• Lyrics: play full screen play karaoke
• Catch 22 - Yngwie Malmsteen
• Catch 22 - Pink
• Catch 22 - Erasure
• Catch 22 - Haunted
• Catch 22 - Terri Clark
• Catch 22 - Sammie
• Catch 22 - Billy Squier
• Catch 22 - Cross Movement
• Catch 22 - DJ Quik
• Catch 22 - Raheem Devaughn
• Catch 22 - 69 Boyz
• Catch 22 - Goapele
• Catch 22 - Pothead
• Catch 22 - Anti-heros
• Where Darkness Is Divine - Catch 22
• To Be Continued... - Catch 22
• Spark - Catch 22
• Lemont's Lament - Catch 22
• Straight Forward - Catch 22
• Betrayal Of The Masses - Catch 22
• Opportunity - Catch 22
• Chin Up - Catch 22
• Darkest Of My Days - Catch 22
• Regression - Catch 22
• Dreams Of Venus - Catch 22
• Sincerely Yours - Catch 22
• Sick And Sad - Catch 22
• Shoebox In My Closet - Catch 22
• Dear Sergio - Catch 22
• Day In Day Out - Catch 22
• This One Goes Out To... - Catch 22
• Leaving - Catch 22
• Wreck Of The Sloop John B - Catch 22
• What Goes Around Comes Around - Catch 22
• Walking Away - Catch 22
• Thinking About Things (I Think Too Much) - Catch 22
• Super Nothing - Catch 22
• Sounds Good, But I Don't Know - Catch 22
• San Francisco Payphone - Catch 22
• Giving Up, Giving In - Catch 22
• Point The Blame - Catch 22
• ONE LOVE - Catch 22
• On & On & On - Catch 22
• No Love For The Roadie - Catch 22
• Neverending Story - Catch 22
• Kritsina She Don't Know I Exist - Catch 22
• Keasbey Nights - Catch 22
• It Takes Some Time - Catch 22
• I'm Better Than You - Catch 22
• Hard To Impress - Catch 22
• Guilty Pleasures - Catch 22
• Bloomfield Ave - Catch 22
• As The Footsteps Die Out Forever - Catch 22
• Arm To Arm - Catch 22
• American Pie - Catch 22
• Alone In A Crowd - Catch 22
• 9mm & A Three Piece Suit - Catch 22
• 1234 1234 - Catch 22
• Catch 22 - Cute Is What We Aim For
• Empty - Catch 22
• Form - Catch 22
• Beguile The Time - Catch 22
• Lost - Catch 22
• Bad Party - Catch 22
• Underneath - Catch 22
• DISGRUNTLED - Catch 22
• Damaged - Catch 22
• Spitting Nails - Catch 22
• Good Times - Catch 22
• Party Song - Catch 22
• Down the Drain - Catch 22
• Think for Yourself - Catch 22
• Should've Seen It Coming - Catch 22
• Burn - Catch 22
• Motown Cinderella - Catch 22
• Prologue - Catch 22
• Time Reveals All - Catch 22
• Blood On The Bricks - Catch 22
• Wine Stained Lips - Catch 22
• Still Small Man - Catch 22
• Etched In A Sorrowful Scream - Catch 22
• Purge - Catch 22
• Reflection - Catch 22
• Dripping Faucet - Catch 22
• Alma Ata - Catch 22
• Awaken - Catch 22
• Epilogue - Catch 22
• Rocky - Catch 22
• Dysfunction - Catch 22
• Chasing The Moon - Catch 22
• A Minor Point (1922) - Catch 22
• Supernothing - Catch 22
• On The Black Sea - Catch 22
• So Cold - Catch 22
• Decembrists' Song - Catch 22
• Wicked From The Womb - Catch 22
• Sands of Time - Catch 22
• Skies Of Black - Catch 22
• Catch 22 - Quarashi
• Catch 22 - Little Boots
• Catch 22 - Assailant
• Catch 22 - Hamilton Park
• Catch 22 - Marvell
• Catch 22 - Skky
• Catch 22 - Infa Riot
• Catch 22 - J-zone
• Catch 22 - Musetta
• Catch 22 - Stattica

Well You're damned if you do
You're damned if you don't
Catch 22
You're so Very close, Yet so far
You gave your best shot
Still no cigar
Working your fingers down to the bone
Running with sinners, your life's just on loan
Catch 22
They say you can
They say that you can't
Catch 22
The Limits the sky
But they lock you inside
You're livin' a lie
You'll never know why
Workin' your fingers down to the bone
Running with sinners, your life's just a loan
Catch 22
Catch 22
You think you will win
But you always lose
Catch 22
They think they're so strong
They think they are so wise
You know they are wrong
They tread on thin ice
Working your fingers down to the bone
Running with sinners
Your life is just a loan
Catch 22
Catch 22
You think you will win, but you always lose
Catch 22
They think thet are so strong
They think they are so wise
You know they are wrong
They tread on thin ice
Workin' you fingers, down to the bone
Running with Sinners, Your life is just a loan
Catch 22

Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen and welcome to Pink Airlines
We hope your flight is enjoyable and our flight attendants are here to
insure your ride is as pleasant as possible
Seat backs and tray tables must be in the upright and locked position
during the take-off and landing
All carry-on luggage must be stowed in an over-head compartment or
under the seat in front of you
Waiting on a ticket
'Cause you're looking for the ride
You're feeling on top
'Cause you're flying through the sky
You wanna have your cake
And you wanna eat it too
Everybody's always pointing fingers at you
You're damned if you do
You're damned if you don't
We're always doing all the things
That we say we won't
[CHORUS:]
Here we go
We're riding on a whim
Connecting with a rendezvous
Here we go
We're jumping off the wings
We're going round in circles
It's a catch-22
Yes, we're flying round in circles
It's a catch-22
yes, were rocking round in circles
It's the catch-22
[SPOKEN:]
If you are seated in an emergency exit aisle and feel as though you are
unable
Or unwilling to assist in case of an emergency, please notify a flight
attendant immediately
All eletrical equipment, including cell phones, 2-way pagers, portable
CD players, laptops, etc.
Should remain in the off position until the pilot notifies us that we
areat a safe flying altitude of 10,000 ft.
Looking from the outside
You're always looking in
You think you fixed the problem
'Til it comes right back again
And life seems like a trap
You're trying to get out
You're searching for you cheese
'Cause you feel like mighty mouse
You're damned if you don't
You're damned if you do
You've seen all the signs
But you haven't got a clue
[CHORUS]
You are in, you are in
You are in, you are in
You are in for the ride
Of your life
[CHORUS]
[SPOKEN:]
We realize you had many choices and on behalf of all of us at Pink
Airlines we'd like to thank you for flying with us
We hope you have a wonderful stay wherever your destination may be
And remember, be careful when retrieving your items as during the
flight they may have shifted and might fall on you
Or your neighbor's head and knock you the fuck out

If I seem nervous will you show me what to do
And does the world deserve us, application rushing through
A long time coming, yes it's been a long time coming
And my loving you is a place where I surrender
In my heart it's not hard to do
And all my worldly goods I give to you
We close our eyes and chase away the sorry things
You make it easy for me life is but a dream
Cried on your shoulder
Dove into the great blue yonder
And my loving you is a place where I surrender
Touch my heart, it's not hard to do
And all my worldly goods I give to you
Loving you, is a place where I surrender
In my heart
No catch twenty-two
And all my worldly goods I give to you
No misdemeanor, theres a ring upon my finger
And my loving you is a place where I surrender
In my heart
It's not hard to do
And all my worldly goods I give to you
Loving you, is a place where I surrender
Touch my heart
No catch 22
And all my worldly goods I give to you
Loving you is a place where I surrender
In my heart
It's not hard to do

They’ll get you when you’re young
Teach you how to be a man
(Stand up!)
Romanticizing
(Bigger and better!)
But it’s never enough, is it?
And you’re damned if you do
And you’re damned if you don’t
Let’s celebrate anyway
What you do what you do
What you do what you do
What you do what you do
What you do
And do it for me too…
Once you come to accept
The vague sense of defeat
Eating away inside
You’re a pig in a pen waiting
To face the knife
Dead Dead Dead
And you’re damned if you do
And you’re damned if you don’t
Let’s celebrate anyway
What you do what you do
What you do what you do
What you do what you do
What you do
And do it for me too…
We don’t need another hero
Not another fool that you can drain and tear to shreds
Oh strip him down
Sell him back to that
From which he came
Ever so embarrassing
Someone to connect the pieces
Someone who will speak his mind
Someone who will carry what we’re all afraid to really say
How infuriating and obscene
Apologetic in absurdum

