Sweet sixteen in leather boots
Body and soul I go crazy
Baby baby I'm hungry
Sweet sixteen
Funky bar all full of faces
Pretty faces beautiful faces
Body and soul
Body and soul
I give to you
I'm an easy mark
With my broken heart
Sweet sixteen
Show you my explosion
Sweet sixteen
Go out to the funky bar
I get hurt - crying inside
'Cause
Everybody's so fine and - and they
Don't need me
Tell me what can I do -
Sweet sixteen
I give you my body and soul
Sweet sixteen
I must be hungry
'Cause I go crazy
Over your leather boots
Now baby I know
That's not normal
But I love you
I love you
I love you
Sweet sixteen
Try to purify
The well of dirty lies
Overflown with deadly sins
An attempt to pacify
With orders to comply
A calm breeze before it all begins
Often wonder why they don't realize
Why they think I'm in their way
Leave my throne behind
Take on my empty shadows
As I finally, finally fall from grace
A society without grief
Sweep the dirt under your rug, you're on your drug
And then it hits me
It's paregoric in my head, I'm all doped-up
And just a baby
Doing just fine
You're making up your mind at sixteen
I'm all grown up and what I know
It isn't from your mouth
And now I'm confused 'cuz you don't talk
Or wonder what I think
I'm standing here and still I cannot hear you
My passion's locked inside me, divulging your imperative
For during, though it's easy, a hundred years of therapy
Thanks, thanks anyway, I'll soon be leaving
When 16 ain't enough...
It's funny niggas, it's been on my mind lately
Having a dope beat, dope idea...
16 bars ain't enough!
How the fuck can I squeeze my whole life into a 16 bar verse?
So many different levels
I know y'all gonna feel me on this one...
It's funny how things change, funny how time fly
More than my feet drivin' me, more that I feel fly
More that I make now, the more that the chicks smile
She call me a local nigga, I opened a Swiss account
Eisenhower status Etta James on the dash
John Coltrane cruising in the Cadillac Seville
Feel my life on the real
We the Lost Boys so this is a world premiere
Rolling like Mick Jagger, the women just getting badder
All I see is the money, cream, Eric Clapton
And all I wanted was 1 16... ain't enough
Talking that fast money 15 every month
When people live poor, that motivated me more
Everything I ever wore was once worn before
Roll with the punches like it's box office numbers
Dressed like Sammy Davis
Steamin' my marijuana
Double MMGs, double M keys
We in every hood, nigga: government cheese
Yacht to Yacht? Old Dirty Bastard
Floor seat for the Heat paper that I'm stackin
Better put away a penny for the rainy days
? like Scottie Pippen
Started with a scribble, now I'm flowing like a river
She say my heart cold I'm naming my son December
Whitney died night before the Grammys – damn, what a memory
Trump Towers and I started with a 10 speed
Growing broke had to use a nigga's instincts
Now I get a hundred racks for the 16
Waking up to take you baking you're my thick queen
? I just watch it on the big screen
3 stacks on the feet and it fits me
16 ain't enough...
[Andre 3k]
You know sometimes you got so much to say but...
*16 ain't enough*
They only give you 16, heh...
It's like... You got so much to say
The world has said so much to me, I just wanna give right back to her
But... I only get 16
I really can't say what I wanna say, you know it's just a glimpse
Just a single glimpse
Anyway, this is too much talkin'...
