Lyrics Project

[GlassCastles]

I'll grab Snax and Fort Minor, then.

 

The Snax

 

Run Joseph Run

Wonderbread

I'm gonna wonder why,
Those questions in my life,
But I wonder are there answers,
Will I ever comprehend?

There's only one true God,
The giver of this life,
And I wonder why he loves me,
And I wonder he cares

 

Oh, whoa

He is the bread of life,
And his snacks will delight,
And I wonder when I'm hungry,
He always fills me up,
He is the tree of life,
And his branches oh so wide,
And I wonder when it's hot out,
He always gives me rest

He is the reason,
He is the reason why

He is the reason,

He is the reason why

I'm gonna wonder why,
Those questions in my life,
But I wonder are there answers,
Will I ever comprehend?

There's only one true God,
The giver of this life,
And I wonder why he loves me,
And I wonder he cares

Pick it up!

Oh whoa,
He is the bread of life,
And his snacks will delight,
And I wonder when I'm hungry,
He always fills me up,
He is the tree of life,
And his branches oh so wide,
And I wonder when it's hot out,
He always gives me rest

He is the reason,
He is the reason why

He is the reason,
He is the reason

He is the reason,
He is the reason why

He is the reason,
He is the reason why

He is the bread of life,
And his snacks will delight,
He is the tree of life,
His branches oh so wide

I'm gonna wonder why,
Those questions in my life,
But I wonder are there answers,
Will I ever comprehend?

There's only one true God,
The giver of this life,
And I wonder why he loves me,
And I wonder he cares

There's only one true God,
The giver of this life,
And I wonder why he loves me,

And I wonder he cares

 

Screw Up

People say we're cool,
Yeah people say we're cool,
I don't know, or I don't think so,
I'm just a freak, a Jesus freak,
So listen to me,
Listen to me speak

 

Yeah

I just screwed up today,
But Christ still loves me anyway,
Do you know what that means for you,
Just like me, he loves you too,
The time has come for you to choose,
Cause a tag team with Christ will never lose,
And if there's a hint of cool in me,
It's because Christ set me free

 

People say we're cool,
Yeah people say we're cool,
I don't know, or I don't think so,
I'm just a freak, a Jesus freak,
So listen to me,
Listen to me speak

 

Yeah

I just screwed up today,
But Christ still loves me anyway,
Do you know what that means for you,
Just like me, he loves you too,
The time has come for you to choose,
Cause a tag team with Christ will never lose,
And if there's a hint of cool in me,
It's because Christ set me free

 

And now I hear a voice,
That tells me I'm a screwup,
That sneaky devil tries to make me think it's God,
But I know in Christ's eyes I'm not a screw up,
Because he tells me that I'm worth it,
I'm worth it, yeah I count

Christ tells me that I count, (Yeah)
I count in Christ's eyes

Christ tells me that I count, (Yeah)

I count in Christ's eyes

Christ tells me that I count, (Yeah)

I count in Christ's eyes

Christ tells me that I count, (Yeah)

I count in Christ's eyes

 

Run Joseph Run

Well, one fine day in a land so far away,
The master had to leave so he put Joe in charge,
Now Joe was a hunk, a strapping young lad,
And his muscles (his muscles!) his muscles rather large

The master was gone far away from home,
And his wife began to put the moves on Joe,
For several days, time and time again,
She said come to bed with me,
She said come to bed with me

You've gotta run Joseph run,
Yeah you've got to get away,
The girl's got your clothes,
But you know that you can't stay,
Potiphor's gone far away from home,
You've gotta run Joseph run,
You got to go, go, go!

Well potiphor's wife knew exactly what she wanted,
And Joseph was merely a victim of her lust,
For several days, time and time again,
She said come to bed with me,
She said come to bed with me
Then she grabbed him by his cloak,
Stripped it off his body,
And Joe just stood there naked as a birdy,
He kinda liked her style,
You gotta like her style
But then Joe remembered just exactly what he learned

You've gotta run Joseph run,
Yeah you've got to get away,
The girl's got your clothes,
But you know that you can't stay,
Potiphor's gone far away on a trip,
You've gotta run Joseph run,
You gotta get away quick!

Well Joseph ran like the wind,
And that's the moral of the story,
While temptation stared him right in the face,
He heard a voice say

You've gotta run Joseph run,
Yeah you've got to get away,
The girl's got your clothes,
But you know that you can't stay,
Potiphor's gone far away from home,
You've gotta run Joseph run,
You got to go, go, go!

You've gotta run joseph run,
Yeah you've got to get away,
The girl's got your clothes,
But you know that you can't stay,
Potiphor's gone far away on a trip,
You've gotta run joseph run,
You gotta get away quick!

You've gotta run Joseph run,
Yeah you've got to get away,
The girl's got your clothes,
But you know that you can't stay,
Potiphor's gone far away from home,
You've gotta run Joseph run,
You got to go, go, go!

The world will give you lies,
There's no room for compromise,
When you're staring sin in the face,
You've got to run away!

The world will give you lies,
There's no room for compromise,
When you're staring sin in the face,

You've got to run away!

The world will give you lies,
There's no room for compromise,
When you're staring sin in the face,

You've got to run away!

 

My Greatest Day

Well I woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning,
Standing on the shore I didn't swim to deeper waters,
Got my feet in the sand, and my face in the air,
Then Peter yells from the boat "Hey swim out here!",

Rise and shine,
And give God the glory,
The further I swim,
The greater my journey,
Today's the first day of the rest of my life,
Just another chance to be the light,
And I sing

Don't say tomorrow's another day,
I'll wait till then cause tomorrow turns to yesterday
And you gotta start it over again

And this ain't no circus,
And this ain't no game,
So don't try to juggle it,
Or you've got to start it over my friend,
You've got to start it over my friend

Today's the day that the Lord hath made

Today's the day that the Lord hath made

Today's my greatest day,
I'll change the world today,
And I'm living it out today,
And I'm giving him props today,
Today's my greatest day,
I'll raise my hands today,
And I'll sing to him today,
There is no doubt today,
Today is my greatest day

Don't say tomorrow's another day,
I'll wait till then cause tomorrow turns to yesterday
And you gotta start it over again

And this ain't no circus,
And this ain't no game,
So don't try to juggle it,
Or you've got to start it over my friend,
You've got to start it over my friend

I'll change the world today,
And I'm living it out today,
And I'm giving him props today,
Today's my greatest day,
I'll raise my hands today,
And I'll sing to him today,
There is no doubt today,
Today is my greatest day

 

Whoa

I'll change the world today,
And I'm living it out today,
And I'm giving him props today,
Today's my greatest day,
I'll raise my hands today,
And I'll sing to him today,
There is no doubt today,

Today is my greatest day

Today is my greatest day

Today is my greatest day

Today is my greatest day

Today is my greatest day

I'll change the world today,
And I'm living it out today,
And I'm giving him props today,

Today's my greatest day,

 

Randomness

Whoa, whoa!
Sitting on my butt won't do a thing,
I'm tired all this whining it's drowning me,
And I'm kicking this can where I go,
I'm losing my life now this I know

 

Whoa, whoa!
On my knees I'm giving these,
With my hands I make my stand,
Take me a while, learn to smile,
He is he, he's in me

I can't do this know you can see,
My laziness is killing me,
Cut myself and that's for sure,
While I'm losing my life now you're still pure

Whoa, whoa!
On my knees I'm giving these,
With my hands I make my stand,
Take me a while, learn to smile,
He is he, he's in me

Breaking the walls,
And bringing down the house,
This is a temple for the strong,
And we living it out,
Yeah I'm down on my knees,
With my hands to the lord,
And then I teach it,
I preach it,
And now I'm rapping 'cause I'm Christ-core

He knows me,
He chose me,
Took a nail in the hand,
As a result I exalt,
And I made make my standm
When god's will'n, I'm Chill'n
How ya like that sound,
Light the fireworks,
Cause I'm heaven bound

On my knees I'm giving these,
With my hands I make my stand,
Take me a while, learn to smile,
He is he, he's in me

On my knees I'm giving these,
With my hands I make my stand,
Take me a while, learn to smile,

He is he, he's in me

He is he, he's in me

He is he, he's in me

He is he, he's in me

 

My Parade

Well don't you rain on my parade.
I've had enough of your charade,
And don't you pee on my fire,
What might be yours ain't my desire

I did something good,
But you try to ruin,
Why can't you just be happy for me.
And when I fail you're the first to know,
Why can't you just let it be

Whoa wo whoa,
Whoa wo whoa,
Whoa let it be

Whoa wo whoa,
Whoa wo whoa,
Whoa let it be

Well I say I'm right,
You say I'm wrong,
But who are you to ruin my song,
It's red to me, and it's black to you,
And when I win you say I lose

I did something good,
But you try to ruin,
Why can't you just be happy for me.
And when I fail you're the first to know,
Why can't you just let it be

Whoa wo whoa,
Whoa wo whoa,
Whoa let it be

Whoa wo whoa,
Whoa wo whoa,
Whoa let it be

Vámonos!
Uno, Dos!
Uno, Dos,
Uno, Dos, Tres, Cuatro!

I did something good,
But you try to ruin,
Why can't you just be happy for me.
And when I fail you're the first to know,
Why can't you just let it be

Whoa wo whoa,
Whoa wo whoa,
Whoa let it be

Whoa wo whoa,
Whoa wo whoa,

Whoa let it be

Yeah

 

Same Ol' Story

Well you can get on your knees,
Or spit in his face,
You can trash the temple,
Or cleanse this place,
You can call on the lord,
Or curse his name,
But God still loves you just the same

 

Yeah, yeah

I've seen it first hand,
It's not a fib please understand,
Don't turn your back on me,
Face the facts and you will see,
It's just my point of view,
Don't hate me because I'm praying for you,
I'm gonna praise my lord,
And I'll receive my reward

The same ol' story,
A different page,
I've read these chapters,
I've seen them change,
The introduction don't mean a thing,
Cause in the end I'll be with the king

 

Yeah, yeah

I've seen it first hand,
It's not a fib please understand,
Don't turn your back on me,
Face the facts and you will see,
It's just my point of view,
Don't hate me because I'm praying for you,
I'm gonna praise my lord,
And I'll receive my reward

Here we go!

The same ol' story,
A different page,
I've read these chapters,
I've seen them change,
The introduction don't mean a thing,
Cause in the end I'll be with the king

The same ol' story,
A different page,
I've read these chapters,
I've seen them change,
The introduction don't mean a thing,
Cause in the end I'll be with the king

I'll be with the king

I'll be with the king

 

CB

Go!

 

You're my friend until the end,
No matter they say,
You've got my back and I've got yours,
Brotherhood's the only way,

Bro I need you now,
Now more than ever before,
Bro I need you now,
To keep my life in control

We're Christian brothers,
We need each other,
We're in the same boat,
We've gotta stay afloat

We're Christian brothers,
We need each other,
We're in the same boat,
We've gotta stay afloat

C! B!

You and me a family,
We bond together through Christ,
If we stick together we'll live together,
And have eternal life

Bro I need you now,
Now more than ever before,
Bro I need you now,
To keep my life in control

We're Christian brothers,
We need each other,
We're in the same boat,
We've gotta stay afloat

We're Christian brothers,
We need each other,
We're in the same boat,
We've gotta stay afloat

C! B!

Bro I need you now,
Now more than ever before,
Bro I need you now,
To keep my life in control

Bro I need you now,
Now more than ever before,
Bro I need you now,
To keep my life in control
To keep my life in control,
To keep my life in control!

 

Ode Ta Bob

And it's like that

10 AM

In your face

 

That's right!

Check it out!
Take it up!

Out with that old,
In with the new,
Who ever thought,
That it could happen to you,
You've come so far all alone by yourself,
It's time you started over with somebody else

One by one,
In your weaknesses you fail,
And two by two,
In your strength you will prevail,
But a chord for three,
No matter what they say or do,
Is not broken easily

Can y'all feel that, cause I can feel that,
So let's all feel that, and jump around

Can y'all feel that, cause I can feel that,

So let's all feel that, and jump around

 

Come on!

Let's kick it up now!

Come on, come on!

Kick it up now!

Out with that old,
In with the new,
Who ever thought,
That it could happen to you,
You've come so far all alone by yourself,
It's time you started over with somebody else

One by one,
In your weaknesses you fail, and
And two by two,
In your strength you will prevail,
But a chord for three,
No matter what they say or do,
Is not broken easily

 

Uh (x12)

You put your trust in your friends,
And then your friends put their trust in you,
But when it comes down to the wire,
Jesus will pull you through

You put your trust in your friends,
And then your friends put their trust in you,
But when it comes down to the wire,

Jesus will pull you through

Feel that rhythm,
Feel that rhyme,
Come on people,
It's bobsled time!

Come on,
Rip it up now,
Come on, Come on,
Here we go!

Check it out y'all!

Let's check it out y'all

Check it out, check it out

Check it out y'all
Get on up y'all!

Let's get on up y'all

Get on up get on up

Get on up y'all

 

1, 2, 3, 4

Out with that old,
In with the new,
Who ever thought,
That it could happen to you,
You've come so far all alone by yourself,
It's time you started over with somebody else

One by one,
In your weaknesses you fail,
And two by two,
In your strength you will prevail,
But a chord for three,
No matter what they say or do,
Is not broken easily

 

Freedom

My country,' tis of thee,
sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing...

America make some noise!

Booyah!

A land of broken dreams,
And a land of battle scars,
Hip Hip Hooray we got a land of fallen stars,
But God is my redeemer,
The victor in the end,
Bring a heal'n to this nation,
A heal'n to my friends

A rough road made smooth,
And a crooked path made straight,
America get on your knees,
And pray to something great

We shall overcome this world,
In all god's glory,
We shall overcome this world in the end
We shall overcome this world,
In all god's glory,
We shall overcome this world

Booyah!

A land of broken dreams,
And a land of battle scars,
Hip Hip Hooray we got a land of fallen stars,
But God is my redeemer,
The victor in the end,
Bring a heal'n to this nation,
A heal'n to my friends

Every valley be exalted,
And every mountainside made flat,
Ya judge the color before the content,
No we ain't going out like that

We shall overcome this world,
In all god's glory,
We shall overcome this world in the end
We shall overcome this world,
In all god's glory,
We shall overcome this world

Sound the bells let freedom ring
Unite in Christ and people sing

Sound the bells let freedom ring
Unite in Christ and people sing

Sound the bells let freedom ring
Unite in Christ and people sing

Sound the bells let freedom ring
Unite in Christ and people sing

Sound the bells let freedom ring
Unite in Christ and people sing

Sound the bells let freedom ring
Unite in Christ and people sing

My country,' tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing;
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims' pride,
From every mountainside let freedom ring!

 

(My country,' tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing;
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims' pride,
From every mountainside let freedom ring!)
We shall overcome this world,
In all god's glory,
We shall overcome this world in the end
We shall overcome this world,
In all god's glory,
We shall overcome this world

(My country,' tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing;
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims' pride,
From every mountainside let freedom ring!)
We shall overcome this world,
In all god's glory,
We shall overcome this world in the end
We shall overcome this world,
In all god's glory,
We shall overcome this world

"When we allow freedom ring—when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet,
from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children—
black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics—
will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:
"Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

 

Bonus Track

 

 

Snax

Where Are You Now?

Where are you now?
I turned around to find out,
I found myself mistaken,
And something's missing here,
Where did you go?
I crawled beneath the waters,
I spun around in circles,
And something's missing.

Nothing's ever changing,
Things have stayed the same,
(Things have stayed the same)
I spun around in circles,
Now I can't see a thing.

I think that,
We could be friends again
I think that,
We could be, we could be friends again

So, where are you now?
I turned around to find out,
I found myself mistaken,
And something's missing here,
Where did you go?
I crawled beneath the waters,
I spun around in circles,
And something's missing.

Everybody's searching,
To be what they can see,
(To see what they can be)
I promised not to close my eyes,
But I would rather dream,
And everybody's missing,
And everyone is missed,
(And everyone is missed)
Slipped right through your fingers,
The hole inside your fist

I think that,
We could be friends again

I think that,
We could be friends again

I think that,
We could be, we could be friends again

 

So,
Where are you now?
I turned around to find out,
I found myself mistaken,
And something's missing here,
Where did you go?
I crawled beneath the waters,
I spun around in circles,
And something's missing

 

(I think that,
We could be, we could be friends again)

Where are you now?
I turned around to find out,
I found myself mistaken,
And something's missing here,

(I think that,
We could be, we could be friends again)
Where did you go?
I crawled beneath the waters,
I spun around in circles,
And something's missing

 

1:10

The headaches, the tough breaks,
The mistakes that I make,
Looking back at all the things I'd like to change..

But I cant, cause I've tried,
And even if I could,
I'm not sure that I would

And all the, the heartbreaks
Have left me so broken (broken!)
Looking back at all the things I cannot change..

But I cant, cause I've tried,
And even if I could,
I'm not sure that I would

 

Better Off

Here's another song about a girl who broke my heart (broke my heart),
Yeah, she'll go down in history with all the girls who made life hard (made life hard),
I swore that I'd never write this song,
I guess I was wrong

I wish I could say, say that I loved you
But I've had some time, some time to think things through,
And we were never all, all that great,
And it's just hard to admit that we made a mistake

I swore I'd never write this song
I guess I was wrong

I guess it's not fair I put the blame on you,
'Cause I've had my share of hearts I've broken too,

 

I swore I'd never write this song

I swore I'd never write this song

I swore I'd never write this song

I guess I was wrong..

I guess I was wrong, wrong about us,
And wrong about love,
Cause I put my trust in you,
And not in my hope above

 

I swore I'd never write this song

I swore I'd never write this song

I swore I'd never write this song

I guess I was wrong..

Here's another song about a girl who broke my heart (broke my heart),
Yeah, she'll go down in history with all the girls who made life hard (made life hard),

I swore I'd never write this song

I swore I'd never write this song

I swore I'd never write this song

I swore I'd never write this song

I swore I'd never write this song

I swore I'd never write this song

I swore I'd never write this song

I guess I was wrong (Guess I was wrong)

I guess I was wrong (Guess I was wrong)

I guess I was wrong (Guess I was wrong)

I guess I was wrong (Guess I was wrong)

And I'm better off without you,
And you're better off without me too.

 

Pilgrim

I know it's getting kind of hectic you see,
I see the world and who they really want me to be,
And I'll try, but I just cant seem to understand why
I'm so frail, and I fail and it all falls down

I see the world is caving down on me,
My back is breaking,
And the weight is getting rough on my feet,
And I'll try, but I just cant seem to understand why
I'm so frail, and I fail and it all falls down

Lay down your pack Mr. Pilgrim,
And leave those worries,
Leave those burdens far behind,
'Cause you've been carrying this weight,
For way too long,
Now it's time to leave it all behind

I know it's getting kind of hectic you see,
I see the world and who they really want me to be,
And I'll try, but I just cant seem to understand why
I'm so frail, and I fail

Lay down your pack Mr. Pilgrim,
And leave those worries,
Leave those burdens far behind,
'Cause you've been carrying this weight,
For way too long,
Now it's time to leave it all behind

'Cause you've been carrying this weight,
For way too long,
Now it's time to leave it all behind

'Cause you've been carrying this weight,
For way too long,

Now it's time to leave it all behind

 

Away

Don't want to see the apple in your eyes,
Don't need another thorn in my side,
Don't want anything to do with you,
There's no vacancy in my life

Never wanted to find out,
Never wanted to let me know

Never wanted to find out,
Never wanted to let me know

Shake myself free from this foothold,
'Cause you can hold my heel,
But you can't heal my soul,
And I'd rather cut you off,
Than drag me down in fire
Though I hear your voice,
I will not believe these lies

Never wanted to find out,
Never wanted to let me know

Never wanted to find out,
Never wanted to let me know

 

Go!
Go away!

Go!

Go away!

Never wanted to find out,
Never wanted to let me know

Never wanted to find out,
Never wanted to let me know

Go!
Go away!

Go!

Go away!

Go!
Go away!

Go!

Go away!

 

One More

One more stamp and I'll earn myself free coffee,
One more scratch and I'll be a millionaire,
Give me one sec so I can get myself ready,
One more call to see if she is there,

One more day, one more night
One more chance to get it right
One more song, one more call
One more chance to do it all
One more day is all I need
So I can get to what I've got

It's only one more,
One more will be enough

One last spin and I'll win all kinds of money,
One last game and I'll guarantee a win,
One last change and everything will be perfect,
Once last chance to get out from what I'm in

One more day, one more night
One more chance to get it right
One more song, one more call
One more chance to do it all
One more day is all I need
So I can get to what I've got

It's only one more,
One more will be enough

 

Whoa, whoa

One more day, one more night
One more chance to get it right
One more song, one more call
One more chance to do it all
One more day is all I need
So I can get to what I've got

It's only one more,
One more will be enough
It's only one more,
One more will be enough
It's only one more,
And one more is not enough

There's only one who can give you more (More)

There's only one who can give you more (More)

There's only one who can give you more (More)

 

He Lifts Me Up

Today was a rough day,
I fell in love with the world,
And everything seemed golden,
From where I stood,
The gold grows old when you stand alone

It's not that bad, no it's not that tough to be alone
'Cause I know I'm not alone, and God is good,
He's more than enough,
And when I'm down, he always seems to lift me up

Growing older, there's no turning back anymore,
And oh how I dream to be a child again,
So I can run in the wind

It's not that bad, no it's not that tough to be alone
'Cause I know I'm not alone,
He always seems to lift me up,
He always seems to lift me up,
He always seems to lift me up,
When I'm down

Today was a good day,
I felt the weight of his love,
And everything is golden from where I stand,
In his arms
So, I say...

It's not that bad, it's not that tough to be alone,
'Cause I know I'm not alone, and God is good,
He's more than enough,
And when I'm down, he always seems to lift me up

It's not that bad, no it's not that tough to be alone,
'Cause I know I'm not alone, and God is good,
He's more than enough,
And when I'm down, he always seems to...

He always seems to lift me up,
He always seems to lift me up,
He always seems to lift me up,
When I'm down

 

New Trend

I want to be different just like everybody else,
I want to find a new band, I want to start a new trend,
I want to be different just like everybody else,
Find my identity in myself...

The more I try and find myself
Less of you I see in me,
You know I can't be anything
To anyone but you

I wanna be different just like everybody else,
Find my identity in myself,
Cool tattoos and blue suede shoes,
Any color hair I choose,
And where the action is that's where I'm gonna be

The more I try and find myself
Less of you I see in me,
You know I can't be anything
To anyone but you

The more I try and find myself
Less of you I see in me,
You know I can't be anything
To anyone but you

 

The more I try to find myself
Less of you I see in me,
You know I can't be anything
To anyone but you

The more I try to find myself
Less of you I see in me,
You know I can't be anything

No, I can't be

No, I can't be

I want to be different just like everybody else,
I want to find a new band, I want to start a new trend,
I want to be different just like everybody else,
Find my identity in no one else

I wanna start a,
I wanna start a,
I wanna start a new trend

I wanna start a,
I wanna start a,
I wanna start a new trend

I wanna start a,
I wanna start a,
I wanna start a new trend

(A new trend...)
I wanna start a new trend

 

Speechless

If you only knew, the words I said were true,
They've been inside my head awhile,
I'm sorry they skipped you,
And if you only know the words you want to hear,
You'll never know my heart,
You'll never know my tears

Words will often change,
But what I said remains,
It's spun inside my head awhile,
And it's sounding all the same,
I never thought I'd see, see myself this way,
Running out of words,
Without nothing left

I've mixed and matched these words,
A thousand times inside my head

Inside my heart there's never been
(My heart there's never been)
More to say

Something is on my mind,
And something is in my way,
I slipped across my tongue,
And landed on my face
I gave up all I have,
I had nothing left to say
I stumbled on my verse,
And now you know

I'm speechless,
I'm speechless,
And it never comes out right

And it never comes out right
I'm speechless,
I'm speechless,
In my heart there's never been more to say

If you only knew, the words I said were true,
They've been inside my head awhile,
I'm sorry they skipped you,
And if you only know the words you want to hear,
You'll never know my heart,
You'll never know,
I've mixed and matched these words,
A thousand times inside my head

Inside my heart there's never been
(My heart there's never been)
More to say

I'm speechless,
I'm speechless,
And it never comes out right

And it never comes out right
I'm speechless,
I'm speechless,
In my heart there's never been more to say

I'm speechless,
Yeah, I'm speechless,
And it never comes out right

And it never comes out right
I'm speechless,
I'm speechless,

In my heart there's never been more to say

 

Me Vs. Time

All I see is grey,
It's filling up my day,
Make it go away,
(Make it go away)
And all I see are hues,
And different shades of blues,
Atop the waters to get to you

It seems so hard to get away,
From the memories of yesterday,
I cant believe that all those dreams,
Are now behind me

These are the last days,
Of the best days

Destiny has taken, taken all my ways,
Left me scattered pictures,
Left me scattered days,
Left me walls of faces,
Memories of places,
A time line of empty spaces

It seems so hard to get away,
From the memories of yesterday,
I cant believe that all those dreams,
Are now behind me

These are the last days,
Of the best days

These are the last days,

It seems so hard to get away,
From the memories of yesterday,
I cant believe that all those dreams,
Are now behind me

I never thought I'd see myself,
With my ambitions on the shelf,
With my ambitions on the shelf,
With my ambitions...

These are the last days,
Of the best days

I never thought I'd see myself,
(These are the last days)
With my ambitions on the shelf

I never thought I'd see myself,
(Of the best days)
With my ambitions on the shelf

 

Starting Over

Well I've made my way around this,
And I've walked these streets up and down,
And I ain't too proud with what I've found
(Until we break these walls down)
This time I cant ignore,
The mistakes I've made before,
And the winds came down and shut the door,
I think I'm starting over

I made a left way back when,
And now I'm tracing my steps to find that right
No use (no use!)
No need (no need!)
In crawling on my knees
I think I'm starting over

Sorting out my past,
These days of days will never last,
Can't keep myself from looking back,
We're going nowhere fast,

Some say that it's too late,
To escape from this intrepid state,
And I'd rather run than face my fate,
I think I'm starting over

I made a left way back when,
And now I'm tracing my steps to find that right
No use (no use!)
No need (no need!)
In crawling on my knees
I think I'm starting over

 

I made a left way back when,
And now I'm tracing my steps to find that right
No use (no use!)
No need (no need!)
In crawling on my knees

I think I'm starting over

I made a left way back when,
And now I'm tracing my steps to find that right
No use (no use!)
No need (no need!)
In crawling on my knees

I think I'm starting over

I made a left way back when,
And now I'm tracing my steps to find that right
No use (no use!)
No need (no need!)
In crawling on my knees

I think I'm starting over

 

Redeemed

I've been redeemed,
I've been redeemed,
Washed and cleaned,
I've been redeemed

He lifts me up,
He lifts me up,
He fills my cup,
He lifts me up

Sing hallelujah,
Sing hallelujah,
Sing hallelujah,
Christ is lord

We have new life,
We have new life,
He heals our strife,
We have new life

Sing hallelujah,
Sing hallelujah,
Sing hallelujah,
Christ is lord

Sing hallelujah,
Sing hallelujah,
Sing hallelujah,
Christ is lord

I've been redeemed,
I've been redeemed,
Been washed and cleaned,
I've been redeemed

I've been redeemed

I've been redeemed

 

 

Ground Xero

Don't worry about the time
Just watch the sun set
I keep my feelings bottled up
Things that I regret

Oh can it be
Up to me right now

Everything's so lovely
In the sky right now
I want to take it back
But I don't know how
Can you chase the rainbow
To find its end
Take me to your ground zero
Back again

I simply wish that I
Could feel the way you do
I just died again
Standin' next to you

Gone overboard
And restore my pain

Everything's so lovely
In the sky right now
I want to take it back
But I don't know how
Can you chase the rainbow
To find its end
Take me to your ground zero
Back again

Edited June 22, 2015 by TheSasstielExperience

[RogueSoul]

I need a separate post for STP and GD. 100% going to go over the character limit if I keep all of Chester's stuff in the same post lol

 

Grey Daze

What's In The Eye (Wake Me Version)

 

 

What's in the eye?

Can you tell me?

Watching the time pass me by

There's so much locked up inside

Don't go too fast, my friend

Or you'll lose control

Don't go too fast, my friend

Or you'll lose control

What's in the eye?

That I cannot catch?

Is it me, I want to know

Why it's so hard to let go

Don't go too fast, my friend

Or you'll lose control

Don't go too fast, my friend

Or you'll lose control

Ohh...

Don't go too fast, my friend

Or you'll lose control

Don't go too fast, my friend

Or you'll lose control, oh, woah, oh

Don't go / Don't you go / Don't you go

No, no / Don't go / Don't you go / Don't you go

No, no / No / No, woah, oh

Ohh...

What's in the eye?

Hey, hey, yeah, hey, yeah

Hey, hey, hey, hey, yeah

Hey, hey, hey, hey, yeah, hey, yeah

Yeah, hey, yeah

Hey, hey, hey, hey

WHY?

 

 

 

Spin

 

 

I want to pick up the pieces, so that

There's less complication, so that

There's less conversation, and

Less aggravation

I want to go out alone, man, so that

There's less confrontation, and man,

There's less association, and

Less company, yeah

I was so frustrated, man, that

I was all confused, man, and that

I was disillusioned, and

Sick of your friends

Run, don't walk my way

Don't look my way

Cause I don't care, oh, no

So why are you still here?

Why don't you disappear?

And spin out of my life?

Oh

Hey!

Why do we have limitation, and man

Why do we have limitation, so that

We don't get very far, and so that

We don't climb very high

I can't handle the indecision, and

I can't watch no more television, and

I won't miss you when you're gone

Cause I know my life will go on, yeah

Run, don't walk my way

Don't look my way

Cause I don't care, oh, no

So why are you still here?

Why don't you disappear?

And spin out of my life?

Oh

Hey!

 

 

Morei Sky

 

 

I've lived through things I cannot say

Back then we dreamt of yesterday

It seemed as if the only way

And now we look for hope and pray

If I had a second chance

I'd make amends

Only to find myself

Losing in the end

If I had a second chance

I'd make amends

Only to find myself

Losing, losing...