A farmer on a tractor plowin' in the field
Doin' all he can to increase the yield
But the more he raises
The more the price goes down
Over at the factory
Workin' on the line
You do a good job
And never fall behind
So your quota goes up
Every time you turn around
Well it ain't nothing new
It's called a Catch-22
Heads they win, tails you lose
It's all the same either way you choose
You're damned if you don't and even if you do
It's still the Catch-22
Tell a man you love him
He starts backin' up
Tell him you don't
And he's a lovesick pup
You try to get together
And watch it fall apart
Hey, I've been there too
What a Catch-22!
Heads they win, tails you lose
It's all the same either way you choose
You're damned if you don't and even if you do
It's still a Catch-22
Heads they win, tails you lose
It's all the same either way you choose
You're damned if you don't and even if you do
It's a Catch-22
Oh, it's a Catch-22
No matter what you do

Woooo woooo woooo
Am I supposed to be feelin this way? Yeahh...
[Verse 1:]
I tried to play the tough guy
And say that wasn't my thing
But everytime u around,
U take my breath away
I never felt like this
These feelings, I can't ignore
But u don't belong to me
So baby I can explore
Ya touch, & ya hugs, & kiss... girl
Ya love, & ya want, & ya tenderness
And I know that I'll never be yours truely cus...
[Chorus:]
U belong to him, girl
And he is my bestfriend girl
Tell me what am I feeling girl?
Is it catch 22, the way I lose [x2]
[Verse 2:]
Now what if I bought u purses, swept u off ya feet
And told u all these sweet things baby
And wut if he wasn't my friend
Would we be together then?
What am I sayin?
I wouldn't dare jeopardize you and he, over me
No, but I'm missin your touch, & ya hugs, & ya kisses baby
Ya love, & ya want, & ya tenderness
And I know that I will never be yours truely cus...
[Chorus:]
U belong to him, girl
And he is my bestfriend girl
Tell me what am I feeling girl?
Is it catch 22, the way I lose [x2]
Baby I can't (I can't) stop it
Cus u are always on my mind
Need to cool it
Before I lose a friend of mine.
Take a chill pill forreal.
U & him are doin fine
So fine, that baby I can't hate.
I can't stop it
Cus u are always on my mind
Need to cool it
Before I lose a friend of mine.
Take a chill pill forreal.
U & him are doin fine
So fine cus...
[Chorus:]
U belong to him, girl
And he is my bestfriend girl
Tell me what am I feeling girl?
Is it catch 22, the way I lose

I read you like an autograph...you love the spotlight
You shoot me like a photograph...you get me uptight
You're gunnin' for me every day...go straight for the heart
Say you want me--you push me away...say it tears you apart
You're on the inside...I'm on the outside
Don't matter whose side...you take the other side
I can see you walkin' down the aisle...you're thinkin' long-range
I've seen you work the miracle mile for loose change
You can have it anyway you want...your fancy dinners in the restaurants
Even though they leave you hungry inside, it's a free ride
You show your bad side...it's so undignified
Get off your back-side...you're talkin' suicide
Go and be what you wanna be
Sink your time and your hooks in me
You can hold me down--take me 'round and 'round and 'round
You catch me when I'm 'bout to fall...but you leave me there
What really matters doesn't matter at all...you don't care
It's hard to figure in your life...it's a roundabout
You're makin' it so hard to give in...but you won't let me out
You take the right side...I'm on the wrong side

[Prelude]
Man, my life man. Catch it whether I don't, catch it whether I do
So it really don't matter. Know what I'm sayin'?
[Chorus]
Catch twenty
Catch twenty, catch twenty-two
Twenty-two, twenty, twenty-two
[4x]
[Verse 1]
I'm comin' out slippery as a trout
Here is my handle here is my spout
Fresh brand new born baby on the planet
Almost aborted taken for granted
Sticky from the womb
And I feel doom
After the scrub
I can't feel no love
Doctor says get the fix 'cause my body's throwin' fits
Even thought I don't know what it is I need a hit
Every thing's shakin'. Why can't I stop?
Don't warm me up no bottle, spark me up a rock
Almost evicted, blood vessels constricted
I just got here and I'm addicted
Live or die what should I do?
Lord help me I'm in a catch 22
[Chorus]
[3x]
[Verse 2]
Yeah, I survived
And at the age of five
My mommy's off crack
Said she ain't goin' back
And from the looks of it you would think I got it made
Ever since mommy married Reverend Kinkade
But even at this age I feel the sickest kind of gloom
'Cause each and every night he keeps sneakin' in my room
Touchin' me and feelin' me I wanna ring the bell
But he says if I tell then I'ma go to hell
And Lord I don't wanna go to hell I wanna be with you
I'm in a catch 22
[Chorus]
[Verse 3]
No, I never told, and now I'm 18 years old
Sometimes chill sometimes bold
Girls say “Uh, check him out he kinda fly”
And I can't relate no matter how hard I try
I'm afraid ever since Reverend Kinkade
I don't understand how I'm made
Something's gone wrong in my head ­- I wish I was dead
The cuts on my wrist bled
I guess that stuff about God ain't true
'Cause why would he leave me in a catch 22
[Chorus]
[Verse 4]
Yo kid ya gotta live to get fed up
You got's to come head up
And just don't let up
I know life's been bangin', boomin', hittin'
You can't catch a break so your thinkin' 'bout quittin'
But listen, the life lesson is in launchin' out into the deep
Yo you gotta keep fishin'. Theres one who controls who you are and be
Which is a slight definition of the Almighty
But don't get it twisted, He's faithful and cares
And won't allow you to go through more than you can bear
But with all your temptation, He'll give you an escape
So whether you've been molested or whether you've been raped
Or born in the ghetto in a cold water flat
Blind, or deaf, handi- or capped
Hold on deliverance is nigh
'Cause you can get you piece of the pie
In the 'twinkling of an eye'
And God can't lie, it's a test, a plan
So will you still hold on when you can't understand?
Will you hold on so that God can get the glory?
You'll get the reward - He'll tell the story
About a person that had a hard life
The stress and the strife
And nothin' went right
And so much pain, didn't know what to do...
But still serve God despite the catch 22
[Chorus]
[Tonic Extended Chorus:]
Indeed for real
We tryin'a say, catch 22, catch, catch 22
You catch it if you don't, you catch it if you do
Catch 22, catch, catch 22, but the catch 22 ain't true. Ya!
Catch 22, catch, catch 22, you catch it if you don't, you catch it if you do
Catch 22, catch, catch 22, but the catch 22 ain't true - for real. Word life
To my man Tubb, thanks for the phat track

Ain't nothin like poppin the brains on a Corvette
With your pet in the passenger seat
Ass at your feet, askin if you can pass her the weed
(Faster please) California masterpiece
Recorded partially in New York
With a blue spark on a purple plant and I worked your aunt
(She loved it) primarily under the circumstance
Don't be mad, I was bad, she was better, sweaty palms
But I bet her and she told your moms and wrote a letter
Now they comin back to get off of the curb
because I swerved on her (beat it bitch!)
I ain't never been shit, that's what my mommy said
Now they callin to check to see if I took the gun from under my bed
She don't trust me, I don't trust me, my psychiatrist don't trust me
And I ain't called 'em back, I hope the cops don't come and bust me
I'm feelin lusty and my purple video tape is trusty
But I can't go to sleep with lotion on because I might get musty
I ride motorcycles and crash 'em on purpose
into a crowd of bystanders so my insurance policy won't be worthless
[Chorus]
Now quit that bitch shit, we gon' fuck you up mayne
We gon' fuck you up mayne, now get the fuck outta Dodge
Catch 22 Lyrics
It ain't gon' work mayne, we gon' fuck you up mayne
We gon' fuck you up mayne, don't make me pull the pump out the garage
And posse up mayne, we gon' fuck you up mayne
We gon' fuck you up mayne, you must be high on that sherm
But you gon' learn mayne, we gon' fuck you up mayne
We gon' fuck you up - WE GON' FUCK YOU UP!
[DJ Quik]
Bridget Bridget Bridget was a girl that I knew
But she's a dumb hoe, and baldheaded like DJ Pooh
Her saggy body tried to crash the party like Mobb Deep
With her elephant feet
I got a whole lot to say but it won't come out
Probably because I got this 38 in my mouth
And I'm pissed, I'm 'bout to nut up, fuck you nigga shut up
Like Mausberg, I'll leave your chest burnin on the curb
Hennessy to XO, crashed in the Lex-o
I make the bridge flex 'til these bitch niggaz let go
And I'm upset because I'm all alone
Homies don't play by the rules, fuck 'em then I'm glad they gone
Pluck 'em out the flowerpot, flush and make they shower hot
Blister and scour, I'm pistol-whippin with power, make 'em holla like chicks
Out in L.A. ain't nuttin good to talk about
Except dead homies, and how in '82 we had all the money
That's Freeway Rick and that C.I.A. shit
22 years later, it's just some ol' player hater shit
How many gangs can kill people under the age of 12
Get snitched on and go to jail, for another 22 years
And who gets recognized for pouring out the beer
And how many young blacks drink and smoke to cover they fear
It's fucked up
[Chorus]
[DJ Quik]
I made my momma a promise that I would make it home honest
She knew that there were no problems cause she could see right through it
She know I'm deeper than half of these niggaz, flyer than most of 'em
And that's as clear as you can see from off in your coast
And you niggaz don't understand these 16 bars from within
If being dope is an abomination then I am a sin
Cause I'm fly like the wind, and I'm high to the end
My enemies are my used-to-be friends, where do I begin
It's a sesspool of stress, you cowards drink from the well
Got no energy for haters, you suckers can't give me hell
Cause you whack and you stale, and you act like you bail
You talk that shit 'til you gotta prove shit, get smacked when you fail
In the midst of it all I'm just persistin to ball
While these haters tumble and stumble and bumble and fall
I'm the key to cut your meter off, I'll blow what you worth
And befo' anything else on this earth - YOU'LL GET FUCKED UP!

