Gym Class Heroes Filmography

• VH1's Pepsi Super Bowl Fan Jam (2012)
• Miami Beach Ocean Drive Music Festival (2011)
• American Music Awards 2011 (2011)
• Dick Clark's Primetime New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2012 (2011)
• Sessions Undercover (2007)
• MTV Video Music Awards 2007 (2007)
• MTV VMA Pre Show Royale (2007)
• MTVU Woodie Awards 2006 (2006)

• Lyrics: play full screen play karaoke
• Za Intro - Gym Class Heroes
• This Thing Called Life - Gym Class Heroes
• The Boomerang Theory - Gym Class Heroes
• Simple Livin' - Gym Class Heroes
• Shell Shock - Gym Class Heroes
• Oh My God - Gym Class Heroes
• Noah - Gym Class Heroes
• Life Goes On - Gym Class Heroes
• Lazarus, Ze Gitan - Gym Class Heroes
• Kid Nothing And The Neverending Naked Nightmare - Gym Class Heroes
• Cupid's Chokehold(feat. Patrick Stump Of Fall Out Boy) - Gym Class Heroes
• Chicago (Remix) - Gym Class Heroes
• New Friend Request (Remix) (Feat. Papoose) - Gym Class Heroes
• Mash Up Feat. Fall Out Boy - Gym Class Heroes
• Ass Back Home - Gym Class Heroes
• Stereo Hearts - Gym Class Heroes
• Wejusfreestylin' Pt. 2 - Gym Class Heroes
• Sloppy Love Jingle, Pt. 1 - Gym Class Heroes
• Sloppy Love Jingle, Pt. 3 - Gym Class Heroes
• Queen and I - Gym Class Heroes
• Scandalous Scholastics - Gym Class Heroes
• Pig Latin - Gym Class Heroes
• Petrified Life And The Twice Told Joke (Decrepit Bricks) - Gym Class Heroes
• On My Own Time - Gym Class Heroes
• Graduation Day - Gym Class Heroes
• Cupid€™s Chokehold (featuting Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy) - Gym Class Heroes
• Faces In The Hall - Gym Class Heroes
• Everyday's Forecast - Gym Class Heroes
• Happy Little Trees - Gym Class Heroes
• Food For Mic Skills - Gym Class Heroes
• Extra, Extra - Gym Class Heroes
• Eighty-Five - Gym Class Heroes
• Crab Apple Kids - Gym Class Heroes
• 7 Weeks - Gym Class Heroes
• Band Aids - Gym Class Heroes
• A Beautiful Day - Gym Class Heroes
• On My Own Time (Write On!) - Gym Class Heroes
• New Friend Request - Gym Class Heroes
• Clothes Off! - Gym Class Heroes
• Biters Block - Gym Class Heroes
• Cupid's Chokehold - Gym Class Heroes
• Wejustfreestylin' Pt. 2 - Gym Class Heroes
• Viva la White Girl - Gym Class Heroes
• To Bob Ross With Love - Gym Class Heroes
• Thinking Out Loud - Gym Class Heroes
• The Queen And I - Gym Class Heroes
• The Fighter - Gym Class Heroes
• Taxi Driver - Gym Class Heroes
• Solo Discotheque - Gym Class Heroes
• So Long Friend - Gym Class Heroes
• Sloppy Love Jingle, Pt. 2 - Gym Class Heroes
• Simple Living - Gym Class Heroes
• Shoot Down the Stars - Gym Class Heroes
• Pillmattic - Gym Class Heroes
• Pillmatic - Gym Class Heroes
• Peace Sign Up Index Down - Gym Class Heroes
• Papercuts (The Reason For The Lesions) (Remix by Mr. Dibbs) - Gym Class Heroes
• Papercuts - Gym Class Heroes
• Nothing Boy Vs The Echo Factor - Gym Class Heroes
• Nil Nil Draw - Gym Class Heroes
• Martyrial Girls - Gym Class Heroes
• Make Out Club - Gym Class Heroes
• Live Forever (Fly With Me) - Gym Class Heroes
• Like Father Like Son (papa's Song) - Gym Class Heroes
• Kissin' Ears - Gym Class Heroes
• Kid Nothing And The Never-ending Naked Nightmare - Gym Class Heroes
• It's OK, But Just This Once! - Gym Class Heroes
• Holy Horseshit, Batman - Gym Class Heroes
• Guilty As Charged (feat Estelle) - Gym Class Heroes
• Good Vibrations - Gym Class Heroes
• Drnk Txt Rmeo - Gym Class Heroes
• Cookie Jar - Gym Class Heroes
• Coming Clean - Gym Class Heroes
• Boys in Bands (Interlude) - Gym Class Heroes
• Blinded By The Sun - Gym Class Heroes

G...
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Hi, have you ever wondered what it would be like to listen to some music?
Well this is your big chance.
You see, music is much like a brochetted butterfly, with a shadowy prominade of effervescence, yet sloos down the bottom of misty moutains of darkness.
Like a flirtatious flounder upon a non-reflecting mirror.
God, what is this opaque window of comfort, that we cannot overcome?
It is a manafestation of love.
It a forest of emtpiness and it is an ocean with no water except where that which fills it.
So as you listen to this masterpiece release yourself from the prison of captivity and let your soul free.
Because only a free soul can be captured by greedy soul theives.
Who will have sold it to Leprechaun gold miners.
But it is only when your soul is taken away, that you can take it back.
And this my friend, does not make any sense what'soever, or does it, no it does not.

Yo, aye yo, I live by the sun and I'm a' die by the sun. Can't be livin' by the gun, man I never even held one, but does that make me less of a man? 'Cause I got a spray can not a gun in my hand. I got 4 clips of innocence. Blaster gas. Leave them speachless I'm sketchin pieces while the cats is killin my thesis. It's hard to find peace of mind but when you do, it's hard to keep. Ignorance will take you out in your sleep. It's just a little hard to swallow nobody's a leader no more. They all follow. They is as hollow as my man mike as drum be. I know it's always hard to believe. They cast to sea. They catch a disease. They quickly try to breach into my family but somethin's gotta give before I bring my kinds into this world we gotta rearrange the way we live, we gotta rearrange the way we live.
This thing called life is made of many decisions. The choices you make determine you and your livin'. There's a rocketship headed for truth, you better get it. You find yourself a waste of time tryin to fit in. This thing called life comes to many conclusions. You get one shot. You either win it or lose it. & I had to break free from my state of confusion but it gave me the strength to see through hate's illusions.
(Like that ya'll, L-like that, L-L-Like that ya'll, Like that, L-L-Like that, Like that, L-L-Like that ya'll, like that )
Sometimes I push my mental way beyond my boundaries and sometimes it's detrimental to my health. Nowadays, we can't be out for self. We got to free one another, Kill that racial blindfold so we can see one another. Ignorant racist leave a scar tissue on the faces of beautiful human beings. I see a new light, this thing called life creep up from behind like a sign on your back. Spark your mind with a rhyme and it's time to react. Addicted to this rap sh*t like he be to crack. It won't stop writing the mic is like a crack pipe. Don't get the wrong idea. this is for the cats usin' the third eye vision to try and find why we're here. You need to get up, get out. You're all in the wrong without and I hope it don't take you too long to figure it out. I said I hope it don't take you too long.
This thing called life is made of many decisions. The choices you make determine you and your livin'. There's a rocketship headed for truth, you better get it. You find yourself a waste of time tryin to fit in. This thing called life comes to many conclusions. You get one shot. You either win it or lose it. & I had to break free from my state of confusion but it gave me the strength to see through hate's illusions.
(Now clap your hands and say yeah! )
This is more than just music to us, its like These cats ain't that amusin' to us. We on a another level. Pissin' on their heads from above. We in the clouds watchin over the kids (watchin' over)
This thing called life is made of many decisions. The choices you make determine you and your livin'. There's a rocketship headed for truth, you better get it. You find yourself a waste of time tryin to fit in. This thing called life comes to many conclusions. You get one shot. You either win it or lose it. & I had to break free from my state of confusion but it gave me the strength to see through hate's illusions.

The other night I got arrested by the carma police, and beat down. And didn't bother waitin' for me recipt, lowered my feet and hit town.
They say what goes around, comes around, and I have found that thats real. Cause even with a stomache filled with chill pills, I still feel ill.
The other night I got arrested by the Carma Coppers, and tossed in the back of a sarcastic pattywagon, and beaten bloody, buddy.
And I didn't resist, I knew I had it comin' to me, and didn't get pissed when they issued the summits to me. For years, and years an ear affected ignorance, and peers, and peers that listened so well.
And for tears, and tears I tasted for the influence, im still here on thie pier, for fear of settin' sail. Evidence proved I let paranoia get the best of me. I gave my girl a little, and let my friends recive the rest of me. So here I am with nothin' empty pockets, 20 stock tips, a stick of gum, and far too many dreams of havin' somthin, so this is for the frogs that felt the wrath of my firecrackers, and all the roached that I stomped with no reguard, and all the candy that got stolen from the corner store, im really sorry, being human's kinda hard.
I got arrested by the Carma Police, and beat down. And didn't bother waiting for my recipt, I lowered my feet, and skipped town. They say what goes around, comes around, and I have found that that's real. Cause even with a stomache filled with chill pills, I still feel ill.
Okay, okay, okay this is what I get, I mean no disrespect, but ill accept these charges, you can keep your bleed bargains, pardoned. I made this machine, and every rusty cock thats in it, and gave you the dreams, just wait a cotton pickin' minute. The time, the time, left over on my dinner plate, the crimes, the crimes, committed as a youth. Im fine, im fine, just let me re-evaluate, im innosent, dont belive me? Well, heres the proof.
I've been that model citizen, paper route, and all. Small to look obscouraged, and tall enough to play basketball, I had to fall just to stand and realize, im just a man.
So here I am in handcuffs, this shit that makes a man tough, so this is for the farmers, that me and Matt soaked with our water guns, and all the animals that died cause we we're bored. And all the girls with broken hearts, im truly sorry, I learned my lesson im confessin', hit record.
I got arrested by the Carma Police, and beat down. And didnt bother waiting for my recipt, I lowered my feet and skipped town. They say what goes around, and I have found that that's real. Cause even with a stomache filled with chill pills, I still feel ill. [x2]

i'm like nine hours away from finishing my nine hour shift
and wishing i was gone nine hours ago
'cause nine hours wasted
tossin' back the chicken
i could've written nine verses just in time for the show
slacker mind state retirin' on time that's borrowed
my motto's i'll stop procrastinatin' tomorrow
i took the sorrow from the windchimes
left happiness lonesome and strung up sarcasm to make the melody wholesome
from my lungs to my feet i'm breathing
everything i speak but now they're charging for oxygen
and the bills due next week
i'll be a day late and a buck short
story of my life
i wish my pay rate was much more
duckin' swords in a rat race
i didn't apply for running towards something that's fake
and thinking, why for? they're shutting doors right in my face
and sitting high horse is a car and a dope place something to die for
this is my war
and now i'm schemin' on plots to make my pockets swell
simple livin' is a bitch
but damn, i do it well
some are fortunate to make it and
some of 'em fail
some locomotives push through and some of 'em get derailed
schemin' on plots HEY HEY
simple living is a bitch HEY HEY
some are fortunate to make it HEY HEY
some locomotors push through HEY HEY
i lead a crocodile mile lifestyle i run and slide but when it's time to collide with the bump
i always bail 'cause i'm not ready for that dive or that silly 9-5
solidified career option
a hop skip and a leap away from rock star
and not too far away from fillin' pop's shoes
the idyllic hard workin' type of callous feet
complete with wife, kids, dog, house, and picket fence
(that's nonsense)
i'm convinced i'm built for better things
and won't settle for the empty smile that cheddar brings
it seems like i'm working hard simply 'cause it's what they say i have to do
you graduate and then you either get a job or you go to school
12 years wasn't enough?
that's more than half of my life spent
trying to make the world accept me
plus i've got the papers saying that i made it through
now i'm working 2 jobs
3 with music and you don't respect me?
fuck it i'll retire now, you'll work until you're 62
and now i'm schemin' on plots to make my pockets swell
simple livin' is a bitch
but damn, i do it well
some are fortunate to make it and
some of 'em fail
some locomotives push through and some of 'em get derailed
schemin' on plots HEY HEY
simple living is a bitch HEY HEY
some are fortunate to make it HEY HEY
some locomotives push through HEY HEY

Skilly beat bop beat rocks
steady over kicks and snares
so what you scared for unprepared for
Tunnel rat scamatics? score from your average rappers new era
we rockin' sewer caps
breathin' bricks exhale trainrail city light better spot us with
the nonsense behind us
this is how we do it
i'm just a hooligan get drunk while in a j spittin raw sewage
Splinter cell movements. turnstyle jumpuh
punks step up to get beat down bumpah
aliens and bright colors
so bright we be cryin' like late night mothers
Hover board kick flips
made it a little to the left
As you can bet every result was a split lip
spipped school make shortcuts
Act foolish like kids with the windows on the short bus
CHORUS: (X 2)
welcome to shellshock
ringin' in your ears like the bells that el rock
It doesn't matter whether or not the cell locks
See if you can find solace in the coldest cell block
this is shellshock
welcome to shellshock
I did it my way
sat back and let 'em live soft
so he can die hard yippie kah yay
beings is the circles
so the first person to push me buys all the girl scout cookies
this is not a test
(we don't trust you)
not a fan of men
(the rock ugg boats)
I don't understand
(Can you blame me?)
I guess that's just the way
(My pop's crazy)
A penny for a thought, a nickel for a swift fist to the face
for letting them think that I let my players go to waste (nope)
top of the food chain but way too cool to not drop a little
sarcasm in your water main
D-Did i stutter man
c-could you please make a toast for the k-kicker cause you know
i'm spittin' water man
same day, new day desmantle,
same travie time,
same travie channel
CHORUS REPEAT X2
Chorus Repeat X4
Yo mamma jokes

Vision lies the 3rd dimension
Now pay close attention
Keep you fist clenchin
as i begin my assention
feel the tension
of this name you never mention
if you do ill have they're ass sitten in detention
in the school of hard knocks
i block shots and take props
im like new york city at 12 oclock when the apple drop
at 12 oclock when the apple drop
Oh My God
check the illmatic
evil flows kinder a static
crazy ill finatic, sick physco simatic
like an addict
only accideted to them fat beats
you better take a seat
before the lyrics and the music be too late
you better cordinate you feet
before i blast that ass
you'll be outkastin like a black sheep
dont believe me what will it take for you to see me
or get this shit stright til we be busting out your tv
like VR bout to smoke you, like a cigar
wont be satisfied until you recognize who we are
im so crazy like martin, farting fire like cartin
be witness to these lyrical riots that i be startin
if your real, we friends to the end like chuckie
and if not, youll live if your lucky
and if not, youll live if your lucky
Oh My God
Yo yo
that red means stop (stop)
but that green means go (go)
Streth my mind catch a rhyme like steve percipio
but i dont skate i just been known to rip a mic
until i get pissed off
and just might throw this mic at you
you cant escape it just like death when it comes
i can see it, you catch a kick like them yamaha drums
and thats the bricks, as i lounge like a fat rat
you bust back and might catch a cat, rat-a-tat-tat
the one and only always real, never phoney
look to the sky, the world is mine like tony
aint no scars on my face, and i dont sniff coke
i aint got my own place, and my pockets is broke
im reppin self, to hell wit anyone else
im reppin self
So just hold ya head, and say Oh My God
Hold ya head, and say Oh My God
Grab a hold of your dread and say Oh My God
Oh My God, Oh My God
Is this real?

We like, fuck a hush on the bus that rush
acting mad dumb singing bum-stiggedy bump
plus we was mad young, I remember acting a fool
we laughing at the monkeys fucking at that park zoo
yo it was crazy cool raising hell at West Street school
forget what the teacher said, yo, we made our own rules
remember back in the day carving names in desks
not even knowing six years later I would see your death
we was just little kids doing childish shit
til we got to middle school and got wild and shit
and that's when we started chasing girls
not even thinking about grades
we was in a new world, our visions started to fade
we was still homeboys acting out and such
even though we didn't hang out as much
I told myself I'd never cry
I know, I know know why
I never even said goodbye
but now I'm asking myself why
'cause I know, I know know why
I never even said goodbye
And now we in the High School
smart fish in the lake
we study trying to keep it real
staying far from the fake
its funny how the first month of school started to fly
before I knew it your life was
gone in the blink of an eye
and now I'm stuck in denial
this shit can't be
God tell me why you had to take Noah from me
Why the fuck you had to go and take Noah from me?
I told myself I'd never cry
I know, I know know why
I never even said goodbye
but now I'm asking myself why
'cause I know, I know know why
I never even said goodbye
School was crazy there the next day
they didn't think I would last
seeing phoney bitches trying to get the fuck out of class
now I tried to play 'hard' until I lost my cool
that's when I ran to a stall to shed a tear or two
or three or four, I broke down and cried puddles
now everytime I see your picture, my anger doubles
and everytime I see your picture, my anger doubles
I told myself I'd never cry
I know, I know know why
I never even said goodbye
and now I'm asking myself why
'cause I know, I know know why
I never even said goodbye

Let's go!
[Oh Land - Chorus]
Oh when the day is gone
Oh when the nights are long
Life goes on
Life goes on
We gotta live it up til it's gone
Cuz we won't be around too long
Life goes on
Life goes on
[Travie McCoy]
Lately it seems the good dreams are few and far between
Nightmares are putting fires out with gasoline
And I'm just tryna stay rightous
Sometimes I see my own face in Christ's likeness
And apart from my life's vices, fifteen years young had my first mid-life crisis
But it's tough to stay up right empire from people you hold high speeding up the most buyers
My daddy told me misery loves company
If that's the case they must hating they ain't getting none from me
I don't sweat it, they set better in my DNA
I got a good heart, and bad braids be a man
[Chorus]
Oh when the day is gone
Oh when the nights are long
Life goes on
Life goes on
We gotta live it up til it's gone
Cuz we won't be around too long
Life goes on
Life goes on
[Travie McCoy]
Up late, Facebook, and playing "Could've Been"
Starin at an empty bed my ex girl should've been in
Thinking what I woulda done different
Not a damn thing cuz finally i'm done with it
Besides I got a girl that adores me
And I never take for granted all things she does for me
I shoot the moon down and put it on a wedding band
Then they see the songs of mine too, cause she's an Otis Redding fan
And she'll never forget it man,
Cuz she knows she'll never find a better man
Let's go ahead with these wedding plans
Come on, let's sing a song life goes on
[Chorus]
Oh when the day is gone
Oh when the nights are long
Life goes on
Life goes on
We gotta live it up til it's gone
Cuz we won't be around too long
Life goes on
Life goes on
[Bridge]
You take too much for granted
I just can't understand it
We don't ask, we demand it
He been trying not to panic
[Chorus]
Oh when the day is gone
Oh when the nights are long
Life goes on
Life goes on
We gotta live it up til it's gone
Cuz we won't be around too long
Life goes on

let's go
my first love was a chick from the sixth in geneva
had to take the 88 upstate just to see her
my mother never liked her
my father didn't neither
after 22 years he got eager and had to leave her.
now i'm realizing how much i really need her
but someone said follow my heart and head east for her
that's when i met brooklyn, but brooklyn was a cheater
the second i turned my back
she ain't
so i started packing what happened
i told her i was leavin her for her older sister manhattan,
manhattan was into rap so we started chit-chatting
and she was chinese, italian, black and porto-latin
super high maintenance and way too into fashion
didn't even tell the piecer from the corner basket
damn, but back then was back then
now i heard she went hollywood and began acting
chorus:
oh, i've been looking for love
in all the wrong places
oh somebody take me home
i've been falling in love
with all the wrong faces
oh somebody take me home
please take me home
and after manhattan, i was acting silly
messing with a street body jewel named friendly
but that didn't work out too great
a vegetarian and all she ate was cheesecake
i went to boston more for mary ann
and almost got married man
but she was self-centered always stuck to mary land
i knew a slim thing named virginia
i swear to god her body's smoking but she kept gettin thinner
and i'll never forget my first trissie
in the pins with the carolina twins gettin busy
i know the history but i had to leave early
on the 85 doin 80 friday bright and early
and met gorgeous piece of thin
who used to stay in atlanta
accent so thick i couldn't even understand her
and that's when i realized
i damn near ran through the whole i-95
chorus:
oh, i've been looking for love
in all the wrong places
oh somebody take me home
i've been falling in love
with all the wrong faces
oh somebody take me home
please take me home
yeah, then i met miami, she was spanish
miami te amo, mi chiamo travis
she could tell that i wasn't bilingual
i don't know pogito, but i know un poquito
we can hit south beach and drink mojitos
and maybe you can introduce me to your people
ha, yo no voi pedra
you're my first love, keep on coming
you no voi payar
i think i finally found where imma stayin
but never forget the 88
chorus:
oh, i've been looking for love
in all the wrong places
oh somebody take me home
i've been falling in love
with all the wrong faces

Chchch-Children put on your angry faces
Mothers hide your daughters
I've been busy burning bridges hovering over troubled waters
City folk'll never understand the country mouse's jokes
They'd rather sit and watch the lemmings lead each other to the slaughter
This is me thanking you dearly
Sincerely, from the bottom of what's left of my misery magnet
Guess I been too busy being stagnant
And if I ever steer you wrong
Grab the wheel and jerk it left
I'm only human but admitted I'm such a beautiful mess
[Chorus:]
With the Mad Hatter cackle and the Cheshire cat smile (haha)
Put the jabberwocks cadaver with derelict juvenile (oooh)
The futures got Travie engraved on a name plate that I copped on Fulton
While the passers poppin pills somewhere on the other side of Brooklyn
So this is me in front of the class naked
This reoccurring nightmare never ending
So I'm saying Hello (So I'm saying Hellooo)
And now I'm screaming Hello (Now I'm screaming Hellooo)
Is anybody out there?
Now this is me in front of the class naked
This reoccurring nightmare never ending
So I'm saying Hello (So I'm saying Hellooo)
And now I'm screaming hello
Can anybody hear me?
Baby let's ride the steel horse until it stops galloping
And let the nerds get revenge on these stars with Lamar's javelin
Here Betty, put this Vader mask on
and take me to the dark side bumpin your
Favorite song
And I promise I'll stand still until the feeling is gone
And if I slip and bust it's cause we must be doing it wrong
Oh by the way
If you happen to meet the asshole that wrote the manual
Tell'em large Marge sent me to murk'em and make it casual
[Chorus:]
With the Mad Hatter cackle and the Cheshire cat smile (Haha)
Put the jabberwocks cadaver with derelict juvenile (Ooooh)
The futures got Travie engraved on a name plate that I copped on Fulton
While the passers poppin pills somewhere on the other side of Brooklyn
So this is me in front of the class naked
This reoccurring nightmare never ending
So I'm saying Hello (So I'm saying Hellooo)
And now I'm screaming Hello (Now I'm screaming Hellooo)
Is anybody out there?
Now this is me in front of the class naked
This reoccurring nightmare never ending
So I'm saying Hello (So I'm saying Hellooo)
And now I'm screaming hello
[Travie:]
So I'm leaving the grocery store the other day
Probably one of the hardest things I have to do (???)
with my anxiety and all
And a Women walks up to me
(Hey aren't you Travie?)
She doesn't say hello, she just grabs me
And I can feel my heart beating harder and harder and harder (Uh yeah)
(I'm from Upstate too)
(Uh, Cool)
I can feel the skin on my chest getting tighter and tighter
Until I just, until I just
FUCKING SPONTANIOUSLY COMBUST
AHHH
[Chorus:]
With the Mad Hatter cackle and the Cheshire cat smile (Haha)
Put the jabberwocks cadaver with derelict juvenile (Ooooh)
The futures got Travie engraved on a name plate that I copped on Fulton
While the passers poppin pills somewhere on the other side of Brooklyn
So this is me in front of the class naked
This reoccurring nightmare never ending
So I'm saying Hello (So I'm saying Hellooo)
And now I'm screaming Hello (Now I'm screaming Hellooo)
Is anybody out there?
Now this is me in front of the class naked
This reoccurring nightmare never ending
So I'm saying Hello (So I'm saying Hellooo)
And now I'm screaming hello
And now I'm screaming hellooo
Can anybody hear me?

