Grits (also sometimes called sofkee or sofkey from the Muskogee word) are a food of Native American origin common in the Southern United States and mainly eaten at breakfast. They consist of coarsely ground corn, or sometimes alkali-treated corn (hominy). Grits are similar to other thick maize-based porridges from around the world, such as polenta, or the thinner farina.
Grits are usually prepared by adding one part grits to two-to-three parts boiling water, sometimes seasoned with salt or sugar. They are usually cooked for 5–10 minutes for "quick" grits or 20 or more minutes for whole kernel grits, or until the water is absorbed and the grits become a porridge-like consistency. As grits expand when they are cooked, they need to be stirred periodically to prevent sticking and forming lumps. They may be served with grated cheese, butter, sausage or country ham red-eye gravy. Grits have also been known to be served with fish such as fried catfish or salmon croquettes. Shrimp and grits is considered a breakfast delicacy in the Low Country of coastal South Carolina. Another popular variant is Charleston-style grits, where the grits are boiled in milk, instead of water, to give them a creamy consistency.
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Yes, Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm proud to announce the arrive of Grits' Grammatical Revolution in the Spirit, starting with a heady experience.
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This is my first rap,
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Stop the holes,
[Hook]
My life be like
Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
Ooh Aah, Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
Ooh Aah, Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
[Verse One: Coffee]
I'm on an island by my lonesome stranded
Low key and stayin' candid
Reflect on all the things I try my hand at
Church for the equations to persuasions I'm used to
Finding comfort in the zones of closet bones I get loose to
A mountainous fontaine
Spinnin' and monsoonin', grinnin' it's hign octane
Explosive how I came
Rollin' down hills cause lifes a hastle
Encircled by my folly like a moat surround a castle
Stay afloat, catch a second wind
Thin
Is the air I breathe
Teary eyed nose runnin' wipe the snot on my sleeve
I'm callin' on the Savior to be all that I need
Please forgive me my behavior had me lost at light speed
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
[Verse Two: Bonifide]
The fear of never fallin' in love
And the tears after losin' the feelings of what you thought love was
Like the dirt still up under the rug (My life be like)
Bad characteristics covered in Christs blood
The joy of new birth and the pain of growin' up
The bliss between givin' my all and givin' up
The highs and lows
Paths and roads I chose
In the cold I froze
Tryin' to ease my woes
In this world of sin
Clothes to thin to fend
So to God I send
Words of help to win
In grumblings so deep letters could never express
So the sound of Ooh Aah beneath my breath projects
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
Don't be bad
[Verse Three: TobyMac]
My life be like
Ooh Aah Ooh
Dum dum ditty
Here come that boy from the Capital City
Last up on the Grits new ditty
But eight bars or the truth well do (uh)
I believe theres a private stunnin
And I believe in the Kindgom Comming
I believe if you seek the truth
You don't need to look far cause it's gonna find you
So why oh why do I trip and stumble?
And ooh aah as commitment crumbles?
I can't believe that I'm here again...
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
My life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Ma-ma-my life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
My life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
I messed up again when I tried
You spend all your money then die
And, oh! By the way.
With all you did nothing has changed
So lie like a waste by the side
As everything just falls apart
'Cause everything just fell apart for me
I cracked my head and broke my
I cracked my head and broke my
I cracked my head and broke my heart
And I don't feel the need to go on
I was happier singing along the way
I had things, I needed to say
But now its like a swallowed tape
That holds up my face from inside
'as everything just falls apart
'Cause everything just fell apart for me
I cracked my head and broke my
I cracked my head and broke my
I cracked my head and broke my heart
So woe is me
Oh woe is me, yeah
Woe is me
It all fell apart
I cracked my head and broke my
I cracked my head and broke my
I cracked my head and broke my... heart
And the hell of it is what we are
We finish and wish we could start again
Our skin tears away as our memories fade with age
And we don't even know 'til its gone...
But everything just fell apart
'Cause everything just falls apart for me
I cracked my head and broke my
I cracked my head and broke my
I cracked my head and broke my heart
So woe is me
It all falls apart you see
So woe is me
It all fell apart
I cracked my head and broke my
I cracked my head and broke my
I cracked my head and broke my heart
Everything just comes down
It falls around me cause, well...
Everything just falls uhhhh...
So woe is me
It all falls apart you see
So woe is me
It all fell apart
But I cracked my head and broke my
I cracked my head and broke my
We Workin
Redemptions
Grits
Verse 1:
Call it a second wind the beast has awoken from the pen
Departed from sin, but still breakin' bread with my kin
On a deeper water mission, pimpin', fishin' for men
Who glisten and grin, but keep a darker secret within
I'm a deeper light exposin' them
Chosen to bring Jehovah through
Move it, or I'm runnin' over you
Ludacris with a bigger shoe
Stompin' you out like Herc would do
Signaling death to flirt with you
Touching G's and working you
Lyrically I'm Da Vinci Code
Listen we're at the Super Bowl, the game you're trying to get to
Rookie, you in training clothes, we're franchise in booth
Country boys, but city with it
Foolish flows, and witty with it
Give it how it's given
Painted pad and higher livin'
Never switchin' my position
Put my kids in your condition
Stackin paper like im Staples
Stable livin, that's the mission
Illustrated, documented,
Future Scriptures: spit it! Finished.
Ya I said it cuz I meant it and I mean it cuz I live it
Verse 2:
Pop the top, it's a celebration!
Everyone's invited, excited, to deliver to you
The results: the few have been ignited!
Got it through treacherous realms
Uttered the devil's hails
Led me subconsciously back to well off the Father's begins
Earn a strike or two, seeing if I was ever in the path of imminent danger
Remember the separate image I analyze the results the culmination of repercussions
We be up for anything in our discussions
Never blushin', speak candid, so the mass can understand it
Eradicate what's in my vicinity, annihilation's my purpose
Worthless, gaining anonymity, no matter cuz they gonna remember me
Spoke golden, why determine they holding two titles at the same time
Artist and CEO, no picture in my frame of mind
Redemption record comin' soon,
Savor the most, so post blogs, on your MySpaces, or to any friends in high places
Interject it, dissect it, aim it, shoot it, direct it
tennessee boys, GIRLS
dirty south boys, GIRLS
tennessee boys, GIRLS
dirty south boys
t e (tennessee)
double n e (tennessee)
double s
now double e
now spell that out, it's tennessee
no matter where i be
everybody say it loud for me
travel from state to state
it's gonna be my home place
bonafides my name
to change the games my aim
gone break the chain and steak my claim
while putting nashville all on the brain
with a twist of the mid south twang
and a little bita bounce to bang
gone feed the soul and crowd the floors
and take control and break the mold
kick the doors and spit the flows
we in the pros what you aint know
cause round here they caddy roll
with gold grills and twenty wheels
on jefferson at mary ribs
bounce to this from state to fisk
we keep it hot for every spot
been round the world done seen a lot
tp all the boys out on the block
got love for yall for real dog
you the reason im here at all
and took the call to break the fall
and show the way from where i stay
in tennessee boy the dirty south boy
65 south ridin dirty window down open mouth
spirit stirred off the sermon i just heard that's my word
dipped and doused
awakened quickly mold me shape me but first strip,
hold me take me to extremes in my reside
though it seems i'm so beside
myself in this state i'm place in open the box my fate
encased in break the seal and let me out
in tennessee thats what i'm talkin bout
now i'm here not much can stop me you
a supporter if you got this copy now show dem
pearlies boys and girlies buff and burlies straight
and curlies no surprises, where we at got all shapes
and sizes put on the brakes remove all disguises
erupt like geysers, sound off one time(wooh)
whether sadistic legalistic outcast, or misfit
fortune teller mystic, ones who love god
(La-la-la-la); woo, woo, woo; (la-la-la-la); all free girls across the dance floor right now; we're gonna do it like this.
[Chorus: (La-la-la-la) Baby, let me holla at ya; come on, you better than that; go swing it back shorty, let me whisper to ya; (la-la-la-la) Baby, let me holla at ya; come on, you better than that; it'll only take a second shorty, listen to me; (la-la-la-la-la) Baby, let me holla at ya; I know you're doin' your thing; but shorty, let me explain; girl, you better than that; you better than that; you better than that; you better than that].
Baby girl you OK, are you OK; baby girl, it's kinda' lookin' like a bad day; nah, I ain't bein' funny or nuttin', but let me kick it to you real like a play, play cousin; ‘cause we go way back, like easy bake ovens; kept the batter in the fridge, ‘cause there's roaches in the cupboard (ha, ha, ha, ha); now that we've established that, go on take a load off and chit chat witch your brother; what happened witch your man, well that's what's up; I thought you said he was the one, and want to give him a son; and after him you was done, because there was no other; even got along good with his family and mother; girl, stop trippin'; you can't change a man, unless a man wanna change with thee, and rearrange his own plan, his own mind maybe; take a stand on his own leg, his own path lay.
Real talk; you know you a flirt; but even realer baby girl, you gotta' love you first; see, don't let nobody else determine your worth; don't let another man or woman drag you down in the dirt; I know, truth hurt, but it's good like a medicine; swallow it down, let it work and get you better babe; learn to be patient, let God finish you first; you bigger them diamonds and a superficial purse; (la, la, la, la; hello BeBe, you and me-ee; la, la, la, la; elevate, hollow me-ee; la, la, la, la, la; L-O-V-E, you and me-ee; la-la-la-la-la-la, la-ah-ah-ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah).
Beautiful baby girl, you're baby bobby head; precious as baby's is born, baby's a perfect ten; almost as perfect when you, you make your presence felt; you're strikin' presence it hit me, it hit below the belt; how can we cherish this moment, of pick and make it stick; know they impatiently waitin' for you girl, this is it; it's the time I fine dine, double date, triple date, fine dine, sippin' on fine wine; time fly's by, before we close, eyes don't lie, well sometimes they do; and big girls cry too; try to properly, prepare myself for future burn; girls, while I carry those, careful so at every turn; not just a job, but an adventure, I come to pinch ‘ya; call Alamo to wrench ‘ya, prayin' to the God I've sent ‘cha; important as indentures, either or, I can't leave ‘fore our lives are intertwined like chained link fence; (la, la, la, la, la; L-O-V-E, you and me-ee; la, la, la, la; elevate, hollow me-ee; la, la, la, la, la; L-O-V-E, you and me-ee; la-la-la-la-la-la, la-ah-ah-ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah).
(La-la-la-la) And if I loves you Bro, we gotta' get through, through; listen to my teacher, be a stud'nt; (la, la, la, la) I ain't the one to steer you wrong; wrote the lyrics to this song; helpin' others in your position, to move on.
(La-la-la, la-la) And if I loves you Bro, we gotta' get through, through; listen to my teacher, be a stud'nt; I ain't the one to steer you wrong; wrote the lyrics to this song; helpin' others in your position, to move on.
Chorus:
Hey! Taxing with the traction
I'm parlaying in my zone
Forget what they gonna say
Haters and their fake gators
Catered to the ideals
That we gonna break, shake, at the site of my wheels
Turning like 20, 20
Hundred spokes on baby blues
Powdered like the Johnsons
Once its done, and its being viewed
Relaxing when I...hey
Taxing with the traction
I'm parlaying in my zone
Forget what they gonna say
Hey...
Verse 1
Hey, find the moment together, all the evidence
Fathomed what is sub-sequential
Paths in the barrel, we lobsters and we love to pinch you
Get you in a bind like notebook paper
Kidnapper of innocents, oh you the ones who take em?
Run em hard, bend em break us
Fools, whose? Say it, say it
Choose trues playa playa
Whose blues? Don't confuse the blues, clues, playa playa
Why don't you chose the tools that's gonna well equip
Keep you fresh like celibate
And maybe one of these days we'll fellowship,
Ain't that a trip!
Ha, ha, you must've missed it,
Ha, ha, ha, Don't get it twisted
Ha, Take the time, revisit
Is it what the games been missin'?
Do you know that lanes change?
Or do you simply underestimate the fact
A new outlook could evolve and brain change
I don't just be sayin' things,
Allow my heart to know the words
Played the bubble, bask and glow, luminescent, laugh and double
Troubles abound, rebound, to shake the fiber of our being
Seein' status for a moment,
Warning: a crack destroying each component.
Verse 2
I hear the chitter chatter but it never matter
Flip with paper batter, tryin to get these themes fatter
Seem to make these haters matter
Look at em, so sound, bout to cry, no sir, but my flesh wont let me do it
Got me numb to all emotion
Like the killer with a post it
Im all off in my zone man
Wish theyd leave me ‘lone man
Understand their bone
Tryin' to lead them to the throne
Where there's healing for the soul
And the least is made whole
And the grown is getting' born again
Severed from the secret sin
Hidden from the eyes of man
Hopeless on the ropes again
Drownin in the shallow end
Takin' dirty water in
Quickly dying slowly
Slippin' deep into the distance
I'm pressin' with the sisters
Resisting the resistors
They're trackin' my sisters
My commitment is consistent
So they listen when they listen in
And digress to digest the diction's definition
[Hook]
My life be like
Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
Ooh Aah, Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
Ooh Aah, Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
[Verse One: Coffee]
I'm on an island by my lonesome stranded
Low key and stayin' candid
Reflect on all the things I try my hand at
Church for the equations to persuasions I'm used to
Finding comfort in the zones of closet bones I get loose to
A mountainous fontaine
Spinnin' and monsoonin', grinnin' it's hign octane
Explosive how I came
Rollin' down hills cause lifes a hastle
Encircled by my folly like a moat surround a castle
Stay afloat, catch a second wind
Thin
Is the air I breathe
Teary eyed nose runnin' wipe the snot on my sleeve
I'm callin' on the Savior to be all that I need
Please forgive me my behavior had me lost at light speed
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
[Verse Two: Bonifide]
The fear of never fallin' in love
And the tears after losin' the feelings of what you thought love was
Like the dirt still up under the rug (My life be like)
Bad characteristics covered in Christs blood
The joy of new birth and the pain of growin' up
The bliss between givin' my all and givin' up
The highs and lows
Paths and roads I chose
In the cold I froze
Tryin' to ease my woes
In this world of sin
Clothes to thin to fend
So to God I send
Words of help to win
In grumblings so deep letters could never express
So the sound of Ooh Aah beneath my breath projects
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
Don't be bad
[Verse Three: TobyMac]
My life be like
Ooh Aah Ooh
Dum dum ditty
Here come that boy from the Capital City
Last up on the Grits new ditty
But eight bars or the truth well do (uh)
I believe theres a private stunnin
And I believe in the Kindgom Comming
I believe if you seek the truth
You don't need to look far cause it's gonna find you
So why oh why do I trip and stumble?
And ooh aah as commitment crumbles?
I can't believe that I'm here again...
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
My life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Ma-ma-my life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
My life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
[Hook]
My life be like
Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
Ooh Aah, Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
Ooh Aah, Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
[Verse One: Coffee]
I'm on an island by my lonesome stranded
Low key and stayin' candid
Reflect on all the things I try my hand at
Church for the equations to persuasions I'm used to
Finding comfort in the zones of closet bones I get loose to
A mountainous fontaine
Spinnin' and monsoonin', grinnin' it's hign octane
Explosive how I came
Rollin' down hills cause lifes a hastle
Encircled by my folly like a moat surround a castle
Stay afloat, catch a second wind
Thin
Is the air I breathe
Teary eyed nose runnin' wipe the snot on my sleeve
I'm callin' on the Savior to be all that I need
Please forgive me my behavior had me lost at light speed
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
[Verse Two: Bonifide]
The fear of never fallin' in love
And the tears after losin' the feelings of what you thought love was
Like the dirt still up under the rug (My life be like)
Bad characteristics covered in Christs blood
The joy of new birth and the pain of growin' up
The bliss between givin' my all and givin' up
The highs and lows
Paths and roads I chose
In the cold I froze
Tryin' to ease my woes
In this world of sin
Clothes to thin to fend
So to God I send
Words of help to win
In grumblings so deep letters could never express
So the sound of Ooh Aah beneath my breath projects
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
Don't be bad
[Verse Three: TobyMac]
My life be like
Ooh Aah Ooh
Dum dum ditty
Here come that boy from the Capital City
Last up on the Grits new ditty
But eight bars or the truth well do (uh)
I believe theres a private stunnin
And I believe in the Kindgom Comming
I believe if you seek the truth
You don't need to look far cause it's gonna find you
So why oh why do I trip and stumble?
And ooh aah as commitment crumbles?
I can't believe that I'm here again...
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
My life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Ma-ma-my life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
My life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
[Hook]
My life be like
Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
Ooh Aah, Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
Ooh Aah, Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
[Verse One: Coffee]
I'm on an island by my lonesome stranded
Low key and stayin' candid
Reflect on all the things I try my hand at
Church for the equations to persuasions I'm used to
Finding comfort in the zones of closet bones I get loose to
A mountainous fontaine
Spinnin' and monsoonin', grinnin' it's hign octane
Explosive how I came
Rollin' down hills cause lifes a hastle
Encircled by my folly like a moat surround a castle
Stay afloat, catch a second wind
Thin
Is the air I breathe
Teary eyed nose runnin' wipe the snot on my sleeve
I'm callin' on the Savior to be all that I need
Please forgive me my behavior had me lost at light speed
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
[Verse Two: Bonifide]
The fear of never fallin' in love
And the tears after losin' the feelings of what you thought love was
Like the dirt still up under the rug (My life be like)
Bad characteristics covered in Christs blood
The joy of new birth and the pain of growin' up
The bliss between givin' my all and givin' up
The highs and lows
Paths and roads I chose
In the cold I froze
Tryin' to ease my woes
In this world of sin
Clothes to thin to fend
So to God I send
Words of help to win
In grumblings so deep letters could never express
So the sound of Ooh Aah beneath my breath projects
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
Don't be bad
[Verse Three: TobyMac]
My life be like
Ooh Aah Ooh
Dum dum ditty
Here come that boy from the Capital City
Last up on the Grits new ditty
But eight bars or the truth well do (uh)
I believe theres a private stunnin
And I believe in the Kindgom Comming
I believe if you seek the truth
You don't need to look far cause it's gonna find you
So why oh why do I trip and stumble?
And ooh aah as commitment crumbles?
I can't believe that I'm here again...
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
My life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Ma-ma-my life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
My life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Get down, get down, get down
Get down
(Are you listenin'?)
Get down, get down, get down
Get down
(Listen to this)
When I start, I master the art of getting down to the heart
And set apart to spark emotion at the slightest sound
It? s probably one of the realest topics ever spoke upon
Speech that God will impeach
Swallow the chunks which you choke upon
I? m gifted, I know it, still was I wandering in the path
They tell me, "Boy, you? re a star, sign me your autograph?
This can? t be it, though mind gone staring into space
Sorry, where was I? Thoughts gone without a trace
Was the love of my life, hip-hop guided my wife
A combination of the three that would probably me nice
After doing suffice, I break the ice with device
And take advice that comes with the price of rolling the dice
Get down, get down, get down
Get down
(Are you listenin'?)
Get down, get down, get down
Get down
(Listen to this)
I get down for whatever pound to the sound of the ground
Any weather, storms may come but conform me never
My mind transformed by words born to live forever
Scorn but still I? d rather walk in the light of the truth presented
I never understood grace till I really repented
Till I truly committed my total self, admitted
Now my hustle has found purpose and pimpin?
I gotta get it even if bloodshed is a part of my quest
I? m embracin? my deathbed till I? m collectin? the rest
I ain? t leavin? without receiving what was meant for me
God? s will being fulfilled, my life complete, get down
Get down, get down, get down
Get down
(Are you listenin'?)
Get down, get down, get down
Get down
(Listen to this)
Get down, get down, get down
Get down
(Are you listenin'?)
Get down, get down, get down
Get down
(Listen to this)
Get down, get down, get down
Get down
(Are you listenin'?)
Get down, get down, get down
Get down
(Listen to this)
Get down, get down, get down
Get down
(Are you listenin'?)
Get down, get down, get down
Get down
(Listen to this)
Let me get at the verse, let me get at the vocal
Let me be real as I slowly approach you
Tell me your feelings on the world? s conditions
Sign away but let me get your permission
To release conviction alone
Yeah yeah yeah
Let the fire burn, let the fire roar
Bouncin' back and forth to beat
Gettin' angle wings to soar high
Yeah yeah yeah
Let the fire burn, let the fire roar
Bouncin' back and forth to beat
Gettin' angle wings to soar high
Yeah yeah yeah
I gotta hit den submit it to let the flame consume me
Control me, that I would listen to it glisten while it's crissinin'
Rhymes that bring presition through it lines paintin' vision through it
Lives resurrected through it, game well respected for it and that's why
We so true with it and ain't gone never be through with it
Why we so hot but cool with it, so fresh, so clean, so new with it
So let the fire burn, let the fire roar build your body baby
Trust me you'll be comin' back for more lack for no more
A thirst for no thing hurt for no pain a lust for no man
A woman not yours and that's the truth man hundred fifty proof man
Swig some and get dumb so you could get high
Yeah yeah yeah
Let the fire burn, let the fire roar
Bouncin' back and forth to beat
Gettin' angle wings to soar high
Yeah yeah yeah
Let the fire burn, let the fire roar
Bouncin' back and forth to beat
Gettin' angle wings to soar high
Yeah yeah yeah
Sink in favor what you pick behavior
Flash across the screen it inflict the flavor
Cherish and embrace in every moment saved unconsciously
Our conquest aimlessly they goin' bonkers smokin' on dat bombsess
Foolishness and nonsense we barely scratch the surface
Not on purpose about a thousand times around with countless minds
We pass they lives as worthless, we poke our nose
When those boys pose, we curious to see what's goin' down
When doors close figure out they morris code
They box up they emotion 'cause camotions
Beyond they act like big fishes in a pond, but really rocks
In a ocean boned it eyes saw the score in '94 and we cleaned the floor
With pores that were soar mended wings 'til we reached the core
Let the fire burn, let the fire roar
Bouncin' back and forth to beat
Gettin' angle wings to soar high
Yeah yeah yeah
Let the fire burn, let the fire roar
Bouncin' back and forth to beat
Gettin' angle wings to soar high
Yeah yeah yeah
Let the fire burn, let the fire roar
Bouncin' back and forth to beat
Gettin' angle wings to soar high
Yeah yeah yeah
Let the fire burn, let the fire roar
Bouncin' back and forth to beat
Gettin' angle wings to soar high
Yeah yeah yeah
Let the fire burn, let the fire roar
Bouncin' back and forth to beat
Gettin' angle wings to soar high
Yeah yeah yeah
Let the fire burn, let the fire roar
Bouncin' back and forth to beat
Gettin' angle wings to soar high
Yeah yeah yeah
(Dippin' in the ride, swervin' in the ride)
(Dippin' in the ride, swervin' in the ride)
Hittin' curves, shorty, baby, ooh ooh
Hittin' curves, shorty, baby, ooh ooh
(Dippin' in the ride, swervin' in the ride)
(Dippin' in the ride, swervin' in the ride)
Hittin' curves
Deadlocked in the zone, we prone to dip into the unknown
Quick to flip if one trip, forced to break bones
First we break bread, then break heads
Look at all the people runnin' in fear, scared
Unwillin' to hear what's said, hide under the shed
We lyin' in the filth, grown men layin' in our own beds
Pull ourselves up by the bootstraps
Hit them curves, dodge the trap, don't move at a slow pace
Hand us a mic, we move the whole place
This for each and every hood
Eighteenth Ave, Wedge wood, South side, clean cutz
Tell me who on it, tell me what you know that's good
Baller blockin' ain't an option, that ain't the purpose of my concoction
Releasin' toxins in the abyss, boxin' you in so you don't miss
Me gettin' you rockin', Nashville
Proud I'm in it, been a minute
Gettin' our due, me and my crew
Rep our city, how? bout you?
