karaoke
It's time to play the game
Time to play the game
It's all about the game and how you play it
All about control and if you can take it
All about your debt and if you can pay it
It's all about pain and who's gonna make it
I am the game, you don't wanna play me
I am control, no way you can shake me
I am heavy debt, no way you can pay me
I am the pain and I know you can't take me
Look over your shoulder ready to run
Like a good little bitch from a smokin' gun
I am the game and I made the rules
So move on out here and die like a fool
Try to figure out what the move's gonna be
Come on over, sucka why don't you ask me
Don't you forget there's a price you can pay
'Cause I am the game and I want to play
It's time to play the game
Time to play the game
It's all about the game and how you play it
It's all about control and if you can take it
It's all about your debt and if you can pay it
It's all about pain and who's gonna make it
I am the game, you don't wanna play me
I am control, there's no way you can shake me
I am your debt, you know you can't pay me
I am your pain and I know you can't take me
Play the game, you're gonna be the same
You're gonna change your name, you're gonna die in flames
Time to play the game
It's time to play the game
It's time to play the game
It's time to play the game
Time to play the game
[DJ Clue]
Yeah... DJ Clue...Dessert Storm...EA Sports...Come on
[Fabolous]
NBA Live...2003... Fabolous...Who Gon' Stop Me!!?
[Verse 1]
I hoop with the best of them swooped up the chest of them
dunked on a bunch caught ali-oops on the rest of them
I got the lean on the "J" now
it really don't matter if we play in arenas or playgrounds
throw it around the back so it look fly when I pass
just to avoid the block go high off the glass
I'm killing them out there they gon' have to bring caskets
this all I hear after the baskets *swoosh*
but I ain't even warm up
and still pull from where it counts for 3 points and leave the form up
you must be insane if you give me the lane or perimiter
the crossover will sprain every limb on ya
I never woulda, ever coulda
thought I could come off the baseline and jump over seven-footers
soon as you step out the locker room you now can see
how live it gets in 2003
[Hook: repeat 2X]
Who gon' stop me when I'm in the lane?
I come to entertain you know its in the game
Who gon' stop me? go and get 5
I D-up with 5 you know it gets live
[Verse 2]
I'm the crowd favorite and I believe the
A sense of duty was my one intention
And an ugly beauty was my own invention
Pride build on your refusal
And I refuse to need your approval
Too many seekers
Too few beacons
But through the fog
We'll keep on beaming
Through the crying hours of your glittering years
All the living out of your tinsel tears
And the midnight trains that I never made
'Cause I'd already played the game
Everybody's got their own good reason
Why their favorite season is their favorite season
Winter winners and those summers sons
Are good for everyone, good for everyone
Spring has sprung
And autumns so well done
And now I must do what
As to be done
It's a better thing that we do now
Forgetting everything, the why's and how's
While you reminisce about the things you miss
You won't be ready to kiss goodbye
The earth is a world
The world is a ball
A ball in a game
With no rules at all
And just as I wonder
At the beauty of it all
You'd go and drop it
And it breaks when it falls
I'll never understand why you thought I would
Need to be reassured and be understood
When I always knew that your bad's my good
And I was ready to be loved
A sense of duty was my one intention
And an ugly beauty was my own invention
Pride build on your refusal
And I refuse to need your approval
Understand why you thought I would
Need to be reassured and be understood
When I always knew that your bad's my good
And I was ready to be
It's a better thing that we do now
Forgetting everything, the why's and how's
You reminisce about the things you miss
You will be ready to kiss
Through the crying hours of your glittering years
All the living out of your tinsel tears
And the midnight trains that I never made
Don't come cryin' to me when it's over
Don't you come knockin' at my door
Don't come cryin' to me I won't be waiting
Like I've done a hundred times before
You promised you'd love me forever
Now it's all over town you've changed your mind
Well you call me and say "let;'s get together"
But I'm sorry I won't take you back this time
Don't come cryin' to me when it's over
Don't you come knockin' at my door
Don't come cryin' to me I won't be waiting
Like I've done a hundred times before
Don't come cryin' to me when it's over
Don't you come knockin' at my door
Don't come cryin' to me I won't be waiting
Like I've done a hundred times before
"It's only right that I address this..."
"Gotta be in it to win it..."
"I never come lame type killin in the game..."
"Now... get busy..."
"It's only right that I address this..."
"Gotta be in it to win it...."
"I never come lame type killin in the game..."
"Hot music..."
Raised by game where niggas ain't phased by fame
Come to the crib, get banged, they take your chain.
Stay in your lane, Brokeback ain't the way of the game
My brainstorm is like I stay in the rain
My favorite was Kane, now I'm dope with weight in the game
You was hot but can't stay in the flame
Ghetto pain and windows crack, the fist is like a symbol for black
Can tell the real by how the real interact
In the middle of whack my soul sticks to a track
Kickback records get kicked to the back
I want big cribs and my man Ronnie to get his
Child in a good school and know what her gift is
It's global warming, the world is shifting
Watching Sweet Sixteen, Bitchin-ass rich kids
You don't know it like you gotta go the distance
Whether yoga or doja, we all get lifted in the Game
I never kissed the ass of the masses, I'm the black molasses
Thick and I lasted past these rat bastards
They try to box me in like Cassius Clay
Hey I'm like Muhammad when he fasted
Opposing the fascist, make cuts and got gashes
Scratches over third eyelashes
Punchlines are like jab hits to rappers
Whose careers now ashes it's too many slashes
In his name, came in the game these gun-clappers
From weak lines to clothing lines to an actress
I seen em dashing smash hits
I yell run nigga run while I cook up classics
The weak hearted, become Babylon puppets
Making it hard for real hustlas
Touch the sky now and then, with a lady friend
Give thanks to the most that's how the day begins in the game.
I just wanna be like Akeelah, an achiever
from the streets of the Chi where some get high for leisure
Selling weed out of cleaners
From rocks to barber shops and beemers
Chicks with blond weaves and strong legs like Serena
The demeanor of the Ghetto, to never stay settled
Aldermen and corrupt men play Pharaoh
GOOD bring business to the hood like heralds
Find your own, walking by themself in the street
The young die of cancer, I stop eating meat
Greet the gods on 87th street like peace
Even though it's war to G, got em facing the east
The game ain't tasting as sweet
Cats flow is still, and they complacent with beats
My radio station is deep, so eff em
My friend's wife, she plays the game
She plays it with me all the time
Makes me feel pretty good, I guess
Hey, that's a pretty dress
But you shouldn't have
No, you shouldn't have
Let me know
No, you shouldn't have
You just shouldn't have
Let it go
Play with me
Don't play with me
Don't play
Play with me
Don't play with me
Don't play
Don't you wanna play the game
If I were a renegade
And you were the county line
Would I have to cross it now
I got yours, you got mine
But you shouldn't have
No, you just shouldn't have
Let it go
Play with me
Don't play with me
Don't play
Play with me
Don't play with me
Don't play
Don't you wanna play the game
Now jealousy is just a game
Ties you up that wraps around your brain
Makes you feel like you might hurt yourself
Makes you feel insane
Play with me
Don't play with me
Don't play
Play with me
Don't play with me
Don't play
Don't you wanna play the game
There's an owl in the valley fixing his prey
He's not counting the tally
It's down to what comes up before the day
And the trees in the orchard were taken from a narrow
view of time
Where the minds of the tortured perpetuated patron
saints of crime
Oh civilisation.
I can fit into your puzzle but it's hardly, hardly ever
a hold
And I'll tell you, yeah yeah, tell you the trouble
The habits I've got are more than 10.000 years old
And we cannot sell our souls to learning morals
Big brother is no place for us to slide
We cannot live by numbers or on laurels
And hardly on how far from death we hide.
And it's not a case of rampant paranoia
But just an age I'd love to see unborn
Not that I'd be missing playing Goya
More like I feel awkward passing on
Civilisation, civilisation down to my children
Without a question.
While the prophets of freedom, battery farming brains
for narrow minds
Have decided, yes they decided that meaning is far
beyond the lives they left behind
As two thirds of the population dine
On scraps in shadow lengthening with time
While propaganda spreads the same old theme
You is me and we can change the game, bullshit.
Oh but how many times have we written these lines
And delivered these signs and not made it happen
Walking the tightrope of taking our head off
Losing the rhythm, idealising and all criticising
And not realising that we've changed and left and we've
gone.
And sad to be leaving the things we believe in but time
has a way and we fly
The next age is born and the old hands are gone and
done in the wink of an eye
No point in passing bad reason good guessing, no time
for massing much more than can flourish with love.
And right now, my darling, I'm lying here dreaming of
feeling, no daylight between us
So wherever you are and whenever I'm there is someplace
we've got to be ours
Can we right-heartedly stand in this light and see what
might turn out to be crazy enough, enough to be we ?
When we've had a past sad enough to last for sometime
into the future
These storms have torn and true love is alone and the
past is almost a failure
Consciences burn in the programme turn, computing the
social behaviour
But yoke revolts, the foundation bolts and cries for
yet another saviour.
And I'd pack my things on a pair of wings and tomorrow
I'd be parting
With the summer birds and the winter herds for a place
to face a new heart in
But it makes no difference, where I am I'm in the game
first hand
There are no certain answers and no time to understand
The rules are set to paradox, coercion and blind faith
The goal's a changing paradise, a moment out of date
The dream is righteous grandeur fit to flood the
universe
The fact is more than meets the eye but less than runs
the earth, running the earth.
