I have no morals
Some think me cheap
And someone who despises
The normalcy of heartbreak
The purity of love
But I worship the young
And just formed angel
Who sits upon the pin of lust
Everything else
Bores me
I want to see your suicide
I want to see you give it up
Your life of reason
I want you on the floor
And in a coffin your soul shaking
I want to have you doubting
Every meaning you’ve amassed
Like a fortune
Oh throw it away
For worship someone
Who actively despises you
For worship someone
Who actively despises you
I am the root
I am the progress
I’m the aggressor
I am the tablet
The sea will wash against the rock
The rock stands strong, the rock is strong
The sea will wash against the rock
But before too long the rock is gone
The wind will blow against the stone
The stone stands strong, the stone is strong
The wind will blow against the stone
but before too long the stone is gone
Patience gentlemen, we move closer every day
Patience gentlemen, the stone will soon give way
Chorus
We are the wave,
We are the flow
We are the wind
And soon the rock must go
We are the wave,
We are the flow
We are the wind
And soon the rock must go
You cannot hold back the tide
The tide must rise the tide must rise
Its the law of earth and skies
The tide will rise, the tide will rise
Its as natural as day to night
As day to night, day to night
As natural as black and white
Black and white, black and white
Patience gentlemen, the flower can grow up through the
stone
Patience gentlemen, its a truth that we have always
known
Chorus
We are the wave,
We are the flow
We are the wind
And soon the rock must go
We are the force
We are the fire
We are the move
Moving higher and higher,
We are the force
We are the fire
We are the move
Moving higher and higher
Interlude
We are the wave,
We are the flow
We are the wind
And soon the rock must go
We are the wave,
We are the flow
We are the wind
We are the flow
We are the wave,
We are the flow
We are the wind
And soon the rock must go
We are the wave,
We are the flow
We are the wind
I have no morals
Some think me cheap
And someone who despises
The normalcy of heartbreak
The purity of love
But I worship the young
And just formed angel
Who sits upon the pin of lust
Everything else
Bores me
I want to see your suicide
I want to see you give it up
Your life of reason
I want you on the floor
And in a coffin your soul shaking
I want to have you doubting
Every meaning you've amassed
Like a fortune
Oh throw it away
For worship someone
Who actively despises you
For worship someone
Who actively despises you
I am the root
I am the progress
I'm the aggressor
I am the tablet
I used to laugh when I see dope fiends get beat
Bleedin' all out they head in the middle of the street
Shit, ball fights would go on in the park
And like vampires niggas come out in the dark
Freaks sell dope for material shit
On the side gold-diggin' for some part-time dick
O.G. nigga's turn into alcoholics
What you think about it fool "Nigga I can't call it"
Little kids run around wit' a nose full of buggers
Well my nigga's on the block sell that rocked up shit
Touchin' they gat everytime a fool pass
Quick to put slugs up in a nigga's ass
We say fuck school, we say fuck grades
We rather get paid and snort cocaine on the Ave.
I see some niggas I used to go to school with
(Back at Gal)
They look at me like my face is full of bear shit
They don't even say what's up to a young loc
Just put they hands on they guns inside they coats
But I'm thinkin' to myself I ain't fearin' ya
I remember back when ate in the cafeteria
Huh, but those days are rested
I grab a dime bag of ses, get my change and keep steppin'
To the store for some zig-zags
Every store on my corner is owned by an Araib
But like a bucket I say fuck it I'm drivin'
Grab my dick, spit my shit and keep rhymin'
Cuz some nigga's don't like me, but I don't care
They put they plex on they chest act sick and try to fight me
Yo, but I don't want to bruise ya
I rather take you on tour wit' me nigga then lose ya
Then hit back to the set, roll a seven and eleven
Hit the dice game and then... jet
Them police wanna find me
Because I stand on the corner all day and smoke gunji
And I don't care about jail hoe
I just lift weights let my hair and my nails grow
Beat up on the fags, I did a calendar
Now I'm even sicker on the Ave.
Some niggas say they sucka free
Now why the fuck you motherfuckers keep fucking with me
I love pussy like a motherfucker
But I'll be damned if a fool get me sprung like a clucker
I'm not a motherfuckin animal
You want your pussy ate baby
Find a nigga that's a cannibal (lick lick lick)
And he'll eat your ass up
And while he eatin you I'm on the set making big bucks
Cuz there's money out on the streets (on the Flav.)
And if I didn't have the streets
Then the Dog nigga wouldn't eat
So baby throw that gum
You got your mommy and your daddy
And a nigga for an income
And my niggas on the block, got one income
That's from breakin boulders down to rocks
But we were all born to be dead
Why you wanna wear a vest when nigga's get shot in the head
But a helmet won't work though
Ya get a nine in your ass and watch your dick blow up
Cuz real niggas just multiply
But now days real nigga's just die
Put a bullet in a nigga's ass laugh then jet
Real nigga's smoke buddha hoe
Triple cross a muthafucka then giggle at his funeral
I snort caine with the hard heads
Outta when I sale to make mail from the damn feds
Now I'm about to get high
Hit Kentucky for some chicken then the store for a St. Ide's
Dre Dog creeps solo
Me be wit' hella muthafuckas ah hell no
Cuz I don't worry bout' shit
I'm a pit and pitbulls ain't to be fucked wit'
So I'm back on the block, snortin' caine doin' thangs
Well them young locs just jock
And white folks can't pass
Give up your cash and your bags
Your gun went off.
Well you shot off your mouth and look where it got you.
My mouth runs on too.
Shouts from both sides,
"Well we've got the land but they've got the view!"
Well now here's the clue.
Life it rents us.
And yeah I hope it put plenty on you.
