Artist: Run the Jewels f/ Diane Coffee
Album:  RTJ2
Song:   Crown
Typed by: kirenamloh@msn.com, Run the Jewels

[Killer Mike]
Down with the shame, down with the shame  
Used to walk traps in the rain with cocaine
Used to write raps in the traps as I sat in the rain
and I prayed that God give me a lane
Give me a lane, give me the fame
Give me the fame and I promise to change
won't be the same, won't be the same kinda mayne
that puts cocaine in this lady's hay-nd
Heard she was pregnant, I'm guilty I reckon
cause I hear that good shit can hurt baby's brains
Heard he was normal til three and then he stopped talkin
Since then ain't nothin been the same
Seen her some years later out in Decatur
Told her that I'm sorry for causin her pain
"Causin me pain? Causin me pain?"
She asked again and then grabbed my right hand
Asked am I crazy, said, "Look here baby
 I release you from all of your sins and your shame
 Cause I've been redeemed, I found in Christ
 Whatever it take I hope you find it, Mike"  
The look on her face shown that glory replaced
All the shame and the hate and that she wears a crown
My late grandma bettie had prayed with her heavy
and told her to tell me lay my burdens down

[Chorus]
Can't pick up no crown, holding what's holding you down
Can't pick up no crown, holding what's holding you down
Can't pick up no crown, can't pick up no crown

[El-P] (Killer Mike)
(Down with the shame, down with the shame)  
Carried the flag in some other men's name
Loaded my weapon and swore to them vengeance
And stepped with aggression right in to the fray  
Into the haze, into the murk
Told me to prove to them what I was worth
We'll teach you to move without mercy and give you the tools
to go after the causers of hurt
You'll become DEATH, you will take BREATH
This is for everything you've ever loved
Use all the pain that you've felt in your life
as the currency, go out and trade it for blood
You are not you, you are now us
We are the only ones that you can trust
You'll become fear, they'll become dust
Before this moment, you didn't mean much
You are the smoldering vessel of punishment
born to do nothing but justify us  
Give us your empathy, we'll give you lust
Let yourself go my son time to grow up
Give up your childish obsession with questioning
Anything we don't tell you is irrelevant  
Everything you've ever been is replaced by the metal
and fire of the weapon you clutch

[Chorus]