Hittin' curves, shorty, baby, ooh ooh
Hittin' curves, shorty, baby, ooh ooh
(Dippin' in the ride, swervin' in the ride)
(Dippin' in the ride, swervin' in the ride)
Hittin' curves, shorty, baby, ooh ooh
Hittin' curves, shorty, baby, ooh ooh
(Dippin' in the ride, swervin' in the ride)
(Dippin' in the ride, swervin' in the ride)
That's why we tell them, swervin' we rulin' we serving'
Hittin' them curves and then we
Pushin' them verses them curses
They must be broken yeah
Takin' them Tennessee corners
And changin' lanes 'cause they
Brought us enough contradiction
So now we change our position yeah, yeah
I'm in LaVergne lettin' the Chevy burn rubber every turn
Changin' lanes while the body swang heavy to the right
Like my life hit them curves swerve, as I discern to turn
Back down the one way truth and the life
I learn lessons every block countin' blessings like rocks
As I bubble in the struggle in the Classic Caprice
Releasin' pressure like these woofers in the back of my seats
And speakin' clearer than these tweeters when I'm over these beats
I check the navigation to see what direction to take
To lead a generation headed for collision with fate
On the darker side in the ride lookin' through rear views
In full speed searchin' for a you turn to save you hittin' curves
Hittin' curves, shorty, baby, ooh ooh
Hittin' curves, shorty, baby, ooh ooh
(Dippin' in the ride, swervin' in the ride)
(Dippin' in the ride, swervin' in the ride)
Hittin' curves, shorty, baby, ooh ooh
Hittin' curves, shorty, baby, ooh ooh
(Dippin' in the ride, swervin' in the ride)
(Dippin' in the ride, swervin' in the ride)
Swervin' hittin' curves and servin'
Pushin' the verses for the curses
Must be broken so we focused
Stop sign and the place can't hold us
Takin' them Tennessee corners
Changin' lanes 'cause they brought us
Enough contradiction so now
We change our position yeah, yeah
Hittin' curves, shorty, baby, ooh ooh
Hittin' curves, shorty, baby, ooh ooh
(Dippin' in the ride, swervin' in the ride)
(Dippin' in the ride, swervin' in the ride)
Hittin' curves, shorty, baby, ooh ooh
Hittin' curves, shorty, baby, ooh ooh
(Dippin' in the ride, swervin' in the ride)
(Dippin' in the ride, swervin' in the ride)
We mean business, when we 'bout this
We ain't monotonous, drop bombs on 'em
We take it seriously, it ain't no mystery
We notchin' one in history
See, it's literally, lyrically serious
Business, when we 'bout this
We ain't monotonous 'cause when we rock this
We take it seriously, it ain't no mystery
We notchin' one in history
See, it's literally, lyrically serious
This is mind penetration through rhyme concentrated
Word use administration and abrasive education
Sixth sense illumination on reconciliation
Put the cross over placement with the cross over placement
So cautiously, I approach the mic without apostasy
It's costing me every proper due from fellow emcees
But these be more than just rhymes and punch lines to me
Seriously, we have no time for playing lyrically
At least we don't and that's a money back guarantee
'Cause people need more than entertainment from the industry
So many lives depending on lies
So many die 'cause too many high and not many try
To live a life beyond self chasing status and wealth
Using excuses how you came up
For records to sell, the stories you tell
Done, been told in so many ways
The only difference is your platinum shackles and iced out chains
So ignorantly, you keep them loving mantel slavery
They wanna be free, but you ignore responsibility
Ignorantly, you keep them loving mental slavery
They wanna be free, but you ignore responsibility
We mean business, when we 'bout this
We ain't monotonous, drop bombs on 'em
We take it seriously, it ain't no mystery
We notchin' one in history
See, it's literally, lyrically serious
Business, when we 'bout this
We ain't monotonous 'cause when we rock this
We take it seriously, it ain't no mystery
We notchin' one in history
See, it's literally, lyrically serious
Yo, we make an orangutan with lipstick on
Recite these words and sing this song
No drugs or pills that I be on, scratch and sniff my provolone
The place I'm at I so belong, glad to be here
Thank you, glad, you could make it
Ain't nobody took it where we 'bout to take it
We so in serious, hop skip bounce to be us
My voluptuous style make you chew up my style
Lunatic rippin' up the tile
Fact or fable
Tools of necessity a mic and a turntable
Plunder like a pirate that's what people are called
Who steal cable deal under the table
With these flows we drop bombs
Like after eatin' three Cinnabons
Upon my head this mantle been put upon
Not the exploding kind
The kind that enlighten the throne I sit upon
Shinning light in clear you need to get upon
Check the head of this nail I hit upon
Times a wastin' don't get me wrong
We at the end of this song
Shut your mouth
We mean business, when we 'bout this
We ain't monotonous drop bombs on 'em
We take it seriously, it ain't no mystery
We notchin' one in history
See it's literally, lyrically serious
Business, when we 'bout this
We ain't monotonous 'cause when we rock this
We take it seriously, it ain't no mystery
We notchin' one in history
See it's literally, lyrically serious
We rhyme on 'em
Two times on 'em
We rhyme on 'em
Drop bombs on 'em
We take it seriously, it ain't no mystery
We notchin' one in history
See it's literally, lyrically serious
We rhyme on 'em
Two times on 'em
We rhyme on 'em
Drop bombs on 'em
We take it seriously, it ain't no mystery
We notchin' one in history
You play your part
You play your part, I'll play mine
The beggar and the mime
I'm getting good enough at feigning interest
But that still puts me here pretending to listen
You're the only one to talk to
But the last one that I want to
You bring me right back to the tailor
Resizing myself once again to fit in, to fit into you
You're the only one to talk to
But the last one that I want to
You bring me right back to the tailor
Resizing myself once again to fit in, to fit into you
If I was smarter I would leave
If I was smart I'd do a lot of things
If I was smarter I would leave
If I was smart I'd do a lot of things
If I was smarter I would leave
If I was smart I'd do a lot of things
I'd get myself out of this stupid town
I'd save the world in a single bound
I'd put myself to better use
I wouldn't sit here writing about how
You're the only one to talk to
But the last one that I want to
You bring me right back to the tailor
Resizing myself once again to fit in, to fit into you
You're the only one to talk to
But the last one that I want to
You bring me right back to the tailor
Resizing myself once again to fit in, to fit into you
If I was smarter I would leave
runnin runnin
lookin for that love i once knew
runnin runnin
trying to find my way back to you
i been runnin since understandin confiscated my globe
stuttering since expression stole the key to my soul
struggling since victory presumed control
battling since the truth infiltrated my mold
seeking to find a life in invisible hold
traveling down a path of a difficult road
running without a clue of being left astray
swearing im getting closer but really further away
runnin
don't you sometimes sit back and look at yourself
examine things in life you hate but you've become get sick of yourself
the very images you claim lack worth
then with uncontrolled labor pains them very images you gave birth
this topic got me ceiling walkin
i'm so beside myself i'm lookin at me like i'm someone else and i don't feel i'm talkin
i'm tryin to spit it best i can atcha
(your life you really need to rid it of) attention grabbers that keep you from runnin
runnin
my desires lead me right to you
the very thing that has me runnin
back to you
in desilate times i wrestle at times
feeling so neglected at times rejected at times
hard to try to get out my mind hold to the soul
believing that its gonna be fine hes in control
letting go the walk in the know forgetting the how
strong enough to wait for the when to weaken the now
put aside the question of why, this is allowed (?)
running to the back of the line
looking for mine, looking for mine, lookin for mine...
if dead men tell no tales
(yo) how do you account for the platinum rappers with millions of record sales
then tell me i aint good cuz my record fails
with a standard that's set to first-quarter sales the truth shall prevail
if i let you dictate it life would be stale (whoo)
but i follow my lord who's been proven with the scars and nails
everybody busy funnin number one stunnin
what else you get from yo mama
Tell me what's happenin' with ya
Shawty what's happenin'?
What's happenin' with ya?
Shawty what's happenin?
What's happenin' with ya?
Tell me what's happenin' with ya
Shawty what's happenin'?
What's happenin' with ya?
Shawty what's happenin?
What's happenin' with ya?
Tell me what's happenin' with ya
Shawty what's happenin'?
What's happenin' with ya?
Shawty what's happenin?
What's happenin' with ya?
Tell me what's happenin' with ya
Shawty what's happenin'?
What's happenin' with ya?
Shawty what's happenin?
What's happenin' with ya?
What's happenin'?
What's happenin' with ya shawty?
What's happenin'?
What's happenin'?
What's happenin'?
What's happenin' with ya shawty?
What's happenin'?
What's happenin' shawty?
I ain't seen you 'round in a minute
You done growed up and swolled and lookin' tented
I saw ya moms around the way
You know she put me up on it
How you been runnin' 'round with dre and takin' trips up the road
What lakeisha doin'?
Oh ya'll ain't together no mo'?
Fo' real man?
I can't believe she over there stayin' with joe
Cause didn't his door just get kicked in?
I thought he just get out hte pin and goin' back again
I heard he ain't gone do no less than ten
That's a shame man
The game done put another one down and truth tell
You 'bout three feet and half way in the ground
Dawg you better than this
Don't let that money make you no fool
By now you could of graduated and been finished with school
But anyway
I just wanted to try to say ma 'til piece
Don't be deceived boy
You ain't gone find ma love in these streets
And that heat you hold ain't nothin but false power and control
And that drove gone keep you blind from that potential in yo' mind
Look man I ain't yo' daddy
And ain't tryin' to be neither
But I love you like you mine
And I want you to see
You wanna be a man, then face the one that's given you life
And live to do his will cause shawty that's what's happenin' for real
(For real)
Tell me what's happenin' with ya
Shawty what's happenin'?
What's happenin' with ya?
Shawty what's happenin?
What's happenin' with ya?
Tell me what's happenin'
I'll be on ma way
(I'll be on ma way)
(Shawty what's happenin'?)
I won't make you wait too late
(Shawty what's happenin'?)
I'll be right on time
(What's happenin'?)
(Shawty what's happenin'?)
I won't make you wait too late
(I'll be on ma way)
I'm comin' (what's happenin'?)
Harmonizing
What's the hasp? the haps
You spent from all them laps and caps and piece
Have to speak ma mind
Carrying these thoughts for weeks
How do I get through to a nation whos loss ain't got no indication?
Informations when I'm facin'
Pacin' strategicly man your relation
So many gutter minded
Big behinded
Exposed to evils they themselves are givin' life to
Mirrored image
Look just like you
Boy you just a pawn
Scripted part like goldie hawn
Playin' a role with no control
Cashin' checks yo' name ain't on
Got that real
That raw
Dopest catch you ever saw
Congruent with that shine of fluent
Country boy from arkansas
Grateful to be here
Pre-destined manifestin' blessin's
Learn life lessons
Know yo' place and role
Quite second guessin'
Tell me what's happenin' with ya
Shawty what's happenin'?
What's happenin' with ya?
Shawty what's happenin?
What's happenin' with ya?
I'll be on ma way
Won't make you wait
I'll be on ma way
Won't be too late
Won't make you wait
I'll be on ma way
Anybody, right now my heart is so heavy
And I cry tears until I'm empty
I feel so alone, don't you hear me say?
I gotta break these chains, I gotta break these chains
[Incomprehensible]
Anybody out there, anybody on the landscape
Any, anybody, am I talkin' to myself?
Body, body, anybody, I need to rationalize
Anybody see the passion in my eyes?
This flip life, sorta stuff I observe
Is often times triflin', throwin' me a curve
Seem a little life been gettin' a little blurred
Lately my wife's been prayin' for me, word
God, know I'm thankful for the blessings I receive
But who wants to give up what they want for what they need
A lotta things are promises, a lot are true indeed
Some of ya'll ain't hearin' me, let me brin' you up to speed
Maybe we'll stop, maybe the album will flop
Maybe we'll cop nice cribs on the way to the top
Maybe we'll stay right here in the jar remainders
Keep believin' with the truth, leadin' a pack to fall
Right now my heart is so heavy
And I cry tears until I'm empty
I feel so alone, don't you hear me say?
I gotta break these chains, I gotta break these chains
[Incomprehensible]
Have you ever felt alone like nobody cares?
And even at home, ain't nobody there?
But somebody's there, but nobody's there
Showin' concern for the issues burnin'
The insecurity and the fear internally
Poor self image with no real identity
Untapped potential, unstable mental
Lookin' to escape from the trap you into
So you puffin', puffin' til you see the stars
You cuttin', cuttin' and you hide the scares
You poppin', poppin' til the pills are gone
You drink the last drop til you in the zone
You were [Incomprehensible] for the love complex
Used and abused, bruised and confused
I'm gonna tell the truth ain't no substitute
That's ever gonna fulfill the need inside you
Christ died for that, he left and came back
Flowed the powers, sin and death alike
You can have life and get more abundant
No more questions, cap the wonderin'
Right now my heart is so heavy
And I cry tears until I'm empty
I feel so alone, don't you hear me say?
I gotta break these chains, I gotta break these chains
What you wanna know? Where you tryin' to go?
What you tryin' to see? Where you tryin' to be?
What you wanna know? Where you tryin' to go?
What you tryin' to see? Where you tryin' to be?
Right now my heart is so heavy
And I cry tears until I'm empty
I feel so alone, don't you hear me say?
I gotta break these chains, I gotta break these chains
What you wanna know? Where you tryin' to go?
What you tryin' to see? Where you tryin' to be?
What you wanna know? Where you tryin' to go?
What you tryin' to see? Where you tryin' to be?
Right now my heart is so heavy
And I cry tears until I'm empty
I feel so alone, don't you hear me say?
I gotta break these chains, I gotta break these chains
What you wanna know? Where you tryin' to go?
What you tryin' to see? Where you tryin' to be?
What you wanna know? Where you tryin' to go?
These sunny days, colorful arrays
Trees blow with hues and grays
To be one who submits and prays
Into the heart of God I gaze these sunny days
These sunny days, colorful arrays
Trees blow with hues and grays
To be one who submits and prays
Into the heart of God I gaze these sunny days
These sunny days, colorful arrays
Trees blow with hues and grays
To be one who submits and prays
Into the heart of God I gaze these sunny days
These sunny days, colorful arrays
Trees blow with hues and grays
To be one who submits and prays
Into the heart of God I gaze these sunny days
I thought I'd take a minute I hope I didn't catch you by surprise
I got a lesson learner fact or fiction swoop through your demise
Open eyes and givin' clear vision the windows broken from
The pain of livin' here wishin'
You could survive with those who gave lives
Avoid the cracks and moats of new age turncoats
And modern day cut throats
What makes it shroom blossom and boom a murmer in a gossipin' room
My Jesus comin' back possibly soon
Anticipate his shown up
Anticipate we praise desire for grown up
The author and finisher of faith
Offerin' a diminishin' gas face rememberin' who in last place
No sell out through global fall out go all out
Make a hundred your percentage forget buyin' the mall out
Or palm greases thirty pieces sent to those offended
But like Judas you wont ever get to spend it
These sunny days, colorful arrays
Trees blow with hues and grays
To be one who submits and prays
Into the heart of God I gaze these sunny days
These sunny days, colorful arrays
Trees blow with hues and grays
To be one who submits and prays
Into the heart of God I gaze these sunny days
Well lemme get a little lotta bita some of that too
And I hope it ain't too non ghetto to seep through
And keep you twisted and locked like dreads do
Who said you wasn't gonna feel the heat of the rays
But anyways man it's funny how the sight of such a beautiful day
Can deliver you joy and bring pain in the same way
Like blessin' with the same mouth
While cursin' in the same breathe
Or livin' life dyin' death, so deceived to the eye
How red blood is blue and rainbows are see through
Its all to teach you that you cant depend on me
It's Like drivin' a Benz 20 inch rims drop top six with the tank on E
So down that you fly, so true that you gotta lie
I really pray you come to realize
You in the shade with the sun in your eye
Sun in your eye on sunny days
These sunny days, colorful arrays
Trees blow with hues and grays
To be one who submits and prays
Into the heart of God I gaze these sunny days
These sunny days, colorful arrays
Trees blow with hues and grays
To be one who submits and prays
Into the heart of God I gaze these sunny days
These sunny days, colorful arrays
Trees blow with hues and grays
To be one who submits and prays
Into the heart of God I gaze these sunny days
These sunny days, colorful arrays
Trees blow with hues and grays
To be one who submits and prays
Into the heart of God I gaze these sunny days
These sunny days, colorful arrays
These sunny days, colorful arrays
Trees blow with hues and grays
To be one who submits and prays
Into the heart of God I gaze these sunny days
These sunny days, colorful arrays
These sunny days, colorful arrays
Trees blow with hues and grays
To be one who submits and prays
Into the heart of God I gaze these sunny days
That's when you know a group is hip
Is when your parents say
What is it with the hippy, the hip, hip, hippy glows?
And you can't understand a word they are sayin'
Back on up, back on up, oh yeah, back on up
Back on up, back on up, oh yeah, back on up
Back on up, back on up, oh yeah, back on up
Back on up, back on up, oh yeah, back on up
Oh yeah, back on up
Make room, 'cause we about to start swelling
Catching attitude, get buck sweat it up
And really lose cool, it's what we been commissioned to do
So back on up and give me room, we gotta keep makin' moves
My long range aim is dedicated to change
Persist to twist brains with rhymes, only God can explain
Attain divine intervention if your attentions arrested
Imprisoned and in position to listen to lessons given
Gotta make moves steadily, heavily bruising these dudes
We got the gift, but abuse tools misleading these youths see
My birthright is light in the darkness of night
To lead the lost paying the price of sacrificing my life
I've been sittin' and contemplating waiting anxiously peeking
Perception of these releases embracing the deeper reasons
Of timing and perfect season believing this thing is bigger
Than faces and sound scan reaching for the completion
Of purpose in promised land watchin' behind the curtain
For certain the game is hurtin' looking for some solution
Searchin' for revolution like music is the conclusion
Refusing to look at life a livin' for forward movement
Make room, 'cause we about to start swelling
Catching attitude, get buck sweat it up
And really lose cool, it's what we been commissioned to do
So back on up and give me room, we gotta keep makin' moves
Make room, 'cause we about to start swelling
Catching attitude, get buck sweat it up
And really lose cool, it's what we been commissioned to do
So back on up and give me room, we gotta keep makin' moves
Move cowards, move all you cowards move
Move cowards, move all you cowards move
Move cowards, move all you cowards move
He scared, she scared and if you scared then move
Oh God, don't let me act up, I feel a fit comin' on
My conniption's, my conviction's reaction to what's goin' on
My rebuttal's far from subtle, take you there just like a shuttle
Gather round the huddle embrace the pace
I spit at give it a kiss and cuddle
Boy what's that there you sayin'?
I'm tight like the shorts that men look gay in
Oh Lordy, you don' said too much
My slightest touch is a cobra clutch
Let it be known, we are the epitomy of strange and bizarre
Switchin' up and change our repertoire
Come discover who we are, wreaking havoc on Satan's mavericks
Through a labyrinth filled with nooks and crannies
An elite group called the factors
We like the X-Men so uncanny, imagine looking
Up seeing the plastered ceiling cracking, it ain't because
We broke, we lost our minds for God provoked and crazy actin'
Make room, 'cause we about to start swelling
Catching attitude, get buck sweat it up
And really lose cool, it's what we been commissioned to do
So back on up and give me room, we gotta keep makin' moves
Make room, 'cause we about to start swelling
Catching attitude, get buck sweat it up
And really lose cool, it's what we been commissioned to do
So back on up and give me room, we gotta keep makin' moves
Make room, 'cause we about to start swelling
Catching attitude, get buck sweat it up
And really lose cool, it's what we been commissioned to do
So back on up and give me room, we gotta keep makin' moves
Make room, 'cause we about to start swelling
Catching attitude, get buck sweat it up
And really lose cool, its' what we been commissioned to do
So back on up and give me room, we gotta keep makin' moves
[Hook]
My life be like
Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
Ooh Aah, Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
Ooh Aah, Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
[Verse One: Coffee]
I'm on an island by my lonesome stranded
Low key and stayin' candid
Reflect on all the things I try my hand at
Church for the equations to persuasions I'm used to
Finding comfort in the zones of closet bones I get loose to
A mountainous fontaine
Spinnin' and monsoonin', grinnin' it's hign octane
Explosive how I came
Rollin' down hills cause lifes a hastle
Encircled by my folly like a moat surround a castle
Stay afloat, catch a second wind
Thin
Is the air I breathe
Teary eyed nose runnin' wipe the snot on my sleeve
I'm callin' on the Savior to be all that I need
Please forgive me my behavior had me lost at light speed
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
[Verse Two: Bonifide]
The fear of never fallin' in love
And the tears after losin' the feelings of what you thought love was
Like the dirt still up under the rug (My life be like)
Bad characteristics covered in Christs blood
The joy of new birth and the pain of growin' up
The bliss between givin' my all and givin' up
The highs and lows
Paths and roads I chose
In the cold I froze
Tryin' to ease my woes
In this world of sin
Clothes to thin to fend
So to God I send
Words of help to win
In grumblings so deep letters could never express
So the sound of Ooh Aah beneath my breath projects
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
Don't be bad
[Verse Three: TobyMac]
My life be like
Ooh Aah Ooh
Dum dum ditty
Here come that boy from the Capital City
Last up on the Grits new ditty
But eight bars or the truth well do (uh)
I believe theres a private stunnin
And I believe in the Kindgom Comming
I believe if you seek the truth
You don't need to look far cause it's gonna find you
So why oh why do I trip and stumble?
And ooh aah as commitment crumbles?
I can't believe that I'm here again...
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
My life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Ma-ma-my life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
My life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
What do you believe?
What do you believe?
What do you believe?