Well I hope mine did too.
As life gets longer, awful feels softer.
Well it feels pretty soft to me.
And if it takes shit to make bliss,
then I feel pretty blissfully.
Your gun went off.
Well you shot off your mouth and look where it got you.
My mouth runs on too.
Shouts from both sides,
"Well we've got the land but they've got the view!"
Well now here's the clue.
We are fixed right where we stand.
Life it rents us.
And yeah I hope it put plenty on you.
Well I hope mine did too.
We are fixed right where we are.
As life gets longer, awful feels softer.
Well if feels pretty soft to me.
And if it takes shit to make bliss,
well I feel pretty blissfully.
For every invention made how much time did we save?
We're not much farther than we were in the cave.
As life gets longer, awful feels softer,
and it feels pretty soft to me.
And if it takes shit to make bliss,
well I feel pretty blissfully.
If life's not beautiful without the pain,
well I'd just rather never ever even see beauty again.
Well as life gets longer, awful feels softer.
And it feels pretty soft to me.
For every good deed done there is a crime committed.
We are fixed.
For every step ahead we could have just been seated.
We are fixed.
As life gets longer, awful feels softer.
Well it feels pretty soft to me.
And if it takes shit to make bliss,
well I feel pretty blissfully.
We are fixed.
We are fixed.
I'm so high
Find me somewhere in the sky
And I know these days just flow by
When you're so high
Head is somewhere in the sky
And you know these days just flow by
When you're so high
Yea, my name is mac miller
And u are now living
The high life
Most dope
Big Jerm I see ya
At night the Baby Brotherhood and the Inter City Crew
Fill their pockets up with calling cards
And paint their faces red white and blue
Then they go out seeking different coloured faces
And anyone else that they can scare
And they salute the foes their fathers fought
By raising their right hands in the air
Oh look how my country's patriots are hunting down below
What do they know of England who only England know
From the stands of the Empire Stadium
Come the heralds of the New Dark Age
With the simplicities of bigotry
And to whom all the world's a stage
These little John Bullshits know that the press
Will glorify their feats
So that the general public fear them
And the authorities say give 'em all seats
And the wasted seed of the bulldog breed
Is shouting here we go
What do they know of England who only England know
Our neighbours shake their heads
And take their valuables inside
While my countrymen piss in the fountains
To express our national pride
And to prove to the world that England
Is just as rotten as she looks
They repeat the lies that caught their eyes
At school in history books
But the wars they think they're fighting
Were all over long ago
What do they know of England who only England know
And the society that spawned them
Just cries out Who's to blame?
And then wraps itself in the Union Jack
And just carries on the same
Oh look out, my country's patriots are hunting down below
What do they know of England who only England know
April night-tyme
And we run like muscles through the stagnant nodes of man
Blood-bridges lean towards the gaping synapses
to disarms the stars within us
Hornet Hive-dark
Severed wings in vainless beating
buzz out from inferno of fangs
to disarms the stars within us
We should have been so much more by now
Too dead inside to even know the guilt
Waning Ring-deep a halo of thorns
Sips now down in the sheets of sharp silver
I am a thief
I am a muderer, walking up this lonely hill
What have I done?
I don't remember, no one knows just how I feel
And I know that my time is comming soon
It's been so long
Oh, such a long time since I've lived with peace and rest
And now I am here
At my destination, I guess things work for the best
And I know that my time is comming soon
Who is this man?
This man beside me
That they call the "King of the Jews"
They don't believe he's the messiah
But somehow I know it's true
They laugh at him in mockery
And beat him till he bleeds
They nail him to the rugged cross and raise him,
Yeah they raise him up next to me
My time has come
I'm slowly fading
I deserve what I've recieved
Jesus when you are in your kingdom,
Could you please remember me
He looks at me still holding on and tears fall from his eyes
He says to me "You tell the truth, today you will live with me in paradise"
And I know that my time is comming soon
And I know that my time is comming soon
I don't want to understand this horror
There's a weight in your eyes that I can't admit
Everybody ends up here in bottles
But the nametags the last thing you wanted
As the world explodes we fall out of it
But we can't let go because this
Will not go away
There's a house built out in space...
I can't see that thief that lives inside of your head
But I can be some courage at the side of your bed
I don't know whats happening and I won't pretend
But I can be your...
Someone help us understand who ordered
This disgusting arrangement with time and the end
I don't want to hear who walked on water
love - is what I believe in
and freedom is what I need
but why do I suffer from love
and why am I not free
the might sleeps in our hearts
we should form it with our hands
there won't be help from anyone
just you and me
purity and hope
the ability to love
and curiosity
are our strong sides
self-hate and greed
are our weaknesses
spirit always was there
or it evoluted to the point
where we are now
but its origin is not of importance
we don`t use it anyway
you're wasting time
following lies
break the chains of slavery
you're wasting time
following lies
break the chains of slavery
a devil does not exist
it's just a metaphor for
giving free rein to our animal instincts
while a full acceptance of these feelings
opens a door to another level
in which harming even the freedom
of another person turns into nonsense
the growth rate of humanity
could be an indication of our origin
made to survive - at all costs
this may be a cultural effect
but it's somehow corresponding
to the behavior of bacteria
unlike other mammals
we are living without the ability
to produce vitamin c
so - should we save the plants ?
you're wasting time
following lies
break the chains of slavery
you're wasting time
following lies
break the chains of slavery
perhaps we'll evoke the first
synthetic form of life on our planet
and maybe that's all we are here for
but nature spreads everywhere
will we bring life to other planets ?
is this the plan of nature ?
the freedom of choice
seems not to be wanted
because what we can do
we will do
but should we ?