It came up from the deepest sea

God gave it life and reason to be

His shadow rose above the highest tree

And still his face we could not see

If I had a second chance

I'd make amends

Only to find myself

Losing in the end

If I had a second chance

I'd make amends

Only to find myself

Losing, losing...

I've lived through things I cannot say

Back then we dreamt of yesterday

It seemed as if the only way

And now we look for hope and pray

Yeah...

 

 

Wake Me

 

 

Should I have a taste of this

Run across your lips

And start all over again

Could this all just be a dream?

If I should fall to stormy weather

Wake me, wake me

(Yeah!)

Maybe this time I can do it all right

Without my foot in my mouth

Without that blind in my sight

Could this all just be a dream?

If I should fall to stormy weather

Wake me, wake me

(Yeah!)

If I should fall to stormy weather

Wake me, wake me

Me, yeah, hey

GO!

Ohh... [x2]

Too scared to lose the one

I tried so hard for

Too scared to lose the one

I never had

Too scared to lose the one

I tried so hard for

Too scared to lose the one

I never had

Yeah...

 

 

Starting To Fly

 

 

I know the answers from the words of

The prophet

I've seen the light through the fingers

Made of magic

I've seen an image of the future,

It's a vision and I know who you are, yeah...

Go away can't you see you're not real

Open your eye some place far away

I've seen the ocean and I've seen the sky

I've got my wings and I'm starting to fly

Yeah

I met a poet tonight behind the masses

I sang a song about my many true addictions

I saw myself in a hole, down below

And I know who you are, yeah...

I'm alright though it's hard to feel

Open your eye some place far away

I've seen the ocean and I've seen the sky

I've got my wings and I'm starting to fly

Yeah

Open your eyes

Look to the sky

Grab your wings

And start to fly

Open your eyes

Look to the sky

Grab your wings

And start to fly

Yeah

I've seen the ocean and I've seen the sky

I've got my wings and I'm starting to fly

I've seen the ocean and I've seen the sky

I've got my wings and I'm starting to fly, yeah

Woah, I'm starting to fly

Yeah I'm starting to fly

Woah, I'm starting to fly

Yeah I'm starting to fly

Yeah, hey

Starting to fly

Starting to fly

Starting to fly

 

 

Sometimes (Wake Me Version)

 

 

Sometimes,

Things just seem to fall apart

When you least expect them to

Sometimes,

You want to pack up and leave behind

All of them and all their smiles

I don't know

What to think any more

Maybe things will get better

Maybe things will look brighter

Maybe, maybe

Sometimes,

People surprise you

And people surprise me

But I guess that's the price we pay

For wanting, so badly

I don't know

What to think any more

Maybe things will get better

Maybe things will look brighter

Maybe, maybe

I don't know

What to think any more

Maybe things will get better

Maybe things will look brighter

Maybe, maybe

Sometimes...

Sometimes...

Sometimes...

 

 

Holding You

 

 

Yeah

 

Endless hopes, well

That's too bad

Smile happy,

Enjoy my pain

Hoping I can find

What we never had

Never holding you

It makes me

100% is where it lies

Behind the tide

Inside the ocean

Inside your ocean

Frozen is the present past, oh

Made of stone, but breaks like glass, so

Take me now to where I want to go

Thoughts astray but who will know

In a dream, it seems

Just to hold my hand

Shaking, no release

Stop me,

Stop me if you can

Endless hopes, well

That's too bad

Smile happy,

Enjoy my pain

Hoping I can find what we never had

Never holding you, it makes me...

100% is where it lies

Behind the tide

Inside the ocean

Inside your ocean

In a dream, it seems

Just to hold my hand

Shaking, no release

Stop me,

Stop me

Stop me

Stop me if you can

 

 

Hole (Wake Me Version)

 

 

I would have sailed away

If I'd known that nothing would change

staring out my window sill

In my wasted prison cell

And I know what you want

And I know what you fear

As I cradle your loving

And watch you disappear

And I feel your heartbeat

Pounding in my head

I like to control you

Cause I can't control myself

Myself

Rain,

Come my way

Mold my head

Like a ball of clay

Softly wither into my grave

Never to see, the sun again

And I feel your heartbeat

Pounding in my head

I like to control you

Cause I can't control myself

Myself

All alone in a crowd by myself

So sorry, wish I could find a way

Back into your hole again

But I've become your enemy

And I feel your heartbeat

Pounding in my head

I like to control you

Cause I can't control myself

Myself

Hole...

Hole...

Hole...

"Difference is good."

 

 

Believe Me

 

 

Sleep,

In the shadows,

Breathe,

In the air

Without dreaming

Without a care, oh

Look,

In the mirror

Cry,

No control

I've got a fever

I've got my hole, oh

I tried to believe it

Tried to receive it

With eyes of power

Will you deceive me, oh

Crawl,

Up to the clouds

Claw,

Your way out

I want to be there

I want to move on, oh

I ran like a coward

Far from this place

Show me desire

Show me disgrace

Believe me

Believe me

Believe me

 

 

Here, Nearby

 

 

Melted candles on the window sill

Perfume in the haze

Ashtrays spread across the floor

On a normal day

We lay out across the bed

Just like we always did

And in this house

The devil laid his hand on our head

and made them spin

I want to be your man

If you think I cared

I want to be your man

Your man, lord

No more defenses

Like no more peace of mind

Keeping in these knives stabbing

Spilling out your blood to me

I want to be your man

If you think I cared

I want to be your man

Your man, lord

Yeah

I want to be your man

If you think I cared

I want to be your man

Your man, lord

 

 

She Shines

 

 

She shines like a flower

In my head

Everybody,

Wants to pick her dead

She said she loved me

And lied to me

She was by the river

And lied to me

She shines like a flower

In my head

Everybody,

Wants her in their bed

She said she loved you

And lied to you

She was by the river

And lied to you

So eager [x3]

She said she loved me

And lied to me

She was by the river

And lied to me

So eager [x9]

She said she loved you

And lied to you

She was by the river

And lied to you

So eager [x3]

She said she loved you

And lied to you

She was by the river

And lied to you

So eager [x8]

 

 

Shouting Out

 

 

Silent criminals analyzed

Through psychic waving tears

Superstitious minds collide

As silence fills the hall

Silence moving proclamations

This silence proving lies, (Oh, woah, oh)

Speechless cries, emotions dull (Oh, woah, oh)

Shouting out across the hall

I didn't mean to let you down

I'm shouting out so ashamed

I didn't mean to run from you

I didn't mean to

Shouting out

(I'm shouting out...)

Shouting weakness in your eyes

You're crawling on your knees

Roaming aimless through skies lost

As silence shakes the halls

Creeping past all illusions

Searching thoughts that hide (Oh, woah, oh)

Silence brakes in weeping hands (Oh, woah, oh)

Shouting out and in again

Didn't mean to run from you

I'm shouting out, so ashamed

I didn't mean to let you down

I didn't mean to

Shouting out

Shouting out

La de da

Shouting out

La de da

La de da da hum [x8]

 

 

B12

 

 

Yeah!

 

Atom bombs, something's wrong

D.E.A sent to Guam

Acid trips, big fat chicks

Purple Flintstone Vitamins

All the needy, rich are greedy

I find out you don't need me

Berlin Wall starts to fall

I trip out to the wall

Hooray / hoorah [x8]

You think I'm stupid?

Stay out of my way

You think I'm stupid?

Ku Klux Klan makes a plan

To destroy the black man

Air pollution, no solution

What is causing this confusion?

Anarchism, satanism,

Anti-christ, socialism

A man's brain is deranged,

So we think he's insane

Hooray / hoorah [x8]

You think I'm stupid?

Stay out of my way

You think I'm stupid?

Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah!

You think I'm stupid?

Stay out of my way

You think I'm stupid?

Hey, yeah

 

 

What's In The Eye

 

 

What's in the eye, can you tell me?

Watching the time pass me by

There's so much locked up inside

Don't go too fast my friend

Or you'll lose control

Don't go too fast my friend

Or you'll lose control

What's in the eye, that I cannot catch?

Is it me, I wan't to know

Why it's so hard to let go

Don't go too fast my friend

Or you'll lose control

Don't go too fast, my friend

Or you'll lose control

Ohh...

Don't go too fast, my friend

Or you'll lose control

Don't go too fast, my friend

Or you'll lose control, oh, woah, oh

Don't go / Don't you go / Don't you go

No, no / Don't go / Don't you go / Don't you go

No, no / No / No, woah, oh

Ohh...

What's in the eye?

What's in the eye?

Yeah, yeah...

Why?

Hey, hey, yeah, hey, yeah

Hey, hey, hey, hey, yeah

Hey, hey, hey, hey, yeah, hey, yeah

Yeah, hey, yeah

Hey, hey, hey, hey

WHY?

 

 

Drag

 

 

Puncture me, make me feel like I am real

Torture me, drag me under you

Tide, lifts me up and down

Tide, makes me shut up

Life, is much too short to be intoxicated

Life, is much too short to be a drag

Please treat me like I am a fallen angel

Suppress me, tell me lies

Life, is much too short to be intoxicated

Life, is much too short to be a drag

You can tell me lies...

Life, is much too short to be intoxicated

Life, is much too short to be a drag

Drag...

Drag...

Drag...

 

 

Sickness

 

 

I'm a whore and I'm feeling sorry for myself

In your arms and I am drowning like the child I was

I need more,can you help me?

Feed my sin, come and kill me

It's calling

Calling

Calling

Calling me

Endless skies falling freely down upon my head

So much for hopeless dreaming, frustration settles in

I need more, can you help me?

Feed my sin, come and kill me

It's calling

Calling

Calling

Calling me

Yeah

 

 

In Time

 

 

Time, why must it fly so slow

Waiting, is something that's easy for you

Pull the plug, send it down the drain

Pain is easy to get used to

What's in me, is in you

What's got me, has got you

And everything told, must come true

Pretending to be real, forgetting who you are

Sin, is always at my door

Slice the vein, blood spilled on the floor

Light shining in my eyes

Death greets me with a smile

Pain

So much pain

Pain

So much pain

Ooh, ooh... [x5]

 

 

Just Like Heroin (A Little Down)

 

 

Just like heroin

 

It can't be me, bring us to our passage

Show me my new skin, so I can see what I've let in

Standing here, my thoughts

Low and sound hard to understand

No one can ever bring everyone to see

It's my time to fade, dying on the floor

See myself as I am, excuses are just excuses

Just like heroin

Just like heroin, yeah

Just like heroin

Just like heroin

It's my time to fade, dying on the floor

See myself as I am, excuses are just excuses

 

 

Sometimes

 

 

Sometimes, things just seem to fall apart

When you least expect them to

Sometimes you want to pack up and leave behind

All of them and their smiles

I don't know, what to think anymore

Maybe things will get better

Maybe things will look brighter

Maybe, maybe...

Sometimes, people surprise you

And people surprise me

Well I guess that's the price we pay

For wanting so badly

I don't know, what to think anymore

Maybe things will get better

Maybe things will look brighter

Maybe, maybe...

I don't know, what to think anymore

Maybe things will get better

Maybe things will look brighter

Maybe, maybe

Maybe, yeah...

Sometimes [x3]

 

 

Hole

 

 

I would have sailed away, if I'd known that nothing would change

Staring out my window sill, in my wasted prison cell

And I know what you want

And I know what you fear

As I cradle your loving

And watch you disappear

And I feel your heartbeat, pounding in my head

I'd like to control you, 'cause I can't control myself (myself)

Rain come my way, mold my head like a ball of clay,

Softly wither into my grave, never to see the sun again

And I feel your heartbeat, pounding in my head

I'd like to control you, 'cause I can't control myself (myself)

All alone in a crowd by myself, so sorry wish I could

Find a way

Back into your hole again but, I've become your enemy

And I feel your heartbeat, pounding in my head

I'd like to control you, 'cause I can't control myself (myself)

Hole...(x3)

Yeah...

 

 

The Down Syndrome

 

 

People come around

People let you down

Anywhere you go

Anywhere you see

It's real

It's up to you to make it happen

It's up to you to make it real

And you know how it feels

To bleed some, to need some

And you know how it feels

To bleed some, to need some

Tell me what you know

Tell me how you feel

It doesn't matter when you're down

And when you look at me with your eyes

That smile on your face seems happy

Are you happy?

And you know how it feels

To bleed some, to need some

And you know how it feels

To bleed some, to need some

Yeah..

And you know how it feels

To bleed some, to need some

And you know how it feels

To bleed some, to need some

 

 

Anything, Anything

 

 

Okay, what is it tonight?

Please just tell me what the hell is wrong

Do you wanna eat, do you wanna sleep, do you wanna shout?

Just settle down, settle down, settle down

Well I'll give you candy, give you diamonds, give you pills

I'll give you anything you want, hundred dollar bills

I'll even let you watch the shows you wanna see

Cause you married me, married me, married me

I'm so sick of you tonight

You never stay awake when I get home

Is something wrong with me? Is something wrong with you?

I really wish I knew, wish I knew, wish I knew

Well I'll give you candy, give you diamonds, give you pills

I'll give you anything you want, hundred dollar bills

And I'll even let you watch the shows you wanna see

Cause you married me, married me, married me

Yeah

When I was young I learned a game,

That love and happiness were the same,

And now I'm older and I don't play,

I found out the hardest way

I got wasted, she got mad, called me names and she called her dad,

He got crazy and I did too, wondered what I did to you.

Well I'll give you candy, give you diamonds, give you pills

I'll give you anything you want, hundred dollar bills

And I'll even let you watch the shows you wanna see

I'll do anything, anything, anything

Anything, anything, anything

Anything

Anything

Anything, hey, yeah

 

 

Soul Song

 

 

I will be waiting

With a song in my soul

A fortunate weakling

Which I have foretold

He raises his arms tied

Above the oppressed

Singing his sweet song

His melody opens up the sun

Freedom rained

God has come

With the rivers of blood

Pushed back in my veins

She sleeps with her eyes closed

To dream of the past

Her mind has gone blind now

While her memory closes up the sun

Freedom rained

God has come

The rivers of blood

Pushed back in my veins

Ooh...

Yeah, I will be waiting

With a song in my soul

A fortunate weakling

Which I have foretold

Ooh...

 

 

Saturation

 

 

Let me tell you about myself

Some say I've got a bad attitude

Some say I've got nothing else

Let me tell you about myself

Some say I have a lot to prove

Let me tell you about myself

I'll do whatever you want

I'll do what you ask me to

But I won't do what you tell me to do

No

Strange

Love

Be Gone

Be Gone

Let me tell you about myself

Some say I got a long way to go

Some say I'm going straight down

Some say there's nowhere to go

And this is what I say

Yeah,

Yeah...

Strange

Love

Be Gone

Be Gone

Strange

Love

Be Gone

Be Gone

 

 

The Down Syndrome (Reprise)

 

 

[Conversation in the studio]

"Maybe we can do..."

"You."

"What happened to 'Let's keep going,'?"

Chester: "I know my part, is that what you said?"

"Well, let's keep going."

"Yeah, that's what you said!"

"I have to memorize it."

"One more time! If we don't get it this time it's scrapped."

"Last time."

Producer: "Rolling, we're still rolling gentlemen."

Chester: "Rolling writah!"

"Ready, here we go."

Chester: "How many rolls does it take to get to the bottom of the track?"

 

People come around

People let you down

Anywhere you go

Anyone you see

It's real

It's up to you to make it happen

It's up to you to make it real

And you know how it feels

To bleed some, to need some

And you know how it feels

To bleed some, to need some

Tell me what you know

Tell me how you feel

It doesn't matter when you're down

And when you look at me with your eyes

That smile on your face seems happy

Are you happy?

And you know how it feels

To bleed some, to need some

And you know how it feels

To bleed some, to need some

 

 

Believe Me (Demo)

 

 

Sleep,

In the shadows,

Breathe,

In the air

Without dreaming

Without a care, oh

Look,

In the mirror

Cry,

No control

I've got a fever

I've got my hole, oh

I tried to believe it

Tried to receive it

With eyes of power

Will you deceive me, oh

Crawl,

Up to the clouds

Claw,

Your way out

I want to be there

I want to move on, oh

I ran like a coward

Far from this place

Show me desire

Show me disgrace

Believe me

Believe me

Believe me

 

 

Come On

 

 

Get up!

Down!

 

Where have I begun?

Who am I?

I chose to wait alone with crazy eyes

Some tears I will not cry 'cause they won't wash away

Wish I could feel alive

Wish I could feel deprived

 

Come on, I've called you

Don't pass me by, I feel too cool

Come on, I've called you

Come here

Yeah!

 

Some tears I will not cry 'cause they won't wash away

Wish I could feel less pain

As the sky, yeah

 

Come on, I've called you

You're too high for me, and it's all true

Come on, I've called you

Come here

 

COME ON

Come on [x16]

Yeah

 

 

Commit

 

 

I'm wasting my time

I'm wasting my breath

I'm wasting my energy

Trying to impress

What's so wrong with all that I do?

What's so wrong with everything that I do?

So no one's home

When I come on the phone you try to avoid me

When I get you alone

What have I done?

What did I do?

All I wanted was anything from you

I won't mistreat you

All my love is around you

For so long it's always been this way

If I let you come in you can follow me

Kill my depression why I don't kill you?

I'm going insane from all the things that you do

Growing illusions crawl in your head

Growing illusions crawl in your head

You can keep on knocking but you can't come in

I'm going crazy from dreaming of you

What have you done?

What did you do?

All I wanted was something from you

I wanna commit! [x4]

COMMIT! [x9]

 

 

Here, Nearby (Demo)

 

 

Melted candles on the window sill

Perfume in the haze

Ashtrays spread across the floor

On a normal day

Hey

No more defenses

Like no more peace of mind

And in this house

The devil laid his hand on our head

and made them spin

I want to be your man

If you think I cared

I want to be your man

Your man, lord

We lay out across the bed

Just like we always did

Keeping in these knives stabbing

Spilling out your blood to me

Yeah

I want to be your man

If you think I cared

I want to be your man

Your man, lord

Ohh, yeah!

I want to be your man

If you think I cared

I want to be your man

Your man, lord

I want to be your man

If you think I cared

I want to be your man

Your man, lord

 

 

Morei Sky (Demo)

 

 

I've lived through things I cannot say

Back then we dreamt of yesterday

It seemed as if the only way

And now we look for hope and pray

If I had a second chance

I'd make amends

Only to find myself

Losing in the end

If I had a second chance

I'd make amends

Only to find myself

Losing, losing...

It came up from the deepest sea

God gave it life and reason to be

His shadow rose above the highest tree

And still his face we could not see

If I had a second chance

I'd make amends

Only to find myself

Losing in the end

If I had a second chance

I'd make amends

Only to find myself

Losing, losing...

 

 

My Bluest Day

 

 

So tired / You've got a dam deep down inside yourself

Stay true, yeah / Somebody's bound to find a fault in you

Grey clouds covered up my sky

Grey clouds suffocate my mind

Keep cool / You've got everything I need, oh

So strong, yeah / Another bust, we have to be so wrong

 

So much kept inside my world

So much kept inside my twisted world / Big world

So much has changed

So much has changed

 

So tired / You've a dam deep down inside yourself

Stay true, yeah / Somebody's bound to find a fault in you

Grey clouds covered up my sky

Grey clouds covered up my sky

Grey clouds suffocate my mind

Grey clouds suffocate my mind / My mind

 

 

Shouting Out (Demo)

 

 

Yeah

Hey, yeah, hey, yeah

Ooh, yeah

 

Silent criminals analyzed

Through psychic waving tears (Ooh, yeah)

Superstitious minds collide

As silence fills the hall

Silence moving proclamations (Ooh, yeah)

This silence proving lies,

Speechless cries, emotions dull

Shouting out across the hall

Didn't mean to run from you (Yeah)

I'm shouting out so ashamed

I didn't mean to let you down

I didn't mean to

Shouting out

(I'm shouting out...)

Shouting weakness in your eyes

You're crawling on your knees

Roaming aimless through skies lost

As silence shakes the halls

Creeping past all illusions (Yeah)

Searching thoughts that hide

Silence brakes in weeping hands

Shouting out and in again

I didn't mean to let you down (Yeah)

I'm shouting out so ashamed

Didn't mean to run from you

I didn't mean to

Shouting out

Shouting out

La de da

Shouting out

La de da

La de da da hum [x8]

 

 

Smoke Mouth

 

 

Found me a sea of grey

Scream until the yesterday

Laugh into some other's face

Mouth sickened / Cold embrace

 

2, 3, 4!

Mamamamama

HEY!

Hey!

 

Endless rain upon my grave

My soul's at rest now / Free of pain

My solitude's are so insane

My bluest skies turn reddish gray

 

HEY!

2, 3, 4!

Mamamamama

Hey!

Yeah!

 

Yeah, hey, hey, hey, ah

Hey, hey, hey, hey, ah

Smoke mouth! [x8]

Smoke!

 

 

Starting To Fly (Demo)

 

 

I know the answers from the words of

The prophet

I've seen the light through the fingers

Made of magic

I've seen an image of the future,

It's a vision and I know who you are, yeah...

Go away, can't you see you're not real?

Open your eye some place far away

I've seen the ocean and I've seen the sky

I've got my wings and I'm starting to fly

I met a poet tonight behind the masses

I sang a song about my many true addictions

I saw myself in a hole, down below

And I know who you are, yeah...

I'm alright, though it's hard to feel

Open your eye some place far away

I've seen the ocean and I've seen the sky

I've got my wings and I'm starting to fly

Yeah!

Ooh, yeah

Ooh, yeah

Open your eyes

Look to the sky

Grab your wings

And start to fly, yeah

Open your eyes

Look to the sky

Grab your wings

And start to fly, yeah

I've seen the ocean and I've seen the sky

I've got my wings and I'm starting to fly

I've seen the ocean and I've seen the sky

I've got my wings and I'm starting to fly

Yeah, I'm starting to fly

Woah, I'm starting to fly

Yeah, I'm starting to fly

No, I'm starting to fly

Yeah, I'm starting to fly

Yeah, hey

Starting to fly

Starting to fly

Starting to fly

 

 

[hahninator]

I'm coming home

From going home

I'm going home

That's really the lines in Primo?

[RogueSoul]

 

I'm coming home

From going home

I'm going home

Listening to it again, I think the first coming home is "From going home" though I'm not certain. The rest is definitely "From" and "I'm"

[lpliveusername]

Welcome

Yeah
Welcome
Yeah it's been a long minute
Let me break it down now if ya'll still with it
First time I did it
Yeah I'll admit it
I kinda hit it and quit it and left ya'll hanging
Sang it, kinda off key with a passion
Asking, can I give you back that action?
Yeah I'm a blast in a hashtag fashion
To spell it out for you like a masked closed caption
Get a closed casket
Fade to black
This is my spot then I'll take it back
Get at me punk I was made for that
Ya'll don't really even know what you aiming at
So far back what you waving at?
Ya'll can't see the stage that I'm playing at
Ya'll hating that
But that's why I do it
So tell me where the motherfucking haters at?
Cause

I don't need their blessing now
I don't need their invitation
Ain't no way to shut me down
Or to take this path I've taken
And maybe I've been left out
Never let this be mistaken
They can keep that bless now
Forget me now
Cause I was never welcome

Yeah it's been a long road
Never really know how it all unfold
I'm just trying hard not to sell my soul
When the rest want guns and a mouth full of gold
I don't hate 'em
I still love 'em
That's not me
I'm not judging
Not belong
Not a bum
But disrespect me?
Well them fuck 'em
This a house I'm living in
Ya'll just pass through visiting
I draw these lines ya'll fill 'em in
I'm a grown ass man
Ya'll children
No competition
I'm killing them
Talking 'bout a hit man
Him and him
Let's take it out for another spin again
I don't give a fuck if I win again
Cause

I don't need their blessing now
I don't need their invitation
Ain't no way to shut me down
Or to take this path I've taken
And maybe I've been left out
Never let this be mistaken
They can keep that bless now
Forget me now
Cause I was never welcome

 

No (I was never welcome)
No
No
No, no, no (I was never welcome)
No
No (I was never welcome)
No, no

I don't need their blessing now
I don't need their invitation
Ain't no way to shut me down
Or to take this path I've taken
And maybe I've been left out
Never let this be mistaken
They can keep that bless now
Forget me now
Cause I was never welcome

 

I was never welcome (No)
I was never welcome (No, no)
I was never welcome (No)
I was never welcome (No)

Edited June 21, 2015 by lpliveusername

[RogueSoul]

After 4 hours, Grey Daze is done. I need another post just for STP (unless someone want to take that for me )

 

Also, can someone check me on the lyrics for Smoke Mouth, My Bluest Day, and Come On?

[Tyleronlplive]

http://lplive.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=11586

 

Plugging this while it's relevant in case anyone notices any recurring lyrics.

[lpliveusername]

I can do STP.

[RogueSoul]

I can do STP.

Thank you.

 

I'll leave it in my post so you can easily copy/paste all the song names

[lpliveusername]

CORE (1992)

01. Dead & Bloated

 

I am smellin' like the rose
That somebody gave me on
My birthday deathbed
I am smellin' like the rose
That somebody gave me
Cause I'm dead and bloated

I am smellin' like the rose
That somebody gave me on
My birthday deathbed
I am smellin' like the rose
That somebody gave me
Cause I'm dead and bloated

Oh oh yeah yeah

And she says it's natural
I feel I've come of age
When she peeks I start to run
Oh oh yeah yeah

And she says it's natural
I feel I've come of age
When she peeks I start to run

You can't swallow what I'm thinkin'
You can't swallow what I'm thinkin'

I am smellin' like the rose
That somebody gave me on
My birthday deathbed
I am trampled under the sole of
Another man's shoes
Guess I walked too softly

Oh oh yeah yeah

And she says it's natural
I feel I've come of age
When she peeks I start to run
Oh oh yeah yeah

And she says it's natural
I feel I've come of age
When she peeks I start to run

You can't swallow what I'm thinkin'
You can't swallow what I'm thinkin'

I run through the world thinkin' 'bout tomorrow, thinkin' 'bout tomorrow
I run through the world thinkin' 'bout tomorrow, thinkin' 'bout tomorrow

I am smellin' like the rose
That somebody gave me on
My birthday deathbed
I am smellin' like the rose
That somebody gave me
Cause I'm dead and bloated

I run through the world thinkin' 'bout tomorrow, thinkin' 'bout tomorrow
I run through the world thinkin' 'bout tomorrow, thinkin' 'bout tomorrow

I run through the world thinkin' 'bout tomorrow, thinkin' 'bout tomorrow
I run through the world thinkin' 'bout tomorrow, thinkin' 'bout tomorrow

I am smellin' like the rose
That somebody gave me on
My birthday deathbed
I am smellin' like the rose
That somebody gave me, somebody gave me
Somebody gave me on
My birthday deathbed

 

 

02. Sex Type Thing

 

I am, I am, I am
I said I wanna get next to you
I said I'm gonna get close to you
You wouldn't want me have to hurt you too, hurt you too

I ain't, I ain't, I ain't
A buying into your apathy
I'm gonna learn you my philosophy
You wanna know about atrocity, atrocity

I know you want what's on my mind
I know you like what's on my mind
I know it eats you up inside
I know, you know, you know, you know

I am a man, a man
I'll give you something that you won't forget
I said you shouldn't have worn that dress
I said you shouldn't have worn that dress, worn that dress

I know you want what's on my mind
I know you like what's on my mind
I know it eats you up inside
I know, you know, you know, you know

Here I come, I come, I come, I come
Here I come, I come, I come

I am, I am, I am
I said I wanna get next to you
I said I'm gonna get close to you
You wouldn't want me have to hurt you too, hurt you too

I know you want what's on my mind
I know you like what's on my mind
I know it eats you up inside
I know, you know, you know, you know

 

I know you want what's on my mind
I know you like what's on my mind
I know it eats you up inside
I know, you know, you know, you know

 

Here I come, I come, I come, I come
Here I come, I come, I come, I come
Here I come, I come, I come, I come
Here I come, I come, I come, I come
Here I come, I come, I come, I come
Here I come, I come, I come, I come
Here I come, I come, I come, I come
Here I come, I come, I come, I come
Here I come, I come, I come, I come

 

 

03. Wicked Garden

 

Can you see like a child
Can you see what I want

I wanna run through your wicked garden
Heard that's the place to find you
Cause I'm alive, so alive now
I know the darkness binds you

Can you see without eyes
Can you speak without lies

I wanna drink from your naked fountain
I can drown your sorrows
I'm gonna burn, burn you to life now
Out of the chains that bind you

Can you see just like a child
Can you see just what I want
Can I bring you back to life
Are you still alive

 

Burn, burn, burn (Burn, burn, burn, burn, burn)
Burn your wicked garden down
Burn, burn, burn (Burn, burn, burn, burn, burn)
Burn your wicked garden to the ground, yeah

Can you feel pain inside
Can you love, can you cry

I wanna run through your wicked garden
Heard that's the place to find you
Cause I'm alive, so alive now
I know the darkness binds you

Can you see just like a child
Can you see just what I want
Can I bring you back to life
Are you still alive

Burn, burn, burn (Burn, burn, burn, burn, burn)
Burn your wicked garden down
Burn, burn, burn (Burn, burn, burn, burn, burn)
Burn your wicked garden to the ground, yeah

 

 

05. Sin

 

Holy water clouds my thinking
Sinking low now
Keep on drinking

Down you go / Suffer long
Down you go / Sin make me strong

Down you go, suffer long
Down you go, sin make me strong

 

You control me / Soul you stole / Mine
Wishful thinking
Six feet under

 

Down you go / Suffer long
Down you go / Sin make me strong

Down you go / Suffer long
Down you go / Sin make me strong

 

Feel what were my eyes
Sink into the holes in my eyes
My sins have made me blind
Sink into the holes in my eyes

 

Dead by dreaming / Sleep you steal / Mine
Pools of cold sweat
Hatred burns me

 

Down you go / Suffer long
Down you go / Sin make me strong

Down you go / Suffer long
Down you go / Sin make me strong

 

Down you go now / Suffer long
Down you go now / Sin make me strong

Dead by dreaming / Sleep you steal / Mine
Pools of cold sweat
Hatred burns me

 

