TRICKY
Maxinquaye (1995)
You sure you wanna be with me? I've nothing to give Won't lie and say this loving's best Whoa, leave us in emotional peace Take a walk, take a rest, a taste the rest Don't wanna be on top of your list Monopoly improperly kissed We overcome in sixty seconds the strength we had together But for now, emotional ties they stay severed And when there's trust there'll be treats When we funk we'll hear beats Karmacoma (x7) You and her, walking through the suburbs No, not exactly lovers You're a couple, specially when your body's doubled Duplicate and then you wait for the next Kuwait Karmacoma (x6) Jamaica aroma, Karmacoma
The place where I stand gives way to liquid lino Underneath the weeping willow lies a weeping wino The place where I stand gives way to liquid lino Underneath the weeping willow lies a weeping wino The mighty crowd search for their spaces And turn around time's gone, take ten paces Been up ahead, can't make head or tail of it I drink till I'm drunk and I smoke till I'm senseless You see in black and white, feel in slow motion I drown myself in sorrow, until I wake up tomorrow The illusion of confusion it's not from where I am sat Recircle, recycle, resemble me Different levels of the devil's company They lead us outside, take us out quietly To the cage through the bars, you see scars, results of my rage
I got a letter from the government the other day Opened it and read it, it said they were suckers They wanted me for their army or whatever Picture me giving a damn, I said never Here is a land that never gave a damn About a brother like myself, because I never did I wasn't with it, but just that very minute It occurred to me, the suckers had authority Cold sweating as I dwell in my cell How long has it been? They got me sitting in the state pen I gotta get out, but that thought was thought before I contemplated a plan on the cell floor I'm not a fugitive on the run But a brother like me begun, to be another one Public Enemy serving time, they drew the line y'all They criticize me for some crime I got a letter, I got a letter, I got a letter Picture me giving a damn, I said never It occurred to me, the suckers had authority Cold sweating as I dwell in my cell How long has it been? They got me sitting in the state pen I gotta get out, but that thought was thought before I got a letter from the government... (etc.) Many switch in, switch on, switch off (x5) Nevertheless they could not understand That I'm a black man, and I could never be a veteran On the strength of situations, I'm real I got a raw deal, so I'm looking for the steel Looking for the steel I got a letter from the government... (etc.)
I stand firm for a soil, I lick a rock off foil So reduce me, seduce me, dress me up in Stüssy. Hell is round the corner where I shelter Isms and schisms, we're living on a skelter If you believe I'll deceive, common sense says you are thief Let me take you down the corridors of my life And when you walk, do you walk to your preference No need to answer 'till I take further evidence I seem to need a reference to get residence A reference to your preference to say I'm a good neighbour, I trudge So judge me for my labour, lobotomy ensures my good behavior The constant struggle ensures my insanity Passing the indifference ensures the struggle for my family We're hungry, beware of our appetite Distant drums bring the news of a kill tonight The kill which I share with my passengers We take our fill, take our fill, take a feel I stand firm for a soil, I lick a rock off foil So reduce me, seduce me, dress me up in Stüssy Confused by different memories, details of Asian remedies Conversations, of what's become of enemies My brain thinks bomb-like, so I listen he's a calm type As I grow - And as I grow, I grow collective Before the move sit on the perspective. Mr. Quail's in the crevice and watches from the precipice Imperial passage Heat from the sun someday slowly passes, Until then, you have to live with yourself Until then, you have to live with yourself I stand firm for a soil, lick a rock off foil So reducee me, seduce me, dress me up in Stüssy Hell is round the corner where I shelter Isms and schisms, we're living a skelter If you believe I'll deceive, common sense says you are the thief Let me take you down the corridors My brain thinks bomb-like, bomb-like My brain thinks bomb-like, bomb-like, bomb-like My brain thinks bomb-like Beware of our appetite
Pumpkin, you're hollow within More how I'm too slowly let their harm Give us some, it's sad until Like flowers untamed shine out ends I find what will make him Love me, life is our find Hollow is he I can't breathe and I can't see MTV moves too fast, I refuse to understand You go your way and I'll see mine Feels like wasted time and it feels like I must be blind How'd you like yourself? You don't know yourself To a hollow kind, don't mind Love is some of you Don't dabble in fall of failure How, how bad, ooh I smell of she and I fail to be Well anyway, well anyway, well anyway See how high, go on I can't see and I can't breathe (x4) Well anyway, well anyway
The world revolves for, for someone For him, for she The world revolves for, for someone For him, for me Your eyes resemble mine, you see as no others can Here inherit my kingdom, speak of our people's plan I'll be here for my baby, for my baby I'll be near So many things I need to tell you, things she needs to hear So this is the aftermath How can I be sure? In a world that's constantly changing How can I be sure? Just when I thought I was winning Just when I thought I could not be stopped Just when I thought I was winning Just when I thought I could not be stopped How can I be sure?
Fuck you in, tuck you in, suck you in "Then you fly" "You fly as fast as you can to baby Jesus!" I am she, mistakes of men Gritted teeth, fists are clutching Breast stroke, lots of touching See you in the sauna There'll be a big foreigner at my Hotel, motel, hotel, motel I fuck you in the ass, just for a laugh With the quick speed, I'll make your nose bleed I ride the pre-menstrual cycle, forget about Michael Now here's the big blast, I like the big catch I'll spray you straight through, I spray your daydreams Enjoy myself, within myself And back again, encouraging sin, a powerful mind Devious mind for a devious kind Ugly noises and strange ways by the two praise I roll up the blue bills, I snort the cheap thrills
We know, yes we know It's my ego on fantastic But still, you're fucking with my plastic Dedicated, medicated They bend and break me, overrate me I take a small piece and make it breathe It takes a second for a record sucker niggers won't believe They stress me, test me, vex me So what, you got a gun? That shit don't impress me Yes, yes, you always walks with the crew You'd better back the fuck up 'cause you're not alone You're a motherfucker 'cause you're not alone If you don't think I'm a brother, then check my chromosome Brand new, you're retro I already passed you on a one-two I've been cued to this already Bullet to the head Bullet to the head, what you know I's joking? What the fuck are you doing? You come to represent my attention? You need more than a mic and a mention Through the scars you see bars Through the bars you see scars results of my rage Brand new, you're retro (x3) Scared to skip and step in case you trip and fall Thunder picks you up, slaps you on the wall That's maniacal, I cuff through my manocle Mechanical and super-natty Love is not talk, I walk on by exotic spices If your mouth can't tame the meaning Be careful of the faces you're seeing A dread of the past and fear of the future That's maniacal, I cuff through my manocle Mechanical and super-natty Brand new, you're retro (x3) Brand new, you're retro (x3) Bullet to the head, what you know I's joking? What the fuck are you doing? You come to represent my attention? You need more than a mic and a mention Through the scars you see bars Through the bars you see scars results of my rage Brand new, you're retro (x3) Brand new, you're retro (x3) Brand new, you're retro (x3) Brand new, you're retro (x3)
It's too good, it's too nice She makes me finish too quick Is it love? No, not love She turns me sexual tricks She says she's mine, I know she lies First I scream, then I cry You take a second of me You beckon, I'll bleed, she suffocates me She suffocates me with suggestions I asked 'do you feel the same?' And later on, maybe I'll tell you my real name She's so good, she's so bad You understand, I can't expand Now I could just kill a man She's on her knees, I say please I cross her city lines, she's got brown eyes I think ahead of you, I think instead of you Will you spend your life with me and stifle me? I know why the caged bird sings, I know why Forgive and you're forgiven, kingdom come Can you wait for yours? I need to taste some Life's really funny, I laugh while she spends my money She's my freak, I guess I'm weak You ask what is this? Mind your business I pass my idle days with my idle ways 'Til the twelfth of always she walks my hallways I keep her warm, but we never kiss She cuts my slender wrists Let's waste some more time, I sign the dotted line A different level, she-devil I think ahead of you... You ask what is this? Mind your business I pass my idle days with my idle ways 'Til the twelfth of always she walks my hallways I keep her warm but we never kiss She says I'm weak and immature But it's cool, I know what money's for Push comes to shove, her tongue's her favourite weapon on attack, I slap her back She mostly hates me I think ahead of you... Can I take off your clothes before we go out And when you're helpless, I'll scream and shout We finish everyday, well anyway Sixty-nine degrees, my head's between your knees You ask what is this? Mind your business It's too good, it's too nice She makes me feel it's too quick Is it love? No not love She turns me sexual tricks She says she's mine, I know she lies First, I scream, then I cry Take a second of me, you beckon, I'll bleed Take a second of me I think ahead of you...
I fight evil with evil I fight evil with evil Believe me how you found me Take away my self-esteem Anytime you're ready You don't, you don't, you don't, you don't You don't, you you don't you don't wanna even try I sleep, but gets no rest You scheme, but gods know best Second trying, I was actually dying, oh When you drown in your devil's music I did every need to use it You don't, you don't... Trust you if you're trustful Use you if you're useful Really smooth, really evil And if you're here, and that is the reason Giant strides, twelve tribes It takes a second to wreck it Sixty seconds, forget it I guess you dont hear me though You don't, you don't... I guess you dont hear me though I'm not looking yours, I'm looking mine Looking so quiet but discreet Echoes to see On an unsuggested stream, Unsuggested mean, take it to the top Unstable the times, unstable the walk Unbearable, searable, popular demand From cradle to grave is Abel buried a man With my moneys and the felons, we conquer a clearance Building extensions of potential But I guess you don't hear me though You don't, you don't... (etc.)
Because, in, in hell I'll be lost in the layers of weakness All around the surface brainwashed with the cheapest Struggling, struggling, struggling Brainwashed with the Hallucinagenics in my system I cock the trigger Many switch in Switch on, switch off (Here I'm lost) I'm lost (In the name of weakness) Brainwashed All around the surface Brainwashed with the cheapest Exhausted by the mundane Simplicity no longer plain Struggling, struggling Struggling with the insane I'm struggling Struggling with the insane Hallucinagenics in my system They say I'm insane I'm struggling, struggling Darkness and warmth Obvious and mysterious Magical colors Mystical shadows Thought with no meaning They say I'm insane Label me insane But I'm more normal than most Struggling so hard I just need to remain 'Cause I'm struggling I know I'm the truth 'Cause we are the truth See what we want to see Please, please tell me what I want to hear Hear what we want to hear Strugglingso hard I took a ride, yeah Roll with the bullets to survive To survive, to survive Self preservation Roll with the bullets Just to survive Self preservation Keeps the crowd alive Struggling, struggling They, they say I'm insane I'm struggling, struggling They say I'm insane I'm more normal than most I'm just struggling Mythical shadows Mysterious, the obvious They say im insane, I'm struggling Switch in, switch on, switch off I'm lost in contradiction Feed me my visuals A flashback, a flashback from way back I'm struggling struggling Do you know what its like to struggle? Do you? Do you? Have you? Have you ever had to struggle? Struggling struggling Roll with the bullets to survive Struggling struggling struggling to remain They label me insane But i'm, I'm, I think I'm more normal than most Struggling with the remains Brainwashed with the cheapest And if pain makes me stronger Then how am I stronger? There's a fate for the late But the late must wait longer Struggling, struggling Roll with the bullets to survive Self preservation keeps the crowd alive Struggling in hell In hell I'll be lost in the layers of weakness All around the surface brainwashed with the cheapest In hell I'll be lost in the layers of weakness All around the surface brainwashed with the cheapest Exhausted with the mundane Simplicity means no longer plain Struggling with the insane Darkness and warmth The obvious and mysterious Magical colors, mythical shadows Half thought with no meaning They label me insane (x3)
How things are together we'll destroy And then we can destroy what we are Together we can build what we are when we dream the spirit free We don't give praise, we take praise So why are we? How things are together we'll destroy And then we can destroy what we are Together we can build what we are When we dream the spirit free We don't give praise, we take praise So why are we? Feed me when I'm hungry Drink me 'till I'm dry The dream of yesterday becomes another lie You feed me lies, distortion, the English disaster No one's free from love for one master We found a new place to live Where we're taught to grow strong And strongly sensitive It always sets the scenery Colors leave only beauty Words and wine amongst the greenery See how it is The only lessons you teach us from a margin They ask my origin The only lessons you teach us from a margin They ask my origin, it's a moral sin, it's a moral sin Extract from crystal though nothing is clear I despise you, damn you, dream you, I love you But still nothing is clear, I think of when I found you You keep on singin while I'm drowning Down into that two-tone vision I've been raised in this place And now concrete is my religion See how it is (x4) The only lessons you teach us... (etc.)