Ba ba da da
Ba ba da da
Ba ba da da
Ba ba da da
Ba ba da da
Take a look at my girlfriend
She's the only one i got (ba ba da da)
Not much of a girlfriend
I never seem to get a lot (ba ba da da, ba ba da da)
It's been some time since we last spoke
This is gonna sound like a bad joke
But momma i fell in love again
It's safe to say i have a new girlfriend
And i know it sounds so old
But cupid got me in a chokehold
And i'm afraid i might give in
Towels on the mat my white flag is wavin'
I mean she even cooks me pancakes
And alka seltzer when my tummy aches
If that ain't love then i don't know what love is
We even got a secret handshake
And she loves the music that my band makes
I know i'm young but if i had to choose her or the sun
I'd be one nocturnal son of a gun
(ba ba da da, ba ba da da)
Take a look at my girlfriend
She's the only one i got (ba ba da da)
Not much of a girlfriend
I never seem to get a lot (ba ba da da, ba ba da da)
Take a look at my girlfriend
She's the only one i got (ba ba da da)
Not much of a girlfriend
I never seem to get a lot (ba ba da da, ba ba da da)
It's been awhile since we talked last and i'm tryin' hard not to talk fast
But dad i'm finally thinkin' i may have found the one
Type of girl that will make you way proud of your son
And i know you heard the last song about the girls that didn't last long
But i promise this is on a whole new plane
I can tell by the way she says my name (ba ba da da)
I love the way she calls my phone
She even got her very own ringtone
If that ain't love then i don't know what love is (ba ba da da)
It's gonna be a long drive home but i know as soon as i arrive home
And i open the door take off my coat and throw my bag on the floor
She'll be back in my arms into my arms once more for sure
Take a look at my girlfriend
She's the only one i got (ba ba da da)
Not much of a girlfriend
I never seem to get a lot (ba ba da da, ba ba da da)
She's got a smile that would make the most senile
Annoying old man bite his tongue
I'm not done
She's got eyes comparable to sunrise
And it doesn't stop there
Man i swear
She's got porcelain skin of course she's a ten
And now she's even got her own song
But movin' on
She's got the cutest laugh i ever heard
And we can be on the phone for three hours
Not sayin' one word
And i would still cherish every moment
And when i start to build my future she's the main component
Call it dumb call it luck call it love or whatever you call it but
Everywhere i go i keep her picture in my wallet like you
Take a look at my girlfriend
She's the only one i got (ba ba da da)
Not much of a girlfriend
I never seem to get a lot (ba ba da da, ba ba da da)
Take a look at my girlfriend
She's the only one i got (ba ba da da)
Not much of a girlfriend
I never seem to get a lot (ba ba da da, ba ba da da)

My heart is on my sleeve
Wear it like a bruise or blackeye
My badge, my witness
That means that I believed
Every single lie you said
Cause every pain of glass that your pebbles tap negates
The pains I went through to avoid you
And every little pat on the shoulder for attention fails to mention I still hate you
But there's a light on in chicago
And I know I should be home
All the colors of the street signs..
They remind me of the pickup truck out in front of your neighbor's house
She took me down and said:
Boy's like you are overrated. So save your breath.
Loaded words and loaded friends
Loaded guns to our heads
Cause every pain of glass that your pebbles tap
Negates the pains I went through to avoid you
And every little pat on the shoulder for attention fails to mention I still hate you
But there's a light on in chicago
And I know I should be home
All the colors of the street signs..
They remind me of the pickup truck out in front of your neighbor's house
You want apologies
Girl, you might hold your breath
Until your breathing stops forever, forever
The only thing you'll get
Is this curse on your lips:
I hope they taste of me forever
And there's a light on in chicago
And I know I should be home
All the colors of the street signs..
They remind me of the pickup truck out in front of your neighbor's
With every breath I wish your body will be broken again, again

[Verse 1:]
I Remember When I First Laid Eyes On You
My Man Tom Introduced Us But I Was Too Shy To Say Hi
When I Finally Built Up Enough Nerve To Drop A Line
You Made It Clear You Wasn't Just Another Myspace Mistress
And I Didn't Take It Personal
When You Ignored My Request To Be Your Friend I Spilled My Guts And Hit Send
2 Weeks For A Response And Got Nothing
Honestly It Only Made Me Want You More
Week 4 Rolled Around And I Was This Close To Letting Go
But Something Wouldn't Let Me Even Though I Hardly Knew You
It Was Plain To See We Were Meant To Lock Lips
You Knock Me Out With The Brass Knuckle Tats On Your Hips
I Was On This Website Late Night Lurking
When I Got A Message From You That Was Labled Urgent
You Said You Weren't Impressed By Lame Dudes With No Game
They're All The Same Tryin To Get Your Instant Messenger Name
But The Fact That You're Hittin Me Back Made Me Smile
You Must've Saw Somethin You Liked When You Was Skimming Through My Profile
You Caught Me At The Most Pivotal Moments
And Now I'm Emailing My Love A Dozen Digital Roses
[Chorus:]
So Click Approve, So Simple
Show Me Some Kind Of Sign And Let Me Know It's Time To Make My Move
Just Click Approve, Come On Girl
Baby I'm One Of A Kind And I Ain't Got Time To Lose
Just Click Approve, You're Killing Me Here
Show Me Some Kind Of Sign And Let Me Know It's Time To Make My Move
Just Click Approve, Come On Girl
Baby I'm One Of A Kind And I Ain't Got Time To Lose
[Verse 2:]
Let's Face It, It's A Sad Situation When We Have To Resort To Keyboards As A Means Of Making Relations
But I Don't Have The Patience, I Get Straight To The Point
So This Is Me At My Most Honest
No Egos, No Gym Class Status, Just Travis
Love You To Leave It, But You Gotta Admit
On A Scale Of 1 To Awesome I'm The Shit
Just Get Over It, It Happened God Damnit, I'd Been Waitin Too Long
I Even Wrote A Song About, Like To Hear It, Here It Go
If I'm Being Too Annoying, Let Me Know (Just Let Me Know)
But Its Hard For Me To Not Hate
When I'm On Myspace I Never See My Face In Your 'Top 8'
Approaching 6 Weeks Now, It's Kinda Obvious That You're Either Occupied Or Playing A Game
All My Money's On The Latter, This Is Not A 'Lol' Matter
Why Would You Pass Up A Chance This Great?
If There Were Two Forces And I Split Them Down The Middle, I Could Swing Back And Forth For 3 Days (Rephrase)
If I Had Two Horses, And I Beat Them With Authority, I'd Gallop All The Way To Canada To See Your Face
But All I Got Is This Powerbook And Ichat
Besides I Hit You All The Time And You Never Write Back
I Stay On My Feet (Shit)
And Be Persistent Until My Name Is Under 'Who You'd Like To Meet'
[Chorus:]
So Click Approve, So Simple
Show Me Some Kind Of Sign And Let Me Know It's Time To Make My Move
Just Click Approve, Come On Girl
Baby I'm One Of A Kind And I Ain't Got Time To Lose
Just Click Approve, You're Killing Me Here
Show Me Some Kind Of Sign And Let Me Know It's Time To Make My Move
Just Click Approve, Come On Girl
Baby I'm One Of A Kind And I Ain't Got Time To Lose
[Papoose:]
I Never Been A Follower My Modo Is Supreme
Only Time I Ever Follow Is When I Follow My Dreams
The Age Of The Computer, Internet Fiends
I Used To Laugh When I See Them Sittin Infront Of That Screen
Till I Did My Homework Now I Do Things Different
Those The Days When I Was Computer Illeterate
Now My Finger Tips Make The Internet Vibrate
Got Various Friends We Call To Say We I Reached Over 2million Ways I Move At A High Rate
So Im Already Double Platinum On Myspace
Triple W Papoose Online Dot Com The Greatest Website Of All Time
You Wanna Make Connections Myspace Grind
Its Over Eighty-Five Million People World Wide
The Internet Was Scattered Now Its Convient
For You To Find The Internet Tom Is A Genious
[Chorus:]
So Click Approve, So Simple
Show Me Some Kind Of Sign And Let Me Know It's Time To Make My Move
Just Click Approve, Come On Girl
Baby I'm One Of A Kind And I Ain't Got Time To Lose
Just Click Approve, You're Killing Me Here
Show Me Some Kind Of Sign And Let Me Know It's Time To Make My Move
Just Click Approve, Come On Girl
Baby I'm One Of A Kind And I Ain't Got Time To Lose

See there was Ashley,
She caught my eyes the very second that she past meSee there was Ashley,
She caught my eyes the very second that she past me
I kissed her once then she started to harass me
She called all night long
I had to buy her a brand new phone and let me see
There was Melanie,
To have a mouth like that should be a felony
Wouldn't believe half the shit that she was tellin me
I mean dirty vocab. She used to talk like she was
And after that there was Tiffany,
The one with the cute cousin
Are you kiddin me?
She had a man but that didn't mean shit to me
He tried to catch us all the time but I was just too God Damn smooth
And can't forget to mention Kerry
But the situation quickly got scary
Cuz after 2 dates she's like “let's get married'
Can you believe that shit? I had to pack my bags and move!
1-2-3-4
Where is your boy tonight?
I hope he is a gentleman
Where is your boy tonight?
Maybe he won't find out (x2)
I'll always remember Monica
The Jewish chick she'd always get me gifts for Chanukah
To me the folks who tried to make me rock the yamakah
But she looked so damn good she almost made my ass convert
And after that there was Lisa
You know she had the twin sister Teresa
I bought the - getting pizza
The greatest night of my life said the rock that killed two birds.
Remember Erica she had the stank-en-est breath in North America
I know!
Tried to slip her Tic-Tacs but they were scared of her
Yeah
And when we made out I always had to plug my nose
And I suppose you know ya sista
Chill! I swear my hand to God I only kissed her
Got a foot fetish but she got a lot of blisters
I mean hammer time beat you'd think she had that bug for toes
Where is your boy tonight?
I hope he is a gentleman
Where is your boy tonight?
Maybe he won't find out (x2)
Remember Katherine
Talked so much I used to make her bring me aspirin
Blah blah blah I'm doing fine thanks for askin
I even tried to make a muzzle but her mouth just would not quit
And oh shit, remember Shauna?
I hate to bring her up again I didn't wanna
The girl I talked about when I did the dog song
Yea the poster girl for
Made me loose my grip
And oh shit and there was Crystal
The meth head she used to sniff like a fist full
One time she chased me down the street with a pistol
She tried to say I took her stash she bugged out and tried to kill my ass
And at last we got Kim
She went abroad came back and broke up with me
And so I ripped up all the letters that she sent me
I cried for like 3 days and it was back to my evil ways
Where is your boy tonight?
I hope he is a gentleman
Where is your boy tonight?
Maybe he won't find out (x2)
I kissed her once then she started to harass me
She called all night long
I had to buy her a brand new phone and let me see
There was Melanie,
To have a mouth like that should be a felonie
wouldn't believe half the shit that she was tellin me

Oh, so sexy y'all
I don't know where you're going
Or when you're coming home
I left the keys under the mat to our front door
For one more chance to hold you close
I don't know where you're going
Just get your ass back home
We both knew this type of life
Didn't come with instructions
So I'm trying to do my best
To make something outta nothing
And sometimes it gets
Downright shitty in fact
When you call and I don't even know
What city I'm at
Or what day of the week in the middle of the month
In a year I don't recall
It's like my life's on repeat and the last time we spoke
I told you I wouldn't be long(yeah)
That was last November now December's almost gone
I'd apologize but I don't realize what I'm doing wrong
I don't know where you're going
Or when you're coming home
I left the keys under the mat to our front door
For one more chance to hold you close
I don't know where you're going
Just get your ass back home
And you been nothing but amazing
And I will never take that for granted
Half of these birds would have flew
To coop but you, you truly understand it
And the fact you stood beside me
Every time you heard some bogusness
You deserve a standing o
'Cause they'd a just been over it
Let em talk, let em talk, let em talk, let em talk
Like we don't hear what they saying
Let em walk, let em walk, let em walk, let em walk
We'll just drive by and keep waving it
Cause you and I above all that
Just let em wallow in it
Now they all choked up, yuck
Cause they be swallowing it
I don't know where you're going
Or when you're coming home
I left the keys under the mat to our front door
For one more chance to hold you close
I don't know where you're going
Just get your ass back home
No one holds me down like you do, sweetheart
You keep doing that, I'll keep doing this
We'll be aight in the end
Trust that
We put the us in trust, baby
Let's go!
I don't care what you're after
As long as I'm the one, No
I don't care why you're leaving
You'll miss me when you're gone
I don't know where you're going
Or when you're coming home
I left the keys under the mat to our front door
For one more chance to hold you close
I don't know where you're going
Just get your ass back home

[Adam Levine]
My heart's a stereo
It beats for you, so listen close
Hear my thoughts in every note o-oh
Make me your radio
Turn me up when you feel low
This melody was meant for you
So sing along to my stereo[Travie McCoy]
If I was just another dusty record on the shelf
Would you blow me off and play me like everybody else
If I asked you to scratch my back, could you manage that?
Like it read well, check it, Travie, I can handle that
Furthermore, I apologize for any skipping tracks
It's just the last girl that played me left a couple cracks
I used to used to used to used to, now I'm over that
Cause holding grudges over love is ancient artifacts
If I could only find a note to make you understand
I'd sing it softly in your ear and grab you by the hands
To keep me stuck inside your head, like your favorite tune
And know my heart's a stereo that only plays for you[Chorus]
My heart's a stereo
It beats for you, so listen close
Hear my thoughts in every note
Make me your radio
Turn me up when you feel low
This melody was meant for you
So sing along to my stereo
Oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh, to my stereo
Oh oh oh oh, so sing along to my stereo[Travie McCoy]
If I was an old-school, fifty pound boombox
Would you hold me on your shoulder, wherever you walk
Would you turn my volume up in front of the cops
And crank it higher every time they told you to stop
And all I ask is that you don't get mad at me
When you have to purchase mad D batteries
Appreciate every mixtape your friends make
You never know, we come and go like on the interstate
I think finally found a note to make you understand
If you can hit it, sing along and take me by the hand
T' keep me stuck inside your head, like your favorite tune
And know my heart's a stereo that only plays for you[Chorus]
My heart's a stereo
It beats for you, so listen close
Hear my thoughts in every note o-oh
Make me your radio
Turn me up when you feel low
This melody was meant for you
So sing along to my stereo
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh, to my stereo
Oh oh oh oh, so sing along to my stereo[Bridge]
I only pray you'll never leave me behind (never leave me)
Because good music can be so hard to find (so hard to find)
I'll take your hand and hold it closer to mine
Thought love was dead, but now you're changing my mind[Chorus]
My heart's a stereo
It beats for you, so listen close
Hear my thoughts in every note o-oh
Make me your radio
'N turn me up when you feel low
This melody was meant for you
So sing along to my stereo
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh, to my stereo
Oh oh oh oh, so sing along to my stereo

if he were recording right now then he would be getting all this then we start
yo we should have a freestyle track on this
hit 'em off with something
spit a verse, travis, spit a verse
quit picking your nose
fuck you, i'll kill it, i don't give a fuck
traded in my hollow words for jelly filled verbs and five pound pronouns and predicates
this is schlep's etiquette for sloppy fable manners, get your napkins
matty do kick the beat and i'm rappin
top of the line top of the world top of the mornin' to ya top dog that's a top notch tie you got
tie it in a knot till your eyeballs pop out
so you can actually see what an actual emcee looks like
and if i had to pick and choose
i'd be the indecisive dick in the voting booth
laughing at my options like
stop the press and warn the media
schleprok is leavin' ya
walking with prosthetic concoctions
i thought i told you
you just a toadstool on mario with firepowers stickin' dick to the princess
is just senseless
like that david and goliath drama
mine is the slingest
don't get basically defenseless
anyway ya wanted schleprok's cock's obnoxious
it feels like a midget is chillin' in my boxers
what?
i'm sorry
i don't even give a fuck

(Roll Sloppy Love Jingle Sequence 1. Action!)
Bartender!
"Yeah I hear your wise ass, give me a minute."
I'm trying to get this round over here.
"What do you think I'm just working for you here?"
Actually, will you, will you send a drink, to the lady at the end of the bar? Yeah that one right there.
"Here you are man."
Yeah, yeah. It's on me. Tell her it's from Travie.
"It's from this guy over here."
From the second she shimmied in
I was intrigued by her essence
And my first instincts to make sure that my presence was felt
Simple and plain
I'm probably jumping the train
But all I could see was my name engraved on her belt
Hit the pause button
Damn!
I don't even know this girl
And I'm already practicing my sweet-nothins
But that's a classic trait of a soft-spoken, heart-broken, fellow like my self best believe (pussy)
I tend to wear my heart on my sleeve
But that night the Jagermeister had my sleeves rolled up
Wait a minute, hold up
I think she caught me grillin' now I'm spillin' my drink (don't look don't look)
I knew our feelings were in sync so now she gave me the wink
The only problem is, I'm not your ordinary, average Romeo
A Cyrano de Bergerac (shut the fuck up)
In fact, I remember back in fifth grade
I tried to read the book of love, but sadly
The introduction didn't grab me
So I left it on the shelf and kept moving
Assuming that this planet rotates
I'll just procrastinate until the day I bump into my soulmate
Who would've thunk I would be pissy ass drunk when time came for collision
So I made the decision to just keep my composure (cool cool)
Until she started getting closer
And then I felt this weird feeling underneath my left shoulder, and then I
Slipped, tripped, busted my lip and fell in love
The minute that she stepped in the door
The type of girl I'd have to make a couple mix tapes for
To me she equaled MC squared and everything else was mathematics

The bombs been detonated
I'm just waitin' for an explosion, I was just waitin' on 2nd and it was time for me to close in on 3rd
With blurred vision and in, precisely placed slurred words we started kissin'
Man listen, it was like a scene from a very bad B movie with a very low budget
But fuck it, I was drunk and I admit I loved it
Every last second, I couldn't kill that thought of us butt ass naked
Tele' surfin' with the fan on, chattin' about the session and, slowly gettin' into some closet skeleton confessions
That's when, she made a offer that I couldn't refuse
And chills went up and down my legs like Samoan tattoos
She said she had a pad that wasn't too far away, and said she'd love if I stayed 'til the following day
So it was time to exit stage left, I made my rounds, gave my pounds and hugs, gathered my thoughts and took a deep breath
And now we're walkin' to the door but, right before we stepped outside she bought me one more
And now I'm feelin' it, I had my had down my pocket but she's stealing it,
with our fingers in a locket and as we're walkin' down Exchange Street, with
our hearts pitter pattering to the same beat
And then she popped the question like "Trav, you evah been in love?" I'm like "pshhh not that I recall"
Well there was one situation, but I didn't have the patience, or the balls to say it and everytime I tried I just digitally delayed it
And it sounded like something blah blah blah blah, man my speach impetement left my heart vacant without a single resident
The first tenant got evicted the second she settled in, I seen her the other day riding my bike and kept peddlin'
If it wasn't for meddlin' kids would love even exist nope, if it wasn't for alcohol would I even be saying this nope
She probably took offense, I probably started gettin' sober 'cause she started gettin' ugly and I think probably told her
Then my feet got heavy, I started drippin' sweat, knew I was gettin' into something I'd probably regret
Right when I lit the cigarette I caught a case of the spins, and started wishin' I was still at the bar with my friends
And then it happened, I fell flat on my face
When I awoke I found I was in a very strange place
I must've got my wish granted 'cause I was butt ass naked, but the only downside was that the room was very vacant
Except next to the bed there was this note on the dresser, while I'm tryin' to deal with this hangover head pressure