Everybody needs something to see, something to feel
And something to be
Everybody needs something as proof, something in hand
To know the truth
Everybody needs something to see, something to feel
And something to be
Everybody needs something as proof, something in hand
To know the truth
Everybody needs something to see, something to feel
And something to be
Everybody needs something as proof, something in hand
To know the truth
Livin' lavish like the biltmore what the blood split for
A ship in harbor is safe, but that ain't what it's built for
Do all I can to help you get more
If you forgive my slight intrusion, I see this night is confusin'
A constant fight with illusions, shed a light on conclusions
What you desire is a way out, day in and day out
Do not disturb signs so I'll stay out
How long will you let the torture grasp you
I see spirits manifestin', blockin' blessings with the questions
That you hear me ask you, keep it up so much will pass you
You can make it on a prayer, yeah that's true
But barely getting by when you can do more
Why would you want to
Forgettin' that the wood's dry and the fire's on you
Life's a hassle be prepared to rassle
It can be rough but it don't have to
You can make it full of smiles something to laugh to
So pick and chose my message thick
So squeeze and watch it ooze
Make it a game to where your fears lose
Let's go
Everybody needs something to see, something to feel
And something to be
Everybody needs something as proof, something in hand
To know the truth
Everybody needs something to see, something to feel
And something to be
Everybody needs something as proof, something in hand
To know the truth
There's a way that seems right in the heart of a man
And many angels of light in disguise destroying man
So most chose to refuse the absolute truth
Replace it with lies use ignorance as excuse
It's hard to conceive what the mind can't comprehend
And harder to believe what the eyes can't understand
We look to theory, philosophies and thought
For a sure foundation in a belief we once sought
While the shadow of truth, cast an image so clear
The closer it gets, we reject it out of fear
If we really wanted truth, we would give our lives for it
Walk in its direction of light, for God's glory
The saga continues 'cause most hearts are deceived
If we really wanted truth, we would live and believe
So the saga continues 'cause most hearts are deceived
If we really wanted truth, we would live and believe in it
Everybody needs something to see, something to feel
And something to be
Everybody needs something as proof, something in hand
To know the truth
Everybody needs something to see, something to feel
And something to be
Everybody needs something as proof, something in hand
To know the truth
Everybody needs something to see, something to feel
And something to be
Everybody needs something as proof, something in hand
To know the truth
Everybody needs something to see, something to feel
And something to be
Everybody needs something as proof, something in hand
To know the truth
Everybody needs something as proof, something in hand
To know the truth
Everybody needs something to see, something to feel
Yeah yeah yeah
Let the fire burn, let the fire roar
Bouncin' back and forth to beat
Gettin' angle wings to soar high
Yeah yeah yeah
Let the fire burn, let the fire roar
Bouncin' back and forth to beat
Gettin' angle wings to soar high
Yeah yeah yeah
I gotta hit den submit it to let the flame consume me
Control me, that I would listen to it glisten while it's crissinin'
Rhymes that bring presition through it lines paintin' vision through it
Lives resurrected through it, game well respected for it and that's why
We so true with it and ain't gone never be through with it
Why we so hot but cool with it, so fresh, so clean, so new with it
So let the fire burn, let the fire roar build your body baby
Trust me you'll be comin' back for more lack for no more
A thirst for no thing hurt for no pain a lust for no man
A woman not yours and that's the truth man hundred fifty proof man
Swig some and get dumb so you could get high
Yeah yeah yeah
Let the fire burn, let the fire roar
Bouncin' back and forth to beat
Gettin' angle wings to soar high
Yeah yeah yeah
Let the fire burn, let the fire roar
Bouncin' back and forth to beat
Gettin' angle wings to soar high
Yeah yeah yeah
Sink in favor what you pick behavior
Flash across the screen it inflict the flavor
Cherish and embrace in every moment saved unconsciously
Our conquest aimlessly they goin' bonkers smokin' on dat bombsess
Foolishness and nonsense we barely scratch the surface
Not on purpose about a thousand times around with countless minds
We pass they lives as worthless, we poke our nose
When those boys pose, we curious to see what's goin' down
When doors close figure out they morris code
They box up they emotion 'cause camotions
Beyond they act like big fishes in a pond, but really rocks
In a ocean boned it eyes saw the score in '94 and we cleaned the floor
With pores that were soar mended wings 'til we reached the core
Let the fire burn, let the fire roar
Bouncin' back and forth to beat
Gettin' angle wings to soar high
Yeah yeah yeah
Let the fire burn, let the fire roar
Bouncin' back and forth to beat
Gettin' angle wings to soar high
Yeah yeah yeah
Let the fire burn, let the fire roar
Bouncin' back and forth to beat
Gettin' angle wings to soar high
Yeah yeah yeah
Let the fire burn, let the fire roar
Bouncin' back and forth to beat
Gettin' angle wings to soar high
Yeah yeah yeah
Let the fire burn, let the fire roar
Bouncin' back and forth to beat
Gettin' angle wings to soar high
Yeah yeah yeah
Let the fire burn, let the fire roar
Bouncin' back and forth to beat
Gettin' angle wings to soar high
[Hook]
My life be like
Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
Ooh Aah, Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
Ooh Aah, Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
[Verse One: Coffee]
I'm on an island by my lonesome stranded
Low key and stayin' candid
Reflect on all the things I try my hand at
Church for the equations to persuasions I'm used to
Finding comfort in the zones of closet bones I get loose to
A mountainous fontaine
Spinnin' and monsoonin', grinnin' it's hign octane
Explosive how I came
Rollin' down hills cause lifes a hastle
Encircled by my folly like a moat surround a castle
Stay afloat, catch a second wind
Thin
Is the air I breathe
Teary eyed nose runnin' wipe the snot on my sleeve
I'm callin' on the Savior to be all that I need
Please forgive me my behavior had me lost at light speed
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
[Verse Two: Bonifide]
The fear of never fallin' in love
And the tears after losin' the feelings of what you thought love was
Like the dirt still up under the rug (My life be like)
Bad characteristics covered in Christs blood
The joy of new birth and the pain of growin' up
The bliss between givin' my all and givin' up
The highs and lows
Paths and roads I chose
In the cold I froze
Tryin' to ease my woes
In this world of sin
Clothes to thin to fend
So to God I send
Words of help to win
In grumblings so deep letters could never express
So the sound of Ooh Aah beneath my breath projects
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
Don't be bad
[Verse Three: TobyMac]
My life be like
Ooh Aah Ooh
Dum dum ditty
Here come that boy from the Capital City
Last up on the Grits new ditty
But eight bars or the truth well do (uh)
I believe theres a private stunnin
And I believe in the Kindgom Comming
I believe if you seek the truth
You don't need to look far cause it's gonna find you
So why oh why do I trip and stumble?
And ooh aah as commitment crumbles?
I can't believe that I'm here again...
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
My life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Ma-ma-my life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
My life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Bonafied:
was put in the mix 'bout '86 and ever since I ran
from
His plan to further mans understanding through
expansion of minds, heart, body, and soul controlled
by the deity of three formed as one
The son of prodigy me Bonafied the MC straight from
the Tenna the center fo my location of operations for
missions completions
Franklin my mental releases dime piece still
Nashville, Knob Hill, where I chill on the real
hittin' home...
Coffee:
Ponder the thoughts all the money spent on useless
things I bought
Afro wigs and Courtney Cox dolls
Framed pictures of Richard Moll Robbins sons
Like Holly, so thick you could drive a trolley
through
my folly
Pardon me like Dolly in two halves same as the Red
I glimpse the open hands instead of reprimand that
Said we can journey to places far off, thinkin' to
myself, " first I need to drop my car off."
Chorus:
I'm comin' home Daddy
Make sure you keep the gate open
I'm loosened from all the worldly pleasure Daddy
I'm comin home Daddy
Meet me outside greet me with your
arms extended Daddy
I'm comin home.
Coffee:
Take and EPT so phat hope I ain't pregnant
To this nasty world that would be more entertaining
than Cedric
And I would be Dug-less like Fredric by all my peers
Purchase maternity gear at Sears
Succumb to all their jeers and their taunts
Shedding tears for all my wants and desires
Pray to God I'm absent when the world erupts with
fire
Kevin Costner dances with flames with a dousing
Richard Pryor
Revelation called it everything is scalded...
Bonafied:
Kickin' up dust who could I trust
Rush like Paula Abdul cruel
This world served me sadness for acting the fool
My mind was a tool used for worldly occupation
Sleepless nights spent with my knees bent
Conversations with the upper case requesting strength
when opposition moved in with plans of ambush and
attack
At my weakest moments wishin' my life could be back
Under His will been left the thrill searchin' for the
path to the gate of my crib where my Daddy live...
Chorus
Coffee:
The smell of seals, a bird, and a monkey, mixed with
the stench of junkies best describes my kind of funky
Spunky spastic, your life can't be recycled so why
livin' plastic
Your insides are all dirty, why does your outside
looks fantastic
Devil couldn't wait to get his hands on you
Conformed you, turned your gold to Ormolu, now shame
on you
Made a dame of you
You say, "Whatever" well the same to you
Splittin' like an atom, I got things to do.
Bonafied:
Do who, you me too?
My desires expired
Dismiss my riches stay in Heavenly clenched fists
Swiss account-type interest
No man's hands can touch
Uncorrupted with the pureness of innocence and such
Mind sets not in agreance with all of my peeps
Absence of scams for yams numbered in heaps knee deep
They cram to understand the faith of this man
Until then when comprehension of sin-free lifestyle
child
I'm headed home where I know it's gonna' be easier
pleasin' ya' Daddy
El tiempo esta passando
El tiempo esta
(Is it all yours, time is passing away, time is passing away)
My chronological line
Was designed by the divine
At times my minds vision
Was found to be blind
Sometimes I felt like
I lived life with eyes sown up
Nothing but sounds and voices
Surrounding me within
The blackness walking cautiously
Only God guiding me
Abiding in me
Independently I fail myself
Images of my history
Is haunting at times
Taunting at times
Confronted most times
How is spent mines
Tempted frequently to feed the need
Of past relations found struggling
Attaining more scars through inner battling
Wondering will I make it
Plundered through ways to shake it
Remembering what was written
My only method to break it
Being locked in this life
Connected to Christ
His will and my destiny
My reason and purpose for birth in life
For a minute was contended
With whatever was presented
If it's sin I was in it
In the flesh represented
Supressing truth in which was hid
In my spirit ignoring guidance
Rebelling against His voice
With choices in pure defiance
Then I asked myself
Was it designed to be mine
If so I found I wasted
The blessing of precious time
El tiempo esta passando
El tiempo esta
(Is it all yours, time is passing away, time is passing away)
Perpetrated me a serious fraud
So don't applaud feeling sawed
In two part of me
Scattered all about
With the other half appearing
And domineering my steering
Mentality of bang banger
To topple my dopple ganger
With excessive force no doubting
While re routing course bouting
What might endorse waters of hell
Just to prevail, "Don't fail"
The voice saying magically what tragedy entail
The terror won't take my will ro conquer error
When the time has passed and gone
The ending will be, "Me at home"
I brought it to you plainly
(Just like that)
Don't let it pass you by
(Just like that)
Time is ticking away
(Just like that)
Uh-huh uh-huh
(Just like that)
El tiempo esta passando
El tiempo esta
(Is it all yours, time is passing away, time is passing away)
What's my passion
I love to see people hashing
Through all life's problems
Whatever it has to offer situations come
Do you face it, do you run
Look it right between the eyes
Stop bitin'
Using styles that you know
That ain't yours
Stop bitin'
Changing sounds
Every album you do
Stop bitin'
Reciting lines
I done heard before
Stop bitin'
Making money
Off of rhymes
That ain't yours
For the kleptos
Who stole flows
From those
In the pros
Get you mouth
Swole by blows
Thrown by those
You took from
How can you stand
To even look
At yourself
Peering through mirrors
Got to be
Insecurity can't
Just be bout money
If it is you
Got issues
Way beyond the benhamins
Need reminder
Of purpose
Cause you
Clowning on surface
For those
In writers block
Stealing ideas
For concepts
This is judgement day
I'm putting hurt
On your rep
It's not my fault
That you slept
And didn't wake up
You getting shook up
Getting dug up
From the roots up
Put your boots up
Your time has finally come
To a swift
And deadly end
A grammatical revolution
In the spirit
My friend
So stop bitin'
Stop bitin'
Using styles that you know
That ain't yours
Stop bitin'
Changing sounds
Every album you do
Stop bitin'
Reciting lines
I done heard before
Stop bitin'
Making money
Off of rhymes
That ain't yours
Stop bitin'
Using styles that you know
That ain't yours
Stop bitin'
Changing sounds
Every album you do
Stop bitin'
Reciting lines
I done heard before
Stop bitin'
Making money
Off of rhymes
That ain't yours
Stop bitin'
You ol style
Nibblin wagon
Jumpin braggin
Skill gnawing
Chainsaw jawed bandit
Moet drinking
Too high off weed
For proper
Thinking, sinking
Drowning your own vomit
Plus stinking pitiful
Selling soul
For residual
Individuals
In rituals
Through habitual manners
Driving me bonkers
And bananas
First off
I want to thank
Gotee for allowing
Me flow free
While some labels
Wild by picking
Their artists style
And that blow me
Completely out of the water
Thinking to myself
If they ain't
No good
Should they
Determine they
Artist vision
Make decision
How could
They regardless
Of how they feel
I'm gone avenge
Like Emma peel
For the preservation
Of hip-hop
From the one's
Who like to steal
Stop bitin'
Using styles that you know
That ain't yours
Stop bitin'
Changing sounds
Every album you do
Stop bitin'
Reciting lines
I done heard before
Stop bitin'
Making money
Off of rhymes
That ain't yours
Stop bitin'
Using styles that you know
That ain't yours
Stop bitin'
Changing sounds
Every album you do
Stop bitin'
Reciting lines
I done heard before
Stop bitin'
Making money
Off of rhymes
That ain't yours
Nothing more devious
Than a force
If my previous verse
Was harsh
A president of the U.S
Finding love
In a boggy marsh
Me and this
Hip-hop thang
Go way back
Do what I can
To keep it intact
My soothing
Verbal herbon
Can absorb
A comet's impact
So react
On impulse
Or in a manner
That you deem fit
More of you's required
So get inspired
When my team hit
Copyright infringing
Producer pretending
To be
Beat borrowing
Noncreative
Wordless emcees
Take heed
We straight original
Rhyme sayers
Music composers
And songwriters
Christ was incapable
Of sin
We're incapable
Of biting
If we did
It would discredit
Everything we stand for
Keep your carbon copy repeats
That ain't never been sweet
Please forgive me
Stop bitin'
Using styles that you know
That ain't yours
Stop bitin'
Changing sounds
Every album you do
Stop bitin'
Reciting lines
I done heard before
Stop bitin'
Making money
Off of rhymes
That ain't yours
Stop bitin'
Using styles that you know
That ain't yours
Stop bitin'
Changing sounds
Every album you do
Stop bitin'
Reciting lines
I done heard before
Stop bitin'
Making money
Off of rhymes
We want the levels pumpin'
The monitors tweakin'
Turn it up the first mic
So we can hear him speakin'
Everybody freaked out
And wiggin' for the weekend
Nobody acting ignorant
This is what we diggin'
Let the levels pump
(Pump!)
The monitors tweak
(Tweak!)
Turn up the mic
(Mic!)
We can hear him speak
(Speak!)
Everybody freaked out
And wiggin' for the weekend
Nobody acting ignorant
This is what we diggin'
If you look closely analyze through my life
Mostly take a journey orbit morbid
Ghastly and ghostly theories motivated by
Being illustrated by my consumption of intake
And clean cut assumption of something
I do declare Mr. Beauregard rotten to the core
Living life and with no regard to mental health
Feel me when I say that I was into self
Glory, wealth, mine for the taking, no mistaking
Underhanded sneaky far from being candid
Straightforward wasn't the way for Cof, the light-skinned bandit
My way doing 90 down hell's highway screeching
Despite the lifetime of preaching Lord forgive me
I know not what I do the trials and Tribs of life
Make me come unglued
Crude to be subdued eaten alive like food
Booed by angry onlookers who I've never seen before
I done found my thrill apart from Blueberry Hill
A vocal ville local with a crib in Acapulco
Speakin' faith focal time and time again
What I confess is hands raised to the ceiling
When you feeling Godly lesson
(Hype is as hype does!)
I'm cheerful expressing jump up
If it ain't loud enough, then signal Sound man for a pump up
Make sure He get your message loud and clear so ain't no mix-up
Everybody dancing wildly come on let's get those kicks up
We want the levels pumpin'
The monitors tweakin'
Turn it up the first mic
So we can hear him speakin'
Everybody freaked out
And wiggin' for the weekend
Nobody acting ignorant
This is what we diggin'
Let the levels pump
(Pump!)
The monitors tweak
(Tweak!)
Turn up the mic
(Mic!)
We can hear him speak
(Speak!)
Everybody freaked out
And wiggin' for the weekend
Nobody acting ignorant
This is what we diggin'
All inside your equilibrium
Thought provoking sentences intended for the sin in men
Prayer and fasted grounded in
The las to carry legacy survivors of the wilderness
Chosen generation to poses the land he promised us
Highly underrated widely hated scripture's lyricist
Imperialist seeking out the dynasty
Called to be the labors of the harvest
Special forces in his army
Laughing in the face of death and never fearing harm
'Cause if God is for us who can stand and try opposing
The Supreme Being and the Supreme Team
Double edged weaponry defeat has yet to see
Forever taking victory concentrated visionaries in your area
Making levels breaking barriers competitors
Giving any answer but salvation through repentance and deliverance
Warning of the recompense of God from disobedience
Consider us to be the voices in the wilderness
Delivering the message of the foretold prophecy
(John the Baptists')
In order for direction to commence
We need the audible clear so people hear the hidden messages
Consider us to be the voices in the wilderness
Delivering the message of the foretold prophecy
(John the Baptists')
In order for direction to commence
We need the audible clear so people hear the hidden messages
We want the levels pumpin'
The monitors tweakin'
Turn up the first mic
So we can hear him speakin'
Everybody freaked out
And wiggin' for the weekend
Nobody acting ignorant
This is what we diggin'
Let the levels pump
(Pump!)
The monitors tweak
(Tweak!)
Turn up the mic
(Mic!)
So we can hear him speak
(Speak!)
Everybody freaked out
And wiggin' for the weekend
Nobody acting ignorant
The last days
Charactered by skin nature
Lustful galavantin
You choose the nomenclature
Clearer than water
As I overturn
The cistern
My story's complete
Pass to bone
When it is his turn
Time's unnecessary
For diligent worker
A chance for this
Philanthropist
Post-Jesus circa
My pestilence
Is petulant
Rebuke the adversary
The shoot their flatulent
Blend with commentary 1999
Ain't hard to find
Face to the grind
As you stare
At the timeline
2 G's
Who survived this
When the smoke settles
And the air clears
You're face to face
With your worst fears
Wells spring forth
What did you bring forth
All this time you had
Millennium arrival
All I really-really wanna see is
All I really-really wanna see, see is, is
In these last days
Many believing
Too many sleeping
Nobody trying to awaken
Worshiping satan
Unconsciously
In a state of repubate
A house divided
Righteously unabiding
Religiously reunited
To the flesh love
Collections of the best
Of from the last love
Gave up your first love
Cursed by complacency
Why the descention from above
You used to be dedicated
And word related
But since you got your choice
Of your final destiny
The millenium
It's the end ya'll
The millenium
Wells spring forth
What did you bring forth
All this time you had
Millennium arrival
All I really-really wanna see is
Knowdaverbs, make it bounce one time,
Hit the U.S. open, like golf, with your rhymes.
Who you is?
Knowdaverbs, the like minded minstrel,
Tight should be my rhymes, siphon lyrics through my pencil,
So hold on, as I strike a pose like in vogue,
You can call me origami, watch as I unfold,
Beat me one time, to when Jerry made curls, and ghetto lashes with TVs player candy-girl,
Exchanging, with the kids, all the Michael Jackson moves,
A time of escalation, went from zips to kangaroos,
The group tripped my plan, minds when y'all first premiered,
Though things look grey, and paper-thin, through the years,
I follow the leader, the maker, creator,
The spirit's getting warmer than it is in Grenada,
Me and the boys got ill with the clippers,
Fina - for the parachute pants with thirty zippers,
Factors of the seven, for Christ, never get slept,
Rhyme a hole in the speaker, pull the plug that we jet.
Stepped through the door, headed for the floor,
The records he was mixing had me wanting some more,
So I grabbed the microphone and I started to rhyme, as this deejay ran it down the line,
Stepped through the door, headed for the floor,
The records he was mixing had me wanting some more,
So I grabbed the microphone and I started to rhyme, as this deejay ran it down the line.
Bonafide, get live one time,
Get me U.S. Open, like golf with your rhymes.
Bonafide, original emcee, rapping 'bout the deejay who's down with me,
On the fader, he's greater, and he's my man,
As he's flipping up the wax with the steadiest hand,
While the other deejays just stand and watch while all the fly girls clock and jock,
He's the beat creator, human record player, style originator, scratch innovator,
And he's not an imitator, and he'll let you know,
Transform the soul dif, as he rocks the show for the factors,
The debonair microphones, with the masters degrees in the M.I.C.,
Jump on there, jump on there, jump on there, on there, on there.
Stepped through the door, headed for the floor,
The records he was mixing had me wanting some more,
So I grabbed the microphone and I started to rhyme, as this deejay ran it down the line,
Stepped through the door, headed for the floor,
The records he was mixing had me wanting some more,
So I grabbed the microphone and I started to rhyme, as this deejay ran it down the line.
C.O.F.E., on the strip one time,
Give the U.S. Open, life golf with you rhymes.
Jack and Jill went up the hill, to fetch a pail of aqua,
Jill saw it coming, and jumped in the well, while Jack got bit by a Chihuahua,
Now, Jack was screaming like a little girl, in complete and utter pain,
He should've watch his back, before he got attacked, and joined Jill in the gutter-main,
In a way, I blame Jill for not warning Jack; what was she thinking?
Just like a girl to save her own neck, and I think that's stinking,
The moral of the story is simple and plain, you can read it like a book,
When you choose a partner, make sure she got your back, or your goose is cooked.
Stepped through the door, headed for the floor,
The records he was mixing had me wanting some more,
So I grabbed the microphone and I started to rhyme, as this deejay ran it down the line,
Stepped through the door, headed for the floor,
The records he was mixing had me wanting some more,
So I grabbed the microphone and I started to rhyme, as this deejay ran it down the line,
Stepped through the door, headed for the floor,
The records he was mixing had me wanting some more,
So I grabbed the microphone and I started to rhyme, as this deejay ran it down the line,
Stepped through the door, headed for the floor,
The records he was mixing had me wanting some more,
"At long last, I am able to say a few words of my own."
Over the years we struggled while properly supported,
If not gripping of the mic, mission would have to be aborted,
Distorted thinking, feeling,
Being bombarded by riches quenches desires,
You know the flesh is never satisfied,
And if somebody told you that, then they lied,
Showing out for them cornball images they supplied,
Got me crazy and twisted like an F-5,
With a bit of jet-lagging you carry on like plane luggage or extra baggage,
I think it's sad, which enables me to further my thinking to it's entire capacity, with audacity to tell you like it is,
I'll pay no mind to stepping on your toes,
You wouldn't be offended by reproof if you were truly my bro,
Truth erupts all throughout me,
I'm backed by the Scripture, so I care less if you doubt me,
My part's been done, endorsed by someone greater than Nike,
My psyche makes you wanna be just like me.
This is me, (this is me)
By myself, (all by myself)
On my own, (on my own)
This is me, (psalms in the palm of my clutches - Starsky with no Hutches)
This is me, (this is me)
By myself, (all by myself)
On my own, (on my own)
This is me. (psalms in the palm of my clutches - Starsky with no Hutches)
The Ave. I travel is congruent to dope,
My speech is fluent, (what's up?)
Uprising vocal tone, mesmerising verbs and vowels,
Dig so deep into your bowels,
If I skip devotions throughout the day, I'm thirsting like Howell,
Stay contained, be a trooper like Isuzu,
Prophesied many times of God's plan - let him use you,
In an instance, I reached the distance to eternity,
Devil dreaming of burning me - dream on, demonic oppressor,
Sit on shoulders like coins on the dresser,
The lesser has upgraded to elegance, big as elephants,
Worldwide, universal, antagonist dispersal hits front page, (extra, extra)
What more could you ask for?
This is me, (this is me)
By myself, (all by myself)
On my own, (on my own)
This is me, (psalms in the palm of my clutches - Starsky with no Hutches)
This is me, (this is me)
By myself, (all by myself)
On my own, (on my own)
This is me, (psalms in the palm of my clutches - Starsky with no Hutches)
This is me, (this is me)
By myself, (all by myself)
On my own, (on my own)
This is me. (psalms in the palm of my clutches - Starsky with no Hutches)
What you know about hypocrisy? - The leaven of a Pharisee,
Stare and see rapture passed you up, too busy watching me,
Meticulous motions feed ridiculous notions,
What's he hiding?
Dissecting my articulate potions,
Commotions abound, judging the sound while my inner gets beat down to its last compound,
Chaotic, try to find answers to my questions,
Oh, I got it: adding advanced melodic robotics with the deity,
Meeting me with promise of never playing us,
Rock me, Amadeus,
The finger of Christ on board Emmaus,
I never stop my resonating, educating,
I'm preaching the Gospel 'til everyone's relating,
You're skating on thin ice,
I rock once and then twice all by myself, on my own,
Isn't that nice?