Still shackled to the shadow
Still shackled to the shadow
That followed you

Still shackled to the shadow
Still shackled to the shadow
That followed

Still shackled to the shadow
Still shackled to the shadow
That followed you

Followed you

 

 

07. Creep

 

Forward yesterday
Makes me wanna stay
What they said was real
Makes me wanna steal
Livin' under house
Guess I'm livin', I'm a mouse
All's I got is time
Got no meaning, just a rhyme

Take time with a wounded hand
Cause it likes to heal
Take time with a wounded hand
Cause I like to steal
Take time with a wounded hand
Cause it likes to heal
I like to steal

I'm half the man I used to be
Because I feel as the dawn
It fades to gray
Well I'm half the man I used to be
Because I feel as the dawn
It fades to gray
Well I'm half the man I used to be
Because I feel as the dawn
It fades to gray
Well I'm half the man I used to be
Half the man I used to be

Feelin' uninspired
Think I'll start a fire
Everybody run
Bobby's got a gun
Think you're kinda neat
Then she tells me I'm a creep
Friends don't mean a thing
Guess I'll leave it up to me

Take time with a wounded hand
Cause it likes to heal
Take time with a wounded hand
Guess I like to steal
Take time with a wounded hand
Cause it likes to heal
I like to steal

I'm half the man I used to be
Because I feel as the dawn
It fades to gray
Well I'm half the man I used to be
Because I feel as the dawn
It fades to gray
Well I'm half the man I used to be
Because I feel as the dawn
It fades to gray
Well I'm half the man I used to be
Half the man I used to be

 

(Half the man)

 

Take time with a wounded hand
Cause it likes to heal
Take time with a wounded hand
Guess I like to steal
Take time with a wounded hand
Cause it likes to heal
I like to steal

I'm half the man I used to be
Because I feel as the dawn
It fades to gray
Well I'm half the man I used to be
Because I feel as the dawn
It fades to gray
Well I'm half the man I used to be
Because I feel as the dawn
It fades to gray
Well I'm half the man I used to be
Half the man I used to be
Half the man I used to be

 

 

08. Piece Of Pie

 

Yeah

Yeah

 

I broke the breadline
Nobody knows
I walked the frontline
Still got far to go

I mixed the water
I drank the water

I broke the breadline
Don't wanna know

 

Yeah

Yeah

 

It's staring me down
Wearing a crown of apathy yeah
I'm standing around
Dressed like a clown
You don't know my name
You know where to find me yeah

I killed the manchild
I'll fast alone
I had the midwife
Naked and alone

I mixed the water
I drank the water

I killed the brainchild
I'll fast alone

 

Yeah

Yeah

Yeah

 

It's staring me down
Wearing a crown of apathy yeah
I'm standing around
Dressed like a clown
You don't know my name
You know where to find me yeah

 

Eh eh (eh eh) eh

Don't wanna let me be your man

Eh eh (eh eh) eh

Don't wanna lead me to your home (to your home)

Don't wanna lead me to your

To your home

 

Yeah

Yeah

Yeah

 

It's staring me down
Wearing a crown of apathy
I'm standing around
Dressed like a clown
You don't know my name
You know where to find me

 

I killed the manchild
I had the midwife
I drank the water
I stand alone

 

I broke the breadline
I walked the frontline

Don't know my name
You know where to find me yeah

 

Eh eh (eh eh) eh

Don't wanna let me be your man

Eh eh (eh eh) eh

Don't wanna lead me to your home (to your home)

Eh eh (eh eh) eh

Don't wanna let me be your man

Eh eh (eh eh) eh

Don't wanna lead me to your home (to your home)

 

 

09. Plush

 

And I feel that time's a wasted go
So where are you going to tomorrow
And I see that these are lies to come
Would you even care

And I feel it
And I feel it

Where are you going for tomorrow
Where are you going with that mask I found
And I feel / And I feel
When the dogs begin to smell her
Will she smell alone

And I feel so much depends on the weather
So is it raining in your bedroom
And I see that these are the eyes of disarray
Would you even care

And I feel it
And she feels it

Where are you going for tomorrow
Where are you going with that mask I found
And I feel / And I feel
When the dogs begin to smell her
Will she smell alone

When the dogs do find her
Got time / Time to wait for tomorrow
To find it / To find it / To find it
When the dogs do find her
Got time / Time to wait for tomorrow
To find it / To find it / To find it

Where are you going for tomorrow
Where are you going with that mask I found
And I feel / And I feel
When the dogs begin to smell her
Will she smell alone

When the dogs do find her
Got time / Time to wait for tomorrow
To find it / To find it / To find it
When the dogs do find her
Got time / Time to wait for tomorrow
To find it / To find it / To find it

 

To find it
To find it
To find it

 

 

11. Crackerman

 

Kickin' as I'm tryin' to sleep
Got the mud beneath my shoes
Rubber band, rubber band
Gun in hand, gun in hand
I wanna use

Roamin', roamin', roam
Get away you gotta get away
And I think I think too much
I don't care, yeah but I don't care

 

Roamin', roamin', roam
Get away you gotta get away
And I think I think too much

 

Trippin' as I'm thinkin'
'Bout a boy, his name was
Sue
He's a man, he's a man
Crackerman, crackerman
He's a woman too

 

Roamin', roamin', roam
Get away you gotta get away
And I think I think too much
I don't care, yeah but I don't care

 

Roamin', roamin', roam
Get away you gotta get away
And I think I think too much

 

And I'm thinkin'
While I'm thinkin'
And I'm thinkin'
While I'm thinkin'

 

Roamin', roamin', roam
Get away you gotta get away
And I think I think too much
I don't care, yeah but I don't care

 

Roamin', roamin', roam
Get away you gotta get away
And I think I think too much

 

And I'm thinkin'
While I'm thinkin'
And I'm thinkin'
While I'm thinkin'

 

Smoke stacks
Mud flaps
Dust blowin' in my eyes
I'm roaming
I'm roaming
I'm a roaming

 

 

 

 

PURPLE (1994)

01. Meatplow

 

Fine place for a day full of breakdowns
Takes more than a meltdown to show us how
Throw a tack on the road stop the meatplow
Got a bullet but it aint mine

They got these pictures of everything
To break us down, yeah to break me down
They make us hate and we make it bleed

But I got a lover and yeah
She shows me how
To understand it, yeah to understand
I got a brother and well
He shows me how
To make amends, yeah to make amends
With it

Take a break from the mousetrap we call home
Takes more than a message to make me smile
I can feel when she kisses me sleeping
But not when the news is on

 

They got these pictures of everything
To break us down, yeah to break me down
They make us hate and we make it bleed

But I got a lover and yeah
She shows me how
To understand it, yeah to understand
I got a brother and well
He shows me how
To make amends, yeah to make amends
With it

 

They got these pictures of everything
To break us down, yeah to break me down
They make us hate and we make it bleed

 

But I got a lover and yeah
She shows me how
To understand it, yeah to understand
I got a brother and well
He shows me how
To make amends, yeah to make amends
With it

 

 

02. Vasoline

 

One time a thing occured to me
What's real and what's for sale
Blew a kiss and tried to take it home

Isn't you / Isn't me
Search for things you can't see
Going blind / Out of reach
Somewhere in the vasoline

Two times and it has rendered me
Punch drunk and without bail
Think I'd be safer all alone

Flies in the vasoline we are
Sometimes it blows my mind
Keep getting stuck here all the time

Isn't you / Isn't me
Search for things you can't see
Going blind / Out of reach
Somewhere in the vasoline

You'll see the look
And you'll see the lies
You'll eat the lies and you will

Flies in the vasoline we are
Sometimes it blows my mind
Keep getting stuck here all the time

Isn't you / Isn't me
Search for things you can't see
Going blind / Out of reach
Somewhere in the vasoline

 

 

03. Lounge Fly

 

It's ok, it's ok, ok relieve me
Pins in me, pins in me, in me you kill me
The lounge fly, the lounge fly, the fly you bring me
I think I'm free but the dogs they won't release me
Don't have a nickel or a dollar but you feed me
My bottle's empty but you always refuel me
I feel I'm sinking but you wont let me drown me
I wanna fuck I wanna fuck but do you need me

I can't give what I take away and the other understands
She said she'd be my woman, she said she'd be my man
And I can't live this way, please refill my soul

Its ok, its ok, ok believe me
Pins in me, pins in me, in me you kill me
The lounge fly, the lounge fly, the fly you bring me
I think I'm free but the dogs they won't release me
Don't have a nickel or a dollar but you feed me
My bottle's empty but you always refuel me
I feel I'm sinking but you won't let me drown me
I wanna fuck I wanna fuck but do you need me

I can't give what I take away and the other understands
She said she'd be my woman, she said she'd be my man
And I can't live this way, please refill my soul

 

She said she'd be my woman

(When you grumble, you'll always walk with scum)

She said she'd be my woman

She said she'd be my man

I can't give what I take away and the other understands
She said she'd be my woman, she said she'd be my man
And I can't live this way, please refill my soul

She said she'd be my woman, she said she'd be my man

She said she'd be my woman, she said she'd be my man

She said she'd be my woman, she said she'd be my man

She said she'd be my woman, she said she'd be my man

She said, she said, she said

She said she'd be my woman

She said she'd be my man

She said, she said, she said

She said she'd be my woman

She said she'd be my man

 

 

04. Interstate Love Song

 

Waiting on a Sunday afternoon
For what I've read between the lines / Your lies
Feelin' like a hand in rusted shame
So do you laugh or does it cry / Reply

Leavin' on a southern train
Only yesterday / You lied
Promises of what I seemed to be
Only watched the time / Go by
All of these / Things you said to me

Breathing / Is the hardest thing to do
With all I've said and
All that's dead for you
You lied / Goodbye

Leavin' on a southern train
Only yesterday / You lied
Promises of what I seemed to be
Only watched the time / Go by
All of these / Things I said to you

 

 

06. Pretty Penny

 

Have you seen your mother girl
Has she gone away
Gone away and found the pearl
But the price she paid

Gone / When you wake in the morning
Gone / When you find that there's no one sleeping
Gone / Pretty Penny was her name
She was loved and we all will miss her

How far will you go I say
Just to bait a mouse
Shorter lived and longer gone
Can you figure out

 

Gone / When you wake in the morning
Gone / When you find that there's no one sleeping
Gone / Pretty Penny was her name
She was loved and we all will miss her

 

Have you lost your sister girl
She's all but blown away
Blown away and lost the pearl
And the price she paid

 

Gone / When you wake in the morning
Gone / When you find that there's no one sleeping
Gone / Pretty Penny was her name
She was loved and we all will miss her

 

 

07. Silvergun Superman

 

Find you in the dark
Read you like a cheap suprise
Without shame
Sell me out and frame your name

I can hear when the pig whispers sweetly
Jealousy is the weapon you kill me
Keep a dime for a truth you might tell

You towed the line and I know it was mine
Couldn't hide write a wave ride a lie
Let me know can I friend ask you why

Rolling back the days
With my friend I love to play
The Little One
Superman with Silvergun

 

You towed the line and I know it was mine
Couldn't hide / Write a wave / Ride a lie
Let me know / Can I friend ask you why

 

I can hear when the pig whispers sweetly
Jealous is the weapon you kill me
Keep a dime for a truth you might tell

Wait for me / Take a dime / Take a piece of my life (Leave me numb)
Wait for me / Tell a lie / Try to take my wife (Leave me numb)
Wait for me / Take a dime / Take a piece of my life (Leave me numb)
Close to me and I'll leave you numb

 

You towed the line and I know it was mine
Couldn't hide / Write a wave / Ride a lie
Let me know / Can I friend ask you why

 

You towed the line and I know it was mine
Couldn't hide / Write a wave / Ride a lie
Let me know / Can I friend ask you why

 

You towed the line and I know it was mine
Couldn't hide / Write a wave / Ride a lie
Let me know / Can I friend ask you why

Can I friend ask you why

Can I friend ask you why

 

 

08. Big Empty

 

Drivin' faster in my car
Falling farther from just what we are
Smoke a cigarette and lie some more

These conversations kill / Falling faster in my car

Time to take her home / Her dizzy head is conscience laden
Time to take a ride / It leaves today no conversation
Time to take her home / Her dizzy head is conscience laden
Time to wait to long / To wait to long, to wait to long

Too much walkin' / Shoes worn thin
Too much trippin' and my soul's worn thin
Time to catch a ride / It leaves today / Her name is what it means
Too much walkin' / Shoes worn thin

Time to take her home / Her dizzy head is conscience laden
Time to take a ride / It leaves today no conversation
Time to take her home / Her dizzy head is conscience laden
Time to wait to long / To wait to long / To wait to long

Conversations kill
Conversations kill
Conversations kill

Time to take her home / Her dizzy head is conscience laden
Time to take a ride / It leaves today no conversation
Time to take her home / Her dizzy head is conscience laden
Time to wait to long / To wait to long / To wait to long

Conversations kill
Conversations kill
Conversations kill

 

 

 

 

TINY MUSIC... SONGS FROM THE VATICAN GIFT SHOP (1996)

02. Pop's Love Suicide

 

Can you figure out what I want

Pull the trigger with a pop gun
Mindless fools that aggravate it

Pick at you in desperation

Oh it's a love pop suicide
Oh I'm in love pop suicide
Oh I really don't know

Pop life living it is so real
Midwest farmers' kids are milkfed
Breed and incubate what you see
Ten years later here on T.V.

Oh it's a love pop suicide
Oh I'm in love pop suicide
Oh I really don't know

 

Yeah yeah yeah yeah

Oh I really don't know

Yeah yeah yeah yeah

Oh I really don't know

Yeah yeah yeah yeah

Oh I really don't know

 

Father can't you love your woman
Father can't you teach your children
Long range love implosion short wicked
Short wave mind explosion long mess

Oh I'm in love pop suicide
Oh about a pop star homicide
Oh I really don't know

 

Yeah yeah yeah yeah

Oh I really don't know

Yeah yeah yeah yeah

Tell me somethin' about you

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

Tell me somethin' about you

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

Oh I really don't know (can you feel me my love)

Tell me somethin' about you

Tell me somethin' about you (can you feel me my love)

Tell me somethin' about you

 

 

04. Big Bang Baby

 

I got a picture of a photograph
Of a wedding and a shell
It's just a burning aching memory
I never kiss and tell

So turn it up and burn it
There's a hole in your head
There's a hole in your head
Where the birds can't sing along
Does anybody know how the story really goes

How the story really goes

Or do we all just hum along

 

Sell your soul and sign an autograph
Big bang baby, it's a crash, crash, crash
I wanna cry, but I gotta laugh
Orange crush mama is a laugh, laugh, laugh

Spin me up, spin me, spin me out
Station to station send me up and out
Is that what life and love is all about
I think I think so

We used to see in color
Now it's only black and white
Yeah it's only black and white
Because the world is color blind

Does anybody know how the story really goes

How the story really goes

Or do we all just hum along

 

Sell your soul and sign an autograph
Big bang baby, it's a crash, crash, crash
I wanna cry, but I gotta laugh
Orange crush mama is a laugh, laugh, laugh

 

Nothing's for free, nothing's for free
Take it away boys
Nothing's for free, nothing's for free
Take it away boys

 

So turn it up and burn it
There's a hole in your head
There's a hole in your head
Where the birds can't sing along
Does anybody know how the story really goes

How the story really goes

Or do we all just hum along

 

Sell your soul and sign an autograph
Big bang baby, it's a crash, crash, crash
I wanna cry, but I gotta laugh
Orange crush mama is a laugh, laugh, laugh

 

Nothing's for free, nothing's for free
Take it away boys
Nothing's for free, nothing's for free
Take it away boys

 

So turn it up and burn it
There's a hole in your head
A hole in your head
Where the birds can't sing along
Does anybody know how the story really goes

How the story really goes

Or do we all just hum along

 

 

05. Lady Picture Show

 

Lady picture show
She hides behind the bedroom door
Lady picture show
She hides behind the bedroom wall
She hides because she don't know nothin'
Don't know nothin' anymore
She keeps a funny face
It's locked and bagged
It's just outside the door

She doesn't know her name
She doesn't know her face
She doesn't know her name
She doesn't know her face

Lady picture girl
I think them boys don't like your show
Lady picture show
Them boys are gone should just say no
Your wedding present's not so daisy
Picture perfect anymore
Lady funny face
It's locked and bagged
It's just outside the door

She doesn't know her name
She doesn't know her face
She doesn't know her name
She doesn't know her face

Let them be

Let them be

Let them be

She doesn't know her name
She doesn't know her face

Lady picture show
She hides behind the bedroom door
Lady picture show
She hides behind the bedroom wall
She hides because she don't know nothin'
Don't know nothin' anymore
She keeps a funny face
It's locked and bagged
It's just outside the door

She doesn't know her name
She doesn't know her face
She doesn't know her name
She doesn't know her face

Let them be

Let them be

Let them be

 

 

07. Trippin' On A Hole In A Paper Heart

 

Don't cut out my paper heart
I ain't dying anyway
Take a look at eye full towers
Never trust them dirty liars

Sippin' lemon yellow booze

Ol' Leadbelly sings the blues
All dressed up on wedding day
Keep on trippin' anyway

I am, I am, I said I'm not myself
But I'm not dead and I'm not for sale
So keep your bankroll lottery
Eat your salad day death bed motorcade

Fake the heat and scratch the itch
Skinned up knees and salty lips
I'll breathe your life vicks vapor life
And when you binge I purge alike

Let go it's harder holding on
One more trip and I'll be gone
So keep your head up
Keep it on, just a whisper I'll be gone

Take a breath and make it big
It's the last you'll ever get
Break you neck with diamond noose
It's the last you'll ever choose

 

I am, I am, I said I'm not myself
But I'm not dead and I'm not for sale
Hold me closer, closer let me go
Let me be just let me be

 

I am, I am, I said I'm not myself
But I'm not dead and I'm not for sale
So keep your bankroll lottery
Eat your salad day death bed motorcade

 

I am, I am, I said I'm not myself
But I'm not dead and I'm not for sale
Hold me closer, closer let me go
Let me be just let me be

 

I am, I am, I said I'm not myself
But I'm not dead and I'm not for sale
So keep your bankroll lottery
Eat your salad day death bed motorcade

 

 

09. Adhesive

 

My friend Blue he runs the show
WIth hot pink purple china glow
His family trees are molded
No longer grows in summer
He holds it closer lets it go
Picks a fruit but keeps it whole
Can't keep the submarining
Can't keep the light from fading

Grab the hate and drown it out
Grab the beat and drum it out
It's all so confusing

Ain't the same for you and me
Cartoons like reality dogs and cats and children
The deepest wound is hidden
Ain't the same for you and me
Comatose commodity the superheroes dyin'
All the children cryin'
Sell more records if I'm dead
Purple flowers once again
Hope it's sooner. Hope it's near corporate records' fiscal year
Down the river, down the river

 

Have a listen lend an ear
Here's a song now if you care
We can all just hum along
Word's don't matter anymore

Grab the hate and drown it out
Grab the beat and drum it out
It's all so confusing

 

Adhesive love, adhesive

Adhesive love

Adhesive love, adhesive

Adhesive love

 

Flyin' high across the plain
Purple flowers ease the pain
Here, now have a listen
Ain't the songs you're missin'
Down the river, down the river

Stitch the womb and wet the bed

With a whisper I'll be dead
Don't let the living die yet

Grab the hate and drown it out
Grab the beat and drum it out
It's all so confusing

Adhesive love, adhesive

Adhesive love

Adhesive love, adhesive

Adhesive love

 

Yeaheah

Yeaheah

 

 

 

 

Nº4 (1999)

01. Down

 

Go

 

Pleased to meet you
Nice to know me
What's the message
Will ya show me

I've been waiting
A long time, now
Now here's the answer
You're all mine now
Yeah, I've been waiting for my Sunday girl
Yeah, I've been waiting for my Sunday girl, now

Pleased to meet you
Nice to know me
What's the message
Will ya show me

I've been waiting
A long time, now
Now here's the answer
You're all mine now

Yeah, I've been waiting for my Sunday girl
Yeah, I've been waiting for my Sunday girl, now

Will you follow me down now, down now
Will you follow me down now, down now
Will you follow me down

 

Go

 

Yeah, I've been waiting for my Sunday girl
Yeah, I've been waiting for my Sunday girl, now
Yeah, I've been waiting for my Sunday girl
Yeah, I've been waiting for my Sunday girl, now

Pleased to meet you
Nice to know me
What's the message
Will ya show me

The way down town

 

 

02. Heaven & Hot Rods

 

You can get it if you really want it
But you better off just leave it alone
You won't forget it if you ever had it
So you're better off just stayin' at home

She walked in with her alligator sister
Tryin' to get to Heaven on Sunday
You'll never get it if you never had it
So better off just leave it alone

And the dogs came in
Just to see her smile
And the dogs came in
Just to see her smile
Just to see her smile

You don't get it, no, you won't forget
You're better off just leave it alone
If you don't stop thinkin'
Soon you will be drinkin'
And you're better off just stayin' at home

She walked in with her alligator sister
Tryin' to get to Heaven on Sunday
You'll never get it if you never had it
So better off just leave it alone

And the dogs came in
Just to see her smile
And the dogs came in
Just to see her smile
Just to see her smile

She walked in with her alligator sister
Tryin' to get to Heaven on Sunday
You'll never get it if you never had it
So better off just leave it alone

Coming down
Mom, I'm still healing
Coming down
Oh, and I'm still breathing
Coming down

You can get it if you really want it
But you better off just leave it alone
You won't forget it if you ever had it
So you're better off just stayin' at home

She walked in with her alligator sister
Tryin' to get to Heaven on Sunday
You'll never get it if you never had it
So better off just leave it alone

 

 

03. Pruno

 

Falling downward with a flaming hand
I knew the questions but I lost the answers
I'll hold the words for all
I'll hold it all for all
As long as no one asks no questions

I got the message
And the message stood

One, two, three
I got another, got another
One, two, three
I got another, got another
I got another hit that held me the last time
Don't ya know what I mean boys?
One, two, three
I got another, got another

Falling fast but doing all I can
I know the questions but I lost the answers
I got the message and the message stood

 

One, two, three
I got another, got another
One, two, three
I got another, got another
I got another hit that held me the last time
Don't ya know what I mean boys
One, two, three
I got another, got another

 

Lease the one who makes it
Profit from the riddle
Kill the one that breaks it
Always in the middle
Keep the dream alive
With sleeping pills you shouldn't fiddle
Lease the one that makes it
Profit from the riddle

I got the message but I lost the race
I got the message but I lost the race

 

One, two, three
I got another, got another
One, two, three
I got another, got another
I got another hit that held me the last time
Don't ya know what I mean boys
One, two, three
I got another, got another

 

 

04. Church On Tuesday

 

And I don't believe it
Is she really gone again
And I don't believe it
Is she really gone again

I'll find a way to you someday
I'll find a way to you someday

And I don't believe it
Is she really gone again
And I don't believe it
Is she really gone again

I'll find a way to you someday
I'll find a way to you someday

Father's always smokin'
And your mom's at church on Tuesday
And your brother's always drinking and dyin'

 

Father's always smokin'
And your mom's at church on Tuesday
And your brother's always drinking and dyin'

 

And I don't believe it
Is she really gone again
And I don't believe it
Is she really gone again

I'll find a way to you someday (I'll find a way to you someday)
I'll find a way to you someday (I'll find a way to you)

Father's always smokin'
And your mom's at church on Tuesday
And your brother's always drinking and dyin'

 

Father's always smokin'
And your mom's at church on Tuesday
And your brother's always drinking and dyin'

 

Father's always smokin'
And your mom's at church on Tuesday
And your brother's always drinking and dyin'

 

Father's always smokin'
And your mom's at church on Tuesday
And your brother's always drinking and dyin'

 

Father's always smokin'
And your mom's at church on Tuesday
And your brother's always drinking and dyin'

 

Father's always smokin'
And your mom's at church on Tuesday
And your brother's always drinking and dyin'

 

Father's always smokin'
And your mom's at church on Tuesday
And your brother's always drinking and dyin'

 

Father's always smokin'
And your mom's at church on Tuesday
And your brother's always drinking and dyin'

 

 

05. Sour Girl

 

She turned away, what was she looking at
She was a sour girl the day that she met me
Hey, what are you looking at
She was a happy girl the day that she left me

She turned away, what was she looking at
She was a sour girl the day that she met me
Hey, what are you looking at
She was a happy girl when she left me

What would you do
What would you do if I followed you
What would you do
I follow

Don't turn away, what are you looking at
He was so happy on the day that he met her
Say, what are you looking at
I was a superman, but looks are deceiving

The rollercoaster rides a lonely one
I paid a ransom note to stop it from steaming
Hey, what are you looking at
She was a teenage girl when she met me

What would you do
What would you do if I followed you
What would you do
I follow

 

What would you do (What would you do)
What would you do if I followed you
What would you do
I follow

 

The girl got reasons
They all got reasons

What would you do
What would you do if I followed you
What would you do
I follow

 

What would you do (What would you do)
What would you do if I followed you
What would you do
I follow

 

Hey, what are you looking at
She was a happy girl the day that she left me
The day that she left me
The day that she left me

She was a happy girl the day that she left me
The day that she left me
The day that she left me

She was a sour girl the day that she met me

 

 

07. Sex & Violence

 

I used to love you now I don't care
Now I turn around, you're everywhere
So you can chew me up and spit me out
You're just the little bitch I cared about

 

I used to love you now I don't care
Now I turn around, you're everywhere
So you can chew me up and spit me out
You're just the little bitch I cared about

I know you can see me
But you don't believe me
I know that you're lonely
Time will tell and time is hell

No sex or violence
No morbid silence
Forever sleeping
You won't stop breathing

 

No sex or violence
No morbid silence
Forever sleeping
You won't stop breathing

You hold me captive and it's not fair
Progressed insanity is everywhere
You used to love me but you kicked me out
My head is wandering so knock me out
I keep my head afloat but I'm drownin' in
The muddy water pulls me down again
I used to love me but I hate me now
I'm just a little bit I cared about

I know you can see me
But you don't believe me
I know that you're lonely
Time will tell and time is hell

No sex or violence
No morbid silence
Forever sleeping
You won't stop breathing

 

No sex or violence
No morbid silence
Forever sleeping
You won't stop breathing

 

No sex or violence
No morbid silence
Forever sleeping
You won't stop breathing

 

 

 

 

SHANGRI-LA DEE DA (2001)

02. Days Of The Week

 

Monday, back from the dead
I'm letting it go, back for another one

Tuesday, shoot me in the head
I'm takin' it back, takin' it back
I'll take it back

Wednesday, she's lookin' for a friend
She'll get what she wants
Can't seem to get enough

Thursday, it's more than I can stand
I'm holdin' her down, holdin' her down
She's down again

I gotta find a way to find her
Where could she be
Four days of the week
She thinks I'm the enemy

One day, left me for dead
Woke up on the floor, time for another one

 

Two days, she's leavin' me again
Can't take it no more
Out through the open door

 

Three days, she's found herself a friend
She got what she wants
Still never get enough

Four days she's back with me again
She's pullin' me down, pullin' me down
I'm down again

 

I gotta find a way to find her
Where could she be
Four days of the week
She thinks I'm the enemy

 

Monday's gone
Tuesday's fadin'
Wednesday's gone
Thursday's all but wasted now

 

Monday, back from the dead
I'm letting it go, back for another one

Tuesday, shoot me in the head
I'm takin' it back, takin' it back
I'll take it back

 

I gotta find a way to find her
Where could she be
Four days of the week
She thinks I'm the enemy

Thinks I'm the enemy

 

 

03. Coma

 

Tar and feathers hide your feelings
If you even know the meaning
Your high road is overrated
You left your guru out there hangin'

Don't stay
Don't stay

Your appetite's insatiable
Devouring one thousand souls
It's more or less the same ol' story
The princess and the whore, the lady

 

Don't stay
Don't stay

Nobody sees it (Nobody sees it)
Nobody hears it (Nobody hears it)
Nobody breathin' in a coma
So keep your secret (So keep your secret)
Your perfect secrets (Your perfect secrets)
It's just a game but no one's playin'

In a coma lying, waiting
Desire fills the lonely craving
So many trampled-under footwear
But more to fill the trophy cases

 

Don't stay
Don't stay

 

Nobody sees it (Nobody sees it)
Nobody hears it (Nobody hears it)
Nobody breathin' in a coma
So keep your secret (So keep your secret)
Your perfect secrets (Your perfect secrets)
It's just a game but no one's playin'

 

Nobody sees it (Nobody sees it)
Nobody hears it (Nobody hears it)
Nobody breathin' in a coma
So keep your secret (So keep your secret)
Your perfect secrets (Your perfect secrets)
It's just a game but no one's playin'

 

 

04. Hollywood Bitch

 

You're on the outside
You're lookin' in
You're takin' pictures of what you never been
So kill to kill
So ya wanna die
You're burnin' slowly with seven lives

Blow up the bitch with the firecracker smile
Switchblade in her suitcase
Loves to drive 'em wild
So kill to kill
Yeah ya gonna die
Everybody's searchin' every single night

You'll never keep it 'cause you sold yourself
And by the way
You'll never lose it 'cause you never had it
It's all the same

Rock star life turn on the switch
Hollywood bitch so fake that she seems real
She goes again

 

Rock star life turn on the switch
Hollywood bitch so fake that she seems real
She goes again

She's from the westside, she's lookin' thin
She fills her body with what she'll never be
So kill to kill so you wanna die
Everybody's searchin' every single night

 

You'll never keep it 'cause you sold yourself
And by the way
You'll never lose it 'cause you never had it
It's all the same

Rock star life turn on the switch
Hollywood bitch so fake that she seems real
She goes again

 

Rock star life turn on the switch
Hollywood bitch so fake that she seems real
She goes again

 

Rock star life turn on the switch
Hollywood bitch so fake that she seems real
She goes again

 

 

05. Wonderful

 

If I were to die this mornin'
Would you tell me things that you wouldn't have
Would you be my navigator
Would you take me to a place we could hide

As I'm fallin' out
I wonder what I lost
Must be movin' on
Know I'll be waitin' here alone

I wanna ask you to forgive me
I haven't been the best with all that I had
Wish I'd only laid beside you
I think I spread myself a little too thin

 