this question is not really asked
and even if the answer is no
we will do it
you're wasting time
following lies
break the chains of slavery
you're wasting time
following lies
break the chains of slavery
and if art is a way
to transport feelings and thoughts
from here into the future
then I hope that future generations
will judge our electronical middle age
not only for the things we did and will do
but also for the hopes, dreams and love
we felt within us
Someone fell across me
Regretting their honesty
Shook away their cautious care
Looked right through me like I wasn't there
River came to meet me
Relationships can be like water
Deep and shallow the popular bed
Springs to mind my undetected closure
You'll only scratch the surface
If you bounce around like an adult ball
Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's nice up there
Be a lighthouse, don't block out your view
Whispers in a cream cake
Sweet and quiet again tonight
Goodness on a rare stick
Sometimes healthy living should be crushed
Now I search for hours
Rubble kills my fingers looks
I'll only stop when it hurts a lot
My heart is slender, my wooden tambourine's drenched in blues
Redesign your answer
If you're the post then prove you're tall
Oh yeah, oh yeah, we slid around
Polish your window and don't block out your view
Take this daring leap
Wake you've been asleep
Go attack your life
You don't, you won't
No way I say
You didn't, you doesn't
You isn't, you wasn't
You wouldn't, you couldn't
You oughn't, you shouldn't
Love nobody but me
You're mine, not his
You are, you is
I mean it, I seen it
I did it, I done it
I do, you knew
You can't, you shan't
Love nobody but me
That's all, that's it
I ain't jealous of the fellas
That you hang around with
Don't pay no mind
And I'm telling you one more time
You don't, you won't
No way I say
You didn't, you doesn't
You isn't, you wasn't
You wouldn't, you couldn't
You oughn't, you shouldn't
Love nobody but me
That's all, that's right
I ain't waitin', ain't fakin'
No maybes no mights
My heart don't lie
And I'm telling you one more time
You don't, you won't
No way I say
You didn't, you doesn't
You isn't, you wasn't
You wouldn't, you couldn't
You oughn't, you shouldn't
Love nobody but me
You're mine, not his
You are, you is
I mean it, I seen it
I did it, I done it
I do, you know
You can't, you shan't
Love nobody but me
Love nobody but me
You don't, no way
You didn't, you doesn't
You isn't, you wasn't
You couldn't, you wouldn't
Love nobody but me
You're mine, you are
I mean, I seen it
I did it, I done it
You knew you shouldn't
Love nobody but me
Love nobody but me
Love nobody but me
[D.M.C.]
These are the words that I wrote so I hope that ya don't man
I'll never joke about the coke that you're smok-in
Understand you're fuckin up, fuckin up the block
Got shot rocked and that's just where the shit stops
What's the meaning of this? I must be dreaming
Everybody's ?? when I see men dealing
for a rhyme or rope, or a dime of coke
Sometimes I rhyme when I'm crying broke
Many many many records broke laws, broke jaws
A few months ago I had to "Pause"
During that time, me and my man
was chilling on the corner with a quart in our hands
A beef broke out, at Soul Kitchen spot
It was crazy Baby Pop, someone got shot
I seen him drop - then came the cops
Sayin, "Nobody run - everybody stop"
I wanted to run, cause I was carryin my gun
Darryl Mack packin mine, strapped with my nine
Everyone on the wall, that's what the cop said
Everyone complied, except Bald Dread, he said,
"Blood claat boi me nah hafa deal wit dat
Yo I'm a superstar for de world dem call 'im Darryl Mack"
I turned around and said, "Word up cop!"
He said, "D.M.C., take your ass down the block"
If it happened to him, it could happen to you
cause that's what's happenin on The Avenue
when I.. "uhh, uhh uhh, uhh.. uhh.."
"Na-na-na-na-na! The Ave."
[Run]
Now on The Ave. (what?) people steal and they dealin away
I got the feelin the illin will never ever pay
Cause on the street, you're never in the fast lane
You go to jail or get a bullet in your brain
People laugh and smile at a stick-up
A young man in a rut, shakin a big cup
People pass his ass and say, "Tough luck"
To waste time for a dime is cold fucked up
A loud shot in the air - not rare
A brother fell to the ground, nobody cares
You ask why, the baby cry, a man laugh
Nobody give a damn, that's how they livin on The Ave.
... AUUUGH!
[D.M.C.]
Away from The Ave. they have what's called the backstreets
Another world of girls that crawl the backseats
Systems that are kickin, sinkin many black beats
(This and that goin on ?? street)
I remember the time there was a jam in ??
??, the music, no ?? til after dark
That's when the shit starts happening
(Brother from The Ave. this and that again)
Body move in the back and a quarter in the jar
Find the rules by the basketball court in the park
And the ? by the bench where the 40 dogs spark
The crowd crowds around like they found Noah's Ark
The young, hung, and swung on a swing
Glidin and slidin and ride the ding-a-ling
I didn't see a kid by the see, so he saw
(Near the monkey bars, funky cars we adore)
I'm throwin fate to the gate ??
(And my man from Japan got vicked for sure)
Do me a favor when you roll with your crew
Waste a smile, waste an afternoon, waste a while just waiting.
Watch the thief follow the aftermath, wasting time just hanging round.
Waste an hour, watch the shadows rolling, watch the thief go walking by.
I'm sure theres always going to be foot marks and fingerprints.
I'm sure there's always going to be thieves and liars, robbers and cheats.
I'm sure there's always going to be eyes in the darkness.
I'm sure there's always going to be thieves and liars.
From me to you.
