sirens scream wanton attentionTime to take heed and change directionsTime to take stock and make omissions EvacuationEvacuation Time to take leave all formal functionsTime to plant seeds of reconstructionNo time this time to feign reluctance It’s like you’re waiting for a diamond shore to wash your wayBets put aside, you’re […]
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Little America
I can’t see myself at thirty, I don’t buy a lacquered thirty Caught like flies, preserved for tomorrow’s jewelery, again Lighted in the amber yard, a green shellback, green shellback Preserved for tomorrow’s eyes, in tree beer tar-black brer sap, The biggest wagon is the empty wagon is the noisiest, […]
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Can… anybody find be somebody to love? Each morning I get up I die a little, can barely stand on my feetTake a look (Take a look at yourself)in the mirror and cry(yeah, yeah)Lord, what you’re doing to me I have to spend all my years in believing youBut I […]
Continue ReadingElectricity
(What does it mean?)(What are you doing in San Francisco?) (Get out of here and take this case with you) (What does it mean?)(What are you doing in San Francisco?) I’m an artist, honey, you’ll see me sometimesMaking crazy pictures out of music and rhymesCostume changes performed with poiseDancing in […]
Continue ReadingLarger Than Life
I may run and hideWhen you’re screamin’ my name, alrightBut let me tell you nowThere are prices to fame, alrightAll of our time spent in flashes of light Chorus:All you people can’t you see, can’t you seeHow your love’s affecting our realityEvery time we’re downYou can make it rightAnd that […]
Continue ReadingLet’s Dance
Hey baby won’t you take a chance Say that you’ll let me have this dance Well let’s dance, let’s dance. We’ll do the twist, the stomp, the mashed potatoes too Any old dance that you wanna do Well let’s dance, well let’s dance. Hey baby yeah you thrill the soul […]
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Pentex sucks! Pentex sucks!! They drain the life force of my tribe Pentex sucks! Bonegnawers suck! Bonegnawers suck!! They roll around in garbage bins All Bonegnawers suck!! (Pentex is bleeding but night is falling) The Black Hand sucks! The Black Hand sucks!! Those wyrm-tainted bastard leeches Black Hand sucks! If […]
Continue ReadingDrowse
It’s the sad eyed goodbye Yesterday’s moments I rememberIt’s the bleak street,week kneed partings I recall It’s the mistier mists the hazier days The brighter sun and the easier lays There’s all the more reason for laughing and cryingWhen you’re younger and life isn’t to hard at all It’s the […]
Continue ReadingKick Him When He’s Down
Hey you’re a riddle,I say as I move aside(like I really need your advice).But you won’t leave it aloneLittle men try but don’t get a lot done.Living in sin doesn’t move me either way.I get a feeling you’re so vague.Like I said before,Little men come when anything goes. When the […]
Continue ReadingShow Me Your Colours
You cast your spell over meDon’t know where to turn to anymoreI see your faceEvery morning when I wake upEvery night when I go to bed You’re here with meSomehow, don’t know howI can feel you right nowSo close, so real Do, do-do, do-doShow me your colours Show meShow me […]
Continue ReadingDown
All the people in your life say you’re downAnd the strangers in the night say you’re downAnd the loonies on the right say you’re down and you’re downAnd the ambulances sigh that you’re downAnd the traffic speeding by says you’re downAnd the people in your life say you’re down and […]
Continue ReadingJohnny Ryall
Johnny Ryall is the bum on my stoopI gave him fifty cents to buy some soupHe knows the time with the fresh Gucci watchHe’s even more over than the mayor Ed KochWashing windows on the Bowery at a quarter to four‘Cause he ain’t gonna work on Maggie’s farm no moreLiving […]
Continue ReadingShades Of Truth
Here inside this quiet room there’s directionOutside in the sultry noon-time reflectionA million scurry they are looking for adviceNone willing to lend charity just exercise theirShades of Truth, and partisan conventionShades of Truth between dispirate linesShades of Truth interpret my intentionsYou don’t know I’m alrightWho authored the blueprints and made […]
Continue ReadingDon’t Get Mad, Get Even
I’ll tell you little secret make you want to jump and shoutWhen you talk to me in circles take your foot out of your mouthIt’s hard enough to make it when you’re livin’ on the streetAnd you want to tell somebody but you got to be discreetThen you catch your […]
Continue ReadingIt’s a Party
Right right right rightRight, Busta Rhymes exclusive with the ZhaneEach and every dayWe gon come around your way and do it our way, word is bond {It’s a party, let’s get it on tonight}Word up, hah, yeah yeah one time with the flow {that’s how we flow} {Gonna rock your […]
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