I love it how she breathes booze in the morning
and it's so sexy how she can't remember last night
I made the fatal mistake letting her drink again
Well who the hell am I to tell her how to live her life?
And if you could put dumb in a shot glass
I'm just another lush who's had one too many in me
And we please don't have enough
I see you stand there, settle for anything, anything's better than lettin' her,
'Cause she could do better than me
She'll come around eventually
Cause baby girl's a queen
And a queen's just a pawn with a bunch of fancy moves
And she's made me a fiend
I won't be withdrawed cause I got nothing to lose
Oh no,
She's at the bottom of that bottle
She's only one more swallow
From being oh, so hollow
Bravo, she's at the bottom of that bottle
She's only one more swallow
From being oh, so hollow
I find it funny she can never find her car keys
Immediately after telling me she can't take it
She makes the cutest faces when she screams obscenities
And slurs her words because she's never not inebriated
And the front page that I'd read
Let the girl go, you know you can do better
It's bad, when the fact that you can't have her
Is the reason you sweat her,
Don't let her take advantage of you
Like the other girls let her
You better cut your losses now buddy.
Cause baby girl's a queen
And a queen's just a pawn with a bunch of fancy moves
And she's made me a fiend
I won't be withdrawed cause I got nothing to lose
Oh no,
She's at the bottom of that bottle
She's only one more swallow
From being oh, so hollow
Bravo, she's at the bottom of that bottle
She's only one more swallow
From being oh, so hollow
Drown yourself,
It's not worth keeping me
Just put it down right now,
And bow out gracefully
(Cause baby girl's a queen)
Drown yourself;
(The queen's just a pawn with a bunch of fancy moves)
It's not worth keeping me,
(And she's made me a fiend)
Just put it down right now
(I won't be withdrawed cause I got nothing to lose)
And bow out gracefully
Oh no, she's at the bottom of that bottle
She's only one more swallow
From being oh, so hollow
Bravo, she's at the bottom of that bottle
She's only one more swallow
From being oh, so hollow

(Did you hear about Travis?)
(No, What?)
(I heard he’s been hooking up with a teacher!)
(NICE!)
And I can hear ‘em talking in the hallways
I’m always late for lunch,
Learning dirty little lessons from you
Now my name is on the lips of every cheerleader in my school
Now I’m a legend in the locker room (Legendary Baby!)
(Ah) I was just a snotty nosed degenerate
With hit pass perfection
Dodgin’ teachers down to give my late ass detention
Hardly a heartthrob but I made due
Using those same “circle yes or no”
Notes I used in grade school
Folded love letters with a tab that read “pull here”
Writin’ back and forth in notebooks for a full year
I used to daydream about Ms. Magnus
The type of fantasies you feel guilty for having
But who hasn’t?
The only difference beside the age
Was the fact I acted on it
And who wouldn’t?
A schoolboy crush met mature woman lust
And they hit it off so well
And I could tell the day she asked me
To stay after class that it was all bad
But I just bit my lip and acted all mad
The bell rang, class dismissed
She door shut and her skirt went up (That’s a Fact!)
And I can hear ‘em talking in the hallways (let ‘em keep talking)
I’m always late for lunch,
Learning dirty little lessons from you (so sexy)
Now my name is on the lips of every cheerleader in my school
Now I’m a legend in the locker room (Legendary Baby!)
We gave a brand new meaning
To “after-school special”
The second that our lips touched
She kissed my ribs
And counted each one out loud
I tried my hardest not to giggle
But I couldn’t cuz it tickled so much
She pulled my pants to half-mast
I said “hurry Miss Sin
You gonna make me late for math class”
The way she praised my balls was vicious
Now that’s what I like to call sacrilegious
One time became twenty times
Before we knew it
We stopped caring about where we would do it
From the classroom to the bathroom
And when all the students was gone
We’d even do it in the staff room
From F’s to A’s in less than 3 days
Now the underachiever’s the one with the best grades
Made the third floor shake without breakin’ a sweat
Goddamn it felt good to be the teacher’s pet
And I can hear ‘em talking in the hallways (let ‘em keep talking)
I’m always late for lunch,
Learning dirty little lessons from you (so sexy)
Now my name is on the lips of every cheerleader in my school
Now I’m a legend in the locker room (Legendary Baby!)
(Ah) Goodness gracious, accusations
Started flyin' through the building
Cruel As School Children
This isn’t how it was supposed to be
Reminiscing don’t stand so close to me
And if it’s mostly my fault for letting this shit happen
But I couldn’t resist a little adolescent bragging
I mean, after all I was only 15
And she was showing me things
My virgin eyes had never seen
Never forget the little meeting she called
But when she saw my reaction
It made her appalled
So basically what you’re sayin' is
If I don’t keep tappin’ that ass
Then you ain’t gonna let me pass
Psshh, Some punishment lady
And as I turned towards the door
I looked back
She had her clothes on the floor
Needless to say I passed with flying colors
But my teacher was my best friends mother (damn)
And I can hear ‘em talking in the hallways (let ‘em keep talking)
I’m always late for lunch,
Learning dirty little lessons from you (so sexy)
Now my name is on the lips of every cheerleader in my school
Now I’m a legend in the locker room (Legendary Baby!)
And I can hear ‘em talking in the hallways (let ‘em keep talking)
I’m always late for lunch,
Learning dirty little lessons from you (so sexy)
Now my name is on the lips of every cheerleader in my school
Now I’m a legend in the locker room (Legendary Baby!)
And I can hear ‘em talking in the hallways (let ‘em keep talking)
I’m always late for lunch,
Learning dirty little lessons from you (so sexy)
Now my name is on the lips of every cheerleader in my school
Now I’m a legend in the locker room (Legendary Baby!)

Why do people fear what they don't know?
Constantly lookin' at me funny cause my pants swung low
And my hats rocked to the left
All these dirty looks be gettin me stressed
It's time to dead that
Testify and get your head wrapped like Arabian cats
terrorist act's will have you pigs squealin at last
Wayne County Jail full of noxious gas
got three quarters of your senses massed
you're left with only the sense of Touch like Tony
The majority of these boys in blue are phony
crooked like Saint Ides, instead of tryin to save lives
they out for delph, only tryin to help them self
They pull me over talkin about a seatbelt, we all know thats bullshit
the fact is I look suspicious, THATS IT!!
Type of kid to expose corruption, like crop circles and alien abductions
Park patrolling toy cop reproductions
Hunger for power equals negative reprocussions
Get rushed as if I was rushin with no discussion
try and cuff me and catch a mild concussion
I've taken all the stress I can
peace America I'm movin off to foreign lands
where cops don't place narcotics in innocent hands
Framin cats just to meet a quota
searchin' everyone with baggy pants and Moterola's
Thats why I'm wild with a camcorder
to catch 'em slippin when they pull me over
flip 'em the bird then I'm ghost in my Toyota
Won't stop writin til this shit cease
Until someone's there to police the police
I'm sick of all this everyday harassment
(Sick of hopelessly watchin my man gettin his ass kicked, sick of being
followed shit is drastic)
Sick of havin visions of black caskets (just because we rock our pants low)
And our hats backwards (These cops is like cancer)
A tumor on our ass (We want answers)
For bad manners (And the use of police scanners)
So we jottin down their numbers (In our pocket planners)
for the day we meet up (With Jim Shapiro) THE HAMMER!
They got this little game that they play
tellin you that you that you done somethin wrong
Then they flash the badge in your face
and you don't even know what's goin' on
They don't even give you a reasons, orno clue as to what it is you've done
You go for your registration, and then they put your ass to sleep
(And tell the chief you reached for heat)
Cops be poppin' confiscated glocks with a sack of rocks right under it
the funny thing is, this murders funded by the government
Yo they'll kill you and put the crack in your pocket to make it legal
Illegally plant the confiscated gat right by you in your Regal
and say you shot first, delete you from digital files its lethal
Most of these cops is see through, that's why we do what we do
That's why we tell the truth about what police do
Son they'll issue you a ticket right before they beat you
I'm glad the truth scares you, hit me mr.officer I dare you
Check the rearview, you'll see the camcorder, extended lens too
You better call for back-up, chew the rest of that crack up
cause we got you on tape with that girl you raped and handcuffed
Yeah you shook now, and if you swing on me I'm about to fight back
The man ain't nothin but the klan, but not in white they rockin blue and black
It's a proven fact cops is just white collared criminals
they ride in Crown V's injectin neighborhoods with chemicals
I'm tellin you, it all makes sense they killed the president
sniped him out with one shot then lurked out with all the evidence
I'm speakin relevance, ignorant heads won't try to hear me
cause the truth will make the masses bug out, like Tim Leary
If you want kids off the streets give us somethin to do
instead of constant harassment and curfew's (COME ON)
Since when did dreadlocks become probable cause
totin' around a backpack become breakin the law
Son I'm fed up, so get up, stand up like Bob told you
and learn some Tai Bo in case they try to choke hold you
I'm sick of all this everyday harassment
(Sick of hopelessly watchin my man gettin his ass kicked, sick of being
called a black bastard)
Sick of havin visions of black caskets (Just because we rock our pants low)
and our hats backwards (These cops is like cancer)
a tumor on our ass, (we want answers)
for bad manners (and the use of police scanners)
So we jottin' down their numbers (in our pocket planners)
For the day we meet up (with Jim Shapiro) THE HAMMER!
(I'm sick of all this everyday harassment)
Sick of hopelessly watchin my man gettin his ass kicked, sick of being
followed shit is drastic
(Sick of havin visions of black caskets) Just because we rock our pants low
(And our hats backwards) These cops is like cancer
(A tumor on our ass) We want answers
(For bad manners) And the use of police scanners
(So we jottin down their numbers) In our pocket planners

I walk on decrepit bricks
And kick sticks and rusty soda cans
Simply for lack of better stimulation
Motivation comes and goes like gas station patrons
So sedation compensates for unexpected vacations
(Thank you )
That's my pre-gratitude
Post-please leave me alone that's just my rude attitude
No dysfunction flipside, I'm just your ordinary citizen
They're waiting patiently for me to sin again, but then again (shit...)
I'm really mommy's little angel,
But that angel on my shoulder got strangled
For trying to tangle with his nemesis he caught him on the wrong day
And got cut like DJs spinning doubles -(let the fucking song play)
I'm on my way to the store,
Ignoring the city to purchase a pack of marb reds
With a stack of rolled pennies
I could go for Denny's, and my stomach holds plenty,
But my pockets got holes, I guess the goal is to stay empty...
Quite simply put, me and my pockets share interest
I never fall in love with that pretty green-eyed temptress,
Twice (yeah right)
I learned my lesson the first time
I just couldn't keep up with that ever-changing Jordan line of foot apparel
Parallel to many clones, my eye's vision monochromes
With seven shades and twenty tones
Plus I breath artistic, they eating everything I'm feeding them
Put myself in every painting and use my spit as mat medium
And results of my children
We share the same genes,
Cast the same reflection and interpret the same dreams.
Like whoa
Whoa
And at night, I roam these streets with absolutely no purpose
Feeling like I'm worthless
But contrary to my last statement, I feel fine
Content with the fact that I know this city's mine
And at night, I roam these streets with absolutely no purpose
Feeling like I'm worthless
But contrary to my last statement, I feel fine
Content with the fact that I know this city's mine
I walk down dead end streets like I didn't see the sign
Just to turn around and walk back
That's fine and dandy, but what's whack is the fact I'm still walking
...like... "thank god for walkmans"
I'm only yawning cause these simply minded
Mortals make me sleepy
So what do I do? I resort to TV
In the seemingly lousy attempt to numb myself
With lackluster images
And insignificant information like "Willis was really Ty Bridges"
Just to have the upper hand in monotonous conversation,
And for lack of better stimulation
I'm painting portraits of dysfunctional families
With gloomy faces rockin
"Don't Worry, Be Happy" t-shirts, and you're assuming I'm tasteless?
You misconstrue it but your babies will embrace it
The basic essentials of a very bitter young man
That kicks rusty soda cans
And walks on decrepit bricks
With a permanent pair of headphones
Trying to make these lectures stick
I'll let the protestors picket,
Like they are going to make a difference
And watch them die before they realize that their cause was nonexistent
And at night, I roam these streets with absolutely no purpose (absolutely no purpose)
Feeling like I'm worthless (feeling like I'm worthless)
But contrary to my last statement, I feel fine
Content with the fact that I know this city's mine
And at night, I roam these streets with absolutely no purpose (absolutely no purpose)
Feeling like I'm worthless (feeling like I'm worthless)
But contrary to my last statement, I feel fine
Content with the fact that I know this city's mine
I walk on shitty city sidewalks stepping on every single crack
Reminiscent of that joke we used to say when we were snotty nose
My purpose got defeated when my mom turned paraplegic,
Plus I failed my civil service exam,
They said I cheated.
:not to mention tainted urine samples and the attention span of a second-grader
More fascinated with building blocks than wasting time stressing his daily lesson
Hence the ridilin I've been gone with the wind like lucky lottery tickets since day one (one)
I stepped on the left cause rights wrong (wrong)
So what do I do?I resort to friendly games of ping pong and sing a song of sixpence
I'm none the richer, I just kiss her on the lips and keep trucking
And at night, I roam these streets with absolutely no purpose (absolutely no purpose)
Feeling like I'm worthless (feeling like I'm worthless)
But contrary to my last statement, I feel fine
Content with the fact that I know this city's mine
And at night, I roam these streets with absolutely no purpose (absolutely no purpose)
Feeling like I'm worthless (feeling like I'm worthless)
But contrary to my last statement, I feel fine

VERSE 1-
I wish I could unzip my skin
Take it off, just to talk a walk
But I can't do it.
I don't think I'll make it on my own.
That's when I take out my pen
and I wage it all, turn the page and fall
It just comes natural.
I'm gonna make it on my own.
CHORUS-
I just need time to walk it off
But I can't do it.
I'll write it on my own time.
Hey look I made it on my own.
I know she thinks that I don't try
But I realize that I can do better.
(write, write on. write, write on)x2
Makin' a mess, as I progress
No time to cry about it, do better.
(write, write on. write, write on)
VERSE 2-
I wrote the greatest lines at the strangest times
Now it's payin off, but I still feel lost
'Cause I can't do it.
I don't think I'll make it on my own.
Somewhere between now and pacifiers
I changed my name to free
Plush equals safe to me, so I'm livin dangerously
I'm gonna make it on my own.
-CHORUS-
-GUITAR-
write on, write it on your own time x10
write it on your own time.

i knew this kid named alberto
funny style cat and his girl looked like a turtle
not lisa turtle just a turtle
highschool track he ran the hurtle
his peers shed tears his senior year when
he got murdered now alberto was your average
day student A student pertisipated in class
never came late and never true and his family
was picture perfect his older sister was prom
queen his dad a decorator vet from vietnem scene
his mother was deaar abby an ordianary house wife
like clock would always have dinner on the table
at five but alberto had a monster he kept under
his bed and instead of letting it out he just got
a girlfreind instead she new something was funny she
could tell by his behavior or the way he would wave
his hand when he would wave to her, she never though
anything of it and just shoved it in the closet
until the day the word dripped out like leaky faucet
alberto was homosexual i aint have nothing against it
but little ronny johnson and all his football player friends
did they always picking bad calling him fag and such and such
and couldnt wait to get to gym and really bust his nuts
the gym teacher never cared hed join in on the action
make silly gestures and compare him to micheal jackson
alberto couldnt take it he just stopped showing up
and whenever he walked the malls he just felt like throwing up
and at night he would cry and cry and ask god why
like god why the fuck i had to be born this way'
god would reply "son you got to show them your more then just gay"
see he had dreams of being a track star until the night
the gay jokes went way to far ronny begged for his forgiveness
and invited him to a party cause his parents went away
and left him plenty of barcardi alerbto kindly accepted
he was finaly accpeted accpeted was all deseption
and all unprotected it was a playrite a scame to get him in
the right place verbally degrade him and rearange his pretty face
the plan would go swiftly they started calling him sissy
when plus turned into fifty they beat him until he was dizzy
now alberto lie in blood while his peers look on him in fear
he took his last breath and passed away his senior year
needless to say it was one big traggity and how was ronny
gonna explain it to his family while they were on vacation
taking in sights he got wasted killed a kidthat night
dont be a saver but hate the way they do
just utilise the gifts god gave you
i knew this girl named maria right and talented
with assperations to be a big superstar what a great idea
until she fell off and started listeing to her peers
oh dear now maria was your typically obnoxious analyittle
head strong rebel flipping off the principles sinlge mother
home structure she looked at the baby brother while the moms work
two jobs just to buy supper pops was a struggling musician
troubled man, juggling herion addiction he overdosed
and left a notice of eviction and cradle record in the kitchen
and a little angel with a keene sense of sound who saw silence
in the record she found and she would stay up late at night
resighting songsto herself in the pale moonlight
writting wrongs that her pops made..promise to mom she would
never go the same route turns out karieann had other plans
her interman ronny most popular secondbest to nobody
homecoming queen vs. ugly duckling and the storey ends the same
way ok ronnys parents went away for a couple of days
and told him no drinking wat the fuck was they thinking
maria was oblivious that her boyfriend had already
been invited so when karieann asked she got all excited like
damn now ive got something to look forward to
and so she thought maria kindly accepted
she was finally accpeted except it was all bullshit
now pay attention
kary ann hated maria cause she could sing and so she scored
a bag of herion but the craziest thing was maria never touched
drugs she did that night and when her man was getting beat
she was nowhere in sight now her boyfriend ly in blood
and she had no idea alberto passed away and she got hooked
her senior year needless to say it was one big tragity
and i hate to break it but it doesnt end happily
a warm day in may the sky was so beautiful
kary-ann died in a crash leaving the funeral

baba dada
baba dada
baba dada
baba dada
baba dada
take a look at my girlfriend
she's the only one i got [baba dada]
not much of a girlfriend
i never seem to get a lot [baba dada, baba dada]
it's been some time since we last spoke
and this is gonna sound like a bad joke (bad joke)
but momma i fell in love again
it's safe to say i have a new girlfriend
and i know it sounds so old
but cupid got me in a chokehold
and i'm afraid i might give in
towels on the mat, my white flag is wavin'
[baba dada]
i mean she even cooks me pancakes
and alka seltzer when my tummy aches
if that ain't love then i don't know what love is
we even got a secret handshake
and she loves the music that my band makes
i know i'm young but if i had to choose her or the sun
i'd be one nocturnal son of a gun
[bada dada, bada dada]
take a look at my girlfriend
she's the only one i got [baba dada]
not much of a girlfriend
i never seem to get a lot [baba dada, baba dada]
take a look at my girlfriend
she's the only one i got [baba dada]
not much of a girlfriend
i never seem to get a lot [baba dada, baba dada]
it's been awhile since we talked last and i'm tryin' hard not to talk fast
but dad i'm finally thinkin' i may have found the one
type of girl that'll make you way proud of your son
and i know you heard the last song about the girls that didn't last long
but i promise this is on a whole new plane
i can tell by the way she says my name
[baba dada]
i love it when she calls my phone
she even got her very own ringtone
if that ain't love then i don't know what love is
[baba dada]
it's gonna be a long drive home but i know as soon as i arrive home
and i open the door take off my coat and throw my bag on the floor
she'll be back in my arms into my arms once more for sure like...
take a look at my girlfriend
she's the only one i got [baba dada]
not much of a girlfriend
i never seem to get a lot [baba dada, baba dada]
she's got a smile that would make the most senile
annoying old man bite his tongue
(i'm not done)
she's got eyes comparable to sunrise
and it doesn't stop there
(man i swear)
she's got porcelain skin of course she's a ten
and now she's even got her own song
(but movin' on)
she's got the cutest laugh i ever heard
and we can be on the phone for three hours
(not sayin' one word)
and i would still cherish every moment
and when i start to build my future she's the main component
call it dumb, call it luck, call it love or whatever you call it but
everywhere i go i keep her picture in my wallet like here
take a look at my girlfriend
she's the only one i got [baba dada]
not much of a girlfriend
i never seem to get a lot [baba dada, baba dada]
take a look at my girlfriend
she's the only one i got [baba dada]
not much of a girlfriend
i never seem to get a lot [baba dada, baba dada]