Nearly God (1996)
Color me, color me When you're sitting all alone in the middle of the floor There's something uncontrollable You sit down watching the door Color me, color me I really feel ill, tattoo your bad side Slap your thigh, slap your cuff Sing your mantra, leave your walk Color me, color me Something fits along my spine Just giving loving from behind Fortify my arms, fortify my arms Color me, color me
I can vibe to anything Do I have to hide from everything? Everybody wants a piece of me Reach their origin and cease to be Sit back and let it happen Let us take it all away I don't understand you I don't want your time of day If you're gonna walk, might as well walk your way Always walk the hallways Forget the punk, I pack the funk I'm gonna take a piece of you Making money for good health But first I learn to see myself But first I learn to see myself You promised me poems (x3) I ruse the day that I ever met you And deeply regret you getting close to me I cannot wait to deeply neglect you Deeply forget you, Jesus believe me You promised me poems You might have been my reason for living I gave up on giving, gave up everything We were a right pair of believers A couple of dreamers So how cab you hate me? You promised me poems (x4) Dreamed of ringing voices And contemplated choices Taste like a real kiss To heighten my awareness With all fairness, greatness with gratitude And simply riled with attitude Now do promotion on TV, and you still can't see We're down the hill cascade And keep away the masquerade Dreamed of ringing voices And you promised me poems You promised me poems (x3)
Into the morning got me through the night I've seen the light, yeah, I see the light I live of what I need, I've got greed I've been a sinner for as long as I know So help me understand the little that I know Shadow dancing with my spirit I got to face your demon on your own Take my body and put it through the dust I've been buried in the crust, together now So help me understand the little that I know Together now, together now It's us now, it's us now And there's them, and there's them And should we start again Together now, together now It's us now, it's us now... The descendants of Christ And it's you Will you help me? I'm confused (etc.) What you gonna do with the little that I know? With the little that I got We're together now, we're together It's us now And there's them, and there's them And should we start again Together now, together now It's us now, it's us now...
Well, if the honeys think I'm stuck up I tell them "shut the fuck up" (x2) All that she meant was good All that she meant was good Give her some time, give her some room All that she meant was good Better keep your mouth I'm serious, please Better keep your mouth closed, baby And keep it close to your chest I'm serious, you better keep your mouth closed, baby And keep it close to your chest Better keep your mouth closed, baby Keep it close to your chest It's best you keep And I'll go down that road (x5) Mother, I'm hungry Father, will you feed me? (etc.)
I can't relax, I need to meditate Yeah, I'll make 'em wait I can't relax, I need to meditate Yeah, I'll make 'em wait Time moves in numbers I count the summers, direct the drummers I can't relax, I need to meditate Yeah, I'll make 'em wait Time moves in numbers I count the summers, direct the drummers Tell me you don't feel nothing Would you like to ride on my train? Or would you like to drink from my vein? My vibe's just a fucking feelingm I see the ceiling And adjust to such a feeling I be the prophet, slay me then we'll cross it I'm ready on the other side (x3) Already on the other side I can't relax I need to meditate I'll make them wait Time moves in numbers I count the summers, direct the drummers Would you like to ride on my train? Or would you like to drink from my vein? My vibe's just a feeling, I see the ceiling And adjust to such a feeling I be the prophet, slay me, then we'll cross it I'm already on the other side I'm already on the other side I'm already on the other side
Make a change a maze She don't understand the days With a different daze There be no ba ba ba ba ba ba black sheep 'Cause maze is not the slave Break away the chains You know nothing else remains No more last night No more last night If you come alone, realize Realize Stay for the hartred Stay for the hartred If I make a change for you Who's gonna make a change for me? If I'm not with you who's it gonna be? Wanna know my real reason Wanna know my real truth Wanna know my real reason It's your turn to fuck the things that they say It's your turn to fuck the things they say, yeah Make a change fantastic I'll make the change fantastic Fantastic, fantastic Gonna make it last forever Gonna make it last forever, forever Take it from me Then its time to sever, sever Seize the chance to change Seize the chance to change Seize the chance to change I'm going, I'm going to I'm going to, to Make the change fantastic Make the change fantastic Fantastic
Yeah, you heard what I said, move over I feel so lonely, haven't slept a wink I walk the floor, and watch the door And in between I drink black coffee Love's a hand-me-down brew I never know why's Sunday in this weekday brew I'm talking to the shadows, one o'clock till four And Lord, how slow the moments go All I do is pour black coffee Since the blues caught my eye I'm hanging out on Monday But sunday dreams too dry They say a man is born to go alone And a woman is born to weep and fret To stay at home And drown her past regrets in coffee and cigarettes And moody all the morning, moody all night And in between I drink black coffee Black coffee
The first hundred years are the toughest on this bubble An open sky, flying high, take a bride, get some trouble The first one will do, I'm just passing through The second one needs more, I've been here before I've been here before, I've been here before Springtime falls, summer calls You slip and slide until you hit December Believe my eyes, they'll bleed you dry If I wasn't a genius I'd lose my temper The first one will do, just passing through The second one needs more, I've been here before I've been here before Wanna make me weak while you cry It's not such a thing, because still you die Gotta go I get high, gotta go I get high Deceiver deceived us and I deceived them Carry my troubles home, married with the humble home The first hundred years are the toughest on getting smothered Life is just one bloody thing after another
We're the only ones here so speak your mind I feed your appetite, now you feed mine I sing for you, so you can find your way home There's nothing to fear but fear itself If you know how to look inside yourself I sing for you Forget all you learned from yesterday If you learn how to change, you'll change today I sing for you, so you can find your way home I pray for you And I breathe aside my impurities But I can't take your insecurities If you trust, then trust me now Can you trust? Round and round together, round and round forever Pray for me Pray for me, so I can find my way home Leave me now, so I can be alone Can you be alone?
Don't hold me (I'm no mystic) Don't fuck with me (She treats my 'tistic') Just do it (A 'tastic') Yoga-all, I leave it after you (Now I'm feeling fantastic) I'll find how to get after you (And I will do for you) I don't chance it, all the pieces (And I will do for you) I don't-yoga all the people in colleauge with me Don't hold me now (I'm no mystic) Don't fuck with me (She treats my 'tistic') I can want it (A tastic') I'll slide around in seconds (Now I'm feeling fantastic) I'll slide around and solve me (And I will do for you) I don't chance it (And I will do for you) I don't need the love to dance it I don't chance it I don't chance, at least the love's here Just do it (I'm no mystic) Don't fuck with me (She treats my 'tistic') Don't hold me now (A tastic') I'm jumpy (Now I'm feeling fantastic) I'll stay and leave there (And I will do for you) May though you come and leave there (And I will do for you) I don't share it Yoga after I go and leave the lair I'll send light-this sad soul laments It can tell that I love, so I waste
Is simplicity best or simply the easiest? The narrowest path is always the holiest So walk on bare feet for me, suffer some misery If you want my love, if you want my love Man will survive the harshest conditions And stay alive through difficult conditions So make up your mind for me, walk the line for me If you want my love, if you want my love Idle talk snd idle promises Cheating Judases, doubting Thomases Don't just stand there and shout it, do something about it You can fulfill your wildest ambitions And I'm sure you will lose your inhibitions So open yourself for me, risk your health for me If you want my love, if you want my love If you want my love, if you want my love
Once upon a time, not long ago When people wore pajamas and lived life slow When laws were stern and justice stood And people were behaving like they're ought to good There lived a little boy who was misled By another little boy and this is what he said: "Me and you tonight are gonna make some cash Robbing old folks and making the dash" They did the job, money came with ease But one couldn't stop, it's like he had a disease He robbed another and another, a sister and a brother Tried to rob a man who was a duty undercover The cop grabbed his arm, he started acting erratic He said "Keep still, boy, no need for static" Punched him in his belly and he gave him a slap But little did he know the little boy was strapped The kid pulled out the gun, he said "Why'd you hit me?" The barrel was set straight for the cop's kidney The cop got scared, the kid, he starts to figure "I'll do years if I pull this trigger" So he cold dashed and ran around the block Cop radios it to another lady cop He ran by a tree, there he saw the sister A shot for the head, he shot back but he missed her Looked around due to expectations So he decided he'd head for the subway stations But she was coming and he made a left He was running top speed 'till he was out of breath Knocked an old man down and swore he killed him Then he made his move to an abandoned building Ran up the stairs to the top floor Opened up the door there, guess who he saw? Dave the dope fiend shooting dope Who don't know the meaning of water nor soap He said "I need bullets, hurry up, run!" The dope fiend brought back a spanking shotgun He went outside but there was cops all over Then he dipped into a car, a stolen Nova Raced up the block doing 83 Crashed into a tree near a university Escaped alive though the car was battered Rat-a-tat-tatted and all the cops scattered Ran out of bullets and still he had static Grabbed a pregnant lady, got out the automatic Pointed at her head and he said the gun was full o'lead He told the cops "Back off or the honey here's dead" Deep in his heart he knew he was wrong Let the lady go and he starts to run on Sirens sounded, he seemed astounded Before long the little boy got surrounded He dropped the gun, so went the glory And this is the way I have to end this story He was only seventeen, in a madman's dream The cops shot the kid, I still hear him scream This ain't funny so don't you dare laugh Just another case 'bout the wrong path Straight and narrow while your soul gets cash
Pre-Millenium Tension (1996)
She's the one, makes me feel these ways He's the one need sun rays Can't stand to feel, hate to feel Gone insane, highjack a plane Don't push me 'cause I'm close to the edge Trying hard not to loose my head Can't hardly breathe, I've been and seen She hides my Ventolin, can't hardly breathe Can't hardly breathe, can't hardly breathe I'm the one who hides his medicine Watch him stop breathe, watch him bleed I right the wrongs and take his song And we all live happy ever after Can't hardly breathe, can't hardly breathe Can't hardly breathe, can't hardly breathe And we all sing together now, can't hardly breathe Can't hardly breathe, can't hardly breathe (etc.)
My defences become fences Now I'm stumbling, I change my face up And if you think I'm fake up, wait around 'till I take off my make-up, here we go again I meet another one, her name is She looks at me, says I'm the only one I met a Christian in Christiansands And a devil in Helsinki (x2) Is it getting better? Wrote her a letter Asking questions, baby steps in sections I mean we'll take it slow, I really don't know When you talk you make me cringe Silver means to the messenger Let her go, don't question her I met a Christian in Christiansands... You and me, what does that mean? Always, what does that mean? Forever, what does that mean? It means we'll manage, I'll master your language And in the mean time I'll create my own (etc.)
