Life is a Movie - GZA/Genius

I got scientist killas that’ll jam your cell phone

Send a text message, kill you off with a ringtone

High pitched noise, on your brain, it’s heavy

Autopsy report, that he jumped off a train

It started when the dearly departed, tried to escape max'

Then cut into the general’s income like state tax

One call, to seal the deal with feel

Doctor on the payroll, cost a quarter mill

The mailman’s late with the check

I’m in the flood with a bunch of bills that’s about up to my neck

Plus my rent’s not paid and the light’s about to go off

Car got stolen by a thief who likes to show off

I can’t even get a job, giving out flyers

I’m a handyman with a pair of broke pliers

The fridge is theirs, Mother Hubbard’s cupboard

I’m so down and out, I can only go upward

I form rhymes in alphabet soups

From the rhythm of the spoon, I transform the loop

From the steam of the bowl, I’m making special effects

Add a dash of spice, only God can detect

Had a word, to make a bear return to his cub

A word that make a girl come home from the club

A word that make a heven return back to God

And the word that help Dorothy get home from Oz

Thirty frames per second, these films we be perfecting

Scenes of light put through all projection

Electricity, perfectivity

Audio and visually, physically and mentally

I got a smile that’ll make the mirror crack

And I seem to stay under clouds that’s pitch black

So when it rains, it pours, and when it pours, I’m soaked

I contracted lung cancer from third hand smoke

And uh, I’m like the frog that’s dying to be a prince

The boy who cried wolf and no one was convinced

The man who hit lotto and lost his ticket

In a rainstorm, and struck by lightning trying to get it

And sometimes I feel like my life’s a movie

I don’t like to film, I don’t like to film

And sometimes I feel like my life’s a movie

I don’t like to film, I don’t like to film

Play it all back, play it all back

Lights, camera, action, let the tape roll

Some scripts get ripped, canned or even sold

Directors vision, producers decision

And raised the budget, because the chase had collisions

Stunt double risks his life just for the thrill

DP checks the gate before the scene gets sealed

Gaffer slapped with a slate for being late

Craft service got nervous and dropped a hundred plates

Leading actor banging an extra in the trailer

Screaming, hitting high notes like Mahalia

Box office hit and a Blockbuster smash

Two hundred mil' budget and still recouped the cash