Whats gangsta, in my humble opinion, whats gangsta is knowledge, spilled out on the track
Tell me who are we really when we don't know our history, what good is the church for when you cannot trust the priest,
guess the lies are easier to swallow than it is to face the truth but the struggles of tomorrow are the same ones as the past.
Wishing I could prophecy, or perhaps just fade away for brand new better day so until my dying day
Living life like a catch 22 (yea ... yea yea)
For every step I try to take yet they wanna push me back (yea ... yea yea)
I aint worried about it see, cause I can handle that (yea ... yea yea)
If the sidewalk could speak it would tell you how (blood is thick)?
while little girls were playing double dutch and look outs were guiding the police,
While they restored the projects (why) for the inside to remain the same,
(why) cause if it looks brand new to me and you we won't feel the need for change, its got me pasing back and forth on concrete,
Wishing I could prophecy, or perhaps just fade away so until my dying day
This one is for (my profess)? that don died way to soon in the same block with the cracked rocks and another closed down school.
For all the precious babies with fathers locked down with fake crime, for the sleep walking and blind chilling on (ice slain by the mind)?

(69 Boyz)
I had this doll named Red so dope I eat
I had this nymph named Kim a little sexy freak
bout 5 feet tall so sweet and petite
looking good enough to eat from her head to her feet
she grew up on the beach never hip to the game
and fell in love with Red cuz he sold cocaine
you know the kind of nothing went to catholic school
and did the opposite of what her mamma told her to do
me and my darlin we was dance too close
played part wanna ball together for coach roach
we hit the same nymphs and wrote the same room
and both graduated from the same high school
both went into the game I left and he stayed
but while I'm screwing record labels trying to get paid
Red now came up and got it made in the shade
with 6 birds a week from N-C today
a brand new house that was extra suite
a Hummer, a Benz, and a Lexus coupe
around to his crib all times a night
on the beach clean watching Tyson fight
with his nymph serving drinks in her niglajay
I meet everytime Red looked away
and that there was grounds to leave
cuz playa rule number 3 is never disrespect a man mades squeeze
now Red gets some beef and has a break camp
I thinking that we both about to get fair
but he was like dawg stay and watch the fight
cuz I don't even know if Ima make it home tonight
cuz he had this other nymph he was going to hit
plus he kinda wanted me to babysit
and make sure face stakes ain't invade his place
lay a lady down flat and make her open the safe
he did, Tyson wants to hit his decision
Keel came in stood in front of the television
and I don't know what bun she put
but it's with the t.v. to a cd or Angela Wanbush
now Red in his hummer bumping Master P
while his nymph at the crib going after me
I wish that his girl ain't loves me so much
and that my dawg can't trust me so much
that where I would feel bad hiting his store
on his white leather sofa that he brought from home
but I did it and now that I did it I felt doom
went and took a shower in a guest bathroom
got out the shower put on my clothes
and on the still half bottle on her nose
acting all hype for I was all flossing
I had the miny van back up off me
ran to his room the safe was wide open
Kim right behind me hollering I'm open
you ain't gonna tell me cuz he'll be hurt
if he found out that his man squeeze did it to the work
besides tell on me Ima tell on you
and all the freaky stuff that you made me do
now I'm dead in the middle of a catch 22
tell me what would you do, what would you do, what would you do

Nobody knows what I go through, indecisions made me passive
They say I want my cake and I wanna eat it too
Less satisfied if I don't, consequences when I do
These lessons, they lead me on my way
But when company is tempting me, I'm turned around
But I might wanna go that way
(Don't wanna go that way)
Well, it's catch 22
Damned if I don't, damned if I do
Yes, it's catch 22
(Catch 22)
Damned if I don't, damned if I do
(Damned if I do)
And how many times does it take to learn just one thing
'Cause I keep ending up here?
And I'm not a scientist so I just keep on praying that I won't
Keep getting the same results each day
And I said that I can't be with you
But when you turn away I pull back your hands to stay
(Your hands to stay)
So many days turn to years that brought us here
And we shied through time without too many tears
But we still made decisions, creatin' divisions
So many contradictions, why didn't we listen?
Well, it's a catch 22
(Catch 22)
Damned if I don't, damned if I do
(Damned if I do)
Yes, it's a catch 22
(Catch 22)
Damned if I don't, damned if I do
'Cause when I see you looking at her
I can't stand it, my eyes can't conceive
You gave her the smile you gave to me
I love you selfishly and I can feel so strongly
Oh, how you throw me but still you know me
Oh, you know me
But it's a catch 22
(Catch 22)
Damned if I don't, damned if I do
Yes, it's a catch 22
(Catch 22)
I'm damned if I don't, damned if I do
(Damned if I do)
Oh, it's a catch 22
(Catch 22)
Damned if I don't, damned if I do
(Damned if I do)
Yes, it's a catch 22

We Were Broke So We Passed The Hat Again
we Sat And Waited For A Chance To Say
you Know The Time When We Were Together
then
the Little Trips That We Would Like To Play
a "no-no" Is What You Said To Me
you're Doing Something Thought You'd Never Do
it Ain't Right Cause Time-bombs Were Set For Us
here We Go, Lies And Truths
so Who You Lean On Is Who You Has To Pay
it'll Come Back To You In The Same Old Way
you're Waiting For Them, They're Waitin' For You
the Catch 22, It'll Never Change
we Wanna Pay The Dime To Get Away
we Goin' Up And Down, It's What We Want
i'm So Loaded Now I Can't See Straight
we'll Fuck It Up Until We're Satisfied
i Believe That Time Repeats Itself
we Make It Up In The Middle Of The Night
it's Kinda Cool For Now It's Workin' Right
but More Than Not It Will Take A Dive
so Who You Lean On Is Who You Has To Pay
it'll Come Back To You In The Same Old Way
you're Waiting For Them, They're Waitin' For You
the Catch 22, It'll Never Change
i'm The Bait You Called The Sucker Too
i'm Gettin' Ready Just To Fly The Coop
you Said Sometimes That Thing That Hurt
ain't Nothin', It Ain't Nothin'
i Believe That Time Repeats Itself
we Make It Up In The Middle Of The Night
it's Kinda Cool For Now It's Workin' Right

You never remember where you're from, You got no idea what you done
You came to me with your problems in your hands, and I promised to give you everything I am
You're a living reaction with a brain, Got no feelings cause they cause you pain
Pain spelled out is the title of guilt, It burns out the rotten core of the life you built
[Chorus]
{You bastard, you bastard, you don't do nothing that's not for you
You bastard, you bastard, You're a catch 22}
You been wondering whether I'm alive or dead, and I've been living with your hole in my head
It's the rhythm of the way we live, Born to destroy all we give
You're a living reaction with a brain, Got no feelings cause they cause you pain
Pain spelled out is the title of guilt, It burns out the rotten core of the life you built