As I'm fallin' out
I wonder what I lost
Must be movin' on
Know I'll be waitin' here alone

 

You're the everything
That led me to believe
Hold on, hold on
You're the wonder in everything
That's wonderful

 

And as I'm fadin' out
I don't feel anything at all
Think I'm movin' on
Know you'll be safe but not alone

You're the everything
That led me to believe
Hold on, hold on
You're the wonder in everything
That's wonderful

That's wonderful

 

Know you'll be safe but not alone

 

 

 

 

HIGH RISE (2013)

01. Out Of Time

 

Yeah

Yeah

Yeah

Yeah

 

Longing is the animal inside you when you bleed
Suffering is critical in finding what you need
Deliverance is evidence there's more than what you say
Pain is there the moment that you wake up from your dreams

Oh oh oh, I know you can't tithe
Oh oh oh, when you look inside yourself
You gotta cross that line
Yeah, you're running out of time

Loneliness is beautiful, it leads you home again
Happiness is overrated, joy is infinite
Liberate the hate you feel before it's permanent
Smile when it hurts, it works like mother's medicine

Oh oh oh, I know you can't tithe
Oh oh oh, when you look inside yourself
You gotta to cross that line
Yeah, you're running out of time

You gotta to learn your lesson to see what you've been missing
You gotta to cross that line

Yeah, you gotta look inside
Yeah, it's time that you decide
Yeah, you gotta cross that line
Yeah, you're running out of time

 

 

02. Black Heart

 

Black heart's comin', he's a cold machine
Cuts like a knife, gentle and clean
Face like an angel, mind of a killer
Nobody else gonna love her better

Lay down now, stay down
Took her life with a quick pull trigger

(Yeah, yeah, yeah)
Well I don't mind, I don't mind
(Yeah, yeah, yeah)
Said I don't mind if you don't mind

The color is all but faded
Out of a dead man's eyes
Down to his blackened heart

Black heart's kickin' like a beating drum
Shooting her down, the sound of his gun
No compassion, hard as an assassin
Falling deeper still in that reckless fashion

Lay down now, stay down
Deeper and deeper
With a blind man's passion

(Yeah, yeah, yeah)
Well I don't mind, I don't mind
(Yeah, yeah, yeah)
Said I don't mind if you don't mind

The color is all but faded
Out of a dead mans eyes
Down to his blackened heart

Rescue me
(If you don't mind)
Rescue me
(If you don't mind)
Rescue me
(If you don't mind)

If you don't mind
The color is all but faded
Out of a dead man's eyes
Down to his blackened heart

(Yeah, yeah, yeah)

(Yeah, yeah, yeah)

 

 

03. Same On The Inside

 

Sending out a message to the world
But I just can't seem to find the words
No one wants to die alone
Broken and insane
Question every last decision
Another empty page

Do you know the answers
Tell me, I'll find my happy ending
When do we start pretending that
We're all the same on the inside

Wanting what I know won't satisfy
Just to live this, need to live a lie
Never meant to run away (Never meant to run away)
Jumping out the train (Jumping out the train)
My cage was built on good intentions
Running every page

Do you know the answers
Tell me, I'll find my happy ending
When do we start pretending that
We're all the same on the inside

All the same on the inside
All the same on the inside

Do you know the answers
Tell me, I'll find my happy ending
When do we start pretending that
We're all the same on the inside

All the same on the inside
We're all the same on the inside
We're all the same on the inside

Yeah, we're all the same on the inside

 

 

04. Cry Cry

 

Forgive the promise that is never kept
The wasted life that you have left
So sell your soul and put it on display
Echoing the debts that can’t be paid

Breathe in let go
The undertow

Will pull you in and throw you out of time
the shadow’s playing tricks on your broken mind

Tears will not cure the pain

Cry cry, can’t say no
Nothing cures a craving
Yeah yeah
Cry cry it’s all a show
Just a game you’re playing
Yeah yeah yeah

Yesterday is lost again
Collect the hours suffering in vain
So hold on tight watch the embers glow
The ashes fly away out of your control

Breath in let go
The undertow

Will pull you in and throw you out of time
The shadow’s playing tricks on your broken mind

Tears will not cure the pain

Cry cry, can’t say no

Nothing cures a craving

Yeah yeah
Cry cry it’s all a show
Just a game you’re playing
Yeah yeah yeah

Cry cry, can’t say no
Nothing cures a craving
Yeah yeah
Cry cry it’s all a show
Just a game you’re playing
Yeah yeah

Cry cry, can’t say no
Nothing cures a craving
Yeah yeah
Cry cry it’s all a show
Just a game you’re playing
Yeah yeah

 

 

05. Tomorrow

 

These endless days await for me
Tearing my heart that breaks for you
I'm coming home tomorrow

Though you're not lying next to me
I hear your song that calls to me
I'm coming home tomorrow
Back in your arms

Tomorrow's just a dream I can't detain
It's like a fall I can't contain
And though it seems so far away
It's just a day, a lonely day away

The summer's gone and I can see
The season's end as set me free
I'm coming home tomorrow
Back in your arms

Tomorrow's just a dream I can't detain
It's like a fall I can't contain
And though it seems so far away
It's just a day,
A lonely day away

Tomorrow I'm coming home
Tomorrow I'm coming home
I'm so tired and so alone

It's like a dream I can't detain
It's like a fall I can't contain
And though it seems so far away
It's just a day,
A lonely day away

 

 

 

 

OTHER

Wonderful (Family Values Version)

 

If I were to die this mornin'
Would you tell me things that you wouldn't have
Would you be my navigator
Would you take me to a place we could hide

As I'm fallin' out
I wonder what I lost
Must be movin' on
Know you'll be safe but not alone

I wanna ask you to forgive me
I haven't been the best with all that I had
Wish I'd only laid beside you
I think I've spread myself a little too thin

As I'm fallin' out

I wonder what I lost

Must be movin' on

Know you'll be safe but not alone

You're the everything

That led me to believe

Hold on, hold on

You're the wonder in everything

That's wonderful

And as I'm fadin' out
I don't feel anything at all
Must be movin' on
Know you'll be safe but not alone

You're the everything
That led me to believe
Hold on, hold on
You're the wonder in everything
That's wonderful
That's wonderful

Know you'll be safe but not alone

 

 

All The Young Dudes (Mott The Hopple cover)

 

Billy rapped all night about his suicide
How he'd kick it in the head when he was twenty-five
Speed ya

Don't wanna stay alive when you're twenty-five

Wendy's stealing clothes from Mark's and Scott's
And Freddy's got spots from ripping off the stars from his face
A funky little boat race

The television man is crazy
Saying we're juvenile delinquent wrecks
Oh, I need a T.V. when I've got T-Rex
Oh yeah, you guessed

Even though he's got

All the young dudes
Carry the news
Booga-loo, dudes
Carry the news

All the young dudes
Carry the news
Booga-loo, dudes
Carry the news

Lucy looking sweet, but he dresses like a queen
Kicks like a mule, it's a real mean team
But we can love, oh yes, we can love

And my brother's back at home with his Beatles and his Stones
We never got it off on that revolution stuff
It's such a drag, too many snags

Well, I drunk a lot of wine and I'm feeling fine
Gonna chase some cat to bed
Is this concrete all around me, or is it in my head?
Oh yeah, oh yeah

Do you even care

All the young dudes
Carry the news
Booga-loo, dudes
Carry the news

All the young dudes
Carry the news
Booga-loo, dudes
Carry the news

 

Oh yeah

 

The television man is crazy
Saying we're juvenile delinquent wrecks
Oh, I need a T.V. when I've got T-Rex

I'm a music man

 

All the young dudes
Carry the news
Booga-loo, dudes
Carry the news

All the young dudes
Carry the news
Booga-loo, dudes
Carry the news

All the young dudes
Carry the news
Booga-loo, dudes
Carry the news

All the young dudes
Carry the news
Booga-loo, dudes
Carry the news

Yeah

Young dudes

Where are you

Stand up

I wanna see you

I wanna talk to you

I wanna play to you

Young dudes

All of you

 

Edited July 5, 2015 by lpliveusername

[GlassCastles]

I needed a new post for Fort Minor

 

Fort Minor

 

Sampler Mixtape

Intro

Fort Minor
The Rising Tied
Album sampler (Yeah)
For promotional use only (Cheapshot, go and get 'em)

 

Remember The Name

Yeah.
"Ladies and gentle, my name is Mike Shinoda. The group is called Fort Minor. The album is called The Rising Tied. In stores November 22, 2005."

You ready?! Let's go!
Yeah!
For those of you that wanna know what we're all about...
...it's like this, y'all, come on!

This is 10% luck, 20% skill
15% concentrated power of will
5% pleasure, 50% pain
And a 100% reason to remember the name!

Mike!

He doesn't need his name up in lights
He just wants to be heard whether it's the beat or the mic
He feels so unlike everybody else, alone
In spite of the fact that some people still think that they know him
But fuck em, he knows the code
It's not about the salary
It's all about reality and making some noise
Makin the story - makin sure his clique stays up
That means when he puts it down Tak's pickin it up! let's go!

Who the hell is he anyway?
He never really talks much
Never concerned with status but still leavin' them star struck
Humbled through opportunities given to him despite the fact
That many misjudge him because he makes a livin from writin raps
Put it together himself, now the picture connects
Never askin for someone's help, to get some respect
He's only focused on what he wrote, his will is beyond reach
And now when it all unfolds, the skill of an artist

This is 20% skill
80% beer
Be one 100% clear cause Ryu is ill
Who would've thought that he'd be the one to set The West in flames
And I heard him wreck it with The Crystal Method, "Name Of The Game"
Came back dropped Megadef, took 'em to church
I like "Bleach" man, Ryu had the stupidest verse
This dude is the truth, now everybody be givin' him guest spots
His stock's through the roof I heard he fuckin' with S-Dot!

 

This is 10% luck, 20% skill
15% concentrated power of will
5% pleasure, 50% pain
And a 100% reason to remember the name!

They call him Ryu he's sick
And he's spittin' fire with Mike
Got him out the dryer he's hot
Found him in Fort Minor with Tak
What a fuckin' annihilist porcupine
He's a prick, he's a cock
The type woman want to be with, and rappers hope he get shot
Eight years in the makin, patiently waitin to blow
Now the record with Shinoda's takin' over the globe
He's got a partner in crime, his shit is equally dope
You wont believe the kind of shit that comes out of this kid's throat

Tak! - He's not your everyday on the block
He knows how to work with what he's got
Makin his way to the top
People think its a common owners name
People keep askin' him was it given at birth
Or does it stand for an acronym?
No he's livin proof, Got him rockin the booth
He'll get you buzzin' quicker than a shot of vodka with juice
Him and his crew are known around as one of the best
Dedicated to what they doin' give a hundred percent

Forget Mike - Nobody really knows how or why he works so hard
It seems like he's never got time
Because he writes every note and he writes every line
And I've seen him at work when that light goes on in his mind
It's like a design is written in his head every time
Before he even touches a key or speaks in a rhyme
And those motherfuckers he runs with, the kids that he signed?
Ridiculous, without even trying, how do they do it?!

This is 10% luck, 20% skill
15% concentrated power of will
5% pleasure, 50% pain
And a 100% reason to remember the name!

This is 10% luck, 20% skill

15% concentrated power of will
5% pleasure, 50% pain
And a 100% reason to remember the name!

 

Yeah! Fort Minor!
M. Shinoda! Styles of Beyond!
Ryu! Takbir! Machine Shop!

 

Dolla

Come on!

 

Yeah! Like that y'all...

Uh huh.

Woo!
Like that!

Aw, yeah!
Fort Minor, S.O.B.

It sure is fine

Yeah
Like this, listen...

Attention please, I only need a second,
To make a mental impression directly on any record (so),
Gimme space to move, room to prove I'm stupid with with the B's and Q's,
Ladies and gentleman I'm sending you better,
Pretending the pen is a needle I'm injectin' the venom,
And I'll be damned if I let another man get to me,
I'll bruise you with a shoe to the family jewelry!
I'm back with fury attack quickly,
Sick with a BIC pen all up in your shit man!
You never knew a flow as sick as this,
Bitch listen when I'm letting you know,
Got a grip on these tracks that you wish you got,
Got a clique full of assholes I kid you not,
So when that mixtape's done and that album drops,
Ryu, and Tak and Me, got it loaded and locked,
Believe it!

You still breathin'?
I'm cockin and squeezin',
Tucked still? Nope I dont give a fuck who sees it,
Broad days, sittin sideways, stuffed in a small cave,
For three fucking weeks till you reek like dog waste, (Uh)
Really, I put a punk in his place,
Let's see if he freestyles with a pump in his face,
Got something to say? Please, better keep it a secret,
The street's got hideous ways of handling beef bitch,
So eat shit, hate it or love it the underdogs on top,
Gettin faded, tellin' people to suck it,
Buckin' em down for real, while you fuckin' around,
I'm stuck in a house for months tryin' to sharpen my skill,
So how does it feel?
You lames wanna claim my throne?
You got a better chance getting Danny Hayes on the phone,
Good luck, I flame suckas till they're black and crispy,
Sneaking heat up in the club like a flask of Whiskey (Uh!)

Yeah, I'm here to crack the roof in,
You got a nice watch but your raps are useless,
You better cut the crap before I snap some nooses,
And leave you all snoozin on some afternoon shit,
Yeah, I hit the streets with a cake and batter for fun,
Just to spit bleach in his face,
It's lunchtime punk open the face,
Hit you with a punchline till you choke on your teeth,
Catch me at a show rockin' in that tipsy mode,
Like angels and demons unlockin Da Vinci's code,
One drop in the canister, people split the globe,
Blowin' every planet to shit once I hit the road,
Uh! You in a tight nitch, cut you with Apathy,
I'm on the night shift, see I hustle like Cassidy,
So kill that chit chat and let the west coast see,
One of the illest names Ribkat from S.O.B.
C'mon.

 

Aw, yeah!

It sure is fine

Aw, yeah!

It sure is fine

 

Get It

Yo, yo. yo Ryu and Tak.
Demigodz, Scoop Deville
This kid is only seventeen, man.
He's about to be a problem!

So let's get right to it and groove,
It ain't nothing but a thing to get you people to move,
Got em' lovin' the way we swing, when we step on the scene,
You know we kill it, goin' all out,
We about to g-g-g-g-g-get it,

It's in my blood, I was born to spit it.
The cord has kept me warm through the storms of winter.
Ignore the pain, the struggle, when it's time for dinner,
We huddle together and grind, rain or shine,
Survive the weather, forget about changin spinners,
Throw me a bone, I'm just trying to raise my litter.
It made me bitter, eventually made me sicker,
So when the heat's on, we don't get pre-game jitters, (uh-huh)
We go to work man, diggin' the dirt,
We took 'em to church with chicken and some teenage strippers,
Livin' life by the seat of my pants, and three-peated we champs,
Undefeated, we can't lose ever.
Whoever wanted with us better roll with a camp,
Be trust to cover your ass when your asses can't. (huh)
So bottom's up, here's one for the crew,
Put some liquor in your gut and tell me what you wanna do, singin'

S, for every sucker left behind,
O, what they were yellin' when I bust a rhyme
B, best believe when it's time to get it,
We grind and check 'cause we ain't got time to kick it.
S, for the drunk sexy women,
O, sippin' Jack with some Pepsi in it,
B, best believe when it's time to get it,
We grind and check 'cause we ain't got time to kick it.

So let's get right to it and groove,
It ain't nothing but a thing to get you people to move,
Got em' lovin' the way we swing, when we step on the scene,
You know we kill it, goin' all out,
We about to g-g-g-g-g-get it,

Wow look at 'em now, their mouths are closed,
We done came a long way since 2004,
Spilled bleach, got the whole entire crowd exposed,
The fume's leaking in the street, throwin' down them bowls, (whoa)
We on the job, don't roll with the mob,
With fake facades, to get it, just to make me large,
I roll a 7 and 9, just to break the yards,
And step in your mind and unfold the great bazaar,
Hit the killswitch...yeah I found my hitch,
I'm on the pitchers mound, for now it's me and Will Smith,
Finally overseas, I sneak in your mattress,
Ain't nothin' like a sweet club freak with a accent,
We out gettin' bent, million dollar amounts,
So if you with me, lemme see you raise your bottle and shout,
Singin'...

S, for every sucker left behind,
O, what they were yellin' when I bust a rhyme
B, best believe when it's time to get it,
We grind and check 'cause we ain't got time to kick it.
S, for the drunk sexy women,
O, sippin' Jack with some Pepsi in it,
B, best believe when it's time to get it,
We grind and check 'cause we ain't got time to kick it.

So let's get right to it and groove,
It ain't nothing but a thing to get you people to move,
Got em' lovin' the way we swing, when we step on the scene,
You know we kill it, goin' all out,
We about to g-g-g-g-g-get it...

 

Petrified

Ya'll are not not re-ready (no!),
Not re-ready (no!),
We about to drop it steady (so!),
Do it like that, like that, like that,
Like that, like that, like that

Now why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

Now why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

How you doin ya'll, my name's Mike,
I'm fluent with the new shit I'm doin it all night,
I like what I do, I do what I like,
I can quit and get it back like I'm riding a bike.
Like STOP...

Bring it back, bring it back,
We got that balance keepin us on track,
That you get when you're movin quick with no slow,
You stare like you don't care, but you do though.
I know, you really must be so lonely,
Puffed up like you're tough but so phony.
You and your boys you don't know me,
You really wanna hold me? Show me homie.
Let's get it over with for good,
I got a friction addiction I wish you would,
Machine Shop rockin' when we step inside,
And we got everybody so petrified!

Now why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

Listen you are not ready,
Like children and a building you cant stand steady.
It must be the beat so heavy,
Causin' panic attacks like a crack in the levy.
Give you that Robert Plant,
Dancin' days are back, feelin all in the track,
And infact? For those knowin' the name I'm back,
With some brand new crack we can do it like that,
You really must be so lonely,
Puffed up like you're tough but so phony.
You and your boys you don't know me,
You really wanna hold me? Show me homie.
Tough talk doesn't mean a thing,
Get over yourself, you know when we're up in the scene,
It's Machine Shop rockin' when we step inside,
And we got everybody so petrified!

Now why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

Now why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

Ya'll are not not re-ready (no!),
Not re-ready (no!),
We about to drop it steady (so!),
Do it like that, like that, like that,
Like that, like that, like that...

Ya'll are not not re-ready (no!),
Not re-ready (no!),
We about to drop it steady (so!),
Do it like that, like that, like that,
Like that, like that, like get up

Now why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

Now why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

Like stop (stop), bring it back (bring it back),
We got that balance keepin us on track...

Like stop (stop), bring it back (bring it back),
We got that balance keepin us on track...

Like stop (stop), bring it back (bring it back),
We got that balance keepin us on track...

Like stop (stop), bring it back (bring it back),
We got that balance keepin us on track...

Like stop! (stop x10)
Machine shop! (shop x10)

 

Fort Minor

The Rising Tied

In stores

November 22

 

 

We Major Mixtape

Green Lantern Intro

"What up, Mike?
Um, we almost ready now my nigga
It's El Presidente, young hov, Jay Z
You know how the fuck we do it
Fort Minor, We Major
Man, what else can I tell you people?
Let's do this!"

And now for our feature presentation,
Ladies and gentlemen let's get ready to rumble!
History in the making! Most incredibly!
Fort Minor: We Major,
Ladies, gentlemen remember the name
Let me say it again,
Fort Minor: We Major ,
You are not ready (yeah),
Cause this ride is about to begin,
Sit down and buckle it in,
For those of you that want to know what we're all about,
The real hip hop (yeah)
How you doin' y'all?
My name's Mike Shinoda,
Fort Minor, Green Lantern,
Internationally known and respected,
Machine Shop rockin' when we step inside,
How you doin' y'all?
My name's Mike,
Sick with a BIC pen all up in your shit man,
Yeah you can either comprehend it, or compliment it it's all authentic (yup!),
Raw nights I perform like Mike,
I'm fooling with the new shit, I'm doing it all night,
Raw nights I perform like Mike,
I can quit and get it back like I'm riding a bike,
Wait up a sec give me space to move,
Room to prove I'm stupid with the P's and Q's,
See..M. Shinoda,
I done paid my dues, Machine Shop,
Is back, this is front page news,
Fort Minor: We Major!

 

100 Degrees

Yo!
We ready to do this? (Get up, get up, get up, get up)
C'mon, lets go!

This is an invasion, the evil genius Green Lantern,

(Ok)
Mike Shinoda!

Okay! Ladies and gentleman I would like to welcome you to a Fort Minor Event,

(Uh huh, uh huh)
The countdown has begun,

(That's right)

The Rising Tied is almost here, but for now? (C'mon Mike!)
Come on ya'll...

Yo.
Let's get it goin' for the every man, anybody,
You gotta be ready its heavy when we get it rowdy,
We wont apologize, or even think of sayin' sorry,
This is the way we rock steady

Yo.
Let's get it goin' for the every man, anybody,
You gotta be ready its heavy when we get it rowdy,
We wont apologize, or even think of sayin' sorry,
This is the way we rock steady over everybody
You're probably shocked, probably ready to stop this already,
You probably can't hang with the way we attackin so steady,
We let it rock the rover, bang the benz, shake the chevy,
Till everybody feels it in their chest, say it with me!

This is the time so just follow me,
It's already heated to a 100 degrees,
So get up! (Get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up)

Wait a second!
You know the program, this is not a slow jam,
This is not a love song, unless you love tearin shit down!
Take a look around you're not runnin' this,
You're bluffin', you're nothin', we'll hit you like a ton of bricks,
Hit you together with pressure you could never stand,
The softest leather, just a featherweight, whatever man,
We're not your competitor, setting you straight,
You'll never compete, forget it, it's already too late...
Go!

This is the time so just follow me,
It's already heated to a 100 degrees,
So get up! (Get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up)

Yo,
If you don't see,
I'ma make you see this,
If you dont know,
I'ma make you believe it,
(Get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up)


Shhh...
Give me a second I'm collectin' my thoughts and setting plots...
Alright ya'll ready or not!
I've listened and watched, and waited for an opening spot,
And now that I've got it, nobody can pay me to stop,
I'm sick of that!
Same thing I've been forced to hear,
Over and over again let me make this clear,
If anybody pretends that we're nothing to fear,
I solemnly swear its over you can tell em' we're here!

This is the time so just follow me,
It's already heated to a 100 degrees,
So get up! (Get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up)

Yo,
If you don't see,
I'ma make you see this,
If you don't know,
I'ma make you believe it,
(Get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up)

 

Everybody owes, everybody pays

Because...

 

Dolla

That's how you stand up against the rising of the tide.

Come on!

 

Yeah! Like that y'all...

(That's how it's goin' down, Mike?)

Uh huh.

(Let's give 'em hell!)
Like that!

Aw, yeah!
Fort Minor, S.O.B.

It sure is fine

Yeah
Like this, listen...

Attention please, I only need a second,
To make a mental impression directly on any record (so),
Gimme space to move, room to prove I'm stupid with with the B's and Q's,
Ladies and gentleman I'm sending you better,
Pretending the pen is a needle I'm injectin' the venom,
And I'll be damned if I let another man get to me,
I'll bruise you with a shoe to the family jewelry!
I'm back with fury attack quickly,
Sick with a BIC pen all up in your shit man!
You never knew a flow as sick as this,
Bitch listen when I'm letting you know,
Got a grip on these tracks that you wish you got,
Got a clique full of assholes I kid you not,
So when that mixtape's done and that album drops,
Ryu, and Tak and Me, got it loaded and locked,
Believe it!

You still breathin'?
I'm cockin and squeezin',
Tucked still? Nope I dont give a fuck who sees it,
Broad days, sittin sideways, stuffed in a small cave,
For three fucking weeks till you reek like dog waste, (Uh)
Really, I put a punk in his place,
Let's see if he freestyles with a pump in his face,
Got something to say? Please, better keep it a secret,
The street's got hideous ways of handling beef bitch,
So eat shit, hate it or love it the underdogs on top,
Gettin faded, tellin' people to suck it,
Buckin' em down for real, while you fuckin' around,
I'm stuck in a house for months tryin' to sharpen my skill,
So how does it feel?
You lames wanna claim my throne?
You got a better chance getting Danny Hayes on the phone,
Good luck, I flame suckas till they're black and crispy,
Sneaking heat up in the club like a flask of Whiskey (Uh!)

Yeah, I'm here to crack the roof in,
You got a nice watch but your raps are useless,
You better cut the crap before I snap some nooses,
And leave you all snoozin on some afternoon shit,
Yeah, I hit the streets with a cake and batter for fun,
Just to spit bleach in his face,
It's lunchtime punk open the face,
Hit you with a punchline till you choke on your teeth,
Catch me at a show rockin' in that tipsy mode,
Like angels and demons unlockin Da Vinci's code,
One drop in the canister, people split the globe,
Blowin' every planet to shit once I hit the road,
Uh! You in a tight nitch, cut you with Apathy,
I'm on the night shift, see I hustle like Cassidy,
So kill that chit chat and let the west coast see,
One of the illest names Ribkat from S.O.B.
C'mon.

 

That's right, Fort Minor: We Major! Green Lantern!

Mike Shinoda (Shinoda), S.O.B. (S.O., Demigodz (Demigodz), Machine Shop (Machine Shop), Linkin Park! (Linkin Park)

You already know man, this is an...

(Aw, yeah!

It sure is fine

Aw, yeah!

It sure is fine)

 

Bloc Party

Invasion!

Yo Ap why don't you do the intro on this shit?

Yo, Apathy (Yeah), Fort Minor (uh-huh), Styles of Beyond, Demigodz..

Here we go...

Ap is like Heavy Metal in ghettos,
Guns, metal and ammo,
I'll pistol whip Tony, and fuck Meadow Soprano,
A cat who seldom bugs, but tell them thugs,
That I'm known to carry more heat, than welding gloves,
I walk amongst the Gods, keep my head in the clouds,
Always show groupies love, gettin head in the crowd,
Put it in ya girls mouth, blast off like NASA,
The master of nastiness,
Transform a classy bitch...
Into a little cheap, freak, sadomasochist
Dastardly bastard, the rap's so disasterous,
Spit and heal the crippled like Christ, I'm miraculous,
In fights, my savageness,
Turns punks pacifist...
The police clock Ap, like "There he go",
Always on the watch, cuz I used to carry blow,
Always lock em down, but I never marry hoes,
Bury foes, when them flows, come through your stereos...

There we go, flippin' unpredictable verses,
A curse to burst words like tourettes on purpose,
Flip the bird like a back heavy jet perverse,
As it is, I cant stop and it's making me nervous, okay?
Get me on a track and I'm cracked,
I'm packin a backpack full of tracks on some CD's,
Be me? Fuck that, not like me,
To bite me you need to be you times ninety,
I got schemes and a team so hype we,
Get on the scene, make a scene on the nightly,
Say what I mean, whether mean or politely,
Living the dream in some clean white Nike's,
Or DC's I'm not givin a shit,
Fuck the words that you heard, and the lips that they hang from,
I stay bangin the bang bang drums,
And hanging you lames in the same no-name games you came from,
I don't got an excuse (nope), I'm just talkin' the truth,
I'm fucking awesome when I'm rockin the booth,
And I stay ready with hot bloc, rockin' the views,
Ya'll are really not stoppin this dude (yeah Tak get 'em!)

Let's start it off, and then come over and hit the galaxy,
Now we movin' them over, they're crownin me as the Cali king,
Anything tossed on my views, gettin shooed up,
With a crew that sips a little brew way too much,
Hooligans smacked in the face with aluminum bats,
Your fuckin raps are as good as me boo-booin',
I said I was rude, stepped on your shoes,
You dont believe me? You can ask devin the dude,
How I strip down you bitch clowns stand on my socks,
I whip a motherfucker's ass like I'm cannibal watch,
You wanna be stoned? Even with a basket of ice,
And get your shit flown, fiendin' for a casket to drop,
You know them S.O.B.'s never get the record to stop,
Breaking the habit is impossible what happened to Tak,
He's unleashed, he's a beast so Sledge hand me a Bloc Party,
Now what you corpses posin for, the camera was shot,
Ha, Styles and Machine Shop, necklace fly
No wonder everyone is so petrified
I said, Styles and Machine Shop, necklace fly
No wonder everyone is so petrified..

Let me hear that!

 

S.C.O.M

Ugh, Shinoda! That's right,
Ryu, Celph Titled (yeah), Demigodz,
Dipset, Juelz Santana,
And of course, Fort Minor,
Let's go!

It's like oh, ohh, ohhh, ohhhh...
F.M. D.E.M.I.G.O.D.Z.
It's like oh, ohh, ohhh, ohhhh...
D.I.P.S.E.T. S.O.B. G's

I came from pumping 60K,
Out the trunk, switchblades,
Ziggy stuff nicknames, itchy braids, bitchmade,
Faggots, my shit's changed, my cabbage is picked man,
Rollin' twenties up like Snoop Doggy Dog's crip game,
But I'm out for the crown, housin, I'm buckin' 'em down,
Dousin' and dunkin' these fuckin punks in a bucket and bounce,
When I get up in the game beware,
Put a pimp on a hope and then say your prayers,
Got a potion so damn potent playa,
Put you on a float like a broken chair,
Yeah, you know it's a movement,
(Cracked) For the gods and goons,
(We back) You talk about gats but dont actually use 'em,
But I'm happy to do it, 'cause this is Demigodz,
Celph Titled, Ryu with Tak, Apathy stupid!

From bottom to top (I rose),
Choppin them rocks (and those),
Cockin the glock (and blow),
No more of that,
Now I just hop in the drop (and go),
To the most popular spots,
With hoes and they know (they go),
I went from pumpin' that white stuff,
To bein' up in them white clubs,
Like hey, I got dubs still pumpin that white stuff,
Plus I fuck with the white boys, skaters and bike boys,
Who may act different but the struggles alike, boy,
Shinoda know that if there's a problem I'm coming over, yo,
Quick fast in a hurry, and not be there to overdose,
And I mean that, just call if you need that,
The best of both different worlds, not often they see that...