And the prisoner of the present paces up and down
inside his cell
He's the living replacement, somersaulting from this
psychic well
Screaming : 'I'm the sponsor of a hell'
Voices like the sea inside a shell
Telling me I cannot stake a claim
Possession is a clue but not the game
So please leave this world as clean as when you came.
So please leave this world as clean as when you came
Please leave this world as clean as when you came
Please leave this world as clean as when you came
[Verse 1: Vinnie Paz]
I'm the American Taliban
I love my weaponary, it's from Japan
If I don't know you, don't converse with me just slap my hand
Or else your forcing me to cock it fucking back in blam
It ain't a loss to me, you soft as fucking bags of sand
I stay with the heavy metal like merciful fate
Until I see the separation of church and the state
They take advantage of dying lives and seldom
So fuck the liars and the lying liars who tell em'
And fuck everybody who say that I'm not on my dean(?)
And fuck the Catholics, supported the Nazi regime
I'm the reason that logic in the philosophers dream
And the reason that I deposit a shot in your splean
And while you worry about the second coming of your Jesus
There's a connection to vaccines and other diseases
They hurtful procedures and use the tools well
That's why they try to keep you from the water fuel cell
I feel like putting a gat to my dome
Cause they faggots and they liars like the Vatican throne
I bring the life into a track like I'm Lazarus Home
So never fuck around with me, I'm a statue of stone
[Verse 2: Apathy]
Digging rings by the moonlight
Walk through mud in new Nikes
Gonna raise my son by the way of the gun; and have him shoot right
Elevate the mental state and take him to new heights
It might not kill him if you drop him from two flights
Breaking down your molecules quicker than transporters
Decepticon, Kublai Khan, conquering transformers
The fourth-quarter quarterback
Got a quarter? Call the coroner and tell em' that
Ten gee's to get the corpses back
Heavy-metal, metamorphic, meditate to slay your tapes
Radical rythem with nuclear raps when it radiates
Fuck loading glock clips, Ap is on some cosmic shit
Aim Cape Canaveral at ya, shoot you with a rocket ship
Shock em' with a shotgun shell
I'm Johnny Rotten as hell
With big business like Sid Vicious on shit cell
You faggot back packers, rap on computers
The Bar was dark and quiet and still
And nothing could be heard
The dust lay undisturbed
At a table near the back, underneath a fan
Two men shared a joke about the normal folk
The cards are on the table
The winner takes it all
The game is nearly over
One man about to fall
Well I don't believe in heaven
I don't believe in hell
I don't believe what I'm seeing
This is no game, can't you tell
"I'm calling your bluff!" the first man said
"The people went to war, they always wanted more
How could I ever fail to lose
They can't take it any more, they want to end the score"
The second man showed his hand
Some walked barefoot across the land
And many have seen the future
And are doing the best they can
CHORUS
Instrumental
CHORUS
The clock ticked past the final hour
Now which of the men had lost? and what was the cost?
The glasses now were empty and gone
To wash away the shame, and take away the pain
One man left the table
The other was head in hands
He paid the bill for the defeated
The only thing that's left that stands
CHORUS x2
Music by Dave Carlo; Lyrics by Bob Reid
"Good evening sports fans and welcome to what should
prove to be the best game of the year.
Hello everyone, I'm johnny bigmouth, welcoming you to
the final game of the world championship.
We're expecting to see one helluva game tonight,
There's no love lost between these two teams.
Each drawing endless amounts of penalties:
We've had fights, cheap shots, name calling - everything we could ask for...
So now, we take you live and play...the game."
You gave it your all, you gave all you've got
You reached for the limit, you pushed till you dropped
You scratched and you clawed, you spilled out your guts
You gave them your oath and you signed it in blood
Bent over backwards, your body is sore
You gave them your life but they still wanted more
You carry the load, you dig deep inside
Blood, sweat and tears till the day that you die
The game...betrayed
This is how you get repaid
They're playing with your mind, they're playing with your head
How do you like your meal when you're being force fed
This is how you get repaid...the game
You crash and you burn, you've stood at the top
You faced all the pressure and took the cheap shots
Your body keeps dying, wealth is the gain
You fought all the battles and played through the pain
You scratch at the scabs, you swear when you bleed
You laughed at the stitches and lost your front teeth
Go through the therapy, break all your bones
Then comes the trade, you buy/sell your home
"Oh my..what a hit! did you see that? unbelievable...
That's gotta hurt. The abuse this boy takes night after night,
and he's still putting on quite a show for the fans.
This guy is worth every penny he makes.. I tell ya.. that's gotta hurt..."
You talk of the glories and memories gone past
A brilliant career though it could never last
You're down and you're bitter, your rings are in hock
There's pins in your knees and you limp when you walk
You take all the pills, make the pain go away
You've lost all your wealth but your agent's ok
Your children have left you, your wife did the same
Look what it got you, but man he could sure play the game
Will I just tell you to give up?
No matter how you'll play this game
But I can handle the sorrow
Whatever time is running out
You wonder why
Our last goodbye
It's relieving my tears, it's so easy
I won't deny
Life changed my mind
Will I be such a dreamer?
No matter how I'll play this game
To get is symptom of giving
Whatever time is over now
You wonder why
Our last goodbye
It's relieving my tears, it's so easy
I won't deny
Life changed my mind
You wonder why
Our last goodbye
It's relieving my tears, it's so easy
I won't deny
Life changed my mind
Tell me exactly what am I supposed to do
Now that I have allowed you to beat me
Do you think that we could play another game
Maybe I could win this time
I kind of like the misery you put me through
Darlin' you can trust me completely
If you even try to look the other way
I think that I could kill this time
Wah! Wah
Wah! Wah
It doesn't really seem I'm getting through to you
Though I see you weeping so sweetly
I think that you might have to take another taste
A little bit of hell this time
Wah! Wah
Lie to me
Wah! Wah
Lie to me
Is she not right? Is she insane?
Will she now run for her life now that she lied to me?
Is she not right? Is she insane?
Will she now run for her life now that she lied to me?
You always wanted people to remember you
To leave your little mark on society
Don't you know your wish is coming true today
Another victim dies tonight
Wah! Wah
Lie to me
Wah! Wah
Lie to me
Is she not right? Is she insane?
Will she now run for her life now that she lied to me?
Is she not right? Is she insane?
Will she now run for her life now that she lied to me?
Is she really telling me lies again
Doesn't she realize she's in danger
Eyow
Is she not right? Is she insane?
Will she now run for her life now that she lied to me?
Is she not right? Is she insane?
Will she now run for her life now that she lied to me?
The little bitch, she went and told a lie
And now she will never tell another a lie
The little bitch she went and she told a lie
Never fucking lie to me!
Your life defined by many lies
You dwell in your own words
Distant from all that's real
Gaze into the mirror
And behold the Face of a player
A game of life - the game of life
A game with your life - the game
A game of life - the game of life
A game with your life - the game of life
In some situations once so common
And then disappointed stabbed those
That once aided you in the back
Seeking truth in a glass
Aggressive and disappointed
You roam through life
Tossing away
Your whole future for a
Use me as I use you, pull my strings
My money says that you will, that's what I pay you for
Got me served on a plate, do what you want
Show me you care, you're the one in control
The harder you pull my strings, the harder I get
Just a question of time before I lose my mind
It's the game that you play with my head and I can't get enough
Triple sex, almost death, twisted love, the game I cannot bluff
It's the game that you play with my head and I won't get enough
Can't walk away, got to play it all the way
Tight up in this game, this game that I can't quit
Pleasure I get in pain, the pain will keep me sane
Feed my twisted mind, touch my skin with your razor blade
Strip me down to the bone, I'll do anything
The harder you pull my strings, the harder I get
Just a question of time before I lose my mind
The harder you tighten the rope, the harder I get
A slave to my burning desire, a taste of death
It's the game that you play with my head and I can't get enough
Triple sex, almost death, twisted love, the game I cannot bluff
It's the game that you play with my head and I won't get enough
Grey eyes flicker
Cold is the weed
Worn out shoes
Air full of grief
It is you now
Stuck within
Soul is burning
No chance to win
What have you done to the game
Was it a victory, a shame
Where have you gone
Before morning dew
The game will not end
Without you
Ears of lost minds
Luke and torn
Dresses rdtten
And broken stores
And the meaning
It's sold too soon
Can the blister
Substitute the moon
What have you done ...
And the hot sun
Paints the door
Your philanthropist
Sighed once more
Wind was blowing
Air through pipes
Holes in bodies
Mortal crimes
The two of us, so young and so wild
We can't find the cure to what has led us astray
Far apart from what we once were
and we both made a choice there's no turning back from here
There's no turning back from here
But we have no aim, just keeping up the pace
Who's the best of us, who's the stronger one
Will it ever end?
This escalating game
We're reborn to live on the edge
Who's the bravest of us?
Who will live to tell?
I'm so scared of what we've become
As we double the bets, the proportions exceed ourselves
The proportions exceed our sanity
We have gone from meek to brave
And we're chasing a dream that never will come true
Letting go of all our fears
The unavoidable end is the enemy we defy
But we have no aim, just keeping up the pace
Who's the best of us, who's the stronger one
Will it ever end?