The Ocean chooses to arrive
Coming without warning
Devastation
Destruction is brutal and indiscriminate
Suddenly the water from the sea rises up
And chaos erupts
Inundation
Destruction is brutal and indiscriminate
This is the wave's long reach
Dead exceed 250.000
And many missing people
Annihilation
Destruction is brutal and indiscriminate
This is the wave's long reach
Quake-spawned waves sweep all in their path
Washing..... lives away
Swimming with the death
Flying without hope
Chaos erupts
(Words Willcox / Music Bogen/Spalding)
In every waking hour I miss you
In my dreams I never kiss you
And in the shadows creatures want to hurt you
But in love and war I'll never desert you
And I breathe white fire in anger
I breathe white fire in anger
In every waking hour I miss you
In my dreams I never kiss you
And somewhere on another star a man holds his brother
Looking at the faded scars of their land
And he wonders if another planet has survived man
And I breathe white fire in anger
I breathe white fire in anger
In every waking hour I miss you
In my dreams I never kiss you
And in the shadows creatures want to hurt you
But in love and war I'll never desert you
I'll never desert you
I'll never desert you
And somewhere on another star a man holds his brother
And he loved him, he loved him
Like he loved no other
ALL the above are copyright (c) 1983 Sweet'n'Sour Songs Ltd.
Songs part written by (Simon) Darlow are also (C) 1983 Perfect songs Ltd
In your house is a room I avoid
Full of junk and broken toys
In my house...
In my house
Ideas grow and levitate
In your house
Is a voice I obey
And I can touch the sky
I can feel freedom
I can taste purity
I cast off chains
To put them on again.
In your house
Time expands and touches on experience
In my house
There is a roof I reach through deceiptive means
To see the view
And I can touch the sky
I can feel freedom
I can taste purity
I cast off chains
To put them on again.
And I can touch the sky
I can feel freedom
I can taste purity
I cast off chains
To put them on again
Waiting's over
Feel it in my blood
And in my veins
All the pleasure and the pain
Is coming back again
Shine a little shine on me
From within I know that
Life's making me a make believe ...
Like a little devotion
Hidden somewhere
Like a thief is waiting for the night
Like a precious emotion
Cautious somehow
Like a thief is waiting for the night
Words unspoken
Floating from your mind
Into your brain
All the feelings, all insane
Drives me on again ...
Shine a little shine for me
From within i know that
Turn of events
Where seconds give way to moments
In my mind I lose these faces
Forget these places
Try to find some traces of me
Time is an unseen thief
It steals my thoughts and memories from me
I'm left behind with this apathy so tempting
where minutes don't seem so kind
I find that...
Time comes, and I don't matter
Time numbs, and dreams lay shattered
I stand, and time just passes me by
While the clock on the wall is racing
I fight for shreds of feeling
Inside, time keeps stealing mine
A dreamless dance
Where instance defies existence
In this life we feel confined
We fall behind
To the rhythem of the endless design
Time is a clock in the heart
The seconds pass before they can start
I'm torn apart with this apathy, so empty
Where seconds seem so unkind
I find that...
Time comes, and I don't matter
Time numbs, and dreams lay shattered
I stand, and time just passes me by
While the clock on the wall entraps me
I fight for shreds of feeling
Inside time keeps stealing mine
Time comes
(do I fight against time or a state of mind?)
Time numbs
(when everything's fine in my paradigm)
Time comes
(do I fight against time or a state of mind?)
Time numbs
(when everything's fine in my paradigm)
Time comes
(time never starts and it never ends)
Time numbs
(do I fight against time or do I make amends?)
Time comes, and it won't matter
Time numbs, and dreams lay shattered
I stand, and time just passes me by
While the clock on the wall is raging
I find peace while kneeling
This night I'm just stealing time
My face has never been one to betray me
It lies when i need it to
It sends out a white blinding light in your eyes
'Till i figure out what i'm gonna do
We meet in the kitchen and roll on the floor
And i look in your face for something restoring
And take from you barely enough for a lifetime of
Holding out on you
Holding out on you
I see my storyline within you
And i see the river rise to meet you
'Cause you started you started
Harnessing the wave
My face has never been one to betray me
It lies when i need it to
But lately it seems you been laughing at me
So i guess you're the one i can't fool
I see my storyline within you
And i see the river rise to meet you
And i see my angel kneel to kiss you
Cause you started you started
Harnessing the wave
You started
Verse One You make my skin crawl
You make my eyes sore
You make my nose bleed
You make my cup weep
You're just a common thief, thief to me
You're just a common thief to me, to me, to me
To me, oh, to me
You make my throat sick
You make my words stick
You make my mouth spit
You make my lip rip
You're just a common thief, thief to me
You're just a common thief to me, to me, to me
To me, oh, to me
You're just a common thief, thief to me
You're just a common thief to me, to me, to me
To me, oh, to me
Stole learn outshed
You thief, I thought you were an inject
Reluctant to recognise:
It's over
You want it back, you keep your reason
(I don't want it)
You want it back, you keep your freedom
(I don't want it)
You want it back, you keep you jacket
I don't want it
You want it back, you want it
You want it back
You keep your freedom
Ah...
Shaking and scared
I thought you'd make it easy
I failure to read the sign
that said "it's over"
You want it back, you keep your reason
(I don't want it)
You want it back, you keep your freedom
(I don't want it)
You want it back, you keep you jacket
I don't want it
You want it back, you want it
You want it back
You keep your freedom
Ah...
(Keep talking...)
You want it back, you keep your reason
(I don't want it)
You want it back, you keep your freedom
(I don't want it)
You want it back, you keep you jacket
I don't want it
You want it back, you want it
You want it back
You keep your freedom
Run away, when you see me
Hide in shame, you have no blame.
THIEF, THIEF, THIEF Run away from me
THIEF, THIEF Run away from me!!