I had to get live, (on my own, on my own)
Proof that I rock, (on my own, on my own)
But it's kinda scary, (on my own, on my own)
Lord, overshadow me, (on my own, on my own)
I had to get live, (on my own, on my own)
Proof that I rock, (on my own, on my own)
But it's kinda scary, (on my own, on my own)
Lord, overshadow me. (on my own, on my own)
This is me, (this is me)
By myself, (all by myself)
On my own, (on my own)
This is me, (psalms in the palm of my clutches - Starsky with no Hutches)
This is me, (this is me)
By myself, (all by myself)
On my own, (on my own)
This is me, (psalms in the palm of my clutches - Starsky with no Hutches)
This is me, (this is me)
By myself, (all by myself)
On my own, (on my own)
This is me, (psalms in the palm of my clutches - Starsky with no Hutches)
This is me, (this is me)
By myself, (all by myself)
On my own, (on my own)
This is me, (psalms in the palm of my clutches - Starsky with no Hutches)
This is me, (this is me)
By myself, (all by myself)
On my own, (on my own)
Been thinking about
All those lies you heard me say
I can't make them go away
Been thinking about
All those mistakes you've seen me make
When I can barely hold on
You promise me you won't let me go
And I want you to know
I don't live a perfect life
But God knows I'm trying the best I can
And I have wasted so much time
Pretending I'm alright about who I am
But now I'm living the best I can
Been thinking about
It's hard to see what you see in me
Would you lay it out for me?
Been thinking about
This isn't the way I thought I would be
When I can barely hold on
You promise me you won't let me go
And I want you to know
I don't live a perfect life
But God knows I'm trying the best I can
And I have wasted so much time
Pretending I'm alright about who I am
But now I'm living the best I can
I'm breaking down
And now I've found
A reason to make it
This time around
No matter where I go
I want you to know
I know that I'm never alone
I want you to know
I don't live a perfect life
But God knows I'm trying the best I can
And I have wasted so much time
Pretending I'm alright about who I am
But now I'm living the best I can
No matter where I go
I want you to know
I'm living the best I can
And I have wasted so much time
Pretending I'm alright about who I am
The antagonist has got me locked in the room, the door shuts behind me,
It'll be morning before they find me,
I hear a fiendish laugh 'cause I'm still giving half.
The antagonist has got me locked in the room, the door shuts behind me,
It'll be morning before they find me,
I hear a fiendish laugh 'cause I'm still giving half.
When I fist moved to Nashville didn't know about the legend of the serial spiritual murderer,
He thrive on those whose calling was music ministry,
Spotted several times during GMA week,
His approach was lunch meeting and sessions at studios,
Sometimes he was seen at the shows creeping in silence like a prowler at hunt,
Peeping through windows, vanishin' as the wind blows,
Black cape, white mask by night,
Best friend or acquaintance by day,
Someone you would least expect this plight to be carried out through or displayed.
Waited for the point of vulnerability,
Suddenly, when I was alone, no one around, voices telling me to give up, staring at the ceiling, praying they'll shut up.
"Choose," they say, "darkness or light, good and bad don't mix, either black or white"
And for a moment the room turns grey,
A foggy haze and I hear a voice say, "Follow me completely and the world is yours, you'll never get ahead trying to worship some lord"
And at that same moment I hear lightning strike, and through the foggy haze I saw an image of light,
"Get behind Me," said the voice to the other, "Bow once again ye father of sins, and for you; make a choice now, lay your life down of be spat from my mouth. Hypocrisy is one of the sins I most hate. Don't become a victim of the antagonist."
The antagonist has got me locked in the room, the door shuts behind me,
It'll be morning before they find me,
I hear a fiendish laugh 'cause I'm still giving half.
The antagonist has got me locked in the room, the door shut behind me,
It'll be morning before they find me,
I hear a fiendish laugh 'cause I'm still giving half.
It was a dark and stormy night, just like this one,
Tripped when I was gripped by fear,
It overcame me,
Oh, beady sinister eyes,
Oh, looking in my window,
Antagonist, antagonist,
Do I scream?
Uh-uh, you can forget that,
I'm casin'
Shadow chasin'
Face to face with Jason,
Swinging wildly in the dark,
Embark to boltin' down the hallway,
Emphasis on menacing nemesis from Genesis, da one dem call, "Antagonist"
It's just you and me boy,
His three main objectives - steal, kill and destroy.
Not of this world,
The principality, I wrestled
Conditioned apparition who jaunted my whole position,
What to do?
It aint over,
Aint no way this is through,
Was I...was I up to unmask the task without crew?
Round two:
Slanging prayer like a crack dealer,
To release a feeler,
Hands shaking like a faith healer.
Take that!
Uh huh, uh huh, uh huh,
You big and bad to infiltrate my pad
Let's finish this once and for all.
Antagonize me in the kitchen, you versus me and Adonai,
Exciting finish,
Grueling fight to the death,
From my right side he vanish, reappear on my left,
He thinks somehow his trickery will gain him the victory,
Deceived, fooled into believing his own imagery,
Antagonist, antagonist squeezing on my game plan,
Abuse, no use, fight the titan build up,
Just when I get lose, the door shut.
The antagonist has got me locked in the room, the door shuts behind me,
It'll be morning before they find me,
I hear a fiendish laugh 'cause I'm still giving half.
The antagonist has got me locked in the room, the door shuts behind me,
It'll be morning before they find me,
I hear a fiendish laugh 'cause I'm still giving half.
The antagonist has got me locked in the room, the door shuts behind me,
It'll be morning before they find me,
I am too tired of running
Would you still take me though
I keep falling To hear you say
I have been waiting
And to know your love it is never ending
I long to see you again
Holy Spirit please come back in
I could never walk alone
All this time I never gave to you
You're all I have you're all I know
And I am calling on you now
I give you my life won't you take me
For I was nothing before you found me
I will use my voice to sing out
With all that I am, with all that I have
I long to see you again
Holy Spirit please come back in
I could never walk alone
All this time I never gave to you
You're all I have you're all I know
And I am calling on you now
How many times will I deny you
Still your love won't let me go
How many times will I deny you
Still your love won't let me go
I long to see you again
I could never walk alone
All this time I never gave to you
You're all I have you're all I know
And I am calling on you now
I'm calling on you now,
I'm calling on you now,
you a video girl
(you must be kidding me girl)
you a video girl
(you must be kidding me girl)
video girl create your own world
the only one in existence is you
no one's resistant to you
you and only you and you
seem like a dream on the screen
tantalize and titillate,
video girl of the world
she was slightly dressed
out 2 impress, ready 2 party
gettin casted 4 tha club scenes dyin 2 shake her body
to get on tha set
she compromised 4 tha dollas
dancin freaky w/ tha rappers obsessed w/ poppin collers
bought some hair and nails
found some dudes that rap
while shes rockin tha tiny shorts and thashirt from baby gap
misinformed adolescent
she was teenage old
never told of her inner goal
when she was wrongfully clothed
just a jewel that got appraised by unqualified guys
they lied, shotload, dont kno her worth in God's eyes
fellas after tha flesh, they aint goin' see wat im gettin
cuz they measure every girl by these video women
i'm sick of all they constant bouncin then they say
we disrespectful cuz we crave em with our instant
pouncin the money drive em to mishaps and under
they thongs lie decay and collapse no morals perhaps
the scenery's pretty the suns shining it's nice out
a pretty girl freakin on a pimp who'd knock her lights out
gangsta with gold fronts and the girl he's advancin on
would rather run him over with the truck she's dancing on
and he'd be hurt up pretty badly i must say word up
it aint over bone is third up
don't debate it i know they hate being affiliated
to this world they created with facades that leave you devastated
the glamorous life price for your souls rest
simple mentality in a world complex
star studded reality 5 minutes or less
broken dreams and ambitions lost with respect
she was an innocent queen with rubber bands and berets
young diva runnin things commanding every step
then the pace picked up and she learned to be fast
short skirt tight clothes good spirit turned bad
hollywood caught a glimpse of your beauty untamed
at the cost you played whatever price you paid
through away your identity even changed your name
in your world of fame child you need to be shamed
When I was small
We had nothing at all
We used to eat Grits, for dinner
It was pain
almost drive a man insane
what we could find for
to survive another day
but I said nah...
An old killa bee once hummed me a tune
Stay up at night, don't sleep on ya moon
Four seeds in the bed, eight seeds in the room
Afternoon cartoon, we would fight for the spoon
Old Earth in the kitchen, yell "it's time to eat"
Across the foyer, ya hear the gather of stampeding feet
One pound box of sugar, and a stick of margarine
A hot pot of Grits got my family from starvin'
Loose with the welfare cheese, thick wit' the gravy
used to suck it, straight out the bottle as a baby
Steamy hot meal serve less than five minutes
Big silver pot, boilin' water, salt in it
House full of brothers and sisters, the pop's missin'
Pillsbury box on the stove in the kitchen
Young shorties in my hood started hustlin'
Packin' bags at the neighbourhood associate
Growin' up, not as fortunate to have that fly shit
I'm too young, no jobs'd hire me legit
You walkin' down the street with ya gun in ya hand
Drinkin, thinkin' of a masterplan
Your Old Earth can't afford what ya friends got
So you roll up to the spot, with ya thing 'pon cock
And it seems worth the takin', stomach achin'
Morning star Reggie makin' go good with the Grits
Now let's take it back for real
when we used to build at ghetto big wheels
with the shoppin' cart wheels, and wood to nail the seat on
Girls skippin' rope in the street
the Summer heat, left the jelly prints stuck to they feet
Skelly chief, flippin' baseball cards for keeps
[Hook]
My life be like
Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
Ooh Aah, Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
Ooh Aah, Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
[Verse One: Coffee]
I'm on an island by my lonesome stranded
Low key and stayin' candid
Reflect on all the things I try my hand at
Church for the equations to persuasions I'm used to
Finding comfort in the zones of closet bones I get loose to
A mountainous fontaine
Spinnin' and monsoonin', grinnin' it's hign octane
Explosive how I came
Rollin' down hills cause lifes a hastle
Encircled by my folly like a moat surround a castle
Stay afloat, catch a second wind
Thin
Is the air I breathe
Teary eyed nose runnin' wipe the snot on my sleeve
I'm callin' on the Savior to be all that I need
Please forgive me my behavior had me lost at light speed
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
[Verse Two: Bonifide]
The fear of never fallin' in love
And the tears after losin' the feelings of what you thought love was
Like the dirt still up under the rug (My life be like)
Bad characteristics covered in Christs blood
The joy of new birth and the pain of growin' up
The bliss between givin' my all and givin' up
The highs and lows
Paths and roads I chose
In the cold I froze
Tryin' to ease my woes
In this world of sin
Clothes to thin to fend
So to God I send
Words of help to win
In grumblings so deep letters could never express
So the sound of Ooh Aah beneath my breath projects
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
Don't be bad
[Verse Three: TobyMac]
My life be like
Ooh Aah Ooh
Dum dum ditty
Here come that boy from the Capital City
Last up on the Grits new ditty
But eight bars or the truth well do (uh)
I believe theres a private stunnin
And I believe in the Kindgom Comming
I believe if you seek the truth
You don't need to look far cause it's gonna find you
So why oh why do I trip and stumble?
And ooh aah as commitment crumbles?
I can't believe that I'm here again...
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
My life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Ma-ma-my life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
My life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
[Hook]
My life be like
Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
Ooh Aah, Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
Ooh Aah, Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
[Verse One: Coffee]
I'm on an island by my lonesome stranded
Low key and stayin' candid
Reflect on all the things I try my hand at
Church for the equations to persuasions I'm used to
Finding comfort in the zones of closet bones I get loose to
A mountainous fontaine
Spinnin' and monsoonin', grinnin' it's hign octane
Explosive how I came
Rollin' down hills cause lifes a hastle
Encircled by my folly like a moat surround a castle
Stay afloat, catch a second wind
Thin
Is the air I breathe
Teary eyed nose runnin' wipe the snot on my sleeve
I'm callin' on the Savior to be all that I need
Please forgive me my behavior had me lost at light speed
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
[Verse Two: Bonifide]
The fear of never fallin' in love
And the tears after losin' the feelings of what you thought love was
Like the dirt still up under the rug (My life be like)
Bad characteristics covered in Christs blood
The joy of new birth and the pain of growin' up
The bliss between givin' my all and givin' up
The highs and lows
Paths and roads I chose
In the cold I froze
Tryin' to ease my woes
In this world of sin
Clothes to thin to fend
So to God I send
Words of help to win
In grumblings so deep letters could never express
So the sound of Ooh Aah beneath my breath projects
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
Don't be bad
[Verse Three: TobyMac]
My life be like
Ooh Aah Ooh
Dum dum ditty
Here come that boy from the Capital City
Last up on the Grits new ditty
But eight bars or the truth well do (uh)
I believe theres a private stunnin
And I believe in the Kindgom Comming
I believe if you seek the truth
You don't need to look far cause it's gonna find you
So why oh why do I trip and stumble?
And ooh aah as commitment crumbles?
I can't believe that I'm here again...
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
My life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Ma-ma-my life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
My life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Yo Malik Blunt
[B] Whassup?
Tell me how you like your grits man
[B] Man I like ALL KINDS of grits son
I just don't like them sticky grits
Word, that was trippy
Whassup with you Black Thought man, wassup?
[T] Word, organix, groovy stew grits
with cheese, and mad honey
That ain't nuttin man!
[T] That's the grits that needs cash man!
I like my grits with sugar man
[B] I like them with BUTTER
Sweet and smooth man
Who gets the grits? (Say what?) Bust it
I can tell another bout real grits getters
Gettin grits y'all (Say what?) Bust it, let a
brother tell another bout real grits getters
(Dig it, the grits getters get the grits y'all)
Who gets the grits? (Say what?) Bust it, let a
brother tell another bout real grits getters
(Dig it, the grits getters get the grits y'all)
Who gets the grits? (Say what?) Bust it, let a
brother tell another about the real grits getters
(Yeah, the grits getters get the grits y'all)
Who gets the grits? (Say what?) Bust it, let a
brother tell another bout the grits getter
[Black Thought]
Now me, I'm out to get the grits, more than a little bit
If I said, ";Don't get it Black,"; you know I'd be a hypocrite
Levels often fluctuate to surplus from deficit
Rated with the X, is the X-tra X-plicit grits
I, slides, AND, slips, AND, dives, AND, dips
into it, it being grits that I gets like a quaker
But take the raincoats, for the oats
When you crush trail mix yo, I dig my grits fixed slow
with butter, you slip up in the grits and make em other
Some people call it skins but, grits is the other term
that you gots to learn, to keep up on all the scoop
I get a little ends but, never spends loot
for the wiggle, some immature, kids like to laugh
so they giggle for the grits and, when they get close
they start skitz-in, not this kid, because I switched in
flipped in, changed the position that I hits in-side
I glide, words can't describe, how I move be
like, hittin a doobie, Thought'll get ya groovy, so!
Yo Black, here's a bit of advice:
your wife's nice so you better keep the girls away
from the grits getter
Who gets the grits? (Say what?) Bust it, let a
brother tell another about the real grits getters
(Yeah, the grits getters get the grits y'all)
* repeat 4X w/ minor variations *
[Malik Blunt]
Yeah I likes to unzip it, strip it then grip it
To be specific I won't like it, so get the ticket
Flip it like it was a coin, put the loins in the groins
In other words the groins I stretch, now you gets the sketch
You, know I use my mark like the worm on Noah's Ark
But if I happen to see a spark, I umm, parks my bark
Guess I haves to rest my num before the next number to sum
But so I can't slumber or sleep, my shovel's diggin deep
Peep this hick whose name was Vickie
Gettin tricky rather slicky
Her performance showed endurance
She said, ";Me like to licky licky";
Body more gracious, or should I say bodacious
Took my order then she sorta served me
like she was a waitress
Never will I say that she was tasteless
Maker of the pastry, so's I calls her pastress
Still enthused, cause I got my cruise on
P-O-L-O blues on, when I choose to move I puts my shoes on
Protection, against infection
Erect projections travels South in your mouth
like a dentist checked in, commence to be intent
She said, ";I can't understand you, but damn you like Prince";
I make it feel like a Zulu, from Honolulu
By the way she roll away like a dog who name was Ubu
They also said the way I entered from the center
is adventurous, imprint on you dentures when I bust
or I thrust, Mid-Atlantic, they act like a schitzophrenic
Sometimes they panic like I'm Diggin on a Planet
I don't gotta Beama or a Jetta, ?C-ka-Reama alla netta?
Malik is the sleek grits, getter
Who gets the grits? (Say what?) Bust it, let a
brother tell another about the real grits getters
(Yeah, the grits getters get the grits y'all)
* repeat 4X w/ minor variations *
[BROther ?uestion]
I would be lyin if I told you I could not
prepare a fat bowl of sticky, grits for a quickie
Humans get picky, and judge it by the thickness
But if it bends your spoon then add some butter with the quickness
I might get a bit smoother, if you move it to a
better, position, that's probably what she wishin
You can add some groovy spices, to give it extra
But my advice is to first let it simmer
Hot, if it's hot then let the pot sit and cool
Cause if you spill your milk, we label you beginner
Humans gotta know, that I keep my bowl, full of grits
Swingin with their daughters while their parents throwin fits
Tellin me to change my diet plan, to bran cereal
Or rice, I tried that twice, it didn't work
In fact, it made my milk kinda sour
Half and half, part creamer, and skeemer
That's why if it's grits then it gotta be organic
Cause if it's artificial, I panic
Who gets the grits? (Say what?) Bust it, let a
brother tell another about the real grits getters
(Yeah, the grits getters get the grits y'all)
* repeat 4X w/ minor variations *
Yo man, what about me man?
* everybody clowns *
Yo man, just pass your grits down man
(You needs to eat Gerber man)
[Kid Crumbs]
Who gets the grits, now let me tell ya
A plenty posse bloom from the cellar, to nail ya
daughter or your sister, the younger skins elixir
Kick a cat, but I won't like a cat, I'll figure
I'd rather, play the thigh kisser, sister,
I don't die swift, and yo I'm not a quitter
So umm, let me place my hands upon that waist and trace
my way to the right nip and left nip then sip
Similac, until my Jimmy grows fat, grab my pack of hats
from the back, then flee, to the next block
to knock off socks, yo you know my props
So father, don't bother
Cause once the grits is hot, yo they're good as got
Who gets the grits? (Say what?) Bust it, let a
brother tell another about the real grits getters
(Yeah, the grits getters get the grits y'all)
* repeat 4X w/ minor variations *
* talking to fade *
[Hook]
My life be like
Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
Ooh Aah, Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
Ooh Aah, Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
[Verse One: Coffee]
I'm on an island by my lonesome stranded
Low key and stayin' candid
Reflect on all the things I try my hand at
Church for the equations to persuasions I'm used to
Finding comfort in the zones of closet bones I get loose to
A mountainous fontaine
Spinnin' and monsoonin', grinnin' it's hign octane
Explosive how I came
Rollin' down hills cause lifes a hastle
Encircled by my folly like a moat surround a castle
Stay afloat, catch a second wind
Thin
Is the air I breathe
Teary eyed nose runnin' wipe the snot on my sleeve
I'm callin' on the Savior to be all that I need
Please forgive me my behavior had me lost at light speed
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
[Verse Two: Bonifide]
The fear of never fallin' in love
And the tears after losin' the feelings of what you thought love was
Like the dirt still up under the rug (My life be like)
Bad characteristics covered in Christs blood
The joy of new birth and the pain of growin' up
The bliss between givin' my all and givin' up
The highs and lows
Paths and roads I chose
In the cold I froze
Tryin' to ease my woes
In this world of sin
Clothes to thin to fend
So to God I send
Words of help to win
In grumblings so deep letters could never express
So the sound of Ooh Aah beneath my breath projects
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
Don't be bad
[Verse Three: TobyMac]
My life be like
Ooh Aah Ooh
Dum dum ditty
Here come that boy from the Capital City
Last up on the Grits new ditty
But eight bars or the truth well do (uh)
I believe theres a private stunnin
And I believe in the Kindgom Comming
I believe if you seek the truth
You don't need to look far cause it's gonna find you
So why oh why do I trip and stumble?
And ooh aah as commitment crumbles?
I can't believe that I'm here again...
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
My life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Ma-ma-my life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
My life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
In my eyes, not enough trying to find love in the ghetto...
I don't understand why so many people always try to say the ghetto is so bad,
You know what I'm saying?
It's not the ghetto that's bad, but it's the people that's in the ghetto that make the ghetto bad,
There's so many foundational lessons to be learned in the ghetto, even spiritual lessons,
I guess it's best described like this...you know what I'm saying?
As a child, I despised and prayed to get away,
Deprived of early riches, deceived by evil gang,
Grew blind over the years, saw crime as escape,
Participation of your innocence taken,
Contemplated due to the situation,
My time in your presence was limited by parental discretion of living standards,
My Gladys - case was packing at night, to leave the pits in route to Douglas, Georgia, on the midnight train,
While the same circumstances made my people maintain, never complain,
Sporting women gave our name ghetto fame,
Sustained foundational lessons of life that I obtained,
Though tribulations and trials came wisdom in everything,
By the guidance on the Lord and his Spirit, through my Brahma,
Believing in his provision when living,
Deliver drama, still the saga continues in inner-cites 'cross the nation, as hatred is created from residential placement,
Everybody want to blame her, 'cause their pride ain't the same as they was when the protested she was last in the game,
See, the pain that she inflicts is lost respect of the past, when it was rude to never speak or walk across other's grass,
Hustle neighbours just to take out their trash, rake leaves, or washing cars instead of bawling for cash,
Hurt the penal soul government, supplication's a curse put in reverse,
Producing people who despise its worth,
Since my birth, I been exposed to many cultures of Earth,
But none have left impression like perfection of the ghetto.
If you can understand what I'm saying there, you with me,
Yo, Phoebe.
I see beneath the grief as crime increase,
My mind release sorrow on this in peace,
Left behind for tomorrow like ancient Greek,
I seek along the street filling with horror,
Like a faucet, we leak,
Some say we lost it in the street,
The man above see the tragedy beneath the glow,
Imagine me with no capacity for ghetto love idol,
Rappily enforce for a better source throughout the south, east, west, and the north,
I suggest we come forth with Grits to rectify our crucial conflict,
Connect the wire fulltime, it's mine to split,
But don't forget: all through the terrorism, vandalism, there's wisdom,
But all you hear is negatism and their criticism,
If we reconstruct the mind of the blind, so let the untold unfold,
Ghetto love in bold,
See, a place I never let go is the ghetto that inherited,
The R. Pope be scared of it, and don't know,
And we can transfer from a blur, vision endure and make the right decision,
Happiness will occur, we'll be a team at home in Douglas Ga.,
My ghetto love, my ghetto stay in my heart 'til my dying day,
[Hook]
My life be like
Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
Ooh Aah, Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
Ooh Aah, Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
[Verse One: Coffee]
I'm on an island by my lonesome stranded
Low key and stayin' candid
Reflect on all the things I try my hand at
Church for the equations to persuasions I'm used to
Finding comfort in the zones of closet bones I get loose to
A mountainous fontaine
Spinnin' and monsoonin', grinnin' it's hign octane
Explosive how I came
Rollin' down hills cause lifes a hastle
Encircled by my folly like a moat surround a castle
Stay afloat, catch a second wind
Thin
Is the air I breathe
Teary eyed nose runnin' wipe the snot on my sleeve
I'm callin' on the Savior to be all that I need
Please forgive me my behavior had me lost at light speed
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
[Verse Two: Bonifide]
The fear of never fallin' in love
And the tears after losin' the feelings of what you thought love was
Like the dirt still up under the rug (My life be like)
Bad characteristics covered in Christs blood
The joy of new birth and the pain of growin' up
The bliss between givin' my all and givin' up
The highs and lows
Paths and roads I chose
In the cold I froze
Tryin' to ease my woes
In this world of sin
Clothes to thin to fend
So to God I send
Words of help to win
In grumblings so deep letters could never express
So the sound of Ooh Aah beneath my breath projects
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
Don't be bad
[Verse Three: TobyMac]
My life be like
Ooh Aah Ooh
Dum dum ditty
Here come that boy from the Capital City
Last up on the Grits new ditty
But eight bars or the truth well do (uh)
I believe theres a private stunnin
And I believe in the Kindgom Comming
I believe if you seek the truth
You don't need to look far cause it's gonna find you
So Why oh Why do I trip and stumble?