It's like oh, ohh, ohhh, ohhhh...
F.M. D.E.M.I.G.O.D.Z.
It's like oh, ohh, ohhh, ohhhh...
D.I.P.S.E.T. S.O.B. G's

We not just rappers here, that you have to fear,
We smacking queers, murder, extortion,
Hustlin', nothin' stopin' this movement,
I swear we gettin' to the top this year,
Got your ears, all eyes on me, old school 80's guy, that's me,
Hip hop head female rappers give me dome,
That's just that hip hop head,
Flip off the feds, it's been said,
I'm out my mind to the fullest, alone in the crib buggin,
Fuckin with russian roulette with six bullets,
Won't never free my guns but fo' sho' we lettin them triggers go,
Sparkin that weapon, you's a thousand miles from me,
You far from perfection!
And that's just food for thought
I'm movin the bar, rap entrepreneur, and rap lord,
Come to the hood, I'll bring you in through that trap door,
It's Demigodz and it's Dipset, it's Doe Rakers and it's Byrd Gang
That's Ryu, Celph and Santana, the best rap singers you ever heard,
Say...

It's like oh, ohh,ohhh, ohhhh...
F.M. D.E.M.I.G.O.D.Z.
It's like oh, ohh, ohhh, ohhhh...
D.I.P.S.E.T. S.O.B. G's

(And when my situation ain't improvin',
I'm trying to murder everything movin')
Uh yeah! Demigodz, Celph Titled the Rubik's Cuban,

(And when my situation ain't improvin',
I'm trying to murder everything movin')
Ryu the Beast, Shinoda the Cobra Holder,
You a fool for this beat, Santana the Great,

(And when my situation ain't improvin',
I'm trying to murder everything movin')
This has been a Demigodz Dipset Feature Presentation,
We'll slap the beeswax right out your grill!

(And when my situation ain't improvin',
I'm trying to murder everything movin')

Hold up!

 

Remember The Name (Funkadelic Remix)

C'mon, c'mon, c'mon
What up Mike?

Haha, how's this for a fuckin remix, right?

Yeah. You got it (Fort Minor!),

Yeah...you ready? Okay... (Whoa, hey)
Ladies and gentlemen, for those of you who want to know what we're really all about? (Whoa, hey)
Let's do it like this... (Whoa, hey)

This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill, (Whoa, hey)
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will, (Whoa, hey)
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain, (Whoa, hey)
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name! (Whoa, hey)

(This is the remix)

Mike! - He doesn't need his name up in lights,
He just wants to be heard whether it's the beat or the mic,
He feels so unlike everybody else, alone,
In spite of the fact that some people still think that they know him,
But fuck 'em, he knows the code,
It's not about the salary,
It's all about reality and makin' some noise,
Makin' the story, makin' sure his clique stays up,
That means when he puts it down Tak's pickin it up! let's go!

Who the hell is he anyway? (Whoa, hey)
He never really talks much,
Never concerned with status, but still leavin' them star struck,
Humbled through opportunities, given to him despite the fact, (Whoa, hey)
That many misjudge him, because he makes a livin' from writin raps,
Put it together himself, now the picture connects, (Whoa, hey)
Never askin' for someone's help, or to get some respect,
He's only focused on what he wrote, his will is beyond reach, (Whoa, hey)
And now when it all unfolds, the skill of an artist...

This is twenty percent skill,
Eighty percent beer,
Be one hundred percent clear cause Ryu is ill,
Who would've thought that he'd be the one to set the west in flames,
And I heard him wreckin with The Crystal Method, "Name Of The Game",
Came back dropped Megadef, took em to church,
I like "Bleach" man, Ryu had the stupidest verse,
This dude is the truth, now everybody be givin him guest spots,
His stock's through the roof I heard he fuckin with S. Dot!

This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill, (Whoa, hey)
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will, (Whoa, hey)
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain, (Whoa, hey)
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name! (Whoa, hey)

They call him Ryu The Sick,
And he's spittin' fire with Mike,
Got him out the dryer he's hot,
Found him in Fort Minor with Tak,
Been a fuckin' annihilist porcupine,
He's a prick, he's a cock,
The type woman want to be with, and rappers hope he get shot,
Eight years in the makin', patiently waitin to blow,
Now the record with Shinoda's takin' over the globe,
He's got a partner in crime, his shit is equally dope,
You wont believe the kind of shit that comes out of this kid's throat...

Tak! He's not your everyday on the block, (Whoa, hey)
He knows how to work with what he's got,
Makin' his way to the top,
People think its a common owners name, (Whoa, hey)
People keep askin' him was it given at birth,
Or does it stand for an acronym?
No he's livin' proof, Got him rockin the booth, (Whoa, hey)
He'll get you buzzin' quicker than a shot of vodka with juice,
Him and his crew are known around as one of the best, (Whoa, hey)
Dedicated to what they doin' give a hundred percent...

Forget Mike, nobody really knows how or why he works so hard, (Whoa, hey)
It seems like he's never got time, (Whoa, hey)
Because he writes every note and he writes every line, (Whoa, hey)
And I've seen him at work when that light goes on in his mind, (Whoa, hey)
It's like a design is written in his head every time, (Whoa, hey)
Before he even touches a key or speaks in a rhyme, (Whoa, hey)
And those motherfuckers he runs with, those kids that he signed? (Whoa, hey)
Ridiculous, without even trying, how do they do it?! (Whoa, hey)

This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill, (Whoa, hey)
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will, (Whoa, hey)
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain, (Whoa, hey)
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name! (Whoa, hey)

This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill, (Whoa, hey)
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will, (Whoa, hey)
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain, (Whoa, hey)
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name! (Whoa, hey)

Yeah! (Whoa)

Mike Shinoda! (Whoa)
Fort Minor! (Whoa)

Machine Shop! (Whoa)
Green Lantern!

 

Bleach (Jimi Remix)

"Hey Joe, where you goin' with that gun of yours?"

"Yeah?"
"It's me.."
"I called you half a fuckin' hour ago"
"Yeah, Adrianna put my keys where I couldn't find em..."
"Go to the drug store, get two pairs of surgical gloves, some bleach, come to our friend's house...the contractor."

"Hey Joe, where you goin' with that gun of yours?"

Yo! Swing the sword for the classic year,
Bring the noise with your hands up, slash and tear,
Who can, fathom asthma, dash for air,
Spittin' on the baby bib in the plastic chair,
What's up stupid? (Shoot this),
One-five-one in the shot glass (Hot flash),
Bangin' on the drum, (uh!)
We cause havoc down in Las Vegas,
Paper trails racing Pelican briefcases,
We outrageous, name the streets gave us,
Yeah, we got fame, but now we heat blazers,
I let 'em all fly, ten in the clip, one in the chamber, ("Hey Joe, where you goin' with that?")
Thumbs up! Another banger,
Untuck the flamer, dumbfuck,
It's like gettin' hit with a dumptruck,
Brains and guts,
Maim, cut, aim, duck, same stuff, ("Hey Joe, where you goin' with that?")
Get you cracked up like cocaine, heat 'em up,
Ok, I'll let the suckas fly once,
Face down, found him in his Captain Crunch,
Uh, malpractice, a bang-all jam,
I joust rappers and track in the radar scans,
Flip beats for the crew like fleets and platoons,
Reach for the moon like Reese Witherspoon (uh!),
Don't stop the sure-shot, the rooftop anthem,
Blast the gold box, cock back the cannon,
What's up partna', I got ya (what, what),
Hope that (*pop, pop*) crack the pinata,
Slap, box, mouth of backwash,
Teeth mashed up on the asphalt, ya dig?
Set the pace like a mustang mashin', ("Hey Joe, where you goin' with that?")
Up the stakes, who wanna cut the cake, I take cash,
Dropped on a blood-stained mattress,
Stop! You ain't got access...watch,
I'ma change my accent, Ryu and Tak, ("Hey Joe, where you goin' with that?")
You little cunts in the game, you can suck my cock,
And lay flat on the ground, don't make a peep,
If you want the stains out now, get the bleach!

 

Get the bleach!

Guess who got the rubber gloves and the bleach?
Guess who rockin every club, that's me!
Get so hot, you feel the buzz in the street,
Keeping it knockin', drop drop that beat!

Guess who got the group name on top?
S.O.B. got the rap thang locked!
Who, what, what, when, why or what not?
You got messed up Ryu and Tak!

Yeah here it comes, all you hear is the click,
Blow your brains on a sandwhich like Miracle Whip,
While the blood keeps gushin',
Relish and pink mustard,
Huh! I'ma slam till I tear it to bits,
Till the bell for the recess rang,
On the defense game,
You feeling grilled like P.F. Changs,
Hopscotch on the corpse, till I drop the torch,
And burn crews for their views that I rock with force..
Sayin,
Don't stop the sure-shot, the rooftop anthem,
Blast the gold box, cock back the cannon,
What's up y'all, we don't stall,
Come one, come all till we drop the ball like,

(*scratched*)
Get the bleach!

 

Yeah

 

Yo, yo

Shinoda, Shinoda from the South Dako

It's Big Ghost right here

You know what I mean?

With the (?)

Yo, we finished off that joint for, um, Lupe

You know what I mean?

So, yo, um, hit me back eh?

So I can understand what you were saying in your raps

You know what I mean?

You got me, got me, kind of like twisted over there

Shit, I want you to explain it

How you want it

 

Spraypaint & Ink Pens

This is an invasion! Fort Minor!

Fort Minor (Fort Minor)

[Chorus]
Uh! Spraypaint and inkpens,
I use to write in every color I think in,
To paint a picture with every rhyme that I speak in,

Yeah, the gallery is the beat and I..

I, I, I

Yeah ladies and gentlemen, we have a special guest for you this evening,
Ghost you ready?

Yo, I verbally paint pictures I'm the hood's best storyteller, (Yeah)
This about a young boy, dealin with the older fellas,
Promised him the lives, he see on TV,
He ran packs across town, like rhyme CDs,
And big chains, new clothes, Nike's and Reebok's,
Stacking too much loot to squeeze in a shoe box,
Saving, he promised his mom'z a crib in Atlanta,
And his pops got killed through debt, he was a gambler,
So he staged jazz, fox jump off the suit cases,
No more cross-town, now he's crossing them states and,
Seeing new faces, not knowing who to trust,
So when the door kicked open they screamed "This is a bust",
"Is it a set up?" it seemed funny, a scuffle broke out,
He got hit, dropped the cases spitting blood out of his mouth,
He walked four blocks to die...trying to survive,
And now all that's left is his mom screaming "God Why?"

Uh! Spraypaint and inkpens,
I use to write in every color I think in,
To paint a picture with every rhyme that I speak in,

Yeah, the gallery is the beat and I..

I, I, I

(Yeah, yeah)

Lemme begin by saying...
SHUT THE FUCK UP.

Let me begin by saying,
I don't think this man knew what he had in store,
He opened the door and found the bag under the floor,
Not a peep while he's working the lock,
Get the flame, aim, pop, open the box and take off,
Out the back of the pawn shop, scoping the lot,
Hoping the cops hadn't seen the plates on his car,
He felt like he'd been hustlin' so hard,
Like a demon he pumped a cold heart,
Play it cool like Humphrey Bogart,
Put the rings on his chain attached by both parts,
He did the drop, one ring in the bag,
Envelope, all the money he had,
Left the money and the ring in a slow exhale,
Two weeks went by, got a box in the mail,
In the box was a bullet made of gold,
Melted down from the ring, recast with two rings and a band,
And he stared at it, sitting in the palm of his hand,
And sat down next to a picture that sat on the nightstand,
It was his wife in the picture on his side,
With the ring on her finger on the week that she died,
As he looked in the reflection at those eyes so red,
He put the bullet in a gun and put it right in his head,
Like that..

Uh! Spraypaint and inkpens,
I use to write in every color I think in,
To paint a picture with every rhyme that I speak in,
Yeah, the gallery is the beat and I..

I, I, I

Uh!
He knew that he didn't have enough power in his thrusters,
To muster warp 5,
Plus if he pushed it the fuel cells could rupture,
And then they would die,
Then the galaxy would suffer but he knew he had to try, (Lupe, Lupe)
But he couldn't risk it,
Put the cure in his escape pod and kissed it,
And told her goodbye, she started to cry,
But he knew if he could distract them he could buy her some time,
And she could make it out alive,
He turned the suit around and got prepared for the stand off,
Space mine had blew one of the hands off,
Damaged laser cannons, and he got the system jammin',
He faced the whole fleet,
Blood seeping through his teeth,
The final saga in the seven planet wars,
Unsheated the sword, and then he charged forward,
His eyes flashed behind the cracked cockpit glass,
He let out a laugh and all she heard was a blast like...

Uh! Spraypaint and inkpens,
I use to write in every color I think in,
To paint a picture with every rhyme that I speak in,

Yeah, the gallery is the beat and I..

I, I, I

Yeah, ladies and gentleman this has been a Fort Minor production!
Ghostface, Fiasco..

 

Spraypaint and inkpens,

"It's an expression coming out of a simple can of paint."
"Look, its the easiest way for a kid to get famous using himself as the medium!"

"You're going to get into that gallery real soon man."
"Word. I'm going to be famous one day..."
"Why do you always say that?"
"'Cause it's true!"

 

Petrified (Doors Remix)

"Strange days, have found us.."

Fort Minor! We Major!

Ya'll are not not re-ready (no!),
Not re-ready (no!),
We about to drop it steady (so!),
Do it like that, like that, like that,
Like that, like that, like that...

Now why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

Now why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

(Yeah)
Drop that! (cmon')

How you doin' ya'll, my name's Mike,
I'm fluent with the new shit I'm doin' it all night,
I like what I do, I do what I like,
I can quit and get it back like I'm riding a bike.
Like STOP...
Bring it back, bring it back,

How you doin ya'll, my name's Mike,
I'm fluent with the new shit I'm doin' it all night,
I like what I do, I do what I like,
I can quit and get it back like I'm riding a bike.
Like STOP...
Bring it back, bring it back,
We got that balance keepin' us on track,
That you get when you're movin quick with no slow,
You stare like you don't care, but you do though.
I know, you really must be so lonely,
Puffed up like you're tough but so phony.
You and your boys you don't know me,
You really wanna hold me? Show me homie.
Let's get it over with for good,
I got a friction addiction I wish you would,
Machine Shop rockin' when we step inside,
And we got everybody so petrified!

Now why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

Listen you are not ready,
Like children and a building you cant stand steady.
It must be the beat so heavy,
Causin' panic attacks like a crack in the levy.
Give you that Robert Plant,
Dancin' days are back, feelin all in the track,
And infact? For those knowin' the name I'm back,
With some brand new crack we can do it like that,
You really must be so lonely,
Puffed up like you're tough but so phony.
You and your boys you don't know me,
You really wanna hold me? Show me homie.
Tough talk doesn't mean a thing,
Get over yourself, you know when we're up in the scene,
It's Machine Shop rockin' when we step inside,
And we got everybody so petrified!

Now why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

Now why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

Ya'll are not not re-ready (no!),
Not re-ready (no!),
We about to drop it steady (so!),
Do it like that, like that, like that,
Like that, like that, like that...

Ya'll are not not re-ready (no!),
Not re-ready (no!),
We about to drop it steady (so!),
Do it like that, like that, like that,
Like that, like that, like get up...

Now why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

Now why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
Dr-drop (c-cmon')
Drop (c-cmon')
Dr-drop (c-cmon')
Dr-drop that (c-cmon')

Like stop (stop), bring it back (bring it back),
We got that balance keepin' us on track...

Like stop (stop), bring it back (bring it back),

We got that balance keepin' us on track...

Like stop (stop), bring it, bring it back (bring it back),

We got that balance keepin' us on track...

Like stop (stop), bring it, bring it back (bring it back),

We got that balance keepin' us on track...

 

Get It

Yeah, Ryu and Tak.

S.O.B

Demigodz, Green Lantern, Scoop Deville
This kid is only seventeen, man.
He's about to be a problem!

So let's get right to it and groove,
It ain't nothing but a thing to get you people to move,
Got em' lovin' the way we swing, when we step on the scene,
You know we kill it, goin' all out,
We about to g-g-g-g-g-get it,

It's in my blood, I was born to spit it.
The cord has kept me warm through the storms of winter.
Ignore the pain, the struggle, when it's time for dinner,
We huddle together and grind, rain or shine,
Survive the weather, forget about changin spinners,
Throw me a bone, I'm just trying to raise my litter.
It made me bitter, eventually made me sicker,
So when the heat's on, we don't get pre-game jitters, (uh-huh)
We go to work man, diggin' the dirt,
We took 'em to church with chicken and some teenage strippers,
Livin' life by the seat of my pants, and three-peated we champs,
Undefeated, we can't lose ever.
Whoever wanted with us better roll with a camp,
Be trust to cover your ass when your asses can't. (huh)
So bottom's up, here's one for the crew,
Put some liquor in your gut and tell me what you wanna do, singin'

S, for every sucker left behind,
O, what they were yellin' when I bust a rhyme
B, best believe when it's time to get it,
We grind and check 'cause we ain't got time to kick it.
S, for the drunk sexy women,
O, sippin' Jack with some Pepsi in it,
B, best believe when it's time to get it,
We grind and check 'cause we ain't got time to kick it.

So let's get right to it and groove,
It ain't nothing but a thing to get you people to move,
Got em' lovin' the way we swing, when we step on the scene,
You know we kill it, goin' all out,
We about to g-g-g-g-g-get it,

Wow look at 'em now, their mouths are closed,
We done came a long way since 2004,
Spilled bleach, got the whole entire crowd exposed,
The fume's leaking in the street, throwin' down them bowls, (whoa)
We on the job, don't roll with the mob,
With fake facades, to get it, just to make me large,
I roll a 7 and 9, just to break the yards,
And step in your mind and unfold the great bazaar,
Hit the killswitch...yeah I found my hitch,
I'm on the pitchers mound, for now it's me and Will Smith,
Finally overseas, I sneak in your mattress,
Ain't nothin' like a sweet club freak with a accent,
We out gettin' bent, million dollar amounts,
So if you with me, lemme see you raise your bottle and shout,
Singin'...

S, for every sucker left behind,
O, what they were yellin' when I bust a rhyme
B, best believe when it's time to get it,
We grind and check 'cause we ain't got time to kick it.
S, for the drunk sexy women,
O, sippin' Jack with some Pepsi in it,
B, best believe when it's time to get it,
We grind and check 'cause we ain't got time to kick it.

So let's get right to it and groove,
It ain't nothing but a thing to get you people to move,
Got em' lovin' the way we swing, when we step on the scene,
You know we kill it, goin' all out,
We about to g-g-g-g-g-get it...

 

(Gonna be somebody)

For anybody I can

(Gonna be someone)

For anyone that told me I had no chance

(Gonna be somebody)

Telling you the time has come (like that)

(Gonna be someone)

Maybe you'll get it when I'm finally done

 

Be Somebody

Green Lantern!

Uh! M.S., Lupe,
You know...I'm a fan man, I'm a real fan, (Gonna be somebody)
I feel real honored to be up in here, you know what I'm sayin'? (Gonna be somebody)
They had to bring out the expensive mics for this one, (Gonna be somebody)
You know what I'm sayin? The $7000 headphones for this one here, (Gonna be somebody)
You know what I'm sayin?
Come on..talk to em'!

This is the story of them against us, win or lose,
Forcing your feet into someone else's shoes,
Everybody's got somethin' to say,
That we aughta live their way,
What we're doing's not "okay",
In this world everybody's got a chip on,
Both sides of their neck,
Got no respect, wait up a sec!
You ever feel like the pressure is too much to take,
Too much weight?
Ladies and gentleman,
If anybody can hear me right now please shout back,
We're not the only one's feeling so trapped,
In a dream of somebody else... in fact,
They got their heads full of some overblown scheme,
Opportunity they missed back when they were sixteen,
And all they wanna do is push you to be that,
And all you wanna do is scream back...

Gonna be somebody...
For anybody telling me I cant,
Gonna be someone...
For anyone who told me I had no chance,
Gonna be somebody...
I'm telling you the time has come, (like that)
Gonna be someone...
And maybe you'll get it when I'm finally done.

We don't sleep to dream,
We sleep to build stamina,
Energy to do our thing,
Get your camera,
Cause this ride is about to begin,
Sit down and buckle it in,
Let me say it again,
In this world everybody's got a chip on,
Both sides of their neck,
Got no respect, wait up a sec!
When I was young,
They said the odds of making it were slim to none,
Ladies and...fuck it,
I'm tired of them saying the dream you have doesn't exist,
Telling you you're worthless, saying you should quit,
Basically telling you that you'll never be shit!
Really, they're pissed 'cause they'll never acheive,
Some opportunity they missed back when they sixteen,
And all they wanna do is push you to be that,
And all you wanna do is scream back...

Uh!
They're gonna think you're crazy mumblin' to yourself,
In the basement all day 'uh-uh-uh'in to yourself,
My pop's didn't dig it, was shovelin' to myself,
My boy's used to get it, they dug it cause they felt,
My undertaking took me I was makin' in my stealth,
A wealth of rhymes, of crazy I would chuckle to myself, (ha)
Then they went into the mental rolodex,
See I knew em' by heart like a brain in my chest,
Then I, took em' to school where subjects was getting felt,
Books under my seat, notebook laying on my desk,
My teacher's like, "Mr. Jaco?"
"Yes?"
"With all that knowledge, you aint tryin' to college,
Be a lawyer or a doctor, get a whole lotta' dollars,
Rather degrade woman and glorify violence?"
Well the work that works for me, might not work for you,
No homework, I got work to do!

Gonna be somebody...
For anybody telling me I cant,
Gonna be someone...
For anyone who told me I had no chance,
Gonna be somebody...
I'm telling you the time has come, (like that)
Gonna be someone...
(Uh) And maybe you'll get it when I'm finally done.

This is an invasion! Fort Minor - The Rising Tied,
In stores November, Twenty Two.

 

Respect 4 Grandma

("Dry your eyes long enough to see,
That you have found the love you thought,
You had in him, here in me,
Love is hope girl, love is strength,
Here's someone standing right beside you,
Who would...")
"Are we recording right now?"
"Yea we're recording..."
"I cant do it right now, 'cause my grandma is asleep in the other room, so I gotta like...go into like, another room and yell it."
"Go ahead."
"It's respect for Grandma, you know what I mean?" (*laughter*)

Scoop Deville!
You're now rocking with a drunken battle,
We pack pumps like sluts when they travelin',

Scoop Deville!
You're now rocking with a drunken battle,
We pack pumps like sluts when they travelin',

(Fort Minor)

Scoop Deville!
You're now rocking with a drunken battle,
We pack pumps like sluts when they travelin',
With shoes in the trunk,
I'm losin' it punk,
Missin' a few screws and a nut,
I'm stupid as fuck, I'm from the old school but I flunked,
Black on black, rips with some grain to grip,
Bitch slappin' these trick rappers till they pay this pimp,
Quit acting and click clackin' like you famous...shit,
You faggots are broke with names out of gangsta flicks! (Biatch!)
What a joke, you ain't never cut up coke on a scale,
Or snuck dope through the border in a coconut shell,
Fuck no, you wanna tell your little veteran tales,
So when I put the smoke in your mouth you better inhale,
Suck it!

You ready? Let's get it,
The game's now finished,
It's all weapons to aim, with a thousand rounds in it,
Machine shop class, mixtape lynch men,
Clapping at you track rabbits...back to the benches! (Yeah)
People fiend this, call me the evil genius,
Got them bumpin' Styles, in the Buick Regal speedin',

People fiend this, call me the evil genius,
Got them bumpin' Styles, in the Buick Regal speedin',

...fiend this, call me the evil genius,
Got them bumpin' Styles, in the Buick Regal speedin',
Brim with the tilt, cigar on my clutch,
You're crying over spilled milk, Demigodz whats up?
Got a flask full of that ol' lucky #7 brand,
Get rid of your first stringm I aint playing second hand,
You messin' with butane, get scorched in a torch fire,
Look out for the new slang, you rockin' with Fort Minor!

("Love is here standing by

Love is here standing by

Love is here standing by

Love is here standing by")
"Alright hold on a second..
Yeah..yeah yeah you know who the fuck it is,
S.O.B motherfuckas, Demigodz motherfuckas,
Mike Shinoda motherfuckas, and this is Celph Titled mothafucka,
We put a pipe bomb in your tail pipe, and let it go off mother fuckas,
My gun don't fit through the doorway motherfuckas,
Let's Go!"

This is the last warning shot before we're letting this go,
We don't have to say 'lay low',
Ya'll already know,
That when the lights go dim, and the beat drops in,
Even Texas cant hold 'em,
Ante up and Im in
Im like Black Jack Johnson and M.O.B.,
Drinking handfuls of Jack Daniels, (you'll see)
Cause when we hop in the Jeep to try out the CD,
You'll want to low ride a bucking bronco to Scoop's beat now,
My name's Mike (Mike), remember it well,
More rock than "Raising Hell",
Rougher then "Rock The Bells,"
Ryu and Tak will tell you what's really the deal,
If you want it come and get us at the end of this twelve!

 

("Love is here standing by

Love is here standing by

Love is here standing by

Love is here standing by")

"Yeah yeah yeah...you know the fuckin drilly,
Keeping it Godzilla up in the motherfuckin' Home Depot,
This is Celph Titled the lame mile killer
This is S.O.B, this is Demigodz, this is M. Shinoda The Cobra Holder,
And this is your brain on crack motherfucka!"

 

"Love is here standing by

Love is here standing by

Love is here standing by"

("Perfect, this guy is a fuckin' genius!")

 

There They Go (Green Lantern Remix)

Machine Shop!

Yeah, ladies and gentlemen,
Pleased to meet you,
I go by the name of Sixx John,
Of course you know Mike Shinoda. (Yeah)
Uh-oh,
West coast,
Let's go!

(One time) For my machine shop crew, and then it's,
(Two times) S.O.B and LP too, and then it's,
(Three times) It's Mike and Sixx on the track, and then,
(Four times) When we come in through the back, they're sayin'

Oh no, close the door, shut the lights, and start the show.
Better let everybody know, get on the mic and there they go.
Oh no, close the door, shut the lights, and start the show.
Better let everybody know, get on the mic and there they go.

Armed and dangerous, bitch,
Y'all can't really hang with us in this,
Everybody's so afraid of us...shit,

Armed and dangerous, bitch

Armed and dangerous, bitch,
Y'all can't really hang with us in this,
Everybody's so afraid of us...shit,
Makes me wanna hang it up and quit.
Forget about all the things you heard before,
'Bout time that we're kicking down your door,
Everybody's gonna hit the fucking floor,
Like "please Mike, don't hurt me anymore",
I don't gotta have a secret lie or an alibi,
Everybody knows why I'm here,
I'd just as soon crack a bottle,
As crack you over the head with a bottle of beer!
So just listen up there, powderpuff,
Better believe that I'm not playin',
You can love it, you can hate,
But don't mistake it, everybody sayin'

Oh no, close the door, shut the lights, and start the show. (Yeah)
Better let everybody know, get on the mic and there they go.
Oh no, close the door, shut the lights, and start the show.
Better let everybody know, get on the mic and there they go.

REMIX!

REMIX!

What you really wanna do is this,
Just make believe that I don't exist,
But you won't because everytime you go to spit (yo check this ou-),
I talk over you just like this (shit!)
It's annoying, just for you,
You could scream all day til your face is blue.
I'm gettin' in your head and you know it too,
And that's just me, you don't know my crew (Machine Shop!)
My man Sixx John understand though,
The way that he flows, you can call him Rambo,
Never missed a shot, never run outta ammo,
Comin' with heat like a goddamn commando,
And add in S.O.B,
Ryu, Tak, Vin Scully,
Cheapshot, and now you see,
Fuck with me? Nah.
Sixx?

Oh no, uh-oh,
Whatever you yell when you see that door close,
I'ma bail through the back (fo' sho'),
Straight to the bar so I can act (a fool),
I figured you guys would get a little surprise,
Your eyes wide when it's me and Mike Shinode,
I'm just plain old Sixx John from the Nam-district,
This is not supposed,
I still talk with awkward speech,
I'm like a dog that's off his leash,
Step out with a Fort Minor patch on a black tee,
Niggas gotta walk these streets.
I'm ain't trippin' homie, talk is cheap,
A cappella or we can bark on a beat,
And if that ain't enough action,
I've got 17 pages in this little magazine I keep.

We've got this place rockin',
Beat knockin', non stoppin',
If ya'll are with it, lemme hear it now (yeah, yo)

We've got this place rockin',
Beat knockin', non stoppin',
If ya'll are with it, lemme hear it now (yeah, yo)

(One time) For my machine shop crew, and then it's,
(Two times) S.O.B and LP too, and then it's,
(Three times) It's Mike and Sixx on the track, and then,
(Four times) We do it like that, like that, like that, like that.

Fort Minor!
Totally ridiculous,
How sick is this?
Shinoda
Totally ridiculous,
How sick is this?
Machine Shop!
Totally ridiculous,
How sick is this?
Green Lantern
Totally ridiculous,
You, you see 'em

 

All Night

I'll break ya brain cells off at the stem,
Ya status is stupider,
Ap is a nuclear blast, heart blacker than Lucifer,
I could sit and write a list of all the shit I would do to ya,
Head so big... I'll rest my fitted cap on Jupiter,
You ain't built like this, you're a soft carbon copy,
A Care Bear, compared to a Auto Bots body,
The rap's like crack, I supply to the blocks,
Drop pipes, cop mics, say goodbye to ya rocks,
I'm a muthafuckin' star, the status of John Lennon,
Ya'll "Ordinary People", singin' to John Legend,
Write a track dissin Ap? better "X" that out...
I don't play that... like rap in a redneck's house,
I could have ya brain cells spinnin' quicker than Spreewells,
Ya female, e-mailin' me all ya details,
I don't dig up dirt... I shake the Earth,
And I never say names, I wouldn't waste the verse,
Off of the top i'm hot... and when they dare me to write?
Prepare to carry the mic to a burial site,
I'm a pioneer, fuckin' up stereotypes,
I snatched chains as a kid... made you carry ya bikes,
I got an addiction to spittin', shit is heroin like,
Story teller speak of Hell and the American plight,
Money blower, funny though... it seems embarrassin' right?
Rock shows, blow the dough on a pair of Air Nike's ALL NIGHT...

