Lesson One (Tablo's Word)
Epik High

Yeah, people, attention

Education, knowledge

Huh, yeah, I got something to say to my teachers

Genius is not the answer to all questions

It's the question to all answers


Do we learn math to add the dead sums?

Subtract the weak ones, count cash for great ones?

Yo, we multiply but divide the nation.

Break down like fractions, send our sons away to die

Do we learn science in defiance of faith?

To make alliance with fakes for an appliance's sake?

We ask for the real to make artificial intelligence to make smarter kills of others' presidents


Why do we learn history? To fix stories for the guilty

Make angels look filthy and the devils look milky

If the victor writes the books then what have we won?

Are we battleships of authorship a rich man's guns?


Do we learn to read to receive the lies,

to deceive the eyes from seeing between the lines?

Yo, we use words to bring forth sticks and stones,

to sing songs of hate that fill the streets with bones.


Unseen or heard,

a king with words

Tablo, lyrical assassin


y-y-yeah yeah


Make me vision for better livin'


Unseen or heard,

a king with words

Tablo, lyrical assassin


y-y-yeah yeah

Make me vision

(I'm the truth)



Is a day job more than self-slavery?

When we're locked watching the clock impatiently

we sweat for the dollar bills, the checks, and the credit cards

but the dollar kills, breaks the necks of our inner hearts


If the police are role models for the righteous,

why does justice depend on guns and nightsticks?

Mr. officer, don't punish me, with brutality

The streets got me singing Marvin Gaye off-key


Why do we need church to get to heaven's gates?

Can holy water quench the thirst of those whose fates

Started in the wrong place with the wrong face?

Can the poor and the hungry survive solely on grace?

Can this rap game ever bring changes?

When MCs would rather floss a cross than be saviors?

Will I last in this game, be blasted with shame

Will I stand for my name and never blaspheme for fame?


Unseen or heard,

a king with words

Tablo, lyrical assassin


y-y-yeah yeah


Make me vision for better livin'


Unseen or heard,

a king with words

Tablo, lyrical assassin


y-y-yeah yeah

Make me vision

(I'm the truth)


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  白夜 (white night)   거미줄   선곡표   실어증   알고 보니   우산(Feat.윤하)   트로트 (English Translation)   피해망상 Pt. 1   행복합니다   혼   희생양   1 Minute And 1 Second   1 Minute, 1 Second   8 by 8, Part2   Be   Believe   Bonus Track: I Remember (70s Soul Remix)   Breakdown   Breakdown (Supreme Mix)   Breathe (Mithra’s Word)   Broken Toys   Butterfly Effect   Coffee   Cold (Feat. Lee Ha Yi)   Customer Service   Décalcomanie   Day of Peace   Dedication   Don't Hate Me   Don’t Hate Me   말로맨 (Malloman)   Eight By Eight   Emologue   Excuses   Fallin'   Fan   Fan (english)   FAQ   FLOW   Fly   Fly (featuring Amin. J of Soulciety)   Follow The Flow   Follow the Flow (featuring MYK, D-Tox)   Fool   Free Love   Free Music   Ghost (Interlude)   Gift   Girl Rock   Good Evening   Habit   Happy Birthday to Me   Happy Birthday To Me (English Translation)   Heaven   High School   High Skool   High Skool Dropout   High Technology   I Remember   If You Love, You Should Say It   Ignition   Innisfree (Intro)   트로트 (Trot)   Kill This Love   Lady   Lesson 2 (The Sunset)   Lesson One   Let It Rain   London   Loneliness Loved One   Love / Crime   Love Love Love   Love Love Love (english)   Love Love Love (English)   Love Song   love/crime   Map The Soul   Maze   Moonwalker   Moonwalker (English Translation)   Mr. Doctor   My Ghetto   New Beautiful   No More Christmas   Nocturne   Noise   Oceans. Sand. Trees.   One   One (Planet Shiver Remix)   Open M.I.C. (featuring Eun Ji Won, TBNY, Tweak and...   Organs. Screams. Televisions.   Over   Owls. Shadows. Tears.   Paris   Paris (featuring Jisun of Loveholic)   Public Execution   Ride (featuring L. Wan)   Rocksteady   Rocksteady (Korean Version)   Run   Runaway   Scenario   Scrimp Feat. Gaeko   Shopaholic   Slow Motion   Slow Motion (English Translation)   Soul   Still Here   Still Life   Supreme 100   The Epikurean (Intermission)   The Falling Flower   The Future   Top Gun   Umbrella   Underground Railroad   Useon   Villain   Wannabe   Watch Ya Self   With You   Wordkill

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