[Pharoahe Monch]
   Yo
   Truth had me up against the ropes
   and semi-concious without no boxing skills
   Fear of it makes hair on my neck grow like minoxodil
   Watchin the clock is ill when, faced wit the truth
   Parallels observing, amateur video tapes of
   Twenty-one top notch NYPD cops get ill
   Fill they minds not to kill still son, never revealed
   True feelings, we speakin on the truth right now in itself is healing
   See The Creator, created existence and balance
   At right angles, unless it was conceived and stated
   So whoever shall stray away from right lives wrong
   The deliverance of the word false opposite of truth off course
   Sure as my slave name sending
   Troy Donald Jamerson paves the path, enabling truth
   To stay stable and cling to EARTH!
   Sorta similar to the way static electricity sting see
   Truth brings light, light refracts off the mirror
   Visions of yourself and error could never clearer
   The truth is that you ugly, not on the outside
   But in the inside on the outside you frontin you lovely
   The discovery of these things and all are well-hidden
   But when you in denial of self it is forbidden, that's the truth
  
   [Female singer]
   In due time we will find
  
   [Common] *speaking behind vocals*
   See it everywhere, gotta recognize it
  
   Let the truth be told from young souls that become old
   >From days spent in the jungle, where must one go
   To find it, time is real, we can't rewind it
   Out of everybody I met, who told the truth? Time did
   We find kids speakin cuz it's naturally in us
   But the false prophets by tellin us we born sinners
   Venders of hate, got me battlin my own mind state
   At a divine rate, I ain't in this just to rhyme great
   See the truth in the thighs of a stripper, the eyes of my nigga
   If it's only one, then why should it differ
   So constantly I seek it
   Wonderin why I gotta drink a six pack to speak it
   Took a picture of the truth and tried to develop it
   Had proof, it was only recognized by the intelligent
   Took the negative and positive, cuz niggas got to live
   Said I got to get more than I'm given
   Cuz truth'll never be heard in religion
   After searchin the world, on the inside what was hidden
   It was the truth
  
   [Female singer]
   Truth, truth, truth, truth, truth, truth
   In due time, we will find
  
   [Talib Kweli]
   Check it, on my neck I still got marks from the nooses
   The truth it produces, fear that got niggas on the run like Carl Lewis
   The truth is my crew is the smoothest bits of saliva juices like the roots is
   More organic than acoustics
   Heavenly ? set you free and kill you in the same breath
   That shit you gotta get off your chest before your death, unless
   The way you speak is lighter than a pamphlet
   Cuz the truth give the words away to the planet goddammit
   I ran wit what God planted in my heart and I understand it
   To be the bring the light to the dark, breathe some life in this art
   This must be the truth (why?) cuz we keep marchin on (true)
   The truth lay the foundation of what we rockin on (true)
   You can't see it if you blind but we will always prevail (true)
   Life is like the open sea, the truth is the wind in our sail
   And in the end, our names is on the lips of dying men
   If ever crushed in the earth, we always rise again
   When the words of lying men sound lush like the sound of a violin
   The truth is there, it's just the heart you gotta find it in
  
   [Female singer]
   You will find (7x)