This escalating game
The Game - David Banner
feat. Scarface
[Intro: David Banner talking]
Yo mo' (more)
I went to see a friend of mine the other day
Ya know what I'm talkin' bout? (huh, I'm drunk)
She said, "Banner, you need to harmonize (harmonize) and hide"
Yeah, okay
But I asked her I was like, "How can a nigga be a fucking snitch?!"
Fucking snitch, bitch-ass
You don't even snitch on yo' fucking enemies, you coward-ass nigga
Kill those niggaz (I'm really, really high)
Ain't no respect to the game no mo' (more)
Niggaz is bitches (niggaz is bitches)
[Chorus: David Banner] - (Repeat 2X)
I done lost my love for the game
Shit'll never be the same
I'll never lose my love for the streets (the streets)
The streets got love for me
Might of lost my love for the game (game)
Niggaz don't even act the same
I'll never lose my love for the streets
Cause the streets got love for me (me)
[Verse 1: David Banner]
I hit the block before it's sunrise
I want to know where you bitch niggaz went and hide (yeh)
Went to sleep, open my eyes then I realize (yeh!)
Time to serve em weak, clock her ass and mash out
Get ya cash out, why ya motherfuckers sleep and ya passed out?
I'm in the hood tryin' to make a G before nine (9:00)
Five thirty (5:30) took a break, and I'm back on the grind
Four ten (4:10)
Put some dro in the wind then
Let it go cause ya know that a nigga gone
Tell she if a nigga get busted
Niggaz can't be trusted in the game cause shit ain't the same
Motherfuckers want me to blow out they brain (I done lost)
Shit cocked and blast
Put some lead in a motherfucker fast
Never play wit a gun, if ya can't stop that (stop that)
Or get that in ya motherfucking ass
[Chorus: David Banner] - (Repeat 2X)
[Verse 2: Scarface]
Took a chance when I came in
Did my time if I got caught
If I lost, it was my fault
Took the blame for the whole thing
And it was the work, it was my walk
To do or double wit the plot then
Let a nigga fellin' boxed in
I was slangin' in my socks then
On the corner flippin' 20's
Tryin' to turn em into 50's
On the ten speed right in front of walk in
It's no hood where I came from
Where a nigga got his game from
Ain't nothin' changed, I'm the same one
To pull a strap out my backpack
Cock the hammer back (clack!)
Duck and get ya brains hung
And shake the cop up when the block clear
Cause the drama doesn't stop here
Gotta watch for ya own peers
Nigga damn near ain't knowin' who the fuck I am
And you ain't knowin' how I got here
See we don't speak and we don't do nothin'
It's on you if you slang things
Get your money, homie, maintain
Keep yo' motherfucking mouth shut, dawg
Or you'll get offset and this a cold game
And snitch-niggaz never last long
So snitch-niggaz get yo' ass on
A snitch-nigga get yo' mask on
Took the pledge on my own hand
Then killed a rose motherfucker in my last song
[Chorus: David Banner] - (Repeat 2X) (w/ minor variations)
[Outro: David Banner]
I done lost, yeh
[Kane]
I got 28 grams, that's a ounce of D
7 grams a quarter o-z, go for 2-50
Cut off the shit quickly, now I got me a G
Score four more times now that's a quarter ki'
252 grams equal 9 o-z's
Smoke with me, put it on the triple beam to see
I got 36 quarter o-z's for cheese
Soon as I get off these, rap makes me a G
Rockin' up 18, sellin' 18 holes
Mr. Dopeman, oh hope his pockets swoll
Now it's '97 and I got me a ki'
1008 grams, 36 o-z's, lots of D
Sellin' whole ???, rock it up like 36
My hustlin' niggas, cut it up, make it 50 ounce, 1 brick
This be the drama behind the hoes and cars
All my hustlin' niggas I know you grew up real hard
Plus watch your back, plus watch for police
Watch for these wanna-be's, that's faker than ???
Comin' for your yola, V-12, and bakin' soda
One mistake and it's over, don't be a hoe be a soldier
[Chorus]
How the fuck you gonna tell me about the game?
When I ain't gon' change, I'm about my change
How the fuck you gonna tell me about the game?
When I ain't gon' change, I'm about my change
How the fuck you gonna tell me about the game?
When I ain't gon' change, I'm about my change
How the fuck you gonna tell me about the game?
When I ain't gon' change, I'm about my change
[Kane]
Now I got me a 100 pounds of weed
5-50 a piece, now that's 55g's
Soldiers, servin' fiends down in New Orleans
Comin' out the projects sittin' on Gold D's
Young G, snort coca leaves and ki's
No Limit ready for war like we Vietnamese
Talkin' 'bout, if it's a drought tax niggas like it's a 211
Sellin' bricks for 27
More pounds of weed, breaking it down to ki's
Down to dimes and nickels
Hit a lick, got you niggas sick
How the fuck you gonna tell me about this game
From the streets to the pen niggas know my name
[Chorus]
[Abel]
100 grams of heroin, ??? 911 cut
Got to sell it while it's potent or it ain't worth fuck
Take a spoon and mash on the shit in baggies
Got some cash on it, cops find it, gots to dash on it
25 to life no questions asked
80 dollars a gram, now that's a lot of fuckin' cash
My niggas that hustle, be quick to blast
Cause Choppers and street sweepers think murder peoples ass
You phony rappers talk about the game
Been there, done that
Buss caps, sold crack, jack while fake jacks
Turn you into fortune like Pat Sajak
Get down and dirty while you busters cleaner than Ajax
No Limit, everything we say, we did it
Went to jail and shitted, eatin' steak and spinach
To big and you motherfuckers don't forget it
Y'all niggas wanna start some beef and I'ma finish it
The bar was dark and quiet and still
And nothing could be heard, the dust lay undisturbed
At a table near the back, underneath a fan
Two men shared a joke about the normal folk
The cards are on the table, the winner takes it all
The game is nearly over, one man about to fall
Well, I don't believe in Heaven, I don't believe in Hell
I don't believe what I'm seeing, this is no game, can't you tell, no
"I'm calling your bluff", the first man said
The people went to war, they always wanted more
And how could I ever fail to lose?
They can't take it any more, they want to end the score
The second man showed his hand some walked barefoot across the land
And many have seen the future and are doing the best they can
Well, I don't believe in Heaven I don't believe in Hell
I don't believe what I'm seeing this is no game, can't you tell, good God!
Oh well, I don't believe in Heaven, I don't believe in Hell
I don't believe what I'm seeing, this is no game, can't you tell
The clock ticked past the final hour
Now which of the men had lost and what was the cost?
The glasses now were empty and gone
To wash away the shame and take away the pain
One man left the table, the other with head in hands
Paid the bill for the defeated the only thing left that stands
Well, I don't believe in Heaven I don't believe in Hell
I don't believe what I'm seeing this is no game, can't you tell, no
Well, I don't believe in Heaven I don't believe in Hell
How have you been, nice to see you again
How quickly these conversations seem to end
You meet a friend, every now and then
How quickly these relations turn into trends
Put all your walls up and open your windows
And close all your doors
You catch yourself standing in front of the mirror
And now you need more
What do you wish for
To catch you as you're falling
So easy to ignore
But now you hear it calling again
I wouldn't want to be you
This lonely game that you play
Between your walls you confuse
Every heart that you break
So afraid that you'll lose
Always a void to replace
I wouldn't want to play you
You try and pretend, the truth is hard to bend
How easy these translations can be read
What if you were led to play a different game instead
How hard these frustrations are to mend
Does it matter to you?
What nigga drop that shit
Soldier, say k-l
These fake ass rap niggaz thought I lost it yet
I'm bout to let these old bitch ass niggaz know I got a game in my vein
Verse 1: mac
Murda murda I wrote it in braile
Uncut, lyrical dope, certified by my scale
The homicide rapper, there'll never be another after
The mac's rapture, I represent, that's what I'm on the map for
Who the fuck gonna fuck with the scandalous
1-8-7 on these mothafuckin amateurs of rap
Feel the wrath of a nigga who bust
Makin my clique the shit, bitches wanna discuss
? platonic? , the lyrical killins don't got no motives
In this, in my vein, ain't no way I can control it
When this inside of me is as deadly as them niggas
You know the ones who killed them boys and dumped the body in the river
I enter the place, ski mask covered my face
If they pass me the mic, I'm gonna catch a case
In this mothafucka ya heard of me
? t-t and herb hit the spot?