Andre 3k:
Summer '88, or was it '89
Or was it winter-time
Ah, nevermind
I'm in my room, boomin, drawin LL Cool J album covers with crayolas on
Construction paper
I'm trying to fuck my neighbor
I'm tryna hook my waves up
I'm tryna pull my grades up
To get them saddle lace ups
Before Le marc was Jacob
Before them girls wore makeup
Before my voice would break up
Before we'd tour them shake clubs
Before my mama wake up
Before my palms would cake up
Before they told me they love me and we'll never breakup
Before the time she makes love to someone that I was my homeboy
My homeboy, my boy bust, I run now
I don't budge, don't want much
Just a roof and porch
And a porsche, and a horse and unfortunately
But of course an assortment of tortures that scorches the skin when they
Enter
And true? too thirsty
At a lousy job, housing god if he let's lucifer let loose on us
That new song that won't loosen up but loose enough to juice us up
Make us think we do so much and do it big
Like they don't love us man, I can't pretend
But I admit it, it feel good when the hood pseudo-celebrate
Hence why every time we dine we eat until our belly aches
Then go grab the finest wine and drink it like we know which grape and
Which region it came from
As if we can name em, hint hint, it ain't um Welch's
Hell just fell three thousand more degrees cooler
Ya'll can't measure my worth, but when you try
You'll need a ruler made by all the Greek gods
Because the odds have always been stacked against me
The backs against the wall
I feel right at home, y'all sitting right at home
All Kelly green with envy while I'm jelly beans descending
Into the palms of a child, looks up at mama and smiles
You've been a juvenile
With a dolphin smile
With no elbow room
With your body in bloom
You've had your little backyard
Protected by big walls
You didn't dare look over
'Cause you've been too small
Now you're finally sixteen
And you're feeling old
But they won't believe
That you've got a soul
'Cause you're only sixteen
And you're feeling real
But you can't seem to cop a feel
Why do they force us
Through the metamorphose
Little butterfly
No matter how you try
You'll be segragated
You're gonna be closed off
You're callow and you're green
'Cause you're caught between
You're only sixteen
Try to cross the line
But your little wings are intertwined
You're only sixteen
And you're such a tease
And there's nothing you do
That can really please
"These children
They're not really bad most of them
They're just products
Of rotten neighborhoods
And bad family situations"
You know you can forsake it
So sit back and take it
You see you're not just ripe
So don't try and fight that
You're only sixteen
You wanna catch a peek
But they look at you
Like you're such a freak
Well, you're only sixteen
With a lot to say
But they won't give you
The time of day
You're only sixteen!
You're only sixteen!!
You're only sixteen!!!
You know I don't like dancin'
An' I don't like to bop
Too much movement's exertion
Makes me wish I could drop
Dro' dro' dro' dro' dro' dro' drop
An' I don't like french kissin'
Cos you swallow my tongue
And you think that you're oh so very old
You only want me 'cos you think I'm so young
Yo' yo' yo' yo' yo' yo' young
All right
Ok
No way
An' I wish I was sixteen again
Then things would be such fun
All the things I'd do would be the same
But they're much more fun
Than when you're twenty wo' wo' wo' wo' wo' one
All right
Ok
No way
An' I hate modern music
Disco boogie pop
They go on an' on an' on an' on an' on
How I wish they would stop
You've been a juvenile
With a dolphin smile
With no elbow room
You've had in your little backyard
Portected by big walls
You didn't dare look over
'cause you've been too small
Now you're finally sixteen
And you're feelin' old
But they won't believe
That you got a soul
'cause you're only sixteen
And you're feeling real
But you can't seem to cup a feel
Why do they have to force us
Through this metamorphose
Little butterfly
No matter how you try
You'll be segregated
You're gonna be closed off
You're callow and you're green
'cause you're caught between
You're only sixteen
Try to cross the line
But your little wings are interwined
You're only sixteen
And you're such a tease
And there's nothing you can do
That can really please
These children
They're not really bad most of them
They're just products
Of rotten neighborhoods
And bad family situations
You know you can't forsake it
So sit back and take it
You see you're just not ripe
So don't try and fight that
You're only sixteen
You wanna catch a peek
But they look at you
Like you're such a freak
Well you're only sixteen
With a lot to say
But they won't give you
The time of day
You're only sixteen!
You're only sixteen!!
You're just sixteen!!!
Sixteen, oh holy day
Your time has come and passed
The rapture we've been waiting for
Has come to us at last
Sixteen for every fake
Sixteen to every whore
Wipe that dirt from off your face
Sixteen is at your door
Oh, voiceless, wasted
You soaked your heart in gasoline
Now light it up and burn
The same cycle ever-turning you
Is calling, it's calling
The scene is begging for a grave tonight
It always, it always will
You take the name of love divine
And drag it through your blood
Now turn to face what you have made
And mourn what you have done
Oh, voiceless, wasted
You soaked your heart in gasoline
Now light it up and burn
Voiceless, wasted
I came this far to drag you down
And watch you take your turn
The same cycle ever-turning you
Is calling, it's calling
The scene is begging for a grave tonight
It always, it always will
Farewell to false pretension
Farewell to hollow words
Farewell to fake affection
Farewell, tomorrow burns
Farewell to false pretension
Farewell to hollow words
Farewell to fake affection
Farewell, tomorrow burns, burns
The same cycle ever-turning you
Is calling, it's calling
The scene is begging for a grave tonight
It always, it always will
The same cycle ever-turning you
Is calling, it's calling
The scene is begging for a grave tonight
Hey hey hey hey
I saw her at a club
I thought i fell in love
Shes dancing on the stage
She was showing off her legs
I was trying not to flirt but she lifted up her skirt
My eyes popped out of my head.