That one fronts and bragging on the stunts Coke in your nose, knock out you gold fronts That one fronts and bragging on the stunts Coke in your nose, knock out you gold fronts Here comes a Nazarene, look good in a magazine Haile Selassie I, they look after I God will receive us, got me like Jesus God will receive us, got me like Jesus Mary Magdalene, that'd be my first thing Been with this temptress (yeah!) It's a mongol rage, is a new age As long as you're humble let you be the king of jungle We run everything, always and ever Has been, has been Heard there's german-jamaicans with twisted faces Same as it ever was, tell me what the race is It's surreal, they're not real I'll put them where places (yeah!) They used to call me Tricky kid, I live the life they wish they did I live the life, don't own a car, now they call me superstar Tell 'em where you at baby, ah! They used to call me Tricky kid, I live the life they wish they did I live the life, don't own a car, now they call me superstar Are you disturbed? I'll be with Everybody wants to know where my mind is I'll tell you everything, I tell you lies Look deep into my mongrel eyes Tell me what you see, tell me what you see Tell me what you see when you look into my mongol eyes, ah! Everybody wants a record deal and everybody wants a... And everybody wants a record deal Everybody wants to be naked and famous And everybody wants to be naked and famous And everybody wants to be just like me I'm naked and famous They used to call me Tricky kid... If you test and turn the tables But don't get inside the cap And we're starting to unturn your label And everybody who got a record deal And everybody wants to be naked and famous Everybody's got a record deal And everybody wants to be naked and famous Everybody wants to be just like me I'm naked and famous And everybody wants a record deal And everybody just wants to be like me I'm naked and famous And famous
This is a matter of utmost urgency You might even call it a policy emergency Suckers got ill when they finally heard that you Wasn't selling out, they tried to murder me Reached for my Jenny like a troops supposed to do Never let a sucker get too close to you Heard 'em coming up behind the wall They saw the whites of his eyes, the first one had to fall Another burn creeped up the fire escape Trying to sneak, I guess he snuck too late Looking like a scene from Real Life Vice So when his head fell apart like a block of solid ice Him easy does it, come to think of it Deep paranoid but his wasn't as fast as mine I heard the phone ring, should I answer? This is getting serious as terminal cancer And that is the final stage, my primal rage Began to rise and I started to fantasize How many more might try to rush the door? And grass their warrior, hell, I ain't staying I opened the back door and felt the sunlight Summer night heat saw a bunch of bulbs Wearing white sheets, what else could it mean? I know it ain't Halloween The cross in the background burning made an ill scene First I was panicky, then I was angry Funky people had a rope ready to hang me Now who am I supposed to be? Eddie Spagetti? You come Vic Rob G. anytime you're ready? Fuck that, they had me trapped so I rushed back They tried to bust me but they don't have enough caps I dipped, dived, slipped, slid, they missed me I had to move quick or they was bound to get me One bullet grazed me, that didn't faze me What could I say? I was having a fucked up day Stood and took aim, my finger on the trigger I shouted "Now let me hear you say nigger!" Well anyway, nobody spoke, I went for a broke The place was all clouded up from gun smoke Then everything got quite, I don't buy it A second ago we had a riot They must be planning attack or setting a trap Whatever the case you won't get this black Now I'm on the edge and there's no denying it Whatever the hell might work I'm trying it Thought I was a target but they could get right quite But I ain't going out like no statistic Another number, made me wonder How many other brothers they put under I sat in the dark real still for a long time Didn't make a sound 'cause I've got a strong mind Made my way to the street, it was day break Must've fallen asleep, but for Pete's sake I didn't see the enemy trying to put an end to me The night before, my finger trigger was sore I went in the house to get a fresh clip And then I woke up in shit, it's just a bad dream
She makes me wanna die, follow where Mary goes Cherish the things she knows, says if I change my stride Then I fly, she makes me wanna die Change my stride, then I'll fly Look to the sun, see me in psychic pollution Walking on the moon, how could you dare? Who do you think you are? You're insignificant A small piece, an ism, no more, no less You try to learn the universe, can't even converse in universe You know it's ironic, smoking hydroponic Then I fly, she makes me wanna die Change my stride, then I'll fly She makes me wanna die, follow where Mary goes Cherish the things she knows, says if I change my stride Then I fly and change my stride, then I fly Look to the sun, see me in psychic pollution Walking on the moon, how could you dare? Who do you think you are? You're insignificant A small piece, an ism, no more, no less You try to learn the universe, can't even converse in universe You know
Yeah, me's a ghetto youth Me come from straight down ina the ghetto Seen, Rockfort, Warica Seen, Matches Lane Jungle Heights, yeah all I and I are one Carry kites,yeah, me a tell ya All Bull Bay Heights and dem heights dey Yeah, we come up Seen, I you a hear me Wicked ina de ghetto my brother, wicked to the mass And you done know the man have youth and youth and youth a come up And you see when you come up and the father drop out Dem no know no father so dem come up to a gunman Me done know, because a saw de ghetto run a so the politician do it Dem bring in a bag a gun and barrage a thing and seen run up on youth on youth And then when you check it out Dem send dem police friend to come for dem gun And dem say dem not running gun and dem things deh And be here things in a ghetto Seen, man no stop kill man, seen, man no stop rob man A no dem things deh we want ina Jamaica We want love, unity, sense, strength and energy. Yeah, we want a whole heap of things to go on for the ghetto youth all next year. You done know me as one a dem uprighting ghetto youths Seen, so we a start from way down dey so We no just a come from no where and a come up you so A way down ina de so man a come from Say man a come way from the rock, when me say de rock, me mean the rock, Seen, them flow ambulance and them come to the worst, worst industrial It's the work of the Caribbean country I know it all from a long ways back We no got no royalty, know what me say? Yeah, get up in a place them call they'll sigh, call them See them sitting in a store Gots with play, gots to this, gots to that, gots to everything Ever have a little fire get wet? Wow, them has not said a word I a don't know my little friend over there sir Sure when they all left the motel I sell chicken and some other things I a do know ya up front man Yes me brother, Sky the yes sir And the easy, we all easy, now we all smoke weed as one Now listen I tell ya, the truth Y'all God bless been me, trust me. I wanna show ya'll more thing about the ghetto See the ghetto is a case a pop, lollipop, all of them pop there Yeah, I and I a juggle them from nine from down dere yes sir See ya know it's cool we got a system army See ya don't know man no ghetto youth, see? Street boy original, see? Yeah, and noboby can fool and nobody can come use we Yeah, that's the way we run things We just steal a thing, we sell suck-suck on them thing Them thing come and them thing in The Star And in the news in the Enquirer, the ex-news for earn our own paper Yeah, come with I and get we boy to come tell About six to six and six to twelve And after this and after that you drink champagne and cut off you foot In a place something on that ya see we is all caught on our neck for you When them work them weary, that's how the ghetto youth live That's why them ever try to elevate us, I and I ya see? You know I and I elevate out of the slum That needs more order, we make war and peace look easy See we me people we make use of that ya see? Our mother and our father never have nothing, from way down there sir Trust me my brother, see that's how I and I come up Go to school without lunch money and them sitting there That's why I no love nobody else One good thing I love about the little youth they're the car keys to a I and I and a friend, me brother I tell ya, it'll sure fit all our sell ya anything ya want I and I know, I live with it, I live with it, you see? Reality a reality, see? We no promote none of them boy over there sir See them stay over one side and go and eat them turkey And drink them what they wanna drink them, the red wine's going There is one thing and kick back and go and meditate and see? Yeah, live with people, me people live with we Ya know what me say? Yeah, 'cause when I tell ya me brother, see there be chain of bandages them a go under, see? Babylon release the train but them use is them brain, see? Trust me, that's why I and I now go ask for them God with it them build big pretty church and no build, no school
What you wanna do with your sex drive? Wait for your soul to catch up with me Conquer feed lay seed, I talk to him, I wanna lie She looks at me, I wonder high Wanna be rich and fat, how do I validate that? A man with my eyes makes me feel like a mouse Do I retaliate and do that? Can I rest my head on your chest and dribble? You know the rules I squeeze you wriggle Pain is somewhere on the line Pain is somewhere on the line It takes courage and strength to be single When you get older your body won't move so good You won't learn so quick, the best time for a relationship I know this she-kid in Moscow, I said if you're in love let go of my hand now The older I get the more confused I am The older I get the older I am Damn it! Jesus, they want more players like Cyril Regis Damn it! Jesus, they want more players like Cyril Regis You're paranoid so I walk with my head down I dominate with a conflicting mind state You hold the national wealth I get the, I get the national health You told me I was the original gutter snipe But really I'm the original Isrealite I live in a ghetto, forever after So you manufacture the ghetto blaster But I'm out now, I'm older I don't carry music on my shoulder You think I'm a wild Terrier But I'm the one who can afford to live in your area The more confused I am, the older I get, the older I am Damn it! Jesus, they want more players like Cyril Regis
Choose me if, I wish I didn't feel I wanna do bad things and then we're one again I wanna do bad in those movies They say squeeze never pull it Muscles wrapped around the bullet Me here say your big broad and tall OK, let me make a phone call I'd rather you float down the river sea Voodoo he for fucking around with my privacy I wish I didn't feel, I wanna do bad things And then we're one again, and then we're one again And then we're one again, and then we're one again I wanna do bad things in the movies They never squeeze, never pull it Muscles wrap round the bullet Me here say your big broad and tall Get at me, make a phone call I'd rather you float down that river-sea Voodoo he for fucking around with my privacy Would you like to see me through be a winner? I'd probably buy a brother dinner I'd rather speak another language You know she's my toasted sandwich Be careful of food, she's egotistical, I'm rude And it's all about me, and it's all about me My fucking name, I'm the one again It's you to say I'm nice Don't wanna ask twice Wanna break those chains Make the whole world know Wanna break those chains Make the whole world know my fucking name And I break those chains They don't wanna know my fucking name And I'm born again and it's you to say I'm nice Don't wanna ask twice Wanna give the poor riches Why don't you stop saying bitches Wanna be good Wanna be a homeboy from the hood Pretend I'm from America and this is Blues Chief of the Cherokee, wanna break those chains Make the whole world know my fucking name And I'm one again And I'm the one again Its you to say I'm nice Don't wanna ask twice I'll giving the poor all the riches I'll never just stop saying bitches Wanna be good Wanna be a homeboy from the hood Pretend I'm from America, pretend this is Blues Chief of the Cherokee, chief of the Cherokee Chief of the Cherokee I wish I didn't feel, I wanna do bad things I wish I didn't feel, I wanna do bad things And then we're one again, and then we're one again And then we're one again, and then we're one again I wanna do bad in those movies They say squeeze never pull it Muscles, muscles wrapped around the bullet
I waited ahh, this is a warning, you'd better void Poets are paranoid, DJ's destroyed, 'Cause I came back to attack religious spite Strike like lightning, it's quite frightening But don't be afraid in the dark, in a park Not a scream or a cry, or a bark, more like a spark Temper like an alcoholic, muscles tighten up What's that lighten up, you see a cipher Suddenly you feel like you're in a horror flick You grab your heart and wish for tomorrow quick Music's a clue, when I come you're gone Apocalypse Now, when I come, you're gone Haven't you ever heard of a MC-murderer? This is the death penalty, and I'm serving her Death wish, so come on, step to this Hysterical idea for a lyrical perfectionist Friday the thirteenth, walking down Elm Street You come in my rhyme you get beat This is off limits, so your visions all blurry All you see is the meters of volume pumping Lyrics of fury Terror in the styles, never error-files They be unknown in exile For those that oppose to be level or next to this I ain't the devil and this ain't the exorcist Worse than a nightmare, you don't have to sleep a wink The pains the migraines every time you think Flashbacks into fear, you start to hear The R-A-K-I-M in your ear Then the beat is hysterical, that makes the Erical Get the axe to chop the wax through the lyrical For madness fury and faces of death remain MC's decaying, 'cause they never stay The scene of a crime every night at the show The fate of a rhyme of a mike that you know There's only one capable, breaks-that unbreakable Melodies-unmakable, patterns unescapable Now hold on if you want the style I possess I bless the child, the earth, the god and bomb the rest For those who envy an MC it can be Hazardous to your health so be friendly A matter of life and death, just like a etch-a-sketch Shaking you clear, make you disappear, make the next After the ceremony, let the rhyme rest in peace If not, my soul'll release The scene is recreated, reincarnated Updated, I'm glad you made it 'Cause you're about to see a disaster recite A performance never again performed on a mic Lyrics of fury