Now you think that it passed you
But we're not fucking through
I never forgive, I never forget
A promise in black and blue.
THIEF, THIEF, THIEF
Can you jiggle it, come on, wiggle it
Feelin' funky now, gonna show you how
Can you jiggle it, come on, wiggle it
Girl, get in the groove, let your body move
Can you jiggle it, come on, wiggle it
Feelin' funky now, gonna show you how
Can you jiggle it, come on, wiggle it
Girl, get in the groove, let your body move
The party's jumpin' and the ladies are all looking fine
I've got some money in my pocket, gonna dance tonight
The game is started up everybody's going wild
Don't try to stop it, just relax, enjoy the ride
Throw your hands up in the air
And wave up from side to side
No matter if you're red, yellow, black or white
Get up and just feel the vibe
Can you jiggle it, come on, wiggle it
(Catch the wave)
Feelin' funky now, gonna show you how
(Ride the wave)
Can you jiggle it, come on, wiggle it
(Do the wave)
Girl, get in the groove, let your body move
(Do the wave)
There ain't no stopping, keep it going, gotta keep the flow
Look around you, feel the motion, let yourself go
The wave is blazing hot, can you feel the heat
Once you start moving, just get up out of your seat
Throw your hands up in the air
And wave up from side to side
No matter if you're red, yellow, black or white
Get up and just feel the vibe
Can you jiggle it, come on, wiggle it
(Catch the wave)
Feelin' funky now, gonna show you how
(Ride the wave)
Can you jiggle it, come on, wiggle it
(Do the wave)
Girl, get in the groove, let your body move
(Do the wave)
Throw your hands up in the air
And wave up from side to side
No matter if you're red, yellow, black or white
Get up and just feel the vibe
Can you jiggle it, come on, wiggle it
(Catch the wave)
Feelin' funky now, gonna show you how
(Ride the wave)
Can you jiggle it, come on, wiggle it
(Do the wave)
Girl, get in the groove, let your body move
(Do the wave)
Can you jiggle it, come on, wiggle it
Feelin' funky now, gonna show you how
Can you jiggle it, come on, wiggle it
Girl, get in the groove, let your body move
(Do the wave)
Do the wave, yeah
Do the wave, yeah
Do the wave, yeah
Chorus 2x:
I Gotta say piece to the thieves
Looking over their shoulders when they're walkin down
the street
We’ve got to even out the worlds economy (How we do
that!?)
With a little bit of larceny
Push up five fingers in the air if you're down with
five finger discount
Hold up Embee let me just count, one, two, three,
four... plus some more
Thieves down we're running from the man-made law
If laws make man then I'm not human, run over animal
beat-boxes
Big up people sleepin in boxes in the concrete jungle,
to get my shit in a bundle
No time to make mistakes no time to fumble
You gotta plan your racking-mission with precision
Recognition is no good in this business
Listen, equipment depends on what the situation
requires
You gotta be able to shoplift in any attire
My personal favourite though is my specially designed
jacket
With two big pockets on the inside, summertime means
bad business for petty crimes
Might only wear a t-shirt still have to rack in your
waistline
This great rhyme you heard from the great vine
If they're askin you for names don't you dare to say
mine
Say word, I hear ads tellin me to join the retail-
revolution, fuck that I stick to boastin
All my way out to Dj Erase in Fittja, listen in da
sizzla
Telling the store-owner to tell it some more
Youth man-hungry time to settle the score, that's
why...
Chorus
(time to dress up in our best rackin-clothes) from
Promoe's "Spraycan stories"
(you can catch me in the store rackin up) from Promoe's
"Poor lonesome homeboy"
(I'm just tryin to live and get my cut) from
Looptroop's "Biggest Hustle"
It all started with spraycans defacing the community
A can is ten or fifteen bucks they wanna ruin me
If somebody sues me after this song I'll laugh
You ain't got shit on my ass, not even half
To steal, you gotta have nerves of cold steel
Gotta know when to move, gotta know when to hold still
You know chill wait for the right moment
Gotta learn to separate the cool ones from the
informants
With the store-owners you don't want eye contact
In the worst case you might have to put the stuff back
Fuck that, it's kind of rough to rack
But Im'a keep use of my hands 'til they cuff them back
Stop my shirt in my pants and strap the belt tight
Big coat on top of that fill my back with all I might
Hopefully I'm alright no alarms I beg
If everything else fails I got a good pair of legs
You heard that in spraycan stories but here's another
Nothing spectacular, a daily operation
We went inside the store, rather big mall
Rolls of films, batteries, spraycans I took it all
Headin' for the exit but something wasn't right
So I turned to my man and was like:
Let's drop this shit, it ain't worth the risk
What do you know they called the coppers that later
came to frisk
Us, but now we had nothing on us
They press charges but they got nothing on us
Still, shit like this might make me a bit shaky
But at the end of the day I gotta say peace
Chorus
(and go shoplifting x4)
(time to dress up in our best rackin-clothes)
(you can catch me in the store rackin up)
(I'm just tryin to live and get my cut)
One more story I don't hesitate to glorify
Rule number one: you gotta learn how to lie
Deny everything 'cause the best evidence
Actually comes from your own statements so,
Stick to friends with the same mind frame
Or they might rat you out and you take the whole blame
Like me, got busted when I was just a minor
Two cases of liquor the kids I rolled with was vagina
They dropped the dime and I had no experience
Cried after the hearing though they had no evidence
But ever since that only once I got caught
Running from cops instead of playing sports
That ain't something I'm proud of that's just something
I do
I don't really have to justify my actions to you
But go ahead cast the first stone
Then when your glasshouse has shattered leave me alone
But check it, I take from the rich give to myself
To me it's property, that's the greatest theft
Cause I don't rack up and stack up in a big warehouse
Trying to make a profit sellin in out
