[ti:Living In The World Today] [ar:GZA] [al:Liquid Swords (Explicit Versio] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Living In The World Today - GZA [00:02.30]Check it out son check it out son [00:04.86]Live in the place to be [00:06.86]You got the capital G [00:08.42]G to the A-M-C [00:09.23]Givin a mad shout out to the Ranch Crew from the old school [00:12.72]And we gonna take y'all back knowhatI'msayin [00:17.03]Lyrical sorcerors right here the fathers the cream of the crop son [00:20.84]Chorus: The Genius [00:21.65]Well if you livin in the world today [00:23.27]You be hearin the slang that the Wu-Tang say [00:25.83]Niggaz that front we don't handle em [00:28.38]So we blast em alright well OK [00:30.50]Well if you like the way it sound then clap man [00:33.19]And if the women love it too well then raise your hands [00:35.81]But only raise your hands if you're Sure [00:38.18]Punk niggaz shatter like a glass jaw break it [00:40.99]Verse One: The Genius [00:41.55]My rhyme gross weight vehicle combination [00:42.80]Was too heavy for the Chevy's is chased out the station [00:45.86]Double-edged was the guillotine that beheaded it [00:48.60]Gassed up f**kin with some regular unleaded sh*t [00:51.04]Heads roll on hillsides behind ropes that [00:53.29]Bind-in X marks the spot on the scope [00:55.90]Heavily armed military is necessary it's a gamble [00:59.64]MC's bet they best at every [01:01.39]Powerful parable ditties might harm [01:03.39]If tampered with set off and strike like pipe bombs [01:06.13]Flashbacks to the Duel of the Iron Mic [01:08.57]Look out for these fatal flying spikes of massive [01:11.19]Sleep-holds put strangle on commercial angle [01:13.63]Microphone cords tangled from being Star Spangled [01:16.25]Now who could ever say they heard of this [01:19.17]My motherf**kin style is mad murderous [01:21.02]Interlude: Method Man Genius [02:05.07]Well what you know about MCin [02:06.06]Yo I know a lot [02:06.81]Well can you demonstrate somethin ni**a [02:07.75]Huh I'd rather not [02:08.93]I'm talkin bout stacks cousin [02:09.93]Ni**a that's what I got [02:11.74]Cash Rules the world [02:12.81]Well Cash Rules the spot [02:13.68]Verse Two: The Genius [02:14.24]My preliminary attack keep cemetaries packed [02:15.24]Of niggaz who think it ain't like that [02:17.05]MC's are gunned down like being run down with mad trucks [02:19.55]Them God struck religious niggaz call it bad luck [02:21.11]Rap celeb you got caught up in the web [02:22.66]Now bees are stingin yo that niggaz em-singin [02:24.22]I'm just swingin swords strictly based on keyboards [02:25.97]Unbalanced like elephants and ants on see-saws [02:27.15]I throw raps that attack like the Japs on Pearl Harbor [02:28.97]MC's be out like bank robbers [02:30.34]Fleeing the scene to be a sole survivor [02:31.72]DJ the getaway driver [02:32.40]Tried to dip but he dive I socialize on vocal vibes [02:34.46]On tracks stabbed up with razor sharp knives [02:35.96]Criminal subliminal minded rappers find it [02:37.08]Hard to define it when narrow is the gate [02:38.77]For fat tapes and then played out and out of date [02:40.82]Then I construct my thoughts on site to renovate [02:42.57]And from that point the God made a statement [02:44.25]Draftin tracements replacements in basements [02:45.19]Materials in sheet-rock to sound proof the beat box [02:46.87]And microscopic optics received through the boxes [02:48.63]Obnoxious topic major labels flavor tropical [02:49.69]Punchlines that's unstoppable [02:50.50]Ring like shots from glocks that attract cops [02:52.12]Around the clubs and try to shut down the hip-hop [02:53.81]But we only increase if everything is peace [02:55.24]Father U C King the police [02:56.42]Chorus [02:56.61]Chorus