Well I see it so much (I see it so much) I see it so much (I see it so much) I see it, I see it Before you test, know what's going on I've been around for long, my evil is strong I lie awake and hate you, maybe that's strong enough to make you One, two, one, two, catch up Before you test, know what's going on I've been around for long, my evil is strong I lie awake and hate you, maybe that's strong enough to make you Something happened, a car crash Make you play with a weapon A gun in your mouth, my voice in your mind Two before you test, know what's going on I've been around for long, my evil is strong I lie awake and hate you, maybe that's enough to make you Something happened, a car crash Make you play with a weapon A gun in your mouth, my voice in your mind Sleep and I'll find you, put my mind to Am I strong enough? Watch me rock a thousand stage My funny valentine, I don't find you funny Seaside, the sunny, the fame, the money Who am I to say, so you don't even wanto to be a No, I can't say it, my mouth is like a Bitter sweet and twisted, deceitful like I'm gifted Even Gods God's scared Even Gods God's scared, men and the things we did Making children, strong enough to take her one Are you strong enough to take care of one? I'm a work on it, pray on it, stay on it I'm a work on it, pray on it and stay in it I'm a work on it, pray on it and stay in it Before you test, know what's going on, I've been around for long, my evil is strong I lie awake and hate you, maybe that's enough to make you Something happened, a car crash Make you play with a weapon A gun in your mouth, my voice in your mind Sleep and I'll find you, put my mind to Am I strong enough? Watch me rock a thousand stage Cannot tell me, do you feel it? Is this energy strong enough to work you like a blade? I'm a work on it, pray on it, stay on it I'm a work on it, pray on it and stay in it
To the noose, to the neck To the boots, to the check To the micic, to the psychic To the circuit, to the games pains to blame To the freedom, make it rain Make it same, make it dance Not a chance, see her run See her come, totaly cunning She is dark heart, no soul No soul, she is life line To the heartbeat, I can't feel the heartbeat To the flowers, to the bunches To the lunches, to the punches To the good, to the clean And I'll be you're ugly To the occasion, to the lie We kiss beneath, bridge of sighs Lots of moaning, until they home in And they spoil it all
Angels With Dirty Faces (1998)
Trample on my Trample on my soul Kill me with a quickness Trample on my soul Kill me with a quickness Trample on my soul Money greedy Money greedy I trust you over all The way you brake my heart The way you trample on my soul Kill me with a quickness Kill me with a quickness Money greedy I trust you over all Money greedy I trust you over all You trample on my soul You trample on my soul You trample on my soul Tricola-ola Donde este bien je t'aime I be dead when I'm strong Tricola-ola Donde este bien je t'aime je tombe I be dead when I'm strong In love I fall It's a crime how I crawl Oh my lover Don't you know that it's alright You can love You can love me the same time I grin and bear it I grin and bear it You can't compare it Marathons of comparisons The T-R-I-C-K-Y You can't get close Brag the I boast What have I got to boast about Ghetto traps didn't trap me, I got out Security social Standing in government lines Standing in government lines Standing in government lines I take what's mines I take what's mines We know Money greedy I love you over all Money greedy You trample on my soul You trample on my soul You trample on my soul Kill me with a quickness I guess it's strictly business You kill me with a quickness I guess it's strictly business Remember we used to sit in the brits Never won any awards That's not what we used to look towards Money greedy Tricola-ola Donde este bien je t'aime je tombe Comparison Trample on my soul Marathon Comparison Can't get close Brag when I boast What have I got to boast about Ghetto traps didn't trap me I got out Standing in government lines I take what's mines Money greedy I trust you over all Money greedy Didn't trap me I got out Ghetto traps didn't trap me I got out Standing in government lines I take what's mines Tricola-bola Tricola-ola I love you over all You trample on my soul I trust you over all I trust you over all Never come back From the powers of desire Yeah we know you do I can see through you I can't meet the expectations Of these radio stations 'Cause I move in with different vibrations With different vibrations Different vibrations Different vibrations You kill me False autograph First my body Now my corpse
I'm gonna see my baby She makes me feel like moving I'm gonna see my baby She makes me feel like moving She makes me feel high She makes me feel low I'm gonna see my baby She makes me feel like grooving Like this, like this, like I see you go to see your baby Does she make you feel like grooving? You go to see your baby She make you feel like grooving She make you feel high She make you feel low She make you feel high She make you feel low She make you feel like spending your money She make you feel high She make you feel low She make you feel high She make you feel low Need my honey Like you feel Need my honey She makes me feel She makes me feel Need my honey Need my Need my honey Need my Need my honey Need my Need my honey Gonna go see my honey She makes me feel like grooving She makes me feel high She makes me feel low Honey When you go to see your honey When I go to see my honey Need my honey She makes me feel She makes me feel She makes me feel
I've been working so hard Just came home from my job I look down in my wallet Goddamit I been bought Where can my money be now Five of the week's long work What can I do now I got so many bills to pay You got me singing the blues And I'm paying all my dues You got me singing the blues And I'm paying all my dues, yeah I got to tell you that The blues reached out of my pocket People, oh what a shame The bills are gonna rob me tomorrow That's why I need my ten dollars today You got me singing the blues And I'm paying all my dues You got me singing the blues And I'm paying all my dues The blues reached out of my pocket People, oh what a shame The bills are gonna rob me tomorrow That's why I need my ten dollars today You got me singing the blues And I'm paying all my dues You got me singing the blues And I'm paying all my dues You got to singing, Singing in the morning Singing in the new day You got to singing yeah You got singing The blues reached out of my pocket People, oh what a shame The bills are gonna rob me tomorrow That's why I need my ten dollars today You got me singing the blues And I'm paying all my dues You got me singing the blues Baby I'm gonna singing, Singing in the morning
Those men will break your bones, Don't know how to build stable homes. Those men will break your bones, Don't know how to build stable homes. Those men will break your bones, Don't know how to build stable homes. PJ Harvey & Tricky : We loose our voice more each year, Maybe we won't bring soon Is there cancer in the throat ? No stress Polly Jean Harvey : Maybe it's supposed to kill the success PJ Harvey & Tricky : Because success needs killing Polly Jean Harvey : Murder is media False laugh, Forged autograph, PJ Harvey & Tricky : First my body, now my corpse Polly Jean Harvey : Those men will break your bones, Don't know how to build stable homes. Alive is pain, Murder is fame, PJ Harvey & Tricky : And if you're famous you may get acquitted If you did it Polly Jean Harvey : There's no where to runaway PJ Harvey & Tricky : Damn you I hope you pay Polly Jean Harvey : And finish the day to day Games we play PJ Harvey & Tricky : Those men will brake your bones, Don't know how to build stable homes. Polly Jean Harvey : I'ma stay at home PJ Harvey & Tricky : And talk on the telephone Polly Jean Harvey : There's nothing in this world I want from you, Don't fool yourself, I won't cry... You're too scared to live Too quick to die PJ Harvey & Tricky : Those men will brake your bones, Don't know how to build stable homes. Those men will brake your bones, Don't know how to build stable homes. Those men will break your bones, Don't know how to build stable homes. Choir : Don't know how to build stable homes. Those men will break your bones, Don't know how to build stable homes. Those men will break your bones, Don't know how to build stable homes. Stable Homes Those men will break your bones, Stable homes Those men will break your bones, Stable homes. Those men will break your bones
One,Two Martina: Six minutes- I'm on, six minutes- I'm on Tricky: It's a long way from Knowle West to Hollywood I've never seen a triple beam From L.A. to N.Y. I eat pork make 'em scream Six minutes I'm on I'm premenstrual I bleed because I'm not a vegetable I'm on six minutes- I'm on Lies don't suit me I think it's my duty to say I don't like guns And in them comes spoil the rude boys funds I'm resilian I don't just wanna make a million And if the radio shows throw low blows We do this with or without the air play Life's a cycle forget about Michael Life's a cycle forget about Michael Watching you leading, I'm tired of bleeding Watching you leading, I'm tired,I'm bleeding I'm gonna take this time out for a promotional click Durban Poison artist are the smartest In this industry full of vomit My voodoo make 'em sick My voodoo make 'em sick My voodoo make 'em sick Tricky: Now when people got a good thing they want to make it a bigger thing Bullet proof from the truth Now it's gone to far And all the tough guys are dropping like flies Like old styles and riches and snitches and those industry bitches I hear they're taking over benches To be high paid wenches Forget the champaign at the bar you need A&R Is this making music or make money? I can't make my mind up They think they're safe 'cause they're signed up You're under contracts that brakes those backs You brag and boast now look-a-here I control my destiny I control my career Six minutes Martina: I'm on Tricky: Is this making music or make money? I can't make my mind up Martina: I'm on Tricky: Life's a cycle Jjust because you're signed up Durban poison artist are the smartest My voodoo make 'em sick You're under contracts that brakes those backs You brag and boast, now look-a-here Tricky and Martina: I'm on I control my destiny I'm on I control my career I'm on I control my destiny I'm on I control my career I'm on Radio shows throw low blows I'm on Forget the champaign at the bar you need A&R I'm on I'm premenstrual I'm on I'm premenstrual I'm on Radio shows throw low blows Throw low blows Forget the champaign at the bar Life's a cycle You need A&R I'm on Like a cycle I'm on Radio shows- I'm on Now when people got a good thing- I'm on They want to make it a bigger thing Bullet proof from the truth Now it's gone to far Bullet proof from the truth And all the tough guys are dropping like flies Like old styles and riches and snitches and those Industry bitches I'm on I heard they're taking over benches I'm on To be high paid wenches I'm on It's gone to far You need A&R I'm on I don't rap, I don't sing I'm an emotional player Emotions I deal with Emotions I deal with Just energy Just energy Just my energy I'm on
Starts off in the hips Move to my lips For all those who want to analyze me For all those who want to analyze me Start it off in the hips Move to my lips For all those who want to analyze me My mother committed suicide when I was four or five I love mike-o was killed by a psycho I love mike-o was killed by a psycho But I'm not sad or sorry 'cause we be tomorrow But I'm not sad or sorry 'cause we be tomorrow Martina: Will it be on hot land, on hot sand Or maybe concrete corner - december Red zones in my head phones The devil's tools - inside us fools The devil's tools - inside us fools Love shall leave me alone Love shall leave me alone Love shall leave me alone Love shall Will it be on hot sand, on hot land Or maybe a concrete corner - december Red zones in my head phones The devil's tools - inside us fools The devil's tools Love shall leave me alone Love shall Will it be on hot land, on hot sand Will it be, will it be, Will it be on hot land, on hot sand Or maybe a Concrete corner - december Red zones in my head phones Red zones
Well I'm sittin on my lunch break, grinnin my teeth It's the last day of the week, boy what a relief My muscles kind of ache, they felt rigid and stiff So I turned around, and I smoked this big fat spliff Now I'm happy as can be I'm in this pothead spell I put some eyedrops in my eyes so that no one can tell Now It's 5:45 almost time for the bell I'm back on the job, I don't bother no one I keep strictly to my ways till my job is done Now it's 5:45 it's time to have fun I'm hangin out with a rapper, a kid named Don We got more drunk than a skunk and happy as can be We went, to the Latin Quarters and we got in free Scoopin all the girls with my fly jewelry 'Cause I'm a fly brown brother and you can't school me Boogie Down was performin hey they ain't no joke And a bunch of Brooklyn kids was lookin all up my throat Was it my big chains with the big words on 'em? Then they rolled on me and told me to run em This was the moment I feared... "Yo take off your chains.." This was the moment I feared... "You need to take those chains off.." I said, "They're really not real, they're just a front for the girls" Then a whole bunch of fists just, caved in my world I was in pain, so ashamed, I wish I never came Had to pick up my face and go home on the train Then I went to the park and bought me a thought Then I went to the park, and I sat and I thought I seen Danny Boy blue with his girl named Sarah In one of their cars, I think it was a Valera She called out to me, but, I really didn't hear her So I went a little closer so I could a little clearer She said, "You know where we're chillin'? I said, "I know where that is, just next to my building" I gave em the information and they I went on my way Then I went home, and slept til two the next day There was a knock on my door, I opened it, no quit! It was Sarah standing there with a bag named Kit She starts to use me and abuse me and at first I wasn't with it Then we did it and we did it and we did it She said it was great, she said she's glad we had done it The elevator come and Danny Boy was on it This was the moment I feared... This was the moment I feared... Well he was huffin and puffin and he swung at me -- word So I pulled out my gat and I silenced the nerd Then he was dead two in the head I took the cash and the Visa's She said, "Everything's all right, just make sure nobody sees us" Now I was rich as I was rich I could have whatever would please me Now I could wear real gold in front of folks who don't tease me Yah, I'll be a new neighborhood dad Cats'll roll up on me like, "Trix my man!!" Ya see a policeman rolled up on me and told me, "Make my day" I said, "Relax brother," but he had proof that I had done it He found the gun with my fingerprints on it But now I'm in prison doing life and I'm scared Some kid snuffed me cold and greased me where no one dared This was the moment I feared... "Now bend over!" This was the moment I feared... "Take your trowsers down, and bend over!" Now I'm doing life and I'm scared A kid knocked me cold and greased me where no one dared The moment I feared.. This was the moment I feared...