I just take what I need to make it through the week
But it don't matter what I say so I won't speak no
more,
Trying to convince you of my innocence
I'll just stick to being a thief.. Forgive my sins
I be a patient man waiting for the rain to come down
My feet touch the ground but my head's in the clouds
I be Prometheus Brown stealing the fire out of heaven
The setting is several city blocks off the 71 stop
I walk about the district, distracted by
The decadent madness of all the undergraduate addicts
Club rats, heads, space cadets and pragmatics
One of the few places that they coexist on the planet
Whatever happened to the avenue before the summer of 2002
Lounging with crew on 42nd
My how time flies when we're waiting for the chariot
Eating vegan sandwiches with cannabis subtracting our sobriety
Pondering society itself
He's eyeing me like I ain't going to bring it to his health
He don't want it, 'cause certainly he knows he's just another
Sucker without his fraternity brothers to back him up
[Chorus: x2]
Campus Parkway up to 41st 42nd 43rd 45th and up to 47th
To the edge of the bubble, all delinquents they laugh, saying
Fuck class, get your education on The Ave
I be a patient man, waiting and checking for the sound
Of potential break records up at Second Time Around
In fact, we made this track from a sample we jacked,
From some vinyl we dug up out of the crates on The Ave
Rats escape the lab infestations in all
There be cracks on the sidewalk made from the fall
A natty dreadlock strumming on his broken guitar
Singing Babylon Fall outside of the bookstore
I purchased a journal in which the verses I recite, reside
I write vividly to capture the vibe
I'm like "Hey kid, walk straight, master your high
If you listen you can hear the eye of the city cry"
The sound is often drowned by hollering scholars
Intoxicated so save it for the coffee shop philosophers
The so-called artists, the poets and the prophets
Scenery is changing, and nobody can stop it
Who'dja drag around my door
If I keep it cracked they won't be there no more
And who'dja leave along the way
Leave 'em there and don't come back today
Now who's the one that treats you right
Yeah, leave 'em there and don't come back to fight
Now who's the lad that wants to be
It never was and it just can't be me
My luck is wasted
I'm on the run somewhere
My luck is wasted
I'm on the run somewhere
Throw the rocks and break the glass
I'll get down on my knees and kiss your ass
'Cause you're the one that be in my dreams
It never was and isn't what it seems
My luck is wasted
I'm on the run somewhere
My luck is wasted
I'm on the run somewhere
Now who's the dragon at my door
Well I shot it now, it don't come back no more
Gonna fire up someday
My luck is wasted
I'm on the run somewhere
Feel my hand wrapped around
My luck is wasted
Just so you know if it were up to me I would be living the high life
But for now I'm taking steps in the wrong direction just to get by
So take it or leave it
This ones for you, you know who you are
Please leave well enough alone
Just because I'm not smiling doesn't mean I'm about to go
Don't pick me up I'm fine right where I am
I'm going to leave this town tonight
And fall asleep til the sun rise
Cause I got to change my life
What did this to you?
I don't need to be told twice
I'd be willing to give my life just to say goodbye
What did this to you?
Please leave well enough alone
Just because I'm not smiling doesn't mean I'm about to go
Don't pick me up I'm fine right where I am
So many things could have made me this way I don't regret a single day
This is what I was made for, was made for, was made for!
Just like you did before me I will follow sound
I plan on being everything you were to what are you
I know you didn't live long I cannot promise I will to
I'm saying everything I can as a tribute!
I'm going to leave this town tonight
And fall asleep til the sun rise
Cause I've got to change my life
What did this to you?
I don't need to be told twice
I'd be willing to give my life just to say goodbye
What did this to you?
You made me who I am today
A line so fine you wonder which way you should fall.
In time you'll find the comforts here behind the wall.
I live to give the point of view you need to show.
Come here my dears', I'll teach you all you need too.
The Hive
My mind designed to contemplate your every call.
My brain the same don't worry babe I've seen it all.
I've got a ticket to peoples land, where the Gods decide.
Come and take my hand.
I got a picture that bares your names,
Crush the hive, I've shown you who too.
Blame,
The Hive.
You've said enough, I've said too much.
You've said enough, I've said too much.
Time won't heal the damage done,
atrocities lay half as hung.
The door is open, walk on in apologies for lesser things.
I don't care if you don't like me
I don't care if I don't groove
All I need is some timing
Then I'm on the move
I'm gonna cross my ocean
I'm gonna explore my sea
I've been ready for ages
Waves of doubt killing me
I've been holding myself on the line
I've been trying to by me some time
I've been waiting
I'm still waiting
And I'm tired of fighting
I'm tired of standing alone
Standing alone at the platform
To see the last train go
And I explain my excuses
Until the ocean turns red
I've been ready for ages
The tide was all in my head
I've been holding myself on the line
I've been trying to by me some time
I've been waiting
[Swallow]
I always preyed that you would come to save me
I believe You've returned for us at last
[Swallow, Brat & Poor Baby]
We'll give you shelter from the storms and the world outside
You'll be safe, this vow we make to you
We'll never tell, this vow we make to you
I could make a promise to you,
But that would be too easy to do.
You see I've made them before,
And broken them and they're no good anymore.
So I'll dig a little bit deeper,
Give you something you can keep
I will make a vow to you,
And it will never change no matter what I do.
Right here, right now,
In the midst of the crowd,
I stand alone and make my vow.
Whatever it takes I will be faithful
This is my vow.
As the words fall from my lips,
We both know the life I live,
How I stumble and fall,
How many times I land short of the call.