And ooh aah as commitment crumbles?
I can't believe that I'm here again...
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
My life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Ma-ma-my life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
My life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Yo Malik Blunt
Whassup?
Tell me how you like your grits man
Man I like ALL KINDS of grits son
I just don't like them sticky grits
Word, that was trippy
Whassup with you Black Thought man, wassup?
Word, organix, groovy stew grits
with cheese, and mad honey
That ain't nuttin man!
That's the grits that needs cash man!
I like my grits with sugar man
I like them with BUTTER
Sweet and smooth man
Who gets the grits? (Say what?) Bust it
I can tell another bout real grits getters
Gettin grits y'all (Say what?) Bust it, let a
brother tell another bout real grits getters
(Dig it, the grits getters get the grits y'all)
Who gets the grits? (Say what?) Bust it, let a
brother tell another bout real grits getters
(Dig it, the grits getters get the grits y'all)
Who gets the grits? (Say what?) Bust it, let a
brother tell another about the real grits getters
(Yeah, the grits getters get the grits y'all)
Who gets the grits? (Say what?) Bust it, let a
brother tell another bout the grits getter
Now me, I'm out to get the grits, more than a little bit
If I said, "Don't get it Black," you know I'd be a hypocrite
Levels often fluctuate to surplus from deficit
Rated with the X, is the X-tra X-plicit grits
I, slides, AND, slips, AND, dives, AND, dips
into it, it being grits that I gets like a quaker
But take the raincoats, for the oats
When you crush trail mix yo, I dig my grits fixed slow
with butter, you slip up in the grits and make em other
Some people call it skins but, grits is the other term
that you gots to learn, to keep up on all the scoop
I get a little ends but, never spends loot
for the wiggle, some immature, kids like to laugh
so they giggle for the grits and, when they get close
they start skitz-in, not this kid, because I switched in
flipped in, changed the position that I hits in-side
I glide, words can't describe, how I move be
like, hittin a doobie, Thought'll get ya groovy, so!
Yo Black, here's a bit of advice:
your wife's nice so you better keep the girls away
from the grits getter
Who gets the grits? (Say what?) Bust it, let a
brother tell another about the real grits getters
(Yeah, the grits getters get the grits y'all)
Yeah I likes to unzip it, strip it then grip it
To be specific I won't like it, so get the ticket
Flip it like it was a coin, put the loins in the groins
In other words the groins I stretch, now you gets the sketch
You, know I use my mark like the worm on Noah's Ark
But if I happen to see a spark, I umm, parks my bark
Guess I haves to rest my num before the next number to sum
But so I can't slumber or sleep, my shovel's diggin deep
Peep this hick whose name was Vickie
Gettin tricky rather slicky
Her performance showed endurance
She said, "Me like to licky licky"
Body more gracious, or should I say bodacious
Took my order then she sorta served me
like she was a waitress
Never will I say that she was tasteless
Maker of the pastry, so's I calls her pastress
Still enthused, cause I got my cruise on
P-O-L-O blues on, when I choose to move I puts my shoes on
Protection, against infection
Erect projections travels South in your mouth
like a dentist checked in, commence to be intent
She said, "I can't understand you, but damn you like Prince"
I make it feel like a Zulu, from Honolulu
By the way she roll away like a dog who name was Ubu
They also said the way I entered from the center
is adventurous, imprint on you dentures when I bust
or I thrust, Mid-Atlantic, they act like a schitzophrenic
Sometimes they panic like I'm Diggin on a Planet
I don't gotta Beama or a Jetta, ?C-ka-Reama alla netta?
Malik is the sleek grits, getter
Who gets the grits? (Say what?) Bust it, let a
brother tell another about the real grits getters
(Yeah, the grits getters get the grits y'all)
I would be lyin if I told you I could not
prepare a fat bowl of sticky, grits for a quickie
Humans get picky, and judge it by the thickness
But if it bends your spoon then add some butter with the quickness
I might get a bit smoother, if you move it to a
better, position, that's probably what she wishin
You can add some groovy spices, to give it extra
But my advice is to first let it simmer
Hot, if it's hot then let the pot sit and cool
Cause if you spill your milk, we label you beginner
Humans gotta know, that I keep my bowl, full of grits
Swingin with their daughters while their parents throwin fits
Tellin me to change my diet plan, to bran cereal
Or rice, I tried that twice, it didn't work
In fact, it made my milk kinda sour
Half and half, part creamer, and skeemer
That's why if it's grits then it gotta be organic
Cause if it's artificial, I panic
Who gets the grits? (Say what?) Bust it, let a
brother tell another about the real grits getters
(Yeah, the grits getters get the grits y'all)
Yo man, what about me man?
? everybody clowns ?
Yo man, just pass your grits down man
(You needs to eat Gerber man)
Who gets the grits, now let me tell ya
A plenty posse bloom from the cellar, to nail ya
daughter or your sister, the younger skins elixir
Kick a cat, but I won't like a cat, I'll figure
I'd rather, play the thigh kisser, sister,
I don't die swift, and yo I'm not a quitter
So umm, let me place my hands upon that waist and trace
my way to the right nip and left nip then sip
Similac, until my Jimmy grows fat, grab my pack of hats
from the back, then flee, to the next block
to knock off socks, yo you know my props
So father, don't bother
Cause once the grits is hot, yo they're good as got
Who gets the grits? (Say what?) Bust it, let a
brother tell another about the real grits getters
[Hook]
My life be like
Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
Ooh Aah, Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
Ooh Aah, Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
[Verse One: Coffee]
I'm on an island by my lonesome stranded
Low key and stayin' candid
Reflect on all the things I try my hand at
Church for the equations to persuasions I'm used to
Finding comfort in the zones of closet bones I get loose to
A mountainous fontaine
Spinnin' and monsoonin', grinnin' it's hign octane
Explosive how I came
Rollin' down hills cause lifes a hastle
Encircled by my folly like a moat surround a castle
Stay afloat, catch a second wind
Thin
Is the air I breathe
Teary eyed nose runnin' wipe the snot on my sleeve
I'm callin' on the Savior to be all that I need
Please forgive me my behavior had me lost at light speed
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
[Verse Two: Bonifide]
The fear of never fallin' in love
And the tears after losin' the feelings of what you thought love was
Like the dirt still up under the rug (My life be like)
Bad characteristics covered in Christs blood
The joy of new birth and the pain of growin' up
The bliss between givin' my all and givin' up
The highs and lows
Paths and roads I chose
In the cold I froze
Tryin' to ease my woes
In this world of sin
Clothes to thin to fend
So to God I send
Words of help to win
In grumblings so deep letters could never express
So the sound of Ooh Aah beneath my breath projects
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
Don't be bad
[Verse Three: TobyMac]
My life be like
Ooh Aah Ooh
Dum dum ditty
Here come that boy from the Capital City
Last up on the Grits new ditty
But eight bars or the truth well do (uh)
I believe theres a private stunnin
And I believe in the Kindgom Comming
I believe if you seek the truth
You don't need to look far cause it's gonna find you
So why oh why do I trip and stumble?
And ooh aah as commitment crumbles?
I can't believe that I'm here again...
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
My life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Ma-ma-my life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
My life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
[Hook]
My life be like
Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
Ooh Aah, Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
Ooh Aah, Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
[Verse One: Coffee]
I'm on an island by my lonesome stranded
Low key and stayin' candid
Reflect on all the things I try my hand at
Church for the equations to persuasions I'm used to
Finding comfort in the zones of closet bones I get loose to
A mountainous fontaine
Spinnin' and monsoonin', grinnin' it's hign octane
Explosive how I came
Rollin' down hills cause lifes a hastle
Encircled by my folly like a moat surround a castle
Stay afloat, catch a second wind
Thin
Is the air I breathe
Teary eyed nose runnin' wipe the snot on my sleeve
I'm callin' on the Savior to be all that I need
Please forgive me my behavior had me lost at light speed
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
[Verse Two: Bonifide]
The fear of never fallin' in love
And the tears after losin' the feelings of what you thought love was
Like the dirt still up under the rug (My life be like)
Bad characteristics covered in Christs blood
The joy of new birth and the pain of growin' up
The bliss between givin' my all and givin' up
The highs and lows
Paths and roads I chose
In the cold I froze
Tryin' to ease my woes
In this world of sin
Clothes to thin to fend
So to God I send
Words of help to win
In grumblings so deep letters could never express
So the sound of Ooh Aah beneath my breath projects
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
Don't be bad
[Verse Three: TobyMac]
My life be like
Ooh Aah Ooh
Dum dum ditty
Here come that boy from the Capital City
Last up on the Grits new ditty
But eight bars or the truth well do (uh)
I believe theres a private stunnin
And I believe in the Kindgom Comming
I believe if you seek the truth
You don't need to look far cause it's gonna find you
So why oh why do I trip and stumble?
And ooh aah as commitment crumbles?
I can't believe that I'm here again...
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
My life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Ma-ma-my life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
My life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
She was a friend of me who soon become the enemy,
My heart said it was meant to be,
Cold sweats and nightmares of killing her for breaking the vow to be one from corruption of adultery,
Praying at night, this day I'll never see through,
Who knew this girl was out to get me for yams?
Having dreams of her scams professed before I had fans,
Delilah's kisses of deception was my justified stance,
Ignorance self contained in disobedient hands,
Infatuation claimed was true is definition of this,
Female relation contradicting my standards Mrs,
Witnessed the hand of God begin,
Divisions progress as vengeance for all my pain grew deep in my flesh,
Decisions to sever bonds: that of distraught and distress,
No less than fullness, tribulated to bless,
Found peace, once released from the grip of distress,
The culprit responsible found to be the likeness of me,
In terms of images, I blame this on self, for not protecting my affections from seductions of Hell,
Her spell had me bound like bank tellers and hostages,
Smell had me fooled like designer female impostor scents,
Why does it happen to the best of God's men?
We fall from desires of fruit that's been forbidding,
From the beginning of time we been blaming the women,
It's not their fault that their fine; we need to wait 'til its given.
I blame it on you, take the blame from me,
If you was in my shoes you'd do the same to me,
The repercussions are felt from the hand that was dealt,
I done used up all my aces; what I face is needing help,
I blame it on you, take the blame from me,
If you was in my shoes you'd do the same to me,
The repercussions are felt from the hand that was dealt,
I done used up all my aces; what I face is needing help.
Feeling remorse from divorce, letting nature take its ugly course,
Catapulting two people in love to insulting,
I wish I never met you,
Baby doll compliance, join the concubine,
Jacket like a porcupine, alliance, in reliance on self,
Searching for my Kebler Elf in trees on the wrong side of the woods, and that's no good,
Dancing earnestly with form and spit,
Swerving up and down, she legit,
Ain't noticed lightning bolts and storms about to hit,
When I made them vows, I heard the screams of slaughtered cows,
Paid no mind, ignoring all the warning signs,
From top to bottom of my femur,
Monkeying around Daydream Believer,
Believing in happiness forever,
Mine was crappiness from un-clever, unclear, temporarily brain-dead,
Sank my teeth in the poison cornbread of a big head,
We were woven, then we dove in,
The water rose above our heads - that's when the flesh came to life, then the spirit metamorphed to dead,
She killed me softer than a refugee, and made sure what not left of me,
Bamboozled by a Sheila,
Went from united as one through a process labelled marriage to less than half a man, Single dad pushed in a baby carriage,
Pure and out of struggle, responsibilities we juggle,
I find it funny, ain't no matter to scoff about or chuckle,
Beneath my stature; a superman with no Terry Hatcher
I stand alone this time, giving the Lord this heart to capture.
I blame it on you, take the blame from me,
If you was in my shoes you'd do the same to me,
The repercussions are felt from the hand that was dealt,
I done used up all my aces; what I face is needing help,
I blame it on you, take the blame from me,
If you was in my shoes you'd do the same to me,
The repercussions are felt from the hand that was dealt,
I done used up all my aces; what I face is needing help.
I blame it on you, take the blame from me,
If you was in my shoes you'd do the same to me,
The repercussions are felt from the hand that was dealt,
I done used up all my aces; what I face is needing help,
I blame it on you, take the blame from me,
If you was in my shoes you'd do the same to me,
if you can feel it feel it
then get with it with it
we stay witty with it
so you can get it get it
we stay above average stay killin these tracks yo
i stay off in the country but stay city with that so
stay keeping yall guessin stay in higher demand
stay true to who im repping steady movin ahead
i stay original stay spritual never move outa line
if you could read up in between i stays clear with mine
since 89 i stayed straight no more livin off state
the only bars i stay locked in now are 16 or 8
you wanna stay in the kitchen
when grits is hot they bubble
stay poppin out the top stay ready to tussle
who wanna muscle flex context in combat with bone
ill have you cryin to your mamma
talking bout leave me alone
mixed views misconstrued
by the way that we present it
send it out through verbal lessons
herbal essence when we spit it
if you hit you gone feel it and get addicted ill admit it
the first times for free but the rest cost life get it
bass how low can you go
evangelic shatter false hope like a useless relic
im an animal covered with hair insides mechanical
guardin my heart like im botanical
im snatchin satans mandible
i damned him at best with random access
forever banished when he left his lies vanished
standing in the midst of chaos
hours of praying and fasting began to pay off
at times like these cant take a day off
what i compete with i get street with
my strange language bone crusing anguish
pain cant be quenched or vanquished
my anger rise up its ludicrous the way i throw dem bows
and swell his eyes up aint that cute
the honey pot that money got his hand in
its funny how he think he got it on lock he just a stand in
reprimandin rebuking til you understandin
juke with reckless abandon you can get it
get it get it get it
we can get wild child
keep looking at me now
we can get wild child
(This is how we overcome); so yo' (everything's gonna go ma way); we're here (doing this from the mornin' sun); ma light (up until the break of day).
[Pre-chorus: All the spies, we grows; on the side, oo-oh-oh-oh; bone slash, away we go; Christian move, so watch it, oh].
[Chorus: Bobbin' bouncin'; move yo' head; we all need counselin'; we ain't scared; goin crazy, hittin' walls; He's here all night; ain't no pause].
[Refrain: Bangin' bobbin' bouncin', bouncin'; bobbin' bangin' bouncin', bouncin'; bangin' bobbin' bouncin', bouncin'; bobbin' bangin' bouncin', bouncin'].
Told ya'll we had a lil' bounce to bang, and out your range; it ain't comin' out the same; we skitzo, over-flowin' dyslexic messages; meant for the souls, the flesh can't detect it; don't disrespect, you just gon' accept; the south been hot, rich men preppin'; this our weapon bobbin' bouncin', bangin' beats and counselin', counselin'; every line inclined and designed, by divine inspiration and time; to speak to a certain situation, to those that hurt and in desperation; this the reason why we came, hollerin' talkin' ‘bout Jesus name; so elbows and shoulders get in the motion, brake yo' neck and take in the potion.
Ho; [Chorus]. [Refrain].
Ma neck snap back as a direct reaction; (people point), what is that son; parties gonna be lock a jockey; goin' up and down like the stairs on Rocky; revamp the situation, ma loyal subject surround encamp the nation; breathe life into the obsolete; break up the riff raff, who can't compete; overweight folk, lean on the rail; it's about to break, and they can tell; preach about the bars through the cells; speak of all the scars, times they fail; march to a different drum; free in Christ, no cause to get dumb; countin' on how he has lost his Son; this party ain't free, it cost a ton.
[Chorus]. [Refrain].
Move it now, don't break yo' back, don't break yo' back, don't break yo' back, don't break yo' back, don't break yo' back (move it son); don't break yo' back (until the break of day).
[Pre-Chorus].
[Chorus]. [Refrain]; oh.
Move yo head; we ain't scared; hittin' walls (break yo' back); ain't no pause.
Yeah,
We all look for money, power, fame, power,
Let me talk to you, well on.
Gutter boy, you know, you know,
You know you need to come down,
Gutter boy, you know that you have to come down,
Gutter boy, you know that you some as the ground,
Gutter boy, you know, you know,
You know it's best to come 'round,
Gutter boy, you know that you have to come down,
Gutter boy, you know that you some as the ground.
Gutter boy, you know you're expensive and tough,
Gutter boy, you mix up with the wrong stuff,
You might end up in the castle while your bridges on my life it's on my body, but are the one will bite dust,
Gutter boy... watch out now.
Money and the power, and the fame and the sweat,
End up down the mortuary, they're shouting out your chest,
Shoot out in the town, like it's a wild, wild west... but me bible is me bulletproof vest - yes,
Quits in all them man, just to send me upon a quest,
Bring the reggae music, feed by notes, salute D Ness,
In-a this your life, it come like you feel protest,
Pick up your shield of righteousness - yes.
Gutter boy, you know, you know,
You know you need to come down,
Gutter boy, you know that you have to come down,
Gutter boy, you know that you some as the ground,
Gutter boy, you know, you know,
You know it's best to come 'round,
Gutter boy, you know that you have to come down,
Gutter boy, you know that you some as the ground.
Predestined, manifesting,
Learned through life's lessons, impressing,
Despite my many indiscretions, I still be blessed by his essence,
I'm gonna be here 'til it's over,
Stuck in the place 'cause I fit,
I beat the past so long, ain't bucking the place 'cause it's it,
I got the troops with the flame, and it's aimed at the youth,
It's all the same, why we came: to gather fame in the booth,
A different plane was the same; my reign is the proof,
What's to be gained? Total things show lanyard loop,
I thought them castles form a church said, "Huh,"
We ain't ashamed; our faith is who we are,
Put up the bar which was worth getting,
Vision as yet to be fulfilled and facilitated,
Wishing I was open to the real and the things related,
That will reveal all the blood that would be spilled while I tally up the tolls of all the depth that I feel,
See, expected moving up the block,
Suspect that even though I rock you still got enough,
Protected from the shock.
Gutter boy, you know, you know,
You know you need to come down,
Gutter boy, you know that you have to come down,
Gutter boy, you know that you some as the ground,
Gutter boy, you know, you know,
You know it's best to come 'round,
Gutter boy, you know that you have to come down,
Gutter boy, you know that you some as the ground.
My life story, yo, (feel me)
I was an only child trapped between a separation,
My parent's altercation grew into incarceration,
My father's good intentions soon became my mental breaking, but I was too young to understand the complication,
And, through the pain, my mother pushed for higher education to numb the situation through the heart determination,
And, at the time, neither took the chance to give and explanation, so I drew my own conclusion for the circumstance,
I didn't understand a man's ways, apart from God, was the curse of bad decisions made apart from God,
And the punishment was living with the repercussions of a path left, only meant for my destruction,
I was a church boy, trying to be a gutter boy,
Run around with ghetto boys, playing with the metal toys,
Out to get a repertoire, trying to get that butter, boy,
The life I would have settled for, but God had something better, boy, waiting for the Carter boy.
Gutter boy, you know, you know,
You know you need to come down,
Gutter boy, you know that you have to come down,
Gutter boy, you know that you some as the ground,
Gutter boy, you know, you know,
You know it's best to come 'round,
Gutter boy, you know that you have to come down,
Gutter boy, you know that you some as the ground,
Gutter boy, you know, you know,
You know you need to come down,
Gutter boy, you know that you have to come down,
Gutter boy, you know that you some as the ground,
Gutter boy, you know, you know,
You know it's best to come 'round,
Gutter boy, you know that you have to come down,
Gutter boy, you know that you some as the ground.
Gutter boy, you know that you have to come down,
Gutter boy, you know that used to fear it town,
Gutter boy, you know you look at trouble, but you're living in a bubble,
Take off your book, and dis some Asguard ground,
Gutter boy, you know that you have to come down,
Gutter boy, you know that used to fear it town,
Gutter boy, you know you look at trouble, but you're living in a bubble,
[Hook]
My life be like
Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
Ooh Aah, Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
Ooh Aah, Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
[Verse One: Coffee]
I'm on an island by my lonesome stranded
Low key and stayin' candid
Reflect on all the things I try my hand at
Church for the equations to persuasions I'm used to
Finding comfort in the zones of closet bones I get loose to
A mountainous fontaine
Spinnin' and monsoonin', grinnin' it's hign octane
Explosive how I came
Rollin' down hills cause lifes a hastle
Encircled by my folly like a moat surround a castle
Stay afloat, catch a second wind
Thin
Is the air I breathe
Teary eyed nose runnin' wipe the snot on my sleeve
I'm callin' on the Savior to be all that I need
Please forgive me my behavior had me lost at light speed
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
[Verse Two: Bonifide]
The fear of never fallin' in love
And the tears after losin' the feelings of what you thought love was
Like the dirt still up under the rug (My life be like)
Bad characteristics covered in Christs blood
The joy of new birth and the pain of growin' up
The bliss between givin' my all and givin' up
The highs and lows
Paths and roads I chose
In the cold I froze
Tryin' to ease my woes
In this world of sin
Clothes to thin to fend
So to God I send
Words of help to win
In grumblings so deep letters could never express
So the sound of Ooh Aah beneath my breath projects
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
Don't be bad
[Verse Three: TobyMac]
My life be like
Ooh Aah Ooh
Dum dum ditty
Here come that boy from the Capital City
Last up on the Grits new ditty
But eight bars or the truth well do (uh)
I believe theres a private stunnin
And I believe in the Kindgom Comming
I believe if you seek the truth
You don't need to look far cause it's gonna find you
So why oh why do I trip and stumble?
And ooh aah as commitment crumbles?
I can't believe that I'm here again...
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
My life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Ma-ma-my life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
My life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Just just in case you don't know who we be
Just just in case you don't know who we be
It's the crew who represents nicely
State to state no matter what city
Can't you see it's us that's rockin' yo' world
I be, I be, I be coffee, I be, I be, I be bone
Me I run the playin' field
Me I be ownin' the thrown
He be, he be, he be coffee, he be, he be, he be bone
Me I do it nicely
Me I be heir to the thrown
Y'all wanna hear it? Naw y'all don't wanna hear it
You don't want coffdeezy, jump up, get up easy
Purple giant, death defiant, but I creep up on you quite
Me animator, slowly we raisin' the dead
Complicator of clause plans, schemes, scandalous, curious things
How can you hand various things?
Bicarious beings?
What?
Rollin' 'round these hills on count of countless of feels
Of raw deals I'm after the cheapest of thrills
Killin' off a slew of folk watchin' 'em all fall
But really man it's you a choke
Guelish like orathal do my best to hit yo' region
Rollin' deep like we was legion for a season
We will let be leavin'
Karma heazin' steady breathin'
Just in case you don't know who we be
It's the crew who represents nicely
State to state no matter what city
Can't you see it's us that's rockin' yo' world
I be, I be, I be coffee, I be, I be bone, I be peddy dee
(Check it out 'cuz)
He be, he be coffee, he be, he be bone, he be peddy dee
(Bonavilles)
One for the projects, two for the thugs
Three for the king pin sippin' ear drums
Over Damascus where he turned me around
Put a word in ma mouth and a sound
(Get down)
[Incomprehensible]
[Incomprehensible]
Praise God we ain't destructive no more
[Incomprehensible]
Let yo' mind take you to the end of the road
Choose to do right but chose to get blowed
Educate ya' mind to young to know code
Grits and peddy dee be squad like flip mode
Just just in case you don't know who we be
It's the crew who represents nicely
State to state no matter what city
Can't you see it's us that's rockin' yo' world
I be, I be, I be coffee, I be, I be, I be bone
Me I run the playin' field
Me I be ownin' the thrown
He be, he be, he be coffee, he be, he be, he be bone
Me I do it nicely
Me I be heir to the thrown
I'm the one they call bonifide
City boy countrified
Known for that southern fide
Bring it to you, any, however you want it, I got it
Get it and never escape, give it up slow brah
Checkin' for yo' soul brah
You stumble down the wrong road
Steppin' on the wrong toes
Now we 'bout to get it right
Stitch it up, switch it up
Peddy dee click it up
Nashville show me love
Jacksonville it's ya' boy
Sandalwood put it up
Clearin' out the smoke screen
Step into the unseen
Sober from that sticky green
Wrap it up like I still beem
Scotty what's the situation?
