Post Mortem

Lyrics

[Mr. Lif and Vast Aire speaking indistinctly] [Spoken: Vast Aire] Vision is blurred, yo [Verse 1: Mr. Lif] This is the last chapter, bombs hit who? Crushed what? Over there? Oh, my God, oh, dear I was, hmm, I think I was, huh, going somewhere About to pay my fare, bright glare, not quite clear Stare blind into the light of possibilities Think I heard the screams of those in my proximity Or had I started thinking wishfully? Guided by fear I'm semi-aware, please, is anybody out there? [Verse 2: El-P] It was a gentle fission kiss on my block And hot light like a baby breathing sigh in her terrain And now my name is merely last second of brain exist Before the final flash Where emotion and pretty details of the life I had passed Now my warm night in Brooklyn is ash Falling from the snot of loosies that I choked on Around the corner from class Before the moments when the moon can move fast Another summer slowly growing with the friendships That would end with a blast Or how the hours could so blissfully lag She slid her tongue between my lips and I gasped Told my dawgs and they laughed Now we're combining our cash at last A pack of smokes and a flask I hope there's liquor with a gas by the mask [Verse 3: Jean Grae] Convert to atheism, denounce god, pronounce religion dead Faith in nothing, trace my wrists with razors I refuse to wait for the blaze to erase my spirit Death, faced with it, run to it, not from it Swallow all the pills in the medicine cabinet Chase it with a bottle of one-fifty-one, hug mommy Head outside to smash windows and trash my hotel lobby Rape a cripple if the time allows I find a kid to hem up, I wish I'd done more sinnin' Get a strap-on, run up in some women Lay in the middle of a highway, wait for pain to hit me Steal all I can with people lootin', screamin', "Come and get me" Find the nearest pawn shop, biggest gun, crowded street Blow my brains to hell and gone and let the devil come for me [Verse 4: Akrobatik] What's the chances I'd be one of the last ones left alive to see this? The Earthcrusher came before I could even conceive a fetus But I did go from nothing to misunderstood elitist Who tried to tell his people to rise instead of actin' like defeatists But what good is that? 'Cause now we all goin' to hell Like some kid playin' in his class, out talkin' before the bell I died believing in righteousness, but I could have indulged more 'Cause giving in to temptation don't seem that raw no more I heard some airline offered flights into space I shoulda took it to see earth before they mashed up the place I thought I'd be alone when they finally came to get me But nobody gotta miss me, 'cause they all comin' with me [Verse 5: Mr. Lif] Our horizon was accessorizing, need bred more need Best believe it's the equation of greed I need a new car and thus new brakes, another tune-up with lube Whatever's put together shall be unscrewed In times of famine, we made more food, food made more people It's all explained within the cycle of evil Would I trade it all? Cruisin' down the highway on a bright summer day Gazing out a plane to see the earth from miles away Watchin' the Patriots win the Super Bowl Grabbing that fumble from Ricky Proehl Or my stereo, providing me with rhythm and soul, I don't know All I know is I feel guilt for every single thing I've ever bought and sold I shoulda been in more demonstrations Planted bombs in corporations Murdered CEO's and cancelled TV shows Burned billboards and torn posters, I coulda read more Finally, I'll get to meet this god they left us dead for And it's ill, it's power to the form of a bill For which people killed, lied, manipulated free will Conscience will be their crucifix, the chopping block for poppycock And I can feel our spirits drop upon these streets I oddly walk Enough talk, here's my last chance to cherish a thought My flesh is fully melted and my stomach's in a knot So to my love, I hated to leave you alone, pardon my zone Passion took me places and my life was a poem Baby, I was on my way home, about to catch a flight Our meeting has dissolved in radiation and light Love you gave me made me shine You're gorgeous with a powerful mind You lifted my spirits and strengthened my spine I'm at peace with my life, 'cause knowin' you was divine You made me see eternal beauty in a world that was dyin' Now we're all ground by the grind, out of luck and out of line Out of signs, and now we're out of time