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yo, you know the rules, I cruise with a tough band,
You in the fucking closet with brooms and a dustpan,
I clean sweep your fleet body, softenin' and gellin',
And now you want a mic...yeah right!
My life and your skeleton, dummy
I'm in the place, you can tell when it's bloody,
I freaking paid for your face straight,
I'll mail ya the money,
I'm ready and willing to watch ya spine sever the flesh,
Lets see if I don't kill him in five seconds or less,
I keep coming back like rashes on an infant,
You don't want a chance to clash with the magnificent seven of us,
It's heaven, but never enough,
So I tighten the vice quick, so his head will get crushed,
I'm out of sight, now deep in this music,
Leaving them upside down, fiendin' for new shit,
Ribkat's is the wrong pal to creep in the booth with,
Blow a hole in your back just to eat it for soup dish,
You bitch!

Yo, the Demigodz stand for killers!
More specifically we deadly entertainers, maniac ignorant godzillas,
And we never took the route them other crooks took,
Because we kept recipes for human flesh in my mother's cook book!
You're souffléd in more ways then ten!
Celph Titled's flow is choking the wind, my favorite past time is soaking in sin!
The most accurate sharp shooter with no scope,
Shoot with my left, and watch you all die from second hand smoke,
Im repping my fans so! You better act cool,
My soul will make a Ouija board jump up and slap you, dummy,
You not thinking smart!
I bust so many blammers and blinkers, that I should start a rock band called Blinkin Spark!
Sinking sharks with no harpoons, my arsenal is a sawblade carved in two sliding your coffin through,
Apathy is insane, and I'm the same as my brother,
I'm like a circus show sniper, I aim for the juggler,
Catch a case, and before the Judge could slam down the gavel,
The whole room ducking and hidin' from grenade shrapnel,
These rap verses I be breezin' though,
Because I'm like a celibate, under oath, un-fucking-believable.

Demigodz, Fort Minor
You've heard of us
Styles of Beyond (Styles of Beyond)
You've heard of us, the murderous!

Demigodz, Fort Minor
You've heard of us
Styles of Beyond (Styles of Beyond)
You've heard of us, the murderous!
Machine Shop!

 

Cover and Duck

Gentlemen and ladies,
Please put down your expensive champange,
It's about to get ugly in here!
(Yeah, set it on the motherfuckers!)
Let's go!
My name is Mike Shinoda,
And with some help from my man Celph Titled (you're goddamned right!),
I would like to introduce to you from Styles of Beyond: Tak-bir!

Yo, I'm here, put a sock in your mouth, you now rockin' with Styles,
That's how we knockin 'em down (tak-bir),
Yo, I'm here, put a sock in your mouth, you now rockin' with Styles,
That's how we knockin 'em down, no other option around,
Cause I'm just cockin' and *blaow*, me and my popular pals,
Don't make me hop in the crowd, stop jocking about.
We takin' over and stompin' all of your porch spiders,
Cover and duckin', and we're shootin straight out of Fort Minor,
Roll with a pack of fifty so when they get that shifty,
I put a stamp on it and slap 'em with a flask of whiskey.
You got your hopes they're blazin', buzzin' with no sedation,
I got a *gun cocks* and a party cap for both occasions.
With something terrible seeping into your stadium,
Never perform solo, I'm freakin' sick in the cranium.
Packin' a man, yeah, the hooligan's back,
Quick to crackin' ya shins with aluminum bats,
Got the place going bananas and they pumpin they fists,
I tellin' my brim in Los Angeles to jump in the pit.

What the fuck are you doing, man? You spilled my Cristal all over me!

So buff, so rugged, so rough,
Like a runaway train we're tearing the track up,
We're at it again, we're ready to act up,
So cover and duck, show us you're rocking with us,
Let's see a fist if you're rocking with this,
Let me see your fist if you're rocking with this,

(Yeah, yo)

From the start 'til the end, night until the dawn,
It's that fight music cause right when it comes on,
You just lose control of your elbows and fists,
Fuckin' utter disregard

From the start 'til the end

From the start 'til the end, night until the dawn,
It's that fight music cause right when it comes on,
You just lose control of your elbows and fists,
Fuckin' utter disregard for your body in the pit.
People are swinging limbs, swinging bottles and chairs,
Throwin' linebacker motherfuckers up in the air,
So back up, we got you wearing that Fight Club glare,
Steady, tearing down the club cause you just don't care.
It's the realest way to feel it when the speakers pop poppin',
You with it if you get it when that beat starts knockin',
And we kill it when get up on that mic, start rockin',
And you feel it when you hear it cause we're on nonstoppin'.
So, ask a buddy or a friend if they know (know),
We do it daily, never maybe, every show (show).
Ya'll want to get down? I'm ready to roll,
Right now, y'all ready? Let's get it, let's go!

So buff, so rugged, so rough
Like a runaway train we're tearing the track up
We're at it again, we're ready to act up
So cover and duck, show us you're rocking with us
Let's see a fist if you're rocking with this
Let me see your fist if you're rocking with this
Yo, let's see a fist if you're rocking with this
Let me see your fist if you're rocking with this
Ryu!

Yo, so now they notice me rockin' over Shinoda beats,
Makin' it crack like the extract in cocoa leaves,
Hopefully labels love it, if not then fuck 'em,
I'm cutting to break cables, ain't stoppin' at nothing,
My hype is coming, murder for the price of a muffin,
You'd think twice with a steak knife stuck in your stomach,
I'm like "Who ever wanted whistle? I'll let you bring a pistol",
I'll put a verse on both wings like a stinger missile,
Provoking people to bring it, I keep the weapons stable,
I'll blow a fucking hole through 'em like a western bagel,
Yeah, I talk tough and I rap ignorant too,
Sick of me kickin' knowledge, getting crap on my shoes (eww!),
I'm off my rocker, a psycho stalker,
The girl called me David Beckem, she thought I was going to 'sock her',
Nah, I'm the one to get it crackin', the plan works,
Before I rock a show you gotta fax in the fans first...

Ready? Let's go!

So buff, so rugged, so rough
Like a runaway train we're tearing the track up
We're at it again, we're ready to act up
So cover and duck, show us you're rocking with us
Let's see a fist if you're rocking with this
Let me see your fist if you're rocking with this
Yo, let's see a fist if you're rocking with this
Let me see your fist if you're rocking with this
Come on, Celph Titled!

If it ain't raw, it ain't right, so get it right,
We at it again, now to act up and start a fight,
So cover and duck cause we runnin' a muck,
No, cover and duck cause we about to erupt,
Throw your motherfuckin' hands to the sky (sky),
And make a fist if you want to get live (live),
Throw your motherfuckin' hands to the sky (sky),
And make a fist if you want to get live (live).

Come on y'all! Yeah!
You like that shit?
We had to get real Godzilla on 'em this time!
Tak 'n' Ryu, S.O.B, Celph Titled!
M. Shinoda the Cobra Holder, Demigodz!
That's how my crew do,
Shut the fuck up when old folks is talkin'!

 

Remember The Name

Green Lantern
You ready?!
Lets go!

Yeah!
For those of you that wanna know what we're all about?
It's like this ya'll (c'mon!)

This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill,
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will,
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain,
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name!

Mike! - He doesn't need his name up in lights,
He just wants to be heard whether it's the beat or the mic,
He feels so unlike everybody else, alone,
In spite of the fact that some people still think that they know him,
But fuck 'em, he knows the code,
It's not about the salary,
It's all about reality and makin' some noise,
Makin' the story, makin' sure his clique stays up,
That means when he puts it down Tak's pickin it up! let's go!

(Let's go)

Who the hell is he anyway?
He never really talks much,
Never concerned with status, but still leavin' them star struck,
Humbled through opportunities, given to him despite the fact,
That many misjudge him, because he makes a livin' from writin raps,
Put it together himself, now the picture connects,
Never askin' for someone's help, or to get some respect,
He's only focused on what he wrote, his will is beyond reach,
And now when it all unfolds, the skill of an artist...

This is twenty percent skill,
Eighty percent beer,
Be one hundred percent clear cause Ryu is ill,
Who would've thought that he'd be the one to set the west in flames,
And I heard him wreckin with The Crystal Method, "Name Of The Game",
Came back dropped Megadef, took em to church,
I like "Bleach" man, Ryu had the stupidest verse,
This dude is the truth, now everybody be givin him guest spots,
His stock's through the roof I heard he fuckin with S. Dot!

This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill,
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will,
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain,
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name!

They call him Ryu The Sick,
And he's spittin' fire with Mike,
Got him out the dryer he's hot,
Found him in Fort Minor with Tak,
Been a fuckin' annihilist porcupine,
He's a prick, he's a cock,
The type woman want to be with, and rappers hope he get shot,
Eight years in the makin', patiently waitin to blow,
Now the record with Shinoda's takin' over the globe,
He's got a partner in crime, his shit is equally dope,
You wont believe the kind of shit that comes out of this kid's throat...

Tak! He's not your everyday on the block,
He knows how to work with what he's got,
Makin' his way to the top,
People think it's a common owners name,
People keep askin' him was it given at birth,
Or does it stand for an acronym?
No he's livin' proof, Got him rockin the booth,
He'll get you buzzin' quicker than a shot of vodka with juice, (juice)
Him and his crew are known around as one of the best,
Dedicated to what they doin' give a hundred percent...

Forget Mike, nobody really knows how or why he works so hard,
It seems like he's never got time,
Because he writes every note and he writes every line,
And I've seen him at work when that light goes on in his mind,
It's like a design is written in his head every time,
Before he even touches a key or speaks in a rhyme,
And those motherfuckers he runs with, those kids that he signed?
Ridiculous, without even trying, how do they do it?!

This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill,
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will,
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain,
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name!

This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill,
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will,
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain,
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name!

 

Petrified

Yeah! Fort Minor! Fort Minor! Fort Minor!

Ya'll are not not re-ready (no!),
Not re-ready (no!),
We about to drop it steady (so!),
Do it like that, like that, like that,
Like that, like that, like that, like that...

Now why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

Now why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

How you doin ya'll, my name's Mike,
I'm fluent with the new shit I'm doin it all night,
I like what I do, I do what I like,
I can quit and get it back like I'm riding a bike.
Like STOP...
Bring it back, bring it back,
We got that balance keepin us on track,
That you get when you're movin' quick with no slow,
You stare like you don't care, but you do though.
I know, you really must be so lonely,
Puffed up like you're tough but so phony.
You and your boys you don't know me,
You really wanna hold me? Show me homie.
Let's get it over with for good,
I got a friction addiction I wish you would,
Machine Shop rockin' when we step inside,
And we got everybody so petrified!

Now why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

Listen you are not ready,
Like children and a building you cant stand steady.
It must be the beat so heavy,
Causin' panic attacks like a crack in the levy.
Give you that Robert Plant,
Dancin' days are back, feelin all in the track,
And infact? For those knowin' the name I'm back,
With some brand new crack we can do it like that,
You really must be so lonely,
Puffed up like you're tough but so phony.
You and your boys you don't know me,
You really wanna hold me? Show me homie.
Tough talk doesn't mean a thing,
Get over yourself, you know when we're up in the scene,
It's Machine Shop rockin' when we step inside,
And we got everybody so petrified!

Now why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

Now why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

Ya'll are not not re-ready (no!),
Not re-ready (no!),
We about to drop it steady (so!),
Do it like that, like that, like that,
Like that, like that, like that, like that...

Ya'll are not not re-ready (no!),
Not re-ready (no!),
We about to drop it steady (so!),
Do it like that, like that, like that,
Like that, like that, like that, like get up...

Why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

Why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

 

Outro

Ladies and gentlemen
You are tuned into the Fort Minor mixtape
Yo, Green, tell 'em what the name of the mixtape is

Fort Minor, of course
("C'mon homie we major, we major..")

("C'mon homie we major, we major..")
It's always a pleasure, Mike, where we go?

("C'mon homie we major, we major..")

("C'mon homie we major, we major..")

Fort Minor, We Major

Gotta say "What up?" to my executive producer: Mr. S dot Carter
"What up?" to Ghostface, Fiasco, Sixx John,
Bishop Lamont, Trek Life, Celph Titled, Apathy,
Scoop De Ville, Styles of Beyond, Machine Shop!

The Rising Tied in stores November 22!

 

 

The Rising Tied

Introduction

"The record that you made,
That's underground hip-hop, ("Okay.")
But with big...with big sounds,

But with big...with big sounds,
That's what takes it over 'cause the sounds are so big,
It's an underground...that's an underground hip-hop record,

The richness of the music and everything, I knew it was going to be somethin' serious."

 

Remember The Name

You ready?!
Lets go!
Yeah!
For those of you that wanna know what we're all about?
It's like this ya'll (c'mon!)

This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill,
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will,
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain,
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name!

Mike! - He doesn't need his name up in lights,
He just wants to be heard whether it's the beat or the mic,
He feels so unlike everybody else, alone,
In spite of the fact that some people still think that they know him,
But fuck 'em, he knows the code,
It's not about the salary,
It's all about reality and makin' some noise,
Makin' the story, makin' sure his clique stays up,
That means when he puts it down Tak's pickin' it up! Let's go!

Who the hell is he anyway?
He never really talks much,
Never concerned with status, but still leavin' them star struck,
Humbled through opportunities, given to him despite the fact,
That many misjudge him, because he makes a livin' from writin raps,
Put it together himself, now the picture connects,
Never askin' for someone's help, or to get some respect,
He's only focused on what he wrote, his will is beyond reach,
And now when it all unfolds, the skill of an artist...

This is twenty percent skill,
Eighty percent beer,
Be one hundred percent clear cause Ryu is ill,
Who would've thought that he'd be the one to set the west in flames,
And I heard him wreckin with The Crystal Method, "Name Of The Game",
Came back dropped Megadef, took em to church,
I like "Bleach" man, Ryu had the stupidest verse,
This dude is the truth, now everybody be givin him guest spots,
His stock's through the roof I heard he fuckin with S. Dot!

This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill,
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will,
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain,
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name!

They call him Ryu The Sick,
And he's spittin' fire with Mike,
Got him out the dryer he's hot,
Found him in Fort Minor with Tak,
Been a fuckin' annihilist porcupine,
He's a prick, he's a cock,
The type woman want to be with, and rappers hope he get shot,
Eight years in the makin', patiently waitin to blow,
Now the record with Shinoda's takin' over the globe,
He's got a partner in crime, his shit is equally dope,
You wont believe the kind of shit that comes out of this kid's throat...

Tak! He's not your everyday on the block,
He knows how to work with what he's got,
Makin' his way to the top,
People think its a common owners name,
People keep askin' him was it given at birth,
Or does it stand for an acronym?
No he's livin' proof, Got him rockin the booth,
He'll get you buzzin' quicker than a shot of vodka with juice,
Him and his crew are known around as one of the best,
Dedicated to what they doin' give a hundred percent...

Forget Mike, nobody really knows how or why he works so hard,
It seems like he's never got time,
Because he writes every note and he writes every line,
And I've seen him at work when that light goes on in his mind,
It's like a design is written in his head every time,
Before he even touches a key or speaks in a rhyme,
And those motherfuckers he runs with, those kids that he signed?
Ridiculous, without even trying, how do they do it?!

This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill,
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will,
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain,
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name!

This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill,
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will,
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain,
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name!

Yeah! Fort Minor!
M. Shinoda! Styles Of Beyond!
Ryu! Takbir!
Machine Shop!

 

Right Now

Someone right now, is leavin' their apartment,
Looking down at the street, and wonderin' where their car went,
Someone in a car, is sittin' at a signal,
In front of a restaurant, starin' through the window,
At someone right now, with their finger in their teeth,
Who could use a little floss, right across the street,
There's somebody on the curb, who really needs a jacket,
But spent half the rent at a bar getting plastered,
Now he's gotta walk 14 blocks,
Just to work at a shop where he's about to get fired.
Someone right now, is lookin' pretty tired,
Staring at a laptop, tryin' to get inspired,
As somebody living right across the street,
Just wrote the best thing that she's written all week,
But her best friend is coughing up blood in the sink,
He can't even think what happened, feeling so confused,
And he knows it looks bad but there's nothing he can do,
I wonder what it's like to be right there in his shoes, but...

Yo, I'm just takin' it in,
Out the window of a hotel bedroom again,
Tomorrow I'll be gone, I don't know when I'll be back,
But in this world everything can change just like that (like that) (just like that) (just like that) (just like that)

Somebody right right now is droppin' his vote,
Inside a box and tryin' not to get shot in his throat,
For the act of freedom,
Right now, somebody's stuck in Iraq,
Hoping that he gets shipped back breathing,
In a war, but he's not really sure of the reasons,
So we show our support when the press mislead him,
Though we mourn, remain proud, salute the troops,
Get some, I know you boys got some work to do.

Meanwhile, right now someone's 25-to-life-ing,
Standing on a corner with their thumb up hitchhiking,
Scratching off a lotto ticket, hopin' for a real winner,
Sneaking through the border just to work and eat a real dinner,
Right now, somoene wishes they were you and I,
Instead of second-guessing fatal thoughts of quiet suicide,
But right now I'm staring out the window at a fiend,
With holes in his arm, and holes in his jeans,
He pulled out a cigarette and sparked a light,
And walked right around the corner just out of my sight, but...

Yo, I'm just takin' it in,
From a second story hotel window again,
The T.V's on and my bags are packed,
But in this world everything can change just like that (like that) (just like that) (just like that) (just like that)

Yo, I'm just takin' it in,
From a second story hotel window again,
The T.V's on and my bags are packed,
But in this world everything can change just like that (like that) (just like that) (just like that) (just like that)

Yeah, right now somebody's sittin' in the darkness,
Tryin' to figure how to put some heat in they apartment,
But they got a little mattress, little carpet,
And they appreciate it 'cause some people on a park bench.
You see 'em when you rushing to get to the office,
Wife ride by 'em when she comin' home from the market,
Right now somebody comin' out the pocket,
Tryin' to dump that rock they runnin' 'round the block with,
Same time, the cops is raisin' the glock,
With aim to fill your legs and your back with some hot shit.
Right now somebody's strugglin' to stop this man,
That's kickin' and punchin' and cussin' at the doctors.
Down the hall a child is takin' it's breath,
The doctors ain't even passed him to the nurse yet, yo,
I wonder if he understands what it's worth yet,
Life, the time spent while we here on the earth yet,
The answers to the questions we all seek,
Can be found, it depend on how free y'all think,
Right now, it's somebody who ain't eat all week,
That would kill for the shit you throw away in the street,
I guess one man's trash is the next man's treasure,
One man's pain is the next man's pleasure,
One say infinity, then next say forever,
Right now, everybody got to get it together, man,

I'm just takin' it in,
In another strange hotel lobby again,
With my luggage on my back, I don't know where I'm at,
I'm in a world where it all change just like that (like that) (just like that) (just like that) (just like that)

Yo, I'm just takin' it in,
Out the window of a hotel bedroom again,
Tomorrow I'll be gone, I don't know when I'll be back,

But in this world everything can change just like that (like that) (just like that) (just like that) (just like that)

 

Petrified

Ya'll are not not re-ready (no!),

Not re-ready (no!),
We about to drop it steady (so!),
Do it like that, like that, like that,
Like that, like that, like that, like that...

 

Now why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

Now why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

How you doin ya'll, my name's Mike,
I'm fluent with the new shit I'm doin it all night,
I like what I do, I do what I like,
I can quit and get it back like I'm riding a bike.
Like STOP...
Bring it back, bring it back,
We got that balance keepin us on track,
That you get when you're movin' quick with no slow,
You stare like you don't care, but you do though.
I know, you really must be so lonely,
Puffed up like you're tough but so phony.
You and your boys you don't know me,
You really wanna hold me? Show me homie.
Let's get it over with for good,
I got a friction addiction I wish you would,
Machine Shop rockin' when we step inside,
And we got everybody so petrified!

Now why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

Listen you are not ready,
Like children and a building you cant stand steady.
It must be the beat so heavy,
Causin' panic attacks like a crack in the levy.
Give you that Robert Plant,
Dancin' days are back, feelin all in the track,
And infact? For those knowin' the name I'm back,
With some brand new crack we can do it like that,
You really must be so lonely,
Puffed up like you're tough but so phony.
You and your boys you don't know me,
You really wanna hold me? Show me homie.
Tough talk doesn't mean a thing,
Get over yourself, you know when we're up in the scene,
It's Machine Shop rockin' when we step inside,
And we got everybody so petrified!

Now why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

Now why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

Ya'll are not not re-ready (no!),
Not re-ready (no!),
We about to drop it steady (so!),
Do it like that, like that, like that,
Like that, like that, like that, like that...

Ya'll are not not re-ready (no!),
Not re-ready (no!),
We about to drop it steady (so!),
Do it like that, like that, like that,
Like that, like that, like that, like get up...

Why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

Why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

Drop that! (cmon')

 

Like stop! (stop x10)

Machine shop! (shop x10)

 

Feel Like Home

Yeah

These days are dark and the nights are cold,
People acting like they lost their soul,
And everywhere I go I see another person like me,
Trying to make it all feel like home (feel like home)

These days are dark and the nights are cold,
People acting like they lost their soul,
And everywhere I go I see another person like me,
Trying to make it all feel like home (feel like home)

Standin' on the bridge in the dark and I'm seein' my breath,
Tryin' to make it home without freezin' to death,
And my grandfather's face is stuck in my mind and how,
Seeing him tonight's gonna be the last time.
I should've brought a jacket,
Blowin' in my hands like it's really gonna stop the chill,
I buy a cup of cofee with a five dollar bill, thinkin',
Layin' in that box people look so still,
At times like these you start thinkin',
Your first beath in, and your clock starts tickin',
I'm not trying to bum anyone out,
Not trying to be dramatic, just thinkin' out loud,
I'm just tryin' to make some sense in my mind.
Some defense from the cold that I'm feeling outside, and for a minute,
Escape with some rhythm and rhyme, and,
Get away from the grey, just a bit at a time.

Yeah, kinda funny how this world can treat you,
Like a freak in a sideshow, a carnival creature,
Climbin' outta cans, I'm a diamond in the sand,
But you can't tell the difference on a beach full of rhinestones,
My life's like tryin' to swallow a pinecone.
It's tough when you live fast, just to die slow,
Talk to dial tones, my dreams are far-fetched,
It seems, so I sleep underneath this park bench,
I know it don't make sense,
And I don't expect for you to know what it's like.,
Smoke, drink, piss, sniffing everything in my sight.
Push rocks in a pipe,
Liftoff, I keep puffin' 'til my lips turn white,
And my chest gets tight, but who the fuck really cares,
When you're so far left, that even death looks right.
All I can do is hope for the best and pray,
That it gets a little better than yesterday.

(These) These days are dark and the nights are cold,
People acting like they lost their soul,
And everywhere I go I see another person like me,
Trying to make it all feel like home (feel like home)

These days are dark and the nights are cold,
People acting like they lost their soul,
And everywhere I go I see another person like me,
Trying to make it all feel like home (feel like home)

Yo, pardon me, I think I'm next to url,
Too many problems goin' on, that's why I left my girl.
Packed my bags and I traveled with a pen and my notepad,
Pissed that I was broke and all the things that I don't have,
But still, I try to find a way to escape,
From all the hate planted in my head which lead to mistakes,
But now I'm breakin' the mold, see I was patient and calm,
Many sleep in the rain, but I'm awake in the storm,
Writing my life in a short film, The Rise and Fall,
How I managed to scorch hills, and climb the walls,
Pound pavement, aimless in this cold existance,
Even though things are changin', I'm goin' the distance,
Overcomin' the doubt that had controlled for so long,
And put it all behind me, 'cause life still goes on,
Now I'm much stronger and know where I stand,
While lost souls search over and over again.

These days are dark and the nights are cold,
People acting like they lost their soul,
And everybody's tryin' not to cry, trin' to get by,
And tryin' not too feel out of control,
And if you look hard enough,
Sometimes you'll find a place that might just remind you of home,
But if it doesn't feel like home,
You can do what I do,
Just pretend you don't feel so alone.

 

Feel like home

Feel like home

Feel like home

Feel like home

Feel like home

Feel like home

Feel like home

Feel like home

 

Where'd You Go

Where'd you go? I miss you so,
Seems like it's been forever,
That you've been gone.

She said;
"Some days I feel like shit, some days I wanna quit,
And just be normal for a bit,
I don't understand why you have to always be gone,
I get along but the trips always feel so long, and,
I find myself tryin' to stay by the phone,
'Cause your voice always helps me and I feel not so alone,
But I feel like an idiot, working my day around a call,
That when I pick up I don't have much to say, so,
I want you to know it's a little fucked up,
That I'm stuck here waiting,
At times debating, telling you I've had it with you and your career,
Me and the rest of the family here singing "Where'd you go?"."

Where'd you go? I miss you so,
Seems like it's been forever,
That you've been gone.
Where'd you go? I miss you so,
Seems like it's been forever,
That you've been gone.
Please come back home.

Come back home, you know that place where you used to live?,
Used to barbeque up burgers and ribs,
Used to have a little party every Halloween with candy by the pile,
But now you only stop by every once in a while.
(Shit) I find myself just filling my time,
With anything to keep the thought of you from my mind,
I'm doing fine, and I'm planning to keep it that way,
And you can call me if you find that you have something to say,
And I'll tell you;
"I want you to know it's a little fucked up,
That I'm stuck here waiting,
At times debating, telling you that I've had it with you and your career.
Me and the rest of the family here singing "Where'd you go?"."

Where'd you go? I miss you so,
Seems like it's been forever,
That you've been gone.
Where'd you go? I miss you so,
Seems like it's been forever,
That you've been gone.
Please come back home.

I want you know it's a little fucked up,
That I'm stuck here waiting,
No longer debating,
Tired of sitting and hating and making these excuses,
For why you're not around, and feeling so useless,
It seems one thing has been true all along,
You don't really know what you've got 'til it's gone,
I guess I've had it with you and your career,
When you come back I won't be here,
And you can sing it.

Where'd you go? I miss you so,
Seems like it's been forever,
That you've been gone.
Where'd you go? I miss you so,
Seems like it's been forever,
That you've been gone.
Please come back home

Please come back home

Please come back home

Please come back home

 

When you made me that initial batch of songs

I was like, "That's the shit right there"

Holla

 

In Stereo

"That beat is hard!"

This is how it goes,
Welcome one and all to the show,
We’re wired up, fired up, fuckin' ready to go,
In the back of the parking lot outside of the bar,
Twenty deep, twenty feet from the boulevard,
Black hoodies, black caps, black label in glasses,
Previewin' the new shit before all the masses,
'Cause the first thing I need when I got a new beat,
Is to see how it sounds echoin' off the street,
I just take it for a spin, pop the CD in,
Slide it up to ten and get that rear view shakin',
And play it again so there’s no mistakin',
San Andreas the block get this bitch earthquakin' like..OH!

Oh-oh!
Ready for it? Here we go,
We got the whole block rockin' in stereo,
We're takin' control, lettin' everybody know,
And if you feel it lemme hear everybody go,
Oh-Oh!

You’re not ready, I got plenty cuts,
For twenty months dropped steadily,
Plenty tracks to empty on your wack pedigree,
I’m backed heavily, while you’re back peddling,
Forget the chit chat on me homie, kick back,
I’m on that shit that can get your homie bitchslapped,
So zip your lip back, listen and watch,
We got the whole block rockin' off the way the beat knocks,
You dont have to warn the people on the corner, they know,
That if you’re standing on that corner then you’re getting that show,
World premiering you're hearing that machine shop flow,
San Andreas the block get this bitch earthquakin' like..OH!

Oh...oh!
Ready for it? Here we go,
We got the whole block rockin' in stereo,
We're takin' control, lettin' everybody know,
And if you feel it lemme hear everybody go,
Oh...oh!

Ready for it? Here we go,
We got the whole block rockin' in stereo,
We're takin' control, lettin' everybody know,
And if you feel it lemme hear everybody go,

Turn the key, turn the volume up to loud,
Roll right, roll every window down,
Let the whole block know what this is about,
Turn it up, ya'll, burn that system out,
Turn the key, turn the volume up to loud,
Roll right, roll every window down,
Let the whole block know what this is about,
Turn it up, ya'll, burn out that system like OH!

Oh...oh!
Ready for it? Here we go,
We got the whole block rockin' in stereo,
We're takin' control, lettin everybody know,
And if you feel it lemme hear everybody go,
Oh...oh!

Ready for it? Here we go,
We got the whole block rockin' in stereo,
We're takin' control, lettin everybody know,
And if you feel it lemme hear everybody go,
Oh...oh!

Let’s go ahead and test out the speakers, you ready?
Let’s go, like this!

 

Back Home

Uh! Yeah...yo,
We about to take ya'll to the tip, to the crib...
Let's do it Mike!

Yeah!

Back home (back home),
Everybody's searching for somethin',
But all they can find is a whole lot of nothin',
Back home (back home),
Ain't nobody hopin' and prayin',
'Cause they feel like nothing can save 'em,
And they try to hold out but they can't fight the fact,
That life goes black when those lights go out,
But I guess you gotta just watch out for your own,
'Cause ain't a damn thing free back home! (Back home)

Back home, they holler "disciple" and "blackstone",
Same block they freebase yo we trapped on,
Where our grandmothers marched, the guns clap on,
There's liquor stores, beauty supplies, and rap songs,
I travel the world just to come back to it,
The crib got a lot of soul like black music,
I'm attached to it,
In many ways the city raised me, and gave me,
The drama, honor, and bravery,
The streets seem hollow, when I go to Chicago,
It's cheap wine and sorrow,
Times is hard to swallow,
In search of God's tomorrow, I borrow words from the,
Bible, and use them for survival, gangs rival,
Signs painted on walls like hieroglyphics,
I tell 'em that this is all tribal,
Used to do dirt, shorty's goin' through the same cycle,
And trials like Michael, tryin' not to stay idle!

Back home (back home),
Everybody's searching for somethin',
But all they can find is a whole lot of nothin',
Back home (back home),
Ain't nobody hopin' and prayin',
'Cause they feel like nothing can save 'em,
And they try to hold out but they can't fight the fact,
That life goes black when those lights go out,
But I guess you gotta just watch out for your own,
'Cause ain't a damn thing free back home! (Back home)

Back home it's not Compton but close,
The same problems exist and the pain throbbin',
And folks are so common,
It don't, really bother us much we just swallow it (uh!),
Crack the bottle and smoke, hope tomorrow something,
Magical happens that'll put me back in the biz,
But the chances of it actually happening's kinda slim,
Back home, we get the good life at a glimpse,
In the form of a rap star, drug dealers, and pimps,
I'm back home!

