As the frail chested debate, the whole world crumbles Tectonic plates quake, the blessed date hovers Multitudes lumber with labor that favors a privileged few I'm privy to news that these anchormen knew But confused with tall tales, they speak with no clue I speak with razored tongue and pristine vision You clinging to a past that perhaps left us dreaming Longing for a heaven I never knew Don't know who holds puppet strings Never seen a grown man with cherub's wings Know a ton of dark skin left to rot at sing, sing Better man wins when he lacks melanin The best man's hung from the strongest oak limb Strongest man break tree like a young twig Wish I sung melodies like a young Stiv Forgot that these flavors is why we all live 2012, ain't the end we just beginning Mayan ruins rebuilt to sky-scrape Your fate's dimming, hide your wives and children We down to burn buildings, slice necks that tend to nod This the pillage 2012 ain't the end we just beginning Mayan Ruins rebuilt to sky-scrape Your fate's dimming Hide your wives and children, thoughts they keep building Forms modern pyramids to fall off this grid, breath got me livid No sleep for the wicked, lullabies for the timid Fuck 'em, good riddance Spit for kids rocking fitteds to heads wit Mel's message This age got me restless, rage resurrected Pressured Langston Hughes to let this boil fester Fists they seem precious, steel speaks in 8 sections Structures or weapons, shells they left breathless Violence ain't senseless, the words said were meant kid Drink grains fermented to spark insurrections Feed off this tension Riots remembered result in learned lessons Form precise sentence, lives change directions Like Nile we life's essence, engaged eternal We struggle with peril, perhaps we are gutter But your god is my devil 2012, ain't the end we just beginning Mayan Ruins rebuilt to sky-scrape Your fate's dimming, hide your wives and children We down to burn buildings, slice necks that tend to nod This the pillage 2012, ain't the end we just beginning Mayan Ruins rebuilt to sky-scrape Your fate's dimming, hide your wives and children We down to burn buildings, slice necks that tend to nod This the pillage 2012, ain't the end we just beginning Mayan Ruins rebuilt to sky-scrape Your fate's dimming, hide your wives and children We down to burn buildings, slice necks that tend to nod This the pillage