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DARK PROPHECY: I SING OF SHINE
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DARK PROPHECY: I SING OF SHINE And, yeah, brothers while white I america sings about the unsinkable molly brown (who was hustling the titanic when it went down) I sing to thee of Shine the stoker who was hip enough to flee the fucking ship and let the white folks drown with screams on their lips (jumped his ~lack ass into the dark sea, Shine did, broke free from the straining steel). Yeah, I sing to thee of Shine and how the millionaire banker stood on the deck and pulled from his pockets a million dollar check saying Shine Shine save poor me and I'll give you all the money a black boy needshow Shine looked at the money and then at the sea and said jump in mothafucka and swim like meAnd Shine swam on-Shine swam onand how the banker's daughter ran naked on the deck with her pink tits trembling and her pants roun her neck screaming Shine Shine save poor me and I'll give you all the pussy a black boy needshow Shine said now pussy is good and that's no jive but you got to swim not fuck to stay aliveAnd Shine swam on Shine swam onHow Shine swam past a preacher afioating on a board crying save me nigger Shine in the name of the Lordand how the preacher grabbed Shine's arm and broke his strokehow Shine pulled his shank and cut the preacher's throatAnd Shine swam on-Shine swam onAnd when the news hit shore that the titanic had sunk Shine was up in Harlem damn near drunk 49 ...