[ti:You Never Know] [ar:Immortal Technique] [al:Revolutionary, Vol. 2] [00:00.02]Immortal Technique Feat. Jean Grae - You Never Know [00:09.02] [00:35.74]Verse 1 - Immortal Technique [00:36.26]She was on her way to becoming a college graduate [00:39.35]Wouldn't even stop to talk to the average kid [00:42.59]The type of latina I'd sit and contemplate marriage with [00:45.66]Fuck the horse and carriage shit, her love was never for hire [00:48.71]Disciplined, intellectual beauty's what I desire [00:52.14]Flyer than Salma Hayek or Jennifer Lopez [00:54.92]Everyone told me, kickin' it to her was hopeless [00:58.05]At first I just thought, she didn't mess with broke kids [01:01.09]The thug niggaz always talking about, how they smoke kids [01:04.15]But the rich-sniff-coke kids got no play [01:07.21]"I'm not even interested" is what her body language would say [01:10.75]Everyone around the way, gave up trying to get in it [01:13.38]It didn't matter how good your game was, she wasn't with it [01:16.66]On the block, bitches was jealous, but wouldn't admit it [01:19.48]Talk shit, and deny to everyone that they did it [01:22.52]'Cause they regreted the long list of niggaz that they let hit it [01:25.70]And no one ever gave them shit except McDonald's and did-dick [01:28.70]Smoking weed with thoughts of envy, whenever they lit it [01:31.86]She spoke intelligently and they bit it, always trying to copy [01:35.12]But when they tried to use her vocab, they sounded sloppy [01:38.34]She had a style, all her own, respectful and pure [01:41.11]I was sick in the head for her, and there wasn't a cure [01:44.18] [01:44.81]Hook - Jean Grae [01:45.58]Don't you know that, time waits for no man [01:53.18]Not fate, it's all planned [01:55.72]I'm blessed just to know you [02:00.03]To be loved and to love, just to hold you all night [02:02.98]Can't find, a reason why [02:05.68]God came, to you and I [02:08.04]If I had the chance again, I'd never let you go [02:12.54]Hold tight to your love, 'cause you never know [02:15.23] [02:15.83]Verse 2 - Immortal Technique [02:16.32]Her eyes are brown and beautiful, yet empty and sad [02:18.10]I used to talk to her occasionally, and she was glad [02:21.08]That I wasn't just another nigga trying to get in it [02:24.05]So every now and then we'd stop and talk for a minute [02:27.24]I didn't have a gimmick so the minutes turned to hours [02:30.35]On her birthday, I gave her a poem with flowers [02:33.52]Then I took her out to dinner after her cousin's baby shower [02:36.63]We talked about, power to the people and such [02:39.64]We spent more time together but it was never enough [02:42.65]I never tried to sneak a touch, or even cop a feel [02:45.76]I was too interested, in keeping it real [02:48.84]Perfectly honest and complete, she would always call me "carino," [02:52.17]And never Technique, bought me a new book to read every 2 or 3 weeks [02:56.42]Forever changing the expression of my thoughts when I speak [02:59.51]It was because of her, I even deaded all of my freaks [03:02.58]She convinced me, to stop hangin' out on the streets [03:05.46]To stop robbin' and stealin', from people like you [03:08.54]Instead I took her out to the Apollo and the Bronxu [03:11.86]We sailed in Barrio (?) and the Metropolitan too [03:14.90]Got to the point when I was either with her or my crew [03:17.92]So I decided one day, to tell her my feelings was true [03:21.42]I couldn't live without her so I told her, facing my fears [03:24.12]But honey's only response, was a face full of tears [03:27.13]She could only sob hysterically, holding me tight [03:30.37]I tried to speak, but she wouldn't stop until I left sight [03:33.37]I felt like a moth who got himself too close to the light [03:36.22]Except I didn't burn, I turned cold after that night [03:39.51] [03:40.18]Hook - Jean Grae [03:40.87]Don't you know that, time waits for no man [03:44.30]Not fate, it's all planned [03:46.58]I'm blessed just to know you [03:50.47]To be loved and to love, just to hold you all night [03:53.66]Can't find, a reason why [03:56.46]God came, to you and I [03:59.10]If I had the chance again, I'd never let you go [04:02.71]Hold tight to your love, 'cause you never know [04:05.92] [04:06.35]Verse 3 - Immortal Technique [04:06.84]I went on with my life, college and my career [04:08.94]Ended up locked up like an animal for a year [04:11.73]Where the C.O.'s talk to you like they were the overseer [04:15.01]Then I got sent to the hole, when my exit was near [04:18.07]At night in my cell, I'd close my eyes and I'd see her [04:21.36]Hold her close in my dreams, but when I woke she disappeared [04:24.30]Just an empty cell until the state gave me parole in the summer [04:28.22]came back, in tact and on track [04:30.33]But the fact of the matter, is I still felt cold [04:33.32]Even after my mother, hugged me, cryin' at home [04:36.59]My real niggaz would catch me thinkin', out of my zone [04:39.44]Fuckin' lots of different women, but I still felt alone [04:42.63]Relatively well-known around the New York underground [04:45.76]But I kept thinking of her and how we used to be down [04:48.70]The sound of her voice, and the beautiful smell of her hair [04:51.94]Though gone physically, somehow it was still there [04:54.84]I had to do something, because the shit was too much to bear [04:57.95]So I went and visited the building where she used to live [05:01.35]The world looks a lot different after you do a bid [05:04.39]The way your life done changed [05:08.13]While primitive minds (are) still stuck in the same game [05:09.91]Like her cousin who was on the corner slangin' cocaine [05:11.85]Stepped in the lobby and tapped the button next to her last name [05:14.99]Her mom buzzed me up and hugged me up, like a mother oughta [05:18.12]But her facial expression changed, when I asked about her daughter [05:21.38] [05:21.81]Hook - Jean Grae [05:22.30]Don't you know that, time waits for no man [05:23.39]Not fate, it's all planned [05:25.06]I'm blessed just to know you [05:28.98]To be loved and to love, just to hold you all night [05:32.09]Can't find, a reason why [05:35.06]God came, to you and I [05:37.35]If I had the chance again, I'd never let you go [05:41.11]Hold tight to your love, 'cause you never know [05:44.10] [05:44.58]Verse 4 - Immortal Technique [05:45.14]She told me that there was a note for me, that was left behind [05:47.43]She had left it there waiting, for such a long time [05:50.25]I was inclined to ask about it but she brought it up first [05:53.36]I saw a tear swelling up in her eye, and then she cursed [05:56.64]She told me where the letter was and I started thinking the worst [05:59.43]Reversed my position, stepped over and opened the door [06:02.44]And sure enough there was an envelope with my name on the floor [06:05.68]"Nobody loves you more than me carino" is what the letter said [06:08.94] [06:09.45]"By the time you get to read this, I'll probably be dead [06:11.97]But when you left in '97 a part of me went to Heaven [06:14.94]I thank God at least I got to know what love really was [06:18.00]But it hurt me, to see what true love really does [06:21.02]'Cause even though we never made love, you were all that there was [06:24.14]It was because I loved you so much that I had to make you leave [06:27.47]You made me doubt the way I thought, you made me want to believe [06:30.38]And then I slipped up, and I let you get close to me [06:33.24]It was hard to not be openly when people spoke to me [06:36.25]This was not the way I thought my life was supposed to be [06:39.70]Baby don't you see, I had a blood transfusion that left me with HIV [06:44.23]Hoped the end exists for me since late in 1993 [06:47.25]I died a virgin, I wish I could've given myself to you [06:50.55]I cried in the hospital because there was no one else but you [06:53.31]Promise that you'll meet me in paradise inevitably [06:56.66]No matter what, I'll keep your love forever with me" [06:59.30] [07:00.19]What happened for the rest of the day is still a blur [07:02.82]But I remember wishing that I was dead, instead of her [07:05.81]She was buried on August 3rd [07:07.74]The story ends without a sequel [07:09.01]And now you know why Technique, don't fucking fall in love with people [07:12.06]Hold the person that you love closely if they're next to you [07:14.80]The one you love, not the person that'll simply have sex with you [07:17.98]Appreciate them to the fullest extent, and then beyond [07:21.39]'Cause you never really know what you got, until it's gone [07:24.25] [07:24.83]End [07:25.38] [07:26.02]Immortal Technique Feat. Jean Grae - You Never Know [07:32.02]