[Part 1 - ...As Twilight Descends]
[ verse 1 ]
In your darkest hour of need
Bleeding innocense lies
Searching for serenity
Where even death may come to die
[ chorus ]
Spread your wings and fly away
Soaring high above all your yesterdays
[ verse 2 ]
Angels wings soak all I bleed
it's raining red as they fly
Staining the world forever
As bleeding innocense lies
[ chorus ]
[ solo ]
Darkness divinity
Endless infinity
Let our journey begin
....As twilight descends
[Part 2 - The Otherside]
Welcome to the otherside
Make yourself comfortable
Lay down and die
[ verse 1 ]
Welcome to lifes CATCH 22
The more you run the more it comes undone
What a tangled web you weave my friend
Buried bones can come back to haunt you again
[ chorus ]
The otherside of twilight The otherside of twilight
Father time is laughing precious years you're wasting
Fucking ignorant
[ verse 2 ]
I welcome you to the minds eye view
As twilight descends then the trip begins
What a twisted game you play my friend
When checkmate is close you start all over again
[ chorus ]
[ solo ]
[ bridge ]
You will never be the same
Once you have seen the pain
Falling from the sky
Angels wings soak all I bleed
As they wait for death to die
Such a lonely space in time
[ solo ]
[ repeat 1st verse ]
[ chorus ]
[Part 3 - Face Your Fate (The Calling)]
Somethings calling to us from the otherside
Tempting us to reach out to the electric sky
Visions of hope and glory through mystic light
Is this the ending to our story
As we fade into..........The night
Face your fear face your fate
Heaven can wait until it's over
Hear the call take it all before it's too late
Nows the time to face your fate
Answer the calling and face your fate
Answer the calling and face your fate now
Darkness divinity endless infinity
Drift into oblivion another space in time
Lose yourself inside the madness
Darkness is divine
Twisting and turning time is burning your soul
Twisting and turning time is taking its toll
Face your fate its coming for you
Face your fate its calling to you
Somethings calling to us

Close your eyes real tight
underneath the city lights
You can hear the noise below your room
Take a real deep breath
get those feelings off your chest
Work it out
and wake up in each others arms
Underneath its never over
(looking back over my shoulder)
Looking back over my shoulder
(underneath its never over)
I always said that we would meet again
when we were ten years older
Close your eyes real tight
underneath the city lights
You can hear the noise below your room
Take a real deep breath
get those feelings off your chest
Work it out
and wake up in each others arms
Underneath its never over
(looking back over my shoulder)
Looking back over my shoulder
(underneath its never over)
I always said that we would meet again

Before the dawn is when it seems most cold.
But as sure as the sun rises in the east, we know that
the stream of evolution is a constant flow,
and the current evolution says that I should really go.
Don't you know that every seed wants to grow?
We can't stay underground forever.
They can cut us off as soon as we begin to show.
What they don't know is that the roots still grow.
When the roots pop up... [repeat]
They can try with all of their might to push us down to the ground,
but I know we'll be all right (right?)
They mean to break my spirit through this exile,
but I can use this time to further refine and fortify my style.
The world that we're all living in is in need of a plan for the brotherhood of man.
So I'm off and running fast as I can, and the antidote I'm bringing is the pen in my hand.
We're finally doing all the things we were meant for!

Sad is the man who drinks with himself
To fog up the day that precedes
From sad then to happy from happy to bitter
That bitter old man is me
Hey, drink it all away
(Hey)
I said hey, drink it all away
(Hey)
And I dance for the light of the stars in the sky
And sleep all alone tonight
1 for my headaches, 2 for the road
3 for my family and 4 for the show
5 for my sorrows, 6 for my wrongs
7 to hell with this song
Hey, drink it all away
(Hey)
I said hey, drink it all away
(Hey)
And I dance for the light of the stars in the sky
And sleep all alone tonight
Well, everyone feels the need to belong
Everyone feels the need for a cause
The forces of nature are naturally sure

Song: Straight Forward
No right turn
No left turn
No return
It's my turn now
No right turn
No wrong turn
Now you've turn back and
I've turned around
Inside out and upside down
My feet can't seem to touch the ground
My feet can't seem to find the ground
I'm at that point now in my life
Where all I've said and all I've done
Doesn't seem to be enough
At least thats what she said
Hey get off my back
I'm living for the moment cuz I'm thinking that's all I've got
Hey get off my back
I'm living for the moment cuz I'm thinking that's all I have
This picture
I painted
Has faded long ago with age
As I lie here patiently
You never change
I turned the page
Inside out and upside down
My feet can't seem to touch the ground
My feet can't seem to find the ground
I'm at that point now in my life
Where all I've said and all I've done
Doesn't seem to be enough
At leats thats what she said
Hey get off my back
I'm living for the moment cuz I'm thinking that's all I've got
Hey get off my back
I'm living for the moment cuz I'm thinking that's all I have
Hey... brand new day and Im feelin ok
Hey... Coolie Ranx and catch 22
Got to back up from all these punks
See us everyday and they talk junk
She was the best that ive ever had
now shes gone and im feelin sad
Hey have you seen her
tell me have you seen her
Hey get off my back
im livin for the moment cause im thinking its all i got
hey get off my back

Evilution devilution
Revolution screaming metals on it's way
And there's hell to pay
[ verse 1 ]
I can hear the screams of hate
Echoes of retribution
I can see the country's fate
Legions of revolution
[ pre-chorus ]
We all have one voice
Scream out for change
For change
[ chorus ]
Betrayal
Betrayed our trust
Lies that shine in time turn to rust
Betrayal of the masses
[ verse 2 ]
I can see them standing there
Writing the constitution
All for one and none for all
Seems to be their solution
[ pre-ch ]
[ chorus ]
[ solo ]
[ repeat 1st verse ]
[ pre-ch ]

Hardships faced. We've been disgraced.
Our plans for the land are degraded by menacing hands.
But history's compelling us, telling us to do it all again.
As far as I can see, everything that we had believed
is more true now than ever before.
If the truth be known, we would do it all again.
We got low, down in Mexico.
It seems so far after having been so close.
We got low, down in Mexico.
We lost everything except the things that matter most.
Bureaucracy and hypocrisy are contagious and make us all victims eventually.
You can take my life from me, but we will do it all again.
The seeds of truth will grow.
The people will know of the visions that we have endeavored to show.
And like the river we will flow.
We Will do it all again.
Faceless men who represent no idea or purpose intend
to prevent revolution though revolution,
but we could do it all again.
Even when I die, I hope you won't cry,
for my life has been happily spent in the struggle...

Close your eyes real tight
underneath the city lights
You can't hear the noise below your room
take a real deep breath
get those feelings off your chest
We'll Work it out and wake up in each others arms
Underneath its never over
looking back over my shoulder
looking back over my shoulder
underneath its never over
we always said we'd meet again
when we were ten years older
I hadn't thought about her in a while
until she showed up in a dream i had
laying listless in a bed
with a string of broken hearts
hanging from her fingers
I said, "lets take a drive with a pack of camel lights
into the middle of nowhere and talk about our lives
hear me say, listen up. Silence, Can't let it go, got to get it out
listen up, silence, can't let it go, got to get it out
chin up chin up till it touches the moon, sad and forsaken one
its you i'm talking to
You can't take it back?
You can't take it back?
Thats bullshit
I took it and crushed it and painted it black
I swallowed the match
its burning at my insides
hear me say, listen up. Silence, Can't let it go, got to get it out
listen up, silence, can't let it go, got to get it out
chin up chin up till it touches the moon, sad and forsaken one
its you i'm talking to
Close your eyes real tight
underneath the city lights
You can't hear the noise below your room
take a real deep breath
get those feelings off your chest
We'll work it out and wake up in each others arms
Underneath its never over
looking back over my shoulder
looking back over my shoulder
underneath its never over
we always said we'd meet again
when we were ten years older
listen up. Silence, Can't let it go, got to get it out
listen up, silence, can't let it go, got to get it out
listen up. Silence, Can't let it go, got to get it out
listen up, silence, can't let it go, got to get it out
listen up. Silence, Can't let it go, got to get it out
listen up, silence, can't let it go, got to get it out
chin up chin up till it touches the moon, sad and forsaken one

[ t.j. berry ]
i see a light that s shinin'
through the darkness far away
[ pre-chorus ]
its in the corner of my mind
its for the sake of all mankind
[ chorus ]
like the eagle flies away
to return again someday
never lose hope in your dreams
stand up and tell' em what you mean
i hear the voices callin'
you must find a better way
[ pre-chorus ]
[ chorus ]
never lose hope in your dreams
remember things ain't always what they seem
like the eagle flies away

I love you.
I miss you.
Forgive me my ineptilude.
And I will change my attitude.
I'm whinning and pining for sweet embraces never known.
A harvest from a seed unsown.
Time is on my side and I understand my life.
Make a choice to move onward.
But I admit I can't commit and I will not decide.
Dim light shines brightly in pitch black.
Bright enough to find my own way back.
Push forward or you might lose your chances.
Or take less with me.
Regress with me.
And savor true romance.