Talk To Me (Angels With Dirty Faces)
Take once you're through Tricky and Martina: Someone talk to me now Energy won't move me Oceans, oceans won't soothe me Cry me a bayou Slime, sleaze pass through You love it when I'm leaving You love it when I'm leaving Someone talk to me now Energy won't move me Oceans, oceans won't soothe me You love it when I'm leaving You love it when I'm leaving Angels with dirty faces Disappear with out traces Them bones Angels with dirty faces Disappear with out traces Love it when I'm leaving You, you love it when I'm leaving Someone talk to me now Love it when you're leaving I love it when you're leaving Cry me a bayou Someone talk to you now Energy won't move me (If I died) Oceans, oceans won't soothe me ( Before I wake ) Love it when I'm leaving Love it when I'm leaving Cry me a bayou Bring all your wants Angels with dirty faces Disappear with out traces Cry me a bayou When I'm leaving
Water now I've got me a daughter Carriage for two I call my baby boo Hey "T" I've got me a little black girl And this little black girl's beautiful Carriage for two Carriage for two I call my baby boo Hey "T" I've got me a little black girl And this little black girl's beautiful I try to do what's dutiful Water, water, now I've got me a daughter Carriage for two I call my I call my baby boo Hey "T" I've got me a little black girl And this little black girl's beautiful I try to do, I try to do I try to do what's dutiful I teach her to lead But never must she let go Your father's rich I teach her to lead But never must she let go Your father's rich Your father's from the get-go Martina: Them that's got shall get Them that's not shall lose It's all the Bible says It's easy when you lose Mama may have and Papa may have But God bless the child That's got his own That's got his own Them that's got shall get Them that's not shall lose It's all the Bible says It's easy when you lose Mama may have and Papa may have But God bless the child That's got his own That's got his own
So you like to desmise with your pen I was the same I was the same back when Then and now, I wanna change But don't know how Do's and don'ts - don'ts I don't like She's not Tina and I'm not like Ike But what was Ike like Is Ike what you write I don't know, I don't know I don't know, I don't know We'll disarm ya, ask Julian Palmer Only joking, too much smoking But it's ok, it's ok We've been through too much yesterday Tell you what we're gonna do They'll protect me from me, I'll protect from you By any means by any means By any means by any means Please won't you try Stop me talking like a tough guy Subject matter's love Subject matter's love What would I need another enemy I know I love you I can feel you in my energy I'm too scared to be a gun totting Gangster wanna-be I've got too much love, too much love Met you on mondalay Inside of me Or next week If I'm tina I guess I'm weak Big take Making my head ache Big take Making my head ache It's not your fault You don't understand Take our hand We give So don't be negative You don't feel the 'Cause you feel yourself Stuck up in your own head Leave that 'till I'm dead What do I think I think instinct
I feel you changing me, changing me I can see a changing me I can see a changing me Changing me I wanna take my clothes off Tear my mouth and nose off And take out my eyes Take out my eyes I take my clothes off Tear my mouth and nose off Tear out my eyes Tear out my eyes Wanna walk on warm leaves Hot sand cold breeze Hot sun I want my mum Look mum I'm on top of the world World wide plaza I got asthma I wanna demonstrate hate I wanna rattle I wanna blow my head off in seattle No way No way check it No way I can see a change in me And I change me I, I, I, I deserve to die because of lies It's crazy lies We have to die because of lies Wanna take my clothes off Tear my mouth and nose off And take out my eyes Take out my eyes
Why the fuck do they keep making those guns? Chew compassion save some sons Why'd you keep buying their guns Foolish, life's too short for stray bullets Why'd you keep buying their guns Foolish Corporate companies love when them kill themselves It boost up the record sales Why'd you keep making your guns? Alright Chew compassion save some sons Why'd you keep buying their guns? Foolish Life's too short for stray bullets Record companies love when them kill themselves It boost up the record sales Now which one of you's gonna be the next niggy You don't have to worry 'bout them 2pak holding hands with biggy Alright, alright I watch where I venture, see 'Cause I don't like this century I watch where I venture, see 'Cause I don't like this century Alright Now which one of you's gonna be the next niggy You don't have to worry 'bout them 2pak holding hands with biggy I don't like this century Back up chicks All you got is hips Alright I see your hollow way My baby mamma kick it like Billie Holiday I watch where I venture see 'cause I don't like this century I watch where I venture see 'cause I don't like this century Back up chicks all you got is hips Why the fuck do they keep making their guns? Alright Chew compassion save some sons Why'd you keep buying their guns Foolish Life's too short Record companies love when them kill themselves It boost up the record sales Record companies love when them kill themselves It boost up the record sales Now which one of you's gonna be the next niggy You don't have to worry 'bout them 2pak holding hands with biggy Now which one of you's gonna be the next niggy Alright Now how 'bout your wild west mantality That's alright just keep it away from me and my family Now which one of you's gonna be the next niggy Which one of you's gonna be the next niggy Why the fuck do they keep making their guns ? Chew compassion save some sons Why the fuck you keep buying their guns Foolish Life's too short for stray bullets Record companies love when them kill themselves It boost up the record sales It boost up the record sales Alright It boost up the record sales Be careful where you venture, see I don't like this century I'm careful where I venture, see I don't like this century All right
Juxtapose (1999)
You watch too many films, too many films for real Some contracts you take too seriously your record deal A record deal pays bills, feeds the family Your profile is too big, how you gonna be a crime family? Too many films are for real You want to see any films Films are for real Don't get me wrong I know you got guns And you're not scared to use 'em But is there money being made 'round these guns Or lives to be losing You watch too many films Films for real You watch too many films Too many films for real Some of these people have to life their life For real I don't have to I got a record deal For real You heard I chill I smoke herb Now how about these sexy singers Sex cards Two pack girls in a turn Your fantastic, you supersperm yeah, I'm a player hater I hate when players can't take their turn And when the record company drops me That's when I learn It's not for real, it's just passed the time It's not real, all I do is rhyme It's not real It's just passed the time All I do, all I do is rhyme You heard you heard You go Romeo Girls say you look tall on the video And the colored girls sing Give me money, give me money, give me money, give me money And no one sings the blues Everyone sings the greens Some will say keep you on the prize How you lose a dream Who am I to say I don't need cash In this hundred yard dash I moved a while ago And passed through New York I'll be back in a minute It's my turn to talk For real You heard For real You heard I can grab a mic and wreck it Make it copesetic I train my mic Restrain my mic You watch too many movies For real You watch too many films Films are for real You watch too many films Too many films are for real You watch too many films For real
To the bom bom diggy Who is he, me the tricky To the bom bom diggy Who is he To the bom bom diggy Who is he To the bom bom diggy Who is he To the bom bom diggy Who is he Me the tricky I said like the willing I'm known for gangsters killing And my peace for my peace My soul controls the beast get the rest off my chest keep it far from the rest progressive best a wham bam thank you ma'am who the man with the transnational plan? gonna smack my Uncle Sam ever since Joni Mitchell rappers look like them rich kill the bombs kill,kill,kill kill the Fonz- Henry Winkler how does he think up? how does he drink up? or does he sink up? with those punk rock eyes girls don't treat me nice gonna burn off those wings with those shiny things to the bom bom diggy who is he me the tricky to the bom bom diggy who is he to the bom bom diggy who is he to the bom bom diggy who is he to the bom bom diggy who is he me the tricky to the bom bom diggy who is he to the bom bom diggy who is he to the bom bom diggy who is he Mad Dog: Although we can't we men creep we're inseminating the east end we're not teasing pretend the gasoline went in the very ground between them we 'bout money why? to keep firm when they can't go talk their God will police them that's we inside for assault we live in our world with the helicopter mind sent around to get a robber who knows what the hell a cop does Street Dog,i hate them police wanna see me and HIV one 'ho or one with scrubs plus wanna do my girls for drugs fronting with all the right real come on don't even say what a lady does look as to think I'm turning out with a word at last to run 'em out industry- everything under control none of 'em know who running the show with the guns and the 'hos all of them know when they come to the door I'm on a roll nigga with the Jungle Heights could flow with the 'hos in the role for the video in a great porn show with the flyest girls buy and sell with the clientele before we all fry in Hell please don't even try it now well do you suppose my pocket well nickel, dime- a five bag sale me and my kind use i ain't well things they try then die jail gonna be fast when the high speeds are a finished scheme our hope I don't see riots this day is a laugh me a star ain't trying to see no fucking police cars that's the only drawback when I drive slide on our side for a fast ride they'll be trying to move on my side got to tell about it before they caught fire Tricky: to the bom bom diggy who is he me the tricky to the bom bom diggy who is he to the bom bom diggy who is he to the bom bom diggy who is he to the bom bom diggy who is he me the tricky to the bom bom diggy who is he to the bom bom diggy who is he to the bom bom diggy who is he to the bom bom diggy who is he me the tricky to the bom bom diggy who is he to the bom bom diggy who is he to the bom bom diggy who is he to the bom bom diggy who is he me the tricky to the bom bom diggy who is he to the bom bom diggy who is he to the bom bom diggy who is he to the bom bom diggy who is he bom bom diggy who is he bom bom diggy who is he to the bom bom bom bom diggy who is he to the bom bom bom bom diggy who is he to the bom bom bom bom diggy who is he to the bom bom to the bom bom diggy who is he to the bom bom diggy who is he to the bom bom diggy who is he to the bom bom diggy who is he to the bom bom diggy who is he to the bom bom diggy who is he
Look who do I have to have and why A city's child Real mode- you have to talk about it An old pro- still we're 'bout it, 'bout it Don't frown about it It's best you keep quiet You could never lead a riot Money don't make you a leader A leader usually reads Go read a book He shaked then he shook "I need that crack, I need that crack" You're swinging the pipe Do what you like Going "doom doom" Reflect on the room Reflect on your life Go stab yourself with a knife Bob Khaleel: Reflect on your life, time isn't real How much time can you kill? (x2) Tricky: Vengeance isn't mine It taught to hate from time Time isn't real How much time can you kill? Luca Brazzi He sleeps with the fishes Fuck sugar and spice And girls with deadly kisses Purr like a cat Raising towers I go over her house For the most I got diamonds on suits A girl's erased diamonds with new shoes Remember Hollywood You could finally make deals Screaming, "Nigger you can get these!" Stereotypical Almost mythical Like Mickey Mouse I'll blow down your house Blow up your whole image Hardcore musicians with image Bob Khaleel: Love Tricky : You're silver screen You're a hardcore loving machine You play hardcore with me And sooner or later we'll see Bob Khaleel: Reflect on your life... (etc.)
