Liquid Swords

Intro One: (not included on 7")

When I was little... my father was famous.

He was the greatest sam-urai in the empire;

and he was the Shogun's decapitator.

He cut off the heads of a hundred and thirty-one lords.

It was a bad time for the empire.

The Shogun just stayed inside his castle -- and he never came out.

People said his brain was infected by DEVILS.

My father would come home -- he would forget about the killings.

He wasn't scared of the Shogun, but the Shogun was scared of him.

Maybe that was the problem.

Then, one night... the Shogun sent his ninja spies to our house.

They were supposed to kill my father... but they didn't.

*woman screams*

That was the night everything changed *voice fades*

Intro Two: RZA

See, sometimes...

You gotta flash em back

See niggaz don't know where this shit started

Y'all know where it came from

I'm sayin we gonna take y'all back to the swords

We bounce, yo

Chorus: RZA, GZA

When the MC's came, to live our their name

And to perform (forrrrm)

Some had, to snort cocaine (caiiinnne) to act insane (sannne)

with before Pete Rock-ed it on, now gone

that the mental plane (plaaanne) to spark the brain (brainnn)

with the building to be born

Yo RZA flip the track with the what to guy

Check em check chicka icka etta UHH

Verse One:

Fake niggaz get blitzed

and mic bites I swing swords and cut clowns

Shit is too swift to bite you record and write it down

I flow like the blood on a murder scene, like a syringe

on some loud howl shit, to insert a fiend

But it was yo ock, the shop stolen heart

Catch a swollen heart fr