She came up to me and she kissed me on the cheek
I really really hope that shes over 18
Shes acting kinda young
Shes having too much fun
Her mom couldnt pick her up.
Shes sixteen she wont leave me alone
She knows that I'm way too old
Shes sixteen she wont leave me alone.
She wanted to get busy
She wanted to jiggy
She whispered in my ear
Do I make you horny baby?
I looked into her eyes thats when I realized
I dont wanna go to jail.
I asked for her age and she said shes 23
I looked at her ID dude! shes only 16
So I slapped me in the face cause I'm feelin kinda bad.
I'm old enough to be her dad.
She's sixteen she wont leave me alone she knows that
I'm way too old
So they say I was sometimes cruel
I dont know if I would say that too
Oh I, I don’t know about that
Everyday the sky reminds me still
Yr not here and it always will
Oh I, I don’t know about that
I try my best to play along
Like nothing’s over and no one’s gone
But I, I don’t know about that
I don’t know about that
If I tried harder you’d, still be here
Is it true?
Oh I, I don’t know about that
Just twenty-one and it feels like sixteen
It's the moment of my life, I'm lost in a feeling
It's the season of discovering our best habits
I'm searching for a reason to share my secrets
And we're lost and we want to be found
We'll build it a kiss at a time and it might not fall down
Love is taking what we have, baby, don't let go now
Remember that it's hard because it's worthwhile
Loving isn't always an open doorway
It's giving up your heart in moments of faith
And we're lost and we want to be found
We'll build it a kiss at a time and it might not fall down
Love is in the hands that reach out
Baby, don't waste this chance, 'cause it might not come back, come back around
All this growing up
Lately I feel like I've had enough
Love is where we turn to get us through
I will always turn and follow you
Because we're lost and we want to be found
We'll build it a kiss at a time and it might not fall down
Love is in the hands that reach out
And so far we had someone
That doesn't work for everyone.
But I'm thinking this could be the one,
If we put our minds to it.
And I came round today,
So I had so much to say;
And I know you hate seeing me this way,
But I'm having fun.
You realise, you realise;
It's real life, it's real life.
You realise, you realise;
It's real life, it's real life. (x2)
Trying to prove you're alright;
And losing track of the time.
Even when the Summer's passing by.
And bringing it down to focus;
And try to bring it down but I'm hopeless;
Andwe should write this down, so we can remember it.
And yes there was a time
When we were two of a kind,
but now I can't even remember why.
You realise, you realise;
It's real life, it's real life.
You realise, you realise;
It's real life, it's real life.
Trying to prove you're alright;
And losing track of the time.
Sixteen is on the side.
Don't waste anytime inside.
I had turned sixteen growin' bored with life caught in
between
The things that I was doin', and what I'd never done
before
Those days were pretty much all the same
Drinkin' beer and draggin' main, hopin' somethin' soon
would change
Before I went out of my gourd
I thought she had been around, she's about the age that
I am now
Had moved away from town and come home divorced with a
child
She had hired me on to do the things that no one ther
would care to
At a ranch where rich folks paid to act like cowboys
for awhile
We would stay up late and show them folks their bought
and paid for
Authentic country western Texas honky tonk good time
One night when everyone was gone she played her
favorite Elton John song
And looked at me a way I thought she'd surely lost her
mind
chorus:
But I was almost grown and she was often left alone to
think about whatever women do
And it was nearly right but not near enough to bring to
light,
But where you wonder who was usin' who
We would sneak around, all across that little town
And did our best to hide the secret we hoped everybody
knew
I guess she made me a man, at least the first time when
I thought I was one
Not necessarily within the law, still somethin' sure
seemed true
I don't know the reason wasted youth or football season
Something makes me think about her more now than I
think I did back then
Right before I had left town I had quit coming around
She called to say goodbye, I could hear her cry and I
didn't even care
Let's go to town and switch the magazines
Drink milkshakes until we're sick
Oh oh, it'll be so funny
Oh oh, it'll be so funny
Drop ace drum and bass feat. Hitler and Chairman Mao
If we don't do it now then someone else will
Oh oh, it'll be so funny
Oh oh, it's the power not the money
This scene is the scene to be seen in
Not that the scene is what we'd be seen with
We just wanna be 16 (16) 16 (16)
Even though we're 23
This scene is the scene to be seen in
Not that the scene is what we'd be seen with
We just wanna be 16 (16) 16 (16)
Even though we're 23
Let's meet up at the empire tea-rooms
recite lite poetry causing lite controversy
Oh oh, it'll be so funny
Oh oh and we'll write funny songs about
Boys and Girls and other Boyrs and other Girls
This heartbreaking world where no one understands
Oh oh It'll be so funny
Oh oh it'll be so funny
This scene is the scene to be seen in
Not that the scene is what we'd be seen with
We just wanna be 16 (16) 16 (16)
Even though we're 23
This scene is the scene to be seen in
Not that the scene is what we'd be seen with
We just wanna be 16 (16) 16 (16)
Even though we're 23
This scene is the scene to be seen in
It's the scene that I was made in
I just wanna be 16
Even though I'm 23
This scene is the scene to be seen in
Not that the scene is what we'd be seen with
We just wanna be 16 (16) 16 (16)
Even though we're 23
This scene is the scene to be seen in
Not that the scene is what we'd be seen with
We just wanna be 16 (16) 16 (16)
Even though we're 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29...