All the niggas I know is shell shocked
Chorus: mac
I got the game in my vein
Won't change
I got the game in my vein
Won't change
I got the game in my vein
Won't change
I got it, I got it
Verse 2:mac
I was born in it and represented
The sinister words of murder was the sons of bitches who was wit it
Never die, my motto, fatigue my sheet
Big wise that's my nigga, psycho ward is my clique
Affiliated with cash, got my foot on the gas
Tailgatin real fast, through my sun roof my verbal gun shoot
Them scriptures, paint the pictures
We believe was cops tryin to catch me like receivers
Scream my name, to all these bitches who be hard to tame
Momma said it's a shame, poppa gave me the game
Experience a soldier, my heart pumps battle fluid
You wanna go to war let's get to it
Mac-a-don, put you on teflon style of murder
Deadly as the killer kyle in your hamburger
Till they bury me black, wrapped up in street camo
I rock the microphone strapped off with street ammo
Chorus: mac
I got the game in my vein
Won't change
I got the game in my vein
Won't change
I got the game in my vein
Won't change
I got the game in my vein
Won't change
Verse 3: mac
I'm the bad nigga from the bricks
Blood on my kicks
Camoflauged niggas never die, we drop hits
I spit the gospel, to all of my mothafuckin apostles
Mac as potent as the coke snortin in your nostrils
I minister, words of a mothafuckin sinister
Transform into liu kang and finish ya
Nigga put me in the game i'ma show you my sports
Witness the street level on the b-ball court
Bitch i'ma die wit it, cause it's a part of my vein
Hear that word camoflauge when you hear my name
So tell them niggas I'm back affiliated, enemy lines are penetrated
My niggas wit me
You cook me up, put me in the pipe, hit me
Spread me in every ghetto, every city, I get busy
And buck, my name mac remember that, I drop rhymes
Nigga it's mac as if you missed it the first time nigga
It started in a movie
Where he, he sailed around the world
And the dream became and she called it love
She dreamed that she'd be rescued
Yeah she, she wanted to be saved
But she settled there for what we call the game
It's a game
It's a game
It's a game we play
In a world
In a world
In a world we heard about today
It's a game
It's a game
It's a game we love
Cause we heard it was all so fine today, today
It started in a novel
But then they, they changed it on the screen
And a dream became a dream in vain
And shot by desolution became true and by her pain
And she settled there than trust to like the game
It's a game
It's a game
It's a game we play
In a world
In a world
In a world we heard about today
It's a game
It's a game
It's a game we love
Cause we heard it was all so fine today, today
Darling if you could wait your love would come
Love is so much more than a game
All right, everybody shut up
I said shut up!
Now are you ready to play the game?
Are you ready to play the game?
YEAH!
The Game
Playing to survive
Aiming to win anyway they can
Yo, yo
Pass the ball, final casting call
First of all, verbal basketball
Off the glass, smash your jaw
Too fast for y'all
You might take a nasty fall
Trying to stick with the prehistoric passenger
(Foul Ball)
All breath, no physical contact
Bounce back, demonstrate invincible bomb raps
Not no hustler no player or speakin no crime crap
I'm vocally trying to score before my time lapse
Uh! Full court press, hands in your chest
Runnin' cause I'm a rebel with the ghetto
No fouls just checks, make a brother sweat
Word for y'all to earn my reject
Get it out of here, attack from the rear
Ya'll niggas aint nothin but some bitch ass queers
I'll be in your ear, increase the fear
Rippin with the shears as the crowd just cheers
Bring on the opposition
Cause my position is to shut you down
As the basketball pounds on the concrete floor
Envisioning moves to freak brothers every which way
Dominating like Doc J.
Pass me the rock, I know just what to do with it
It's real vivid, I pivot, through the lane
Three hundred and sixty behind my back
I take your monkey ass to the rack like Jerry Stack
I'm saw by most recruiters and heavily recommended
Stickin your best shooters they lower verbal percentage
It's takin its toll, 24-second clock control
Stoppin this obstacle, impossible
I was the number one ?? project in the city
Prospect, now thats something that you can believe
So be it, whether pro or collegiate, the hit but don't miss
Prime time the offense, switch
Y'all can't ball, Y'all can't ball
Yo ref, where's the tech? Man, make the call
The game is gettin tight verbal victories in sight
What counts is what you write not concerned about the hype
My rhymes go baseline so why you tryin to take mine?
Last man tried just died inside the paint line
I bank rhymes, got a call so I flex
I'm on the foul line with a few verses left
When my flow hits the net, the next brother flex
I put my foot in the pavement
With the brothers I'm raised with
Play with and break dance back in the days with
And still in the game with 12 points, 4 assists
Get up in the game, in your face like swish
Crash the boards with metaphors
In the air like a concord
Aiyyo what you out for?
Yo I'm out for the whole score
22 flat seconds for me to win
I can't win for losin with this cheatin ass ref
My squad's supreme
So I don't need Clyde or the dream
Next time you play the game boy pick a better team
Your choice is short when you on a concrete court
But my mental cohorts is bout to change the whole sport
Give me the pill boy, crossover with the skills
Wrap around pass, fly right past your grill
Take off from half court, in some J5 shorts
The rap band with the man when my words play sports
Comin' through your lane, with pure skills so stand clear
Vocal charge is a mirage, I still stand here
Damn near, make your shit look soft like Pam Grier
Fans cheer for the paragraph Bill Lambier
Show me the rock, so I can show these fool what I got
(He's heating up) Fuck that, I'm flaming hot
Verbally take you to the blacktop, and wreck shop
Turn my game up a notch, pass me the rock
1 on 1, 3 on 3, 5 on 5, horse, 21
It really don't matter cause son you'll still get done
Yo you should know better than try to barter with this globetrotter
Militious, vicious dunks, I'm Vince Carter
And it's the high draft pick, flashin it
Still can penetrate and slightly overweight
But whatever it takes my shot can elevate
Wake up every day, try to find my way
Walking down a long road in this game I have to play
But the rules are difficult, not easy to understand
I must find a way to cheat the death eventually
In the sickness of my mind, in the darkness of the night
I must try to play this game and win someday
It is the game of life I try to play
It is the game I try to win some day
But the rules are difficult, I don't understand
I must find the answer of the meaning by myself
[Pre-Chorus:]
Try to find the sense of life
In the sickness of my mind
Try to find all the answers in me
[Chorus (x2):]
We are all chess pieces in a large game
Only puppets in a world we have created
But for what a reason it makes no sense for me
Why do we live on earth when death's the only solution
It is the game of life I have to play
It is the game I try to solve some day
But I can't figure it out, I don't understand
I must find the answer in the depths of myself
[Pre-Chorus]
Why did I dream last night?
Why did I not see the light?
'Cause here and now is what I've been waiting for. All my life, this is
What I was born to do. No sacrifice, I wouldn't give it up for you.
And set fire to my heart then tear my world apart, just like you always do.
And give, give me just a taste. Then take it all away, I'm lost in the
Game, the game you call fame.
Why did I think there was something more?
Why did it feel different to the years before?
'Cause here and now is what I've been waiting for. All my life, this is
What I was born to do. No sacrifice, I wouldn't give it up for you.
Set fire to my heart then tear my world apart, just like you always do.
And give, give me just a taste. Then take it all away, I'm lost in the
Game, the game you call fame.
The game you call fame.
And set fire to my heart then tear my world apart, just like you always do.
And give, give me just a taste. Then take it all away, I've lost in the
Time to play the Game
Time to play the Game
Time to play... THE GAME!
It's all about The Game, before life can rest...
Your failure is my success...
It's all about control... will you make it?
I WILL DELIVER THE PAIN YOU CAN'T TAKE IT!
I'm in control, I Am Your Pain...
After this you won't be the same...
This is My Time, I make the rules.
YOU MESS WITH THIS AND YOU DIE LIKE A FOOL!
(Pain!)
Here comes the pain!
(Pain!)
Here comes the pain!
(Pain!)
Here comes the pain!
(Pain!)
Here comes the pain!
Time to play the Game!
I am the debt that can't be paid...
You're going down in flames...
This is the time I cannot lose.
LIVE OR DIE YOU'LL HAVE TO CHOOSE!
It's all about me, I am The One...
Soon you'll see there's nowhere to run...
I am the threat that is so real.
THROUGH THE BLOOD AND THE SWEAT, THE PAIN YOU WILL FEEL!
(Pain!)
Here comes the pain!
(Pain!)
Here comes the pain!
(Pain!)
Here comes the pain!
(Pain!)
Here comes the pain!
Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide...
Now it's time to die...
I am the pain, I am The Game...
YOU WON'T FORGET MY NAME!
Time to feel the pain
Time to feel the pain
Time to feel the pain
TIME TO PLAY THE GAME!
TIME TO PLAY THE GAME!
TIME TO PLAY THE GAME!
TIME TO PLAY THE GAME!
(Pain!)
Here comes the pain!
(Pain!)
Here comes the pain!
(Pain!)
Here comes the pain!
(Pain!)
Here comes the pain!
(Pain!)
Time to play the Game!
(Pain!)
Time to play the Game!
fucken authority lays laws on me
social guidelines enforced on me
classified labels you can keep
part of the game
We're going to stay awake
For as long as it takes
We're going to stay awake
For as long as it takes
To correct all the silly mistakes we have made
We're going to play a game
We're going to play a game
We're going to play the game again
For as long as it takes again
For something we don't really want at all
One two three four
Two two three four
Three two three four
One
To win is to lose, to lose is to win
To win is to lose, to lose is to win
To win is to lose, to lose is to win
To win is to lose, to lose is to win
We're going to stay awake
(To win is to lose, to lose is to win)
We're going to stay awake
(To win is to lose, to lose is to win)
We're going to stay awake
(To win is to lose, to lose is to win)
We're going to stay awake
(To win is to lose, to lose is to win)
[Kane]
I got 28 grams, that's a ounce of D
7 grams a quarter o-z, go for 2-50
Cut off the shit quickly, now I got me a G
Score four more times now that's a quarter ki'
252 grams equal 9 o-z's
Smoke with me, put it on the triple beam to see
I got 36 quarter o-z's for cheese
Soon as I get off these, rap makes me a G
Rockin' up 18, sellin' 18 holes
Mr. Dopeman, oh hope his pockets swoll
Now it's '97 and I got me a ki'
1008 grams, 36 o-z's, lots of D
Sellin' whole ???, rock it up like 36
My hustlin' niggas, cut it up, make it 50 ounce, 1 brick
This be the drama behind the hoes and cars
All my hustlin' niggas I know you grew up real hard
Plus watch your back, plus watch for police
Watch for these wanna-be's, that's faker than ???