I knew this kid named Alberto
Funny style cat
And his girl looked like a turtle
Not Lisa Turtle, just a turtle
High school track
He ran the hurdle
His peers shed tears senior year when he got murdered
Now Alberto was your average A student
Participated in class,
Never came late
And never truant
His family was picture perfect
His older sister was prom queen
His dad a decorated vet from the Vietnam team
His mother was Dear Abby,
An ordinary house wife
Like clockwork, always had dinner on the table at 5
But Alberto had a monster he kept under his bed
Instead of letting it out,
He just got a girlfriend instead
She knew something was funny
She could tell by his behavior
Or the way he flamboyantly shook his hand
When he would wave to her
She thought nothing of it
And just shoved it in the closet
Until the day that word dripped out like leaky faucet
Alberto was homosexual
I ain't have nothing against it
But little Ronnie Johnson and all his football player friends did
They'd always pick and nag
Call him "fag" and such and such
And couldn't wait to get to gym so they could really bust his nuts
The gym teacher never cared
He'd just join in on the action
He'd make silly gestures
And compared him to Micheal Jackson
Alberto couldn't take it
He'd just stop showing up and whenever he walked them halls
He just felt like throwin' up
And night he would cry and cry and ask "God why?"
Like "God, why the fuck'd I have to be born this way?"
God would reply, "Son, you've gotta show 'em you're more than gay"
Cause he had dreams to be a track star
Until that warm April night
Them gay jokes went way too far
Ronnie begged for his forgiveness
And invited him to a party
Cause his parents went away
And left him plenty of Bacardi
Alberto kindly accepted
He was finally accepted
Except it was all deception
And left them all unprotected
It was a plan Ronnie had scammed
To get him in the right place
Verbally degrade and rearrange his pretty face
The plan would go swiftly
They started calling him sissy
One punch turned into fifty
They beat him till he was dizzy
Now Alberto lie in blood
While his peers look on in fear
He took his last breath
And passed away his senior year
Needless to say
It was one big tragedy
And how was Ronnie gonna explain to his family,
While they were on vacation taking in sights
He got wasted and killed a kid that night
Don't be a slave and behave the way they do,
Just utilize the gifts that God gave you
I knew this girl named Maria
Bright and talented
With aspirations to be a
Big superstar
What a great idea
Until she fell off and started to listening to her peers
Oh dear!
Now Maria was your typical obnoxious
Analytical head strong rebel
Flippin' off the principal
Single mother home structure
She looked after baby brother
While mom worked two jobs
Just to buy supper
Pops was a struggling musician
Troubled man,
Juggling family and heroin addiction
He overdosed and left a notice of eviction
And a crate of records on the table in the kitchen
And a little angel with a keen sense of sound
Who saw silence in the records she found
And she would stay up late at night
Reciting songs to herself
Under pale moonlight
Righting wrongs that her pops made,
Promised her mom she'd never go that same route
Turns out
Carrie Anne had other plans
Her and her man Ronnie most popular,
Second best to nobody
Homecoming queen versus ugly duckling
And the story ends the same way
OK, Ronnie's parents went away for a couple of days
And told him "No Drinking"
What the fuck were they thinking?
Maria was oblivious that her boyfriend had already been invited
So when Carrie Anne asked
She got all excited
Like "damn now I got something to look forward to"
Or so she thought
Maria kindly accepted,
She was finally accepted,
Except it was all bullshit
Not pay attention,
Carrie Anne hated Maria cause she could sing
So she scored a bag of heroin
But the craziest thing was
Maria never touched drugs, she did that night
And when her man was getting beat
She was nowhere in sight
Now her boyfriend lie in blood
And she had no idea
Alberto passed away and she got hooked her senior year
Needless to say
It was one one big tragedy
And I hate to break it but
It doesn't end happily
A warm day in May,
The sky was so beautiful

You think you know, but you have no idea
This is the diary of a breathing onomanopia
Now here's another broken link for anyone who thinks my life's together
I rock a raincoat despite the pleasant weather
God's placed a permanent dark cloud above my head
But he was nice enough to loan me a holy umbrella
Well thank ya fella,
How considerate
I'm the illegitimate son of accident-prone degenerates
Today's forecast partly cloudy with a good chance of rain
So I wear my sarcasm badge proudly and
Flash a devilish grin
That'll make the most masculine Men skeptical of his existence
And when the rain begins, I take a seat to retire and admire the spectacle
From a distance
For instance, there was this cat the other day shootin me ice grills
But when I looked, he looked the other way
Now any other day
Wouldn't let this type of shit bother me
Today it was enough to make my lucky charms soggy
So finally I stepped to him
Kindly disrespected him
Looked him dead in the eyes and analyzed how it effected him
He broke down in tears talkin bout how Jesus neglected him
Make this rain go away
Things would be much better
I swear, I swear
If the sun would come out today
Life would be more worthwhile, worthwhile,
And all it took was a sewing needle to deflate my swollen ego
Then pop pop went my God Complex
I never thought 19 yrs after my first breath I'd be in art school surrounded
By corny fucks debating who's more depressed
I'm 21 now, and still can't deal with what's real
But I'll be damned if I give up and settles for pills
Daddy taught me better
Mommy taught me how to crack 40's and jack 6 packs in oversized sweaters
And one time my mother changes
So I'm in the rain waiting
For the flood gates to open
Impersonating my favorite VH1 Behind the Music tragedy
Catastrophe never tasted so acidic before
I'm PH balanced
For the floor? But strong enough to stay a float
And doggy paddle long enough to catch that
Life preserver rope
And then I'll be on a parallel ladder laughin like,
Damn my man, for the love of Pete what happened
And finally I step to you
Kindly disrespect you
Looked you dead in the eyes and analyzed how it affected you
Watch you break down in tears talkin bout how J
Esus neglected you
Misdirected the definition of pitiful
Make this rain go away
Things would be much better
I swear, I swear
If the sun would come out today
Life would be more worthwhile, worthwhile,
Yo, you ever watch a whole day wash away like your
Very last match that got wet the second you struck it
Well go ahead relieve your stress, kick bucket all you want,
A cigarette that never mattered's all you stuck with
You ever watch a whole day wash away like your
Very last match that got wet the second you struck it
Well go ahead relieve your stress, kick bucket all you want,
A cigarette that never mattered's all you stuck with
Make this rain go away
Things would be much better
I swear, I swear
If the sun would come out today
Life would be more worthwhile, worthwhile,
You think you know, but you have no idea

Now who you know leave the scene
Messier than canvas's by Jackson Pollock
Throwing multicolored thoughts at a rapid pace
I make a mess you dissect it and make sense of it
Then get back to me at your earliest convenience
Check my verbal sequence as I texturize these tracks
Seven layers to be exact eliminate the whack
With a firm brush stroke I mc paintily
Lyricists begin crumbling from my scumbling technique
As I tweak your audio and visual keep my drips minimal messages subliminal
Cause me and rap go way back we compliment
So together we enhance one another that's common sense
High intensity catches the eye your jaw drops
Be a real critic not explicit with false props
I keep my darks deep my lights bright I'm very thorough
With my churascurro inspiration spark and a knife
Now watch me rock the spot like ? minus the heroin
And make my face popular like Andy did to Marilyn
Its kinda scary when real art gets left behind
While they take bullshit and start sellin it to blind folks
But I remain humble as long as ? continues spinnin hot shit
On his twin twelve-hundred color wheels of steel
F**k mass appeal art is art only the real can truly feel it
So open your eyes and listen
Combine your ears with vision
Or do it cause you love it
Or for cash that's your decision
That's your decision
That's your decision
Its like I'm torn between two worlds
A paintbrush and a microphone
A canvas or a beat
CD or LP
Anything goes when my ink pen flows
And God only knows where its gonna bring me next
So I'm inclined to like paint rhymes and spit kaleidoscopes with one eye closed
And I suppose if you chose the path that I chose
You know the cycle ass ho don't front
It goes inspiration and productivity then a sense of self worth and in steps depression
Like back and forth and forth and back
Should I paint a picture or record a track
A gift or a curse I don't know I'm still undecided
But over the years I've found clever ways to hide it
And those that lack the passion I have may despise it
But my momma made me this way I thank her everyday
So tell them kids to keep coloring outside the lines
Until they lose they limitations and they minds is free
Tell them teachers that you want your money back this time
And tell Bob Ross for all the happy little trees
And tell my momma that her baby boy is doing just fine
Although hes running out of patience but his mind is free
And tell my pops that I'll pay his money back sometime
And that his son is two steps away from where he needs to be

Travis been known to spit lyrical backflips on tracks with skate kicks
Osiris had the flyest but I'm all about Axion, Verbal bigspin
I Crooked grind your melon for not listenin',
I'm beyond regular, you stuck in fakie position
The funny thing is I don't skate but I'll deflate your whole ego
Manipulate your face and replace it with something uglier than
The product of Sha-nae-nae and Patrick Ewing havin' a baby
(Damn Travis you crazy) Nah just a little misunderstood
I got the planet in confusion, for the simple fact my vocabulary lacks the word losin'
Contusions are placed across the bodies of any challengers
I'll leave my mark then disappear like J.D. Salinger,
As whack emcee's continue scuffin' their knees,
Suckin' the dicks of A&R;'s just to get their platinum chains and cars,
I'ma keep on doin' my thing,
Broke as Macy Gray would be with a regular voice trying to sing,
Who wanna bring it to these Crab Apple affiliates,
Act silly and you'll get split down the middle like a Philly gets,
I've had enough of all these silent menaces,
I'm for peace but you'll get quickly deceased with violent sentences,
The only witnesses will be later notified to come identify the dental records of a kid offended mine,
you ain't a friend of mine so I suggest you call me Mr. McCoy
Hot shit will burn and blister you boy
We manifest through tape decks and prisma colored markers,
Invade your space like feathers from down parka's,
We legends in our own times and every rhyme is living proof,
We drinkin' forty's from the fountain of youth,
And when we done we're pissin' innocence,
Cause in a sense, everything your mouth dispense don't necessarily pay the rent
Or the phone bills, you can't trade food for mic skills,
But if you could I'd be eating lovely, believe me.
Travis McCoy be like the influenza, flow sick,
These other rappers on some old common cold (SHHH),
I'm sicker than that, and plus you always suck (YECK) quicker than that,
And H20 aqua we be thicker than that, and if at
Anytime shit gets to hard to handle I'm going out raw,
Chainsaw and all like Bruce Cambell,
Steppin' out the darkness with an army of creeps,
Caffeine ain't allowin' Travis to get no sleep,
Cause cat's speak soft, and quick to front hard like Charles Bronson,
Shoutin' out Brooklyn, knowin' that they from Wisconsin,
That's why I'm always concentratin' when I'm puffin' cheeba,
We down with New York State and the city of Geneva,
G-Town's my residence that's where I stack my dead presidents,
And in my mind it ain't no time for irrelevance, come on now
I thought you knew better, my rhymes are nines and my mouth's a lyrical berretta
But better...YET...I make you Sweat like Keith,
And have your whole crew fallin' out like rotten teeth.
We manifest through tape decks and prisma colored markers,
Invade your space like feathers from down parka's,
We legends in our own times and every rhyme is living proof,
We drinkin' forty's from the fountain of youth,
And when we done we're pissin' innocence,
Cause in a sense, everything your mouth dispense don't necessarily pay the rent
Or the phone bills, you can't trade food for mic skills,
But if you could I'd be eating lovely, believe me.
Who start it like us, rip a part it like us,
who you know jump on the stage and get retarded like us?
Who start it like us, rip a part it like us,
who you know jump on the stage and get retarded like us?
Who start it like us, rip a part it like us,
who you know jump on the stage and get retarded like us?
Who start it like us, rip a part it like us,
who you know jump on the stage and get retarded like us?
GCH will make it happen regardless of the element,
From breakdancing, beats, graffiti shit, to straight rappin',
Who got your mama's hands clappin'?
Zappin' cats like the third rail, these rappers soundin' sweet over stale ass beats,
Come on get serious, you're making me furious with these lame clich�'s and whack hooks
Oh you ain't feelin' me? I'll beat you to death with black books,
Now that I got your undivided, you got a mic? You better hide it,
I'm creepin' six deep with seven swords of drunk pirates
With eye patches, no teeth and burnt eye lashes,
so they don't sleep and stay dodgin' car crashes,
I'll smash your pride like a star that just got his fame stolen,
Bash you with a mic so hard I'll leave your name swollen,
Cut to the chase I'll just get to the point first, cause frankly
You're shit is worse than Fred Durst's best verse,
AND(AND)IT'S(IT'S)LIKE(LIKE)THAT(THAT)
We manifest through tape decks and prisma colored markers,
Invade your space like feathers from down parka's,
We legends in our own times and every rhyme is living proof,
We drinkin' forty's from the fountain of youth,
And when we done we're pissin' innocence,
Cause in a sense, everything your mouth dispense don't necessarily pay the rent
Or the phone bills, you can't trade food for mic skills,
But if you could I'd be eating lovely, believe me.

Let the bass make your spine jerk, drums make your ears hurt,
Hear me deliverin' this phat ass verse, been puttin' in work,
Eventually I'll master the craft and sit back, grab the phone and tell the boss to kiss my ass,
You won't see me in the mornin', 8 o'clock on the button,
I'll be on the lake fishin', blazin' fire with my cousin,
(THAT'S IT) As I become one with the fish,
Collect my thoughts for a bit until I'm ready to spit,
Pick up my celly and shit, then proceed to hit up my kids
and connect 'em voice dialed through sprint, I tell 'em meet me at the spot with some hot ish,
They say 'Jimmy you got lyrics?', SON I GOT THIS!!
Continuously the past two days kid I been writin',
Had to polish my game to make the stage show excitin',
It's frightenin', while y'all hang loose we keep it tightened,
Y'all talk like thunder, we show and prove like lightnin' ,
Aight then, why you always hatin' on me?
I'm doin' my thing on stage, I make the crowds move for free,
I ain't getting' paid nothin', so why you frontin'?
With all that hard talkin' you're about to start something
You don't really wanna get into,
I'll disassemble your nose, and possibly puncture a lung too,
With a one then a two combination you're through,
Blows from my Timberland boots leave you bruised like bad fruit,
(SO WHAT IT LOOK LIKE) I might be white, but I still possess the skills
To rip mic's, when I'm sober, when I'm schwilled I keep it real,
With my vocabulary spills I'm ill, like L, with lyrical skill,
Like Hyundai cause I Accel,
Whack competitors get whaced if their style's an act,
It's been a long time but I'm back on the GCH track,
I speak on fact while most of y'all cat's be preachin' fiction,
The way you rhyme and live in life's a contradiction,
You need to listen closely to the words I speak,
Also get accustomed used to the word defeat,
Bless beats like a Roman priest from dusk 'til dawn,
My written flow be holy water, I spray shit 'til your gone...
Extra, Extra...Read all about it,
You takin' us out kid, I highly doubt it,
When live wires connect they cause a surge,
That electrocutes your ears the illest shit you ever heard.
Extra, Extra...Read all about it,
You takin' us out kid, haha I doubt it,
When live wires connect they cause a surge,
That electrocutes your ears the illest shit you ever heard.
Ring the alarm, cause Travie Won is shining,
Ring the alarm, cause I've begun refining,
Ring the alarm, cause GCH is coming,
Ring the alarm, and hear the drummer drumming,
Ring Ring the alarm, bring it back to react and respond,
I'll Pierce your teflon vest with Double O's like James Bond,
Me say 'Mon, it be no problem', like a Jamaican,
You ought never to try and compare this to you because you fakin'
(BUM-BA-CLAHT) You must have been so severely mistaken,
If Hip-Hop today's a yard full of leaves, its time for rakin',
Ain't no time for playin', pay attention to these words I'm sayin',
Cause these might be the feet which to whom you will be prayin',
Verbal slayin', the last be first, first shall be last,
In like 2 point 5 I get medieval on your ass,
Play on the grass, but you know you're bound to step in doo-doo,
Never no need to front, cause we don't be frontin' like you do,
On some real shit, you don't wanna do nothin' now do you?
So screw you, we're true warriors like Shaka Zulu,
With that juice, not like Tupac's Bishop but Desmond Tutu,
And there you have it, most of y'all be quick to speak on Travis,
Not even knowin' the full capabilities of his madness,
You thought you had this, when you can't even come near me,
In fact just you thinking that shit is kinda scary,
I'm leavin' heads Gratefully Dead like Jerry.
Extra, Extra...Read all about it,
You takin' us out kid, I highly doubt it,
When live wires connect they cause a surge,
That electrocutes your ears the illest shit you ever heard.
Extra, Extra...Read all about it,
You takin' us out kid, haha I doubt it,
When live wires connect they cause a surge,
That electrocutes your ears the illest shit you ever heard.
Everything's in the process, mad stress no rest,
You could test but you'll never ever penetrate this lyrical crest,
I'm armor, you'll get slapped with this fat rosey palm,
Ask your mama, about that last soap opera drama,
Son I'm wicked, do you want a first class ticket,
To a beatin', show your ass and I'm inclined to kick it,
Keep it real, that's just another bum ass deal,
Sometimes I feel it makes me get a little crazy like seal,
But I'm survivin', ain't drivin' cause I just got my license,
All I got to my name is lint, a Herkimer diamond, and 79 cents,
And a mountain bike that's just about as broke as my pockets,
I'm broke to the point that I'm about to pull my own eye sockets,
But there's more to life than just them new Jordan's, and right now
I'm rockin' anything my Dad's affordin', I come complete
Whole like Vitamin D, while cat's just Skim the surface,
If 2% is real the other 98 is nervous,
Open your eyes, take off them shades you ain't the secret service,
Don't be surprised, realize that 'No disguise' can hide your worthless,
I've tried and cried a million times to find my sole purpose,

It seems like lately time be beatin' my ass,
Every step is like a right hook from Iron Mike Tyson in his prime,
It's like my mind is on a tredmill,
I'm sweatin' bullets,
see the plug but I can't pull it,
This belt just keeps bringin' me back,
And every minute is like a 'tiger uppercut' from Sagat,
I'm up against these ropes,
and ain't no tellin' if I win or not,
These gloves are getting heavy,
it's fight or flight you know how that goes,
Facin' clocks is chasin',
got me dodgin' obstacles,
And every hour is like a tightrope I walk with greasy shoes,
Still yet I got my conscience tellin' me that I can't lose,
So every time I start slippin' ego's start trippin',
I focus real hard and levitate just like I'm GOD,
And I'm livin' lovely,
I'm in the clouds no one above me,
With the gift to differentiate snakes from those that love me,
There's a thin line between happiness and hopeless,
An even thinner line between on point and out of focus,
BUT Back to my story about my fall from glory,
And how I levitate from the fate time put before me,
They say 'Be patient',
but what the fuck is patience when my heart is racin'?
Put yourself in my situation,
Try to be humble,
you won't refrain from getting' pissed,
When you look down to see you're fallin' right through time's abyss,
And start to see visions,
memories you really miss, simple things,
Like your first birthday wish,
Your first girlfriend,
Your first love,
Your first French kiss,
Your first time feeling hate,
The first time you got dissed,
Your first day of school,
Your very first college class,
Your first time touchin' titties,
First time you got ass,
Your first time learnin' wrong from right,
First lonely night,
The first time you got your ass whooped in
Your first real fight,
Your first triple-double dare,
Your first pubic hair,
Your first time watchin' Jason,
Your first nightmare,
That's when you realize that time was your worst nightmare,
And now you're stuck asking yourself 'Why ain't life fair?',
You get closer to the bottom,
see the end of your line,
Your first time ever losin' this battle with time,
But right before you meet your death,
one more memory left,
The only one that's obsolete was your first breath,
One moon to the next,
Clocks switch when you least expect it and make the simplest shit complex,
The baby face got the planet fooled,
Books get judged by the covers worldwide, coincide with the illest,
The real is just fictional dreams,
No time to deal with two dimensional fiends, shit hit's the fan with every click of a hand,
I'll be a man eventually,
When the kid in me is satisfied, but 'til the day arrives all I got is eighty-five.
A clock can kill motivation,
that's why I'm never rockin' a watch,
What's a deadline when you're living on your own time?
I'm livin' slow, Peter Pan style son,
You didn't know I never grow up,
my mind is set at six years old,
As far as I'm concerned this grown-up shit is for the birds,
So pass the skittles,
JuJu Fruits, the Now N Laters, and Nerds,
I'm eatin' sweets until my teeth fall out and I can't see
And I'm deaf in my left ear but my right can hear cause
I'm livin' happily. So why you mad at me?
Cause your frustrations gave you grey hairs,
99% of your life's spent chasin'
American nightmares, (GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE)
I'm crazy childish, just check the habits,
I play with my food, pick my nose, and eat it damn it,
Plus I pick my scabs, I be the first to pop a blister,
Cause I'm more immature than that cat from Sister-Sister,
If my parents tell me no I'm gonna do it anyway,
Experience will make more sense than anything that they could ever say,
Forever playin' video games until I'm sleepy,
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, please,
you'll never beat me,
So basically you're better off paying a bill or somethin',
Your mind is elderly, forty over the hill or somethin',
I'm young at heart,
I'ma forever be a kid I'm on some Tom Hanks shit,
you ever seen the movie big?
My heart is trapped in '85 the coolest place I've ever been in my life,
We watchin' Smurfs, eatin' cinnamon LIFE,
Never knew a crack rock, cause it was Fraggle,
The only pink pussy we knew was Snaggle,
Your mind's in the dirt,
We playin' Hungry-Hippo's 'til our hands hurt,
What do you know about pourin' out a whole box of Trix to get the toy out,
(Scared to) go to sleep cause somethin's under your bed,
(And all it) took was one look to get them thoughts out your head,
(And then ya') fall right to sleep without a worry in mind,
(That's why I) Can't understand why cat's be hurryin' time,
And I don't wanna grow up I'm a Crab Apple Kid,
And I enjoy the company of people I relate wit',
But if it comes down to it,
to deal with cat's that I despise,
I just close my eyes and drift away to Eighty-Five
One moon to the next,
Clocks switch when you least expect it and make the simplest shit complex,
The baby face got the planet fooled,
Books get judged by the covers worldwide, coincide with the illest,
The real is just fictional dreams,
No time to deal with two dimensional fiends, shit hit's the fan with every click of a hand,
I'll be a man eventually,

