[00:33.244]Yo it's a chronic intoxication[00:35.860]The rhythms of the mind[00:37.158]Got your heartbeat racin'[00:38.401]Yo it's a chronic intoxication[00:40.876]Free yourself of limits[00:42.294]Never stop to place 'em[00:43.684]Yo it's a chronic intoxication[00:46.075]The music of the mind[00:47.309]Got your heartbeat racin'[00:48.765]Said it's a chronic intoxication[00:51.265]Free yourself of limits[00:52.646]So you'll never stop[00:53.817]This reminds me of old times[00:55.225]The mind is a terrible thing[00:56.804]I never thought that I would rise to be a lyrical king[00:59.267]But yo to everyone's surprise I'm alive and kickin'[01:01.793]Got a voyeuristic mind I gotta watch what I'm thinkin'[01:04.584]My reflections are etеrnal[01:05.950]Talib told me once in a song[01:07.821]Might as well havе been a gift from the gods[01:09.702]There's certain lessons that I'm takin to the grave[01:11.840]Yo, enough of it all, give me the ball[01:13.689]Let me take it to the paint[01:15.010]I don't feel any pain[01:16.091]I won't suffer defeat[01:17.399]The word is on the street[01:18.705]That you worried 'bout Nieve[01:20.001]The world is at his feet[01:21.341]That one-two that you had to run through[01:23.648]Put you in a coma[01:24.634]You can't come-to[01:25.703]Look at what you done to me[01:27.478]Turned me from an everyday beauty[01:28.727]To a modern day beast[01:30.226]Yo they called it a disease[01:31.512]I say it's from the earth[01:32.897]So I breathe, let me be[01:34.155]Yo, you know what it be[01:35.438]Yo it's a chronic intoxication[01:37.654]The rhythms of the mind[01:38.789]Got your heartbeat racin'[01:39.971]Yo it's a chronic intoxication[01:42.380]Free yourself of limits[01:43.650]Never stop to place 'em[01:45.074]Yo it's a chronic intoxication[01:47.728]The music of the mind[01:48.973]Got your heartbeat racin'[01:50.194]Said it's a chronic intoxication[01:52.793]Free yourself of limits[01:53.948]So you'll never stop[01:55.331]I'm livin' quicker than the grace note[01:57.024]Race through the wrinkles in time[01:58.390]My blurry vision keeps me blind from a beautiful mind[02:00.921]I can't capture any words along my way throughout this chapter[02:03.394]So trapped behind the back page[02:05.127]Cascades of past ways and young thoughts[02:07.926]We used to have those big smiles, we were still so many miles from a broken heart[02:11.729]But nowadays, we never think about the change[02:13.876]We only know who we've became[02:15.293]Really ain't the same[02:16.556]I remember all those red brick buildings on the corner[02:19.097]Used to stop the traffic while we held the microphone up[02:21.600]Although it was a phony, our cuffed hands and our tight fists[02:25.011]Made believe that a microphone exists[02:26.689]We would spit until the daylight drop[02:28.480]Philosophize about our day[02:30.166]Contemplated on the way to the park[02:31.622]The way to the dark was easy homie sit and relax[02:34.192]To find the light though is really the task puff and pass[02:36.885]Yo it's a chronic intoxication[02:38.942]The rhythms of the mind[02:40.183]Got your heartbeat racin'[02:41.683]Yo it's a chronic intoxication[02:44.158]Free yourself of limits[02:45.491]Never stop to place 'em[02:46.780]Yo it's a chronic intoxication[02:49.255]The music of the mind[02:50.449]Got your heartbeat racin'[02:51.813]Said it's a chronic intoxication[02:54.526]Free yourself of limits[02:55.630]So you'll never stop[02:56.926]I need a little bit more[02:58.273]Won't get rid of it all[02:59.434]I need some so I can fly[03:00.632]Get so high I can soar[03:01.933]I do it while I record[03:03.180]To make magic out of nothing at all[03:05.021]Eight matches until one of 'em fall[03:07.132]I shake the ashes from my cigarette off[03:08.860]What's inside, it ain't a secret[03:10.485]Come and take a look, you get excited when you see it[03:12.960]Yo I write it like I mean it 'cause I live what I say[03:15.319]One hit will get you lifted away[03:17.320]Let's take a different way[03:18.630]From what the others in the world might choose[03:20.486]If we follow all the moves then we all might lose[03:23.015]I'll explore a different path in my all white shoes[03:25.571]And leave tracks for some all right moves[03:27.703]I put myself out on all my tunes[03:29.481]And you can feel me if you listen[03:31.316]Flippin' up my style like I'm changin' my position[03:33.419]I'll continue on my mission till the list complete[03:36.061]Burn the bitterness of life through my swisher sweet