LE SON DU JOUR : Lauryn Hill, « Mystery Of Iniquity »

"Mystery Of Iniquity" est tiré de "MTV Unplugged N°2.0", le premier album live de Lauryn Hill. Résultat de l'enregistrement de l'un de ses concerts donné le 21 juillet 2001 aux studios de MTV, l'album atteindra la seconde place du classement Billboard 200.

"It's the mystery of inequity Said it's the misery of inequity Said it's the history of inequity When it all, all falls down Telling you all, it all falls down

Children eat your bread Little children eat your bread 'Cuz it all, all falls down Telling you all, it all falls down

Yo, ya'll can't handle the truth in a courtroom of lies Perjures the jurors, witness despised Crooked lawyers, false Indictments publicized It's entertainment the arraignments, the subpoenas

High profile gladiators in bloodthirsty arenas Enter the Dragon, black-robe crooked-balance Souls bought and sold and paroled for thirty talents Court reporter catch the surface on the paper

File it in the system not acknowledged by the Maker Swearing by the Bible blatantly blasphemous Publicly perpetrating that, "In God We Trust" Cross-examined by a master manipulator

The faster intimidator, receiving the judge's favor Deceiving sabers doing injury to they neighbors For status, gratis, apparatus and legal waivers See the bailiff, representing security Holding the word of God soliciting perjury

The prosecution, political prostitution The more money you pay the further away solution Legal actors, Babylon's benefactors Masquerading as the agency for the clients

Hypocritical giants, morally non-compliant Orally armed to do bodily harm Polluted, recruited and suited judicial charm And the defense isn't making any sense Faking the confidence of escaping the consequence

That a defendant is depending on the system Totally void of judgment purposely made to twist em' Emotional victim blackmailed by the henchmen Framed by intentions, inventions whereby they lynch men

Enter the false witness slandering the accused Planting the seed openly showing he's being used To discredit, edit, headed for the alleged Smearing the individual fearing the unsuspected

Expert witness, the paid authority Made a priority to deceive the majority Of disinterested peers, dodging duty for years Hating the process waiting to be returning to their careers

Do we expect the system made for the elect To possibly judge correct? Properly serve and protect? Materially corrupt, spiritually amuck Oblivious to the cause, prosperously bankrupt

Blind leading the blind, guilty never defined Filthy as swine, a generation purin' it's own mind Legal extortion, blown out of proportion In vein deceit, the truth is obsolete

Only two positions, victimizer or victim Both end up in destruction trusting this crooked system Mafia with diplomas keeping us in a coma Trying to own a piece of the "American Corona"

The revolving door, insanity every floor Sky scraping, paper chasing, what are we working for? Empty traditions, reaching social positions Teaching ambition to support the family superstition?

When the Son of Perdition is Commander in Chief The standard is Thief, brethren can we candidly speak? Woe to the men, trusted in the chariots dem' Leaning on horses, they run their intellectual sources

Counterfeit wisdom creating the illusion of freedom Confusion consumes them Every word they speak it turns them out really white Internally they absent of light

Trapped in the night and bonded to the Cain of the night Under the curse, evil men waxing more worse Faxing the first, angelic being cast to the earth It's time for rebirth, burnin' up the branch and the root The empty pursuits of every tree bearing the wrong fruit

Turning me ill, let him who stole, no longer steal Oh, it's real, surrender for Jehovah is real How long will you sleep Troubled by the thoughts that you keep, the idols you heap 'Causing the destruction you reap

Judgment has come, find it and return to the One Abandon the flesh, self-interest, Broadway to death Pride and the greed, hide and subdividing the seed The knowledge of good and evil is what caused us to lie

Caused us to die, let your emotions be crucified Renounce all your thoughts Repent and let your mind be re-taught You'll find what you sought was based on the deception you bought A perception of naught, where the majority remains caught

Loving a lie, not realizing in Adam, all die Loving a lie, not realizing in Adam, all die Loving a lie, not realizing in Adam, all die Loving a lie, not realizing in Adam, all die

It's the mystery of Inequity Say it's the history of Inequity Say it's the misery of Inequity When it all, all falls down I'm telling you all, it all falls down"