at Stop readin only and start bein show me Like the resurrection I'll be back, they can't hold me [Chorus] [KRS-One] One thing's for sure and believe
I shall receive.. [KRS-One] Yeah yeah, word up, look, look! You know when the teacher returns, just get ready to learn Just get ready to earn, health, love awareness and
when they die, they have only woke up It's our wants and our needs that be chokin us up (And I want and I need and I want and I need..) Yo, there was
the proving ground In conscious rap, who rule the sound The question is are you down? [Chorus: w/ minor variations] [KRS-One] Look - KRS-One, I've learned
(feat. Professor Ecks) [KRS-One] Yeah, once again, word up urban inspirational KRS-One, Professor Ecks, whattup Dan? Woo Temple of Hip-Hop, let's do
of sin, in a holy war, how we gonna win? I think it's time for KRS-One again [Chorus x2] [KRS-One] The time is now, you gotta make your choice Which
of a lost daughter or son These cowards slaughter and run And to know that there's more than just one Makes you wanna store up your gun And withdraw all
way that you thought in your mind But in the end, everything came in time But before the time, you was losin your mind You was racin and rushin and fallin
gon' see right now (Now what?) Look [KRS-One] So you wanna be a conscious rapper Can you handle the press and they negative chatter Can you eat cold platters, and
(feat. G. Simone) Praise God. YES, I have danced with the devil - and I learned all the steps! You watched me God, and inside you wept. You reached
[KRS-One] Y'all don't know? Y'all don't know your body is a temple? A temple to the living God? Don't get gassed y'all All my sisters out there, here
Bronx! [KRS] Yo where my heart is at? [all] South South, Bronx! [KRS] C'mon let's bring it back [all] South South, Bronx! [KRS-One] Raw rhymes for raw
universe and God (whoa-ohh-ohh) God is the mother, the father, the friend Know ye not that ye must be born again? [KRS-One] Yeah.. yeah.. FRESH, for two-thousand and two my sisters and