[ti:Concerto Of The Desperado (explicit Album Version)] [ar:The Roots] [al:Illadelph Halflife (Explicit Version)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Concerto Of The Desperado (Album Version|Explicit) - The Roots [00:10.35]Written by:Lionel Bart [00:20.70]The concerto of the desperado [00:23.72]R double O T S check the flow [00:26.31]If you know like I know then you know the motto [00:28.57]That's all the fraud sh*t got to go yo [00:31.28]In the glow of the moon over the melancholy metro [00:34.16]My poetry is set like a U F O [00:36.22]The maestro the lyricist concerto [00:38.18]My physical play the role of a vessel [00:40.09]The level of my lyrics law manifesto [00:42.52]My thoughts wrestle and attack with the [00:44.27]Killer instincts of a gorilla stronger than Samson [00:46.95]Without vanilla my soliloquoy profess my ability [00:49.81]To just stimulate you like the best sensimilla [00:52.61]The halflife the Illadel L P O phila proceed [00:55.65]Hither is my death flower blow your tower [00:57.54]To smithereens to fiends catch another rhyme gripper [01:00.20]Deeper than the meditations of a hidden worshiper [01:03.05]Unorthodox hip hop minister minister [01:05.66]Then a serengeti cheetah my thoughts with the [01:07.24]You lose your balance when the sound hits ya [01:09.36]So check for the fifth militia [01:10.96]A poet's under pressure stressing that you get the picture [01:13.51]Even if it means you gotta hang over the banister [01:16.30]I pull a microphone on any pistol brandisher [01:18.91]And take advantage of ya because you amateur [01:21.42]Styles gunning down your sound man and manager what [01:24.48]This how we do it in the year for nine six [01:26.38]With this delivering attack on pointless rap sh*t [01:29.24]Breakin M C's down to fractions tell your squadron [01:32.49]It's time to go to war we spar reaction [01:34.29]The concerto of the desperado [01:37.28]R double O T S check the flow [01:39.75]If you know like I know then you know the motto [01:42.24]That's the fake sh*t got to go hey yo [01:44.82]I'ts the concerto of the desperado [01:47.87]R double O T S check the flow [01:50.23]If you know like I know then you know the motto [01:52.69]That's all the fraud sh*t got to go yo [01:56.02]The implorer the universe explorer [01:58.26]Treat M C's like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah [02:00.81]Leavin these niggaz open like a box of Pandora [02:03.46]With styles that's newer than the world order [02:05.34]Approximately three quarters of y'all are water [02:07.86]I straight deport ya [02:08.76]Then orchestrate your torture with roots of culture [02:11.14]The pill brimmage to the line of scrimmage up against your image [02:13.88]Where life is a heist and the strong get a percentage [02:16.54]It's ill as a war and within it I'm the lieutenant [02:18.99]That surrounds you like a Peninsula to snatch the pennant [02:21.78]You fold like Japan's futons and fans [02:24.11]While I design a plan to make a rapper step [02:26.26]Like a pedestrian I crush a mountain into grands of sand [02:30.01]Your pain stains the cannon of the mic inserted into the stand [02:32.85]The desperado that refuse to follow [02:35.16]The lip afficianado break you up into parts like a bottle [02:38.47]I deep like the dark of the night niggaz [02:40.08]Make it the sweetest sound silly when they talk on the mic [02:42.50]They use the simple back and forth the same [02:44.60]Old rhythm that's plain I'd rather ultra magnetize your brain [02:47.84]It's the hip hop purist that leave you lost like a tourist [02:50.67]Inside the kurbis niggaz is bringin up performance [02:53.21]As we breakin 'em down to fractions [02:55.37]Tell your squadron [02:56.63]It's time to go to war we spar reaction [02:58.44]The concerto of the desperado [03:01.47]R double O T S check the flow [03:03.99]If you know like I know then you know the motto [03:06.39]And that's the fake sh*t got to go yo [03:08.86]It's the concerto of the desperado [03:11.96]R double O T S check the flow [03:14.50]If you know like I know then you know the motto [03:16.68]That's all the fraud sh*t got to go ya [03:18.78]Sh*t got to go