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Mystery Of Iniquity Chords

Music by: Lauryn Hill · 2002
Genre Hip-hop Views 156
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[Chorus 1]
[Am]It's the the mystery of iniqui[Gm]ty
Said it's the [Am]misery of in[Gm]iquity
Said [Am]it's the history of in[Gm]iquity
When it [Am]all
All [Abm]falls [Gm]down
Telling you [Am]all, it all [Abm]falls [Gm]down

[Bridge 1]
[F#m]Children
[Bm]Eat your bread
Little [F#m]children
[Bm]Eat your bread
'Cause it [Am]all
All [Abm]falls [Gm]down
Telling you [Am]all
It all [Abm]falls [Gm]down
Yo!

[Verse 1]
Ya'll can't [Am]handle the truth
in a courtroom of lies
[Dm]Perjures the jurors
Witness despised
[Gm]Crooked lawyers
False Indictments publicized
It's enter[Cm]tainment the arraignments
The subpoenas
[Am]High- profile gladiators in bloodthirsty arenas
[Dm]Enter the Dragon
Black-robe crooked-balance
[Gm]Souls bought and sold
and paroled for thirty talents
[Cm]Court reporter catch the surface
on the [Gm]pa pe[Abm]r
[Am]File it in the system
not acknowledged by the Maker
[Dm]Swearing by the bible blatantly blasphemous
[Gm]Publicly perpetrating that "In God We Trust"
[Cm]Cross-examined by a master manipulator[Gm]
[Abm]The fa[Am]ster intimidator
Receiving the judge's favor
[Dm]Deceiving sabers
doing injury to they neighbors
[Gm]For status, gratis, apparatus
and legal waivers
[Cm]See the bailiff
Representing security
Holding the word of God soliciting perjury
The [Am]prosecution
Political prostitution
[Dm]The more money you pay
the further away solution
[Gm]Legal actors
Babylon's benefactors
[Cm]Masquerading as the agency
for the [Gm]clients[Abm]
[Am]Hypocritical giants
Morally non-compliant
[Dm]Orally armed to do bodily harm
[Gm]Polluted, recruited and suited judicial charm
[Cm]And the defense isn't making any sense[Gm][Abm]
[Am]Faking the confidence
of escaping the consequence
That a defendant is depending on the system
[Dm]Totally void of judgment
purposely made to twist em'
[Gm]Emotional victim
blackmailed by the henchmen
[Cm]Framed by intentions
Inventions whereby they lynch men
[Am]Enter the false witness
slandering the accused
[Dm]Planting the seed
openly showing he's being used
[Gm]To discredit, edit, headed for the alleged
[Cm]Smearing the individual
fearing the unsus[Gm]pecte[Abm]d
[Am]Expert witness the paid authority
[Dm]Made a priority to deceive the majority
[Gm]Of disinterested peers
Dodging duty for years
[Cm]Hating the process
waiting to be returning to their ca[Gm]reers[Abm]
[Am]Do we expect the system made for the elect
To [Dm]possibly judge correct?
Properly serve and protect?
[Gm]Materially corrupt
[Dm]Spiritually amok
Oblivious to the cause
Prosperously bankrupt
[Am]Blind leading the blind
Guilty never defined
[Dm]Filthy as swine
A generation pure in it's own mind
Legal ex[Gm]tortion
Blown out of proportion
[Cm]In vein deceit
The truth is obso[Gm]lete[Abm]
[Am]Only two positions: Victimizer or Victim
[Dm]Both end up in destruction
trusting this crooked system
[Gm]Mafia with diplomas keeping us in a coma
trying to [Cm]own a piece
of the "American Co[Gm]rona"[Abm]
[Am]The Revolving Door
Insanity every floor
Sky[Dm]scraping, paper chasing
What are we working for?
[Gm]Empty traditions
Reaching social positions
[Cm]Teaching ambition
to support the family superstition?
When [Am]the Son of Perdition
is commander in chief
The [Dm]standard is Thief
Brethren can we candidly speak?
[Gm]Woe to the men
Trusted in the chariot stem
Leaning on [Cm]horses
They run their intellectual [Gm]sources
[Abm]Coun t[Am]erfeit wisdom
creating the illusion of freedom
Con[Dm]fusion consumes them
Every word they speak is in front of them
[Gm]Outwardly white, internally they absent of light
and trapped in the [Cm]night
and bonded to the Cain of the night
Under the [Am]curse
Evil men waxing more worse
Faxing the [Dm]first
Angelic being cast to the earth
It's time [Gm]for rebirth
Burnin' up the branch and the root
The empty pur[Cm]suits
of every tree bearing the wrong fruit
Turning me [Am]ill
Let him who stole, no longer steal
Oh it's [Dm]real
Surrender for Jehovah is real
How long will [Gm]you sleep
Troubled by the thoughts that YOU keep
The idols [Cm]YOU heap
Causing the destruction you [Gm]reap
[Abm]Judgment h[Am]as come
Find it and return to the One
Abandon the [Dm]flesh
Self-interest: Broadway to death
Pride and the [Gm]Greed
Hide and subdividing the seed
The [Cm]knowledge of Good and Evil
is what caused us to [Gm]lie
[Abm]Caused [Am]us to die
Let your emotions be crucified
Renounce all your [Dm]thoughts
Repent and let your mind be re-taught
You'll find what you [Gm]sought
was based on the deception you bought
A [Cm]perception of naught
Where the majority remains [Gm]caught
[Abm]Loving a [Am]lie
Not realizing in Adam, all die
Loving a [Dm]lie
Not realizing in Adam, all die
Loving a [Gm]lie
Not realizing in Adam, all die
Loving a [Cm]lie
Not realizing in Adam, all [Gm]die[Abm]

[Chorus 2]
[Am]It's the mystery of In[Gm]iquity
Say it's the [Am]history [Gm]of iniquity
Say it's the [Am]misery of In[Gm]liquity
When it [Am]all
All [Abm]falls [Gm]down
I'm telling you [Am]all
It all [Abm]falls [Gm]down
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