Mystery Of Iniquity Lyrics - Mtv Unplugged - Lauryn Hill

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 

'cause 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 

Its entertainmentthe 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 

Skyscraping, paper chasing 

What are we working for? 

Empty traditions 

Reaching social positions 

Teaching ambition to support the family superstition? 

When the Son of Podition 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 soughtwas 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