Back home, I try my best to keep it together it's cold, (cold)
Like the Windy City streets of December,
I pace back and forth, looking for the courage to shine,
But can't tap the source, need something to nourish my mind,
I know we all lose quite a bit in life,
Only to gain some,
Life of the dark winding roads we came from,
But I move with the night, so I'm used to the shade,
And never lose sight, bringing truth back to the game!

Back home, we've got a lot of shit on our minds,
We're always behind on something cause there's not enough time,
And we're non-stop, bottom line, doing what we gotta do,
To get some food in the fridge and stay out of the hospital,
Back home there's people calling us hopeless,
People trying to tell us all we need is some focus,
But focus,
Focus is overrated,
Cause you see every blemish and mistake and can't change it,
Back home is Alvarado, K-Town and J-Town,
Or Little Tokyo for those that don't know,
Where figures shiver, living right in the litter,
Where kids write bigger, right inside the LA river,
On the concrete, a symbol of our everyday way,
Its that color and concentration over heavy and grey,
And by the time the ink dries on this page,
I'll be half a day away from the place where I stay!

Back home (back home),
Everybody's searching for somethin',
But all they can find is a whole lot of nothin',
Back home (back home),
Ain't nobody hopin' and prayin',
'Cause they feel like nothing can save 'em,
And they try to hold out but they can't fight the fact,
That life goes black when those lights go out,
But I guess you gotta just watch out for your own,
'Cause ain't a damn thing free back home! (Back home)

We takin it back home ya'll,
Yeah it's Common Sense (yeah!),
My guy Mike (what up Com'?),
S.O.B. (uh-huh),
Yeah, this is how we rotate,
It's good music (ha ha ha),
Hip-hop (don't stop!), yeah
Uh, it's home for me baby...yeah!

 

Cigarettes

Yeah..go ahead and uh, cue those special effects..(haha)
Yeah..

Man I love this rap game,
Mainly 'cause its cool to add a little,
Spice to the life you've been through,
Everyone exaggerates a tiny little bit,
Make that shit sound more gangster than it really is,
You cant appear weak, man, we wanna hear street,
We wanna hear you spit your thug over this here beat,
Don't take it as sarcastic, I can't get enough,
I'm telling you,
You can call my bluff, if it's not rough,
Then I really don't need it,
I'm not even ashamed,
I got too much reality thats filling up my brain,
So sell me on the product, I'm addicted to the game,
Suck it up like a cigarette, light it up man...

Its just like a cigarette, its something that I do,
Once in a while but between me and you,
Its just like a cigarette, nobody's really fooled,
I don't want the truth, I wanna feel fucking cool!

Let me tell you something that I realized tonight,
My hip hop radio's like Marlboro Light,
They're both selling stories,
And they sound about the same,
Cigarettes say their safe,
Rappers claim they really bang,
We dont care if it's true, when we lay the money down,
We don't believe the words,
We just love the way they sound,
They're acting like we're idiots, they're lying to our face,
Maybe we are idiots, we buy it anyway,
I'm runnin out to get the next rapper's CD, just,
Suckin up the guns, drugs, and misogyny,
The same way that I suck up all the stories when I breathe,
That little bit of death supposedly cancer-free,
And everything they say's got the truth twisted up but,
Twisted up's what I want man,
I can't get enough,
'Cause even though we know it's all just a big bluff,
We just light another up, what,
We don't give a fuck!

Its just like a cigarette, its something that I do,
Once in a while but between me and you,
Its just like a cigarette, nobody's really fooled,
I don't want the truth, I wanna feel fucking cool!

Its just like a cigarette, its something that I do,
Once in a while but between me and you,
Its just like a cigarette, nobody's really fooled,
I don't want the truth, I wanna feel fucking cool!

Man, listen to my words, listen for awhile,
Lip Service radio, dont touch the dial,
If you're in the car, turn up the track, man,
Give your whole neighborhood some second hand rap, hey,
Matter of a fact, listen for awhile,
Lip Service radio, dont touch the dial,
If you're in the car man turn up the track, and,
Give the whole neighborhood some second hand rap!

Its just like a cigarette, its something that I do,
Once in a while but between me and you,
Its just like a cigarette, nobody's really fooled,
I don't want the truth, I wanna feel fucking cool!

Its just like a cigarette, its something that I do,
Oh, for real, but between me and you,
Its just like a cigarette, nobody's really fooled,

I don't want the truth, I wanna feel fucking cool!

 

Believe Me

Yeah

 

I guess,
That this is where we've come to,
If you don't want to,
Then you don't have to believe me,
But I,
Won't be there when you go down,
Just so you know now,
You're on your own now,
Believe me!

Yo, I don't want to be the one to blame, you like fun and games,
Keep playing 'em, I'm just sayin',
Think back then we was like one and the same,
On the right track, but I was on the wrong train,
It's like that, now you gotta face the pain,
And the devil's got a fresh new place to play,
In your brain like a maze you can never escape,
The rain, every damn day is the same shade of grey.

Hey, I used have a little bit of a plan, used to,
Have a concept of where I stand,
But that concept slipped right out of my hand and now,
I don't really even know who I am, yo,
What do I have to say,
Maybe, I should do what I have to do to break free and,
What ever happens to you, we'll see,
But it's not gonna happen with me.

I guess,
That this is where we've come to, (Yeah)
If you don't want to,
Then you don't have to believe me,
But I,
Won't be there when you go down, (Yeah)
Just so you know now,
You're on your own now,
Believe me!

Back then, I thought you were just like me,
Somebody who could see all the pain I see,
But you proved to me unintentionally,
That you would self-destruct, eventually,
Now I'm faking like the mistake I made doesn't hurt,
But it's not gonna work, 'cause it's really much worse than I thought,
I wished you were something that you were not,
And now this guilt is really all that I got.

Uh, you turn your back and walk away in shame,
All you got is a memory of pain,
Nothing makes sense so you stare at the ground,
And hear my voice in my head when no one else is around,
So what do I have to say,
Maybe, I should do what I have to do to break free and,
Whatever happens to you, we'll see,
But it's not gonna happen to me,

I guess,
That this is where we've come to, (Yeah)
If you don't want to,
Then you don't have to believe me,
But I,
Won't be there when you go down, (Yeah)
Just so you know now,
You're on your own now,
Believe me!

I guess,
That this is where we've come to, (Yeah)
If you don't want to,
Then you don't have to believe me,
But I,
Won't be there when you go down, (Yeah)
Just so you know now,
You're on your own now,
Believe me!

I'll do what I have to do,
(You're on your own now believe me)
Whatever happens to you,
(You're on your own now believe me)
What do I have to say,
(You're on your own now believe me)
It's not gonna happen to me,
(You're on your own now believe me)

 

(Yeah)

 

So, here's the thing...

 

Get Me Gone

"The dude, he said that, like, when we were making the first Linkin Park record
He was like,
'Yeah you know, I don't know about the rapping like, I don't know if it's... maybe you should just be a rock band.'
You know what I mean, like, trying to change us,
Like they signed us as an act, like what we sound like, and then he's like (Yeah)
'Oh I don't know maybe you should just play keyboard'."

Before the first song that you heard me on,
There were people already tryin' to get me gone,
Tellin' me to quit rapping, just play the keys, that
"My band had a singer", "They didn't need me",
But my band had my back,
So we did the tracks, put out the album,
And the talk went flat,
It was funny at first, but then the humour faded,
When some magazines printed that our label made us,
We were too be good to be true,
Some were saying ghost writers were writin' all that we do,
So we had to disprove it, we spelled it out,
To the detail, how we do it, when we're making this music,
After that I made it a rule:
I only do e-mail responses to print interviews,
Because these people love to put a twist to your words,
To infer that you said something fucking absurd.
Oh, did I lose you at 'infer'?
Not used to hearing a verse that uses over first grade vocabulary words?
People used to 'infer' that we were manufactured,
Now I've got the interviews on file,
Which people said what, which number to dial,
So now every enemy screaming insanity,
All they're ever gonna be's another big fan of me, (Bitch!)

(*Laughter*)
"Can you believe that? Like that's crazy,
It sounds crazy right, like this point,
At this point you're thinking...you hear that you're like,
'That guy..is out of his mind!', But honestly at that point...
Like besides the fact he wanted me to just play keyboards or whatever,
Didn't want me to rap..he was like 'Maybe Joe Hahn..should, um...wear a lab coat, and a cowboy hat on stage',
Like when we play? ('yo?!')
I swear to god he was crazy!
('So Joe..in a cowboy hat?!')
Yeah, and later on he claimed he wrote all our songs,
So yeah..that was..that was really nice."

 

High Road

Lets go ya'll!

These people are running off at the mouth,
Tryin to convince me that I'm running on empty,
Tryin to convince themselves that the record with Jay was a fluke,
That the record that I'm makin is a mistake,
And I cant take this,
Lemme tell you where I'm at with this,
You bastards are gonna have to take back that shit,
I'm not plastic and fake, when I make tracks,
I take facts and lay 'em out for the masses,
You assholes are gonna see soon that I'm not playing,
And start asking me the names that I'm not saying,
But I'm tryin to be bigger than the bickering,
Bigger than the petty name calling,
Under the breath talking,
Rumors and labels and categorization,
I'm like a struggling doctor: no patience, (haha)
But you can say what you want about me,
Keep talkin' while I'm walkin' away!

You can say what you have to say,
'Cause my mind's made up anyway,
I'm taking the high road, going above you,
This is the last time that I'm gonna trust you,
You can say what you have to say,
'Cause my mind's made up anyway,
All that bullshit you talk might work a lot, (Yeah, yo)
But it's not gonna work today!

You people are running off at the mouth,
Tryin' to make me take myself off safety,
Tryin' to make my friends turn their backs,
On the team we built,
Buildin up some mistaken information,
And I cant take this,
Let me spell it out plain for you angry groups,
Complaining 'bout the things we do,
I'm not changing direction,
I'm stepping my game up,
Maintainin my name, same way I came up,
You're gonna see that I'm not playing,
And start asking the names that I'm not saying,
But I'm trying not to mention the names of,
People who wanna siphon attention,
You like the hype but,
Pretendin you're part of the picture wont pass,
You're like a high school dropout: no class, (Haha)
You can say what you want about me,
Keep talkin' while I'm walkin' away! (Bitch!)

You can say what you have to say,
'Cause my mind's made up anyway,
I'm taking the high road, going above you,
This is the last time that I'm gonna trust you,
You can say what you have to say,
'Cause my mind's made up anyway,
All that bullshit you talk might work a lot,
But it's not gonna work today! (Not gonna work today)

Why does it always have to be,
Somebody's always watching me,
All I really need is some room to breathe (breathe) (breathe),

Is anybody out there listening?
'Cause I cant stand to keep this in,
All I really want, I'll say again!

You can say what you have to say,
'Cause my mind's made up anyway,
I'm taking the high road, going above you,
This is the last time that I'm gonna trust you,
You can say what you have to say,
'Cause my mind's made up anyway,
All that bullshit you talk might work a lot,
But it's not gonna work today! (Not gonna work today)

 

Kenji

"My father came from Japan in 1905,
He was 15 when he immigrated from Japan,
He worked until he was able to buy - to actually build a store.."

Let me tell you a story in the form of a dream,
I don't know why I have to tell it but I know what it means,
Close your eyes and just picture the scene, as I paint it for you,
It was World War II when this man named Kenji woke up,
Ken was not a soldier, he was just a man with a family,
Who owned a store,
In LA, that day,
He crawled out of bed like he always did,
Bacon and eggs with wife and kids,
He lived on the second floor of a little store he ran,
He moved to LA from Japan,
They called him 'Immigrant,' in Japanese,
He'd say he was called "Iisei," that meant,
'First Generation In The United States,' when,
Everybody was afraid of the Germans, afraid of the "Japs",
But most of all afraid of a homeland attack,
And that morning when Ken went out on the doormat,
His world went black 'cause,
Right there; front page news,
Three weeks before 1942,
"Pearl Harbour's Been Bombed And The Japs Are Coming,"
Pictures of soldiers dying and running,
Ken knew what it would lead to,
And just like he guessed, the president said,
"The evil Japanese in our home country would be locked away,"
They gave Ken, a couple of days,
To get his whole life packed in two bags,
Just two bags,
He couldn't even pack his clothes,
And some folks didn't even have a suitcase,
To pack anything in,
So two trash bags is all they gave them,
When the kids asked mom "Where are we going?"
Nobody even knew what to say to them,
Ken didn't wanna lie,
He said "The US is looking for spies,
So we have to live in a place called Manzanar,
Where a lot of Japanese people are.",
Stop it don't look at the gunmen!
You don't wanna get the soldiers wondering,
If you're gonna run or not 'cause if you run then you might get shot,
Other than that try not to think about it,
Try not to worry 'bout it; bein' so crowded,
Someday we'll get out, someday, someday.

"Yeah, soon as war broke out, the F.B.I. came and...they just come to the house,
and, 'You have to come.', 'All the Japanese have to go", they took Mr. Ni,
The people couldn't understand, 'Why did they have to take him,
Because he's just an innocent laborer?' "

So now they're in a town with soldiers surrounding them,
Every day, every night, looked down at them,
From watchtowers up on the wall,
Ken couldn't really hate them at all,
They were just doing their job and,
He wasn't gonna make any problems,
He had a little garden, vegetables and fruits that he gave to the troops,
In a basket his wife made,
But in the back of his mind, he wanted his family's life saved,
Prisoners of war in their own damn country,
What for?
And time passed in the prison town, he wondered,
If he'd live it down if and when they were free,
The only way out was joining the army, and supposedly,
Some men went out for the army, signed on,
And ended up flying to Japan with a bomb,
That fifteen kiloton blast, put an end to the war pretty fast,
Two cities were blown to bits,
The end of the war came quick,
And Ken got out,
Big hopes of a normal life, with his kids and his wife, but,
Then they got back to their home, and,
What they saw made them feel so alone,
These people had trashed every room,
Smashed in the windows and bashed in the doors,
Written on the walls and the floor:
"Japs not welcome anymore.",
And Kenji dropped both of his bags at his sides and just stood outside,
He, looked at his wife without words to say,
She looked back at him wiping tears away,
And, said "Someday we'll be okay, someday,"
Now the names have been changed, but the story's true,
My family was locked up back in '42,
My family was there it was dark and damp,
And they called it an "internment camp".

"When we first got back from camp, it was pretty, pretty bad."
"I remember my husband said, 'Oh we're gonna stay 'til last.'
Then my husband died before they closed the camp."

 

Red To Black

Whoa, whoa

Whoa, whoa

Whoa

 

I had a friend named Victor
The two of us used to hang every single day
And it seemed like overnight that his whole life / just changed
I know when his mom and dad broke up / it didn't make sense
But I know that his dad was a drunk and he gambled away the rent
Pretty soon Vic was seeing red / pissed off / but instead (Whoa)
He'd drink every night 'til he passed out (Whoa)
Then he'd do it all again
The whole time / smiling on the outside to cover the pain (Whoa)
But on the inside / all he was trying to do was get away (Whoa)

He's dying to get away
Let the pain of yesterday
Go slipping through the cracks...

Yo, funny how things change color
Then fade to another shade / when you had it made
It was all good / but now look / just another day
It was so fresh / it was so clean
Now it's all gone / one, two, three
Lights out / which way to turn
Can't get a grip / All alone in a big white house
Every day gets worse / and you just curse 'til your head bursts
And it hurts so bad / she left / now you suffer
Should've thought of that one first
No family / no kids / can accept what you did / now you wanna
Run away but you can't cause the past comes back again

Slippin' through the cracks / sip a little Jack
Go to be half dead
What about the rent? Why does every cent gotta be a bet
When's it gonna end
Oh my God / we don't got a penny left
My mom's gotta find a way to get a job
Outta debt / outta dodge / out of breath / out of this big problem
My pop's wanna get away from the pain (Whoa)
In a better place in his brain
But the medication he takes makes him wasted (Whoa)
So sick he was gonna think the good Lord would come take him (Whoa)
I'm shaking him
Wake up you son of a bitch (Whoa)

He's dying to get away
Let the pain of yesterday
Go slipping through the cracks
Hiding himself away
Watching all the memories fade away
From red to black

He's dying to get away
Let the pain of yesterday
Go slipping through the cracks
Hiding himself away
Watching all the memories fade away

From red to black

 

Slipping through the cracks

Slipping through the cracks

Slipping through the cracks

 

Time's up

 

The Battle

Times up, times up, times up!
Alright Celph you got 30 seconds,
You ready?
Alright Celph Titled hit em!

Hhaha..yeah! Aight, that's all you got?

These hungry rappers battle for a buck and some change,
There really be kids starving, give a fuck if it change,
Shock rap, not that, you get signed you might blow up,
"Release Party In Iraq", you might blow up,
I see you trying to think a few lines you might get at me with,
Slap happy with babies who're born with crack in they cribs,
Too much to cram under you oversized fitted,
And the public school system failed you,
Either you're ignorant or...

 

Slip Out The Back

You know me
I used to get caught up in everyday life
Trying to make it through my day so I could sleep at night
Trying to figure out my way through the maze of rights and wrongs
But like you used to say
Nothing feels like it's really worth it
Forget perfect / I'm trying not to be worthless
Since I last saw you I've been looking for a purpose / well
I met this kid who thought like I did
He had a weird way of looking at it
This is what he said

Slip out the back before they
know you were there / and
At the worst you'll see nobody cares
'Cause you don't wanna be around when it all goes down
Even heroes know when to be scared

Slip out the back before they
know you were there / and
At the worst you'll see nobody cares
'Cause you don't wanna be around when it all goes down
Even heroes know when to be scared

Now / I don't remember where
I met him
Or remember his name
But he walked funny like he was just too big for his frame
Just over five foot / but he weighed a buck fifty
And what he said seemed so right it stuck with me / listen
It's like poker / you can play your best
But you gotta know when to fold your cards and take a rest
And know when to hold your cards / hold your breath and
Hope that nobody else is stacking the deck / because
I don't need to tell you that life isn't fair
It doesn't care
It arbitrarily cuts off your air
And like you / I want someone to say it's okay
In the truest part of our hearts everybody's afraid / we're just
Underappreciated and overwhelmed
Fighting so hard to hide our fear that we're scaring ourselves
You understand what I'm saying / cause you always did
But it's different in the words of a cowardly kid

 

Slip out the back before they
know you were there / and
At the worst you'll see nobody cares
'Cause you don't wanna be around when it all goes down
Even heroes know when to be scared

Slip out the back before they

know you were there
At the worst you'll see nobody cares
'Cause you don't wanna be around when it all goes down
Even heroes know when to be scared

And I'm no hero
You remember how it was / you know
All I ever did was worry / feeling out of control
To the point where everything was going end over end
I'm spinning around in circles again
This is where you come in
All of this to explain to you why I had to
Separate myself away from yesterday's life
Please remember
This isn't how I hoped it would be
But I had to protect you from me

That's why I
Slipped out the back before you knew I was there
I know you felt unprepared
But every single time I was around I'd just bring you down
And I could tell that it was time to be scared
That's why I
Slipped out the back before you knew I was there
And I know the way I left wasn't fair
I didn't wanna be around just to bring you down
I'm not a hero
But don't think I didn't care

 

Be Somebody

Uh! M.S., Lupe,
You know...I'm a fan man, I'm a real fan, (Gonna be somebody)
I feel real honored to be up in here, you know what I'm sayin'? (Gonna be someone)
They had to bring out the expensive mics for this one,
You know what I'm sayin? The $7000 headphones for this one here, (Gonna be somebody, gonna be someone)
You know what I'm sayin?
Come on..talk to em'!

This is the story of them against us, win or lose,
Forcing your feet into someone else's shoes,
Everybody's got somethin' to say,
That we aughta live their way,
What we're doing's not "okay",
In this world everybody's got a chip on,
Both sides of their neck,
Got no respect, wait up a sec!
You ever feel like the pressure is too much to take,
Too much weight?
Ladies and gentleman,
If anybody can hear me right now please shout back,
We're not the only one's feeling so trapped,
In a dream of somebody else...infact,
They got their heads full of some overblown scheme,
Opportunity they missed back when they were sixteen,
And all they wanna do is push you to be that,
And all you wanna do is scream back...

Gonna be somebody...
For anybody telling me I can't,
Gonna be someone...
For anyone who told me I had no chance,
Gonna be somebody...
I'm telling you the time has come, (like that)
Gonna be someone...
And maybe you'll get it when I'm finally done.

We don't sleep to dream,
We sleep to build stamina,
Energy to do our thing,
Get your camera,
Cause this ride is about to begin,
Sit down and buckle it in,
Let me say it again,
In this world everybody's got a chip on,
Both sides of their neck,
Got no respect, wait up a sec!
When I was young,
They said the odds of making it were slim to none,
Ladies and...fuck it,
I'm tired of them saying the dream you have doesn't exist,
Telling you you're worthless, telling you should quit,
Basically telling you that you'll never be shit!
Really, they're pissed 'cause they'll never acheive,
Some opportunity they missed back when they sixteen,
And all they wanna do is push you to be that,
And all you wanna do is scream back...

Uh!
They're gonna think you're crazy mumblin to yourself,
In the basement all day 'uh-uh-uh'in to yourself,
My pop's didn't dig it, was shovelin' to myself,
My boy's used to get it, they dug it because they felt,
My undertaking took me I was makin in my stealth,
A wealth of rhymes, of crazy I would chuckle to myself, (ha)
Then they went into the mental rolodex,
See I knew em' by heart like a brain in my chest,
Then I, took em' to school where subjects was getting felt,
Books under my seat, notebook laying on my desk,
My teacher's like, "Mr. Jaco?"
"Yes?"
"With all that knowledge, you aint tryin' to college,
Be a lawyer or a doctor, get a whole lotta dollars,
Rather degrade woman and glorify violence?"
Well the work that works for me, might not work for you,
No homework, I got work to do!

Gonna be somebody...
For anybody telling me I can't,
Gonna be someone...
For anyone who told me I had no chance,
Gonna be somebody...
I'm telling you the time has come, (like that)
Gonna be someone...
And maybe you'll get it when I'm finally done.

(Finally done)

Yeah this one goes out to those fantastic human beings,
That keep us down and hold us back,
And give us fuel for what we do...thanks!

 

There They Go

Ready? Let's go.

Yeah, ladies and gentlemen,
Pleased to meet you,
I go by the name of Sixx John,
Of course you know Mike Shinoda. (Yeah)
Uh-oh,
West coast,
Let's go!

(One time) For my machine shop crew, and then it's,
(Two times) S.O.B and LP too, and then it's,
(Three times) It's Mike and Sixx on the track, and then,
(Four times) When we come in through the back, they're sayin'

Oh no, close the door, shut the lights, and start the show.
Better let everybody know, get on the mic and there they go.
Oh no, close the door, shut the lights, and start the show.
Better let everybody know, get on the mic and there they go.

Armed and dangerous, bitch,
Y'all can't really hang with us in this,
Everybody's so afraid of us...shit,
Makes me wanna hang it up and quit.
Forget about all the things you heard before,
'Bout time that we're kicking down your door,
Everybody's gonna hit the fucking floor,
Like "please Mike, don't hurt me anymore",
I don't gotta have a secret lie or an alibi,
Everybody knows why I'm here,
I'd just as soon crack a bottle,
As crack you over the head with a bottle of beer!
So just listen up there, powderpuff,
Better believe that I'm not playin',
You can love it, you can hate,
But don't mistake it, everybody sayin'

Oh no, close the door, shut the lights, and start the show.
Better let everybody know, get on the mic and there they go.
Oh no, close the door, shut the lights, and start the show.
Better let everybody know, get on the mic and there they go.

What you really wanna do is this,
Just make believe that I don't exist,
But you won't because everytime you go to spit (yo check this ou-),
I talk over you just like this (shit!)
It's annoying, just for you,
You could scream all day til your face is blue.
I'm gettin' in your head and you know it too,
And that's just me, you don't know my crew,
My man Sixx John understand though,
The way that he flows, you can call him Rambo,
Never missed a shot, never run outta ammo,
Comin' with heat like a goddamn commando,
And add in S.O.B,
Ryu, Tak, Vin Scully,
Cheapshot, and now you see,
Fuck with me? Nah.
Sixx?

Oh no, uh-oh,
Whatever you yell when you see that door close,
I'ma bail through the back (fo' sho'),
Straight to the bar so I can act (a fool),
I figured you guys would get a little surprise,
Your eyes wide when it's me and Mike Shinode,
I'm just plain old Sixx John from the Nam-district,
This is not supposed,
I still talk with awkward speech,
I'm like a dog that's off his leash,
Step out with a Fort Minor patch on a black tee,
Niggas gotta walk these streets.
I'm ain't trippin' homie, talk is cheap,
A cappella or we can bark on a beat,
And if that ain't enough action,
I've got 17 pages in this little magazine I keep.

Oh no, close the door, shut the lights, and start the show.
Better let everybody know, get on the mic and there they go.
Oh no, close the door, shut the lights, and start the show.
Better let everybody know, get on the mic and there they go.

We've got this place rockin',
Beat knockin', non stoppin',
If ya'll are with it, lemme hear it now (yeah, yo)

We've got this place rockin',
Beat knockin', non stoppin',
If ya'll are with it, lemme hear it now (yeah, yo)

(One time) For my machine shop crew, and then it's,
(Two times) S.O.B and LP too, and then it's,
(Three times) It's Mike and Sixx on the track, and then,
(Four times) We do it like that, like that, like that, like that.

Clap...clap bitches!

 

The Hard Way

Oh

Oh

Whoa

 

Come with me / let me walk you thru the world that I currently stay in
You can take a look around and tell me if I'm mistaken
You can meet and talk to / everybody that I live with
Maybe you can tell me why everybody's so distant
Is it me or maybe / when I look around daily
I don't even know the people I can put my trust in lately
People that used to hand with / now they're acting so different
I'm still the same person why doesn't anybody listen
Can somebody please / just explain to me
What happened to the way that we always said we'd be
Right now I don't know why I pushed through the pain that I got through
And I'm losing hope

Deafenin' voices / that frequency inside my head
That says / I'm going at it the hard way
I focus / get everything inside out of my brain
That claims / I'm going at it the hard way

Come with me / let me walk you thru the world that I currently live in
Not a thing is forgotten / not a thing is forgiven
Nobody can hold their own underneath the weight but
Nobody can take the blame for their own mistakes so
What do you do when somebody lets you down
And you wanna say something but you can't cause they're not around
Inside you think they know the extent of the pain
But they won't even admit that they were the one to blame
Can somebody please / just explain to me (Oh)
What happened to the way that we always said we'd be
'Cause right now I don't know why I pushed through the pain that I got through (Oh)
And I'm losing hope

 

Deafenin' voices / that frequency inside my head
That says / I'm going at it the hard way
I focus / get everything inside out of my brain
That claims / I'm going at it the hard way

 

Voices (voices)

In my head (in my head)

 

Can somebody please / just explain to me
What happened to the way that we always said we'd be
'Cause right now I don't know why I pushed through the pain that I got through
And I'm losing hope
Give me one reason not to

Deafenin' voices / that frequency inside my head
That says / I'm going at it the hard way
I focus / get everything inside out of my brain
That claims / I'm going at it the hard way

 

Oh

Whoa

Whoa

Whoa

Whoa

Whoa

Edited June 22, 2015 by TheSasstielExperience

[RogueSoul]

After I do the Mexico pre-show post I'll work on Collaborations - then we'll pretty much be done with Phase II.

[lpliveusername]

There are still a few songs without lyrics because I couldn't find those:

The hidden track from Run Joseph Run, the extended version of The Battle, the Bass On The Bottom remix, the Wednesday Was A Good Day remix, Mike Calling To Say Hi, Vegas Baby, Reckless.

 

I also forgot about the original remix of A Place For My Head.

 

I'll finish Stone Temple Pilots and then the clean version of The Rising Tied.

 

Edit:

Anybody understands what Scott says at the end of Crackerman?

Edited June 22, 2015 by lpliveusername

[GlassCastles]

I needed ANOTHER post for Fort Minor

 

 

Militia

Do What We Did

If anybody's out there listenin' to this broadcast o' mine
Let me tell you ladies and gentlemen what's on my mind
I won't pull any punches hold anything back/I'll
Tell you the way that it is
When it's all said and done I'mma leave you wonderin'
How did we do what we did?

Yo, I don't care if you're a woman or a child or man
When I'm done everybody's gonna understand
Some rappers get mad when you say they're in a band
But, not me 'cause I really am
It's LP for your fuckin' information, pal
So you can stop starin' back over your shoulder now
You can stop me muggin' with that twisted brow
Concentratin' on mine, you're wastin' your time buddy
Erase that face, replace the frown
Look at the ground, look down, quit fuckin' around
Now jeez, everyone's been so tightly wound
From the minute that we became the new menace in town
Could it be that these cool, contagious
Phrases sprayed aimless, are makin' ya'll hate us?
Shit, you can hate 'til your face turns blue
Everyone else, let me cut up a question for you

If anybody's out there listenin' to this broadcast o' mine
Let me tell you ladies and gentlemen what's on my mind
I won't pull any punches hold anything back/I'll
Tell you the way that it is
When it's all said and done I'mma leave you wonderin'
How did we do what we did?

Oh, there goes another one, better call all your people in
Bury the body quick stupid, show you where I'm coming from
Open up the cellar to the pelican's bliss
With delicatessenal sittin' 'til your skeleton's blitz
He sets us off now, don't know which direction is which
We all fell little weapons with consecutive hits
But that'll be that, so never mind your battery pack
'Cause in reality, nobody gives a crappity-crap
Move over, before you get your flattery snatched
Tiny caterpillars act like you don't have any sex
Hoping over the gums drillin' holes in cavity caps
They're full of shit to the root now, pass me that Jack
On the rocks is Tak back on the block, what?
Tappin' your vest like I just happen to pop up
Trapped in a circle and now he's itchin' the box
But no way, I'm a stop until I'm waiting your snot puss

If anybody's out there listenin' to this broadcast o' mine
Let me tell you ladies and gentlemen what's on my mind
I won't pull any punches hold anything back/I'll tell you the way that it is
When it's all said and done I'mma leave you wonderin', How did we do what we did?
(Yeah! Ryu!)