And she was no beauty queen
She was in love at just sixteen
With an older boy who hardly knew her name
She would think of him and say
You will be mine some day
But her head was filled with things that could've been
And she was just sixteen
Her head was filled with fairydust and gold
She never did what she was told
But she knew what she wanted from a very young age
Didn't care about a job or give a damn about a wage
She just wanted him
And she wanted him for good
She would do whatever it took, whatever she could
And now she can't stop loving him she never meant to start
But what else can you expect from a foolish heart
And she was no beauty queen
She was in love at just sixteen
With an older boy who hardly knew her name
She would think of him and say
You will be mine some day
But her head was filled with things that could've been
And she was just sixteen
Age is but a number she would say and she'd believe
But four years is way too long to wear your heart on your sleeve
And she thought maybe it's time to move on, it's been too long romance is gone,
Sung is the song and now this feels all wrong
And in a world of advice she feels so small
Someone better tell this girl it's probably not love at all
And she was no beauty queen
She was in love at just sixteen
With an older boy who hardly knew her name
She would think of him and say
You will be mine some day
But her head was filled with things that could've been
And she was just sixteen
Oh no, here she goes again
And she got what she wanted when he returned her love
Everything was cosy he fit her like a glove
She always dreamt of things she never had though she knew that it was wrong
He blinked and she blinked and suddenly thirty years were gone
They remembered all the times that she
Was no beauty queen
She was in love at just sixteen
With an older boy who hardly knew her name
She would think of him and say
You will be mine some day
But her head was filled with things that could've been
I saw her dancin with the devil
And he was wearing my shoe
Black and white Jordan leathers
And she was looking for abuse
Now she looked just like heaven
But her mind reeked of hell
Now I know I shouldn't be telling
But I guess I guess if you know her well
She's the kind of girl
She can believe me when I say, she can
She's already ready there, and already there.
Now what the devil want
Believe the devil gonna get
He gonna stretch her out
Like a tape in a cassette
And when you see these kinda girls
They all look big as fun (???)
But the devil know the devil know
There is only one thing tonight she gonna suck
Cuz she wont no she cant
Believe me when I say
She cant
She's already there
She's already there
We got sixteen year olds acting like they forty year
olds
Yo we need to do it and we need to re-clense the souls
I have an idea, lets take rich style high tronic system
and we crush em out
Cuz she wont she cant
Believe me when I say
She's already there
Get it well you can
It s time for this man to become sophisticated
Become all I hated
When I was sixteen years old
On the street tonight
Feel the colours shining bright and complicated
Everything I hated
When I was sixteen years old
Everyday
See my innocence
Just fading away
All the black and white
It turns into grey
Oh what more can I say?
Say just what you mean
Mean just what you say
For a day
It s not the same thing for
Hermit or king
Who's no longer sixteen years old
Everyday
See my innocence
Just fading away
All the black and white
It turns into grey
Oh what more can I say?