I will confess my inadequacy,
Throw myself into the mystery.
That somehow in the deoth of your love,
You will help me do what I'm not capable of.
Right here, right now,
In the midst of the crowd,
I stand alone and make my vow.
Whatever it takes I will be faithful.
Right here, right now,
Let there be no doubt.
Let every whisper, with every shout,
Let the whole world know I will be faithful,
don't look at me...don't call me
with your worthless words
my voice is lost from all the screaming before
circuits and pens...they couldn't change a thing
your apology is so long overdue
i crumbled eighteen years
I used to laugh when I see dope fiends get beat
Bleedin' all out they head in the middle of the street
Shit, ball fights would go on in the park
And like vampires niggas come out in the dark
Freaks sell dope for material shit
On the side gold-diggin' for some part-time dick
O.G. nigga's turn into alcoholics
What you think about it fool "Nigga I can't call it"
Little kids run around wit' a nose full of buggers
Well my nigga's on the block sell that rocked up shit
Touchin' they gat everytime a fool pass
Quick to put slugs up in a nigga's ass
We say fuck school, we say fuck grades
We rather get paid and snort cocaine on the Ave.
I see some niggas I used to go to school with
(Back at Gal)
They look at me like my face is full of bear shit
They don't even say whats up to a young loc
Just put they hands on they guns inside they coats
But I'm thinkin' to myself I ain't fearin' ya
I remember back when ate in the cafeteria
Huh, but those days are rested
I grab a dime bag of ses, get my change and keep steppin'
To the store for some zig-zags
Every store on my corner is owned by an Araib
But like a bucket I say fuck it I'm drivin'
Grab my dick, spit my shit and keep rhymin'
Cuz some nigga's don't like me, but I don't care
They put they plex on they chest act sick and try to fight me
Yo, but I don't want to bruise ya
I rather take you on tour wit' me nigga then lose ya
Then hit back to the set, roll a seven and eleven
Hit the dice game and then... jet
Them police wanna find me
Because I stand on the corner all day and smoke gunji
And I don't care about jail hoe
I just lift weights let my hair and my nails grow
Beat up on the fags, I did a calendar
Now I'm even sicker on the Ave.
Some niggas say they sucka free
Now why the fuck you motherfuckers keep fucking with me
I love pussy like a motherfucker
But I'll be damned if a fool get me sprung like a clucker
I'm not a motherfuckin animal
You want your pussy ate baby
find a nigga that's a cannibal (lick lick lick)
And he'll eat your ass up
And while he eatin you I'm on the set making big bucks
Cuz there's money out on the streets (on the Flav.)
And if I didn't have the streets
then the Dog nigga wouldn't eat
So baby throw that gum
You got your mommy and your daddy
and a nigga for an income
And my niggas on the block, got one income
that's from breakin boulders down to rocks
But we were all born to be dead
Why you wanna wear a vest when nigga's get shot in the head
But a helmet won't work though
Ya get a nine in your ass and watch your dick blow up
Cuz real niggas just multiply
But now days real nigga's just die
Put a bullet in a nigga's ass laugh then jet
Real nigga's smoke buddha hoe
Triple cross a muthafucka then giggle at his funeral
I snort caine with the hard heads
Outta when I sale to make mail from the damn feds
Now I'm about to get high
Hit Kentucky for some chicken then the store for a St. Ide's
Dre Dog creeps solo
Me be wit' hella muthafuckas ah hell no
Cuz I don't worry bout' shit
I'm a pit and pitbulls ain't to be fucked wit'
So I'm back on the block, snortin' caine doin' thangs
Well them young locs just jock
And white folks can't pass
Give up your cash and your bags
Here's a little song that I wrote the other night,
In a little beer hall down on the corner.
It's about one of my favorite people...he he he
I've got a girl who'll love me more than life
I've got a girl who'll love me more than life
I've got a girl who's closer than a brother
She's my little young un's mother, she's the wife
Well, drink up, boys
Let's have a little toast to the queenie of our life
You can't do with 'em and you can't do without 'em
So here's to the wife
Army stories and navy jokes sound trite
Army stories and navy jokes sound trite
Navy jokes can't make me laugh
'Cause in my wallet there's a photograph of the wife
Well, drink up, boys
Let's have a little toast to the queenie of our life
You can't do with 'em and you can't do without 'em
So here's to the wife
Wine and women and song, that's alright
Yeah, Wine and women and song, that's alright
Well, it's alright when you're single and free
But you're in trouble if you're like me and got the wife
Well, drink up, boys
Let's have a little toast to the queenie of our life
You can't do with 'em and you can't do without 'em
We walked alone determind.
Our heart used to feel the same.
The view is perfect when im with you
When the views so perfect, we know what to do.
I will not come to be decieved.
I will not come to be decieved.
So please be paitient im only yours,
Please be paitient! Im only yours.
Tell your friends, that im amazed
Everytime were together darling
And tell your friends that im amazed
Everytime were together darling
I will not be a part of this,
I'll not be a part of this.
So please be paitient im only yours,
Please be paitient, im only yours.
I'm not be a part of this,
I'm not being part of this.
Tell your friends, that im amazed,
Everytime were together darling.
And tell your friends that im amazed,
Everytime were together darling.
Tell your friends, that im amazed,
Everytime were together darling.
And tell your friends that im amazed,
Look the other way. I am not responsible for youe king.
Look the otehr way. I have a feeling things only get worse from here.
Right here is exactly where I've been. I didn't try, I think I've accidentally found myself. they didn't tell me what to think. they showed me how.
Look the other way. I have a feeling things only get worse from here.
Perception of reality is your greatest tool to change the world.
