Same story, same target, different time
  Cyclical reaction from the prisoners of the bilnd
  Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind
  Waiting for redemption, surviving in a bind
  
  Same story, same target, different time
  Cyclical reaction from the prisoners of the blind
  Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind
  Waiting for redemption, surviving in a bind
  
  [black thought]
  Yo, talk about paying the ultimate price
  Hurricane been incarcerated all of his life
  Started out at like twelve
  Trapped in a belly of hell
  Grew into a man inside of a cell
  Yo, anger just swell up
  At a early age that develop
  Hot head and now it ain't shit y'all could tell him
  They said he's on a road to become a felon
  But instead he swung blows that'll spilt your melon
  He did his thing and was the king of the ring, undisputed
  Started making noise but they tried to mute it
  They put him through it
  For him to make the system look stupid, [yo]
  They rather look you in the face and shoot it
  And leave your spot looted [or what]
  Or leave your whole life blank futured and caught
  When you scream at it and do it
  With sweat leaking from the outline of your soluid
  Don't understand the point that you at
  Or how the hell you came to it?
  Flashback to images of that night, out in patterson
  They pulled him over heading home from a gathering
  And when they told him the charge it kind of baffled him
  Murder in the first for the champ, we on that again?
  
  Chorus
  
  Hurricane
  Accuse a hurricane
  Ain't change a damned shame
  It's life for hurricane, hurricane
  
  [black thought]
  *overtop of sung chorus*
  Forever, imagine your locked down forever
  Could y'all stand the weather?
  Could you hold it together?
  You tell me that you know the pain
  Yo, imagine if your life was like a hurricane, a hurricane
  Forever, imagine your locked down forever
  Could ya'll stand the weather?
  You built for that weather?
  Yo, know what'm saying?
  Know what'm saying?
  
  [common]
  You gotta fight for what you believe in
  Nobody knows the troubles seen
  This flick left me wondering
  'what can become of kings and young kids?'
  Summer dream deferred, incident occured, freedom blurred
  A freedom that would only be retrieved again in words, later on
  The cops, y'all know what they be on
  A nigga's life is like a field that they play upon, away and gone from
  Natural lifer, a soul he had to fight,
  Learn it himself, sleep days, stay up half the night
  Amongst dead man walking, he got afterlife exercising,
  Developing his knack to write
  Never leaving his cell, in this world he trapped himself
  What he loved on the outside world, detached himself
  You know the cards blacks get dealt by the system
  He drew a picture of freedom with many dimensions
  This picture proved to be bigger than black and white
  A young soul named lesra brought him back to life
  It's amazing to a man what a book could do
  And how certain books seem to look for you
  This is the story of a champion's fall and rise
  The story left me wiping my eyes
  Peace ru
  
  
  Chorus
  
  Hurricane
  Accuse a hurricane
  Ain't change a damned shame
  It's life for hurricane, hurricane
  
  [black thought]
  *overtop of sung chorus*
  Yo, yo, forever, imagine your locked down forever
  Could y'all stand the weather?
  Could you hold it together?
  You tell me that you know the pain
  Yo, imagine if your life was like a hurricane, a hurricane
  Forever and ever yo, locked down forever
  Could you stand the weather?
  Yo, yo i can't even explain the pain
  Just imagine if your life was like a hurricane
  
  [mos def]
  Yes, i am the inescapable, the irresistable,
  The unnegotiable, the unchallenged [who dat?]
  I am time
  I scroll in measurements, control the elements,
  I hold the evidence, i tell the story [say what?]
  I am time
  I know no prejudice, i bare no sentiments
  For wealth or settlement, i move forward [who you?]
  I am time
  You can't recover me, conceal or smuggle me,
  Retreat or run from me, crawl up or under me,
  You can't do much for me besides serve
  Me well and have good dividends returned to you
  Or attempt to kill me off and have me murder you
  Many have wasted me but now they are facing me,
  Treated me unfaithfully and now endure me painfully
  Plaintively, i wait to see what history will shape to be,
  Who's hearts will never die inside the sake of me
  Angel's scribe the page for me,
  Keep a full account of all the names for me
  And make a special mark for hurricane who (?) patiently
  
  Chorus
  
  Hurricane
  Accuse a hurricane
  Ain't change a damned shame
  It's life for hurricane, hurricane
  
  [black thought]
  *overtop of sung chorus*
  Yo, yo, a hurricane forever,
  Imagine your locked down forever
  Could you stand the weather?
  Could you hold it together?
  I can't even explain the pain
  Imagine if your life was like a hurricane, a hurricane
  Forever, imagine your locked down forever and ever, ever
  Could you hold it together?
  Yo, can't explain the pain with words, know'm saying?
  Just imagine if your life was like a hurricane
  
  [verse 4]
  The clouds clashed and the heaven's gave birth to star
  God placed it in a man on the day he was born
  Convicted minutes after, a true natural disaster
  Framed for manslaughter, the hurricane carter rising
  From out the south water, like torrential rains
  In the ring no opponent escaped unscathed
  You can't believe the world we live in's injust
  All i see is more proof, there's no place for us
  They had my man carter locked in a cage, like an animal
  Drive him to the point where the mind work mechanical
  Or works by remote control
  It was done to all of us, they tapped directly into our soul
  Either it's sing-sing, or it's bars around your mind
  There's no where to run, no where to hide
  In a six-by-six a guilty man cries
  For repentance and lost is what innocence is
  
  
  Same story, same target, different time
  Cyclical reaction from the prisoners of the bilnd
  Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind
  Waiting for redemption, surviving in a bind
  
  Same story, same target, different time
  Cyclical reaction from the prisoners of the blind
  Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind
  Waiting for redemption, surviving in a bind
  
  
  Chorus
  
  Hurricane
  Accuse a hurricane
  Ain't change a damned shame
  It's life for hurricane, hurricane
  
  [black thought]
  *overtop of sung chorus*
  Your locked down forever
  Could you stand the weather?
  Could you hold it together?
  I can't even explain the pain, know'm saying?
  Your life was like a hurricane, a hurricane
  Forever, imagine behind bars forever
  Could you stand the weather?
  You built for that? is you cut for that?
  Don't be telling me that you know the pain
  Your life was like a hurricane, yo
  
  Same story, same target, different time
  Cyclical reaction from the prisoners of the bilnd
  Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind
  Waiting for redemption, surviving in a bind
  
  Same story, same target, different time
  Cyclical reaction from the prisoners of the blind
  Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind
  Waiting for redemption, surviving in a bind