She was an only child
I was a lonely child
My god strike me blind
Cut out my tongue
So i can t say what I've done
Just like Leonard used to say
"I ache in all the places
That i used to play in"
And my patience is thin
Everywhere I go I see people that I know from my school They're working on a way to hurry up the day they will be Far away from home, living on their own Throwing out the tired and the true Racing through an age, they're quick to turn the page Cause growing up is hard to do at:
(Chorus) Sixteen, going on twenty-five Sixteen, going on twenty-five
Jodi was the one that every mother's son was after She really knew her stuff, but played a little rough for the boys So Jodi met a man, promised him her hand But never really gave him her heart Barely sixteen, she knows what it means Cause growing up is oh so hard to do at:
(Chorus)
Everytime I pray I see people that I know in high school I'm praying for the day that you will find the way to believe Jesus is the love you've been dreamng of Making you completely new I really gotta say that Jesus can replace The innocence life took from you at:
A los diéciseis
yo sabía lo que iba a ser
y ahí estabas tú y yo
sentados en el banco del amor.
A los diéciseis
presentía que te iba a ver
y ahí estabas tú y yo
flotando entre nubes de vapor.
A los diéciseis
yo sabía donde iba a ir
y ahí estabas tú y yo
jugando con las flores del balcón.
Tú y yo, perdidos
en el abismo del amor
y tu papá llegó entre los dos
y todo fue así a los diéciseis.
Tú y yo, sentados
en la explosión del amor
y tu papá llegó entre los dos
y todo fue así a los diéciseis.
A los diéciseis
yo sabía lo que iba a ser
y ahí estabas tú y yo
sentados en el banco del amor.
A los diéciseis
presentía que te iba a ver
y ahí estabas tú y yo
flotando entre nubes de vapor.
Tú y yo, perdidos
en el abismo del amor
y tu papá llegó entre los dos
y todo fue así a los diéciseis.
Tú y yo, sentados
en la explosión del amor
y tu papá llegó entre los dos
y todo fue así a los diéciseis.
Tú (tú) tú (tú) tú (tú) tú (tú)
Yo (yo) yo (yo) yo (yo) yo (yo)
I'm in a tight spot
Wondering whether or not,
You still recall me,
Or is it just plain to see,
That this is our last goodbye,
A final fare thee well,
The night before we die...
Slowly I begin to see,
That growing old is meant to be,
But still I find it hard to deal
And with the fact that these days are gone,
Oh sweet sixteen you're lost and gone forever;
1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15 Sixteen
My back is aching,
My ears have started to ring,
And I wake up grumpy every morning,
I'm not what I used to be,
A Duracel kanin,
That's energy in Swedish;
1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15 Sixteen
I can't read sin for what it's like
Hold inside this silence, the odds are never fair
And for all I've tried
The names were stacked against it, amnesia never can
Well, for the meantime, I'll hose it down
And though it needs it, you'll still remain
An electric slave, an invisible name
Eludes this search, navigates these struts
And electric stairs, and this arctic haze
Will never prepare, will never prepare
For slow arms, enervated nerves
And a cross-stitched face that spits your one true name
Maybe I'm scared and I'll slight your enemies
Smite your enemies down
But this one track mind will only find
Can only find and Sepiata knew
That maybe I'm scared
One, two, three, four, five
Six, seven, eight, nine, ten
One, two, three, four, five
Six, seven, eight, nine, ten
One, two, three, four, five
Six, seven, eight, nine, ten
One, two, three, four, five
Six, seven, eight, nine, ten
One, two, three, four, five
Six, seven, eight, nine, ten
One, two, three, four, five
Six, seven, eight, nine, ten
And as quick as lightning
The ancient flesh was reconstructed
Cigarette burns and all, angina calls
And the fearless pressure, and the threat of litigation
Reconstructed, cigarette burns and all, a lucky all
In the meanwhile watch your keystone falling
Cigarette burns and all, a lucky all
One, two, three, four
One, two, three, four, five
Six, seven, eight, nine, ten
One, two, three, four
One, two, three, four, five
Six, seven, eight, nine, ten
Lease your car but don't avoid the celebration comet
Lease your car but don't avoid the celebration comet
Slice your camel back and know in the meantime
Lease your car but don't avoid the celebration comet
Slice your camel back and know in the meantime
One, two, three, four
Lease your car but don't avoid the celebration comet
Give me a wall, bury that wall and lose control
Lease your car but don't avoid the celebration comet
Trying to find a wall to look at you all
Lease your car but don't avoid the celebration comet
Trying to find a wall to look at you all
One, two, three, four