Comin' for your yola, V-12, and bakin' soda
One mistake and it's over, don't be a hoe be a soldier
[Chorus]
How the fuck you gonna tell me about the game?
When I ain't gon' change, I'm about my change
How the fuck you gonna tell me about the game?
When I ain't gon' change, I'm about my change
How the fuck you gonna tell me about the game?
When I ain't gon' change, I'm about my change
How the fuck you gonna tell me about the game?
When I ain't gon' change, I'm about my change
[Kane]
Now I got me a 100 pounds of weed
5-50 a piece, now that's 55g's
Soldiers, servin' fiends down in New Orleans
Comin' out the projects sittin' on Gold D's
Young G, snort coca leaves and ki's
No Limit ready for war like we Vietnamese
Talkin' 'bout, if it's a drought tax niggas like it's a 211
Sellin' bricks for 27
More pounds of weed, breaking it down to ki's
Down to dimes and nickels
Hit a lick, got you niggas sick
How the fuck you gonna tell me about this game
From the streets to the pen niggas know my name
[Chorus]
[Abel]
100 grams of heroin, ??? 911 cut
Got to sell it while it's potent or it ain't worth fuck
Take a spoon and mash on the shit in baggies
Got some cash on it, cops find it, gots to dash on it
25 to life no questions asked
80 dollars a gram, now that's alot of fuckin' cash
My niggas that hustle, be quick to blast
Cause Choppers and street sweepers think murder peoples ass
You phony rappers talk about the game
Been there, done that
Buss caps, sold crack, jack while fake jacks
Turn you into fortune like Pat Sajak
Get down and dirty while you busters cleaner than Ajax
No Limit, everything we say, we did it
Went to jail and shitted, eatin' steak and spinach
To big and you motherfuckers don't forget it
Y'all niggas wanna start some beef and I'ma finish it
[Chorus] 'till fade
What are they gonna say when you just move along?
We'll get you out of here, just be strong,
(We'll get you, get you out.)
I thought I saw you today, I couldn't be wrong.
(Oh, and you have changed.)
You were caught between the lines and you couldn't get out.
It's been a few years since you left home.
Do you miss your residence?
Just keep on trying and you'll get out soon.
You'll get out soon.
I think you're doing much better but you say I fold.
You think you're oh so clever but you say I fold.
You say I fold.
Give up and give up and move on and move on,
With the rest, with the rest of your lonely life.
Have you selled yourself?
It's such a shame the way they use you up, destroy your name.
We'll get you out of here, just be strong.
Gonna bend the life you can't get out.
I think you're doing much better but you say I fold.
You think you're oh so clever but you say I fold.
You say I fold.
Give up and give up and move on and move on,
With the rest, with the rest of your lonely life.
I think you're doing much better but you say I fold.
You think you're oh so clever but you say I fold.
(Give up and give up and give up and give up)
You say I fold.
(And move on and move on)
You say I fold.
(With the rest, with the rest)
(Keith Murray)
We be's hard to the core, sleepin' on the floor,
Step on stage, the fly girls adore,
With the wicked rhymes that you never heard before
The lyrical lexicon, matador's metaphor...
(Redman)
I be like, yes-yes y'allin, to the life beatin,
The Funk-Diggy Doc be comin' through non-sweetened,
The 7-G Steven, I give you 10 minutes of that high-powered shit
Til your heart stops beatin...
(Erick Sermon)
??? 's the new member, flows tight, lethal,
Scarin' those like I made the Scream 2 sequel
Still the Grandmaster with the two MC's
Def Squad, Keith Murray, and the R-E-D...
(Keith Murray)
And it don't make sense going against -
I got too many styles, E got too much experience,
Now you can swim or sink or jerk to think
Or you could freshen up or let your dirty-ass stink,
I don't give a fuck...
(Redman)
Wagga, wagga, wagga...
Now why you tryin' to get funky like my name Big Bub,
I'm from the Def Squad nigga, so show me some love,
When I spit, I grab the dick, I'm like Puff
I can't stop until I'm in helicopter cockpits...
(Erick Sermon)
Ain't that right, E-Dub the top civilian, humble,
with about sixteen million, stay hard rock
like if I was Charles Dutton, if you got balls to test, then yo,
Push the button...
(Keith Murray)
Yo, push comes to shove, we rise above,
and stay dedicated to rap like Ghetto Love,
People gettin' mad from the money we makin',
but they've been playahatin' since days of rollerskatin'...
(Redman)
Yo what's yo name digga, comin' through non-stop,
I be that nigga fuckin' your girlfriend on your block
And when I bust that 360 degrees, I'm not Busta
But put your hands where I can see...
(Erick Sermon)
Can't be faded, me and my Squad is R-rated,
Hear my boys rockin' to somethin', you can bet I made it,
If not, confiscate it, it's like fake, it wasn't made by me,
Red - show'em who you be...
(Redman)
Oh, it's my turn to burn, to wax again,
It be's that nigga robbin' your crib with the Mack-10
With my nigga E-Dub, causin' troub', murder ya like O.J.
with the fuckin' same glove...
(Keith Murray)
And it-ain't-no half-steppin', shit,
we gets to rappin' like a nuclear weapon,
And y'all don't blow up, and we always do,
Don't want to fall in love when it's in front of us. Why can't we dream? Fantasize without compromise, a
tear duct short of an alibi. Please thaw me out, and brush me off. Is love is quite the fallacy,
underneath the mystery? So, you finally came right out of my head and into my arms. Now these feelings I
know, I'll never let go. I've beaten the game. My alter ego's upstairs strung out on the couch. I need a
touch of innocence, so comfortable. So velvet lush and nectarous, there is a price to pay for dreaming. Is
love an emergency? Join in my perplexity!
No turning back gotta look ahead made my choice gonna use my head this time it's all my move step ahead myself to prove got it locked up tight the crew's nowhere in sight got me, my pride, my dignity aint gonna let anyone step on me. alone, but not afraid to fightno one can stop the flame inside there are no rules, gotta play it right the pain and struggles in the game of life. (I can't afford to loose... in the game of life) flip the coin and roll the dice keep in mind that everything has it's own price my faith is my ace keeps me strong in the darkest days hold on to what's true and pure never been too fucking sure it's all about making the right call no regrets if it's time to fall. I will stand strong just for the cause I will stay true for my crew I will stand strong I wont fail me for my crew, my family.
Now I came in this game without nothing to lose
Nothing to worry bout, nothing to prove
Currently, permanently, paying my dues
And continued this path I decided to choose
From this moment on I'll be changing the rules
Fuck what you heard, I didn't come here to lose
Hungry as fuck and I see you as food
I will make you a victim as soon as you snooze
[Hook:]
Bang, bang, this is the game
Here to contest you and put you to shame
Bang, bang, this is the game
Before you can shine, you must go through the rain
The mountains I climbed, the water I coast
No sympathy I got the heart of a ghost
It's easy to brag, but it's harder to boast
Don't be fooled by the hype cause I'm smarter than most
Of y'all
Way up there ain't nowhere close
To y'all
Made it this far I was s'posed
To fall
That's what they told me but yet no one showed me
Now I realized that I am the one with the...
[Hook:]
Bang, bang, this is the game
Here to contest you and put you to shame
Bang, bang, this is the game
Before you can shine, you must go through the rain
So...
That's why niggas be fadin' on me
Why so many be hatin' on me?
You just mad that I made it homie
I can tell that you hatin' homie
You ain't goin' nowhere and you wonder why
I'm on I got the heart of a summer (ride?) Ha.
And that's why...
Niggas be fadin' on me
Why so many be hatin' on me?
You just mad that I made it homie
I can tell that you hatin' homie
See the light girl? Believe no mistake it
Don't take it for granted and never forsake it
You ain't got the patience to make it and take it you won't
Now I'm 'bout to take off like I'm boardin' a plane
And I don't give a fuck if you feelin' me
All I know is I'm runnin' this game
Get me stronger, whatever ain't killin' me
Best believe that I'm killin' my enemies
Fuck you haters you niggas ain't kin to me
Don't know why I be wastin' my energy
But I do know you finna see me...
[Hook:]
Bang, bang, this is the game
Here to contest you and put you to shame
Bang, bang, this is the game
Before you can shine, you must go through the rain
Now, don't nobody be holdin' me, I
Call my shots and I do what I wanna do
Ain't nobody controllin' me, No
I was put here to do what I come to do
Don't know what this hip hop game is comin' to
But I'm one of the ones that it's running to
[x3:]
(The vicinity, negative energy
[I don't understand people that drown in self pity instead of looking at life as a game in which you can come up as a winner as well.]
