Lyrics:
Strife To The Surface

in from the beginning. You couldn't handle what was created, and now you're stuck with no way out... Looking for something not there, expecting something else. To the surface

one more hapless sacrifice, spilt tears in full-flood. Ingenuous I've paid their price. Not all vampires suck blood! [Chorus:] Gazed into a crystal-ball and watched its surface

waits A demon seed man or beast a tragic fate A dark secret of one thousand years An experiment with life It revealed a deeper fear mans eternal strife

Yall know what my purpose is I spit verses that lift curses off my dead president worshipers Back where the surface is gangsters and murderers Making

right side The ripper, no one's hipper Honey getter Quick to put a [?] straight in yo shitter Rhyme bitter, like styled strife Layin' min [?] buffs in

mc's drivin on the right side The ripper, no one's hipper Honey getter Quick to put a [?] straight in yo shitter Rhyme bitter, like styled strife Layin

to become less callow Less shallow But I say: why invite stress in? Stop studying strife And learn to live "the unexamined life": Dancing through life Skimming the surface

by RAKIM Ya'll know what my purpose is I spit verses that lift curses off my dead president worshipers Back where the surface is gangsters and murderers

hide you are the one they truly despise born again into a life without conformity innocent lives brought into strife imbed impurity the planted seeds