Artist: Run The Jewels f/ Tunde Adebimpe (TV on the Radio) Album: Run The Jewels 3 Song: Thieves! (Screamed the Ghost) Typed by: kirenamloh@msn.com, Cedmaster3K {*sirens blare*} [Intro: sample of Rod Serling from "The Twilight Zone"] "You walk into this room at your own risk, because it leads to the future, not a future that will be but one that might be. This is not a new world, it is simply an extension of what began in the old one." [Killer Mike] (Conversing with a ghost {*echoes*}) He just leavin and he screamin Jesus (He had the highest hopes {*echoes*}) People yellin, screamin at police's (Riots tonight {*echoes*}) Burnin, lootin, shootin, takin, thievin! (Fire and light {*echoes*}) Fill the air and most don't know the reason (Never knew his name {*echoes*}) But they know his problems and feel his pain! (Shit's still the same {*echoes*}) We just prey off in they deadly game (It'll never change {*echoes*}) Too much profit in it and it stay the same (The facts still remain {*echoes*}) You can burn the system and start a-gain! [El-P] (Spoke with a ghost) Late night, same night, God, let me sleep please, I'm beggin' You" (Said "Don't be afraid") Daylight might never break right again once they get at you (Said "You'll never be alone again") This house is haunted by pain transposed into revenue (The murdered all stay) That thing when your mind says "run" but your heart isn't lettin' you (Said "We got an army now") You strike 'em down, they still live inside hearts, hearts carry them (The weapon is our memory) Some get to count sheep, some gotta count kids that they buryin' (I don't wanna scare nobody) Fear's been law for so long that rage feels like therapy (But I'm gonna make 'em remember me) Nobody gets no more sleep 'til we teach them rememberin' [Chorus: Tunde Adibempe] ...Thieves! ...Thieves! [El-P] Coming live at five, we got new news breaking You heard here first if you don't die waitin Had to review the scene I seen I'ma try to convey but it defies explaining Started with folks just crying Nothing but broken heart sobs and shriek of the sirens Right at the spot when the blood's still drying then {MY GOD} I saw it the dead began rising I don't know much about science but I seen an army of armed men stop and get quiet Mist hung low like a prayer from a tyrant Sky became black like the stars aren't aligning So many years of this violence Now we're surrounded by the souls of the dead and defiant Saying, "Look what you've done, you designed it" When the bow breaks, hear the wraith scream {RIOT} [Killer Mike] No more moms and dads cryin' No more arms in the air We put firearms in the air Molotov cocktails thrown in the air CNN got dummy Don on the air Talkin' 'bout he smell that ganj' in the air Dummy don't know and dummy don't care Get that punk motherfucker outta here Ay, ghosts are walkin', ghosts are talkin' Everything gon' be different, mane Shh, karma's comin', ain't no runnin' Death gon' deal with the guilty, mane The universe curses the killers, mane Can't keep killin' God's children, mane A pound of flesh is what you owe Your debt is due, give up your ghost [Chorus] [Tunde Adibempe] (...Thieves!) What have you done? What have you done? What have you done? What are you making us do? (...Thieves!) It's on you It's on you (...Thieves!) It's on you, it's on you, it's on you (...Thieves!) [Outro: Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.] + (Tunde Adibempe) "I think America must see riots do not develop out of thin air. Certain conditions continue to exist in our society which must be condemned as vigorously as we condemn riots. But in the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard." (...Thieves!)