[Pharoahe Monch]   Yo   Truth had me up against the ropes    and semi-concious without no boxing skills   Fear of it makes hair on my neck grow like minoxodil   Watchin the clock is ill when, faced wit the truth   Parallels observing, amateur video tapes of   Twenty-one top notch NYPD cops get ill   Fill they minds not to kill still son, never revealed   True feelings, we speakin on the truth right now in itself is healing   See The Creator, created existence and balance   At right angles, unless it was conceived and stated   So whoever shall stray away from right lives wrong   The deliverance of the word false opposite of truth off course   Sure as my slave name sending   Troy Donald Jamerson paves the path, enabling truth   To stay stable and cling to EARTH!   Sorta similar to the way static electricity sting see   Truth brings light, light refracts off the mirror   Visions of yourself and error could never clearer   The truth is that you ugly, not on the outside   But in the inside on the outside you frontin you lovely   The discovery of these things and all are well-hidden   But when you in denial of self it is forbidden, that's the truth      [Female singer]   In due time we will find      [Common] *speaking behind vocals*   See it everywhere, gotta recognize it      Let the truth be told from young souls that become old   >From days spent in the jungle, where must one go   To find it, time is real, we can't rewind it   Out of everybody I met, who told the truth? Time did   We find kids speakin 'cause it's naturally in us   But the false prophets by tellin us we born sinners   Venders of hate, got me battlin my own mind state   At a divine rate, I ain't in this just to rhyme great   See the truth in the thighs of a stripper, the eyes of my nigga   If it's only one, then why should it differ   So constantly I seek it   Wonderin why I gotta drink a six pack to speak it   Took a picture of the truth and tried to develop it   Had proof, it was only recognized by the intelligent   Took the negative and positive, 'cause niggas got to live   Said I got to get more than I'm given   'cause truth'll never be heard in religion   After searchin the world, on the inside what was hidden   It was the truth      [Female singer]   Truth, truth, truth, truth, truth, truth   In due time, we will find      [Talib Kweli]   Check it, on my neck I still got marks from the nooses   The truth it produces, fear that got niggas on the run like Carl Lewis   The truth is my crew is the smoothest bits of saliva juices like the roots is   More organic than acoustics   Heavenly ? set you free and kill you in the same breath   That shit you gotta get off your chest before your death, unless   The way you speak is lighter than a pamphlet   'cause the truth give the words away to the planet goddammit   I ran wit what God planted in my heart and I understand it   To be the bring the light to the dark, breathe some life in this art   This must be the truth (why?) 'cause we keep marchin on (true)   The truth lay the foundation of what we rockin on (true)   You can't see it if you blind but we will always prevail (true)   Life is like the open sea, the truth is the wind in our sail   And in the end, our names is on the lips of dying men   If ever crushed in the earth, we always rise again   When the words of lying men sound lush like the sound of a violin   The truth is there, it's just the heart you gotta find it in      [Female singer]   You will find (7x)