She said, she said, she said, she said She said she could tempt me Both in rooms full or empty She said, she said Even might turn out the lights She said, she said Pretend to know me- then show me She said, she said She was a missed good night,I Wanted to share her vagina She said, she said Then we jumped in her car Went real far After the pizza With Wendy and Lisa She said, she said Asked about Prince I left my fingerprints She said, she said Then I jumped in the car Go real far Jumped in the car Go real far She said, she said Now I start fucking with drugs I got Muggs She said, she said Then we jump in the car And go real far She was just showing me tanks Robbing banks A new inflation bring migration If you want to be boy Don't send a decoy She said, she said Tricky and Kioka: Wait 'til dark comes Don't play with guns And kill the toys Don't play with boys Tricky: She said, she said Let's go stress Then touch my breasts It's all yours We finish tours She said, she said Then we jumped in the car Went real far Jumped in the car Went real far She said, she said Now I'm on the run Always weighs a ton She said, she said Dark brown eyes 'You wanna stroll with' eyes She said, she said Takes lots of patience Then I lost my patience Acting like an actress Killed her on the mattress She's dead, she's dead She's dead, she's dead Then I jumped in my car Went real far Jumped in my car Went real far Jumped in my car Went real far She's dead, she's dead
In the Beamer or a fly Mercedes Getting lit up, high on the great weed I like the girls, I like the ladies I light my world to drive her crazy In the Beamer or a fly Mercedes Getting lit up, high on the great weed I like the girls, I like the ladies I light my world to drive her crazy Tricky and Mad Dog: In the Beamer or a fly Mercedes (I like the girls) Getting lit up, high on the great weed (I like the girls) I like the girls, I like the ladies (I like the girls) I light my world to drive her crazy (With the real long hair) In the Beamer or a fly Mercedes (I like the girls) Getting lit up, high on the great weed (I like the girls) I like the girls, I like the ladies (Whether they're slim or they're short) I light my world to drive her crazy (I really don't care) Mad Dog: Met two girls in a restaurant Didn't know the hookers was lesbians 'Til I got home and started sexing 'em The shit they were doing was excellent Yeah, yeah, the show was perfect The one with her tits in the other girl's bit Slim girl was holding her hips Stroking her tongue all over her clit This girl was gettin pornographic Should've had a vid recordin that shit One girl's tits now taking a big mount Going down south licking the bitch out 'Round 'em and styling my dick was shining Next minute the babe is grinding Went outside and left 'em winding When I came back they was 69ing All of 'em was crying- she'd screamed "Lick the whipped cream from off of her tits" See me laying for the queen all this fisting Reminds me of a dream I had at fifteen Last time I seen 'em was at the club It was me two girls and the scrappy love Back then wanted to be nice enough But now there's enough for the both of us Tricky and Mad Dog: In the Beamer or a fly Mercedes (I like the girls) Getting lit up, high on the great weed (I like the girls) I like the girls, I like the ladies (I like the girls) I light my world to drive her crazy (With the real long hair) In the Beamer or a fly Mercedes (I like the girls) Getting lit up, high on the great weed (I like the girls) I like the girls, I like the ladies (Whether they're slim or they're short) I light my world to drive her crazy (I really don't care) In the Beamer or a fly Mercedes (I like the girls) Getting lit up, high on the great weed (I like the girls) I like the girls, I like the ladies (I like the girls) I light my world to drive her crazy (With the real long hair) In the Beamer or a fly Mercedes (I like the girls) Getting lit up, high on the great weed (I like the girls) I like the girls, I like the ladies (Whether they're slim or they're short) I light my world to drive her crazy (I really don't care) Mad Dog: Fit like hand in glove and I'm up Take a shot like the last of the stand drop Boom boom boom Check, then feel again That's the time to pull out the handcuffs Dials a one on a one minute call Be gone if I never done the cheap rough She calls and asks when we can fuck And who else wants the Jungle Lay So she dials a one on a one minute call Be gone if I never done the cheap rough Unless she wants a Jungle Lay So she calls everyone wondering when we can fuck Dolce & Gabanna wearing 'Cause when the girls put on the staring I love watching all this dancing By the girls who are as about as luscious acting Rude girl and her martial firing "Ooh well, get the spot!" they whining Street Dog, they caught me rhyming Turned around and got fucking blinded My favorite beds get no shy women When or wherever to be driving My take come to the face When I see that beat goes the drum And the bass is blasting Freak if I bone It's like I lost control I'm all alone think I'm topping Get high when I drive a car And try to drink and drive When I'm private parking In the Beamer or a fly Mercedes Getting lit up, high on the great weed I like the girls, I like the ladies I light my world to drive her crazy In the Beamer or a fly Mercedes Getting lit up, high on the great weed I like the girls, I like the ladies I light my world to drive her crazy Tricky and Mad Dog: In the Beamer or a fly Mercedes (I like the girls) Getting lit up, high on the great weed (I like the girls) I like the girls, I like the ladies I light my world to drive her crazy (With the real long hair) In the Beamer or a fly Mercedes (I like the girls) Getting lit up, high on the great weed (I like the girls) I like the girls, I like the ladies (Whether they're slim or they're short) I light my world to drive her crazy (I really don't care) In the Beamer or a fly Mercedes (I like the girls) Getting lit up, high on the great weed (I like the girls) I like the girls, I like the ladies (I like the girls) I light my world to drive her crazy (With the real long hair) In the Beamer or a fly Mercedes (I like the girls) Getting lit up, high on the great weed (I like the girls) I like the girls, I like the ladies (Whether they're slim or they're short) I light my world to drive her crazy (I really don't care) In the Beamer or a fly Mercedes (I like the girls) Getting lit up, high on the great weed (I like the girls) I like the girls, I like the ladies I light my world to drive her crazy (With the real long hair) In the Beamer or a fly Mercedes (I like the girls) Getting lit up, high on the great weed (I like the girls) I like the girls, I like the ladies (Whether they're slim or they're short) I light my world to drive her crazy (I really don't care)
Round the corner Turn the corner, turn Hell is round the corner Hot like a sauna I know I hurt her When i'd said, "i don't wanna" And with this drama I act like jeffrey dahmer I beat her then I eat her Nigga's sweet,there's no one sweeter I think I lost my tweeter To your pussycats Do you call your pistols 'gats'? Don't sleep her love away Don't let her run away Don't sleep her love away Don't let her... Dream and I'm seeing it Harmed a girl like Monica Everyday be like Hanukkah And change my mind again Hide off like to find a friend I call her "enemy" She says I act like there's ten of me A sketch for their clone A dog without a home But you want more when I was on tour I told you,"shouldn't run alot" Now look how much time you got Told you,"shouldn't run alot" Now look how much time you got Mad dog: Take life on the streets- your own Made by Grease beats- pure dog Running with the realest kids of New York Street Dog speak the true talk Wanna talk about crime? Yeah right! Stick ups- get in mind to realize Alright Run the airtime Fuck the police it's starting to get hyped Niggas getting paranoid and void Then imply Tetth's a bad boy Just gonna rap and forget getting caught Dogs get mad when niggas stand broke Come pharaoh Yo,willy joe Shit, I had coke and fifty pound notes Puffed it for those niggas I know Far as I know you're a freak if I bone Like I go Trix and Milo I roll with niggas with big machines Blank sreens, video scenes Blue, black and green Niggas with wigs scared the scam clean And get the cream- know what I mean? Digging the scene with the gasoline With enough magazines Them not a fuss Big as their niggas who run it rough There be no crime for none of us Living to find those kinds of drugs With no undercovers Those motherfuckers can't flop dogs In any form, this rough cough's quick I'm sick Gonna with the Jungle Heights clique In England the trans-Atlantic In Harlem where demands don't quit Kioka (Tricky): Levitating and useless debating in these devastating times (Don't let her run away) While everybody's just doing drugs and writing melodic rhymes (Don't sleep her love away) Trying to get one and not get into trouble I might just be inclined (Don't let her run away) We all got needs, we all do dirty deeds, now and then wanna smoke some weed (Don't sleep her love away) Yeah we're free, yes we need to be free, walking round with unsatisfying needs (Don't let her run away) Yeah we're free, yes we need to be free, walking round with unsatisfying needs (Don't sleep her love away) Mad Dog: Come with a bang bang It's a hangman getting my prayer My hands can slang bang actors That have the will to gang slang That's the type of nigga that can't say, "You don't go and forget the down times And the walk while I was with the bad man" Many to fly right? Masterplan Miracle flight like Pan-Am Man,damn! Sure as the echo 'Fore that gonna pump the petrol Niggas with escorts hide in the get-go Now lay it in the ghetto Yeah y'all I could find life in a Paris metro While I'm walking around slamming ghettos In the real Know the rapper with the black girls Delivering travels with the Maxwells Getting paid off girls Rockwells, high L's Well as drop sales with Stockwell Street Dog with a molotov cocktail No no can't stop flowing no Getting paid off girls Rockwells, high L's Well as drop sales with Stockwell Street Dog with a molotov cocktail No no can't stop flowing no Kioka (Tricky): Levitating and useless debating... (etc.)
I'm calling you I'm calling you now And now won't wait And now won't change now Or rearrange it might get strange now it might get strange now Tricky and D'na: Just falling free Just fall in me And I'm your coffin And I'm your coffin For endless sleep now For endless sleep now Little sunbeam I hear you scream I feel your heat now I feel your heat now Here's to one we sleep now I hear trees scream Ain't the people mean? What do they mean? It's time to sleep now It's time to go now I wait for you, I wait for you I wait for you, I wait for you I wait for you Little sunbeam I can hear you scream I can feel your heat now I can feel your heat now Here's to one we sleep now I hear trees scream Ain't the people mean? What do they mean? It's time to sleep now It's time to go now I wait for you, I wait for you I wait for you, I hate for you I wait for you, I hate for you I wait for you, I hate for you I wait for you, I hate for you I wait for you, I hate for you I wait for you, I hate for you Hate for you I wait for you, I wait for you I wait for you, I hate for you I hate for you Hate for you I hate for you I can feel your heat now It's time to go now
Wash my soul, wash my soul, wash my soul Tricky and Bob Khaleel: I get paid while they starve In the streets Visa cards, VIP Wash away and use you as a fan Starving these children And I change the channel You know me, I'm Mr.Nice You know me I survive at any price So it seems I'm the devil's son Lick it, wet it, you like it, you let it Lick it, wet it, touch it, take your turn On somedays, together we can learn Wash my soul, wash my soul, wash my soul Lick it, wet it, you like it, you let it Lick it, wet it, touch it, take your turn On somedays, together we can learn I've served with gangsters And I've served with kings These are a few of my favorite things Think about love, love now and then It's no good I am weak, I admit Wash my soul Lick it, wet it, you like it, you let it Lick it, wet it, touch it, take your turn On somedays, together we can learn Wash my soul, wash my soul Lick it, wet it, you like it, you let it Lick it, wet it, you like it, take your turn Take your turn, take your turn Together we can learn
Round the corner Turn the corner, turn Hell is round the corner Hot like a sauna I know I hurt her When i'd said, "i don't wanna" And with this drama I act like jeffrey dahmer I beat her then I eat her Nigga's sweet,there's no one sweeter I think I lost my tweeter To your pussycats Do you call your pistols 'gats'? Don't sleep her love away Don't let her run away Don't sleep her love away Don't let her... Dream and I'm seeing it Harmed a girl like Monica Everyday be like Hanukkah And change my mind again Hide off like to find a friend I call her "enemy" She says I act like there's ten of me A sketch for their clone A dog without a home But you want more when I was on tour I told you,"shouldn't run alot" Now look how much time you got Told you,"shouldn't run alot" Now look how much time you got Mad dog: Take life on the streets- your own Made by Grease beats- pure dog Running with the realest kids of New York Street Dog speak the true talk Wanna talk about crime? Yeah right! Stick ups- get in mind to realize Alright Run the airtime Fuck the police it's starting to get hyped Niggas getting paranoid and void Then imply Tetth's a bad boy Just gonna rap and forget getting caught Dogs get mad when niggas stand broke Come pharaoh Yo,willy joe Shit, I had coke and fifty pound notes Puffed it for those niggas I know Far as I know you're a freak if I bone Like I go Trix and Milo I roll with niggas with big machines Blank sreens, video scenes Blue, black and green Niggas with wigs scared the scam clean And get the cream- know what I mean? Digging the scene with the gasoline With enough magazines Them not a fuss Big as their niggas who run it rough There be no crime for none of us Living to find those kinds of drugs With no undercovers Those motherfuckers can't flop dogs In any form, this rough cough's quick I'm sick Gonna with the Jungle Heights clique In England the trans-Atlantic In Harlem where demands don't quit Kioka (Tricky): Levitating and useless debating in these devastating times (Don't let her run away) While everybody's just doing drugs and writing melodic rhymes (Don't sleep her love away) Trying to get one and not get into trouble I might just be inclined (Don't let her run away) We all got needs, we all do dirty deeds, now and then wanna smoke some weed (Don't sleep her love away) Yeah we're free, yes we need to be free, walking round with unsatisfying needs (Don't let her run away) Yeah we're free, yes we need to be free, walking round with unsatisfying needs (Don't sleep her love away) Mad Dog: Come with a bang bang It's a hangman getting my prayer My hands can slang bang actors That have the will to gang slang That's the type of nigga that can't say, "You don't go and forget the down times And the walk while I was with the bad man" Many to fly right? Masterplan Miracle flight like Pan-Am Man,damn! Sure as the echo 'Fore that gonna pump the petrol Niggas with escorts hide in the get-go Now lay it in the ghetto Yeah y'all I could find life in a Paris metro While I'm walking around slamming ghettos In the real Know the rapper with the black girls Delivering travels with the Maxwells Getting paid off girls Rockwells, high L's Well as drop sales with Stockwell Street Dog with a molotov cocktail No no can't stop flowing no Getting paid off girls Rockwells, high L's Well as drop sales with Stockwell Street Dog with a molotov cocktail No no can't stop flowing no Kioka (Tricky): Levitating and useless debating... (etc.)