I know there's a part of me
And i'ts what I call the game
So it is and will ever be,
It'll always be the same
And my life seems to be alright
And I believe in what I do
Gotta work every night and day,
Just to make my dreams come true
To win the game,
Means to have so much power
Cause in the game,
We don't need the coward
I might be a better man
If I believe in all the good
Could it be that you're wrong my friend
And you don't struggle like ya should
All the pain pushing down on me,
No this isn't what i need
I don't care bout the other guys
I just wanna get on my feet
To win the game,
Means to have so much power
Cause in the game,
We don't need the coward
We don't need to gamble
We don't need to play
Courage is the answer
For a better way
I remember all the good in life
And all the pleasures that we have had
So important to be powerful
And to be equal to the bad
To win the game,
Means to have so much power
Cause in the game,
We don't need the coward
To win the game,
Means to have so much power
Cause in the game,
Rollin' down the highway
With a trunkful of work
I just lost my job
Didn't wanna be a mailroom clerk
Besides it didn't pay but dimes
And the boss had a disrespectful mouth
If I wasn't on parole
I would've knocked the motherfucker out
So I'm drivin', gotta get me some fast cash
Ain't tryin' to hurt nobody
Mama, maybe it's wrong
But I gotta get the money, it's a must have
If I get caught, I go back to jail with no bail
It's the risk that I'm takin'
I'm convinced so, ain't fakin'
It's the life I choose
Win or lose, that's the way you play life's game
If you play it wrong then you're the one to blame
If I can choose I would make a change
But it's the same old song that everybody shame
Now, I'm my own boss
And I ain't got no friction
'Coz I'm a bootleg pharmacist
You don't need no prescription
[Incomprehensible] that's my law
Tryin' to get the dough and retire
'Coz if I stay in it too long
The Feds gonna set my ass on fire
And if they come
Gotta hold court in the streets
And one of three things will happen
I get away, get the chair or die cappin'
And if they catch me right
And I can't fight, I go back to prison
And like my mama say, you can't always bust your gun
She goes sometimes you gotta run
Win or lose, that's the way you play life's game
If you play it wrong then you're the one to blame
If I can choose I would make a change
But it's the same old song that everybody shame
All the odds are against me
'Coz I'm already a felon
I'd probably die this time in jail
'Coz I ain't doin' no tellin'
I'll probably lose the girl that I love
She'll turn her back once the money's spent
And play it off to her friends
Like it was a heated argument
Win or lose, that's the way you play life's game
And you're the one to blame
If I can choose I would make a change
And everybody shame
Bad game, it's a bad game, yeah
It's a bad game, yeah, yeah
It's a bad game, yeah, yeah, yeah
To the mother who's watching over
You know the game ain't fair
Sometimes you can't change their mind
So, all you got is prayer
Win or lose, that's the way you play life's game
Then you're the one to blame
If I can choose I would make a change
That everybody shame
Win or lose, that's the way you play life's game
Listen, I ain't got that much time
Only four minutes to sing to you
But I hope and pray that you will listen
While I try to school you
Bad game, bad game
Nobody wins
I’m looking at the future now
And all the time it’s taken
I’ve got no time to close my mind I might just be mistaken
At least I know how to play the game
You go round and round and round
Just when you think you lose sight of your heart and your mind
You’re in the game again
Just when you think the world is unfair and unkind
You’re in the game again
I’m looking at the days gone by what happened to the laughter
I’ve got no time to close my eyes to find out what I’m after
At least I know that it’s all the same
You go round and round and round
Just when you think you lose sight of your heart and your mind
You’re in the game again
Just when you think the world is unfair and unkind
You made of cold.
I made of burning stars.
It's just a game
Strange game of pain and scars
Don't trust my lips.
You'll never win this war.
You're my sweetest sin
So feel regrets no more!
I see your coming fall... this game has no end.
My promises are shades on wet sand.
Don't be so dogging shy to join my delight.
Stay just my only love... for tonight.
The dream comes true.
The dream has secret name.
You can't find trace.
I'll never be the same.
In all your thoughts
In every spark of light
You can feel my breath
My spirit's shining bright
I see your coming fall... this game has no end.
My promises are shades on wet sand.
Don't be so dogging shy to join my delight.
Stay just my only love... for tonight.
This temptation's everywhere.
I can feel it in the air.
Look I'm losing all my strengths and I don't care!
I see your coming fall... this game has no end.
My promises are shades on wet sand.
Don't be so dogging shy to join my delight.
[Mr. Man (Boobonic)]
"Ayyo, let me tell y'all somethin'. We ball like the ballers ball,
("We ball.") pimp like the pimpers pimp; ("We pimps.")
and when we want, we can take like the takers take.
("You want drugs?") 'Knaw-mean? Southwest, we get down.
("That's right.") What. Ayyo, check it."
Ay, for the most part, I'm smart. Keep birds
I'm the type 'get head in the whip, won't swerve'
In the winter rock Timberland boots, long furs
Usually if I shot at you niggas, we had words
Aim might be off a little, it's bad nerves
Mister, a step above like street curbs
M-R D-O-T, somethin' nasty
Price it but ain' gon' cop? Don't ask me
Hot as the drop. Cold, my top glassy
You don't really think I'm grown? Kidnap me
Uh, respect is all I ask for
Wit' no problem, spray your Accord
I leave you face down, dead on your dashboard
Sixteen shots in your front left door
then I spent off, wipe my fingerprints off
Rob pass the creep. Man, that scene get tossed
Playin' ketchup/catch-up got you lost on the sauce
You ain't nothin' but crack, I supply all raw
like them cars you saw bounce on Crenshaw
Tell them Boyz in your Hood the same goes for y'all. What?!
[T-Mix]
That's how the game go. Young blood, ask your kinfolk
Don't do the same dumb shit that got him smoked
Man, you know it's real when the gun go. (Gun shot)
Pay for no respect. Mothafucka, better let it go
That's how the game go. Young blood, ask your kinfolk
Don't do the same dumb shit that got him smoked
Man, you know it's real when the gun go. (Gun shot)
Pay for no respect. Mothafucka, better let it go
[Boobonic]
Yo, again it's Boobonic. Shit, I leave a thug wet
Trust me when I tell ya, you ain't seen blood yet
Layin' on the deck, blood pressure gettin' low
and it's fucked up because you was never gettin' dough
'Young boy, who you talkin' to?' Then I bust him
Sonny, talkin' to C. I love you but can't trust you
It's me and Mister, 's like A.C. and O.J.:
everybody know we all about that all day
Tell ya again, don't fuck wit' A. Jones,
kill you while you talkin' to broads on pay phones
Sick flow, I know how to get dough. ("Yeah.")
Ski mask outta ya house and get low
I don't see you when you talk? That's invisible threats
See Boo iced out in invisible sets
Niggas must think that I'm outta my mind
like I'm out in the streets without the nine
Come on, use your brain before I put 'em on the floor
One shot, I bet you won't walk no more
Reason why, you went sick-up crazy
Now your mom over top of you like 'Get up, baby!'
But not today, he gone and that's that
I'ma put it on wax in fact and that's rap
Let it go. Uh. Mister Man, Boobonic
Uh. You ain't ready, nigga
[T-Mix]
That's how the game go. Young blood, ask your kinfolk
Don't do the same dumb shit that got him smoked
Man, you know it's real when the gun go. (Gun shot)
Pay for no respect. Mothafucka, better let it go
That's how the game go. Young blood, ask your kinfolk
Don't do the same dumb shit that got him smoked
Man, you know it's real when the gun go. (Gun shot)
Pay for no respect. Mothafucka, better let it go
[Mr. Man]
Who keep the hot block? ("Mister.") Hot glock? ("Mister.")
Call the cops tryin' to snitch on... ("Mister.")
Big chips? ("Mister.") Nice whips? ("Mister.")
Big dick? ("Mister.") Fuck yo' sister
Bitch you call, she call to talk about Mister
Whole time, thinkin' it was all about rap
knowin' I'ma playa. How the fuck you think that?
Compare a brick of raw to an ounce just of crack
[Boobonic]
You can catch me in your bitch ear sayin' I'm fuckin' nice
at the bar. Cristal and a bucket of ice
You can catch a nigga lookin' at me, mad 'cause I'm eatin'
Type: crack on my bitch just to tell her I'm cheatin'. ("Sucka.")
I talk that shit and walk it like beat cops
'Bonic all over it soon as the beat drops
It's Most Wanted; them niggas that got the street hot,
crushin' all y'all niggas that pray that we flop
Shit I spit, well
Out in Cali in a four-point-six tippin' richter scales. ("Get it?")
The new lever, did more than you ever
Real niggas hate when we spill, we too clever
[T-Mix]
That's how the game go. Young blood, ask your kinfolk
Don't do the same dumb shit that got him smoked
Man, you know it's real when the gun go. (Gun shot)
Pay for no respect. Mothafucka, better let it go
That's how the game go. Young blood, ask your kinfolk
Don't do the same dumb shit that got him smoked
Man, you know it's real when the gun go. (Gun shot)
Pay for no respect. Mothafucka, better let it go
That's how the game go. Young blood, ask your kinfolk
Don't do the same dumb shit that got him smoked
Man, you know it's real when the gun go. (Gun shot)
Pay for no respect. Mothafucka, better let it go
That's how the game go. Young blood, ask your kinfolk
Don't do the same dumb shit that got him smoked
Man, you know it's real when the gun go. (Gun shot)
Pay for no respect. Mothafucka, better let it go
That's how the game go. Young blood, ask your kinfolk
Don't do the same dumb shit that got him smoked
Man, you know it's real when the gun go. (Gun shot)
Pay for no respect. Mothafucka, better let it go.
[Takala]
None of your games
I've ever played
All of your deeds
Ever betrayed
None of your thoughts
I've ever bought
You're sellin' lies
Day after day
All of your games
Full of those lies
You've never had
A doubt of yourself
Enough you have bought
The stories you've sold
To believe in that shit
Day after day
Now I am right here
In front of your madness
Hearing all the
Promises of gold
But you should know
I don't care
Because you will lose in the end
(When you crusify, how do you justify?)