(The fun years of desperation)
Well let 'em know we on location ready for the confrontation
Just just in case you don't know who we be
It's the crew who represents nicely
State to state no matter what city
Can't you see it's us that's rockin' yo' world
I be, I be, I be coffee, I be, I be, I be bone
Me I run the playin' field
Me I be ownin' the thrown
He be, he be, he be coffee, he be, he be, he be bone
Me I do it nicely
Me I be heir to the thrown
Just just in case you don't know who we be
It's the crew who represents nicely
State to state no matter what city
Can't you see it's us that's rockin' yo' world
I be, I be, I be coffee, I be, I be, I be bone
Me I run the playin' field
Me I be ownin' the thrown
He be, he be, he be coffee, he be, he be, he be bone
Me I do it nicely
Me I be heir to the thrown
Just just in case you don't know who we be
It's the crew who represents nicely
State to state no matter what city
Can't you see it's us that's rockin' yo' world
I be, I be, I be coffee, I be, I be, I be bone
Me I run the playin' field
Me I be ownin' the thrown
He be, he be, he be coffee, he be, he be, he be bone
Me I do it nicely
Me I be heir to the thrown
Come on, come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on
Come on, yeah, here we go, come on, yeah, somebody hold
Can we get down, yeah, now bounce around, blah, yeah oh
We don't play, we came to get down, we do it like this everyday
Since we're the ones who are rep our city
Gotta give it up to the ones who with me
We don't play, never have never will 'cause I got too much to give
I got too much word and this life is too real
Got to be heard and fight for you to feel me
Hit these curves and fight what you deal with
Speak truth and love in spite what you live with
Hate what you came the mic is boldfaced
The mic is my knife, the words are my blade, cut through the musk
Stand up, everybody get up, we don't need nobody standin' around
Now bounce and fall, break your neck, run that back
'Cause we don't play, what you say?
Come on, yeah, here we go, come on, yeah, somebody hold
Can we get down, yeah, now bounce around, blah, yeah oh
We don't play, we came to get down, we do it like this everyday
Since we're the ones who are rep our city
Gotta give it up to the ones who with me
Got a bold new ridin' on the wings of a beat
Check out the phenomena king of the stream
The aura of rules runnin' blood in his veins
Former bully and a long thug to his pains
I'm runnin' wild and a child, yeah, so you hate with a smile
Go on give it to me now, don't frown fresher thinkin' how
Not to be a victim both guns blazin', blah
Are we actin' prone receiving end of the phone
Care to be the puzzle peace leaves to be shown
Announcin' grace to the space fully blown
Now bounce and chase and see the stuff that we own
Come on, yeah, here we go, come on, yeah, somebody hold
Can we get down, yeah, now bounce around, blah, yeah oh
We don't play, we came to get down, we do it like this everyday
Since we're the ones who are rep our city
Gotta give it up to the ones who with me
No, no, we don't play, blah, can we get down, blah
Now we do it like this, blah, can this be the sound
We're often kneeling a knee, no other can be
Here it comes, yeah, bounce, yeah, come on, blah
No, no, we don't play, blah, can we get down, blah
Now we do it like this, blah, can this be the sound
We're often kneeling a knee, no other can be
Here it comes, yeah, bounce, yeah, come on, blah
Come on, yeah, here we go, come on, yeah, somebody hold
Can we get down, yeah, now bounce around, blah, yeah oh
We don't play, we came to get down, we do it like this everyday
Since we're the ones who are rep our city
Gotta give it up to the ones who with me
We point it at your head
Gonna spin it till you receive and admit it
And know that we did it, get it formfitted
I promise to vomit the verdict I honestly heard it spoken
A seemingly simple voice, freakin' the decision, the choice
Stand up, keep your hands high, blah
Right now we came to get down, blah
Ain't no question who bringin' it to you, ain't no explainin' it to you
To keep it plain and simple bringin' this movement into you
This is serious down right
Mysterious spiritual type lyrics is dealin' with you
Don't get it twisted, dude, just take a listen, dude
Realize we ain't for playin', we on a mission, dude
Come on, yeah, here we go, come on, yeah, somebody hold
Can we get down, yeah, now bounce around, blah, yeah oh
We don't play, we came to get down, we do it like this everyday
Since we're the ones who are rep our city
Gotta give it up to the ones who with me
Come on, yeah, here we go, come on, yeah, somebody hold
Can we get down, yeah, now bounce around, blah, yeah oh
We don't play, we came to get down, we do it like this everyday
Since we're the ones who are rep our city
I think im going out cause im feeling
Fresh
Fresh
Fresh
Fresh
Oww
I think im going out cause im feeling (fresh)
I feel a little bit
Fresh
And my fit look
Fresh
And my whip look
Fresh
And my kicks look
Fresh
I can make you say
Oww
I think im going out cause im feeling
(bonafide)
Out the plastic with it no tags logos so gone and classic fitted levis and polos
They think im riding dirty because im whipping right
They see the dyness with me hommie that’s a wife
Feeling something like a blessing in disguise
When you open up your eyes and your dream has come alive
Fine ride on my pivot others dressed up hard to fit it (?)
All I know is going hard get it off and get it get it (get it get it)
Motor city boys (fresh)
River city raised (fresh)
Coffee county roots
Music city paid
Trusting in the lord every time he give a day
It’s the least that I can do cause he met me on my way
Said you got to be fresh (fresh)
If you want to be fresh (fresh)
And chose you before you hit the womb to be fresh (fresh)
Now im fine tune enter the room they say fresh
And I think im going out cause im feeling
(And I think im going out cause im feeling)
I feel a little bit
Fresh
And my fit look
Fresh
And my whip look
Fresh
And my kicks look
Fresh
I can make you say
Oww (I just like to look good, don’t be mad at me, do not be mad)
I think im going out cause im feeling
I feel a lot bit
Fresh
My cologne smell
Fresh
And my fit look
Fresh
And my kicks look
Fresh
I can make you say
Oww (life goes on, sexy with a toothpick)
I think im going out cause im feeling
(coffee)
These simple suckas think we lucky huh
So potent they turning yellow and floating
When we approaching we call em rubber ducky
The mirror image of you counterparts
Hope to saturate flood the market with your foolishness and drown the arts
Talking underhanded I don’t understand it
Extraterrestrial looking at me like im from another planet
They scream like mike and janet
Hard to conceal and cover up hide it keep it quiet the raging hate that’s leaking at it
Poisons the whole batch (oww)
Bake the bread from scratch
binyn to the mind (oww) realign I wrote the rhyme but there’s a catch
who making sense of it
might be allowed to look the part
they rather sit and judge the art overlooking our heart
man its just too much to expound upon
too busy bringing sexy backward Justin busting is what my mind is on
letting the haters have it im advent what type of time im on
standing on a island of greatness whenever im alone and now im so
(and I think im going out cause im feeling) fresh
I feel a little bit
Fresh
And my whip look
Fresh
And my kicks look
Fresh
I can make you say
Oww
Teling all my people
I think im going out cause im feeling
I feel a lot bit
Fresh
My cologne smell
Fresh
And my fit look
Fresh
And my kicks look
Fresh
I can make you say
Oww
To everybody
I think im going out cause im feeling
(bonafide)
Fresher then prince perm and will in the 80’s
Like babies that’s just born at the moment im the greatest
Got haters who test run and say that im overrated
So I leave em like xy shoot em a lil paper
Tell heaven forgive me cause I was more then they can take
And then I split it in half for em eating their little cake
Tell coffee go easy on em speaking the last eight
Broad the water with caffeine keep the haters away
Like
(coffee)
Ya boy
Suffered my own death
The modern jones & cater
Take a closer peak into the seekers that we suppose to keep
Cat got out a bag (yea)
Rumors swirl whirl cause we let it twirl
Covered uncovered destiny without a dad (huh)
When days open up (yea) (fresh)
And like the fetus start to eat us for son set treat us gangsta so we loking up (west coast)
Ghosting out by the ocean
We slow motion
Sip the potion
So fresh ya ashy in need of lotion
Cause we keep it so
Fresh
Im looking so
Fresh
Look at me im so
Fresh
Don’t be mad im sooooo
Fresh
Oww
And I think im going out cause im feeling
I feel a little bit
Fresh
And my fit look
Fresh
And my whip look
Fresh
And my kicks look
Fresh
I can make you say
Oww
I think im going out cause im feeling
Crushed in space, pushed through time
Movin' cautious, obey all signs
Warnin' lights, they flash and blind
Make a statement but don't define
See I'm on it, make u want it
You ain't on it, don't condone it
Don't you keep from tryin' to clone it
Deep down inside u want it
Whatchu want, whatchu got, how you deal with it?
And you get whatchu got, gotta live with it
In the spot and it's hot, gettin' real with it
Don't you know that beneath this flow
Lies scorn, shameful past form
Many regrets like the day I was born
Told myself I'd be reformed
First, put to death take time to mourn
Be the ace in, ah, folded hand
Stare in the face of a scolded man
Come up missin' on the back of a soda can
Go out like only a soldier can
Sermons blazin' through the dark
I'm a prince in the Pazy Park
Through the sense, I really play my part
Took my time before I got my start
Now the harvest right
For a brother like me, who the artist type
Who love the culture through all the hype
Hits and strike, my kiss is deadly and it be like
Crushed in space, pushed through time
Movin' cautious, obey all signs
Warnin' lights, they flash and blind
Make a statement but don't define
See I'm on it, make u want it
You ain't on it, don't condone it
Don't you keep from tryin' to clone it
Deep down inside u want it
Get up, on it, don't you clone it
Deep down inside u want it
These boys have cut the fool
These boys from the south got nothing to lose
On a Pettidee track can't help but move
When Grits spit quick fire ain't nothing' but truth
When you come down to it, ain't about the loot
Gotta take you down through it when I'm in the mood
Gotta face them fame, hate that change
Rearrange and break them chain
Let us take you beyond your reign
Let us show you what you became
That's the goal, get it in your soul
Shape and mold and make new from old
Your worth is more, than you've been told
Y'all kings and queens not pimps and hoes
This that real, this that straw
That break your back and can't shake it off
Exclusive round all inclusive
That heart to find if you lose it
Crushed in space, pushed through time
Movin' cautious, obey all signs
Warnin' lights, they flash and blind
Make a statement, but don't define
See I'm on it, make u want it
You ain't on it, don't condone it
Don't you keep from tryin' to clone it
Deep down inside u want it
Crushed in space, pushed through time
Movin' cautious, obey all signs
Warnin' lights, they flash and blind
Make a statement but don't define
See I'm on it, make u want it
You ain't on it, don't condone it
Don't you keep from tryin' to clone it
Deep down inside u want it
Crushed in space, pushed through time
Movin' cautious, obey all signs
Warnin' lights, they flash and blind
Make a statement, but don't define
See I'm on it, make u want it
You ain't on it, don't condone it
Don't you keep from tryin' to clone it
(Hey baby, hey baby, hey baby)
Slow down, hold up, I want you to be, want you to be mine
Be all mine, be all mine
(Hey baby, hey baby, hey baby)
Slow down, hold up, I want you to be, want you to be mine
Be all mine, be all mine
(Hey baby, hey baby, hey baby)
We can hook up, we can hook up
(We can hook up, we can hook up)
We can get married
This is my gift to you, my love is true
(Gift to you, love is true)
We can get married
Hey, slow down, hold up, I want you to be, want you to be mine
Be all mine, be all mine
(Hey baby, hey baby, hey baby)
Slow down, hold up, I want you to be, want you to be mine
Be all mine, be all mine
(Hey baby, hey baby, hey baby)
We can hook up, we can hook up
(We can hook up, we can hook up)
We can get married
This is my gift to you, my love is true
(Gift to you, love is true)
We can get married
Hey, who'd have thought my babe was on an island of her own?
Had me smilin' and on the phone same page, different time zones
God's a real character paintin' caricatures of Christ
And His love for the church endurin' the pain 'cuz it hurts
When I saw you, I went berserk insane goin' loony and cartoony
So sue me, you was a vision of beauty truly
Thinking of all the charm to inflect upon my behalf
Forgive me, don't mean to stare, but your hair is down to your calf
Tell me about yourself, your culture is Polynesian
I love when the breeds be mixin', our blueprint is in Ephesians
Instantaneously cultures collided, decided we'd ride it
Spent time in prayer separately so we wouldn't have to hide it
Fictitious image brought to life reflection of love
Carefully inspected with gloves so fragile my darlin' was
And I ain't need Miss Cleo to reassure me that I got her
Scored big like the opening week of Harry Potter
Slow down, hold up, I want you to be, want you to be mine
Be all mine, be all mine
(Hey baby, hey baby, hey baby)
Slow down, hold up, I want you to be, want you to be mine
Be all mine, be all mine
(Hey baby, hey baby, hey baby)
We can hook up, we can hook up
(We can hook up, we can hook up)
We can get married
This is my gift to you, my love is true
(Gift to you, love is true)
We can get married
In the beginning, I hesitated, debated within my soul
Wrestling with my feelings of knowing if you was sent
Enduring the distance alone being content
Longing your presence, believing that we was meant
Submitted my intent, I was truly convinced
You're the woman in my life I couldn't breath without
And the one I really wouldn't be complete without
And I wrote this, so you wouldn't have any doubt
Or misunderstanding of what my love is really about
'Cause from here on out, baby, it's all about us
And from here on out, I wanna build on trust
'Cause the union we got, ain't no comparing any other
I'm askin' you to be more than a baby mother
My help mate soul, tie my right hand
Beginning and end and better half of life
To be my lady, my lover, my best friend and wife, hey
Slow down, hold up, I want you to be, want you to be mine
Be all mine, be all mine
(Hey baby, hey baby, hey baby)
Slow down, hold up, I want you to be, want you to be mine
Be all mine, be all mine
(Hey baby, hey baby, hey baby)
We can hook up, we can hook up
(We can hook up, we can hook up)
We can get married
This is my gift to you, my love is true
(Gift to you, love is true)
We can get married
Hey, slow down, hold up, I want you to be, want you to be mine
Be all mine, be all mine
(Hey baby, hey baby, hey baby)
Slow down, hold up, I want you to be, want you to be mine
Be all mine, be all mine
(Hey baby, hey baby, hey baby)
We can hook up, we can hook up
(We can hook up, we can hook up)
We can get married
This is my gift to you, my love is true
(Gift to you, love is true)
We can get married
(Hey baby, hey baby, hey baby)
Slow down, hold up, I want you to be, want you to be mine
Be all mine, be all mine
(Hey baby, hey baby, hey baby)
Slow down, hold up, I want you to be, want you to be mine
Be all mine, be all mine
(Hey baby, hey baby, hey baby)
We can hook up, we can hook up
(We can hook up, we can hook up)
We can get married
This is my gift to you, my love is true
(Gift to you, love is true)
We can get married
Hey, slow down, hold up, I want you to be, want you to be mine
Be all mine, be all mine
(Hey baby, hey baby, hey baby)
Slow down, hold up, I want you to be, want you to be mine
Be all mine, be all mine
(Hey baby, hey baby, hey baby)
We can hook up, we can hook up
(We can hook up, we can hook up)
We can get married
This is my gift to you, my love is true
(Gift to you, love is true)
The unexplainable author and finisher of creation,
The voice of directed destination,
Ears have not heard, eyes have not seen what awaits the saints from the Supreme Being.
The unexplainable author and finisher of creation,
The voice of directed destination,
Ears have not heard, eyes have not seen what awaits the saints from the Supreme Being.
Put your hands high in the sight of the king,
All praises, due glory and honor for all things,
Keeps your hands raised as we stand before the throne,
Head bowed in humility for Supreme Being.
Put your hands high in the sight of the king,
All praises, due glory and honor for all things,
Keeps your hands raised as we stand before the throne,
Head bowed in humility for Supreme Being.
Jovial meetings and greetings,
Love factor doubles,
Those heavy laden and faded stayed and unloaded their troubles,
Drop facades,
Facial distortions in huge proportions,
Morphing from orphans,
Fresh out of spiritual contortions. (raa)
Put your Spirit on like energy suit,
Force field emanating, relating a striking resemblance to the Christ I'm imitating.
Match made in Heaven,
Factors of seven,
News at eleven,
At theatres near you,
We the talk like Toby, Mike and Kevin,
Keeping in real, expressing verbally what I feel,
A super sasquatch who tears it up while the mass watch,
Hip-hop gorilla have yet to travel to Manila,
When I get there ima shake it up like I'm Godzilla, (raa)
The music drives me in the ground, (raa)
The speakers make my head pound, (raa)
The true fifth element, Christ, (raa, raa)
The unexplainable,
Ideal to kneel to throne Supreme Being sits on.
The unexplainable author and finisher of creation,
The voice of directed destination,
Ears have not heard, eyes have not seen what awaits the saints from the Supreme Being.
Unexplainable author and finisher of creation,
The voice of directed destination,
Ears have not heard, eyes have not seen what awaits the saints from the Supreme Being.
Twenty-eight years,
I've seem to peer through eyes despising lies of worldly scenery,
Steaming me at pressures,
Perspiration,
Lack expression in proof to tell the truth,
No evidence naturally can show an illustration,
Only spiritually a man can understand the dimensions shown to me,
I'm prone to be banned and labeled "radically fanatical"
Advised to take my words as clever rhyme scheme and poetry instead of prophesy and words of knowledge sent from Heaven, told to me.
If you doubt I understand but can't deny it deep within,
The truth will stand the test of rhyme,
It never changes, just the time,
Never claim to know it all but aspire to know the most,
With likes of Solomon's wisdom for those asleep in comatose who need awakening,
Shaking to the point of life in question,
Lift the blinds,
Revealing light,
Removing all abstraction from the sight,
I was commanded, not so currency could lace my whole team, but demanded by the candid, only god, Supreme Being.
The unexplainable author and finisher of creation,
The voice of directed destination,
Ears have not heard, eyes have not seen what awaits the saints from the Supreme Being.
Unexplainable author and finisher of creation,
The voice of directed destination,
Ears have not heard, eyes have not seen what awaits the saints from the Supreme Being.
The unexplainable author and finisher of creation,
The voice of directed destination,
Ears have not heard, eyes have not seen what awaits the saints from the Supreme Being.
Unexplainable author and finisher of creation,
The voice of directed destination,
Ears have not heard, eyes have not seen what awaits the saints from the Supreme Being.
Put your hands high in the sight of the king,
All praise, due glory and honor for all things,
Keeps your hands raised as we stand before the throne,
Head bowed in humility for Supreme Being.
Put your hands high in the sight of the king,
All praises, due glory and honor for all things,
Keeps your hands raised as we stand before the throne,
Do you memorize theatrical lines
that seem to lead them in
Play the role with the good girl heart
oh the tangled web within
Who was it that lead you on
that made you want to hurt me so
Who are you out to forget
who's forgot you long ago
Do you still feel it
calling in the act tonight
do you still feel it
seems like you've done this before
You make breaking hearts look so easy
seem like you've done this before
You've got breaking hearts all but down
and you've done this, you've done this before
You make stealing hearts look so easy
Where is the girl I adore
You've got breaking up all but down
I can't love a thief anymore
Do you collect the souls you've lost
in the top of your dresser drawer
count the number of tears displaced
on lonely bedroom floors
where the shape of your heart once was
slowly takes the place of you
will they hold the memories now
of the love I though I knew
Do you still feel it
calling in the act tonight
Do you still feel it
Seems like you've done this before
You make breaking hearts look so easy
seems like you've done this before
You've got breaking up all but down
and you've done this, you've done this before
You make stealing hearts look so easy
Where is the girl I adore
You've got breaking up all but down
and I can't love a thief anymore
You make breaking hearts look so easy
You've got breaking up all but down
You make breaking hearts look so easy
Seems like you've done this before
You've got breaking hearts all but down
You've done this, you've done this before
The most you could hope to be
now just a bitter sweet memory
think I'm going out cause I'm feeling
Fresh
Fresh
Fresh
Fresh
I think I'm going out cause I'm feeling (fresh)
I feel a little bit
Fresh
And my fit look
Fresh
And my whip look
Fresh
And my kicks look
Fresh
I can make you say
I think I'm going out cause I'm feeling
(Bonafide)
Out the plastic with it no tags logos so gone and classic fitted levis and polos
They think I'm riding dirty because I'm whipping right
They see the dyness with me hommie that's a wife
Feeling something like a blessing in disguise
When you open up your eyes and your dream has come alive
Fine ride on my pivot others dressed up hard to fit it (?)
All I know is going hard get it off and get it get it (get it get it)
Motor city boys (fresh)
River city raised (fresh)
Coffee county roots
Music city paid
Trusting in the lord every time he give a day
It's the least that I can do cause he met me on my way
Said you got to be fresh (fresh)
If you want to be fresh (fresh)
And chose you before you hit the womb to be fresh (fresh)
Now I'm fine tune enter the room they say fresh
And I think I'm going out cause I'm feeling
(And I think I'm going out cause I'm feeling)
I feel a little bit
Fresh
And my fit look
Fresh
And my whip look
Fresh
And my kicks look
Fresh
I can make you say
Oww (I just like to look good, don't be mad at me, do not be mad)
I think I'm going out cause I'm feeling
I feel a lot bit
Fresh
My cologne smell
Fresh
And my fit look
Fresh
And my kicks look
Fresh
I can make you say
Oww (life goes on, sexy with a toothpick)
I think I'm going out cause I'm feeling
(Coffee)
These simple suckas think we lucky huh
So potent they turning yellow and floating
When we approaching we call em rubber ducky
The mirror image of you counterparts
Hope to saturate flood the market with your foolishness and drown the arts
Talking underhanded I don't understand it
Extraterrestrial looking at me like I'm from another planet
They scream like mike and janet
Hard to conceal and cover up hide it keep it quiet the raging hate that's leaking at it
Poisons the whole batch (oww)
Bake the bread from scratch
Binyn to the mind (oww) realign I wrote the rhyme but there's a catch
Who making sense of it
Might be allowed to look the part
They rather sit and judge the art overlooking our heart
Man it's just too much to expound upon
Too busy bringing sexy backward Justin busting is what my mind is on
Letting the haters have it I'm advent what type of time I'm on
Standing on a island of greatness whenever I'm alone and now I'm so
(And I think I'm going out cause I'm feeling) fresh
I feel a little bit
Fresh
And my whip look
Fresh
And my kicks look
Fresh
I can make you say
Teling all my people
I think I'm going out cause I'm feeling
I feel a lot bit
Fresh
My cologne smell
Fresh
And my fit look
Fresh
And my kicks look
Fresh
I can make you say
To everybody
I think I'm going out cause I'm feeling
(Bonafide)
Fresher then prince perm and will in the 80's
Like babies that's just born at the moment I'm the greatest
Got haters who test run and say that I'm overrated
So I leave em like xy shoot em a lil paper
Tell heaven forgive me cause I was more then they can take
And then I split it in half for em eating their little cake
Tell coffee go easy on em speaking the last eight
Broad the water with caffeine keep the haters away
Like
(Coffee)
Ya boy
Suffered my own death
The modern jones & cater
Take a closer peak into the seekers that we suppose to keep
Cat got out a bag (yea)
Rumors swirl whirl cause we let it twirl
Covered uncovered destiny without a dad (huh)
When days open up (yea) (fresh)
And like the fetus start to eat us for son set treat us gangsta so we loking up (west coast)
Ghosting out by the ocean
We slow motion
Sip the potion
So fresh ya ashy in need of lotion
Cause we keep it so
Fresh
I'm looking so
Fresh
Look at me I'm so
Fresh
Don't be mad I'm sooooo
Fresh
And I think I'm going out cause I'm feeling
I feel a little bit
Fresh
And my fit look
Fresh
And my whip look
Fresh
And my kicks look
Fresh
I can make you say
Leaning on my side, hanging onto my ride,
‘69 Cadillac, black on both sides,
Here we go, it's open bar time,
Here we go, it's open bar time,
Come on,
Leaning on my side, hanging onto my ride,
‘69 Cadillac, black on both sides,
Here we go.
