Showtime at the Gallow

(Canibus)

This is Showtime at the Gallows

Rip the Jacker

(Canibus)

Yo

I dialogue with Amen-Ra 'til he gives me the nod

And replaces me with a supercomputer automaton

I don't barter for time I'm a martyr to rhymes

And a selfless soldier with pride that was ordered to die

A burning star in the sky, my heart is warped with a drive

Expressing thoughts through a rhyme, my metaphors are alive

It's like I've been crucified, they 'Hate Me Now' like Nas

They punctured me through my side, the bleeding was cauterized

I was revived after I died

Only then I saw how I was truly admired and worshipped like a god

It had mired up my mind and showed me a sign

I fell off the ocean liner, someone throw me a line

Let the world know the truth but it became my demise

You know we're even I don't owe you a dime

Sometimes I feel like killing myself, they've stolen my shine

I wanted to be the illest for a moment in time

From the ink to my pen to my pad to the ink in my arm

How could one diss song possibly last this long?

Tyson ain't the champ no more, them days is gone

And Rip the Jacker ain't too stubborn to say when he's wrong

(Canibus)

I should get twenty dollars and go to Econolodge

And tie the sawed-off's trigger around the doorknob

Call the police squad and tell them I'm in room 1-0-5

And that a dirty bomb's inside

Woke up in the cargo plane

Playing Christy Lane for some entertainment while I train in the misty rain

'One Day at a Time, Sweet Jesus' is playing

I'm sitting there praying, you probably can't believe what I'm saying

But the voice in the back of my head keeps saying, "Germaine

This is the real deal, man. This is not a dream. This is not a game

The only sixteen you've got for now on is locked and loaded and in your hand

Deploy and detach on land. You're the man

And the pain is the weakness leaving the body, understand?"

And reload with a full pack. Call COMSAT

Tell them you need suppressive fire for troops in the back, STAT

Insurgence and counter-insurgence, move with a purpose

Absolutely mission critical, you never get nervous

Applicate the shock-tube to the surface

Standby! Blow it! Eyes open with your scope on a terrorist

Tell him to go to Hell in Arabic

Put a bullet through his narrow neck, watch the wall behind him get wet

I'm an animal, I'll murder you and stare at your pets

Get the tape! I know where the surveillance cameras are kept

(Canibus)

If you want a confession, you've got it

You want product give me twenty dollars

You want gossip, I'll give you logic

On any topic, recording the positive data

Rip is the best rapper, go confirm the status

One million page dissertation written on paper

Cheap labour for Pitney Bowe's tree curator

My purification process is greater but thinly tapered

Verbatim, my album is equal to over fifty acres

Can-I-Bus before the Big Bang and after the Big Crunch

I've only got to say it once

Let there be light and I write a sentence

The greatest discovery since opethicus afarensis

Back to before Sumerians landed on the canyon

In the Cambrian carrying bacteria with antigens

And nine-foot stone mannequins

The key to nuclear power and Porta Libitinaria

Showtime at the Gallows, the Age of Aquarius

And space harriers, life's last barrier

Showtime at the Gallows!