Where've you been, love? How've you been, love? It's a long time since I've seen love You make me happy, love Hope that you're happy, love I was a scrappy love I feel like I'm stupid now I feel like I'm stupid now How've you been, love? I've committed a sin, love You care for him, love? He's good for you, love Guess who has sinned, love? She asked how you're doing, love I feel kind of stupid, love To the noose,to the neck,to the push,to the shove How much time has it been, love? How much time has it been, love? We don't even speak now Remember the first walk-out? You fill my need You tell me to read We sat in the park We sat just apart But not for our own love We grew a strong love But not for our own love We grew a strong love Wish I could sin love Wish I could sin love Wish I could sin love Where've you been, love? How've you been, love? It's a long time since I've seen love You make me happy, love Hope that you're happy, love I was a scrappy love Feel like I'm stupid now Feel like I'm stupid now How've you been, love? I've committed a sin, love Do you care for him love? He's good for you love Guess who I've seen, love? She asked how you're doing, love I feel kind of stupid love To the noose, to the neck, to the push, to the shove How much time has it been, love? How much time has it been, love? We dont want to speak now Remember the first walk-out? You fill my need Tell me to read Sat in the park We sat just apart But not for our own love We grew a strong love But not for our own love We grew a strong love Wish I could sin, love Wish I could sin, love How've you been, love? It's a long time since I've seen love You care for him, love? He's good for you, love He's good for you, love
Blowback (2001)
I believe in, I deceive in Bottom weaving, I can breathe in Make a wish in, flower fishing Moving vibration, mild relation I'm Jamaican on your radio station Got a curse in, could be worse in You first, in a hearse in Good as dead is, nothing left in Nothing left in, some be heading I need a head rest in and a feed from a warm breast A man making hits for the childhood of hicks Underground like, who's it sound like? You all sound the same but you don't know my name Stephanie McKay (Alanis Morissette): I believe in people lying, I believe in people dying I believe in people trying, I believe in people crying (ah) I believe in people balking, I believe in people talking (and ah) I believe in people breathing, I believe in people being Tricky: We all sound the same, you don't know my name Rearrange and things don't change Things remain, feel the strain Stress, catch my breath Get some rest from the mess From the mess, I couldn't care less Sugar cane is like smack to my vein Shook fame but I don't complain Alanis Morissette: (There'll be a new tale of he and I) (In fact any time, every day) (Write fictional stories) (If you want to on the street) I believe in different reasons, I believe in breath through seasons I believe when snow flakes fall, I believe in buildings tall (ah) I believe in people bombing, I believe in people warring I believe diseases coming, I believe that's why I'm running (and ah) (ah) Keep living (and ah) Keep living Tricky: (Alanis Morissette in the background) You gotta ask before he attacks You got the flats, dub my sacks You've got the city, move out of the country I'm scrunching, friends that are punchy Alanis Morissette: (There'll be a new tale of he and I) (In fact any time, every day) (Write fictional stories) (If you want to on the street) Stephanie McKay (Alanis Morissette): I believe in people falling, I believe in people warring I believe diseases coming, I believe that's why I'm running (ah) I believe in people balking, I believe in people talking (and ah) I believe in people breathing, I believe in people being (ah) Keep living (and ah) (etc.)
Now that you got it right Bring love and it'll make it alright Bring love and we'll take it tonight Now that you got it right Who wants the sinner coming round for dinner? Who needs effects? Who needs to pay for sex? When they drop the bomb? Who will stay calm? Blood would spill, who would you kill? Ed Kowalczyk: Now that I understand this right let me take it to the mike This revolution has just begun (x2) Hawkman: Walking down the road with my little rude gun Top of my gun, pocket for fun Block on your tongue, top of my earth Tip of my birth, top of my death Tip of my breast, top of my chest Tip of my guess, I've got the single I got the jingles, bet you eat pringles Walking on the road with my little rude gun Now that I understand this right... Stepping on the street with my little rude girl Tip of my toes, top of my world Top of my world, tip of my earth Top of my rock, tip of my block Now that you got it right Bring love and I'll make it alright Bring love and we'll take it tonight Now that you got it right Now that I understand this right let me take it to the mike This revolution has just begun She was born in the ghetto outside the Bronx In a project blocks where time stands still It don't tick, it don't tock, top of my sun Keep all my love top of my chest Tip of my breast, top of my earth Tip of my rock, walking on the road With my soul in my hand, tip on my toes Top of my span Now that I understand this right... Just begun, just begun, just begun (etc.)
Boy take man F clune Ya fool boy think say more A comearound yo! Let's take the downtown Me have me gone in a me yard A me guard so if a boy want Me seen of a the scene And come back without a clue Take me feel afraid Me pop off and ease off To me want the marathon crew Ambersunshower: When love is lost all I hear are gunshots over me When love is drawn it soaks and floats all over me Over me, over me Hawkman: When you think a one or two Do and ya They ready to kill them couldn't cross the border Shot a lick them right middle left to center Like sunshine they shot them over and over The make sure them dead their body in a corner Blood run down like some stagnant water Ambersunshower: When lonely it gives and gives all over me When love is strong it goes on and on all over me Over me, over me Hawkman: Will ever since then they get me blood warm I never come so I'd wish I wasn't born Another punk guys ring the alarm Now what's left is CPR but he already gone Ambersunshower: When love is lost all I hear are gunshots over me When love is drawn it soaks and floats all over me Over me, over me When lonely it gives and gives all over me When love's strong it goes on and on all over me Over me, over me
(Girls, boys) Girls, wish you never had boys They grow up to be bad boys Cry I've never had boys Never seen your dad boy I've never seen my dad boy Without the Roy And when my career stops kicking I'm gonna stick him Anthony Kiedis: Rock-a-dub now let me show you where it's at boy Just a puppet and you grew into a fat boy Make a dog and you chase another cat boy Blow it up and let me show you where it’s at boy Tricky: Girls, wish you never had boys... Anthony Kiedis: Staring through the sun, tell your devil beware I am not the son of your family affair Baby breaks away and I've got my face in my hand Genetics from my gun, trust me I don't care Tricky: I don't need no man Little boys Anthony Kiedis: Rappa rouser, bappa bouser Shake it for me baby let me step into your trousers I allow this Come on baby let me take to the houses I allow this This is now and you better bow this(x3) Anthony Kiedis (Tricky): Staring through the sun tell your devil beware (Jamaica's skirts and blouses) I am not the son of your family affair (he didn't rob his houses) Baby breaks away and I've got my face in my hand (fuck the biological) Genetics from my gun, trust me I don't care (I don't need no man) Tricky: I'm not a fire starter Cause I'm a little smarter Smarter than the average bear I don't care family's there Anthony Kiedis: Rock-a-dub now let me show you where it's at boy Just a puppet and you grew into a fat boy Make a dog and you chase another cat boy Blow it up and let me show you where it's at boy Anthony Kiedis (Tricky): Staring through the sun tell your devil beware... (etc.)
You want to estimate the distance that it takes To find a lover-lover You want to rectify this mad look in my eyes Then find your other lover I found out how to be perfect for you my dear While I was bumping around, bumping around You want to estimate the distance that it takes To find a lover-lover Come on let's rectify this mad look in my eyes Come on, yes let's discover You don't wanna face me when you You don't wanna make me when you You don't wanna take me when you (x2) Fail One day you'll hold your head, so dark and withered dead Wish you were here A simple task to feed of unforgiven greed Wish you were here I found out how to be perfect for you my dear While I was bumping around, bumping around You don't want to face me... You want to rectify this mad look in my eye
She's so malicious and so delicious Superstitious, super suspicious Wonder woman, under woman Only woman, lonely woman You just rewind and we'll just be fine We'll just be fine, you just be mine You just rewind and we'll just be fine You just be mine, you just be mine John Frusciante: You show me everything, you fill me everywhere Your preaching that you care, do you care? I'll fix to fall through time, I knew your weren't mine I'll shine right through the sky, floating I try and try Captured by what I lose, that's when I forced the flew Being will never be, have her remembering me Tricky: Tuck your hair behind you ears, your tears and your silly fears I'll be your teddy bear, you chose the clothes I wear For you I suffer much pain, sharp glass migraine For you I'd lose my focus, for you I'd swim a swarm of locusts John Frusciante: You show me everything... Everytime I am you, I feel forever new Posing along the beat, you feel like I me If I were myself right now I wish I never found I'm holding on so tight, feeling like not feeling right You show me everything... Tricky: Here I remain, she don't know my name Would she love me if I had real fame? I feel bad pain, here come that rain I don't complain, she's too complex Tell me your name, is that your real sex?
If you like-a-me, like I like-a-you And we like-a-both the same I like-a say, this very day I like-a-change your name 'Cause I love-a-you and love-a-you true And if you-a love-a-me One live as two, two live as one Under the mango tree
Diss Never (Dig Up We History)
A yes a little boy come try and diss way I must say one little different and case And with so little force right now try and come this way A marathon a go put it to waste Them want no more They shoulda dug up we history Cause war them live them shoulda now That it no safe Ex amount a body da is unsolved mystery It just a phone call close the case But when them missing Them can hold bad man responsible But a true that a bad man job is invisible But when them missing them can hold marathon responsible But a true that a bad man job invisible But after me da pan me corner chill Here so little boy a injured and killed They must want issued and feel well Well so little boy don't even have no will Unfortunately we take care of them bill Then never have a find them information skill Now no batty boy find that ill But when them missing Them can hold bad man responsible But a true that a bad man job is invisible But when them missing them can hold marathon responsible But a true that a bad man job invisible A yes a little boy come try and diss way I must say one little different and case And with so little force right now try and come this way A marathon a go put it to waste Them want no more They shoulda dug up we history Cause war them live them shoulda now That it no safe Ex amount a body da is unsolved mystery It just a phone call close the case But when them missing Them can hold bad man responsible But a true that a bad man job is invisible But when them missing them can hold marathon responsible But a true that a bad man job invisible
(Hawkman in the background) I can picture it now, you in your car Left the bar, playing Big Part Keep up complaining, it's probably raining Keeping complaining, It's probably raining You're gonna visit your car It's one of my peeps with a blow to your head Is that what you need, you're probably bleeding Is that what you needed, you're probably bleeding Just like a movie, just like a movie Just like a movie, life doesn't move me, life doesn't move me I keep with you now, here in your car Left the bar, playing the Big Part Keeping complaining It's probably raining It's one of my peeps With a blow to your head Is that what you needed What you needed What you neededYou caught me breathing It's just like a movie Life's just like a movie It's like a movie Just like a movie It doesn't move me Move me Move me It doesn't move me, life doesn't move It doesn't move me, Move me It's like a blow to the head It's like a blow to my head It doesn't move me, Move me Move me, Move me It doesn't move me It's like a movie Just like a movie Blow to the head Life's like a blow to the head What you needed what you needed what you needed Life's like a blow to the head It's that what you needed Is that what you needed What you needed A blow to the head Move Me Move me It doesn't move It doesn't move It's like a movie Movie Movie Just like a movie It doesn't move me It's like a movie
Underneath the bridge The tarp has sprung a leak And all the animals I have trapped Have all become my pets And I'm living off the grass And the drippings from the ceiling It's okay to eat fish 'Cause they don't have any feelings Something in the way Something in the way Underneath the bridge The tarp has sprung a leak And all the animals I've trapped Have all become my pets And I'm living off the grass And the drippings from my ceiling It's okay to eat fish 'Cause they don't have any feelings Something in the way Something in the way Something in the way Something in the way
The five to fours can't take it no more The five to fours can't take it no more The five to fours can't take it no more The five to fours can't take it no more Five days I ran a wolf across highways In the early spring (don't stop you're gonna break my heart) The rest of my days Should I stay should I pray That I'm here now clear now Live with the fears To extend my tears Shed no have no Undecided Five days in which I can't wait now (I need you) Can't wait now (you needed me) Bet you can't wait now (whatever happened to compatible two) Making you wait now I ran a wolf across highways in the early spring The five to fours can't take it no more The five to fours can't take it no more The five to fours can't take it no more The five to fours can't take it no more Have I the meanings I don't think I'm cheating I create like the windy city (Don't go) But the drums spread (I told you so) Here we go with the games now Maintain now Might as well have you down now Five days that you can't wait now (no need to smile) Making you hate now The five to fours can't take it no more The five to fours can't take it no more The five to fours can't take it no more The five to fours can't take it no more Bet you can't wait now Making you wait now Don't go I told you so After what you've had That look on your face you rat When you talk like that I just want to get you back
(next message) Yo, Rick, what kind a message you leave over the phone sky …shut up shut up.. murder. (end of message) Hawkman: Bad man give it to them anywhere From a badness them go program Them better prepare I'm the Hawk with the eagle we no have no fear Them no have so read ma lips or pull up a chair (Repeat 3 times) Tell them when shot a tear Me tell so punk prepare Having nuclear what we have up in gear Nuff liquor shot up .... Bad man give it to them anywhere From a badness them go program Them better prepare I'm the Hawk with the eagle we no have no fear Them no have so read ma lips or pull up a chair (Repeat 3 times) Tricky: (next message) Stress for free (?) They wanna stretch to see They wanna see the dark They wanna leave a mark Don't wanna hear them scream I wanna lie in my wet dream Don't wanna go too far Don't wanna drive my car Don't wanna die too soon So I like people to provide with room (?) Don't wanna move too quick You won't suck my .... Don't wanna see strip bars Don't wanna live in cars You love to live in large Live in credit cards I'd like to talk and walk I'd like to move walk (?) Hawkman: Bad man give it to them anywhere From a badness them go program Them better prepare I'm the Hawk with the eagle we no have no fear Them no have so read ma lips or pull up a chair (Repeat 3 times) (End of message)
Yukiko Takahashi: (in Japanese) Tricky : So if you would put a dress on Unless you put the stress on Tuck your hair behind your ears Your tears, your silly fears I'd be your Teddy bear You'd choose the clothes I wear For you I'd suffer much pain Sharp glass migraine For you I'd put a stress on For you I'd put a dress on For you I'd lose my focus I'd swim in swarms of locusts For you I'd swim with ease Save the planet Leave the trees For you I'd put a dress on A dress to impress on John Suzuki: (in Japanese) Slowly Act like you know me Slowly Act like you know me Tricky: Slowly, slowly Act like you know me Slowly, slowly Act like you know me So if you would put a dress on Unless you put the stress on Tuck your hair behind your ears Your tears, your silly fears I'd be your Teddy bear You'd choose the clothes I wear For you I'd suffer much pain Sharp glass migraine For you I'd put a stress on For you I'd put a dress on For you I'd lose my focus I'd swim in swarms of locusts For you I'd swim with ease Save the planet Leave the trees For you I'd put a dress on A dress to impress on John Suzuki: (in Japanese) Tricky: Slowly, slowly Act like you know me Slowly, slowly Act like you know me
Vulnerable (2003)
Don’t wanna stay Don’t wanna stay I don’t really care or share with you I would rather walk alone, I‘m forgetting where I was I don’t really think it’s fair of you I would rather stay at home, I’m forgetting just because Don’t wanna stay or lay with you Don’t want another day, day with you Don’t wanna stay or lay with you Don’t want another day, day with you Don’t wanna stay No, don’t try to manipulate I would rather take control, I’m knowing where I was Don’t you ever try to feel my hate I would rather feel nothing, I know we’re losing love Don’t wanna stay or lay with you... I don’t really care or share with you I would rather walk alone I‘m forgetting where I was I don’t really think it’s fair of you I would rather stay at home I’m forgetting just because Don’t wanna stay Don’ wanna stay with you (2x) Don’t want another day Don’t wanna stay or lay with you...
