[ti:The Adventures In Wonderland] [ar:The Roots] [al:Illadelph Halflife (Explicit Version)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Adventures In Wonderland (Album Version|Explicit) - The Roots [00:00.62]F**k kill and prosper [00:04.93]Is the gospel of Wonderland where [00:07.35]Street sands are quick [00:09.41]To suck you down to the abyss [00:11.65]With the lure of pure bliss if you kiss the dicks [00:15.11]Of the niggaz Never Nosferatu's [00:18.43]Those witches and warlocks in blue [00:20.76]Government gumshoe keepers of the First Zoo [00:24.44]Who Me [00:28.75]I'm the modern day vixen vampire slayer [00:31.10]Unauthorized player in the capitalist contest [00:34.19]To see who"Gets Money" [00:36.94]No milk and honey in this land [00:38.95]Cause justice has been banned [00:40.59]So it's play dirty or die by the hand [00:43.13]That's holding all the guns [00:44.80]Plunged deep into religion was my first decision [00:48.35]To save me and my daughter's lives but [00:50.63]I can't thrive off spirit and scripture [00:53.34]The picture grew clearer; I made the move to rear her [00:56.92]In a life wanting for nothing [00:58.56]So I got into this ** thing [01:00.75]Not doing but dealing [01:03.27]Sealing fates and healing struggle gaped wounds [01:06.43]Of the doomed became my mission [01:09.22]Izm was just too small time [01:10.86]I had to find the best design to [01:12.95]F**k with the massive motherf**kers minds and pockets [01:16.94]So I sold kits and alleyway thigh splits for two bits [01:20.59]And five year old preschool p**sy [01:22.93]And once strong now bony backs and stretched out [01:26.52]Weary racks of snatch in other words [01:29.29] I sold crack [01:31.64]Morality was buried deep beneath the new Jeep [01:34.93]Silk sheets and money heaps [01:36.93]Still the good mother I sent my daughter off to [01:39.65]Boarding school to keep sh*t under cover [01:42.09]All the while envisioning myself [01:44.20]A champion of ghetto causes [01:46.09]Plus his game I was playing and winning [01:49.11]While sinning against myself and soul to get the gold [01:52.69]I was the Female Don the Crack Queen [01:55.60]To me I seemed unstoppable my coffers full [01:58.89]I went buckwild wanting more [02:01.46]Like the pipe worn whores I began to deplore [02:04.84]No time for playing with my coochie [02:06.95]Counting my man's mad lucci [02:08.51]While he was up inside some hoochie's loose piece [02:11.27]I signed the checks and I counted out the cash [02:14.34]Wasn't saving a** for no niggaz sent upriver [02:17.47]I thought my sh*t was tight [02:19.27] til my empire started to quiver [02:22.17]Taking every chance under surveillance [02:25.33]Being listened to [02:26.82]And watched like Assata Shakur [02:29.56]My place on the top was no more sure [02:32.20]Loose lips flipped the script [02:34.40]The fantasy trip swiftly ended [02:36.93]It took no time to blend in with the population prison [02:41.05]My jaded vision busted like a cherry [02:44.03]Every dream I had now tainted bad [02:47.73]I f**ked and I killed to prosper [02:50.99]Upheld each tenant of the ghastly gospel [02:54.10]Shift to a different Wonderland to pay the price for my vice [02:57.83]A land of fields to toil in like slaves [03:00.91]No lillies in this field just plenty of souls to save [03:04.46]Plenty of fat uniformed rats with [03:07.18]Below average size cocks that slither [03:09.77]Through cell locks in the night [03:11.98]Lactating tits being licked left and right [03:15.20]Plenty of coochie burning with desire [03:17.51]Like black churches in the South [03:19.64]Black prayers and p**sy on fire [03:22.49]Penned up behind barbed wire [03:24.62]Me and my fellow female mammals animals [03:27.75]B**ches in cages bodies racked with hormone rages [03:31.57]Minds haunted by our children's faces [03:33.91]They mace us [03:34.95]With promises of rehabilitation slash corruption [03:38.29]Place smoking guns in empty hands of [03:40.88]Native sisters and sons [03:42.93]I joined in this nation's favorite pasttime [03:45.80]On a quest to gets mine [03:47.58]Now I'm passing time standing on line [03:50.11]In the commissary to buy Maxi-Pads [03:52.97]Instead of shopping at Barney's for Chanel bags [03:55.97]Nana who raised me went to bed a-dazed [03:59.18]Via my mistakes and my daughter hates [04:01.93]Me for what I did [04:03.69]And I'm F**KED and I'm STUCK [04:06.54]Doing the Devil's bid [04:08.28]Being locked in a moral corrupt crib [04:10.86]Psst missing my kid psst hey girl [04:15.94]You wanna get finger f**ked tonight [04:18.50]I swear I'll stick it in and up tight just right [04:22.35]Yo sis I've had to kill and sh*t [04:26.39]Just blow my head pretty and I'll give you a slip [04:29.46]ALRIGHT LADIES LIGHTS OUT