[Intro: 60 Second Assa**in (RZA) {Hell Razah}] Here in the first chapter First, first, first, the last, the last, the last (And It Was Written) Here in the first chapter {of life, life, life} [Chorus 2.25X: Hell Razah] Life tell lies, d**h in our face Every other day we k**in off our own race Whether d**, guns, somethin common known This is the place that we all call home [60 Second Assa**in] Here in the first chapter, draws attention Begins all that we've forgotten, sense of smell, then parallel Wide scale, Putnam Avenue good stopper Puttin 'nam on the map A/K/A Putnam Avenue facts Rugged's incorporated, teflon penetrated College's still important, that leave ya blood on it Comin out of meditation, words become radiation Anticipatin any next motivation, fakin on the federation Yo, black, who that? Where he at? f** him, I guess I 'ttempt d**h, settin it off as a black on black Even SWAT-men don't swindle as ya fire get put out of his kindle As the day, break ten nights Even the knowledge better call on ya odds Scream from ya lungs, "Allah U Akbar!" Rap Tai Chi Master, chess player 'til I'm plasma Your thought get broke down ten years from now Doin a matter like I'm on after this has-been A rap industry master, 60 Second Assa**-sinner When it get down to it, iiiiit lay down more black men after Now who? What? Challenger, challenges universal balances of an*lysis Another level from bein talented Travel the world with a gift that shoots like silencers The fifty-two Glock, Riker's Islander [RZA (60 Second Assa**in)] Protons-Electrons (silence this) Always-Cause-Explosions [Prodigal Sunn] My occupation on the plantation, survival in the land of psychos Deluded with men, polluted within, engaged in sin Sparkin wars against the veteren, the righteous herbal medicine And antidotes from Bed-Stuy to Park Slow Strives, I spoke and wrote, made to condense into smoke Knowledge these author, holdin a black Oscar, inhalin ganja The here and after, shatterin bones, copin the matter The seventh chapter, a rapture begins, is a disaster Demolishin fake advocators, perpetrators n***a haters, hydro-chronic blowin out the generator There's no need so please son don't proceed To get yourself broke up, flamed like some trees [Hell Razah] I could trap all the people who dare try to release ya meat Or grievin in the force, I sieze Believin in, by the time, a mystery could fall out the skies Our necks'll be permanently paralyzed Foolish enough to camouflage lies And we dyin in Hell, I arrive half dead But now ressurected, my head connected To the correct, directions to Heaven My mind is projected for miles But they say our spirit is accepted, to dwell Inside reality, I take adavantage Destroy y'all, give brain damage Returnin heads into an abandoned, buildin Rich, the innocent, the infants The rent, come talk to homeless thoughts of an immigrant To all predators, competitors, united reptiles and etcetera I be the black threat to America Disconnectin the microchip in ya mind Then replace with dispent knowledge, I represent With intelligence for evidence, I let the skeleton out the closet The soul keeper, deeper than meditation, feel my concentration I demolish heads like the board of education [k**ah Priest] As it is written.. as it is written My New Year's resolution, I read the whole book of U. Edward B. Newton The only solution is a revolution, the black evolution Will happen, one-hundred-twenty-fifth in Manhatten Strappin, I stop the tappin bein caused by Timberland's I got the Devil tremblin and rememberin the time When you had a fiesta, all robbed dead ancestors I got a full clip for you Uncle Festers You best to prepare or beware, I'm out to hit up the Red Square Located where? In Russia, plus ya politicians And ya Christian society, they unwind me with hate Now I'm ya enemy because I tell you the truth Or is it because I got proof from wearin army suits? Christ is black and I got facts, readin revelations I got tons of information, that's why I pack more heat than insulation Twelve lost tribes of a nation just waitin for Satan To make his move, so I could show and prove So let me hear the war drums a little louder Let me hear a chord rush, ya holler No man knows the hour, nor the time But surely it's comin as it is written, as it is written As it is written, as it is written, as it is written.. [Hell Razah] No man knows the hour, nor the time No man knows the hour or the time No man knows the hour or the time We'll surely be comin, as it is written, as it is written As it is written