I’m antimatter, I don’t matter Cancer phones break my bones I’m illusion, sonic solution Magic mind, sonic pollution I just detox, I just see lots I see nothing, show me something We go round and round We make it safe and sound I try to break it down, all right (x2) I have visions, homosapiens Fast I’ve grown, I think alone I’m confusion, evolution I’m in man cub institution I move forward, I make awkward I just jump jump, I just thump thump We go round and round... I evolve then dissolve Maintain my laws ‘til April falls My sea runs red, my trees are dead My breath runs short, please report Is there someone out there? Is there someone out there? Do you receive me? Do you receive me? We go round and round...
Little blood clock, you could never test I You come close, just close my left eye See with my third, the rest you never heard Executive roosters and pop producers What you’re used to, I get looser I can use you, abuse you, fuck what you’re used to I’m gonna lose you, I’m not what I used to I see through you, I see through you I’m needy, I’m greedy Feed me, give me some I’m needy, I’m greedy Feed me, give me some I keep it coming, I keep it coming I’m running all the way And while I’m running, and while I’m running I’m gonna leave you far away Who you down like? Who do you sound like? Who you down like? Who do you sound like? You sound like T, how he used to be Keep on talking, watch what he’s making You’re in the bars with your stars You go far, you’re up to par Your turn to flex I’m needy, I’m greedy... Little blood clock, you could never test I You come close, just close my left eye See with my third, the rest you never heard Executive roosters and pop producers What you’re used to, I get looser I can use you, abuse you, fuck what you’re used to I’m gonna lose you, I’m not what I used to I see through you, I see through you I’m needy, I’m greedy...
You leave me hungry, wanting more Am I thirsty? I wasn’t sure See me driving, through the rain Why am I driving? I can’t explain In my car to where you are I won’t make it, I can’t make it (x2) I am sliding, I lose my breaks The lights are blinding, the earth quakes Now I’m lying, will I die? Will they find me? Will they try? In my car to... Doesn’t matter about the time we make Doesn’t matter it doesn’t shatter If time we take, you know they’re lost While I’m dragging the cross (ifyou sing along) And where you cross (if I scream) While they’re washing they sins (and we sing along) She sings, I do evil things I need I strive (and we sing along) I bleed alive (and we sing along (and we sing along) (etc.)
Dear God, hope you got the message, and I hope you, you can make it better down here I don't mean a big reduction in the price of beer But all the people that you made in your image See them starving on their feet 'Cause they don't get enough to eat, from God I can't believe in you, I don’t believe in you Dear God, sorry to disturb you, but I feel that I should be heard loud and clear We all need a big reduction in amount of tears And all the people that you made in your image See them fighting in the street 'Cause they can't make opinions meet about God I can't believe in you, I don’t believe Did you make disease? And the diamond blue? (I don't believe) Did you make mankind after we made you? And the devil too (I don't believe, I can’t believe) Dear God, don't know if you noticed, but Your name is on a lot of quotes in this book And us crazy humans wrote it, you should take a look And all the people that you made in your image still believing that junk exist Well I know it ain't, and so do you, dear God I can't believe in, I don't believe in (I don't believe) I won't believe in heaven and hell No saints, no sinners, no devil as well No pearly gates, no thorny crown You're always letting us humans down The wars you bring, the babes you drown Those lost at sea and never found And it's the same the whole world 'round The hurt I see helps to compound That Father, Son and Holy Ghost Is just somebody's unholy hoax And if you're up there you'd perceive That my heart's here upon my sleeve If there's one thing I don't believe in, it's you
If I say jump, jump, you say how high Standing like a mannequin, mannequins don’t fly Don’t swim, don’t grin, take it like a real man Take it, fake it, then she ran I try to show you but I don’t know you I try to know you but I can’t grow you (Watch) See me how I fly fast See me how I fly past No time for rest, separate For the rest, separate, for the rest now (Watch) See me how I fly fast See me how I fly past Please you will move quick? You’re making me real sick No go, no chnace I don’t slow, I don’t dance I try to show you but I don’t know you I try to know you but I can’t grow you (Watch) See me how I fly fast... If I say jump, jump... (x2) I try to show you but I don’t know you I try to know you but I can’t grow you
What is wrong with us, all we do is fight Get out of my view, I’m not feeling right I’m not feeling good, I don’t think I should Something’s standing in your view, I’m standing next to you You and me heavenly, forever, what does it mean? (x2) What is good for you doesn’t mean too much What you think is true I can’t feel or touch I can’t feel or touch, I don’t feel that much What is wrong with you, you’re standing in my view You and me heavenly, forever, what does it mean? (x2) What is wrong with you, all you do is fight Get out of my view, I’m not feeling right I’m not feeling good, I don’t think I should Something’s standing in your view, I’m standing next to you You and me heavenly, forever, what does it mean? (x2) You and me (etc.)
Doesn’t matter about the time we take Doesn’t matter about the lies we make Go slow I think of how you’re making me mad I think of all the love we had Feel so Always question never quenching your thirst Let me die when I lie to you first I follow When I’m with you it’s from within I know you can see through my skin I’m hollow I need you to feed me once more I need you like I needed before I’ll grow I’m floating I’m flying I’m dying I’m floating I’m flying I’m dying I said you needed like I needed before Said you need me that you meet at five You don’t show I don’t I’’m alive My pulse slow My pulse slow I’m floating I’m flying I’m dying I’m floating I’m flying I’m dying I’m floating I’m flying I’m dying I’m floating I’m flying I’m dying (repeated)
It’s my world It’s my world Running Breathing Deceiving Take and make What you breath in Know me Show me Hardly No you can’t A&R me I pretend I don’t exist I close my eyes and wish Taste like liquorice & sound so devilish Slide across the floor Move a little more Take a sip & pour I’ve heard it all before It’s my world Gonna take it now Make it now Make it shout All this green Gonna make me mean Make me dream Make me skim (2x) I’m feeling Feeling Craw across the ceiling In the day mix They play cheap tricks I pretend I don’t exist Close my eyes and wish My thoughts are devilish My thoughts are just a wish It’s my world Gonna take it now Make it now Make it shout All this green Gonna make me mean Make me dream make me skim It’s my world Gonna take it now Make it now Make it shout All this green Gonna make me mean Make me dream make me skim It’s funny how you feel The eyes in your head The brain and spine Releases fluid when you’re dead Then you start to shed Turning to something else instead Something else was said Someone else’s sunset was red It’s my world Gonna take it now Make it now Make it shout All this green Gonna make me mean Make me dream make me skim (repeated)
If I came into your life If I come to my life The life was strange We rely the same horse (but I think it’s: We remain the same) Set the pain, share the strain 252 stuck in the game Girls that I smack, it’s for my babe Stuck in my life, stuck in my wife Stuck in the scratch, she says she’s dead Waiting for God is very hard I wait for God and it’s very hard I am the lamb I don’t understand I drink your blood and I’m still thirsty I wait for God and it’s very hard I’m stuck in the church Stuck in the verse Stuck in the words Stuck in my nerves Stuck in the wrong Stuck all along Stuck in the bars Stuck in the cars Stuck in the time Stuck in this line I’m doing fine I’m doing mine I’m reading signs We’re killing time I’m stuck in time Stuck in this line I wait for God and it’s very hard I am the lamb I don’t understand I drink your blood and I’m still thirsty I wait for God and it’s very hard I wait for God I wait for Christ I wait for wife I wait for life Tomorrow come We feel the sun Tomorrow come We feel as one The only God The only son Holy from the only one We’re on our own now we’re fully grown I’m all alone when I roam I wait for God and it’s very hard I am the lamb I don’t understand I drink your blood and I’m still thirsty I wait for God and it’s very hard (repeated)
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We move like cagey tigers Like cagey tigers We couldn't get closer than this The way we walk The way we talk The way we stalk The way we kiss We slip through the streets While everyone sleeps Getting bigger and brighter Wider and lighter Bigger and brighter Wider and lighter Into the sea You and me All these years and no one heard I'll show you in spring It's a treacherous thing We missed you hissed the lovecats We missed you hissed the lovecats We're so wonderfully wonderfully wonderfully Wonderfully pretty Oh you know that I'd do anything for you We should have each other to tea huh? We should have each other with cream Then curl up by the fire And sleep for awhile It's the grooviest thing It's the perfect dream Into the sea You and me All these years and no one heard I'll show you in spring It's a treacherous thing We missed you hissed the lovecats We missed you hissed the lovecats Like cagey tigers We couldn't get closer than this The way we talk The way we walk The way we stalk The way we kiss We slip through the streets While everyone sleeps Getting bigger and brighter Wider and lighter Bigger and brighter Wider and lighter Into the sea You and me All these years and no one heard I'll show you in spring It's a treacherous thing We missed you hissed the lovecats We missed you hissed the lovecats We missed you hissed the lovecats We missed you hissed the lovecats We missed you hissed the lovecats We missed you hissed the lovecats
Search search survive Say you’re lucky alive You could be Aalyah The grass is usually greener Life is usually meaner I’m like Ike I die for I’d rather be released Than controlled by the beast It’s not my fault You’re not a writer Emotional exciter You’re not a writer Emotional exciter You’re nobody I do this for a hobby The editor of Face Well edit this place Exit without trace After we edit your face You know I come in peace Until the tension is released You know I come in peace Until the tension is released Search search survive (Serchi e sopravvivi) Say you’re lucky alive (Sei tu fortunato e vivo) You could be Aalyah (O forse Aalyah) The grass is usually greener (L’erba e gia piu verde) Life is usually meaner (Ma la vita e piu meschina) I’m like Ike I die for (Io sono come Ike e muoio per) I’d rather be released (Preferisco liberato) Than controlled by the beast (che da una bestia dominato) It’s not my fault (Non e colpa mea) You’re not a writer (Tu non sei uno scrittore no) Emotional exciter (Commovente ed eccitante) You’re not a writer (Tu non sei uno scrittore no) Emotional exciter (Commovente ed eccitante) You’re nobody (Tu sei nessuno) I do this for a hobby (Lo faccio per gioco) The editor of Face (Il direttore di Face) Well edit this place (Sta bene in questo posto) Exit without trace (Esce senza traccia) After we edit your face (Curiamo la sua faccia) You know I come in peace (Lo sai vengo in pace) Until the tension is released (La tensione sale) You know I come in peace (Lo sai vengo in pace) Until the tension is released (La tensione sale)