Broken homes as far as the eye can see.
Bird's eye view: An ocean surrounded by
cubicles and fast food restaurants with nothing
but standard utility vehicles and smog in-between.
No one knows who is in control but underneath
them lies a bottomless pit. Everyone clings to
the sides and they use one another to reach the
crown of it. It's getting oh so dark in here now.
He's grabbing at my ankles. I'm grabbing at his.
Don't let go! Until all that's left of dreams of Venus.
The appendix of a system that doesn't need us.
One machine tells the other not to feed us.
They only want more. We only want more.
We're all getting nowhere confused.
Which way is up? Which way is down? I'm falling down.
I wonder which moment I decided to care?
Decided to wear the burdens of thousands of years.
We all live life like the sun and the moon
fucking in the afternoon.
The light it doesn't get through but it gets by.
One machine tells the other not to feed them.
They only want more. We only want more. Just let go.

10:00 I was gonna write a letter but at 1:00 is when I opened up my eyes. 3:00 turned into 5:00. I watched the day pass me by. 6:00 I was changing through the channels. And at 8:00 the stationary called my name. 9:00 the time I stopped impossible that day I didn't speak. Dear loving friend I meant to write shoudl've but the time just wasn't right. Some things I'd rather leave unsaid and I'm sorry that I did. So here's a letter that I never sent with all the words I never said. I never wanted you to leave but you left said I never wanna hold you back but I want to hold you back. Sincerely yours.

Went to the corner of second and main and there was someone there who mentioned that they hoped that it would rain forever, forever, so they could drown in peace. Went down to the hodskin p.l. but there was nobody to answer when I rang the doorbell forever, forever so now I'm sad all the time. Sick and sad again. Sometimes I'd like the rain to end. Sick and sad again. Sometimes I'd like to stand on my own two feet. Today was the day but she threw it all away and I could never understand 'cause she was never one to play by the rules of the game her and me we're so the same I try so hard and I never give in and I am never satisifed until the day that I win agaisnt them but I don't care I'll follow her to anywhere.

here i am alone again the box in my closet is my only friend but i never let that bother me because i got myself and i set myself free im alone when im with everybody else like a book i've read about a million times well i know what i will read and i know what i will find no need to go on but i go on anyway and when im satisfied i ask you why'd you go away? ...hey stop it i dont want it anymore

Run run run all you do is fucking run but you'll never run away from yourself. I know it's hard but you've been then before and you know you're gonna be there again. I don't care what the stars may say because they always feed their bullshit to me. It's kind of sad how you lost what you had and you're never gonna have it again and so I say:
Hey Sergio, it's getting kinda hot in here. Every other day you don't care what they say because they always leave you two steps behind. You try to smile and it lasts for awhile but they always send you back to the start. Eenie meenie miney mo they shoot down everyone you know and then they leave you there all alone. You wish they'd stop but they never give up and you know deep inside that you're stuck and so I say: Hey Sergio, it's getting kinda hot in here.

I don't want to barge in on your secrey see dependency see it means nothing to me I don't want to hear about your problems and I don't want to listen to your apathy see You're not like me see You mean nothing to me All your cash doesn't make you any greener.
I don't need anyone to tell me what to feel. I don't need anyone to hate the world with me. Day in, day out It's not that bad. I worry and I worry but you'll never have to worry again, you'll never be alone. In my room with a bucket full of phlegm I don't need a music scene to tell me who I am I should have got a warning should have came a year ago should I sent her a birthday card? My conscience tells me no.

Staring out the window of somebody's pickup truck well I never mind the boredom cause I use it for a crutch just to get me to that plae its a different state of sane and everytime I try to change I always end up quite the same thinking back to happier days when everyone was ignorant and all the kids behaved but me and my friends and the ice cream man that was our existance that was our clan this one goes out to the friends I never had: hey I don't understand but I'd like to anyway hey I don't understand but I like it anyway hey I don't understand but I like you anyway hey I don't understand Shelter in the city we decided to go in and I gave a man some money to buy herion but the homeless man returned and he gave me back a dime he said, "put it in your sock my friend and save it for another time" but: lessons are learned and later unlearned if he knew then what he knows now well he could rule the world but I'm not one to judge what happened yesterday cause I got me I got myself my future is at stake this one goes out to...

I'm leaving here today. I'm gonna go real far away from here. I'm gonna find a girl like the one I met in high school. But she's not gonna get away this time. I'm gonna keep her by my side. Not gonna lose my grip on you. I'm gonna somehow make it through this time. Not gonna fuck up like I did back then. Maybe I'll even fall in love again.
And when I try to make things right. I always seem to lose the fight. Can't seem to hold on to my life. So I go on through the pain. That's why I'm leaving here today. Won't make it any other way. Cigarettes & sleep are the only things that keep me from losing my mind maybe in time you'll know that. Without you I am nothing I have always acted blind. I'm never coming home because you left me all alone last night and you never even showed up in the morning. And so I try to find a way to hold it in. I guess you win this time. Good friends are hard to find. [Repeat Chorus]

We come on the sloop John B My grandfather and me Around Nassau town we did roam Drinking all night Got into a fight Well I feel so broke up I want to go home So hoist up the John B's sail See how the mainsail sets Call for the Captain ashore Let me go home, let me go home I wanna go home, yeah yeah Well I feel so broke up I wanna go home The first mate he got drunk And broke in the Cap'n's trunk The constable had to come and take him away Sheriff John Stone Why don't you leave me alone, yeah yeah Well I feel so broke up I wanna go home So hoist up the John B's sail See how the mainsail sets Call for the Captain ashore Let me go home, let me go home I wanna go home, let me go home Why don't you let me go home (Hoist up the John B's sail) Hoist up the John B I feel so broke up I wanna go home Let me go home The poor cook he caught the fits And threw away all my grits And then he took and he ate up all of my corn Let me go home Why don't they let me go home This is the worst trip I've ever been on So hoist up the John B's sail See how the mainsail sets Call for the Captain ashore Let me go home, let me go home I wanna go home, let me go home Why don't you let me go home

Pick you up in the suburbs tomorrow. We won't tell, they won't follow. Pack your bags, and put all your trust in me. Never had a gun to his head, that's what he said, that's why I shot him dead, with the vengance that his daughter fed. I've always been a sucker for a brown eyed, punk rock girl, and for her I'd shoot the world.
Shoot him down. Shoot him down for all the nightmares. Shoot him down. What goes around will come around. Shoot him down. your father is also your pain. I love you and for us I'll shoot him down.No remorse. We've got no time to look back. The cop is on our trail and we're driving in a Topaz. Stuck in no-man's land, between the body and mind. "Drop your gun!... Put your hands behind your head!" Turn around, pop a clip, hit him in his chest. Home free, and we're headed for the border. Spending time in Mexico, Tijuana. Drown our shame then start our lives again, in California.
Next thing I know, I'm all alone in a motel. No explanation, no letter goodbye. I can't promise much, but I do promise this. I promise to find you. So I can remind you. I loved you and for us I shot him down.

Well, hello. How are you? Won't you pull up a chair? Won't you tell me your story because I really do care about talking away. Here's to me, to you, to us, to everything, I hope it never falls apart. We're talking away. Well you look so fine, and you seem so kind, and I've got to say that i'm having a good time dancing away. Here's to me, to you, to us, to everything, I hope it never falls apart. We're dancing away. Could things get any better now? If they can, I cannot see how, but as the time goes by, you stop and sigh. You stop and sigh and then you wonder why. I can't stop this feeling, as i'm walking away, and I could never understand half the things you'd say, as we're walking away. Goodbye to me, to you, to us, to everything, because it fell apart, as we're walking away. Things weren't better then. You felt that you had to pretend. But as the time goes by, you stop & sigh. You stop and sigh and then you wonder why.

I just said I love you to a girl I haven't seen since December, I remember, she was close enough to me. Now I'm growing up and throwing 'round some words to reassure, that I'll always love her, because I loved her once before. And I don't care cuz I'm backed into a corner, and lifen's not fair, so I'm breakin' all the rules. Day by day don't walk away. "you've got a good thing going on," I tell myself it's like throw it all away or stick around. Around away with it I don't wanna stay with it. Pass it on. Be strong, hold on, not long ago and every day is the same thing, tomorrow is the same thing. I hold my head in my hand.
Everything that I do, everything that I say, everything that I am, everything seems so wrong. Am I dramatic or am I empathizing with myself? If it's selfish, I don't want it, but I know it too damn well to forget it. Forget it. I don't want it anymore, and I just said I love you to a girl I loved before.

He wakes up sad again, wonders when the rain will end She'll act like she don't care cause to her it's just a game ...that he plays I'm a super I'm a nothing I'm a no one going nowhere going fast but I don't care All the times he said he would she never really understood what he said or what he meant he won't forget what wasn't said He'll find himself alone standing in the rain.

