It is written [manifest]
       That all men are brothers [prophecy]
       We come like blood brothers [word is bond]
       Cause blood is thicker than water [ain't alike]
       From the misty grounds [from the unknown]
       The shadows [the deep]
       The darkness [the triple darkness]
       Gravediggaz [my blood brother]
       The RZA

       Verse One:

       I grew up in the violent island of Shaolin
       Fifty-five home and cease thoughts implore
       When jackpot rot was hot, I was not
       A rusty-ass child with tears and snots
       Acquired the knowledge, how to master my thoughts
       My skinny frail body couldn't fuck with the sports
       Six feet two still wack on the court
       So I stalked New York with a black pitchfork
       My style date back to ninety-watt
       cuttin the box, while I be clocks with no socks
       Remember the days before your pants would sag
       Puerto Ricans on the block just throwin up tags

       Verse Two: Fruitkwan/Gatekeeper

       Yo I was born with a rusty spoon as a mouthpiece
       Life was hard cause the graves was my company
       Hang with my problems just as trouble predicted
       to cross the path, as I laugh at the vic-ted
       No warmth for sure, the vents would spit average
       watchin devils, fiend like a savage
       Blood brothers need me call, ooh-OOH!!!
       In a minute, a minute, Ghostface and all, check it
       With the Grym and the Undertake
       Devil's get baked I'll stiff your ass like an eighth
       Tortures and screams building up my steam
       Death to whoever bumrushes through the bloodstream
       Yo somethin ain't right I don't get it
       I feel a vibe blood brothers are you with it
       If I have to choose one or the other
       Back the fuck up spook, yo that's my blood brother

       Chorus: Too Poetic/Grym Reaper

       All, all, all and together
       Blood brothers, rollin together

       Repeat 4X

       Verse Two: Too Poetic/Grym Reaper

       Back in the days of Lee's and BVD's
       I grew up deceived, by wicked enemies
       My lifespan began to dim in the error
       When you can't even trust the man in the mirror
       Now Gravedigga niggaz receive my trust
       and like Christ, we walk among the thieves and the sluts
       I bring stress like skins on PMS
       The street's a bloody mess, there ain't no EMF
       in sight my thoughts are to leave the slums
       I hustle with beats and drums not keys and guns
       My feet are numb, as I walk my dogs
       I cut off the fogs with the Gravedigga swords
       Life parole, as me and my man is violated
       Hookers are neutered and spay-ted
       Snakes are decapitated, and castrated
       Niggaz is lost your whole Ark is bein raided
       Shows today are hectic, niggaz'll wreck shit
       Lift off rounds and jet quick
       This piece is gettin heated
       Cause a rush, a stampedin
       Devils are all defeated by the blood brothers

       Chorus

       Verse Three: Fruitkwan/Gatekeeper, Ryzarector

       Yeahhh, as the earth erupts
       I conduct to destruct your rucks when I big up
       Catastrophes are blaspheme
       Pour a container of brains on your grave through a strainer
       I capsize your coffin, I wreck your morphin
       Breakin devils down like Steve Austin
       I gotta rip on a peel for a minute
       Let's get some god degree, cause a blood brother's hard to be

       Power equality
       Allah sees equality, follow me
       Law and order but I stick it in water
       Many heads got slaughtered back in Latin Quarters
       Like this brother named Rick was thick but got bit
       by the same motherfucker that he ran with
       Band of the hand the Clan's my fam
       Something mom duke could never understand
       From the grave to the gutter
       Death to another, who tries to fuck with my blood brothers

       Chorus




 <