You?
Who are you?
You have no talent.
Bad Juggler
Can't walk the high wire
Can't tame a tiger?
Then I'll a clown like my grandfather
You'll see, I'll show you all
... you enjoy hurting people.
I roll with kids with pierced faces and bad attitudes
You'll get stomped like a roach for acting rude
Show some gratitude and
We might just reserve the right to let you live
Think twice before you harrass these Crab-Ap Kids
Bring drama, react; we're known to slap kids
To cap kids, putting boogers all in they wigs
And if it comes to it, been known to decap kids
Blair Witch style, CAF written in twigs
We get in thick situations, easy times, and complications
>From very short times to long durations
We building nations, from D-town to Devesio
Canadegua, all the way to San Francisco
So what you know about the hoodies with the def-one tag on the side
We coastin' by while these cats jet-lag on the side
If someone told you Travis didn't love his kids they lied
You got a hoodie? Then rock it with pride!
And be the C to the R-A-B-A-P-P-L-E
Family until the day we D-I-E
Continuously extending ourselves for you to see
Smell, hear, touch, and taste; we be
The C to the R-A-B-A-P-P-L-E
K-I-D-S reppin' this lovely
As you can see, endlessly spitting prophecies
Until the day we D-I-E
I roll with kids with nappy heads and backpacks
And their hand in their business
The type of cats that whoop your ass
With Tony Hawk as their witness
Strictly benihanas, 360 judo madonnas
Riding long ass rails for bonus points if they wanna
315 area code, lo' and behold
They got that skill to make a dutchie burn slow when they roll
This is bigger than Geneva; I've got fam in Japan
And if you don't know, you better ask Hiroko
Greeted with Konichiwa, she'll tell you who's the best
Matter fact vocal-wise Trav is def
This shit is permanent. You shouldn't even be concerned with it
Unless you rock a crab apple with a worm in it
You freshmen to this game son, you're just learning it
And you can't touch the flame that we laced these burners with
Plus we hold our Pilot markers with the firmest grip
The firmest grip
THE FIRMEST GRIP
And be the C to the R-A-B-A-P-P-L-E
Family until the day we D-I-E
Continuously extending ourselves for you to see
Smell, hear, touch, and taste; we be
The C to the R-A-B-A-P-P-L-E
K-I-D-S reppin' this lovely
As you can see, endlessly spitting prophecies
Until the day we D-I-E
to the R-A-B-A-P-P-L-E
Family until the day we D-I-E
Continuously extending ourselves for you to see
Smell, hear, touch, and taste; we be
The C to the R-A-B-A-P-P-L-E
K-I-D-S reppin' this lovely
As you can see, endlessly spitting prophecies
Until the day we D-I...
...-E
These kids is like a hop, skip, and a leap
From making you sleep
Like Snorlax, I've got their backs with my rhyme broadaxe
Rock a freaky Jason mask that you can barely see me through
Spit a thousand volts out my cheeks like Pikachu, smell me?
Basically there ain't shit you can tell me; my mind's made up
Remember back to the exact day Crab Apple came up
Now we worldwide like dot-com, just look the name up
w-w-w dot ethics you know the rest of
Well cross my crew and hope ya'll blessed
To say the less, but at least take the bet
Because you speak with incoherence
Coming at us like that will make you pray to change appearance
MY crew is name brand, you must've got your shit on CLEARANCE (clearance)
CAF to the death...
And be the C to the R-A-B-A-P-P-L-E
Family until the day we D-I-E
Continuously extending ourselves for you to see
Smell, hear, touch, and taste; we be
The C to the R-A-B-A-P-P-L-E
K-I-D-S reppin' this lovely
As you can see, endlessly spitting prophecies
Spitting prophecies
C to the R-A-B-A-P-P-L-E
Family until the day we D-I-E
Continuously extending ourselves for you to see
Smell, hear, touch, and taste; we be
The C to the R-A-B-A-P-P-L-E
K-I-D-S reppin' this lovely
As you can see, endlessly spitting prophecies
Until the day we D-I-E

My life's these yellow lines, concrete, and parliament butts
Exhaust fumes and rest stops who drive hard for their bucks
Load in, sound check, play show, load out, let's go, next city, oh great, off day
Hangovers, hangups, dialbacks, running make up, apologies and promises
And nobody acknowledges that boys in bands got it so damn bad
But we love like the last cigarette we'll ever have
I'm putting miles on my body, bout due for a tune up in this gas station, food ain't really helping but
I'm loving every minute, every road signs a reminder of exactly why we did it to begin with
This is how it has to be
A kiss for luck, submerge myself
And in 7 weeks resurface
Even if we don't look back again
Tired boys and wired eyes
Exposing imperfections
To the public eye we're perfect
Even if we don't look back again
I like these hotels, passports, random bag checks, day dreams of love affairs that I haven't had yet
Touch down, baggage claim, new town, different dame, same clothes, 7 days, whew, damn I need to change
And it's a lifestyle that I wouldn't recommend
Wild N Out on a level Nick Cannon couldn't comprehend (fuck outta here)
We made a lot of friends and even more enemies
Some of which were genuine and others just pretend to be
It's all gravy baby, life's lovely
Even when the gray rain cloud's right above me
The girl's textin' me talkin' about gettin' all cuddly
Cause you paint a pretty picture but the frame is so ugly
This is how it has to be
A kiss for luck, submerge myself
And in 7 weeks resurface
Even if we don't look back again
Tired boys and wired eyes
Exposing imperfections
To the public eye we're perfect
Even if we don't look back again
And now it's back in a van with four of my mans
Until we catchin' a tan on the Florida sands
I feel like tourin' this land's made me more of a man
From killa California to the shores of Japan
Good times stayin' up late in Austin
Coast to coast V8 to Chicago
To gettin' up with Johnny Cupcakes in Boston
And smokin' that most great eight in Colorado
Home ain't home no more
I hug the road and kiss the concrete and sometimes I even hear her heartbeat
No matter where we go or where we at
We carry upstate on our back, it's like that
This is how it has to be
A kiss for luck, submerge myself
And in 7 weeks resurface
Even if we don't look back again
Tired boys and wired eyes
Exposing imperfections
To the public eye we're perfect
Even if we don't look back again
This is how it has to be
A kiss for luck, submerge myself
And in 7 weeks resurface
Even if we don't look back again
Tired boys and wired eyes
Exposing imperfections
To the public eye we're perfect
Even if we don't look back again
"So a lot of you don't realize.
There's a whole subculture of boys driving around in vans."
Even if we don't look back again
"Looking for your daughters, and your lottery tickets. Love it or leave it. I'm like this"
Even if we don't look back again
"I love my life. Bitches."
Even if we don't look back again

Thank you.
You know exactly who you are
You played the role of superglue
When I was falling apart
Through all the papercuts
And all the broken hearts
You played the role of superglue
When I was falling apart
Thank you.
You know exactly who you are
Through all the nightmares
And anxiety scares
You played the role of superglue

Yo, My morning showers like a rebirth; reflections of the womb
Crazy sentimental floatin' in lukewarm placental
Now I chop a burden on the sink trying not to think about what
Lies before me but the sun just reassured me that
Everythings gonna be allright, the last thing on my mind is tonight
Its like a sintch and getting Zestfully clean not to mention
Scrub my ass and armpits for a bit and then I split over to the mirror
Wipe the dew to make my vision clearer
Then I moisturize my face with some aloe Vera
This is that type of day cause I can feel it that
You ain't letting bad vibes invade your spirit
Anyway it's time to get the breath right
So I grab the Crest and toothbrush, circular motions to the left, right
Just enough to see the teeth sparkle a bit
I fill my grill with Listerine and then it's gargle, gargle, spit
And now that's good hygiene, you know what I mean?
And my mouths the definition of so fresh and so clean (clean)
I feel it's only right, since my words all I got
And nobody wants to listen when your breath is hot
But that's a story in itself so I head to my bedroom
Throw on some drawers and pick out a costume
I think ill rock these blue jeans and this tee shirt
And whats a little polo sport gonna hurt?
C'mon
This is that day cause I can feel it
You know the type of day you ain't lettin' bad vibes invade your spirit
As the birds chirp your favorite tune
It's like I'm right back in my momma's womb
Cause everything is so serine
And the temperature is just right
Not a worry in sight
And plus the sun is shining bright, it's a beautiful day
It's a beautiful day
Shall I continue where I left off?
I'm feelin' kinda lovely but my
Tummy is growlin' so I'm feeling kinda hungry
So I hit the kitchen and I'm wishin' there's some food in sight
What do ya know? I got that Cinnamon Life
And now I'm real happy, fill my salad bowl up with cereal
To my surprise it's Jackson Five up on the stereo
I turn it up my words can't describe my reaction to
Wakin' up and listening to prepubescent Michael Jackson
Open up the Frigidair what do we have here?
Seems like just enough milk to fill my morning craving
Peep out the window just to see if Izzy is misbehaving
He's staring at me with a grin like 'Yo, let me in man!'
So I begin to fill his dish with Kibbles N' Bits
Let him in so he can eat, and I'm eating my shit
So now we both full and well fed
Happier than that fat rat Templeton from Charlotte's Web
And now its time to get our walk on
Izzy can get his bark on
It's a beautiful day maybe we'll get our state park on
I know the lake is at its finest (you better take afvantage)
I'll grab my backpack, this leash, and maybe make a sandwich
I better grab my ghetto blaster and a few tapes,
A thurmos full of water and a bag of fresh grapes
Some more tapes cause you know that music comes first
And what's a little Jackson Five gonna hurt?
C'mon
This is that day cause I can feel it
You know the type of day you ain't lettin' bad vibes invade your spirit
As the birds chirp your favorite tune
It's like I'm right back in my momma's womb
Cause everything is so serine
And the temperature is just right
Not a worry in sight
And plus the sun is shining bright, it's a beautiful day
It's a beautiful day
This is that day cause I can feel it
You know the type of day you ain't lettin' bad vibes invade your spirit
As the birds chirp your favorite tune
It's like I'm right back in my momma's womb
Cause everything is so serine
And the temperature is just right
Not a worry in sight
And plus the sun is shining bright, it's a beautiful day

I wish I could unzip my skin
Take it off, just to take a walk
But I can't do it
I don't think, I'll make it on my own
That's when I take out my pen
And I wage it all, turn the page and fall
It just comes natural
I'm gonna make it on my own
I just need time to walk it off
But I can't do it
I'll write it on my own time
Hey, look I made it on my own
I know she thinks that I don't try
But I realize that I can do better
Write, write on, write, write on
Write, write on, write, write on
Makin' a mess, as I progress
No time to cry about it, do better
Write, write on, write, write on
Write, write on, write, write on
I wrote the greatest lines at the strangest times
Now it's payin' off, but I still feel lost
'Cause I can't do it
I don't think I'll make it on my own
Somewhere between now and pacifiers
I changed my name to free
Plush equals safe to me, so I'm livin' dangerously
I'm gonna make it on my own
I just need time to walk it off
But I can't do it
I'll write it on my own time
Hey, look I made it on my own
I know she thinks
But I realize that I can do better
Write, write on, write, write on
Write, write on, write, write on
Makin' a mess, as I progress
No time to cry about it, do better
Write, write on, write, write on
Write, write on, write, write on
Write on, write it on your own time
Write on, write it on your own time
Write on, write it on your own time
Write on, write it on your own time
Write on, write it on your own time
Write on, write it on your own time
Write on, write it on your own time
Write on, write it on your own time
Write on, write it on your own time
Write on, write it on your own time

I remember when I first laid eyes on you
My man Tom introduced us but I was too shy to say hi
When I finally built up enough nerve to drop a line
You made it clear you wasn't just another myspace mistress
And I didn't take it personal
When you ignored my request to be your friend I spilled my guts and hit send
2 weeks for a response and got nothing
Honestly it only made me want you more
Week 4 rolled around and I was this close to letting go
But something wouldn't let me even though I hardly knew you
It was plain to see we were meant to lock lips
You knock me out with the brass knuckle tats on your hips
I was on this website late night lurking
When I got a message from you that was labled urgent
You said you weren't impressed by lame dudes with no game
They're all the same trying to get your instant messenger name
But the fact that you're hitting me back made me smile
You must've saw something you liked when you was skimming through my profile
You caught me at the most pivotal moments
And now I'm emailing my love a dozen digital roses
So click approve, so simple
Show me some kind of sign and let me know it's time to make my move
Just click approve, come on girl
Baby I'm one of a kind and I ain't got time to lose
Just click approve, you're killing me here
Show me some kind of sign and let me know it's time to make my move
Just click approve, come on girl
Baby I'm one of a kind and I ain't got time to lose
Let's face it, it's a sad situation when we have to resort to keyboards as a means of making relations
But I don't have the patience, I get straight to the point
So this is me at my most honest
No egos, no Gym Class status, just Travis
Love it or leave it, but you gotta admit
On a scale of 1 to awesome I'm the shit
Just get over it, it happened god damnit, I'd been waiting too long
I even wrote a song about, like to hear it, here it go
If I'm being too annoying, let me know (just let me know)
But its hard for me to not hate
When I'm on myspace I never see my face in your "Top 8"
Approaching 6 weeks now, it's kinda obvious that you're either occupied or playing a game
All my money's on the latter, this is not a "lol" matter
Why would you pass up a chance this great?
If there were two forces and I split them down the middle, I could swing back and forth for 3 days (Rephrase)
If I had two horses, and I beat them with authority, I'd gallop all the way to Canada to see your face
But all I got is this Powerbook and Ichat
Besides I hit you all the time and you never write back
I stay on my feet (shit)
And be persistent until my name is under "who you'd like to meet"
So click approve, so simple
Show me some kind of sign and let me know it's time to make my move
Just click approve, come on girl
Baby I'm one of a kind and I ain't got time to lose
Just click approve, you're killing me here
Show me some kind of sign and let me know it's time to make my move
Just click approve, come on girl
Baby I'm one of a kind and I ain't got time to lose
Who cares if we don't know each other's last name
All I know is that I'm smittin with your pictures wishing you would feel the same
I'll admit I get a lil jealous when other dudes leave you comments
Don't let it gas you up, it's all nonsense
Make me out, romancing the thought of me and you speaking in tongues in this mansion I bought
But it's all wishful thinking
Just give me some kind of sign to let me know I'm not freaking you out
And if you love then what I'm speaking about, then say something
I check my inbox 10 times and there ain't nothing
You probably busy doing something sexy
I just hope I'm in your thoughts next time you log in
And if not, ain't no love lost between you and me
I'll be here when your man ain't fully down as he used to be
So yeah its time to sign out, my vision's getting blurry
This is madness, xoxo dash Travis
So click approve, so simple
Show me some kind of sign and let me know it's time to make my move
Just click approve, come on girl
Baby I'm one of a kind and I ain't got time to lose
Just click approve, you're killing me here
Show me some kind of sign and let me know it's time to make my move
Just click approve, come on girl
Baby I'm one of a kind and I ain't got time to lose

See here's the thing
We have to take our clothes off!
(So sexy!)
We have to party all night
We have to take our clothes off!
To have a good time, oh no
Excuse me miss
I couldn't help but to notice how alone you are
I dig the attitude and how you acting like you own the bar
Got me flashing keys and I don't even own a car
Front like you ain't feeling my charm, because I know you are
I'm trying to see how your lips feel
Oh I'm sorry, my name is Travee and I'm pretty much a big deal
Oh, you never heard of me, hmm, that sounds absurd to me
The way you stole my attention was flat out burglary
What do you say let's exit stage left so me and you can
Possibly reconvene and play some naked peek-a-boo?
'Cause after all, the blouse you're wearing is kinda see-through
And it's obvious I'm heading wherever you're leading me to
Such an angel with a devilish angle
I'm quite the certified sweet talker
And you're buying every line of it girl and I don't really blame you
If I was in your shoes I'd probably do the same too
We have to take our clothes off!
(So sexy!)
We have to party all night
And we have to take our clothes off!
To have a good time, oh no
Now here's another barn-burner for the slow learners
Put your helmets on and take a seat on the short bus
Next stop, right around the corner from your momma and them
No turning back so you better buckle up
Shit, don't be concerned with mine
I feel like a Speak and Spell way I got you learning my lines
Fine, pull the string, replay that shit
I change my name to, "Did he really just say that shit?"
I'll take a mile if you let me
Six-five, two hundred plus and so sexy
My leg's going numb from keeping my phone on vibrate
To hide the fact your girlfriend keeps textin' me
And I've been tryin' to never mind it man
But every time I get a new number, she finds it, damn!
And you thought you had it sewn up
Until right around amazing o'clock when I showed up
We have to take our clothes off!
(So sexy!)
We have to party all night
And we have to take our clothes off!
To have a good time, oh no
Got chicks, all hot chicks
Indie rock chicks, and hip hop chicks
Thin chicks, round chicks
Black, white, yellow and brown chicks
Got chicks, all hot chicks
Indie rock chicks, and hip hop chicks
Thin chicks, round chicks
Black, white, yellow and brown chicks
Good grief girl, you're giving me goose bumps
Standing there in your underwear and new pumps
It's like the more time we waste the less time I get to taste you
Honestly I could easily replace you
It's not a scam girl that's how I am girl
Peter Pan, I'm a sucka for Smucker's jam girl
It's clear I'm only here for good clean fun
Shut up and kiss me like the antidote's under my tongue, whoa!
We have to take our clothes off!
And we have to party all night
We have to take our clothes off!
To have a good time, oh no
We have to take our clothes off!
(So sexy!)
And we have to party all night
We have to take our clothes off!
To have a good time, oh no
Got chicks, all hot chicks
Indie rock chicks, and hip hop chicks
Thin chicks, round chicks
Black, white, yellow and brown chicks
Got chicks, all hot chicks
Indie rock chicks and hip hop chicks
Thin chicks, round chicks
Black, white, yellow and brown chicks

This is not novelty
This is nothing delicate
This is the result of your Google search
For something relevant
Stake claim immediately
'Cause hot products cool down
At which point they'll flock to new sounds
Take fame intravenously
But when nature turns to habit
I?ll be sure to leave the scene you started stagnant
This is nothing fraudulent
This is that sure shot itchy finger lingering
Behind your target audience
You got em all convinced
But we ain?t buying it buddy
Demand for lies is high
And you?re supplying it
Truth is brutal and it consumes you if you let it
Type that in your little away message and send it
Keep singing songs for me
That I can write in my sleep, it's like I?m counting sheep
Keep singing songs
Man you warning me, what you all are not to be
Keep singing songs for me
Just following the leader with your blah blah blah
Keep singing songs
That I can write in my sleep, it's like I?m counting sheep
And this is not a fashion statement
It?s elegant intuition
Far beyond your bed wetter kindergarten compositions
This is a part of me
How can you sleep at night
When what you don?t bite you write half-heartedly?
Go join the army
And be the best you can be
Give new meaning to blowing up overseas
Please, we kick them doors down
When nobody would let us in
And give you that proverbial taste of your own medicine
We took your formula
And relabeled it
And sat patiently and giggled it when you drank it, see
It?s new poison street cred when
Just about the same reflesh the pan dance
Pop bottles and drop names
And you?ll dismiss it cause it isn?t what you?re used to
But who the f*** died and made you King Koopa?
Keep singing songs for me
That I can write in my sleep, it's like I?m counting sheep
Keep singing songs
Man you warning me, what you all are not to be
Keep singing songs for me
Just following the leader with your blah blah blah
Keep singing songs
That I can write in my sleep, it's like I?m counting sheep
Wow, congratulations on your new purchase
I heard you bought a crib on biters block
Downtown plagiarism?s paradise
You?re not a movement
You?re purely amusement
The poster boy for Xerox and a role model for parasites
You serve no purpose
You?re purely decorative
And bore us to death with your auditory sedatives
Oh, they don?t see
No, we don?t sleep
And hog tie your runaway bride with cold feet
We built this city on lock and load logic
And burned it down the same night
So go ahead and put your tears on ice baby
I think we got a winner
And kiss your crucifix, your boy?s a certified sinner
Keep singing songs for me
That I can write in my sleep, it's like I?m counting sheep
Keep singing songs
Man you warning me what you all are not to be
Keep singing songs for me
Just following the leader with your blah blah blah
Keep singing songs for me
That I can write in my sleep, it's like I?m counting sheep
Keep singing songs for me
That I can write in my sleep, it's like I?m counting sheep
Keep singing songs
Man you warning me what you all are not to be
Keep singing songs for me
Just following the leader with your blah blah blah
Keep singing songs
That I can write in my sleep, it's like I?m counting sheep

Ba ba da da
Ba ba da da
Ba ba da da
Ba ba da da
Ba ba da da
Take a look at my girlfriend
She's the only one I got (ba ba da da)
Not much of a girlfriend
I never seem to get a lot (ba ba da da, ba ba da da)
It's been some time since we last spoke
This is gonna sound like a bad joke
But momma I fell in love again
It's safe to say I have a new girlfriend
And I know it sounds so old
But cupid got me in a chokehold
And I'm afraid I might give in
Towels on the mat my white flag is wavin'
I mean she even cooks me pancakes
And Alka Seltzer when my tummy aches
If that ain't love then I don't know what love is
We even got a secret handshake
And she loves the music that my band makes
I know I'm young but if I had to choose her or the sun
I'd be one nocturnal son of a gun
(ba ba da da, ba ba da da)
Take a look at my girlfriend
She's the only one I got (ba ba da da)
Not much of a girlfriend
I never seem to get a lot (ba ba da da, ba ba da da)
Take a look at my girlfriend
She's the only one I got (ba ba da da)
Not much of a girlfriend
I never seem to get a lot (ba ba da da, ba ba da da)
It's been awhile since we talked last and I'm tryin' hard not to talk fast
But dad I'm finally thinkin' I may have found the one
Type of girl that will make you way proud of your son
And I know you heard the last song about the girls that didn't last long
But I promise this is on a whole new plane
I can tell by the way she says my name (ba ba da da)
I love it when she calls my phone
She even got her very own ringtone
If that ain't love then I don't know what love is (ba ba da da)
It's gonna be a long drive home but I know as soon as I arrive home
And I open the door take off my coat and throw my bag on the floor
She'll be back into my arms once more for sure
Take a look at my girlfriend
She's the only one I got (ba ba da da)
Not much of a girlfriend
I never seem to get a lot (ba ba da da, ba ba da da)
She's got a smile that would make the most senile
Annoying old man bite his tongue
I'm not done
She's got eyes comparable to sunrise
And it doesn't stop there
Man I swear
She's got porcelain skin of course she's a ten
And now she's even got her own song
But movin' on
She's got the cutest laugh I ever heard
And we can be on the phone for three hours
Not sayin' one word
And I would still cherish every moment
And when I start to build my future she's the main component
Call it dumb call it luck call it love or whatever you call it but
Everywhere I go I keep her picture in my wallet like here
Take a look at my girlfriend
She's the only one I got (ba ba da da)
Not much of a girlfriend
I never seem to get a lot (ba ba da da, ba ba da da)
Take a look at my girlfriend
She's the only one I got (ba ba da da)
Not much of a girlfriend

