Immortal Technique Lyrics

Fail

Then I fail again

Ain't no secret to it baby I'm addicted to the work

Watch me fail

Then I fail some more

If opportunity knocking

Then imma let it in the door

My technique immortalized no way around that

Copy the sound and imma take you round back

Cause I failed

Just to make it here

You impressed with me now

Come and see me in a year

Watched too many of my peers derail by cutting corners

Focused on becoming a Lucas, but not a Joyner

A speech weaver known for his truth, I'm Sojourner

Cold on the mic, this season I get warmer

I'm so journey that I'm running the camp

Digging holes in the game till they give me a stamp

No map, but I know when the treasure is found

It's a sign of the times when they pass me the crown

My technique is flawless because I work

Pastor preach

I'm using the time to correct the verse

Seen a hearse, it was carrying my dream to the grave

Told me that I gotta sacrifice my soul if I save

More than one of my goals if I survive

This Carolina rapper you started to idolize

Shocked at my successes it should been no surprise

Took the logic of the legends it's obvious I defied

Fail

Then I fail again

Ain't no secret to it baby I'm addicted to the work

Watch me fail

Then I fail some more

If opportunity knocking

Then imma let it in the door

My technique immortalized no way around that

Copy the sound and imma take you round back

Cause I failed

Just to make it here

You impressed with me now

Come and see me in a year

Barely relatable

Barely sustainable

My whole career been going against the grain

Surely I'm capable

It's not debatable

It's bout time the city gave me a chain

Walk in the rain nursing my pain to get a zenkai

Energy been fueling my gains since I was knee high

A flower boy with a spirit of flame

If I leave it all now then really nothing will change

Cause if I'm disrespected now

While I'm giving like I made it

If the money comes then how can I be jaded

Hated, how all of my love just faded

Put my heart and soul in everything that I created

Fail and succeed, live and I breathe inside my purpose

Holding all the stress, I'm crying beneath the surface

Only challenge I ever faced during a versus is me

Cause I perfected my immortal technique

Fail

Then I fail again

Ain't no secret to it baby I'm addicted to the work

Watch me fail

Then I fail some more

If opportunity knocking

Then imma let it in the door

My technique immortalized no way around that

Copy the sound and imma take you round back

Cause I failed

Just to make it here

You impressed with me now

Come and see me in a year

May not come when you want it

But it's gonna be right on time

May not come when you want it

But it's gonna be right on time