So get you cups up, get your drink up,
It's living water, baby,
Get your mind in order, baby.
The world is yours, you can kick it any way you want,
You can be a slave forever, you can be the stump that everybody walks over,
Or you can be a boulder and crush those fools like a Buffalo soldier,
Yeah, Tennessee up in the house like this, and we smacking all suckers with the West Coast twist, (we yell)
Dead flow in the Cadillac, baby, the windows rolled down on the Sunset Strip,
The price paid, the blood on the ground laid,
We ‘bout to change the game like the Bones brigade,
And I'm the new Lance Mountain in some D & G jeans,
I'm cold chilling, baby, with the West Coast lean.
No matter who you are, tonight is open bar.
So get you cups up, get your drink up,
It's living water, baby,
Get your mind in order, baby.
Leaning on my side, hanging onto my ride,
‘69 Cadillac, black on both sides,
Here we go, it's open bar time,
Here we go, it's open bar time,
Come on,
Leaning on my side, hanging onto my ride,
‘69 Cadillac, black on both sides,
Here we go.
So get you cups up, get your drink up,
It's living water, baby,
Get your mind in order, baby.
The living liquid is acidic when it's going down exquisite,
Revisited, I did it, live it to the triple digit,
Give it, get it ‘til it pivot with it,
Carter said we did it,
Let it eat at you, acidic,
We got it ‘cause we get it, did it,
In a manner, planned a proper course and took it,
Lead a brighter light of hope, invading games and certain that no one mistook it for a fleeting moment,
On it like a vigilante group,
Purchase ticket, come and see me on it like a business suit,
I'm the supplying the truth, soon ample amounts of ammo,
A word of caution though: never chew off more than you can handle,
This is just a snippet, body ripping in the sample,
Consequences, limit, ain't no gimmicks in this foxhole.
No matter who you are, tonight is open bar.
Propose a toast:
So get you cups up, get your drink up,
It's living water, baby,
Get your mind in order, baby.
Leaning on my side, hanging onto my ride,
‘69 Cadillac, black on both sides,
Here we go, it's open bar time,
Here we go, it's open bar time,
Come on,
Leaning on my side, hanging onto my ride,
‘69 Cadillac, black on both sides,
Here we go, it's open bar time,
Here we go, it's open bar time.
It's that lyrical liquid, miracle liquid,
Same divine wine Jesus pickled the sick with,
Healed the afflicted,
Dipped, sipped and chilled with his click wit,
Last supper for the label, and Grits to break bread with,
A permanent link, penned with a permanent ink,
Discern vessels to eternally think,
For twelve years we been earning our keep, and won't stop,
Shed tears for the lost souls falling asleep,
They spear beers to the homies who was caught in the street,
We say our prayers for the mothers who was left with the grief,
Wait patiently in the night for the thief to creep,
In the blink of an eye, standing at the cold of his feet,
Sipping that living water, keeping my mind in order,
Passing the cup dutifully, it ended up beautifully.
So get you cups up, and get your drink on,
It's living water, baby,
Get your mind in order, baby.
Leaning on my side, hanging onto my ride,
‘69 Cadillac, black on both sides,
Here we go, it's open bar time,
Here we go, it's open bar time,
Come on,
Leaning on my side, hanging onto my ride,
‘69 Cadillac, black on both sides,
Here we go, it's open bar time,
Here we go, it's open bar time.
Get loose if you wanna get loose,
‘Cause we got that juice to make you choose truth,
Over there they pop grits,
Over there they got gooks,
Over here we keep it grade-A 150 proof.
No matter who you are, tonight is open bar.
So get you cups up, get your drink on,
It's living water, baby,
Get your mind in order, baby.
Leaning on my side, hanging onto my ride,
‘69 Cadillac, black on both sides,
Here we go, it's open bar time,
Here we go, it's open bar time,
Come on,
Leaning on my side, hanging onto my ride,
‘69 Cadillac, black on both sides,
Here we go, it's open bar time,
Here we go, it's open bar time.
Get loose if you wanna get loose,
‘Cause we got that juice to make you choose truth,
Over there they pop grits,
Over there they got gooks,
Over here we keep it grade-A 150 proof.
No matter who you are, tonight is open bar.
So get you cups up, get your drink on,
It's living water, baby,
* [Intro]
We are gunna play the cut right now
And it's gunna be a very very big hit...
[Chorus: Grits]
He feel it - she feel it - we feel it (hey!)
So round and round we go
He feel it - she feel it - we feel it
Aaaah here we go
He gon' get up - she gon' get up - we gon' get up
Lockin' down the joint 'til the playa haters shut up
Take you to outer limits flawless with no gimmicks
Imitate but can't get it
Aaaah here we go
[Verse: Coffee]
My brain pattern skip a jiggawatt
No more room in the pan i cook up rhymes in a bigger pot
On a roll, what you figure got
Tricks up my sleeve you wont believe
My story weave to a thicker plot
Words leep off pages hop on stages
We crazy need to be locked in cages
Raah you feel it
Yeah I'm light skinned vanilla
Comin' at ya like a pack of gorillas
Whole planet gone ape
Understand from afar Nashville to the "Lone Star State"
Relate indicator instilled in me by men greater
This is where you belong strong you gon' be great
Flaunt clout with a scream and a shout cast out doubt
Fast like a gun blast drawn out
The sounds in leaps and bounds flush out clowns creeps and hounds
Foxes and wolves in sheeps gowns
[Chorus]
[Verse: Bonafide]
I was born in the cold
Moved to the heat
Got used to the flame
Now I spit it on beat
I was chose in the womb
Groomed by Christ
With a gift to raise souls from the tomb
Please don’t assume
We ain't tryna take the slot
Blow the spot
Worldwide still parta the plot
Everybody talking 'bout changin' the game
But everything I hear yall soundin the same
From the beats to the videos
Clothes and look
Same concept for your flows and hook
See these round here they can raise the dead
So come on everybody now bob your head
Y'all need to heed these words from the wise
Rhymes so meaty like jambalaya
Got truth for hire
Can you stand the fire?
To see you come alive that’s my desire now
[Chorus]
[Verse: Bonafide]
Boy looka here
Have you ever heard a dead man talk before?
You ever seen a dead man walk before?
You ever heard dead man lock the flow?
Like these before
We raised the qou'
[Verse: Coffee]
Now my time flip make time change
You knew another record would hit
Explode and make your brains hang
Peep my language of my dialect
Circulate like a boomerang
Man what did you expect?
[Chorus] (3x)
The end,
The end,
The end,
The end...
The world's closing at a steady pace,
I see the expression on your face,
Catch the last stretch of the race,
Reach your destination place.
Staring at a black sky, full moon gleaming,
Beams baring cool on my skin,
All of a sudden, out of nowhere, the moon turns redder than blood,
Stars disappear, city blacks out,
Hearing voices shout in total terror,
Bodies fall dead to the ground,
Sirens and screams fill up the air,
Spirits flying through the atmosphere,
Could it be the thief in the night has chosen now to pull the veil back, revealing the truth of second coming?
The sky cracks,
Chariots rolling, with wheels of fire rushing to the Earth,
Angels in armour surrounding cemeteries, bodies raising up out of graves,
To my amazement, (Jesus)
The sound of the trumpets blew, announcing his arrival,
Demon spirits ran in terror through the streets, shouting, "It is he, prophesy is manifested,"
And, as I looked on, my body fell flat and hit the ground as my spirit arose to face the Father at judgement,
People going crazy and out of their minds, jumping out of windows,
Couldn't believe it was the end,
So feel me - repent because the kingdom's at hand,
Why this way? - Right, proper preparations are made.
My inner boils, veins busting open,
Blood gushing out, each drop representing people I tried to get through to,
Tried my best to pull the shades of their eyes up,
Sick to my stomach, 'cause they won't wise up,
Lord, I did my best...but whose to say I got it all together?
Stormy weather moves me like a feather, from here to forever, (ha)
Never letting doubt define what I'm about,
Victorious, expression my joy with a jump and shout,
Don't get me wrong, the times are hardly happy - this I say to you,
If something's going wrong, let me know so I can pray for you, (ha, here we go)
You didn't know the cof was plumb going off, silencing the non-believers who think we're soft,
'Cause we're into holding high, the people uplifting,
Separating wheat from the chaff with my Jesus sifting, gifting, and passing out the talents most are keeping dormant, trading them and their souls for torment,
People going crazy and out of their minds, jumping out of windows,
I stay inside with my doors closed,
Feel me, I keep close guard on my reality,
This way, right, proper preparations are made.
The end,
There's a beginning and there is an end,
The world's closing at a steady pace,
I see the expression on your face,
Catch the last sketch of the race,
Reach your destination.
People going crazy and out of their minds, jumping out of windows,
I stay inside with my doors closed,
Feel me, I keep close guard on my reality,
Why this way? - Proper preparations are made,
People going crazy and out of their minds, jumping out of windows,
Couldn't believe it is the end,
So feel me - repent because the kingdom's at hand,
That ain't sweet,
That ain't sweet, that ain't sweet,
Nah, that ain't sweet, that ain't sweet,
That ain't sweet, nah, that ain't sweet...
Stop biting, stop biting,
Stop biting, stop biting.
Stop biting,
Using styles that you know that ain't yours,
Stop biting,
Changing sounds every album you do,
Stop biting,
Reciting lines I done heard before,
Stop biting,
What be always going...
What be always going...
What be going down?
What be always going...
What be always going...
What be going down?
What be going dizzy-own?
Thus living in drug indolence like lotus eaters, from what promoters feed us,
'Cause they need us to live up to height they flown like kites,
So I'm talkative, loquacious, lop-sided but tenacious,
Outlasting tenebrific sprits with a pen and terrific lyrics,
Suffice the life of Christ putting natural man on ice, like Sesame Street live,
Children of Corn - I shuck and jive,
Rhymes and beats get me amped, therefore I thrive,
Don't ever find it strange, on it you got five, I got change,
Levitating like a séance, computations of what I said once,
Harnessing whirlwinds with a saddle, watching girlfriends battle,
Move like a snake when I'm mad, and then my tail begins to rattle,
Ripping throttles, not a forty ounce bottle to prove I'm in control,
I got the wheel, with evil figurehead high on my heels,
Squeals pierce my evenings due to constant struggles,
I got both sides of the story to juggle.
What be always going...
What be always going...
What be going down?
What be always going...
What be always going...
What be going down?
Thoughts of inequality,
Overwhelming capacity of mindsets of those blessed with darker pigmentations,
Relations with one another is in desperate need of a closer observation,
Genocidal mentality is taken from views where monogamy's unheard of,
Abuse of drugs and alcohol is used as market plans, for money more than others sells your records - What?
Can't you see you're a slave to the industry?
Who'll be shaking so your daughters can be whores?
Or represent your coast so the others become foes,
Talk about your dealings with drugs, explain the feeling of money and power so the killing can continue,
Contribute to the problem, don't talk about ways to solve them,
Get your money, man, at the same time do my job,
See, this mindset of evil execs and supremacists run in this,
Now you know what's going down now.
What be always going...
What be always going...
What be going down?
What be always going...
What be always going...
What be going down?
What be always going...
What be always going...
What be going down?
What be always going...
What be always going...
The more I meditate, I hesitate to even show face
The more I hesitate, I contemplate my life is a waste
My spirit levitates to take a glance at truth of its grace
As my flesh emulates every act of disgrace
So deceptive in perception of its hunger and greed
Maliciously relentless to fulfill whatever it needs
Undisciplined, rebellious, no regard for righteousness
Ever since it tasted death, he desires nothing less
Too many nights I spent in tears, drowning in fear
I'm never making it, through all the time I spend faking it
My soul is proving capability and prone that when alone
Without the father's consecration flesh manipulates
Constantly, continual battles might end up being goes through
Why do I do the things I know I'm not supposed to
Why don't I do the things that I know I should do
Who s to blame except me and me alone
I found my enemies home
(Chorus)
What could it inhibit a habit
the dark corners lurking
demonic principalities when other evils working
you can't escape fate, allow what's in your heart to tailgate
you're your only cellmate to unlock what locked the jail gate
(2X)
Somewhere inside the crevice, I long to face the limits
The premise is death for execution of flesh
past no authority and so control the tree of life
I chose, taking shape of its mold
Indulge in fruit too, whatever you do, I do, we crew
Give it unto a city, evil, not for me, you you
Doom can't loom if I no longer give it room zoom a zoom
You're free to explode for miles with a loud boom
Perfect tightly I hold with no attention
To foe toe to toe and low to low, flow to flow I stand firm
Learn to discern, circumstances are changed
Do a dance with death, til my soul's last breath
When I'm at my hardest
Can salvage my image tarnish
What can make me whole again
The blood of Jesus
Freed a deed
Down the slanted hill I ski high speed
Manage to get bandaged when I got tree
(chorus)
What lies in a man's soul'
I found that evil doesn't have a face, so let alone a place
It just lingers in the void over an open space
Searching out a victim
To nuzzle up against, take under its wing, and habit, then reign supreme
Think it control, it slowly conquers a man's soul
Behold real TV, even real is when it takes its toll
Unfold, with those punches, you don't have to roll
Toss yourself at the cross, and escape the devil
More vibrant than the radiant redhead
W/ flashlights, the fingers, the illuminated words of Christ
Put that on ice for a spell, pray tell, how in the world do you excel in the glory of God, and then rebel
Letting death valley give you a fear falling down
It will only breed your fears when you allow it to hang around
So get down, hit knees where prayers don't cease
[Hook]
My life be like
Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
Ooh Aah, Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
Ooh Aah, Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
[Verse One: Coffee]
I'm on an island by my lonesome stranded
Low key and stayin' candid
Reflect on all the things I try my hand at
Church for the equations to persuasions I'm used to
Finding comfort in the zones of closet bones I get loose to
A mountainous fontaine
Spinnin' and monsoonin', grinnin' it's hign octane
Explosive how I came
Rollin' down hills cause lifes a hastle
Encircled by my folly like a moat surround a castle
Stay afloat, catch a second wind
Thin
Is the air I breathe
Teary eyed nose runnin' wipe the snot on my sleeve
I'm callin' on the Savior to be all that I need
Please forgive me my behavior had me lost at light speed
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
[Verse Two: Bonifide]
The fear of never fallin' in love
And the tears after losin' the feelings of what you thought love was
Like the dirt still up under the rug (My life be like)
Bad characteristics covered in Christs blood
The joy of new birth and the pain of growin' up
The bliss between givin' my all and givin' up
The highs and lows
Paths and roads I chose
In the cold I froze
Tryin' to ease my woes
In this world of sin
Clothes to thin to fend
So to God I send
Words of help to win
In grumblings so deep letters could never express
So the sound of Ooh Aah beneath my breath projects
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
Don't be bad
[Verse Three: TobyMac]
My life be like
Ooh Aah Ooh
Dum dum ditty
Here come that boy from the Capital City
Last up on the Grits new ditty
But eight bars or the truth well do (uh)
I believe theres a private stunnin
And I believe in the Kindgom Comming
I believe if you seek the truth
You don't need to look far cause it's gonna find you
So why oh why do I trip and stumble?
And ooh aah as commitment crumbles?
I can't believe that I'm here again...
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
My life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Ma-ma-my life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
My life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
You got me running in circles,
360 to be precise,
Taking caution while turning in this cataclysmic device,
We need to get to the initial,
This music's superficial,
If my vocal chords were crushed and lost the strength to hold a pencil, would I give up?
Give in?
Creep closer to doom?
Staying anxious while receiving these orders from throne rooms,
It's the same question that I pose to you, to those who don't know but throwing stones at the crew.
'Cause if you don't know the music hire someone who does,
Instead of writing reviews, dragging our names through the mud.
Took excerpts from the songs, gave it a racist touch, while the deejay in the back's the kind you said we hate so much,
But you're forgiven,
'Cause we have no time for holding grudges,
Humble emcees don't need contemporary budgets.
Get back to the Father, the Great I Am, who distributes the blessings,
Why worship the soundscan?
Everyone's invited to the circle,
Come on in, and do bring a friend 'cause when the kid's on a natural high we boogie 'til we die,
Erupting the spot like the fourth of July.
Everyone's invited to the circle,
Come on in, and do bring a friend 'cause when the kid's on a natural high we boogie 'til we die,
Erupting the spot like the fourth of July.
Infrared beams seem to polarize the scene as my team gleams,
Representing number seven - meaning completion, as in 360 degrees in growth in the Spirit,
Trying to reach it
But some, they doubt it and don't believe we've been allotted a place in perfection,
The selection rocked your noggin,
Acceptance is at a limit 'cause of physical appearance,
According to the word I'm given eternal clearance.
As the gavel falls I appeal the court's decision,
Making judgment calls not adhering inner vision.
In order to speak to men you have to know the man's language,
Total anguish came alive from confusion of my tactics in this ministry,
Reaching lost souls through rhyme aerobics,
Total purpose for the factors of the seven,
My whole click's protected by spiritual immunity, with allies circled about beyond the sky.
Everyone's invited to the circle,
Come on in, and do bring a friend 'cause when the kid's on a natural high we boogie 'til we die,
Erupting the spot like the fourth of July.
Everyone's invited to the circle,
Come on in, and do bring a friend 'cause when the kid's on a natural high we boogie 'til we die,
Erupting the spot like the fourth of July.
Everyone's invited to the circle,
Come on in, and do bring a friend 'cause when the kid's on a natural high we boogie 'til we die,
Erupting the spot like the fourth of July.
One's invited,
Come on in, and do bring a friend 'cause when the kid's on a natural high we boogie 'til we die,
Erupting the spot like the fourth of July.
Do dot,
I got exactly what he got,
The spirit that we got reflect the Son - he hot
An onslaught never amounts to too much -what I am taught
Negativity encompass what I've accomplished,
Pin-pointed,
Passing it off to whoever want it,
Feelings demonstrated, bruised, battered and scattered,
My life's patterned off the one's scaling fine line,
Reality struck,
It stuck now until a past time-line,
The circumstances,
Taking our chances,
Ruins to rubble,
Day to day life, no picnic,
We all struggle,
To which degree do I turn?
I'm in a whirlwind spiral in a funnel, twisting me and my girlfriend,
Broken dreams persistent,
Insistent of spiritual assistance,
Futile,
While the whole mass laugh but few smile,
Volcanic,
Erupt a sporadic circle tornado,
An addict breathing static,
Passion it off,
Now who got it?
Everyone's invited to the circle,
Come on in, and do bring a friend 'cause when the kid's on a natural high we boogie 'til we die,
Erupting the spot like the fourth of July.
Everyone's invited to the circle,
Come on in, and do bring a friend 'cause when the kid's on a natural high we boogie 'til we die,
Erupting the spot like the fourth of July.
Everyone's invited to the circle,
Come on in, and do bring a friend 'cause when the kid's on a natural high we boogie 'til we die,
Erupting the spot like the fourth of July.
Everyone's invited to the circle,
Come on in, and do bring a friend 'cause when the kid's on a natural high we boogie 'til we die,
The last days characterised by sin nature,
Lustful gallivanting,
You choose the nomenclature,
Clearing than water as I overturn the cistern,
My story's complete,
Pass to Bone when it's his turn,
Time's unnecessary for a diligent worker,
A chance for this philanthropist,
Post-Jesus circa,
My pestilence is petulant,
Rebuke the adversary,
The world shoot their flatulent blend with commentary,
1-9-9-9
Ain't hard to find,
Face to the grind,
As you stare at the timeline,
2 g's
Who survived this?
When the smoke settles and the air clears, you're face to face with your worst fears.
Wells spring forth,
What did you bring forth?
All this time you had,
Millennium arrival.
All I really-really wanna see (see) is (is)
All I really-really wanna see (see) is (is)
Wells spring forth,
What did you bring forth?
All this time you had,
Millennium arrival.
All I really-really wanna see (see) is (is)
All I really-really wanna see (see) is (is)
In the last days many believing,
Too many sleeping,
Nobody trying to awaken,
Worshiping satan,
Unconsciously in a state of repubate,
A house divided,
Righteously unabiding,
Religiously reunited to the flesh love,
Collections of the best of,
From the last love,
Gave up your first love,
Cursed by complacency,
Why the dissention from above?
You used to be dedicated and word related,
Since you got your goatee you're complicated,
Thinking you can do what you wanna and still propel, and still excel,
But baby, time will tell.
Or maybe has it already?
Is the life you lead the choice of your final destiny?
The millennium,
It's the end ya'll.
The millennium.
Wells spring forth,
What did you bring forth?
All this time you had,
Millennium arrival.
All I really-really wanna see (see) is (is)
All I really-really wanna see (see) is (is)
Wells spring forth,
What did you bring forth?
All this time you had,
Millennium arrival.
All I really-really wanna see (see) is (is)
All I really-really wanna see (see) is (is)
Wells spring forth,
What did you bring forth?
All this time you had,
Millennium arrival.
All I really-really wanna see (see) is (is)
All I really-really wanna see is
Wells spring forth,
What did you bring forth?
All this time you had,
Millennium arrival.
All I really-really wanna see (see) is (is)
[Hook]
My life be like
Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
Ooh Aah, Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
Ooh Aah, Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
[Verse One: Coffee]
I'm on an island by my lonesome stranded
Low key and stayin' candid
Reflect on all the things I try my hand at
Church for the equations to persuasions I'm used to
Finding comfort in the zones of closet bones I get loose to
A mountainous fontaine
Spinnin' and monsoonin', grinnin' it's hign octane
Explosive how I came
Rollin' down hills cause lifes a hastle
Encircled by my folly like a moat surround a castle
Stay afloat, catch a second wind
Thin
Is the air I breathe
Teary eyed nose runnin' wipe the snot on my sleeve
I'm callin' on the Savior to be all that I need
Please forgive me my behavior had me lost at light speed
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
[Verse Two: Bonifide]
The fear of never fallin' in love
And the tears after losin' the feelings of what you thought love was
Like the dirt still up under the rug (My life be like)
Bad characteristics covered in Christs blood
The joy of new birth and the pain of growin' up
The bliss between givin' my all and givin' up
The highs and lows
Paths and roads I chose
In the cold I froze
Tryin' to ease my woes
In this world of sin
Clothes to thin to fend
So to God I send
Words of help to win
In grumblings so deep letters could never express
So the sound of Ooh Aah beneath my breath projects
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
Don't be bad
[Verse Three: TobyMac]
My life be like
Ooh Aah Ooh
Dum dum ditty
Here come that boy from the Capital City
Last up on the Grits new ditty
But eight bars or the truth well do (uh)
I believe theres a private stunnin
And I believe in the Kindgom Comming
I believe if you seek the truth
You don't need to look far cause it's gonna find you
So why oh why do I trip and stumble?
And ooh aah as commitment crumbles?
I can't believe that I'm here again...