Saw it on the television, heard it on the radio. This in truth, is not yet the end. Bus station, it's 4 a.m. Took a taxi to the city. Matt Ball left. Looking too familiar and I don't know how to feel. Not a penny in my pocket. I'm a stranger. Wanna get home. Spare some change, sir? Wanna get back home. Wanna get back home. 40 miles across the Hudson. Those train tracks. Get back. Can you smile? Here's another joke. Have you got another smoke? I'm broke. Sounds good, but I don't know.
I don't know but it sure sounds good to me. I don't care because I still don't know. The way it is, the way it was, the way it's supposed to be. I don't know but it sure sounds good to me. I heard this city never sleeps. I heard this city never sleeps, but its eyes are half-closed. Not a passerby. Babycry. I suppose, that I'm selfish. Stuck and I don't give a fuck. Twenty one. Morning comes. I've heard and had enough. I have no friends It hurts so much to be alone. I wish this night would fucking end. I close my eyes and dream of home.
I wish this night would fucking end. I close my eyes and dream of home.

One year ago today, I tossed away, a quarter that I should've saved. I faked a farwell fantasy and misbehaved. I never made an effort. My conscience went. After all the time I spent. The dollars that I dropped on you, I thought you'd say you miss me too. So here I am, a friend, the end, I meant to disregard that birthday card, nailed upon your wall he sent. I meant to turn my eyes from everything. I shouldn't see. An oath I took, you kissed my cheek. Cried yourself to sleep, but never would you admit to me.
I always laughed when you laughed. Cried when you cried. Danced when you danced. I lied. San Francisco payphone. So far from home. So many friends, and I'm alone. I faked a farewell fantasy. I lied. You bother me. My conscience gone. This conversation's dragging on. There was once upon atime when you would miss me too. So here I am, a friend, the end, I meant to disregard that birthday card, nailed upon your wall he sent. I meant to turn my eyes from everything. Never made a promise. An oath I took, I kissed your cheek. Cried myself to sleep, I won't admit that you see.

I got no cash, got no girl, but I got the world in the palm of my hand and I don't care if you care or if you understand because i'm a little kid and I've got little problems and I don't give a shit if you don't understand because: I got me. That's all I need. And I live comfortably, and I sleep peacefully. I give up. I don't want to hear, I don't want to be near you or your friends and your dime a dozen miseries. I don't care if you care about the way you wear your hair or your shoes or your idiot attitude. Don't stop because I want to hear your problems. Don't you stop because I want to help you solve them. Don't stop.

Point the blame picture frame Playing by the rules that's why you're losing the game. I think I heard it through the walls in the bathroom stalls, or maybe in my yesteryears hanging out in the halls. We've got the rhythm wrong It sounds just like a Phish song. "Please her with a tweezer, I'll stick it in the freezer." So, brother say what you want. I never know what you want from me. I'm moving up, moving on. So, say goodbye because I won't say goodbye to you.
Point the blame picture frame Playing by the rules that's why you're losing the game. Point the blame, windowframe. Losing because you're playing by the rules of the game.
Somebody said it once before but I'm really not too sure. Who it was, and where it was, and why I'm so insecure. We've got the rhythm wrong. It sounds just like a Dead song. "Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile, smile." So brother say what you want. I never know what you want from me. I'm moving up, moving on. So, say goodbye because I won't say goodbye to you.

One Love! One Heart! Let's get together and feel all right. Hear the children cryin' (One Love!); Hear the children cryin' (One Heart!), Sayin': give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right; Sayin': let's get together and feel all right. Wo wo-wo wo-wo! Let them all pass all their dirty remarks (One Love!); There is one question I'd really love to ask (One Heart!): Is there a place for the hopeless sinner, Who has hurt all mankind just to save his own beliefs? One Love! What about the one heart? One Heart! What about - ? Let's get together and feel all right As it was in the beginning (One Love!); So shall it be in the end (One Heart!), All right! Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right; Let's get together and feel all right. One more thing! Let's get together to fight this Holy Armageddon (One Love!), So when the Man comes there will be no, no doom (One Song!). Have pity on those whose chances grows t'inner; There ain't no hiding place from the Father of Creation. Sayin': One Love! What about the One Heart? (One Heart!) What about the - ? Let's get together and feel all right. I'm pleadin' to mankind! (One Love!); Oh, Lord! (One Heart) Wo-ooh! Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right; Let's get together and feel all right. Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right; Let's get together and feel all right.

I still remember that night it was the fourth of July It's still engraved in my mind and I'm not suprised. Gang wars no guns hand to hand. You're black I'm white he's purple but I still don't undestand. I'm going to be alright I'm going to be okay everything is going to be fine back off. I want to be alone I want to think it out and I'm thinking that I want to go home. Look who's laughing now. I'll pull it off somehow. As I passed her by I could see her cry and I'll never forget the look that was in her eye and the music you know it played on & and on & on so won't somebody tap her on the shoulder tell her life goes on. 3 years 2 months 1 week 4 days I'm always counting down because there ain't no easier way trust me you know that I tried and if I said it was easy then you know that I told a lie. I'm going to be alright I'm going to be just fine. One down five billion to go. Am I the next in line and do I really want to know?

Hmmm C22 These punk motherfuckers now a hip hop crew? Naw, we just having some fun. A little somethin' we wanna get done. Anyone say a word, better shut your mouth biotch. We'll kick your punk ass to the curb Sit your stupid ass on the couch And nod your head to something new Feel it? Na? Fuck you, we do We're on a mission, to beef with anyone who fucks with our ambition So check it and give a listen and let me explain Yo E-rock bring back that instrumental refrain.
Seven different members, meaning seven different names, meaning seven different mouths speaking seven different ways All common goals reamin Still pigeon-holed status quo sucks cuz I haven't changed.
No love for the roadie?
Yo man, you're the roadie, you don't... seven members, seven members, that's it. That's all you got.
Eight! Eight!
Lick a shot-shot. Boom 5 4 3 2 1 wanna make you jump up, it's like a clean cut Slicing through the track with a machete Ready set go A Derringer cover Cover me, cover you I'll take it slow and easy, indiscreetly, I'm completely numb Come come Surburban ragamuffin with a dancehall twist, I'm saying I'm saying I'm saying nothing This Shot a licka say it again kick it and come back for one I'm running I'm running I'm running I'm running It takes some time It's like a dream come true I'm in heaven again We're right here jumping with you Once again again, once once again again
Yo man, I work.
Dude, you don't work.
I work.
Yo, so let me come in real slow. Like 1, 2, I bet you thought you knew about the style we present, so intense cutting through with precision never watered down but you're bound to drizound coming around your town rocking a crowd with the sweetest sound you ever heard fool there aren't no other You wanna talk shit I have your running for your mother Coming in quick you little bitch Throwing a brick up in your window to get your affection So pay attention, learn your lesson on this whole next session When I grip the mic I spit my shit like a veteran Wait stop the beat a second Now bring it back again Catch 22 has come to bump your party and get you jumping and keep it bumping Nah forget about the bump, I'm gonna go and blaze it up
YoI'm saying that's not right.
Step back punk you ain't got no place here...
I'm the one they call Perm so listen learn Gonna make you twist and turn with this beat that I kick it South River, Trax East Fuck with me you'll be deceased 6 foot underground is where you'll be to say the least East Coast Pride until I decide I come in strong gonna bust you in the eye My piece of pie is all I'm looking for Gotta get the door I came to let you know All I rock is eckou Yo what up Bean (Yo what up bro) So let me finish this up quick cuz shit be getting thick So let me go out nice and slick Perm signing off so hand me my sticks I'm not down with this motherfucking microphone shit.
Yo dude, uh, you gonna sing the chorus?
No dude I don't like singing the chorus.
Just sing the hook.
No, no, dude.
Try that.
No, I really don't... check it. Peace.
You'd better recognize man, that ain't right.
Yo bump that man and get behind that table and sell that t-shirt.
It's eight, I said eight, yo.
Na, I don't think so. It's seven.
Whatever, dude.
It's the P-a-t-r-i-c-k with the t-h-c m d-m- a So listen while I wreck it Then listen to the record Check it wait another second this won't take all day I'm the dank natty dread deep banana head Making a six string sing is hard done than said Cuz saying it and doing it just ain't the same They're like fire and rain It's like night and day But at night or day in the AM or the PM You know I'm hitting TM I call 'em like I see 'em So rewind the rhyme stick it in your eye and let the old school open your mind one time
Yo I ?? represent.
No you ain't busting no rhymes, man. The only thing thing busting is your ass if you don't sell those records & tapes, kid.
I do my work.
You ladies better run for cover, cuz I'm the lyrical lover I stimulate and penetrate you like no other I'm a hip-hop transformer, a sexual performer Best get out of my way Cuz I'm turning the corner So let me start with my present I'm the phat Illmont resident, getting more play than our current president Ladies start the bump Let's get the bass to thump I'm Ian and I'm calling out the motherfucking chumps Cuz I'm badder than Darth Vader I'm called the Terminator Lyrically you all know that I'm the dominator You're not ready for me and all that I bring cuz I float like a butterfly and sting like a bee So now you all know it's true that the C22 crew is coming for you with a beat that's brand new That's right cuz I'm the big smooth and you be feeling my groove Yeah I'm the motherfucker showing Jordan his moves.
Yo I'm not saying it again, I want props.
Yo you best step away from the mic before I get Ike Turner on your ass.
Aw fuck You wanna get jumped chump punk? Come press your luck by our whole crew we all stone you, own you, for a while you just wasn't looking But what you gonna do? (Whoo, is that Mingus over there?) Yeah you hear me talking Spitting out the candy for your ears Move your rears to this Ghetto booty shaking Taking it all and yo raking the dough in ho And me and my boys in 22 you just don't know we be pimping in the clubs with my man Jeff singing reggae dub with Perm, TM, Ian, and KG, Kirk E. Fresh, me I'm Mingus and our boy J-E.
Merch guys and roadies around the world this is your time so grab your girl It's time to show you what we do We're not your little tools TDE is down for me as I kick it old school. East coast Jersey represent don't fuck with me cuz you can't repent What you say will come back to you If you doubt me just test my crew Don't break my trust cuz I'm no fool and you starting rumors doesn't make you cool Just a punk ass bitch with too much time and until you talked shit everything was fine But now it's too late what's said is said, You're getting fucked up this is the end. Biotch.