If he were recording
If he were recording right now
Then he would be getting all this at the start
My track - yo we should have a freestyle on this
Freestyle? Hit 'em off with somethin
Spit a verse Travis, spit a verse
Quit picking your nose, and come off
Quit picking your nose? Fuck you
Traded in my, hollow words for jelly-filled verbs
And five pound pronouns and predicates
This is Schlep's etiquette for sloppy fable manners get your napkins
Matty Duke kick the beat, and I'm rappin
Top of the line, top of the world, top of the mornin to ya top dawg
That's a top notch tie you got, tie it in a knot
'til your eyeballs pop out
So you can actually see what an actual MC looks like
And if I had to pick and choose
I'd be the indecisive dick in the votin booth
Laughin at my options, like
Stop the press, inform the media
Schlep Rock is leavin ya, walkin with prosthetic concoctions
I thought I told you, you just a toadstool
I'm Mario with firepower, stickin dick to the Princess
It's just senseless, like that David and Goliath drama
Minus the slingin stones, you're basically defenseless
Anyway you wanted Schlep Rock's cock obnoxious
It feels like a MIDGET is chillin in my boxers

Fame, fortune, platinum records
It's every boys dream
True story
Somebody asked me one time
Travie, you high, you look high
Shit yeah, I'm high [Incomprehensible]
Let's go
The world is yours, so play the role
Blow the dust off this record and put the needle down slow
Our veins are cold, but we'll never grow old
Let's have a toast and raise our drinks
No hearts on our sleeves, just eagles on our cuff links
It's such a rush to know you love me so much
We'll do whatever you want to
Girl, I'll make a movie star of you
You know that I could
If you let me be your Hollywood
We'll get high and hide
We are lovers to the glamorous
White girl so fine
Going up on the downtown line
We'll get high and hide
We are lovers to the glamorous
White girl so fine
Going up on the downtown line
Take your razor, break down my line
Put your nose to the speaker
Now breathe in
Clean up your nose and face the crowd
Then kiss your mirror 'cuz we're all stars now
Isn't it fun how music makes your lips numb
We'll do whatever you want to
Girl, I'll make a movie star of you
You know that I could
If you let me be your Hollywood
We'll get high and hide
We are lovers to the glamorous
White girl so fine
Going up on the downtown line
We'll get high and hide
We are lovers to the glamorous
White girl so fine
Going up on the downtown line
Take your razor, break down my line
Put your nose to the speaker
Now breathe in
We'll get high and hide
We are lovers to the glamorous
White girl so fine
Going up on the downtown line
We'll get high, and hide
We are lovers to the glamorous
White girl so fine
Going up on the downtown line
Breathe in
Breathe in
Breathe in
Breathe in

Now who you know leave the scene
Messier than canvas's by Jackson Pollock
Throwing multicolored thoughts at a rapid pace
I make a mess you dissect it and make sense of it
Then get back to me at your earliest convenience
Check my verbal sequence as I texturize these tracks
Seven layers to be exact eliminate the whack
With a firm brush stroke I mc paintily
Lyricists begin crumbling from my scumbling technique
As I tweak your audio and visual keep my drips minimal messages subliminal
Cause me and rap go way back we compliment
So together we enhance one another that's common sense
High intensity catches the eye your jaw drops
Be a real critic not explicit with false props
I keep my darks deep my lights bright I'm very thorough
With my churascurro inspiration spark and a knife
Now watch me rock the spot like Basquiat minus the heroin
And make my face popular like Andy did to Marilyn
Its kinda scary when real art gets left behind
While they take bullshit and start selling it to blind folks
But I remain humble as long as Grace continues spinning hot shit
On his twin twelve-hundred color wheels of steel
Fuck mass appeal art is art only the real can truly feel it
So open your eyes and listen
Combine your ears with vision
Or do it cause you love it
Or for cash that's your decision
That's your decision
That's your decision
It's like I'm torn between two worlds
A paintbrush and a microphone
A canvas or a beat
CD or LP
Anything goes when my ink pen flows
And God only knows where its gonna bring me next
So I'm inclined to like paint rhymes and spit kaleidoscopes with one eye closed
And I suppose if you chose the path that I chose
You know the cycle ass ho don't front
It goes inspiration and productivity then a sense of self worth and in steps depression
Like back and forth and forth and back
Should I paint a picture or record a track
A gift or a curse I don't know I'm still undecided
But over the years I've found clever ways to hide it
And those that lack the passion I have may despise it
But my momma made me this way I thank her everyday
So tell them kids to keep coloring outside the lines
Until they lose they limitations and they minds is free
Tell them teachers that you want your money back this time
And tell Bob Ross for all the happy little trees
And tell my momma that her baby boy is doing just fine
Although hes running out of patience but his mind is free
And tell my pops that I'll pay his money back sometime

Jungle cats battling through musty brush
Monkey’s ciphering with fly feather birds with
unincarcerated visions, signified dandelions get
Crushed by overstressed orangutans, just to let
Mama nature know they ain’t no joke
While bad ass boa constrictors squeeze out life
And as hot as day, night makes no opportunity to let the natives do their thing
I believe that hip hop is so universal that
It has already invaded the rainforest
And endangered species know exactly what it is truly,
It’s just a little sad that negative inevitably follows the most righteous
Next we got flaw skin sex hitting switches,
right next to Versace rocking bullfrog bitches flashy nasty piranhas with platinum front teeth
But whatever the case may be, true hip hop will remain underground
Where ants and moles hold it down
With basement parties bumping Gym Class Heroes and Brain games
All the same, I myself may never make it to the rainforest
But we share a common love

I love it how she breathes booze in the mornin'
Man, it's so sexy how she can't remember last night
I made a fatal mistake letting her drink again
But who the hell am I to tell her how to live her life?
And if you could put dumb in a shot glass
I'm just another lush who's had one too many in me
And we please don't have enough
I see you stand there, settle for anything, anything's better than lettin' her,
Think she could do better than me
She'll come around eventually
'Cause baby girl's a queen
But the queen is just a pawn with a bunch of fancy moves
And she's made me a fiend
I'm going through withdrawals 'cause I got nothing to lose
Oh no,
She's at the bottom of that bottle
She's only one more swallow
From being, oh, so hollow
(Hey! Hey! Hey!)
Bravo, she's at the bottom of that bottle
She's only one more swallow
From being, oh, so hollow
I find it funny she can never find her car keys
Immediately after telling me she can't take it
She makes the cutest faces when she screams obscenities
And slurs her words because she's never not inebriated
And the front page headline read
Let the girl go, you know you can do better
It's bad, when the fact that you can't have her
Is the reason you sweat her,
Don't let her take advantage of you
Like the other dudes let her
You better cut your losses now buddy.
'Cause baby girl's a queen
And a queen's a pawn with a bunch of fancy moves
And she's made me a fiend
I'm going through withdrawals 'cause I got nothing to lose
Oh no,
She's at the bottom of that bottle
She's only one more swallow
From being, oh, so hollow
(Hey! Hey! Hey!)
Bravo, she's at the bottom of that bottle
She's only one more swallow
From being, oh, so hollow
Drown yourself,
It's not worth keeping me
Just put it down right now,
And bow out gracefully
('Cause baby girl's a queen
The queen's just a pawn with a bunch of fancy moves
And she's made me a fiend
I'm going through withdrawals 'cause I got nothing to lose)
Oh no,
She's at the bottom of that bottle
She's only one more swallow
From being, oh, so hollow
(Hey! Hey! Hey!)
Bravo, she's at the bottom of that bottle
She's only one more swallow
From being, oh, so hollow

Yeah!
Verse 1:
Just wakin up in the morning
And the beat well
Quite honest with ya,
I ain't really sleep well
Ya ever feel like your train a thoughts been derailed?
That's when you press on. Lee nails.
Half the population's just waitin to see me fail
Yeah right, you're better off tryina freeze hell
Some of us do it for the females
And others do it for the retails
But I do it for the kids, life through the tower head on
Everytime you fall its only making your chin strong
And I'll be in your corner like Mick baby, til the end
Or when you hear the song from that big lady
Bridge:
Until the referee rings the bell
Until both your eyes start to swell
Until the crowd goes home
What we gonna do ya'll?
Chorus (Ryan Tedder):
Give em hell, turn their heads
Gonna live life til we're dead.
Give me scars, give me pain
Then they'll say to me, say to me, say to me
There goes a fighter, there goes a fighter
Here comes a fighter
That's what they'll say to me, say to me
Say to me, this one's a fighter
Verse 2:
And if I can last thirty rounds
There's no reason you should ever have your head down
Six foot five, two hundred and twenty pounds
Hailing from rock bottom, loserville, nothing town
Text book version of the kid going nowhere fast
And now im yelling kiss my ass,
it's gonna take a couple right hooks a few left jabs
for you to recognize that you really aint got it bad
Bridge:
Until the referee rings the bell
Until both your eyes start to swell
Until the crowd goes home
What we gonna do ya'll?
Chorus (Ryan Tedder):
Give em hell, turn their heads
Gonna live life til we're dead.
Give me scars, give me pain
Then they'll say to me, say to me, say to me
There goes a fighter, there goes a fighter
Here comes a fighter
That's what they'll say to me, say to me
Say to me, this one's a fighter
Everybody put yo hands up
What we gonna do? (x7) ya'll
If you fall pick yourself up off the floor (get up)
And when your bones can't take no more
Just remember what you're here for
Cuz I know imma damn sure
Give em hell, turn their heads
Gonna live life til we're dead.
Give me scars, give me pain
Then they'll say to me, say to me, say to me
There goes a fighter, there goes a fighter
Here comes a fighter
That's what they'll say to me, say to me
Say to me, this one's a fighter
Till the referee rings the bell
Till both ya eyes start to swell
Till the crowd goes home,

I took cutie for a ride in my deathcab
She tipped me with a kiss I dropped her off at the meth lab
Before she left she made a dashboard confessional
And spilled her guts in cursive but whats worse is
I could still see her bright eyes like sunny day real estate
Oh my and in a funny way the ceiling tastes
So high but no chance
My little chemical romance left a bad taste in my mouth
But I approached her like hey mercedes why the long face
Why you cryin? theres no need
Just put on this coheed and fallout
Boy meets girl jimmy eat world
But Schlep eats pills till hes all out
Not once not twice she was thrice times a lady
Mackin on brand new, but I had to
Bounce over to the postal service to
Pick up these pills that take care of my nervousness
And all the way I saw planes and mistook 'em for stars
She played games but she took em too far
At the drive in
Watching soft porn and you can tell
By the trail of the dead, that there was somethin in the popcorn
I hop in my cab destination midtown
Just to get up with some kids that like to get down
I'd made my rounds and that was that
In between the frowns and scraps and heart attacks
And I remember I seen her ass in early november
On a Thursday taking back Sunday for a refund
She shot a wink like no hard feelings
Then she jetted to brazil man them pills had me spun
This is the story of the year right here
This is hot water music

the minute i close my eyes that's when she appears
i grab her by the tights and i pull her near
but for my surprise is just what i feel
but when i turn on the lights is no one there
i am by myself and i am dancing all alone
i am by myself and i know
i am by myself and i am dancing all alone
i am by myself and i know
there is no one there
there is no one there
there is no one there
is just like that she is right back
stay the night as long as i play the right track
she likes the lights low
and when she slow
i know what she is selling
ain't no telling where my mind goes
she needs my mind blow like old speakers
she always comes and goes but i never leave her
she is like my favorite cut or replay
she makes the paper cuts go away
i hope she stays
i am by myself and i am dancing all alone
i am by myself and i know
i am by myself and i am dancing all alone
i am by myself and i know
i am by myself and i am dancing all alone
i am by myself and i know
i am by myself and i am dancing all alone
i am by myself and i know
i am by myself and i am dancing all alone
i am by myself and i know
i am by myself and i am dancing all alone

Today I wasn't even gonna take a shower
And then I got a call sayin that my cousin died in a fire
So I washed myself for what seemed like three hours
With tears and rusty water
I need some of that Calgon take me away action immediately
Before I start scrubbing my hands hard repeatedly
I'm stuck somewhere lethargic between reality
and a fuckin Tool video - WAKE ME UP!
I've said goodbye too many times in these 22 long ones
And here I am wavin again; so long friend
I should have told her how this town doesn't like it when people leave
So it finds ways to keep them
It sows seeds and reaps them
And now she's part of that harvest, but different from all the others
Ask her mother how her smile touched souls and warmed cold hearts
Monique I miss you
I wish I could've kissed you farewell
and given you that tattoo you always asked for
But when I'm done tattin Thug Life on God's stomach
You got next; I'm done, y'all take what you want from it
I'm goin to wash my hands

(I think we're ready for eh, the second installment of the Sloppy Love Jingle. Roll it. Action!)
Ok, continued
What's next upon the menu?
Hmm, maybe I should crack a joke
Attack and ask her if she smokes
Cause I can't seem to find my matches
And that could break the ice but
I'm a bad actress with three lighters I acquired the previous night
And there I was do or die
She was approximately five feet away from my frame
So I decided to take a stride, swallow my pride, tellin' her my name like
Hello miss, my name is Travis
Just a ordinary cat, I'm into art and fuzzy rabbits, kinda smart with a big heart, you can have it
See you find that funny
I'd love to buy you a drink but I got bent and spent my money
But would you kindly accept a raincheck
Perhaps some deep chit chat
She didn't think twice, nodded her head and said "I'm with that"
By the way do you have some matches?
She's like, "no, but there's a lighter right in front of you"
And now we both giggling
This girl's so crazy, got my gullet jiggling
Fiddling with my feelings like an out of tune piano
Like I'm on ritalin

I'm like nine minutes away from finishing my nine hour shift
and wishin I was gone nine hours ago
Cause nine hours wasted, tossin back of this chicken
I coulda written nine verses just in time for the show
Slacker mindstate livin on time that's borrowed
My motto's I'll stop procrastinatin tomorrow
I took the sorrow from the windchimes, left happiness lonesome
And strung up sarcasm to make the melody wholesome
From my lungs to my feet, I'm breathin everything I speak
And now they chargin for oxygen and the bill's due next week
I'll be a day late and a buck short, story of my life
I wish my pay rate was much more, duckin swords in the rat race
I didn't apply for runnin towards something that's fake
And thinkin, why for? They shuttin doors right in my face
And sittin high horse is a car and a dope place
Somethin to die for, this is my war, so
Now I'm schemin on plots to make my pockets swell
Simple livin is a bitch but damn, I do it well
Some are fortunate to make it and, some of 'em fail
Some locomotives push through and some of 'em get derailed
Schemin on plots - HEY, HEY
Simple livin is a bitch - HEY, HEY
Some are fortunate to make it - HEY, HEY
Some locomotors push through - HEY, HEY
I lead a crocodile mile lifestyle, I run and slide
But when it's time to collide with the bump, I always bail
Cause I'm not ready for that dive or that silly nine to five
Solidified career option, a hop skip and a leap
away from rock star, and not too far away from fillin pop's shoes
The idyllic hard workin type of calloused hands
Complete with wife, kids, dog, house, and picket fence, that's nonsense
I'm convinced I'm built for better things
And won't settle for the empty smile that cheddar brings
It seems like I'm workin hard simply cause it's what they say I have to do
You graduate and then you either get a job, or you go to school
12 years wasn't enough?
That's more than half of my life spent tryin to make the world accept me
Plus I've got the papers saying that I made it through
Now I'm working 2 jobs, 3 with music and you don't respect me?

'81 was the year shit hit the fan in a major way
a sad day for inspiring artists
Almost 20 years after the fact I'm still on my hustle
Diggin' graves for an inspiring artist
Pushing daises up
And never compromise the arts and make a crowd clap
Shit on since the first show
But we turned feces to fertilizer
So when you diss it's just food for the flowers to grow
Sold 15 plus out of backpacks, no trunks
Too young to drive
But live hip hop
And the kids are upstate kids that thought rap was past tense, hence the last name
Got name for playing basements and such and making songs that our friends loved
And when the fish bowl got too small to hold the goldfish
We filled our gills with water and ripped that mother fucker like
So take a step back
And a breath in
Let it out now
Put your chin up
You can do it tiger
You a man now
And in your dream it's time to do the best you can now
We bring ourselves down
And build ourselves up in disappointment
How fragile we are
So fragile we are, we just don't show it
We'll shake up this town
And shoot down the stars for our enjoyment
So sexy we are
So sexy we are, we just don't know it
This is what you wanted right?
How many nights were spent pouring out your guts dummy?
How many punishments endured for fucking up in school?
How many teachers proved wrong by writing songs instead?
My point exactly
But you knew you had a spark, did you?
Something producin' to the dreams your pop's dreams lent you
Stay focused when nothing seemed to make sense
Stealing verses with that Cassius Clay confidence
Sometimes you stubborn as shit, that's the McCoy in you
You learn to be a man without losing the boy in you
Just do your thing man
So take a step back
And a breath in
Let it out now
Put your chin up
You can do it tiger
You a man now
And in your dream it's time to do the best you can now
So take a step back
And a breath in
Let it out now
Put your chin up
You can do it tiger
You a man now
And in your dream it's time to do the best you can now
We bring ourselves down
And build ourselves up in disappointment
How fragile we are
So fragile we are, we just don't show it
We'll shake up this town
And shoot down the stars for our enjoyment
So sexy we are
So sexy we are, we just don't know it
We break ourselves down
And build ourselves up in disappointment
How fragile we are
So fragile we are, we just don't show it
We shake up this town
And shoot down the stars for our enjoyment
So sexy we are
So sexy we are, we just don't know it
So take a step back
And a breath in
Let it out now
Put your chin up
You can do it tiger
You a man now
And in your dream it's time to do the best you can now
We bring ourselves down
And build ourselves up in disappointment
How fragile we are
So fragile we are, we just don't show it
We'll shake up this town
And shoot down the stars for our enjoyment
So sexy we are

Pillmatic breezing these down I'm pounding Honey Browns
I'm pillmatic the oxycontin got my stomach rotting
Pillmatic I swear to God I'm not an addict
But I'm still at it, dag nabbit I'm pillmatic
Thinking back on when it all started
I found pink hearts in mommy's little pocket book
And took em
Popping when she wasn't looking
I guess it runs in the family
I'm liable to eat any pill you randomly hand me
Save the greenery
I'm looking for them labels reading
May cause drowsiness be careful when operating machinery
Beautiful pharmaceuticals
Residue in my cuticles
Sniffing them with a suitable
Wishing they made em chewable
Catch me in the source with five pills next to my name
Like fuck five mics I want five vic fame
If killing pain is the name of the game
Then I'm your number one draft pick
Dash quick to the closest medicine cabinet
Kill the whole bottle
Never played the role model position
I'm just living
So take 2 of these and call me in the morning
Ima take 4 and finish this 40 cuz life's boring
Pillmatic breezing these down I'm pounding Honey Browns
I'm pillmatic the oxycontin got my stomach rotting
Pillmatic I swear to God I'm not an addict
But I'm still at it, dag nabbit I'm pillmatic
Keep the hydro unless it's codone behind it
Never have to roam far from home to find it
Writin' fake scripts like my doctor signed it
Till I spelled his last name wrong
This ain't a song for the kids like the last album
Put em to bed go ahead and turn the Valium up
A couple meds to ease the pain of the papercuts
The doctor says slow down maybe later buts
40 milligrams, a 40 and I'm faded
This world is crazy so I stay medicated
Percoset, Ativan, and Klonopin
When my social lights are out
They turn them on again
I'll eat em till I'm born again
Oxycontin, orange juice and gin
Equals projectile wild style burner on a porcelain
Pillmatic breezing these down I'm pounding Honey Browns
I'm pillmatic the oxycontin got my stomach rotting
Pillmatic I swear to God I'm not an addict

Pillmatic, three xanies down, I'm poundin' honey browns
I'm pillmatic, the oxycontin got my stomach rotten
Pillmatic, I swear to God I'm not an addict
But I'm still at it, dag nabbit, I'm pillmatic
Thinking back on when it all started
I found pink hearts in mommy's little pocket book and took 'em
Poppin' when she wasn't looking, I guess it runs in the family
I'm liable to eat any pill you randomly hand me
Save the greenery, I'm looking for them labels
Reading, may cause drowsiness
Be careful when operating machinery
Beautiful pharmaceuticals, residue in my cuticles
Sniffin' them when it's suitable, wishin' they made 'em chewable
Catch me in the source with five pills next to my name
Like fuck five mics I want five vic fame
If killing pain is the name of the game
Then I'm your number one draft pick
Dash quick to the closest medicine cabinet
Kill the whole bottle
Never played the role model position I'm just livin'
So take 2 of these and call me in the morning
I'ma take 4 and finish this 40 cause life's boring and I'm
Pillmatic, three xanies down, I'm poundin' honey browns
I'm pillmatic, the oxycontin got my stomach rotten
Pillmatic, I swear to God I'm not an addict
But I'm still at it, dag nabbit, I'm pillmatic
Keep the hydro unless it's codone behind it
Never have to roam far from home to find it
Writin' fake scripts like my doctor signed it
Till I spelled his last name wrong
This ain't a song for the kids like the last album
Put 'em to bed go ahead and turn the valium up
A couple meds to ease the pain of the papercuts
The doctor says slow down maybe later buts
40 milligrams, a 40 and I'm faded
This world is crazy so I stay medicated
Percocet, Ativan and Colonapin
When my social lights are out
They turn them on again
I need 'em till I'm bored again
Oxycontin, orange juice and gin
Equals projectile wild style burner on a porcelain
Pillmatic, three xanies down, I'm poundin' honey browns
I'm pillmatic, the oxycontin got my stomach rotten
Pillmatic, I swear to God I'm not an addict