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
My life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Ma-ma-my life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
My life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
[Hook]
My life be like
Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
Ooh Aah, Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
Ooh Aah, Ooh Aah (yeah), Ooh Ooh
My life be like (yeah)
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
[Verse One: Coffee]
I'm on an island by my lonesome stranded
Low key and stayin' candid
Reflect on all the things I try my hand at
Church for the equations to persuasions I'm used to
Finding comfort in the zones of closet bones I get loose to
A mountainous fontaine
Spinnin' and monsoonin', grinnin' it's hign octane
Explosive how I came
Rollin' down hills cause lifes a hastle
Encircled by my folly like a moat surround a castle
Stay afloat, catch a second wind
Thin
Is the air I breathe
Teary eyed nose runnin' wipe the snot on my sleeve
I'm callin' on the Savior to be all that I need
Please forgive me my behavior had me lost at light speed
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
[Verse Two: Bonifide]
The fear of never fallin' in love
And the tears after losin' the feelings of what you thought love was
Like the dirt still up under the rug (My life be like)
Bad characteristics covered in Christs blood
The joy of new birth and the pain of growin' up
The bliss between givin' my all and givin' up
The highs and lows
Paths and roads I chose
In the cold I froze
Tryin' to ease my woes
In this world of sin
Clothes to thin to fend
So to God I send
Words of help to win
In grumblings so deep letters could never express
So the sound of Ooh Aah beneath my breath projects
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
Don't be bad
[Verse Three: TobyMac]
My life be like
Ooh Aah Ooh
Dum dum ditty
Here come that boy from the Capital City
Last up on the Grits new ditty
But eight bars or the truth well do (uh)
I believe theres a private stunnin
And I believe in the Kindgom Comming
I believe if you seek the truth
You don't need to look far cause it's gonna find you
So why oh why do I trip and stumble?
And ooh aah as commitment crumbles?
I can't believe that I'm here again...
[Chorus (over hook)]
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
It's times like these that make me say
Lord if you see me please come my way
Leavin' bread crumbs for when I stray
Rely on sacrifice and the price you paid
Feel me like a fingertip (fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip)
Sometimes I fall I slip
My heartfelt desire be more like you
Tryin' not to quench your fire with the things I do
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
My life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Ma-ma-my life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
My life be like
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Fa-finger tip, fa-finger tip
Strugglin' lyrics
Wrestlin'
Realise it's not against the flesh
It is war against spiritual darkness and principalities
Strugglin'
Attaining these scars from inner battling
Warrin' with the enemy, abstaining from his wickedness
Notice, I hassle with, I wrestle with anxiety
Knowing that certain things I can't change about society
So I put this in my diary, which I keep hid' inside of me
I'm silent empty handed
‘cause that life is not the way that I planned it
Lost my mom and dad left me stranded
So I pained it
Felt abandoned even though my gran' was handed all the hurt
‘n' felt like I was just a burden
Closed the curtain I was naked
Started smokin' and drinkin', tryin' to maintain restraint
I used to think that maybe Jane would ease the pain
And lead the brain from wonderin' about the rain that was thunderin'
‘till I was bumblin', stumblin' with the beast,
grumblin', stumblin' with the beast, rumblin'
I was stumblin' with the beast rumblin'
Yeah I saw you in adolescence feeling depressed
Reflecting the evidence of stress, rejection and disrespect by your facial expression
Deconcerning be erected for your mental state of being in the situation so pressing
Distress was strongly spoken in the voice of your eyes
A wounded soldier was the vision incision with in my mind
Even if I was blind I felt your spirit like a ‘graver's impression upon my soul
For the ministry of salvation
The circumstance you face is not designed to be complacent in
God works in mysterious ways and times and most serious days
Give your life to him and trust in his spirit
Who'll be your guide and send his angels surround you and battle when holy align
I will give to win the battle
I will give to win the battle
Wrestlin'
Realise it's not against the flesh
It is war against spiritual darkness and principalities
Strugglin'
Attaining these scars from inner battling
Warrin' with the enemy, abstaining from his wickedness
Super scientifical creature from darkest caverns
Burning tables turning, darker clothes moe's tavern
With a slew of archaic relics that penetrate ‘n' tell us
‘n' Stop stop, bomb shells from preachers who bin releases
My deeses is pieces of puzzles formulate bigger picture
With description underneath informing who did the artwork
J-E-S, you know the rest though its for most you can't attest
Blowing up any mines that frame of ours cannot withstand yet
And what I see's some isletians some halfwit child, some of it gleams
No longer hide and slew the shackles their lives finished to live with jackals
Choose my flows but feel the blows
The Lord the shock or be the doe
by the bound don't hit the ground
And that's profound see y'all around
I like to, like to, like to offer just a bit of advice
If ya spot superman on the block don't pick a fight
‘n' if ya want to cross o'er never challenge intervention
If ya wrestle with God ya bring a quest for ya hist.
Make a request – not mine but thy will be done
Attach a conscious to examples that was left by the son
And I pray against the day when strictly fame is what I'm drinked in
And corner stones are built in I no longer put my faith in
That's my greatest fear, if I took that route
To feed the flesh until it's diesel while the spirit fizzles out
I ran from God's elections when I thought I could handle
With five nights to think in the guts of sea mammals
I will give to win the battle
I will give to win the battle
Wrestlin'
Realise it's not against the flesh
It is war against spiritual darkness and principalities
Strugglin'
Attaining these scars from inner battling
When I look in your eyes I see me
When I look in your eyes I see me
Let me conversate to you for a minute
Yo, see I never was one too fond of mirrors
The fear of self was oh so clearer then when I was a knee high
Coming up to breathe life, taking these deep breaths
Climbing up these steep steps to get me to the next stage
Next page, find me, me and you become one from two
Many levels passed, many devils wrestled
Many victories through stressful tasks
Much growing up from a too eventful past
(Slow down)
Had to learn how to save my gas
Owned some Keith Sweat, making it blast
Like game on, making the cash
Got to keep the wisdom and the history of the family's past
So we're robbing old folks and making a dash
I really love making you laugh when you smile
I see the best of me in your eyes
When I look in your eyes I see me
When I look in your eyes I see me
Seems I fell down again
Now I just await the moment for my world to end
You know I got to get up a lot to live for
Folks waiting in the wings, pulsating to redeem
See how much I really bring the tables will clad us
Disable the fool, the fat, and the fables that got us to the plate
Pitching and batting, working my gums like mad
Hitchhiking the path and biking and striking the apt with math
It'll be like I be opposition to those who rustle leaves
Look at my demeanor, sneeze, you up for the tussle? Please
There's a greater power guiding my step
And ain't ashamed to admit I was preserved and kept
These are moments in time documented and recorded in rhyme
That will sit in the archives as the lives intertwine
So, mirrored images I hope you find, I hope your focus is
As close as you ever get to the end, keep an open mind, player
When I look in your eyes I see me
When I look in your eyes I see me
I ain't through yet, listen
If I'm the greatest hit then y'all the best of
The perfect illustration of my God's express love
I never been ashamed to ever say that I messed up
Like Usher, my confessions get raw to check love
To gain the respect of my kids indeed
From a boy to a man on bended knees
And that's the reason why I bruise them seeds
To ensure a better life than was given to me
'Cause y'all deserve that, need that
Proceed that which I leave back when I'm gone
And, when I'm gone, y'all take the throne
Lead the family on and keep righting the wrongs
Keep the word of God close 'cause this life ain't long
Stay true to his direction, man, despite these clones
So when they look in your eyes, they see me
And beyond that they see Christ and live that life
When I look in your eyes I see me
When I look in your eyes I see me
When I look in your eyes I see me
Still waters run deep
Muddy waters wont keep
Love love it takes love
More than love is God above
Heaven knows its not enough
Cause this thing can be so rough
Tried and true when I keep my eyes on you
Cause still waters will run deep
If in you my faith I keep
This thing called love
(Love love it takes love)
I used to occasionally try my hand relationally
Obsessive with outside appearance and what I saw facially
What I had to have just didn't add up
Amount to much
Of what was revealed
Seein past they looks and such
The baggage piled up
Revealin' shine through
Feathers riled up
Emotions rev like a engine, engine
Then they drive up
Soon she jet,
I shoot for the exit myself
A quick outro
And im off for words like Guenith Paltro
Wanna be my soul mate
Muster up change
For the toll gate
The life I was chasin
When real I used to roll fake
With designed tate
The right thing I always did last
And like an outbreak
Everything caught up with me to fast
They cant stop me
Come out
Pure as gold and do I fold
Dismiss the latter
Then I embrace the promise told
I receive it
And with Christ like faith
I believe it
Pre destined
Manifested
I wanted to see it tested
(hook)
Still waters run deep (Love love it takes love More than love is God above)
Muddy waters wont keep (Heaven knows its not enough Cause this thing can be so rough)
Tried and true when I keep my eyes on you (makin sure my thing is right)
Cause still waters will run deep (we'll start a secret comes to life
If in you my faith I keep
This thing called love
As the sun rises daily
Im awaken
How do I begin
Dealin with the past
Guilty of sin
Though I know im not enslaved by his power
Deep inside my soul is free
But my mind reflects time and time again
Frustration
got me burnin from degrees of seperation
cause my knees put a distance in between a close relation
with my chidren
in a physical sense contact is limited
to often as possible
visits and phone conversations
Raise the fact
I know im only part of half of the blame
But in full I feel the shame
And that present
Its not the same
As when I was there
To give them names
And my presence was felt
To save the claim that I was dad
So often I feel sadness
Of the out come of the madness
With me and momma
Now we all face the drama
Through faith
Thank God for healin
Yes this price I must pay
Not a day goes by
I don't invision your face
Please forgive me
Hook 2x
Still waters run deep
Muddy waters wont keep
Hook 2x
Still waters run deep
Muddy waters wont keep
Making sure my thing is right
We'll start a secret comes to life
Hook
Love love it takes love
More than love is God above
Heaven knows its not enough
Cause this thing can be so rough
Tried and true when I keep my eyes on you
Cause still waters will run deep
If in you my faith I keep
I'm lost at the end of my rope
And I'm burning, I'm yearning
I'm hurting for hope
I'm needing this burden to go
But I'm searching for
Purpose, I'm searching to know
It knocks me down to the floor
Till I'm pounding the ground
And I'm down in my hole
It's got me down till I go
Till I cry out to you I
Can't take it no more
You are the one that I hold
You are the one in my soul
You are the one that I know
That will come when I call
And I fall and I fold let's go
Cmon
I'm at the end of my rope and
I can't take it no more
I think I'm losing control
I am about to let go
I am?.
So you said to let go
Let everything I had hold
Let go till its all in control
Let go till its gone up in smoke
Crush me mold me make me
Stretch me fold me change me
Until I ain't just the same me
You the only one my safety
You are the one gonna saved me
And I don't wanna ever live safely
Destroy my world and take me
The end,
The end,
The end,
The end...
The world's closing at a steady pace,
I see the expression on your face,
Catch the last stretch of the race,
Reach your destination place.
Staring at a black sky, full moon gleaming,
Beams baring cool on my skin,
All of a sudden, out of nowhere, the moon turns redder than blood,
Stars disappear, city blacks out,
Hearing voices shout in total terror,
Bodies fall dead to the ground,
Sirens and screams fill up the air,
Spirits flying through the atmosphere,
Could it be the thief in the night has chosen now to pull the veil back, revealing the truth of second coming?
The sky cracks,
Chariots rolling, with wheels of fire rushing to the Earth,
Angels in armour surrounding cemeteries, bodies raising up out of graves,
To my amazement, (Jesus)
The sound of the trumpets blew, announcing his arrival,
Demon spirits ran in terror through the streets, shouting, "It is he, prophesy is manifested,"
And, as I looked on, my body fell flat and hit the ground as my spirit arose to face the Father at judgement,
People going crazy and out of their minds, jumping out of windows,
Couldn't believe it was the end,
So feel me - repent because the kingdom's at hand,
Why this way? - Right, proper preparations are made.
My inner boils, veins busting open,
Blood gushing out, each drop representing people I tried to get through to,
Tried my best to pull the shades of their eyes up,
Sick to my stomach, 'cause they won't wise up,
Lord, I did my best...but whose to say I got it all together?
Stormy weather moves me like a feather, from here to forever, (ha)
Never letting doubt define what I'm about,
Victorious, expression my joy with a jump and shout,
Don't get me wrong, the times are hardly happy - this I say to you,
If something's going wrong, let me know so I can pray for you, (ha, here we go)
You didn't know the cof was plumb going off, silencing the non-believers who think we're soft,
'Cause we're into holding high, the people uplifting,
Separating wheat from the chaff with my Jesus sifting, gifting, and passing out the talents most are keeping dormant, trading them and their souls for torment,
People going crazy and out of their minds, jumping out of windows,
I stay inside with my doors closed,
Feel me, I keep close guard on my reality,
This way, right, proper preparations are made.
The end,
There's a beginning and there is an end,
The world's closing at a steady pace,
I see the expression on your face,
Catch the last sketch of the race,
Reach your destination.
People going crazy and out of their minds, jumping out of windows,
I stay inside with my doors closed,
Feel me, I keep close guard on my reality,
Why this way? - Proper preparations are made,
People going crazy and out of their minds, jumping out of windows,
Couldn't believe it is the end,
So feel me - repent because the kingdom's at hand,
Why this way? - Proper preparations are made.
Come on, come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on
Come on, yeah, here we go, come on, yeah, somebody hold
Can we get down, yeah, now bounce around, blah, yeah oh
We don't play, we came to get down, we do it like this everyday
Since we're the ones who are rep our city
Gotta give it up to the ones who with me
We don't play, never have never will 'cause I got too much to give
I got too much word and this life is too real
Got to be heard and fight for you to feel me
Hit these curves and fight what you deal with
Speak truth and love in spite what you live with
Hate what you came the mic is boldfaced
The mic is my knife, the words are my blade, cut through the musk
Stand up, everybody get up, we don't need nobody standin' around
Now bounce and fall, break your neck, run that back
'Cause we don't play, what you say?
Come on, yeah, here we go, come on, yeah, somebody hold
Can we get down, yeah, now bounce around, blah, yeah oh
We don't play, we came to get down, we do it like this everyday
Since we're the ones who are rep our city
Gotta give it up to the ones who with me
Got a bold new ridin' on the wings of a beat
Check out the phenomena king of the stream
The aura of rules runnin' blood in his veins
Former bully and a long thug to his pains
I'm runnin' wild and a child, yeah, so you hate with a smile
Go on give it to me now, don't frown fresher thinkin' how
Not to be a victim both guns blazin', blah
Are we actin' prone receiving end of the phone
Care to be the puzzle peace leaves to be shown
Announcin' grace to the space fully blown
Now bounce and chase and see the stuff that we own
Come on, yeah, here we go, come on, yeah, somebody hold
Can we get down, yeah, now bounce around, blah, yeah oh
We don't play, we came to get down, we do it like this everyday
Since we're the ones who are rep our city
Gotta give it up to the ones who with me
No, no, we don't play, blah, can we get down, blah
Now we do it like this, blah, can this be the sound
We're often kneeling a knee, no other can be
Here it comes, yeah, bounce, yeah, come on, blah
No, no, we don't play, blah, can we get down, blah
Now we do it like this, blah, can this be the sound
We're often kneeling a knee, no other can be
Here it comes, yeah, bounce, yeah, come on, blah
Come on, yeah, here we go, come on, yeah, somebody hold
Can we get down, yeah, now bounce around, blah, yeah oh
We don't play, we came to get down, we do it like this everyday
Since we're the ones who are rep our city
Gotta give it up to the ones who with me
We point it at your head
Gonna spin it till you receive and admit it
And know that we did it, get it formfitted
I promise to vomit the verdict I honestly heard it spoken
A seemingly simple voice, freakin' the decision, the choice
Stand up, keep your hands high, blah
Right now we came to get down, blah
Ain't no question who bringin' it to you, ain't no explainin' it to you
To keep it plain and simple bringin' this movement into you
This is serious down right
Mysterious spiritual type lyrics is dealin' with you
Don't get it twisted, dude, just take a listen, dude
Realize we ain't for playin', we on a mission, dude
Come on, yeah, here we go, come on, yeah, somebody hold
Can we get down, yeah, now bounce around, blah, yeah oh
We don't play, we came to get down, we do it like this everyday
Since we're the ones who are rep our city
Gotta give it up to the ones who with me
Come on, yeah, here we go, come on, yeah, somebody hold
Can we get down, yeah, now bounce around, blah, yeah oh
We don't play, we came to get down, we do it like this everyday
Since we're the ones who are rep our city
Gotta give it up to the ones who with me, yeah
Embrace this wisdom, and witness my construction,
No weak spiritualism verbalised, containing evil's deceit,
Other emcees intentions being exposed in time,
Abominations when they life aren't like they say in they rhymes,
If it is total depiction, opposition shows face,
Potentially raping the minds of people living in desperate states,
Keep it tight, the things you claim in videos, and on tape,
Where I'm from, friend, you statue's not injected in place,
Verbal disgrace to a nation of intelligent race,
Fertilisation to theory, stereotypes create, therefore will not implore my interjections,
Word play, play rough, like project kids with new neighbours who got more stuff,
Riches won't help you then, when judgement day's in play,
Only life, a sacrifice, attain salvation by grace,
My words go beyond the outer boundaries of flesh,
These recitals be vital to anatomic fortress,
In the 6.5 we strive to be blameless, with benevolence as evidence,
My claim to fame is righteousness.
Don't stop, (don't)
Don't stop, (and it won't)
And it won't stop, (won't)
Won't stop. ('cause it won't)
My writing is like a party, inviting to see quite clearly,
Proper lighting, tricky to the eye as U.F.O. sightings,
They're classified, means they're glassy eyed,
My writing is like a party, inviting to see quite clearly,
Proper lighting, tricky to the eye as U.F.O. sightings,
They're classified, means they're glassy eyed.
I come in, like visitors, displaying my creations,
R.S.V.P. invitations to destinations,
Delegated to educatement about salvation with installations of devastation,
Arouse more emotions than Tony, when touching grammar,
My vocal stamina is like the gift of strength to Samson,
The powers divine intertwined, and mix manifested,
I'm double-breasted with the plate of righteousness,
Sin, confessed it,
With shields of faithfulness, block distractions,
Captured captions, illustrated, I've remonstrated,
Player hated, though I told you before,
My style was complicated, un-debated and underrated.
Bone, real smooth, coming off the head like wigs,
Big are my crowds, loud to vocals,
Intermingling, with pockets jingling, singling out opponents,
A circle form in cipher, now I'm on it,
In the mix, like vanilla extract,
The hip-hop relief, like ex-lax,
Tip-top condition brought me top-notch,
Bounce around the beat like hop-scotch,
A real enhancer,
A lot been changed since D.C. dancer.
My writing is like a party, inviting to see quite clearly,
Proper lighting, tricky to the eye as U.F.O. sightings,
They're classified, means they're glassy eyed,
My writing is like a party, inviting to see quite clearly,
Proper lighting, tricky to the eye as U.F.O. sightings,
They're classified, means they're glassy eyed.
Rewinding my tape, analysing the moves I make from the pocket,
Use my blast from past to make your future rocket,
Calm your jets, buddy,
Jiminy Christmas,
Hand-cuff my ears, while restraining all my listeners,
On the back half of back draft, catching wind burns and then turn 180°, (that's halfway)
And, like lady emcees, with the high-pitched voice, denounce your leaving,
Stop, before you can consider leaving,
Even out vomit, brown bottle rockets, pink comets,
Snapple and apple cores, often swallowing what's not yours,
Beat-biter, dope style taker,
I'll distort your body, like a New York City breaker,
Look at me, look at me; I did this to you,
Tired of being slighted by my copywrited,
Adrenaline hits infinity and beyond.
My writing is like a party, inviting to see quite clearly,
Proper lighting, tricky to the eye as U.F.O. sightings,
They're classified, means they're glassy eyed,
My writing is like a party, inviting to see quite clearly,
Proper lighting, tricky to the eye as U.F.O. sightings,
They're classified, means they're glassy eyed,
My writing is like a party, inviting to see quite clearly,
Proper lighting, tricky to the eye as U.F.O. sightings,
They're classified, means they're glassy eyed.
"At long last, I am able to say a few words of my own."
Over the years we struggled while properly supported,
If not gripping of the mic, mission would have to be aborted,
Distorted thinking, feeling,
Being bombarded by riches quenches desires,
You know the flesh is never satisfied,
And if somebody told you that, then they lied,
Showing out for them cornball images they supplied,
Got me crazy and twisted like an F-5,
With a bit of jet-lagging you carry on like plane luggage or extra baggage,
I think it's sad, which enables me to further my thinking to it's entire capacity, with audacity to tell you like it is,
I'll pay no mind to stepping on your toes,
You wouldn't be offended by reproof if you were truly my bro,
Truth erupts all throughout me,
I'm backed by the Scripture, so I care less if you doubt me,
My part's been done, endorsed by someone greater than Nike,
My psyche makes you wanna be just like me.
This is me, (this is me)
By myself, (all by myself)
On my own, (on my own)
This is me, (psalms in the palm of my clutches - Starsky with no Hutches)
This is me, (this is me)
By myself, (all by myself)
On my own, (on my own)
This is me. (psalms in the palm of my clutches - Starsky with no Hutches)
The Ave. I travel is congruent to dope,
My speech is fluent, (what's up?)
Uprising vocal tone, mesmerising verbs and vowels,
Dig so deep into your bowels,
If I skip devotions throughout the day, I'm thirsting like Howell,
Stay contained, be a trooper like Isuzu,
Prophesied many times of God's plan - let him use you,
In an instance, I reached the distance to eternity,
Devil dreaming of burning me - dream on, demonic oppressor,
Sit on shoulders like coins on the dresser,
The lesser has upgraded to elegance, big as elephants,
Worldwide, universal, antagonist dispersal hits front page, (extra, extra)
What more could you ask for?
This is me, (this is me)
By myself, (all by myself)
On my own, (on my own)
This is me, (psalms in the palm of my clutches - Starsky with no Hutches)
This is me, (this is me)
By myself, (all by myself)
On my own, (on my own)
This is me, (psalms in the palm of my clutches - Starsky with no Hutches)
This is me, (this is me)
By myself, (all by myself)
On my own, (on my own)
This is me. (psalms in the palm of my clutches - Starsky with no Hutches)
What you know about hypocrisy? - The leaven of a Pharisee,
Stare and see rapture passed you up, too busy watching me,
Meticulous motions feed ridiculous notions,
What's he hiding?
Dissecting my articulate potions,
Commotions abound, judging the sound while my inner gets beat down to its last compound,
Chaotic, try to find answers to my questions,
Oh, I got it: adding advanced melodic robotics with the deity,
Meeting me with promise of never playing us,
Rock me, Amadeus,
The finger of Christ on board Emmaus,
I never stop my resonating, educating,
I'm preaching the Gospel 'til everyone's relating,
You're skating on thin ice,
I rock once and then twice all by myself, on my own,
Isn't that nice?
I had to get live, (on my own, on my own)
Proof that I rock, (on my own, on my own)
But it's kinda scary, (on my own, on my own)
Lord, overshadow me, (on my own, on my own)
I had to get live, (on my own, on my own)
Proof that I rock, (on my own, on my own)
But it's kinda scary, (on my own, on my own)
Lord, overshadow me. (on my own, on my own)
This is me, (this is me)
By myself, (all by myself)
On my own, (on my own)
This is me, (psalms in the palm of my clutches - Starsky with no Hutches)
This is me, (this is me)
By myself, (all by myself)
On my own, (on my own)
This is me, (psalms in the palm of my clutches - Starsky with no Hutches)
This is me, (this is me)
By myself, (all by myself)
On my own, (on my own)
This is me, (psalms in the palm of my clutches - Starsky with no Hutches)
This is me, (this is me)
By myself, (all by myself)
On my own, (on my own)
This is me, (psalms in the palm of my clutches - Starsky with no Hutches)
This is me, (this is me)
By myself, (all by myself)
On my own, (on my own)
(psalms in the palm of my clutches - I'm Starsky with no Hutches)