Neverending story but the lesson went untold. She knew it all along if she just could take control of the situation. Investigation. Try to tell the story even though she couldn't take it. Was it suicide? Why did she have to pull the trigger? Was it burning her inside? Or did she have an itchy finger? Can't shake that picture. It's not the way I want to miss her. I can't believe that all the memories just fade away.
Next thing I know, I'm a cult. I'm trying to get the hell out but Mephisto ain't no motherfucking joke. I could choke, but instead I clear the smoke. Take a step back try to clear my head and find myself again. I don't need your help because you're not my fucking friend! Blind man stood by the road and he cried. Blind stood by the road and he cried. Blind man stood by the road and he cried. He was lost without her. He couldn't move on. He tried to find salvation with a needle in his arm. He can't feel it. He's fucking numb. He asked for my help. I told him, "You're the only one who can save yourself. You've got to grip real tight. The battle's half won if you make it through the night." Neverending story. Never seems to bore me. I go to sleep at night just to dream it all away.

Not long ago in my high school days I watched a girl from so far away But everytime she passed me by I turned my head away and quietly sighed. And when she walked by her hair would dance, a secret tango that only I could understand and if she asked for the time of day I'd look her in the eyes and quietly say: Kristina Kristina Do you have any clue who I am? (hell no) So listen up because I'll tell you once and I'll explain myself the best that I can. Kristina Kristina You don't know me so I'll have to persist. You don't know me so I'll have to persist. I'm kind of shy so don't wonder why Kristina she don't know I exist. From class to class I followed her, but I swore I'd leave her undisturbed and if she ever stopped by and turned around I got so nervous and I stared at the ground. And then one day in photography I foud a contact print that I could not believe and there she was staring back at me so I took her home so quietly. 1.17.98 it's been a day that I've come to hate. As I walked into the video store there she stood as my jaw fell to the floor. Tapping her toe, waiting in line, with a movie and some other guy Why did I bother? Why did I care? About this girl named Kristina Behr? Kristina Kristina You'll never get to know who I am. This is goodbye so please don't cry and I'll let you down as softly as I can. Kristina Kristina another name to cross off my list. In another life it could have been nice but Kristina she won't know what she missed.

It was the summer of '95 (so what?!), in the backyard, shaving the old plies. Feeling so strong, something went wrong. Straight into my finger, what a stinger, it was so long. I still remember that day, like the day that I said that I swear, "I'll never hurt myself again", but it seems that I'm deemed to be wrong, to be wrong, to be wrong. So i've got to keep holding on... they always played a slow song. When they come for me, I'll be sitting at my desk, with a gun in my hand, wearing a bulletproof vest.. Singing "my, my, my, how the time does fly, when you know you're going to die by the end of the night." I still remember when we were young and fragile then. No one gave a shit about us because times were tougher then. Feeling so good, cruising the hood; straight into the real world, rich kids never understood. But I don't care. I can fade away to anywhere. Don't stop because you might get dropped and if you do who's going to pick you up. Well I won't... they always played a slow song.

It takes some time you look at me you don't like what you see i don't like who i am i can change, i can change it takes some time in your factory if there's a recipe just tell me what to do and i'll slowly rearrange it takes some time so bare with me you're always there with me looking in the mirror it's much clearer now, i hear ya now echoes in my ear i can change but do i want to? nevermind...everytime...what you say...when you want it find myself inside myself and no one else can find it for me find myself all by myself and no one else can find it for me It takes some time too much time with you i don't know what to do taking time is wasting time and i'm not wasting away mine someone is telling me, yelling and selling me to their whole crew rendez-vous it takes some time so don't bother me you don't like what you see looking in the mirror it's much clearer now i hear myself echoes in my ears i can change but i don't want to fine the way i am i can change but choose not to it takes some time but watch is gone and all my clocks are wrong so, i don't have the time to change i can't change for you or anyone i think i'm enough fun the way that i am and i'm finding new friends and i'm not gonna not gonna change who i am Find myself inside...

i dont need no stupid reasons to go around always treating everyone with impunityim better than you/ im better than you think take it easy im better off this way i dont ever get to feeling for you cant you see that i dont give a shit about you/im better than you/im better than you think

You say that you don't know me and you couldn't if you tried and your ignorance amazes me with every single lie. You say one thing and mean it then but then you can't decide. I would like to know. What did I do to earn your disrespect? An overrated importance of superior intellect. The words I say are not as big but does that mean a thing. I guess that I'll just stop. Trying to impress.
I look at you and wonder what you're thinking. And what you say when I turn my back to you. Your arrogance powers your ego. You say that I don't know you but I've tried and tried and tried and I don't know what you're thinking when you look into my eyes. Is it positive or is it negative the trend. And it's funny the way you thought of me when I thought that we were friends. I'm glad it all worked out. The way I knew it would. I'm glad that I can stop. Trying to impress. [Repeat Chorus]

It could've been different if I sang the song so long ago, and now I'm feeling like I'm stuck in slow motion again. But all I've got is time. Running around in circles, just to find that peace of mind. And you know I'm gonna get what's mine. I've lost touch, too much sympathy. Follow me, don't bother me. Fragments of each sentence representing anything I think. And still I try to smile, and still I try to laugh. And still I'll never change, I'm stuck here studying the past. So count me in. No, count me out, because it happened again.
It could've been. Should've been. Would've been different. It could've been.
It could've been different if the frgaments of each sentence were reminiscent of a sing-along song I sang so long ago. And still I try to smile, and still I try to laugh, just to find that peace of mind. And you know I'm gonna get what's mine. So count me in. No, count me out, because it happended again.

She falls fast asleep, in her Glassboro apartment, dreaming of what she wants to be. So she just organizes photographs she's taken in this year that's past, loves nothing more, adores her memories. Does she miss any kiss, that I placed upon her lips. Does she have a photograph of me at all? That day she walked away. I turned my head and didn't pay attention, said California is my final fall. Last time I saw her was the first time that I saw her cry. She had a boyfriend and a tattoo of a butterfly. Biology, photography ambition, was enough for her to leave me. I swore I'd find on the other side. Bloomfield Ave. I'm sick of pickin' through the dumpster. A meal. I hold a gun but I can't feel it to my head, hum a song, say goodnight, it's all wrong. It's alright. I close my eyes and take a bite, bite, bite. Close my eyes and take a bite, bite, bite. Close my eyes and take a bit.
Another thing I should've said, light another cigarette, another thing I left behind ashes to ashes we all fall down. I'm homeless on the west, she's on the east. I only wish that I could see her one more time. To remind her that I love her and I shot him down. Now she's in that crazy town again. Hitchhike my way across the states. I'm banging on the door. She's passed out on the floor. Sawed off shotgun by her side, no one heard her cry. My tears roll down the wood of our old neighborhood. I saw her through the window but I didn't have the strength to knock it down. Down. Down. Didn't have the strength to knock it down. Down. Down. Didn't have the strength to knock it down.