[Gym Class Heroes:]
Cool and Dre (this is)
You silly for this one
It's Travie (why you doin this to me)
I started rappin back in the class scribbling tracks
In hopes that one of my jokes would have the pretty young things laughin
The chubby little bastard with a nack for little debbies snacks
But what I lacked in looks I made up for it in passion
No advance and plus we make it happen
Your conscience more obnoxious then that laughy Taffy snappin
Goodbye yesterdays rags
Hello high fashion
Hands before you's a man that built a castle with sand
With no regards for tidelwaves and finally established
Til the water comes in gallon drums and wipes away my palace
But now I'm sittin lovely off in wonderland with Alice
With purple people passin me at the catapillar's chalice
Ha ha, you probably thinking I'm wrong right?
Like I should quit writing these songs right?
Tell you what... do it better I just might
Take it back to 86 you wanna lick, sike!
[Chorus:]
Don't let the TV mislead you
Me and you dude we are not equal
Fuck you this is for my people
Fuck you this is for my people
Don't try to hide like I can't see you
Your parents must've been trans and so see through
Fuck you this is for my people
Fuck you this is for my people
Put up your peace sign, put your index down
Put up your peace sign, put your index down
Put up your peace sign, put your index down
Put up your peace sign, put your index down
[Busta Rhymes:]
Before I utter words and before I start to begin
Let me make sure you clear I'm about securing the wind
I puzzle up my words while I piece another concoction
Cause I'm stubborn with the thought that failure was never an option
I grinds like a carpenter until my caleceous's bleed
With the passion from my heart to the many mouths that I feed
That's why I look at most of you stupid I know it's odd
Because you can't really do nuttin to me unless you GOD
But bein that none of you ain't him... you can't fuucck with me now watch me erase them
Now trust me see I'm so determined
I'm walkin through the heap of gauntlets while the fire is burnin
Or how the tires turning on the rim of the V
I laugh and shake it off the shiiit they be doin to me
With all the yappin and talking and so and so think that you can ever stop the kid
OH NO
[Chorus:]
So if you get in my way you know yer done son
You best believe what I say you better run son
Fuck you because I do this for my loved ones
Fuck you because I do this for my loved ones
You better kneel down and pray cause where I come from
We goin hard everyday that's how the fights won
Fuck you because I do this for my loved ones
Fuck you because I do this for my loved ones
Put up the peace sign, put the index down
Put up the peace sign, put the index down
Put up the peace sign, put the index down
Put up the peace sign, put the index down
[Travis:]
Look mom no hands
Yer little boys a man
Everything you said is finally settin in
Trainin wheels fell off and I kept peddling
Now I'm ridin wheelies on this industry
Say the word I'll ghostride this bittcch instantly
Good lookin pop on the strength that you givin me
Wasn't for you Gym Class would be history
I'm on my upstate shiitt
I Was Brooklyn broke but now I'm upstate rich
Gettin brains from two dames with French accents
Now I mess with local chicks I get em upstate shiiit
You prob thinking I'm wrong right?
Like I should quit writtin these songs right?
Tell you what do it better I just might
Take it back to 86 you want a lick, sike!
Now it's a lot of ya'll that can't stand me
Cause my resembelance to prince is uncanny
But fuck you this is for my family
Fuck you this is for my family
Upstate new york to Miami
Up late recording in my jammies
I do it for my family
Fuck you this is for my family
Put up your peace sign, put your index down
Put up your peace sign, put your index down
Put up your peace sign, put your index down

She says she loves me
But she comes and goes when she pleases
When the door shuts
It's like another papercut
And now I'm stuck with a hand full of bandaids
Until she comes back around like them ceiling fan blades
Claims she loves me
But she cuts me into pieces
When I'm sewed up
Here comes another papercut
Now I'm stuck with a hand full of bandaids
Until she comes back around like them ceiling fan blades.....
We met 22 years back
Fresh out the womb
Now she consumes me,
No room for self these days
And she's so demanding
Do this, do that
Don't forget to take your medicine
I hate it when her face is invading my head again
The welcome mat reads "please take off your shoes"
But she disregards the statement
I've grown accustomed to bending my beliefs to
Satisfy her needs
But I'm fed up
With plugging cuts everytime they bleed
So I dip my pen in the puddle
What a bloody mess its been
Trying to end this struggle
But I love her,
She's the reason for the lesions
Man I love her
I start bleeding when she's leaving
And every scar on my fingertip is a reminder of
All the lessons learned
On my missions to try to find her but
I'll sit alone until she comes back home
And I'll be waiting by the phone
"Hello?"
She says she loves me
But she comes and goes when she pleases
When the door shuts
It's like another papercut
And now I'm stuck with a hand full of bandaids
Until she comes back around like them ceiling fan blades
Claims she loves me
But she cuts me into pieces
When I'm sewed up
Here comes another papercut
Now I'm stuck with a hand full of bandaids
Until she comes back around like them ceiling fan blades.....
She don't live here no more
I heard she's staying down the street with the dead beat
That don't treat her right with two bad ass kids
Guilt and Regret
And I'm willing to bet
My last album that she's wishing she was kissing me
Man the nerve of this bitch
Pardon my French
But it's been 10 days
And I'm getting kind of light headed
Maybe I'll write her a letter in a gentleman's way
And send it with the hopes that she might get it
I can't believe I let her run all over me
But all I think about is
When she's here and holding me
I love her
She's the reason for the lesions
Man I love her
I start bleeding when she's leaving
And every scar on my fingertip is a reminder of
All the lessons learned
All my missions trying to find her and
I can't complain
I kind of like the pain
She ain't even got a name
She just lives in my brain
And says..
She says she loves me
But she comes and goes when she pleases
When the door shuts
It's like another papercut
And now I'm stuck with a hand full of bandaids
Until she comes back around like them ceiling fan blades
Claims she loves me
But she cuts me into pieces
When I'm sewed up
Here comes another papercut
Now I'm stuck with a hand full of bandaids
Until she comes back around like them ceiling fan blades.....
She says she loves me but
(she really thinks that im an asshlole)
She says she loves me but
(my ears are too big)
She says she loves me but
(i pick my nose too much)
She says she loves me but
(she says i never really listen)
She says she loves me but
(i take too many pills)
She says she loves me but
(i never pay my bills)
She says she loves me but
(i wait until the last minute)
She says she loves me but

She says she loves me
But she comes and goes when she pleases
When the door shuts
It's like another papercut
And now I'm stuck with a hand full of bandaids
Until she comes back around like them ceiling fan blades
Claims she loves me
But she cuts me into pieces
When I'm sewed up
Here comes another papercut
Now I'm stuck with a hand full of bandaids
Until she comes back around like them ceiling fan blades.....
We met 22 years back
Fresh out the womb
Now she consumes me,
No room for self these days
And she's so demanding
Do this, do that
Don't forget to take your medicine
I hate it when her face is invading my head again
The welcome mat reads "please take off your shoes"
But she disregards the statement
I've grown accustomed to bending my beliefs to
Satisfy her needs
But I'm fed up
With plugging cuts everytime they bleed
So I dip my pen in the puddle
What a bloody mess its been
Trying to end this struggle
But I love her,
She's the reason for the lesions
Man I love her
I start bleeding when she's leaving
And every scar on my fingertip is a reminder of
All the lessons learned
On my missions to try to find her but
I'll sit alone until she comes back home
And I'll be waiting by the phone
"Hello?"
She says she loves me
But she comes and goes when she pleases
When the door shuts
It's like another papercut
And now I'm stuck with a hand full of bandaids
Until she comes back around like them ceiling fan blades
Claims she loves me
But she cuts me into pieces
When I'm sewed up
Here comes another papercut
Now I'm stuck with a hand full of bandaids
Until she comes back around like them ceiling fan blades.....
She don't live here no more
I heard she's staying down the street with the dead beat
That don't treat her right with two bad ass kids
Guilt and Regret
And I'm willing to bet
My last album that she's wishing she was kissing me
Man the nerve of this bitch
Pardon my French
But it's been 10 days
And I'm getting kind of light headed
Maybe I'll write her a letter in a gentleman's way
And send it with the hopes that she might get it
I can't believe I let her run all over me
But all I think about is
When she's here and holding me
I love her
She's the reason for the lesions
Man I love her
I start bleeding when she's leaving
And every scar on my fingertip is a reminder of
All the lessons learned
All my missions trying to find her and
I can't complain
I kind of like the pain
She ain't even got a name
She just lives in my brain
And says..
She says she loves me
But she comes and goes when she pleases
When the door shuts
It's like another papercut
And now I'm stuck with a hand full of bandaids
Until she comes back around like them ceiling fan blades
Claims she loves me
But she cuts me into pieces
When I'm sewed up
Here comes another papercut
Now I'm stuck with a hand full of bandaids
Until she comes back around like them ceiling fan blades.....
She says she loves me but
(she really thinks that im an asshlole)
She says she loves me but
(my ears are too big)
She says she loves me but
(i pick my nose too much)
She says she loves me but
(she says i never really listen)
She says she loves me but
(i take too many pills)
She says she loves me but
(i never pay my bills)
She says she loves me but
(i wait until the last minute)
She says she loves me but

Now I could sit here and baffle you
With shallow babble
And a bunch of punch lines
You probably won't get
Or even use some big words
That you'd have to look up
But, I'm not a teacher
So go ahead and close your book up
I could tell a fairy tale so convincing
And keep a straight face from beginning
To happy ending
I could waste 32 bars telling you how to live
Knowing damn well I used mtv cribs for the blueprint
I could bore you to death with my past relationships
Or a little ditty bout Jack and Dianne
Or I could go back to childhood
Dig up them skeletons
And spit them at you with a catchy hook
Look, I could strike a nerve with some four letter words
That'll make Richard Pryor proud
Or better yet, I could sing a jingle that'll contort and mingle
Every single solitary letter in the alphabet
(I could tell you whatever you want to hear
But if I just said hello would you listen to me?
I could sell a blind man new ears
If I just said hello would you listen to me?
I'm trying hard trying to make it perfectly clear
But I'm dying because their aint nobody listening to me
Been relying on myself on myself for more than 22 years
And I aint crying I just need someone to listen to me
Can I get some reply get maybe some kind of sign
to let me know that you're listening to me?
Just from time to time I get lost in my mind
Its hard to find someone to listen to me
My ears were open when you needed some consoling
I'm hoping till the sound you hear echoes
Every time I say hello)
I could talk about my duds
And my thrift store scores
But that probably wouldn't interest you
But why should it
I mean, I've seen a lot of shit in 22 years
But your feet in my shoes isn't something I recall
And I've been known to drink 22 beers
Before a show cuz
otherwise I probably wouldn't have the balls
I could make references to books I never read
For the sake of sounding conscious
But, that's just obnoxious
I could take off these bandages and
Expose these papercuts
And put them in the air
with both my middle fingers up
or talk about myself in third person
like I'm better than you
cuz there's nothing else better to do
I could attack your character from
Eighty different angles
Cleverly explaining exactly how wack you are
But why do that when it's a well known fact
you buying this cd is potentially feeding me
(come on)
(I could tell you whatever you want to hear
But if I just said hello would you listen to me?
I could sell a blind man new ears
If I just said hello would you listen to me?
I'm trying hard trying to make it perfectly clear
But I'm dying because their aint nobody listening to me
Been relying on myself on myself for more than 22 years
And I aint crying I just need someone to listen to me
Can I get some reply get maybe some kind of sign
to let me know that you're listening to me?
Just from time to time I get lost in my mind
Its hard to find someone to listen to me
My ears were open when you needed some consoling
I'm hoping till the sound you hear echoes
Every time I say hello)
Hello, is there anybody out there?
Hello, is there anybody out there?
Hello, is there anybody out there?
Hello, is there anybody out there?

i'm a lover not a fighter every night you decide start some shit
i'm sick and tired of being so sick and tired
coming... through the door with that so and...
why you still with me for
going through my bone i make you feel like a... screaming
who the f*ck is allen when alexander is my dude
sometimes i think you're doing shits because you...
you really love me really make it love now war
but you rather waste the little time we do have
no one back... are you sorry now well too bad
i can't believe i wasted all this time
better fighting with you i couldn't be...
hanging out with this watching for something
hook:
he never try to meet me half way...
i try to be the... don't you understand
find more lyrics at
then i can... the true
i guess everybody...
now you think you're coming back to me
but that's something that i just don't see
i thought this was forever i thought leave you never
but you gotta keep...'cause you... in my head
before you go is something that you should know
i took you everything i... and you'd better leave...
don't even thinking twisting it to make it my...
i try to tell you that you forget my...
'cause you aint' blame and this...
you can say this only dance 'cause i want period
wait no i'm not hearing it
... find the... even if i'm... call me what you want to
whatever make you feel better i don't want to
ps i...
[hook:]

[intro]
i'm officially going in
and refusing to come out
unless i'm bloody
let's go
[verse 1]
i'd like to think i pride myself on being humble
and let these other motherfuckers lose touch like a fumble
cause you can keep a level head and have fun too
but i came to promote the game, ?
at least till my name's in the same lane as ?
you gonna have to respect me for making being uncool cool
? with sandals, ray bans, skinny pants and flannels
so insecure i'm tugging at my t-shirt
cause i swear the girl behind me staring at my love handles
i just wanna change the channel or delete them
where the fuck is adam sandler when you need him?
or christopher walken
on my papercut shit again,thank god for walkmans
and i got a ?
cause otherwise i'd be like these other guys
[hook]
this type of scene just ain't my thing
and everybody too cool for school
and yet somehow i never felt so alone
in a room full of people
so now i'mma seat on this stoop
and i'mma gonna lace up my boots
and keep on walking till i make my way home
[verse 2]
can someone tell me how i got here in the first place
cause honestly in my opinion this the worst place
i mean i even said hello to a few girls
i feel like brad pitt stuck in cool world
cause everything so foreign
and all the conversation is boring
i mean i'm practically snoring
cause somebody please show me the door man
cause i don't think that i can take it
everybody here is desperate hit like replacements
that's probably why i ain't sayin' shit
oh what the hell i might as well get wasted
cause i'd rather be sedated
than conversate about whose sneakers are more outrageous
or whose outfit's the latest
i think i'll blow jokes on you, greatest[hook]
this type of scene just ain't my thing
and everybody too cool for school
and yet somehow i never felt so alone
in a room full of people
so now i'mma seat on this stoop
and i'mma gonna lace on my boots
and keep on walking till i make my way home
[outro]
ladies and gentlemen
boys and girls
i'd advise you all
to the papercut chronicles ii
it don't get much better
[chrous]
this type of scene just ain't my thing
and everybody too cool for school
and yet somehow i never felt so alone
in a room full of people
so now i'mma seat on this stoop
and i'mma gonna lace on my boots

If I recall correctly
It was the middle of spring
Walkin with my boys
Contemplating what summer will bring
We started talking about girls
And it was the funniest thing
As I started to remember some of my funniest flings
See there was Ashley,
She caught my eye the second that she passed me
I kissed her once
Then she started to harass me
She called all night long
I had to buy a brand new phone
And let me see
There was Melanie
To have a mouth like that should be a felony
Wouldn't believe half the shit that she was telling me
I mean dirty vocab
She used to talk like she was crunk
And after that was Tiffany
The one with the cute cousin
Are you kiddin' me?
She had a man
But that didn't mean shit to me
He tried to catch us all the time
But I was just to goddamn smooth
And I can't forget to mention Carrie
But that situation quickly got scary
Cuz after 2 days she was like lets get married
Can you believe that shit?
I had to pack my bags and move!
They say I gotta change my evil ways
And I'm working hard at it every day but
No matter what i do
I seem to make the same mistakes that I'm trying not to
If love is just a game that people play
And practice make perfect is what they say but
No matter what I do
I seem to make the same mistakes that I'm trying not to
I'll always remember Monica
The Jewish chick
She'd always give me gifts for Chanukkah
To meet her folks she tried to make me rock a Yhomica
But she looked so damn good
She almost made my ass convert
And after that there was Lisa
She had a twin sister, Teresa
I bumped into them at Cam's getting pizza
The greatest night of my life
Schlep's "The Rock that Killed Two Birds"
And there was Erica
She had the stankest breath in North America,
I tried to slip her tic tac's
But they were scared of her
And when we made out
I always had to plug my nose
And I suppose you know your sister
Shoot, I swear by hand and God
I only kissed her
I gotta foot fetish
But she gotta lota blisters
I mean hammer time feet
You'd think she had dead bugs for toes
They say I gotta change my evil ways
And I'm working hard at it every day but
No matter what I do
I seem to make the same mistakes that I'm trying not to
If love is just a game that people play
And practice make perfect is what they say but
No matter what I do
I seem to make the same mistakes that I'm trying not to
Yo Matt,
Remember Catherine?
She talked so much
I used to make her bring me aspirin
Bla, bla bla bla
I'm doing fine thanks for asking
I even tried to make a muzzle
But her mouth just would not quit
Oh Shit
Remember Shauna?
I hate to bring her up again
I didn't wanna
That girl I talked about
In that "Girl's A Dog" song
Yeah, the poster girl for Paxil
Almost made me lose my grip
And oh shit
There was Krystal
The meth head
She used to sniff like a fist full
One time she chased me down the street with a pistol
She tried to say I took her stash
She bugged out and tried to kill my ass
And at last we got Kimmy
She went abroad
Came back
And broke up with me
And so I ripped up all the letters that she sent me
I cried for like 3 days
Then it was back to my evil ways
They say I gotta change my evil ways
And I'm working hard at it every day but
No matter what I do
I seem to make the same mistakes that I'm trying not to
If love is just a game that people play
And practice make perfect is what they say but
No matter what I do
I seem to make the same mistakes that I'm trying not to
They say I gotta change my evil ways
And I'm working hard at it every day but
No matter what I do
I seem to make the same mistakes that I'm trying not to
If love is just a game that people play
And practice make perfect is what they say but
No matter what I do

(chorus)I see a window and all i can think about is,
So do you wanna fly with me
Do you wanna fly with me.
I know it sounds crazy but I can't find solid
ground,
So Do you wanna fly with me,
Do you wanna fly with me.
(Verse 1)
And i've been staring out this window for the past eleven hours,
thinking of all the opportunities this window has to offer,
from the twenty third floor and a filing cabinet east manhattan and FDR is beautiful as I'm watching all the cars passing.
Then a couple stars twinkle so I started laughing and a couple walked by and they look so happy.
I booked this room at this place called the last resort,
All my bags are packed, I got my jacket and my passport
and a first class ticket to the afterlife, you dig me?
Now is you is or is you aint with me?
And i fully understand if you've got other plans,
But i can't see you hand in hand with another man.
I been on auto-pilot since we last spoke,
And i dont wanna board this flight on a bad note.
I want you to think about it, but either way I'm going And if you really love me, then here's your chance to show it.
(Chorus)I see a window and all i can think about is,
So do you wanna fly with me
Do you wanna fly with me.
I know it sounds crazy but I can't find solid
ground,
So Do you wanna fly with me,
Do you wanna fly with me.
(2x) We'll live forever and maybe we'll write a
novel about our love.
(Verse 2)
She looked me dead in the eyes and took me by the hand
Kissed me on my cheek and said,"Baby listen i understand,
You don't have to leave, plus I'm scared of heights,
So just put down your luggage, and just forget this flight.
You and I, you know we been through a lot of things,
But it's no reason to start trippin' and arguing."
She said,"You are my king and i place no one above you,
And i don't have to board a plane for me to show i love you.
And all this talk about the afterlife is kinda creepy
So let's just go lay down and talk, I'm getting kinda sleepy."
I kinda smiled and we both walked to the window,
I pulled the shutters, started staring at the sky.
I wiped a couple tears away, then we looked at each other and i could see the stars twinkle in her eyes.
I told her about the couple that I saw earlier.
She said, "I'ms sure they were cute but they're no you and I."
(Chorus)I see a window and all i can think about is,
So do you wanna fly with me
Do you wanna fly with me.
I know it sounds crazy but I can't find solid
ground,
So Do you wanna fly with me,
Do you wanna fly with me.
(2x) We'll live forever and maybe we'll write a

