All that shines turns to rust All that stands in time turns to dust Yesterday, today, tomorrow, come rain, come shine Hell and back, the beginning in between till' the end of time Living, fighting, obsessing Just as long as I can share it all with you As

In the beginning Good always overpowered the evils Of all man's sins... But in time The nations grew weak And our cities fell to slums While evil stood strong In the dusts of hell Lurked the blackest of hates For he whom they feared

You, you make loving fun It's all I want to do I never did believe in miracles But I've a feeling it's time to try I never did believe in the ways of magic But I'm beginning to wonder why Sweet wonderful you You make me happy with the things you do Oh,

But now that you left me 'Till your well runs dry I keep missing my water And I want my water And I'm little thirsty, now In the beginning You really loved me, oh I was too blind I could not see, now

I'm beginning to see the light I never cared much for moonlit skies I never wink back at fireflies But now that the stars are in your eyes I never went in for afterglow Or candlelight on the mistletoe But now when you turn the lamp down low Used to

Have all you are and all you're to be Fade in your world and all that you see This hole in the wall is all under your thumb Pulling your senses until you become Until you become I gotta run I just gotta run Cought in a world where You could never run too

So I wanna know What's the name of the game? Can you feel it the way I do? Tell me please, 'cause I have to know I'm a bashful child, beginning to grow And you make me talk And you make me feel And you make me show What I'm trying to conceal

It's something bigger than me Something bigger than me Try to ignore it, but it keeps on growing out of control To break all the patterns If I'm not evolving, I'm just another rumor Taking up oxygen I can feel it beginning Yeah, I can feel it opening I

Mother of us all Place of our birth We all are witness To the rape of the world How can we stand aside And watch the rape of the wold This the beginning of the end This the most heinous of crimes This the deadliest of sins

This is for my dogs, this is for my dogs This is for my dogs, my niggas My niggas, this is for my dogs, this is for my dogs My dogs, the beginning of this bloodline of mine That spark, that's in a niggas heart, that cause him to shine Before the rhyme