Constant Elevation Lyrics

[Verse 1: The Grym Reaper]
Beware! Four figures appear through the fog
Yeah, Gravediggaz cut like sword... AHHHHHH
Fear makes ya brain go numb
You ain’t got a clue where the gods come from
I told myself to exist and then I fled
Over millions of sperm cells and I found the egg
No luck or mere chance
I came to enhance, represent and get open as a vent

[Verse 2: The Gatekeeper]
Psyyychopaaaaathic, a deep thoracic
Gravediggaz have mastered puttin' niggas in caskets
Blowin' like the wind, when I’m in my spin
You got fucked, cross the path of the twister
You face the storm and bring it on
And get chopped in the blocks from Hitchcock
The Birds, my mental ward is my brainstorm
Somehow I flipped and came equipped with a chainsaw

[Verse 3: The Grym Reaper]
Makin' gravy pays my rent for the day
Some hate the image that I must portray
Critics say, "Go to Hell", I go, "Yeah
Stupid motherfucker, I’m already here"
Frustrated, mentally aggravated
To be the rebel that society created

I’m good most times but when I’m foul, then I’m flagrant
Livin' in the shadows like a government agent
[Verse 4: The Gatekeeper]
I'mmmmm one side of the story
Shit cooked up from Gravediggaz laboratory

Transferrin' brains with remains of a slug
Let The Undertaker make the beats that’s buuugged
Path we're creatin', splittin' genes
Choppin' necks with the fat guillotines
I’m your nightmare, fright with the worst
One verse will put ya ass in my black hearse

[Verse 5: The RZArector]
RZAreeeector! Ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha!
Woohooo, hooah, hooah, hoo!

Danger, enter the Graveyard Chamber
It’s like someone diggin' inside your ear with a hanger
I inject my poisonous stinger to your finger
Of all your life forces, I’ll drain ya
I’m blood thirsty, thirsty for sure
About to blood-suck the same ones who blood-suck the poor
You’re not safe anymore
To all the holy spooks, I declare war
I’ll grave-dig them up from Hell, RZArect 'em
From the poisonous worms of swine, I disinfect 'em
Positive Energy Activates Constant Elevation
Positive Energy Activates Constant Elevation

[Outro: The Gatekeeper]
Out of the darkness
Out of the deep of the darkness
Lies the Gravediggaz
From the parts unknown
The world that’s unknown
People fear what they don’t understand
So, this is why we’re here
To explain that there’s nothin' to be afraid of
Have no fear, Gravediggaz are here

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Genius Annotation

2nd track from 6 Feet Deep or Niggamortis in the UK

B-side to the first single “Diary of a Madman”

Also has an alternate version where the RZArector has a different verse at the end. Prince Paul (the Undertaker) would later explain how this alternate version is the one he wished to appear on the album as well as other background info on the track:

“Constant Elevation” was, I think, the first song that we recorded collectively after we had gotten the deal, the first track done in a real studio rather than recording at my home. I remember Poetic started rhyming, RZA didn’t get there yet. There was me, Poetic and Frukwan, RZA was late getting to the studio. I asked Poetic to start it off and he just came with some regular… you know, not regular… but you could tell he hadn’t been in a studio in a while. And I’m like “come on man, come on this ain’t you, you’re nice man, don’t front man; you’re nice so let’s show it.” Then after a few more tries he came out with the “BEEEEEWARE!!” And he kicks the whole rhyme like that, real crazy. Now that’s what I’m talking about, that’s what I’m looking for. That kinda set the precedent on the album of what his style would be. Frukwan had to follow that right after, and he didn’t want to be outshined so he had to make sure that he got in where he fit in and then by the time RZA got to the studio I played him what we had done and his eyes lit up like “YOOO!! That’s crazy!” I wanted him to do just his regular style that he was doing at the time, but he was like “nah nah I gotta change it up, gotta change it, listen I’ve been working on this style of voice.” And that’s when he came with the style of voice we have on the album. We did two versions; we did one like how I wanted it to be done, which is on my Hip-Hop Gold Dust album, which I personally liked better and then the style that he did that ended up on the album.

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