploy you appreciate the enormity right
[00:35.721]This battle hymn of the republic will knock for all my soldiers
[00:38.901]The block that's where we focus and plot to overthrow this
[00:41.831]Echelon send a message to stop takin' our vote
[00:45.081]This has got to be a joke 'cause it's not what we were told
[00:48.821]Is in the promissory note of the draft the forefathers had crafted
[00:51.501]Your fathers aint mine boy – I'm a bastard
[00:54.561]I grasp a four-fifth in my palm I got the right to bear arms
[00:57.741]Y'all keep pushin' me back I'm 'bout to blast it
[01:01.121]The creed is captured in the prose my flow's ominous
[01:03.741]And obviously the reason we rose to prominence
[01:05.611]We're documenting history here the end's near
[01:09.041]The pen bomb and grenade; the promenade of sincere
[01:11.351]My folks rush to grab it and mash at full thrust
[01:14.841]The first to have status and pull and hold a flush
[01:17.841]For control they go nuts yo – we're rollin' back to Cali
[01:21.901]Revivin' the rush for the gold dust
[01:23.831]Yo we crush the precious metal to dust for distribution
[01:26.581]All you gotta do is breathe to receive the restitution
[01:29.261]Under pressure we become both gems and grown men
[01:32.821]It's a jungle sometimes – wonder why I was thrown in
[01:35.691]When my instincts seem to do more harm than good
[01:38.931]It's difficult to defend against steel armed with wood
[01:41.741]Maybe I was never meant to be a champion
[01:44.111]I'm standin' downstream pannin' for ambition to hand in
[01:47.421]Necessity was the mother of the invention of my character
[01:51.221]The neighborhood good Samaritan holdin' a Derringer
[01:54.101]And darin' you to thwart my path or try stoppin'
[01:57.401]The establishment of armistice this is the dichotomy
[01:59.831]I gotta see the reconciliation take place
[02:02.891]My offering for the intercession is burnt sage and a Smith & Wesson
[02:06.571]I'm guessin' God really needs neither
[02:08.941]But I must if I'm entrusted as my brother's keeper
[02:12.191]The challenge is discerning fam from adversaries
[02:14.751]They move in similar fashion – a real man carries a
[02:18.121]Heavier load; shoulders and back bowed
[02:20.431]The observation is in the simple conversation you hold
[02:23.611]Now look me in the eye and tell me I'm not worthy of favor
[02:27.541]The crop would never pay you if not for all our labor
[02:30.161]We're the spine twisted to sign dots along the waiver
[02:33.181]It's hot where you gon' stay I pray God will be your savior
[02:37.761]When the fires of propitiation reach the plantation
[02:39.381]Thirty lashes in the dirty ashes layin' the abatement
[02:41.881]I'm afraid of laughing 'cause shortly after I'll be facin' the wrath
[02:46.001]I ask for mercy though I'm purposely impassioned
[02:48.001]And I'm certain the infraction's a forgivable offense
[02:50.431]When the true lord of this land would never quibble over rent
[02:53.781]Wealth proffiteth no man in his last days
[02:56.281]These flames will show you what you're made of dust
[02:59.151]Yo the dust I was born from is this type this insight is
[03:03.211]Helping me to get right and I need assistance at times
[03:06.491]Be the admission disguised behind a pseudonym
[03:09.361]I hope to find truth in him before these guys do him in
[03:12.411]And what's a legacy worth next to mined metal yo
[03:14.971]Measure me first – depression it's better we work
[03:17.911]For change not for pennies if anything the commodity traded is us
[03:20.961]For flakes of gold dust