Papa was a rolling stone
But I wanna be the cover of a rolling stone
Only I know that I can do it alone
Only I know that I can do it alone.
August 6th, 1981 I took my first breath.
They said I smiled and cried until it was none left.
I guess I knew what I was in for before hand.
Miniture grown man ha.
Third of three sons. Big bird and squirt guns.
Aunt Tammy dressed up like a clown when I turned one.
Scared the shit out of me but thanks for trying.
Sitting in my highchair throwing cake and crying.
I remember everything, every single detail,
Clinging on daddy's leg like don't leave I'll be good.
I promise.
I'll do anything Dad honest.
But he had to go to work and bust his ass for them
dollars.
Now it all makes sense, back then I wasn't havin it,
Obsessed with He-Man so young and so adimit.
More concerned with Castle Greyskull than baseball
And I learned that if I worked a little that I could
have it all.
All of my friend's had allowances, I had a paper route.
And when no one was looking I threw the papers out.
I got caught made dad was furious
And if your gonna do something do it right, thats what
earnest is.
Papa was a rolling stone
But I wanna be the cover of a rolling stone
Only I know that I can do it alone
Only I know that I can do it alone.
Papa was a rolling stone
Working hard while I'm at home alone
On some Macaulay Culkin shit so bit.
Little man had a plan and had to follow through with it
But moms was so inconsiderate.
Illiterate? Nope. I read the dictionary daily.
Give the gap the rap and set sailing
Step moms get the poop end of the stick nothing new to
Don't act like my momma because my dad bought you some
jewlery.
Oh the tom foolery
I sat back and watched pops play with women like chess,
check mate.
Six sibilings, three different moms. Can you imagine
Simply seeing your paycheck broken down into fractions.
Papa was a pimp, married four times,
Indicisive, trynna strike a gold mine.
Siftin through the sand something like a fortyniner
Up to the point where my chest becomes a coal mine.
But when they come and go,
I'll be here at the bitter end Pop I'mm just letting
you know.
I never understood temptation
But I guess we both got a little David Rufus in us.
Everybody sing it with us now.
Papa was a rolling stone
But I wanna be the cover of a rolling stone
Only I know that I can do it alone
Only I know that I can do it alone.
Papa was a rolling stone
But I wanna be a cover of the rolling stone
Only I know that I can do it alone

Baby girl we ain't got to move too fast
First and foremost I'm a gentlemen with class
Not the least bit concerned with what happened in your past
And I'm sure your heart's hurting but the pain won't last
I can be your aspirin, I am asking friendly
We start you off with a daily dose of vitamin me
Yeah I got jokes, you laughing at them tho
Now go on and grab your coat and tell your girlfriends that you leavin' them
Show me baby (Show me baby)
What you got (What you got)
Show me baby (Show me baby)
Your favorite spot (Your favorite spot)
And I can take you
Out of here
I can put your love in the atmosphere
Show me what you want and I got that
Tell me what you need and you got that
I wanna make her press that ass on me
Before we get to that
It starts with kissin' ears
Making babies buying you a mercedes girl
It starts with kissin' ears
Getting married being willing to share it girl
It starts with kissin' ears
Get to know me picking up groceries (Fa shaw girl)
It starts with kissin' ears
Paying the bills keeping it trill
It starts with kissin' ears
It starts with kissin' ears
It starts with kissin' ears
Now let me kiss you on your hot spot
Far be it for me to kiss you on the first date
But our lips are like legos and it's getting kind of late
You ain't got to eat the bait all I want is a chance
To fish and get you nervous cause the pond is drying fast
You lying if you say I'm the type of guy that you're used to
Hilltop suite in saint lucha expose your ear so I can kiss ya
Or maybe just whispa, something real man-ish
You ain't know I knew spanish. Did ya?
Show me what you want and I got that
Tell me what you need and you got that
Say the word it's over
Secure you like a soldier
Before we get to that
It starts with kissing ears
It starts with kissin' ears
Making babies buying you a mercedes girl
It starts with kissin' ears
Getting married being willing to share it girl
It all starts with kissin' ears
Get to know me picking up groceries (Fa shaw girl)
It starts with kissin' ears
Paying the bills keeping it trill (Babygirl)
It starts with kissin' ears
It starts with kissin' ears
It starts with kissin' ears
Now let me kiss you on your hot spot
All night long (All night long)
Can you sing my song (Can you sing my song)
We can start right here (Sex)
Starts with kissing ears
Show me what you want and I got that
(Kissin' ears)
You know I got that
(Kissin' ears)
Yeah you know I got that.
Them other dudes please you know I'm not that
(And it starts with kissin' ears)
Making babies buying you a mercedes girl
It starts with kissin' ears
Getting married being willing to share it girl
It starts with kissin' ears
Get to know me picking up groceries (Fa shaw girl)
It starts with kissin' ears
Paying the bills keeping it trill
It starts with kissin' ears
It starts with kissin' ears
It starts with kissin' ears
Now let me kiss you in your hot spot
Show me what you want and I got that
Tell me what you need and you got that
Say the word it's over
Secure you like a soldier
Before we get to that
It starts with kissing ears
Show me what you want and I got that
You know I got that
Yeah you know I got that

[Verse:]
Chchch-Children put on your angry faces
Mothers hide your daughters
I've been busy burning bridges hovering over troubled waters
City folk'll never understand the country mouse's jokes
They'd rather sit and watch the lemmings lead each other to the slaughter
This is me thanking you dearly
Sincerely, from the bottom of what's left of my misery magnet
Guess I been too busy being stagnant
And if I ever steer you wrong
Grab the wheel and jerk it left
I'm only human but admitted I'm such a beautiful mess
[Chorus:]
With the Mad Hatter cackle and the Cheshire cat smile (haha)
Put the jabberwocks cadaver with derelict juvenile (oooh)
The futures got Travie engraved on a name plate that I copped on Fulton
While the passers poppin pills somewhere on the other side of Brooklyn
So this is me in front of the class naked
This reoccurring nightmare never ending
So I'm saying Hello (So I'm saying Hellooo)
And now I'm screaming Hello (Now I'm screaming Hellooo)
Is anybody out there?
Now this is me in front of the class naked
This reoccurring nightmare never ending
So I'm saying Hello (So I'm saying Hellooo)
And now I'm screaming hello
Can anybody hear me?
[Verse:]
Baby let's ride the steel horse until it stops galloping
And let the nerds get revenge on these stars with Lamar's javelin
Here Betty, put this Vader mask on and take me to the dark side bumpin your
Favorite song
And I promise I'll stand still until the feeling is gone
And if I slip and bust it's cause we must be doing it wrong
Oh by the way
If you happen to meet the asshole that wrote the manual
Tell'em large Marge sent me to murk'em and make it casual
[Chorus:]
With the Mad Hatter cackle and the Cheshire cat smile (Haha)
Put the jabberwocks cadaver with derelict juvenile (Ooooh)
The futures got Travie engraved on a name plate that I copped on Fulton
While the passers poppin pills somewhere on the other side of Brooklyn
So this is me in front of the class naked
This reoccurring nightmare never ending
So I'm saying Hello (So I'm saying Hellooo)
And now I'm screaming Hello (Now I'm screaming Hellooo)
Is anybody out there?
Now this is me in front of the class naked
This reoccurring nightmare never ending
So I'm saying Hello (So I'm saying Hellooo)
And now I'm screaming hello
[Travie:]
So I'm leaving the grocery store the other day
Probably one of the hardest things I have to do [?] with my anxiety and all
And a Women walks up to me
(Hey aren't you Travie?)
She doesn't say hello, she just grabs me
And I can feel my heart beating harder and harder and harder (Uh yeah)
(I'm from Upstate too)
(Uh, Cool)
I can feel the skin on my chest getting tighter and tighter
Until I just, until I just
FUCKING SPONTANIOUSLY COMBUST
AHHH
[Chorus:]
With the Mad Hatter cackle and the Cheshire cat smile (Haha)
Put the jabberwocks cadaver with derelict juvenile (Ooooh)
The futures got Travie engraved on a name plate that I copped on Fulton
While the passers poppin pills somewhere on the other side of Brooklyn
So this is me in front of the class naked
This reoccurring nightmare never ending
So I'm saying Hello (So I'm saying Hellooo)
And now I'm screaming Hello (Now I'm screaming Hellooo)
Is anybody out there?
Now this is me in front of the class naked
This reoccurring nightmare never ending
So I'm saying Hello (So I'm saying Hellooo)
And now I'm screaming hello
And now I'm screaming hellooo

We put the "F-U" back in fun
Serve it up with a smile
You ain't heard this type of stuff in a while
I want your ears right now
Ante up, buck stops here
Put your hands up, like you plan to volunteer
Ollie ollie Oxy Free
Fresh outta detox
Can't afford the doctor's fee
So floor it towards the weed spot
A whole city waitin' for me to fall
Because I made a pretty penny outta nothin' at all
It's that "circle, cirle, dot, dot"
Cootie shot shit, you know
Everybody lovin' it, but ain't nobody touchin' it, yeah
Decaydance takin' over this year
I feel like dancin' baby hold my fears (So Sexy)
And it's ok to be a little risky (ooooh, Ah the Good Times)
Forget work it's all play at the end of the day (ooooh, Ah the Good Times)
Just be sure to send the females my way (ooooh, Ah the Good Times)
Oh look at how cute, we made a mess on the dance floor
So let me get a soul clap, that's what we got hands for
That's exactly what I've been trying to tell you, Pete, look at 'em
I know you seen 'em as soon as we came in,
Pick your jaw up man, it's alright we havin' a good time,
Ha! Stupid...
Mission acccomplished
Operation spike punch successful
Now back to tellin' girls im only nineteen, wowzers!
Bob's parents ain't back for another six hours
So it's just enough time to kill the keg that's in the shower
Curse you aquascum, follow the leader
Made today's big fish outta yesterday's bottom feeders
Until I'm belly up, it's all good times from here on out
From the beginning 'til we clear on out
It's like: this year, my year, you here, who cares?
Focus you candle it, we kill 'em like Crush Management, Please!
I got no time to player hate
I'm the type to crash your party with "Teddy Ruxpin" and a Slayer tape
And it's ok to be a little risky (ooooh, Ah the Good Times)
Forget work it's all play at the end of the day (ooooh, Ah the Good Times)
Just be sure to send the females my way (ooooh, Ah the Good Times)
Oh look at how cute, we made a mess on the dance floor
So let me get a soul clap, that's what we got hands for
Seriously, for one, if I gave a fuck, my eyes would be locked onto yours,
And not to nothin' that's goin' on behind your back homey,
For two... Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot, what were you sayin' again? Exactly
Ignorance is bliss homey, you my dear make it fact
I'm just curious as to why you take yourself so serious
You missed the joke a year back, man,
The punchline just hit you in the mouth...
And it's ok to be a little risky (ooooh, Ah the Good Times)
Forget work it's all play at the end of the day (ooooh, Ah the Good Times)
Just be sure to send the females my way (ooooh, Ah the Good Times)
And it's ok to be a little risky (ooooh, Ah the Good Times)
Forget work it's all play at the end of the day (ooooh, Ah the Good Times)

She reached her hand out with a pamphlet and I politely said "No, Ma'am"
I mean no disrespect and I apologize if this fucks up your program
You tell me I'm gonna burn for lying but the heat can turn water to wine
Well if there's a hell below then we're all gonna' be just fine.
So there I stood six feet in sin, a walking contradiction
but am I wrong for posing questions or am I just another lost soul searching?
Then she gave me a look so unchristian and told she'd pray for my children
I said "If you're so holy you'll probably out-live me but if I bought a Jesus piece do you think he'd forgive me?"
Maybe I would be a fool to think.
That somewhere in the sky's a place for me.
What good would it be to pray for me?
You won't save me, don't pray for me.
Now I've never been religious,
I'm just a big fan of logistics.
And if it makes sense then I'm all for it.
I even pray if the situation calls for it.
Somebody asked me if I believe in miracles,
I try to answer without sounding satirical.
I'm 3 years past my expiration and yet i'm still fresher than a newborn
So I guess that's my explanation but it's safe to say I've never seen a unicorn and I never chase rainbows
But I hear the devil wears designer clothes
So does God have a favourite brand?
and for that matter, is he even a man?
and will I go to hell for even saying that?
only time will tell I'm just relaying facts.
Maybe I would be a fool to think,
That somewhere in the sky's a place for me.
What good would it be to pray for me?
You won't save me, don't pray for me.
{Instrumental}
Maybe I would be a fool to think,
That somewhere in the sky's a place for me.
What good would it be to pray for me?
You won't save me, don't pray for me.
Maybe I would be a fool to think,
That somewhere in the sky's a place for me.
What good would it be to pray for me?

I guess i'm guilty 'til proven innocent
And i'll be gone before they know what I hit em' with
And this predicament is pure coincidence
Oh brother here comes another incident [x2]
And if you're innocent, let me see you two step
Come on, let me see you two step [x2]
Slam the gavel judge judy got a grudge
Interrogating me for days on end and I won't budge
I'm on some eddie murphy raw "baby it wasn't me" shiz
Wrong place, wrong time, I was there but I didn't see
sh*t
And you can throw the book at me and i'ma throw it
right back
Slap the district attorney and ask him "how you like
that? "
Then i'ma jump in front of the jury like my life is in
your hands
Then break each and all their fingers just to make em'
understand
This is obviously a case of mistaken identity
Plus this face is too pretty to be in a penitentiary
Paranoid like chris and snoop was out to kill me
Walkin' on a thin wire, why they tryin' to marlo
stanfield me?
I guess i'm guilty 'til proven innocent
And i'll be gone before they know what I hit em' with
And this predicament is pure coincidence
Oh brother here comes another incident [x2]
And if you're innocent, let me see you two step
Come on, let me see you two step [x2]
And I think it went down like this
All I remember was the studio, next thing you know
everything goes black
I woke up in the back of a squad car
Handcuffed until they threw my a** behind bars
I never claimed to be an angel, I just makin' music
Something a little different you can bob your head to
If that's crime, then fuck it, i'll do the time
But they tryin' to give me 25 to life for every line
Go ahead and lock me up, throw away the key
But just imagine the monster you gonna make of me
And the moment that we all feared
Guilty on all charges for the dopest album of the year!
I guess i'm guilty 'til proven innocent
And i'll be gone before they know what I hit em' with
And this predicament is pure coincidence
Oh brother here comes another incident [x2]
I'm innocent...[x4]

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I usually avoid any kind of confrontation, conversation, in moderation
Lips sealed but my fingers are flying
And hours the hours pass, they grow more impatient
My phone is magnetic, especially when I'm sauced up
And I admit that I'm ashamed
But there's Melissa, Theresa and Emily what a toss up
But that's the best part of the game
And I'm really an anonymous, aspiring alcoholic
Drowning the days pain in hops, barley and grain
Thinking of ways to convince one to join me
In the company of low-lives, sort doing the same
So I start texting, I keep texting, I can't stop, it's my obsession
It's like fish and my words are like lures
If they bought the bait cool, if not call it a night
We can't, more like we should have and I know
And I try, to be a good boy but it's hard
I start texting, I keep texting, I can't stop, it's my obsession
Now ask yourself this, is love a tender thing
Too rough, too rude, too boisterous?
Well, I'll tell you what man
I had it once it was fun but not enough
'Tis torture and not mercy
Heaven is where my phone lives
In my pocket, so cozy oh what a joy replies give
Well, Melissa's babysitting and Theresa's working late
Emily's on her way to East 11th on the train
And that's when I remember Patty from West Philly
She said, I'm in your area, three minutes away
So I stop texting, no more texting, yeah, right, it's my obsession
It's like fish and my words are like lures
If they bought the bait cool, if not call it a night
We can't, more like we should have and I know
And I try, to be a good boy but it's hard
We can't, more like we should have and I know
And I try, to be a good boy but it's hard
I start texting, I keep texting, I can't stop, it's my obsession
I know you think I'm reckless, move so fast, slow down
I think I love him, so I told him but in a text message
He wrote back , me too, I was just sitting here, thinkin' 'bout you"
I know I want to but I can't and I shouldn't
Try to put my phone down, damn, but I couldn't
Stayed on the phone with him all night long
Text message when I'm gone
We can't, more like we should have and I know
And I try, to be a good boy but it's hard
We can't, more like we should have and I know

I like girls
They like me
They look so good
In they seven jeans
Want you to be the one
And my only
I want to be faithful
But I can?t keep my hands out the cookie jar
My hands, my hands, my ha uh my hands
Can?t keep my hands, my hands, my, uh, my
Can?t keep my hands, my hands, my, uh, my
Can?t keep my hands, my hands, my hands out the cookie jar
You see I got this problem
I need help tryna solve it
Cause meeting after meeting and I?m still a cookie whore
You can hide them, I'mma find them, on the counter, in the closet
And I?ll say I ain?t do it with my face covered in chocolate
My girl be setting booby traps
To catch me eating Scooby snacks
I left crumbs in the bed once
But I told her I was through with that
She still don?t be believing me
And I guess that I?m cool with that
But I got a sweet tooth, that?ll never come loose
And the truth of the matter is
I like girls
They like me
They look so good
In they seven jeans
Want you to be the one
And my only
I want to be faithful
But I can?t keep my hands out the cookie jar
My hands, my hands, my ha uh my hands
Can?t keep my hands, my hands, my, uh, my
Can?t keep my hands, my hands, my, uh, my
Can?t keep my hands, my hands, my hands out the cookie jar
I got a thing for Milano, Biscotti Italianos
And I never turn down some Oreos if you got them
Butter Pecan Puerto Rican
Or them Oatmeal Raisin Asians
Hazelnut Brazilians, Macadamia Caucasians,
Double stuffed or thin mint
It don?t matter you getting it
Cause I got a sweet tooth that?ll never come loose
And the fact of the matter is
I like girls
They like me
They look so good
In they seven jeans
Want you to be the one
And my only
I want to be faithful
But I can?t keep my hands out the cookie jar
My hands, my hands, my ha uh my hands
Can?t keep my hands, my hands, my, uh, my
Can?t keep my hands, my hands, my, uh, my
Can?t keep my hands, my hands, my hands out the cookie jar
I?m a monster for these cookies
I?m a beast for they treats
An animal for they crackers
Head to feet they so damn sweet
Can?t keep my hands, my hands, my ha uh my
Can?t keep my hands, my hands, my hands out the cookie jar
And there you have it haha
I tried my best
I went to cookie anonymous
I guess I?m a failure
I can?t seem to keep my damn hands out the cookie jar but
It is what it is

Listen, babe, I think it's time for me to come clean
I mean I haven't been the most faithful
And I don't know how else to say this plain and simple
I been cheatin', believe me
This isn't easy especially since you've been so good to me
The hardest thing I've ever done is tellin' you
You're not the only one, just understand this
You made a man outta ignorance
And like a boy I toyed with innocence
This double lives not worth livin'
Not givin' more to her and I apologize
And it's all part of the game
It's just the same old thing with a different name
And we can try and drown the pain
But we both swim too well, to submerge ourselves
And I'm tired of the shame
Of bein' the fool, too cool to maintain two dames
And all I need is time
Please forgive me, darling, the blame's all mine
When I come home to you with open arms
Insist on pressin' on my overcoat
The alcohol and still cigarette smoke
I know you've been skeptical, I play it off like you're delusional
The fact is that I'm losin' you
And I'm scared, she doesn't want me
The way I need her to know, she doesn't want me
The way I need her to
I'm pleading with the judge on my knees
God, please just make these charges go away
And it's all part of the game
It's just the same old thing with a different name
And we can try and drown the pain
But we both swim too well, to submerge ourselves
And I'm tired of the shame
Of bein' the fool, too cool to maintain two dames
And all I need is time
Please forgive me, darling, the blame's all mine
Girl, I promise I'll do my best to impress the jury
'Cause when the smoke settles and one of us falls to the dirt
It was worth all of the hurt and if not let's cut our losses
'Cause you crossed the line, thinkin' I'd choose you over music
That's just stupid, this whole situations bogus
Especially since I'm so focused
From the beginning to the end
And we in with these friends
Unfortunately this is hopeless
Did my best to juggle both of you
Struggled but I'm still here holdin' you
Tie the man up, stand up, put your hands up
If you understand what I'm goin' through
And it's all part of the game
It's just the same old thing with a different name
And we can try and drown the pain
But we both swim too well, to submerge ourselves
And I'm tired of the shame
Of bein' the fool, too cool to maintain two dames
And all I need is time

And so it goes.
We mouth your words when your tongues are too paralyzed.
We finish up the peanut butter jelly you get on your ?Router? but never eat.
We still pee in bottles
We play at your graduation parties
We have fallen comrades, we just rebuild the team.
Our friends are rich and we love it.
'Cause it makes us look wealthy too.
Shit, I still got a sidekick 1 with a crack in the fucking screen man.
We were your favorite "I'm the first person to know about these guys" Band.
We dance to Use me by Bill Winters in a drunken stupor
until MA and GARY tell us to go the fuck home and kick us out.
We make mistakes
We love we hate
Were not angry anymore though
Still miss you
still love you
Like a slug hates salt

Told me it's the truth but I'm still afraid
I'm not the one who would jump the gun
If I had proof I'd take off my shades
And be Blinded By The Sun
One lie, two lies, I shoulda said shoe flies.
Shame on me, I usually see through lies.
Said you loved me, yeah right.
I thought we were air tight.
You were playing foul, it was far from a fair fight.
I hung onto your every word, sweetest shit I ever heard.
I even made you pinky swear, just so I was reassured.
The rumors started gettin back, that so and so was hittin' that.
Silly me for being such a 'natic for that kitty cat.
You told me it's the truth but I'm still afraid
I'm not the one who would jump the gun
If I had proof I'd take off my shades
And be Blinded By The Sun
You said you were in love but the games you played
And I hope that you're having fun
You see I need you to take off my shades,
And be blinded by the sun.
Three lies, four lies, you shoulda been a tour guide.
The way you lead me on, knowing I was one of four guys
Said you loved me, okay. Where were you the other day?
Your car was parked at 38th, but you were at your mothers place?
Your mother lives on broadway. I followed you all day.
I called but you ignored it when you kissed him in the hallway.
Call me crazy, call me odd, call me what you want to.
But Karma is a bitch, I pray to god she always haunts you.
You told me it's the truth but I'm still afraid
I'm not the one who would jump the gun
If I had proof I'd take off my shades
And be blinded by the sun
You said you were in love but the games you played
I hope that you're having fun
You see I need you to take off my shades,
And be blinded by the sun.
I wear my sunglasses at night , so I can, so I can
You told me it's the truth but I'm still afraid
I'm not the one who would jump the gun
If I had proof I'd take off my shades
And be blinded by the sun
You said you were in love but the games you played
I hope that you're having fun
You see I need you to take off my shades,