《It’s Been A Long Time》歌词

[00:00:00] It's Been A Long Time - Linkin Park

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[00:00:21] Rakim the microphone soloist

[00:00:23] Follow procedures the crowd couldn't wait to see this

[00:00:26] Nobody been this long awaited since Jesus

[00:00:28] Who wouldn't believe this I heard the word on the street is

[00:00:31] I'm still one of the deepest on the mic since Adidas

[00:00:34] They said I changed the times from the rhymes that I thought of

[00:00:37] So I made some more to put the New World in Order

[00:00:39] With Mathematics put your status above the average

[00:00:42] And help you rappers make paragraphs with graphics

[00:00:45] Cause new days is dawning new ways of performing

[00:00:47] Brainstorming I write and watch the night turn to morning

[00:00:50] On and on and I got the whole world responding

[00:00:53] Ra I keep it hot and blow the spot without warning

[00:00:55] The Emperor well known for inventing a sentence

[00:00:59] Full of adventure turning up the temperature

[00:01:01] Rush with adrenaline how long has it been again

[00:01:04] To be in the state of mind that Rakim is in

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[00:01:16] Rakim

[00:01:17] When I'm out propping either hanging or shopping

[00:01:20] People see me stop and ask me when the album dropping

[00:01:23] The wait is over in formation like a soldier

[00:01:25] Like I told ya greater stronger now that I'm older

[00:01:28] I broke the code of silence with overloads of talents

[00:01:31] My only challenge is not to explode in violence

[00:01:33] I'm Asiatic and blazing microphones a habit

[00:01:36] At least once during the course of a day it's automatic

[00:01:39] In ghetto apparel mind of a Egyptian Pharoah

[00:01:41] Far from shallow thoughts travel like an arrow

[00:01:44] Allah's monotony so far they can't stop me

[00:01:47] You know Ra want property like Muammar Qaddafi

[00:01:49] More thoughts than Bibles recital taught disciples

[00:01:52] A sawed off mic so words scatter like a rifle

[00:01:55] Thoughts that's trifle I'm busting these for you

[00:01:57] Aiyyo technical difficulties is through

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[00:02:03] Rakim the microphone soloist

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[00:02:22] When I flow tonight I show them new heights I go to write

[00:02:25] They know I strike with new prototypes to blow the mic

[00:02:27] Critics and biters don't know where my source of light is

[00:02:30] Still leave authors and writers with arthritis

[00:02:33] Cursed kids like the Pyramids when they found the style

[00:02:35] First to ever let a rhyme flow down the Nile

[00:02:38] The rebirth of hip hop'll be dropped now

[00:02:41] Cause the crowd didn't hear the original in a while

[00:02:44] So be alarmed what you about to see is the bomb

[00:02:46] Like 3 D in 'Nam vivid like CD Rom

[00:02:49] Info kept like internet.com

[00:02:52] My note book's my bond like the Holy Qu'ran

[00:02:54] Since I came in the door said it before

[00:02:57] But no I ain't down with Eric B. no more

[00:03:00] At night the open mic be inviting me to rhyme

[00:03:02] So yo I'm online it's been a long time

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[00:03:14] Rakim the microphone soloist

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