Helpless, is exactly how you feel. none of this was important on the day that you were born.
Look the other way. I have a feeling things only get worse form here.
Look the other way. I am not responsible for your king.
Ashes to ashes and ego to ego and dust to dust.
Ashes to ashes and ego to ego and dust to dust.
Ashes to ashes and ego to ego and dust to dust.
Look the other wya. I am not responsible for your king.
Look the other way. I have a feeling things only get worse from here.
Your gun went off.
Well you shot off your mouth and look where it got you.
My mouth runs on too.
Shouts from both sides,
"Well we've got the land but they've got the view!"
Well now here's the clue.
Life it rents us.
And yeah I hope it put plenty on you.
Well I hope mine did too.
As life gets longer, awful feels softer.
Well it feels pretty soft to me.
And if it takes shit to make bliss,
then I feel pretty blissfully.
Your gun went off.
Well you shot off your mouth and look where it got you.
My mouth runs on too.
Shouts from both sides,
"Well we've got the land but they've got the view!"
Well now here's the clue.
We are fixed right where we stand.
Life it rents us.
And yeah I hope it put plenty on you.
Well I hope mine did too.
We are fixed right where we are.
As life gets longer, awful feels softer.
Well if feels pretty soft to me.
And if it takes shit to make bliss,
well I feel pretty blissfully.
For every invention made how much time did we save?
We're not much farther than we were in the cave.
As life gets longer, awful feels softer,
and it feels pretty soft to me.
And if it takes shit to make bliss,
well I feel pretty blissfully.
If life's not beautiful without the pain,
well I'd just rather never ever even see beauty again.
Well as life gets longer, awful feels softer.
And it feels pretty soft to me.
For every good deed done there is a crime committed.
We are fixed.
For every step ahead we could have just been seated.
We are fixed.
As life gets longer, awful feels softer.
Well it feels pretty soft to me.
And if it takes shit to make bliss,
well I feel pretty blissfully.
We are fixed.
We are fixed.
We are fixed right where we stand.
In the house, in the heavy rain
The police are gettin' heavy again
As the heavies on the door
The place is heavin'
Move on the floor
I got to shake off this heavy feelin'
Heavy damage
A low low ceilin'
I get the works from some sweaty Kevin
He is my brother
And he is heavy
Yeah, it's gonna be a heavy nite
There's somethin' happenin'
And it's not light
Try to hold it back
with all your might
But this is gonna be heavy nite
Heavy work, but someone's got to do it
About this time I like to move it move it
The bass is heavy man
I'm feelin' great
Don't fuck with me 'cos I'm a heavy weight
Heavy duty 'n' heavy metal
Heavy feel, you gotta let it settle
Heavy users never go to heaven
Jesus Christ it's only half-eleven!
This is gonna be a heavy nite
I've seen the future
and it's not bright
Try and hold it back
with all your might
But this is gonna be a heavy nite
So let's get heavyyy...
Yeah, let's get heavyyy...
'Cos this is gonna be a heavy nite
There's something happenin'
And it's not light
You try to move back
with all your might
But this is gonna be a heavy nite
Yeah this is gonna be a heavy nite
I've seen the future
and it's not light
You try to hold it back
with all your might
A sad smile
And I fall in this dark ocean
I'm not scared
I don't see the black wave crashing
I want to sing anymore
The beauty of dreams
I want to sing anymore
The light of my eyes is falling
(music by Prince of Agony)
I even see you when my eyes are closed
The television screen when everything must go
I dreamt this coming when I saw the wave
I dreamt that everything we built was swept away
And all of England made the sound
And it all got swept away
And all the idiots say (And it all got swept away)
And it’s underneath the wave (And it all got swept away)
And it all got swept away (3x)
underneath the wave
And all the bottles at the beach washed out
I dreamt of plastic ones of colored painted cups
And felt as hollow as an empty can
I wanna wake up, but I just don’t think I can
And, oh, my heart is filling up
And it all got swept away
And all the innocence (All got swept away)
underneath the wave (And it all got swept away)
And it’s underneath the wave
And it all got swept away (3x)
underneath the wave
You and I just holding hands
As the wave takes back the land
Hold me closer and I will wait
don’t let go
Cause everything must go
And it all got swept away
And all the idiots say (And it all got swept away)
And it’s underneath the wave (and it all got swept away)
And it all got swept away (3x)
When love is coming in, it's cut in half,
Can we keep it going on and on
I wanna' get it when I got it, when the tide is coming on
Caught up in the middle of it all
I gotta get it when I get it
It's not lasting very long
Cause I like the way she turns me on
But better when she leave her mind outside the door
When she leaves her mind outside the door,
It's better when she leaves it lying on the floor
Don't you wanna come and get at what I got
If you really wanna get it we can split my heart in half
Any money you'll be wishing on a star
If you really are for really we can make it ever long
Cause I like the way her eyes like mine
Doesn't matter if they rain or summer shine
All that matters is they're crying for me
(CHORUS)
This could be the start,
The start of something new
A hydrated mind or like a well lit view,
I see it all in you,
Can we keep it going on and on
The only lover that I ever wanted is phenomenal
They only love you when your mind is calm you gotta' get 'em when they hurting fuck the fame that comes along
Cause I like the way she turns me on,
But better when she leaves her mind outside the door.
When she leaves her mind outside the door,
It's better when she leaves it lying on the floor.
It's always missing til I get at what I got
If you really want your woman you should play your favourite card
Paint a picture of your bitch up in the stars
If she really is ya Mrs. she gon' play the queen of hearts
I always feel like love is on my side
I'm moving with the flow and the crazy summer tide
Don't you wanna live the high life with me?
