Victory! (Come Forward)
    (专辑: Shadows On The Sun - 2004)
    
    [CHORUS]  Victory  Ours are the 
cries that breathe life in the 
concrete  Victory  Ours are the 
tears that splash genius at God's feet  Victory  Ours are the 
prayers that weave poetry through drum beats  Victory   [VERSE 1: Brother Ali]  Step inside the 
mind of a 
soon-to-be legendary  Straight paramilitary  Brother Ali exist to read the 
scripture, it's never read  Whoever said this underground hip-hop shit is dead  Must have fallen on his head  Spent my lifetime buildin  Writin rhymes I 
remind rappers of everything that scared them as children  They call me show stopper  No opera singer has hit the 
exact pitch, I 
spit my flow out of  Taught directly by the 
source of all knowledge  You don't affect me till you're forced to draw powers  Respect me as a 
voice amongst scholars  Who speak deep to thee, move the 
sleep from your eye lids  Make your lungs flutter  Get it right, my inner light cast shadows on the 
sun, brother  I'm where the 
rubber meets the 
concrete  It's a 
cold world, not sayin bring your your own heat  I'm just sayin don't sleep  I'm walkin with the 
lion till the 
day that I 
die  And the 
pens have been lifted and the 
pages have dried  And a 
big smoke screen wrote my name in the 
sky  Politickin with the 
angels knowin they would reply  Got the 
lungs of a 
cyclone, tongue of a 
python  The 
reason why your favorite MC sleep with the 
lights on  Right on, brother, we def as fuck  Not 'deaf' like (What?) but 'def' like (WHAT!)  From the 
depths around the 
planet where my name's spoken  We here to get our brains open and our chains broken  Watch me walk around the 
planet with the 
same notion  His adversaries thought the 
pain broke him  But we run up in a 
stadium with diagnostics  Two tables and a 
mic and take a 
crowd hostage  And the 
very first item on my list of demands  Is that all these freedom fighters start liftin they hands   [CHORUS]  To my freedom fighters and the 
graffiti writers  And the 
people like us come forward  And to the 
torch carriers speakin Arabic  Ridin on your charriots come forward  To my political prisoners, individual listeners  Who feelin this come forward  And to the 
bone shakers and the 
home makers  Raisin our own saviors come forward   [VERSE 2: Brother Ali]  Me and my people are signed, sealed, delivered, incorporated  brought to your by Rhymesayers Entertainment  You got to face it, we not complacent  We came for your debasement and left your face bent  And me, mister Brother Ali is the 
stomp-down-beat-kicker  Who walkin the 
streets with the 
so real philosophy  Until I 
fulfill prophecy there's no real stoppin me  Obviously I'm the 
bomb, believe me  Opponents come up missin and they all beneath me  I 
know my soldiers need me, they call and beep me  I 
walk the 
streets freely with [?] beneath me, boy  We stays gettin it on  Act hard and I 
probably make you strip to your thong  Dissin your song and feel you mouth to fist when you yawn  Nibblin on a 
rapper till the 
gristle is gone  I 
stand and sing from atop Mount Ararat  I 
am a 
king, just ain't got my kingdom yet  And my anthem ring from the 
Congo to your set  I'm Alfred Hitchcock with my silhouette  Pourin Blood On Beats till the 
trumpet is blown  Coffins, I 
release em when I'm up in the 
zone  Fortune favors the 
brave and press on is the 
motto  Cast shadows on the 
sun with my bravado   [CHORUS]