You did make it all so clear
But I don't wanna see
And you think
You have saved your own life
The gambling must be
Your way to win
My way to the top
Ain't in your sight
Lost all you had
Still think you'll win
Crying for gold
Day after day
Treasure was there
Right in your hands
But you let it go,
You let it flow
Thinking "I might"
Saying "I will"
You can go on
Standing outside, everything's alright
A smile on your face, her world shines tonight
Everyone he knows have lives that never grow
Feelings far from true left alone with a fairytale of you
She's not real, words aren't true
Still gains a better part of you
Open up your book
To see your page, to see your world
It's all gone blank
And everyone you seek to find
You learn to lose
She's left behind
She's not real, words aren't true
Still gains a better part of you
She said, "It was over"
Still he left his complaint
That left him at zero, a forgotten hero
As he walks from the game
Hands down and pride first
She starts to slip
And there's a long way down
When you're along and there's no place to be found
Yet still everyone is there for you
The feeling's lost, the feeling's untrue
You push the thorn deep down your vein
You can't hide the games you play
Bow down to rules no one can tell
Fool to the things you think you have
Is this the price you pay
You're begging me to stay
Somehow you lost your way
I never knew the game
Can't drop the chains they fit so tight
No monopoly tonight
Your level oh so inhumane
But still you think you rule this game
Is this the price you pay
You're begging me to stay
Somehow you lost your way
You can hide yourself
Won't find yourself today
The direction of your thoughts is so insane
No reality no truth that will remain
In the haze of night
I never knew the game
The game is up you cannot win
No one there to soothe your sins
I'm sure I will not go your way
You're not the last to come and play
You're begging me to stay
Somehow you lost your way
You can hide yourself
Won't find yourself today
The direction of your thoughts is so insane
No reality no truth that will remain
In the haze of night
I never knew the game
Is this the price you pay
You're begging me to stay
Somehow you lost your way
I never knew the game
You can hide yourself
Won't find yourself today
The direction of your thoughts is so insane
No reality no truth that will remain
In the haze of night
I never knew the game
[Carl Thomas]
treats me the same
treats you the same
ohh, treats me the same
treats YOU the same
ohh, nobody
ohh, nobody
[Tash]
you know what? It's hella lonely at the top when you rich without a girl
it's me against the world, but that's how my world twirl
so let that shit spin cause I'ma play it to the end
sometime you gotta make decisions: your woman or your friends?
my friends come first
my females is secondary
the last girl I had was this bad ass secretary
her name was Yvonne - that bitch thought she was the bomb
but I knew it wouldn't work, I never took her home to moms
you know havin a ball not givin my all
holdin hands down the hall at the crenshaw mall
she used to look at me and saw no flaws at all
we was close - she walked around my house in her draws
but after all the good times you know comes the rain
I had to cut that bitch off for some shit I can't explain
I blamed it on her trip and she blamed it on my fame
I got cupid lookin stupid
but that's a part of the game
[Carl Thomas]
ohh the game owes nothin to nobody
so I'm tellin you this from the start
if you find you've been decieved by another
then you better just trust in your heart
[Tash]
so all the ladies wave your hands if you down wit your man
I know them two kids you got wasn't part of the plan
what this world is a twist; if it ain't that it's this
I like the kinda girl that tatoo niggaz names on they wrist
Tash on your tit
that's the kinda girl I need
after work, feeds her seeds then smokes a little weed
low key; that's how my girl gon' be
but I ain't found her yet and she ain't found me
so I'm lookin
for all the sexy hoes that ain't tooken
Carl put me down with this bad broad from Brooklyn
but all I do is hit - no spark, no flame
I got cupid lookin stupid
but that's a part of the game
CHORUS
[Tash]
I know this love song I'm writin ain't flashin your excitement
but when you least expect it love will strike you like some lightning
that's why I'm here to warn ya
these girls in California, they'll take you to the cleaners
if you let 'em put it on ya (put what?)
you know the little wifey deluxe
that'll have your friends and family rentin a tux
that's why you gotta keep it P.I.
so even if your buck stop
you got the type of girl that'll walk you to the bus stop
true love-
that's kinda hard to find when you rhyme
I'm 27 now and it's 1999
but I'ma find mine; matter fact, what's yo name?
-TRUST IN YO HEART- but that's a part of the game
Sohovik:
We've got to think about the game!
All:
The game, the game!
Sohovik:
We've got to think about the game,
All:
The game, the game!
Sohovik:
Booze and broads may be great,
Smokey:
Tho' they're great they'll have to wait,
While we think about the game.
Sohovik:
There was that waitress back in Kansas City,
Built for comfort, dumb but pretty!
Bubba:
Yeah?
Yeah?
Sohovik:
Man, her perfume sure did smell sweet,
Got her up to my hotel suite!
All:
Yeah?
Yeah?
Sohovik:
She kills a pint of gin, more or less,
The lights were low and she slips off her dress!
All:
Yeah?
Yeah?
Yeah?
Yeah?
Sohovik:
But then I thought about the game!
All:
The game!
The game!
Sohovik:
Oh yes, I thought about the game!
All:
The game!
The game!
Sohovik:
I thought I got the lady high,
I just left her high and dry
'Cause I thought about the game!
Smokey:
Them was that Pullman car that I got lost in,
On a sleeper out of Boston!
All:
Yeah?
Yeah?
Smokey:
Compartment doors all look the same there,
Walk in one and there's this dame there!
All:
Yeah?
Yeah?
Smokey:
Blonde and stacked and absolutely bare,
And nothin' separatin' us but air
All:
Yeah?
Yeah?
Yeah?
Yeah?
Smokey:
But then I thought about the game!
All:
The game,
The game!
Smokey:
Oh yes, I thought about the game,
All:
The game,
The game!
Smokey:
Though my heart said "stay for tea,"
All I said was "pardon me!"
'Cause I thought about the game.
All:
He thought about the game.
Mickey:
When a chick gives you the eye
All:
Remember
Abstain!
Dell:
When you're dyin' for some rye,
Remember
All:
Remember
Refrain!
Rocky:
If you're losing at crap and the clock says it's eleven,
And suddenly, each roll you roll
Comes up a seven,
And you're in the kind of dive
Where men are men.
All:
Be Polite,
Say goodnight.
You should be in bed by ten.
Bubba:
When your mother bakes you cakes,
All:
Remember,
Stay thin!
Henry:
When you're kissin' till it aches,
All:
Remember
Don't give in!
Ev'ry rule we shall obey,
To be sure,
Cause to win we've got to stay
Good and pure,
Good and pure.
Bomber:
Hey Oz, remember those twins we took a ride with
Operatin' side by side with.
All:
Yeah?
Yeah?
Ozzie:
We're out of gas three miles from Philly.
The night is warm, the sky's a dilly.
All:
Yeah?
Yeah?
Bomber:
So I suggest we sleep beneath a tree,
With no one there but Oz,
The chicks and me.
All:
Yeah?
Yeah?
Yeah?
Yeah?
So there we are, lyin' side by side under the tree.
Four minds with a single thought
I look at my girl
I look at mine...
And then with one...fell...swoop.
All:
But then they thought about the game!
The game, the game!
Oh yes, we thought about the game!
The game, the game!
To our women one and all,
We will see you in the fall,
But for now we've got to stall ev'ry dame!
And think about the game!
Think about the game,
Think about the,
Think about the,
Think about the,
Think about the game.
Who do you know - knowing who to trust
Walking the walk - putting up with the fuss
Seeing through lies - learning the game
Connecting the people - to carry the name
Constantly waiting - never know what to expect
Avoid allowing - your ride to wreck
It's all a game anyway you say it
It's all a game anyway you play it
It's all a game
It's how to convince - control an audience
What's cool - and what they should do
'Cause it's a simple language - for those simple minds
Repetition is crucial - and universal appeal
It's reaching a wide - vast amount of people
Learning what works - having tricks are a plus
Too much soul to please
Determined like a disease, as we seize
The license to achieve, that's where we are climbing,
Always nickel & diming, just trying, soon we'll be flying
to a beat....
of a different song. ICE STATION ZERO'S what's going on.
Questions, we got all the answers,
get in your veins like a cancer. Run with this,
but feeling overwhelmed, well, court's dismissed.
It's all a game
This game is brutal - the reward is sweet
Always watch your back - so they don't chop off your feet
Have your inner circle - woven be strong
'Cause one moment you're a hit - the next you're gone
Would you care to play - you know the rules
Checkmates on your pawn - out the door with the fools
Durupaparara...
I'll be your game
To understand
I'll be your game
We love the game
I'll be your game
To tell you..tell you...
'Cause everything I know this
I'll be your game
Durupaparara...
Woke up this morning
And this moonlife
Easy come
I think that your older reason why... oooh...
I gonna make it
Find my eyes has gonna away
Who is me produced but now won't time, oooh...
You play the feeling is over time
It's just to feelin' to show what deep inside...
I'll be your game
To understand
I'll be your game
We love the game
I'll be your game
To tell you..tell you...
'Cause everything I know this
I'll be your game
To understand
I'll be your game
We love the game
I'll be your game
To tell you..tell you...
I'll be your game...
Durupaparara...
Take your leaving
Body if long you stay with me
You gotta change your wait to be, oooh...
