Rakim Lyrics

Album: The 18th Letter

It's Been A Long Time Lyrics

Intro/Chorus: 

If you can see if you can solve the mystery 

The answer revolves around your history 

So carefully I drop this degree 

Scientifically and realistically (Who is God?) 

Repeat Chorus 

In eternal blackness in the midst of the darkest night 

Proteins and minerals exist within specks of light 

Solids liquids and gases and sparks of light within 

infinite lengths and widths and depths and heights 

No beginning or ending, the seven dimensions 

Enough space for more than a million words and inventions 

To travel through time within enough room to be the womb 

of the most high's great mind which he will soon make shine 

With intelligent elements in sight that he will gather 

In the realms of relativity electricity struck matter 

Energies explode he below to keep releasin 

Atoms by the millions, til the numbers increasin 

Til it was burnin he kept returnin itself to the source 

The hotter his thoughts it gave the center more force 

He gave birth to the sun which would follow his laws 

All caused by his mental intercourse, who is God? 

Chorus 

He began to explain his craft, the master in the attic 

He dealt with measurements his language, was mathematics 

His theoretical wisdom of the numerical system 

The complete number nine which means born or existed 

He gave birth to all planets, inorganic, and organic 

So you wouldn't take it for granted 

They rotated they own distance around the sun 

And fully submit to the existance of one 

And each one was promised everlasting perfection 

If each one keeps spinnin in the same direction 

To the East, and each speak the motion of peace 

and harmony, and each show devotion to teach 

The universe is to come, the whole world must go according 

Know your galaxies and mirages stars start fallin 

So stay in your orbit maintain safe and sound 

Like the planets each cipher remains perfectly round 

Chorus 

From unconciousness, to conciousness 

By knowledging his wisdom his response is this 

A understanding, which is the best part 

He picked the third planet where new forms of life would start 

He pursued show and prove every move in order 

Back to the source he let off his resources in the water 

Climb his climax, where the climate is at, high degrees 

See he start to breathe deep in the darkest seas 

And the plan is, to lay in the clays to form land 

And expand, usin the same clays to born man 

In his own image our origin begins in the East 

Culture rise to breed, with the powers of peace 

Deal in equality nature's policy is to be God 

Build or destroy positively born life like Allah 

And each one was given everlasting perfection 

If each one keep living in the same direction 

And life was life, and love was love 

We went according by the laws of the world above 

They showed us physically, we could reach infinity 

But mentally, through the century we lost our identity 

Life start and ending, we got trife and started sinning 

Lost touch with the beginning now ciphers stop spinnin 

And what was once easy became confused and hard 

Which brings us back, to the mystic question, who is God? 

Sixty-six trillion years since his face was shown 

When the seventh angel appears, the mystery will be known 

Check Revelations and Genesis, St. Luke and John 

It even tells us we are Gods in the Holy Qu'ran 

Wisdom Strength and Beauty, one of the meanings of God 

G.O.D. you and me ?Gomars O Dubar? 

Knowledge Wisdom Understanding Sun Moon and Star 

Man Woman and Child, and so is Allah 

Chorus 

Bear witness to Allah, gave birth to all 

For Allah was all, and therefore, life itself 

And the universe gave birth to man 

The universe was man, and man was the universe 

And the universe was always existed 

And existance was life 

And life is Allah 

And Allah had no beginning because he is, what always was 

Rakim Allah, peace 

Now who is God?