She was diagnosed on a Friday, the kids were almost home, the kids were on their way back home from school, lying face down in the gutter of unaccomplished dreams and broken memories of things to come, "Sorry ma'am, I really am. I had to break the news. I had to make the phone call to tell you that you're due, you know where, I'll tell you when, and I suggest you start living these next three weeks, the best way that you can." Every night for three long weeks, she'd roam the hallways half asleep and as the footsteps fade away in my mind, I could swear, I could swear, I heard her say: Don't wait for me, I've got a lot to do I've got a lot to be and in the end maybe I'll see you there. Lost her strength on a saturday. Spent the day in bed. Yeah, I'm fine, it's just the flu she said with a smile, but when they turned their backs, the tears would flow. She knew she only had a while to live to breathe to see to be to bleed to stand on her own two weakened feet "and so I pray everyday: don't take my mother away" and in the end maybe i'll see you there. You know i'll see you there and in the end i'll see you there.

Another fucking day, it's still a nine to five, I swear. I don't want to reach the top. I don't want to be a millionare. I know that it may sound crazy, but it's driving me insane. Staring out the window of another fucking train.
We're walking arm to arm. I won't follow. Arm to arm. I won't lead. Arm to arm. Beside me until tomorrow. Arm to arm. You're walking arm to arm with me. I'm feeling kind of homesick when I smell the old pine tree. I felt you in the breeze, I close my eyes, it's not so easy for me. Once or twice, three times a charm. We were walking arm to arm. I wanted that for so damn long, but now it's gone. I've never been so wrong. Drop me a line. Tell me everything that I've been missing. Won't you drop me a line. Tell me where you're gonna be when I get home. 2000 years more won't end this war, my brother. Half empty, half full. You're pushing, I'm pulling. Back in '96, sometimes I sit and reminisce. Took the train to Hoboken, I didn't know it then, but that is when I found my place outisde this so-called structured life. Married to my only love and music is my wife.

Bye bye Miss American Pie. I drove my Chevy to the levy but the levy was dry. The good old boys were drinking whiskey and rye. Singing this will be the day that I die. This will be the day that I die.

Cemetery break the stone Mom was right, shoulda stayed at home Seems like all the good old days are gone Back and forth and side to side A lonely boy, a mans disguise Another silhouette against the sky Overcome the obstacle of animosity Take me to my old back yard, security and family When all is said and all is done Iüm not the only one When all is said and all is done Take it all for granted, I donüt mind its all been handed down to me But ill give it back someday Once upon a time a tale, began on a television now I watch it slowly spin away Overcome the obstacle of animosity Take me to my old back yard, security and family When all is said and all is done Iüm not the only one When all is said and all is done Clean the slate, turn the page Lonely boy has paved the way Mom was right, I should have stayed at home When all is said and all is done Iüm not the only one When all is said and all is done Iüm not the only one When all is said and all is done Iüm not the only one When all is said and all is done seems like all the good old days are gone

Well I know I shouldn't care but I do & I don't and I always crack a smile when I see your punk rock clothes and you try try but you never fit in and you're never going to so pack it up pack it in, so there Steve took three or four Heather took more. She lit a cigarrette and they're walkin out the door with a semi automatic and a ski mask on they look to one another and they say to themselves "what fun". Well I never want to bother and I never want to hover over his or her affairs because that's not fair and it seems to me that you're running out of time and it seems to me like you're never going to do what's right Jack dropped 21, Jill 22. The look in his eye said "Brother what are you going to do with a 9mm and a three piece suit?" they look to one another and say "hey motherfucker, who's the fool?"

You, you try, you try to get by. "You're never going to pull it off", "You shouldn't even try" "You're a wet cigarette", "You're always second best", but they're never going to give a shit about anybody but themselves. You fight for them to realize; there's more to life, there's more to you, there's more than meets the eye. And when you're done, the battle's been won. You sit back, you smile and this is what you hum, you hum: ....12341234.... The years go by, the time it does fly. Every single second is a moment in time that passes oh, so quick and it seems like nothing, but when you're looking back, well it amounts to everything. I've got myself. I've got my friends. I've got my little family, but that's not where it ends. This one goes out to you, it goes out to everyone. It's in the name of honesty because life has just begun. .... 12341234.... Look around little brother, Can you tell me what you see? You're a big boy now, so take responsibility. You never had it hard, but now it's getting tough, so you whine, whine, whine and you say you've had enough. You say i'm full of shit That i'm a hypocrite I shouldn't talk, when i can't take the advice that i give? Well maybe you're right, but open your eyes: the main difference here is that i try, try.

I'm back, I'm back
What you think about that?
I'm back, I'm back
To show you what you lack
I've read every page
From front to back
And memorized
Each and every stack
Can you see scratch of friends
I found a new tactic
For stabbin you in the back
For the way you've acted
OMG did you see
How shitty she can be
OMG I disagree whole heartedly
Messages leaving dirty deeds
Or so it seems
You are only my personal
Dopamine
You are everything I see
I'm the catch 22 with a birds eye view
And for a smart girl, you're good at stupid
Yeah he does it just to do it
Don't bother lying when it's already been proven
If all it takes is usual
A constant life of push and pull
And I don't think that I'll ever be full
No I don't wonder
About the places I will go
No I don't wonder
About the places I don't know
And if you tax for me
For a lack of loyalty
I believe, that you would be
Richer than this whole
God damn greedy control
I have fought the law
And the law won
Doesn't every dog know I wonder just what I've done
Now try and catch me while I'm on the run
I'm the catch 22 with a birds eye view
And for a smart girl, you're good at stupid
Yeah he does it just to do it
Don't bother lying when it's already been proven
I'm the catch 22 with a birds eye view
And for a smart girl, you're good at stupid
Yeah he does it just to do it
Don't bother lying when it's already been proven
S. E. L. F. R. E. S. P. E. C. T.
Self respect is what she was lacking
S. E. L. F. E. S. T. Double E. M.
Self esteem is what she needs from them
Stupid is as stupid does
You never saw how bad it was
And that's why I am here because
To show you how bad it was
I'm gonna save you from
The things that you've done
Don't sweat the battle 'cause
It's already been one
I'm the catch 22 with a birds eye view
And for a smart girl, you're good at stupid
Yeah he does it just to do it
Don't bother lying when it's already been proven
I'm the catch 22 with a birds eye view
And for a smart girl, you're good at stupid
Yeah he does it just to do it
Don't bother lying when it's already been proven
I'm the catch 22 with a birds eye view
And for a smart girl, you're good at stupid
Yeah he does it just to do it

I looks outside and see that everything is perfect
Except for me I'll always be the one who sits and stares
And now it's killing me, it's just killing me
I feel so empty inside
'Cause I'm a freak in your eyes
I feel so empty inside
And it's killing me
I look outside and see that everything is different
You'll never see inside of me, inside just who I am
And now and then you're just my friend,
Someone I could talk to
And it's killing me, it's just killing me
I feel so empty inside
'Cause I'm a freak in your eyes
I feel so empty inside
And it's killing me
I--I'm outside and looking in
I look into your eyes and see that you are perfect
Except for me, except for me
I feel so empty inside
'Cause I'm a freak in your eyes
I feel so empty inside
I feel so
I feel so

You will have the faith
And you will have the power
And you all shall kneel down before me
I am the new god
Touch my hand and I shall save your soul
This is the church of blood
And the baptism by fire
[ verse 1]
In my dreams
God speaks to me
And you all shall be damned
If you don't believe
This is what he speaks
How can you be so weak
And he's laughing all the while
As he pulls your leash
[ chorus 1 ]
Form your own opinion
Don't you buy that shit
Now the preacher thinks
His church is my t.v. set
[ verse 2 ]
69 miles to jonestown
Wacos on the way
Sell your soul to mind control
Operation obey
So let it be written
So let it be done
So many religions
There can only be one
[ chorus 2 ]
Form your own opinion
Under one good god
Now the preacher thinks
I can't see through his facade
[ solo ]
[ repeat 1st verse ]

If I could stay mad enough maybe
I'd leave but you have to understand this runs
twenty-two years deep. Everyone wants it all.
Everyone needs a place. You can destroy or you can create.
All I know is all that I know and
I know we all just beguile the time.
But it all catches up and it's all so fucked up.
Only time will tell. Common ground
can't be found from atop a hill looking down.
Look around. Take me to sleep. Put me to weep.
Can't you see that you've given your souls up for keeps?
We send in poor people to fight other poor people.
We send in our brothers and sisters and daughters and sons.
There is no difference. We send in to kill while
we sit on our asses and watch green screens infotain
all day long. It hits like a ton of feathers.