Stop playin' the feeling is over time
Beginning to see will have guy on my mind...
I'll be your game
To understand
I'll be your game
We love the game
I'll be your game
To tell you..tell you...
'Cause everything I know this
I'll be your game
To understand
I'll be your game
We love the game
I'll be your game
To tell you..tell you...
'Cause everything I know this
Me and my girlfriends are always in competition
We picked a guy,
Made a bet who could be the first to kiss him
The game was 'Make the poor boy beg'
Be the one inside his head
I played the game to win
Left the girls in the rearview
I got into first position
While they were hittin' on him,
Flirtin' with him,
I was turning his ignition
Thought he was just a game to win
But now I'm hearng violins
And now the jokes on me...
Get your hands off my baby
The bets off
It's not a game anymore
You see the plan's gone wrong and you can't touch
Not playin' like I was before
You gotta keep the game our little secret
He can never know the score
Now I love him,
I don't want him to hate me for it
It's not a game anymore
We were bored hangin' out just lookin' for a new distraction
But the plan backfired,
Ended up as reverse attraction
It was just a little innocent fun
But I'm the one who's comin' all undone
And now the jokes on me...
What he don't know won't hurt him
Stop flirtin'
Leave us alone
[C&H;:]
Yeah, C&H;, kicking it with my nigga Dru Down
Spitting some of this game
The way the game goes
The closest some of you niggaz got to a real hoe is HBO
So sit back and listen to the way it went back in the day
This game is not an adventure
So when you stake your claim, do it in the name of the game
Back in the 80's true niggaz claimed the game
Today you have a bunch of lames who have butchered the game
There ain't no real play
When you make your own rules around the way
Niggaz that sin, they were sent to the pin
A lotta said they didn't, I seen them in San Quentin
A nigga put a hoe to the test
If that bitch fail or slip, we put that bitch on the pimp arrest
A nigga had Mary on Gary, Ms. Chow on Pow
I'm sure pimps will agree, that pussy is a public necessary
Like beer and wine, it will sell any mothafucking time
A true pimp is never out of socket
Cause he keeps his mothafucking dick in his pocket
Now check this out, come here my dear
I'm like christmas, bitch, I only come once a mothafucking year
If the bitch runs off and I catch her alone
I will charge that bitch for every mothafucking day she gone
Back in the 80's there was a lotta pimps on the ball
I used to drop bitches off in mothafucking U-halls
All across the nation
We was giving hoes middle medication
So all you suckers, that thought pimping was a disaster
It was only for a chosen few that could master
i can tell by the look in your eyes
that you'r looking for something
Deeper than love i can see
what's on your mind
and i don't give a dawn.
who's looking around
gonna give it to you girl,everything i got
steaming up the windows makin' it hot
On a one way ticket do you wanna play?!
i'm telling you now you feel the same way
i wanna ride with you WOAH!!
Do you feel it too?!
there's nothin' i won't do WOAH!!
to get next to you
we got the game riding on a freight train,
we got the game going on the way
we got the game riding on a freight train,
ride with us you never feel the same YEAH YEAH
we got the game riding on a freight train,
stop messin' me around and playing your games
coz we both know what's about to go on
Gonna get on down for some high speed lovin',
No i don't give a dawn whose Lookin around
This journey will rock and roll this track
Runnin' your nails all down my back,
Gonna get you ready get nice 'n' tight
Runnin' on steam all through the night
i wanna ride with you WOAH!!
Do you feel it too?!
Whose got the game
we got the game YEAH
he got the game
She got the game YEAH
They got the game
Living in an ephemeral realm trying to hide
Memories behind obscure disguises
Shaming disgust towards the cruelties of life
But the life it's the real ugly thing
"This is the life a journey of grief
Day after day we drew to twilight
Dust is my future and wind my breath,
I close my eyes and wait for my fate".
We are just senseless pawns in a game
Wrong is the first move, the birth of a new life
We keep on steadily playing loosing pawns
But is there anyone beside me
Telling the tale of a life gone by
With a lion's share of greed and little pride
Pardon my hands for I can't feel
But is there anyone besides me
Who can not identify with beer-stained swagger
And reasons why
I see the face of a man in a jailyard lookin' at me
As I drive by oh so freely
I'm tied up just as tightly
But I sing in my chains
Pardon my mind as it goes astray
But you caught me in a mood today
You can laugh and call me fool
But I'm playing the game as the game plays you
I see the face of a man in a jailyrad lookin' at me
As I drive by can he see me
I'm tied up just as tightly
It's getting dark outside and
I'm ready to walk on your side
All girls and boys
Let's meet at the platform tonight
The trains are running fast in town tonight
All you fat ass butt pussies stay at home tonight
Me and the girls are playing the game real tight
Me and boys are playing the game tonight
Waiting at the platform
Kissing the girls good bye
Looking for a get together
At the local club tonight
Our knifes ready, drinks at hand
And I'll get under your Wonderbra tonight
Me and the girls are playing the game real tight
These hits have made a bruise
I wear to show the truth
I don't care if I win or lose
I just don't want to play the game
And to hurt is to love
Not where I come from
These hits have made a bruise
It grows deep red or blue
I don't care if I win or lose
I just don't want to play the game
And to hurt the one I love
Fly away crimson dove
To hurt
(These hits have made a bruise)
Is to love
(I wear to show the truth)
To hurt
(I don't care if I win or lose)
Is to love
(And I don't care if I win or lose)
To hurt
(These hits have made a bruise)
Is to love
(I wear to show the truth)
To hurt
(I don't care if I win or lose)
Is to love
Everywhere I go
And everyone who knows me
Knows that I would stand alone
It's all part of the game
The game, the game, the game
When I said I could move on and go
You said I'm weak and it shows
I couldn't go on without you
Now you're sittin' in your house alone
Wonderin' why I left home
And I'm hoping that you know
I had to fake it til I made it
And you try to break it
Now you try to take it back but you know that
I've been doing my thing
I've been running my game
And you know I wont look back
You know that
Everywhere I go
And everyone who knows me
Knows that I would stand alone
It's all part of the game
The game, the game, the game
I'm standing on my toes
To the sky above
And you know you're the one to thank
It's all part of the game
The game the game the game
We all play it the same
As you left you saw me walking out
You tried to knock me down
And I would go on without you
Now you're standing in the mess you made
Now you're feelin' my pain
And I'm hoping that you know that
I'm stronger cuz you made me
You will never faze me
You could never take me down
Cuz you know that
I've been doing my thing
I've been running my game
And you know I wont look back
You know that
Everywhere I go
And everyone who knows me
Knows that I would stand alone
It's all part of the game
The game, the game, the game
I'm standing on my toes
To the sky above
And you know you're the one to thank
It's all part of the game
The game, the game, the game
We all play it the same
(play it the same, play it the same, play it the same)
(oh oh oh oh oh oh)
Everywhere I go
And everyone who knows me
Knows that I would stand alone
It's all part of the game
The game, the game, the game
I'm standing on my toes
To the sky above
And you know you're the one to thank
It's all part of the game
The game the game the game
We all play it the same
(play it the same, the game, the game
We all play it the same
(play it the same, the game, the game)
[Tommy Gibbs]
Like the seasons change, we go thru things
It's thug love, there's no type of love without pain
Few who trust, cats that you know gon' bust
We was fine till the streets studio gon nuts
We hemned up, livin the hand delt
Hold port, trying not to get caught and pinned up
Live the same life, same drama, same trife
I be that same nigga, same trigga, same knife
We been thru it, shit, we used to it
Real shit, lot of my niggas, ain't lived thru it
Stare downs, throw downs and spent round
Bent, don't remember how it quite went down
You see, once upon a time I ain't had no kill
I was into deep, ain't have no fear
On the grind, remember that beef, that time
Remember that bitch, son, rember that nine
[Chorus x2: Smoke]
I said I came up in this game
Struggled just to maintain
And I'm glad I'm hear, whom should I fear
Here's what you said...
[Tommy Gibbs]
It's a flipside to every coin
Every nigga gotta choice to make, which path he take
It's a rough ride, cuz it's real on every side
Folks lose they lives, suggest you choose wise
Can a grew rigid nigga from public school
Caught beef, fucked bitches together, act a fool
As time goes on, he drift away
Can't move with a nigga, ain't goin your way
Now that's logic, middle of 'Merica, to the Projects
Birds of a feather always fly together
I'm trying to figure, how many more caps to peel
'Fore ya bitches realize it's real
Go ahead and laugh, I think you straight from ya past
You better find your road, 'fore they lock and load
Cuz you die, after shots explode
Just never dawned on you, how we never fuck with you
[Chorus x2]
Here's what you said...
[Tommy Gibbs]
I stay conscious of men, who scream eaze but bring it the end
We can take to the fist, fist lead to the semi
Spit real life shit, make ya life shit
Reminisce on this steel ya earth just strike with
Niggas that bust gats, niggas that car jack
Any nigga livin trying to change were he at
I can die in this game on the grind slingin crack
Or die in this game gettin paid spittin raps
Cuz you need muscle, shit a straight hustle
Niggas in the streets see you bling, they wanna touch you
Respect that? no nigga expect that
Ain't shit to you to cap, niggas wanna get at
So I thug it out, this game turn it out
Same shit I hate, same shit I love about
It's a real thin line between death and life
Ain't no rules in this game, ain't no wrongs and rights
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