I just say what I feel, I don't care if I'm black ball
Walk up in the label, start wavin' a hack-saw
Hit the bathroom, strip naked and jack-off
This white boy's gettin' more gangster than Mac Mall
I'm in the crowd I'm feedin' your fans roofies
Nope, that ain't a coke it's a vikiten smoothie
Yeah, acting boozy a thug like fuck it
Got a champagne tazed with a bud light budget
Got a little-ass dick with some faggots on it
So sick I could make a fuckin' maggot vomit
No shit, get the mics out, kick it in gear
It's Ludacris, all I needed was some Chicken-N-Beer
You better, roll out while the coast is clear
We've been hit with thick bottles and a broken chair
Bitch please you can leave with a couple of cracked teeth
Don't pump me for the fame , I ain't crapped for six weeks so

If anybody's out there listenin' to this broadcast o' mine
Let me tell you ladies and gentlemen what's on my mind
I won't pull any punches hold anything back/I'll
Tell you the way that it is
When it's all said and done I'mma leave you wonderin'
How did we do what we did?

If anybody's out there listenin' to this, this broadcast
(How did we do what we did?)
This broadcast o' mine

 

Kenji (Interview Version)

"I was a kid in, I was a, I was a baby and a young kid in camp"

 

"Yeah, soon as war broke out, the F.B.I. came and they took some people from Sampedo"

They just come to the house, and you have to come

They just, you know, 'We're from the F.B.I and you're one of the suspicious person'"

 

"They put them in horse stalls"

 

"They took Mr. Ni, and people couldn't understand why'd they have to take him

Because he's just an, you know, innocent laborer"

 

"They put them in assembly areas until, uh, they worked out the logistics to transport the people to their final relocation camp"

 

"We, they had the assembly center"

 

"What they did was they put straw on the floor for bedding"

 

"Then all the Japanese had to go. Each family had a number, so they had their number on this, um, duffel bag. So, they said you have to move out certain day, but you know."

 

"The barracks were like quads. They had four sections, so you could have four families in a row. There were no rooms. So, oh, yeah. It was cramped, and then, to get your privacy, we used to put up partitions. Sheets. The walls were just boarded with tar paper"

 

"I remember my husband said "Oh, we're gonna stay til 'last." Then my husband died before they closed the camp, in the camp. Uh, we had four kids and (?) was born in camp. While I was there in three years, I never went out of camp"

 

"Before the war, my father had a mercantile. It was very successful. But, when we first got back from camp, it was

pretty, pretty bad. When we came back from camp, we were very poor. We used to, we used to use newspapers for wallpaper. What we ended up doing was we, we day labored. I remember going out and we picked grapes and worked on, you know, farms to make a living."

 

Tools Of The Trade

Alright you guys, listen.

Right here I got some paper, a toothbrush, this is a lighter, a bottle of beer, this is a bottle opener, and a pot from a kitchen

Alright you ready?

Let's go

 

Alright, maybe that doesn't sound quite right yet

So I'm gonna add some kick and snare just like this

Ha ha ha, yeah

And I got this guitar part

I'm gonna play the guitar part over it like this

Feelin' that?

And then we just loop that.

Why don't, why don't we bring in a little bit of bass just like this

Yeah

I wanna hit the snare drum

Bop bop

Yeah

Just take the, take the bass out right here just like this

This is where we just bring in the verse

 

I can make a loop out of anything work
I’m just surprised you guys didn’t think of this shit first
But fuck it! You can’t touch yours truly
You can hardly follow me much less move me, so
When I’m pumping the track, you punks in the back
Better jump when I ask you bastards

 

Yeah, you got it backwards and misconstrued
See I roll like the rat pack groups included
In the backpack with the gas mask in Munich
20 deep in a hatchback puffing Cubans

 

You wanna rap get the lab track qued let’s do this
But not on this track, you can’t afford it stupid!

Somebody call for the doc quick, he’s still on the street top
He's gotta stain on my freaking high top Reebok’s
Snatched off the velcro and choked him with it
My headphones rub my neck where I coach you chickens (bacockkkkkk!)
Machine Shop packs lots of tunes
Like Paul Wall mixed tapes leave you chopped and screwed
The mess too wild? The yes boys popping their Gats (yaps?)
Yeah, can you hear me now? Good get off my sac

Yo, MC am I, people call me Celph
I got the key to every young bitches chastity belt
You clicking even pussy, better yet they beaver
I’m gonna leave it to ya heavy with this nine millimeter

Yo, I see you chillin’ in that cherry beemer
Have you ever met a man with canary fever?
I ain’t talkin’ ‘bout a piss colored diamond either, word
I’m eatin’ birds outta sittin’ on your finger
You can teach 'em how to speak, say “Polly, want a cracker?”
Take 'em to the beach, play volleyball after
A little snack, champagne and pasta
We don’t gotta run fast girl, I know you got asthma

Yeah, sippin’ on jack and diamonds
Blowin' smoke rings, chillin’ with a pack of Heina’s
Your hands to the sky, get a crunk for fun
I’m so goddamn high, I could punch the sun

Oy, honestly it doesn’t even matter if I use this voice
It’d still fuck up you and your boys
So piss off mate, see I do what I want
'Cause your whole bloody lots, just a bunch of cunts


See right now Celph Titled's supposed to be in the booth

But he’s stuck inside a toilet getting ready to puke

And he drank a bunch of sisco, vodka, and rum

So Cheapshot’s gonna drop Celph’s verse, here it comes

Find me in the sandwich, gonna roll with the stutter
Rolling with a cutter, abuse your mother
On a road trip to Barbados with their hoes
I’m a hoodrat with a Winnebago, I make dough
On the block where the bullies where raised to partier
You in Idaho grazing pastures getting busy
I don’t hold acts unless for something get busy
On the ground I like the bear and I stay in my grizzly

Stay the fuck in the bathroom homie!

 

Where'd You Joe

Where'd you go?
I miss you so

Where'd you go?
I miss you so,
Seems like it's been forever,
That you've been gone.

Where'd you go?
I miss you so,
Seems like it's been forever,
That you've been gone.

She said "Some days I feel like shh,
Some days I wanna quit, and just be normal for a bit.
I don't understand why you have to always be gone
I get along but the trips always feel so long
And, I find myself trying to stay by the phone
'Cause your voice always helps me to not feel so alone
But I feel like an idiot, workin' my day around the call
But when I pick up I don't have much to say
So, I want you to know it's a little messed up
That I'm stuck here waitin', at times debatin'
Tellin' you that I've had it with you and your career,
Me and the rest of the family here singing, "Where'd you go?"

Where'd you go?
I miss you so,
Seems like it's been forever,
That you've been gone
Please come back home...

Come back home / you know the place where you used to live
Used to barbecue up burgers and ribs
Used to have a little party every Halloween with candy by the pile
But now, you only stop by every once and a while
(Yeah) I find myself just fillin' my time
With anything to keep the thought of you from my mind
I'm doin' fine, and I'm plannin' to keep it that way
You can call me if you find that you have something to say
And I'll tell you, I want you to know it's a little messed up
That I'm stuck here waitin', at times debatin'
Tellin' you that I've had it with you and your career
Me and the rest of the family here singing "Where'd you go?"

Where'd you go?
I miss you so,
Seems like it's been forever,
That you've been gone.

Where'd you go?
I miss you so,
Seems like it's been forever,
That you've been gone.

Please come back home

I want you to know it's a little messed up
That I'm stuck here waitin', no longer debatin'
Tired of sittin' and hatin' and makin' these excuses
For why you're not around, and feeling so useless
It seems one thing has been true all along
You don't really know what you've got 'til it's gone
I guess I've had it with you and your career
When you come back, I won't be here and you can sing it

Where'd you go?
I miss you so,
Seems like it's been forever,
That you've been gone.

Where'd you go?
I miss you so,
Seems like it's been forever,
That you've been gone.

Please come back home

Please come back home

Please come back home

Please come back home

Please come back home

 

Strange Things

Yeah!
Uh uh!
Y'all!

Everybody up! Let me introduce to you
A man that you heard of and you thought you knew
But give me a couple of seconds just to prove to you
You never did, but let me give you a chance to
I used to swear everybody had it in for me
People only wanted to talk to, spit on me
So I'd paint pictures, draw a little bit
And every time I was pissed off at some kid
I'd get home and draw a little sketch
Of any kid I hated with a knife in the neck
A pencil in the eye and a hole in the back
I had a back pack of six sketches like that
And over time people started to see
The pictures that I made, made a lot of sense to me
But it never ready made much of a difference
They still talk shit, but not at close distance
And that sucked cause all I wanted to have
Was just a little attention with the good and bad
But over time I got sick of trying
And kept making them pictures and kept redrawing lines

I don't know where I'm going with this
I'm just reminiscing and telling the story of this
Sit back and take in the story of the kid
As I look back at the strange things I did

Everybody up! Let me tell the truth to you
I never thought I'd be anyone you wished you knew
And just thought I'd end up a stain on the wall
Something you wanted fix if you've seen it all
Anyway back at PSI
I had a class with a smart mouth friend of mine
And we would sit in the back, the two of us combined
We'd make fun of everybody just to pass the time
Now, we did it quietly so no one heard
A couple of nerds, sentence full of pictures and words
Until this kid heard we were calling him names and decided to get tough
I remember he came up to me that day in front of half my friends
And talk shit so loud people couldn't pretend they didn't hear him
Saying he would beat my ass and I laughed
But he was serious and pushed me back
At this point, I was pretty confused
This little bitch was all amped so what could I do
I should have come back at him for all to see
But instead I just told him that, "It wasn't me"

I don't know where I'm going with this
I'm just reminiscing and telling the story of this
Sit back and take in the story of the kid
As I look back at the strange things I did

I don't know where I'm going with this
I'm just reminiscing and telling the story of this
Sit back and take in the story of the kid
As I look back at the strange things I did

It's like Flat Liners, see that flick?
People dying, come back saying crazy shit
People that they did wrong come back to attack them
And everyone that they hurt comes back for revenge
Well if that was ever going to happen to me
I'd pretentiously would be attacked constantly
But then again, for all the pain in my past
There'd be a lot of people that had better watch their ass

I don't know where I'm going with this
I'm just reminiscing and telling the story of this
Sit back and take in the story of the kid
As I look back at the strange things I did

I don't know where I'm going with this
I'm just reminiscing and telling the story of this
Sit back and take in the story of the kid

As I look back at the strange things I did

 

Believe Me (Club Remix)

I guess,
That this is where we've come to,
If you don't want to,
Then you don't have to believe me,
But I,
Won't be there when you go down,
Just so you know now,
You're on your own now,
Believe me!

I don't want to be the one to blame, you like fun and games,
Keep playing 'em, I'm just sayin,
Think back then we was like one and the same,
On the right track, but I was on the wrong train,
It's like that, now you gotta face the pain,
And the devil's got a fresh new place to play,
In your brain like a maze you can never escape,
The rain, every damn day is the same shade of grey.

Hey, I used have a little bit of a plan, used to,
Have a concept of where I stand,
But that concept slipped right out of my hand and now,
I don't really even know who I am, yo,
What do I have to say,
Maybe, I should do what I have to do to break free and,
What ever happens to you, we'll see,
But it's not gonna happen with me.

I guess,
That this is where we've come to,
If you don't want to,
Then you don't have to believe me,
But I,
Won't be there when you go down,
Just so you know now,
You're on your own now,
Believe me!

Back then, I thought you were just like me,
Somebody who could see all the pain I see,
But you proved to me unintentionally,
That you would self-destruct, eventually,
Now I'm faking like the mistake I made doesn't hurt,
But it's not gonna work, 'cause it's really much worse than I thought,
I wished you were something that you were not,
And now this guilt is really all that I got.

Uh, you turn your back and walk away in shame,
All you got is a memory of pain,
Nothing makes sense so you stare at the ground,
And hear my voice in my head when no one else is around,
So what do I have to say,
Maybe, I should do what I have to do to break free and,
Whatever happens to you, we'll see,
But it's not gonna happen to me,

I guess,
That this is where we've come to,
If you don't want to,
Then you don't have to believe me,
But I,
Won't be there when you go down,
Just so you know now,
You're on your own now,
Believe me!

I guess,
That this is where we've come to,
If you don't want to,
Then you don't have to believe me,
But I,
Won't be there when you go down,
Just so you know now,
You're on your own now,
Believe me!

I'll do what I have to do,
(You're on your own now believe me)
Whatever happens to you,
(You're on your own now believe me)
What do I have to say,
(You're on your own now believe me)
It's not gonna happen to me,
(You're on your own now believe me)

 

Start It All Up

Yo
Give me a second, I'll write about my pain for pages
I got a head full of frustrated phrases
So just bear with me as I get this out
You know the type of person that I'm talking about
These people who want to act like they've got your back
They never had your back, they just stab you in it
I never pretended I had it all together inside,
I got insecurities and things I'm trying to hide,
And I could never seem to get anything right,
And I could never seem to stop busting my fight
And I could never seem to get it right with you,
And I could never redeem myself when I'm through,
But sometimes, you know what, I just don't care,
I'm gonna speak my mind and let everybody stare
This is the last time, I'm telling you real loud,
If you want to tell me I'm wrong, let's do it right now

Start it all up, I'm ready to go
All I need is a signal just to let me know
Come on, start it all up, cause all I want,
Is an excuse to let loose the tension I got
Start it all up, I'm ready to go
All I need is a signal just to let me know
Come on, start it all up, cause all I want,
Is an excuse to let loose the tension I got

Give me a minute, I'll fill a newspaper with columns,
Cause people saying that I got an attitude problem,
That I'm negative when I rhyme, I complain,
Pessimistic all the time, in these lines
All the same, I just talk like this on a record and let it out,
I just cock back and let it all come flooding out
I just say the things that I know I feel are real,
I peel back the skin 'till the nerves reveal
You want to come with me, come closer to the speaker
You want to run with me, you're gonna have to dig deeper
You want to let it all out, I'll show you how
You want to tell me I'm wrong, we can do it right now

Start it all up, I'm ready to go
All I need is a signal just to let me know
Come on, start it all up, cause all I want,
Is an excuse to let loose the tension I got
Start it all up, I'm ready to go
All I need is a signal just to let me know
Come on, start it all up, cause all I want,
Is an excuse to let loose the tension I got

Mike Shinoda
The most ferocious
Mike Shinoda
With or without an accomplice

Mike Shinoda
The most ferocious
Mike Shinoda
With or without an accomplice

Start it all up, I'm ready to go
All I need is a signal just to let me know
Come on, start it all up, cause all I want,
Is an excuse to let loose the tension I got
Start it all up, I'm ready to go
All I need is a signal just to let me know
Come on, start it all up, cause all I want,
Is an excuse to let loose the tension I got

 

Move On

This is not a story that you've heard or you know
Everyone in black from the head to the toe
And I'm sitting in the back in the very last row
Hearing everybody ask why I had to go

Ladies and gentlemen we're gathered here today
To talk about the end in a friend gone away
Talking about pretending they don't know what to say
And they're tripping over words but they're talking anyway
Mingling and singing all these really sad songs
Talking of what I did right and forgetting all my wrongs
Saying how they'll miss me so much now that I'm gone
Man this is depressing
Let's move on

Let's move on
Come back to life like the light of the dawn
It's like a tightrope just move right along
Don't look down and don't step wrong
We don't have time so just move on

Friends from my past wiping tears on their sleeve
In between people that were never close to me
And as I turn my back on everyone to leave
I know that I'll be back to see them all eventually
I've gotta go away just to try something new
Cause what I'm used to isn't all that I can do
Just a change of scenery, just another view
Take it back to the beginning
Take it back to the roots

Let's move on
Come back to life like the light of the dawn
It's like a tightrope just move right along
Don't look down and don't step wrong
We don't have time so just move on
Come back to life like the light of the dawn
It's like a tightrope just move right along
Don't look down and don't step wrong
We don't have time so just move on

Just move on
Just move---

 

Related / Misc. Fort Minor Tracks

High Road (Clean)

Lets go ya'll!

These people are running off at the mouth,
Tryin to convince me that I'm running on empty,
Tryin to convince themselves that the record with Jay was a fluke,
That the record that I'm makin is a mistake,
And I cant take this,
Lemme tell you where I'm at with this,
You ... are gonna have to take back that ...,
I'm not plastic and fake, when I make tracks,
I take facts and lay 'em out for the masses,
You assholes are gonna see soon that I'm not playing,
And start asking me the names that I'm not saying,
But I'm tryin to be bigger than the bickering,
Bigger than the petty name calling,
Under the breath talking,
Rumors and labels and categorization,
I'm like a struggling doctor: no patience, (haha)
But you can say what you want about me,
Keep talkin while I'm walkin away!

You can say what you have to say,
'Cause my mind's made up anyway,
I'm taking the high road, going above you,
This is the last time that I'm gonna trust you,
You can say what you have to say,
'Cause my mind's made up anyway,
All that ... you talk might work a lot,
But it's not gonna work today! (Not gonna work today)

You people are running off at the mouth,
Tryin' to make me take myself off safety,
Tryin' to make my friends turn their backs,
On the team we built,
Buildin up some mistaken information,
And I cant take this,
Let me spell it out plain for you angry groups,
Complaining 'bout the things we do,
I'm not changing direction,
I'm stepping my game up,
Maintainin my name, same way I came up,
You're gonna see that I'm not playing,
And start asking the names that I'm not saying,
But I'm trying not to mention the names of,
People who wanna siphon attention,
You like the hype but,
Pretendin you're part of the picture wont pass,
You're like a high school dropout: no class,
You can say what you want about me,
Keep talkin while i'm walkin away! (bitch!)

You can say what you have to say,
'Cause my mind's made up anyway,
I'm taking the high road, going above you,
This is the last time that I'm gonna trust you,
You can say what you have to say,
'Cause my mind's made up anyway,
All that ... you talk might work a lot,
But it's not gonna work today! (Not gonna work today)

Why does it always have to be,
Somebody's always watching me,
All I really need is some room to breathe (breathe),
'Cause I cant stand to keep this in,
All I really want, I'll say again!

You can say what you have to say,
'Cause my mind's made up anyway,
I'm taking the high road, going above you,
This is the last time that I'm gonna trust you,
You can say what you have to say,
'Cause my mind's made up anyway,
All that ... you talk might work a lot,
But it's not gonna work today! (Not gonna work today)

 

In Stereo (Clean)

"That beat is hard!"

This is how it goes,
Welcome one and all to the show,
We’re wired up, fired up, ... ready to go,
In the back of the parking lot outside of the bar,
Twenty deep, twenty feet from the boulevard,
Black hoodies, black caps, black label in glasses,
Previewin' the new ... before all the masses,
'Cause the first thing I need when I got a new beat,
Is to see how it sounds echoin' off the street,
I just take it for a spin, pop the CD in,
Slide it up to ten and get that rear view shakin',
And play it again so there’s no mistakin',
San Andreas the block get this ... earthquakin' like..OH!

Oh-oh!
Ready for it? Here we go,
We got the whole block rockin' in stereo,
We're takin' control, lettin' everybody know,
And if you feel it lemme hear everybody go,
Oh-Oh!

You’re not ready, I got plenty cuts,
For twenty months dropped steadily,
Plenty tracks to empty on your wack pedigree,
I’m backed heavily, while you’re back peddling,
Forget the chit chat on me homie, kick back,
I’m on that shit that can get your homie ...slapped,
So zip your lip back, listen and watch,
We got the whole block rockin' off the way the beat knocks,
You dont have to warn the people on the corner, they know,
That if you’re standing on that corner then you’re getting that show,
World premiering you're hearing that machine shop flow,
San Andreas the block get this ... earthquakin' like..OH!

Oh...oh!
Ready for it? Here we go,
We got the whole block rockin' in stereo,
We're takin' control, lettin' everybody know,
And if you feel it lemme hear everybody go,
Oh...oh!
Ready for it? Here we go,
We got the whole block rockin' in stereo,
We're takin' control, lettin' everybody know,
And if you feel it lemme hear everybody go,

Turn the key, turn the volume up to loud,
Roll right, roll every window down,
Let the whole block know what this is about,
Turn it up, ya'll, burn that system out,
Turn the key, turn the volume up to loud,
Roll right, roll every window down,
Let the whole block know what this is about,
Turn it up, ya'll, burn out that system like OH!

Oh...oh!
Ready for it? Here we go,
We got the whole block rockin' in stereo,
We're takin' control, lettin everybody know,
And if you feel it lemme hear everybody go,
Oh...oh!
Ready for it? Here we go,
We got the whole block rockin' in stereo,
We're takin' control, lettin everybody know,
And if you feel it lemme hear everybody go,
Oh...oh!

Let’s go ahead and test out the speakers, you ready?
Let’s go, like this!

 

Petrified (Clean)

Ya'll are not not re-ready (no!),

Not re-ready (no!),
We about to drop it steady (so!),
Do it like that, like that, like that,
Like that, like that, like that, like that...

 

Now why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

Now why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

How you doin ya'll, my name's Mike,
I'm fluent with the new I'm doin it all night,
I like what I do, I do what I like,
I can quit and get it back like I'm riding a bike.
Like STOP...
Bring it back, bring it back,
We got that balance keepin us on track,
That you get when you're movin' quick with no slow,
You stare like you don't care, but you do though.
I know, you really must be so lonely,
Puffed up like you're tough but so phony.
You and your boys you don't know me,
You really wanna hold me? Show me homie.
Let's get it over with for good,
I got a friction addiction I wish you would,
Machine Shop rockin' when we step inside,
And we got everybody so petrified!

Now why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

Listen you are not ready,
Like children and a building you cant stand steady.
It must be the beat so heavy,
Causin' panic attacks like a crack in the levy.
Give you that Robert Plant,
Dancin' days are back, feelin all in the track,
And infact? For those knowin' the name I'm back,
With some brand new crack we can do it like that,
You really must be so lonely,
Puffed up like you're tough but so phony.
You and your boys you don't know me,
You really wanna hold me? Show me homie.
Tough talk doesn't mean a thing,
Get over yourself, you know when we're up in the scene,
It's Machine Shop rockin' when we step inside,
And we got everybody so petrified!

Now why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

Now why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

Ya'll are not not re-ready (no!),
Not re-ready (no!),
We about to drop it steady (so!),
Do it like that, like that, like that,
Like that, like that, like that, like that...

Ya'll are not not re-ready (no!),
Not re-ready (no!),
We about to drop it steady (so!),
Do it like that, like that, like that,
Like that, like that, like that, like get up...

Why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

Why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

Drop that! (cmon')

 

Like stop! (stop x10)

Machine shop! (shop x10)

 

Petrified (Los Angeles Remix)

Ya'll are not not re-ready (no!),

Not re-ready (no!),
We about to drop it steady (so!),
Do it like that, like that, like that,
Like that, like that, like that, like that...

 

Now why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

Now why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

How you doin ya'll, my name's Mike,
I'm fluent with the new shit I'm doin it all night,
I like what I do, I do what I like,
I can quit and get it back like I'm riding a bike.
Like STOP...
Bring it back, bring it back,
We got that balance keepin us on track,
That you get when you're movin' quick with no slow,
You stare like you don't care, but you do though.
I know, you really must be so lonely,
Puffed up like you're tough but so phony.
You and your boys you don't know me,
You really wanna hold me? Show me homie.
Let's get it over with for good,
I got a friction addiction I wish you would,
Machine Shop rockin' when we step inside,
And we got everybody so petrified!

Now why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

Listen you are not ready,
Like children and a building you cant stand steady.
It must be the beat so heavy,
Causin' panic attacks like a crack in the levy.
Give you that Robert Plant,
Dancin' days are back, feelin all in the track,
And infact? For those knowin' the name I'm back,
With some brand new crack we can do it like that,
You really must be so lonely,
Puffed up like you're tough but so phony.
You and your boys you don't know me,
You really wanna hold me? Show me homie.
Tough talk doesn't mean a thing,
Get over yourself, you know when we're up in the scene,
It's Machine Shop rockin' when we step inside,
And we got everybody so petrified!

Now why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

Now why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

Ya'll are not not re-ready (no!),
Not re-ready (no!),
We about to drop it steady (so!),
Do it like that, like that, like that,
Like that, like that, like that, like that...

Ya'll are not not re-ready (no!),
Not re-ready (no!),
We about to drop it steady (so!),
Do it like that, like that, like that,
Like that, like that, like that, like get up...

Why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

Why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

Drop that! (cmon')

 

Like stop! (stop x10)

Machine shop! (shop x10)

 

Remember The Name (Clean)

You ready?!
Lets go!
Yeah!
For those of you that wanna know what we're all about?
It's like this ya'll (c'mon!)

This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill,
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will,
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain,
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name!

Mike! - He doesn't need his name up in lights,
He just wants to be heard whether it's the beat or the mic,
He feels so unlike everybody else, alone,
In spite of the fact that some people still think that they know him,
But no, he knows the code,
It's not about the salary,
It's all about reality and makin' some noise,
Makin' the story, makin' sure his clique stays up,
That means when he puts it down Tak's pickin' it up! Let's go!

Who the hell is he anyway?
He never really talks much,
Never concerned with status, but still leavin' them star struck,
Humbled through opportunities, given to him despite the fact,
That many misjudge him, because he makes a livin' from writin raps,
Put it together himself, now the picture connects,
Never askin' for someone's help, or to get some respect,
He's only focused on what he wrote, his will is beyond reach,
And now when it all unfolds, the skill of an artist...

This is twenty percent skill,
Eighty percent beer,
Be one hundred percent clear cause Ryu is ill,
Who would've thought that he'd be the one to set the west in flames,
And I heard him wreckin with The Crystal Method, "Name Of The Game",
Came back dropped Megadef, took em to church,
I like "Bleach" man, Ryu had the stupidest verse,
This dude is the truth, now everybody be givin him guest spots,
His stock's through the roof I heard he fuckin with S. Dot!

This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill,
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will,
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain,
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name!

They call him Ryu The Sick,
And he's spittin' fire with Mike,
Got him out the dryer he's hot,
Found him in Fort Minor with Tak,
Been a ... annihilist porcupine,
He's a ..., he's a ...,
The type woman want to be with, and rappers hope he get ...,
Eight years in the makin', patiently waitin to blow,
Now the record with Shinoda's takin' over the globe,
He's got a partner in crime, his ... is equally dope,
You wont believe the kind of ... that comes out of this kid's throat...

Tak! He's not your everyday on the block,
He knows how to work with what he's got,
Makin' his way to the top,
People think its a common owners name,
People keep askin' him was it given at birth,
Or does it stand for an acronym?
No he's livin' proof, Got him rockin the booth,
He'll get you buzzin' quicker than a shot of vodka with juice,
Him and his crew are known around as one of the best,
Dedicated to what they doin' give a hundred percent...

Forget Mike, nobody really knows how or why he works so hard,
It seems like he's never got time,
Because he writes every note and he writes every line,
And I've seen him at work when that light goes on in his mind,
It's like a design is written in his head every time,
Before he even touches a key or speaks in a rhyme,
And those other fellas he runs with, those kids that he signed?
Ridiculous, without even trying, how do they do it?!

This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill,
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will,
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain,
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name!
This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill,
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will,
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain,
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name!

Yeah! Fort Minor!
M. Shinoda! Styles Of Beyond!
Ryu! Takbir!
Machine Shop!

 

The Battle (Extended)

Times up, times up, times up!
Alright Celph you got 30 seconds,
You ready?
Aight Celph Titled hit em!

Hhaha..yeah! Aight, that's all you got?

 

Yeah, listen, yo
These hungry rappers battle for a buck and some change,
There really be kids starving, give a fuck if it change,
Shock rap, not that, you get signed you might blow up,
"Release Party In Iraq", you might blow up,
I see you trying to think a few lines you might get at me with,
Slap happy with babies who're born with crack in they cribs,
Too much to cram under you oversized fitted,
And the public school system failed you,
Either you're ignorant or you isn't
Ain't concerned with scuffin my sneakers
My demographic listenin but not too many rappers teachin
And I, find a way to fill a hard drive up
With songs containing mainly "bitch, hoe, shit, fuck"
You know what's up, there's some ill shit goin on
So long, it's topics that I never really spoken on
I'm just like you, a kid who wants to rap, get money, put an album out
Mansion where the fountains spout
Out in the front yard, side-walk leadin to the street
Which leads to me to speak, my speech reaches the whole world and yet still
I'd rather rap about what I got or what I'll do to you
If you disrespect, you guessed it, I'm shootin you
But who's the true villain and who's ill and
Mixtape gunshots ain't really killin
People dyin, it's tough luck, can't figure out if I'm the problem or the world's just fucked up

 

Trades Of The Tools

Alright you guys, listen
I had a burrito for lunch today
And I got some farts in my butt
I downed that burrito with a 7-Up afterwards
So I got some burps in my mouth
For some reason, I got a little spring in my pocket
And this right here, is a dildo hitting me on the head
Alright you ready?
Let's go
Maybe that doesn't sound right, yet.
So, I'm gonna reach in my back pocket and scratch the shit out of my ass.
Oh, yeah.
And I got this accordion part.
I'm gonna put this accordion over it like this.
You feel that?
I'm gonna loop that
You know what?
Why don't, why don't I just bring in the slide whistle
Now I gotta make my farts go "Pop pop!"
Yeah

I can make a loop out of anything

I'm just surprised you guys didn't think of this shit first

But fuck you

(?)

(?)

It's that simple

Take a look at my dimple

You cruise at me, I'll pop him like a pimple

 

Whatchu gonna do?

Whatchu gonna do?

Whatchu gonna do?

I said, whatchu gonna do?

 

Where'd You Go (Clean Version)

Where'd you go? I miss you so,

Seems like it's been forever,
That you've been gone.

She said;
"Some days I feel like shh, some days I wanna quit,
And just be normal for a bit,
I don't understand why you have to always be gone,
I get along but the trips always feel so long, and,
I find myself tryin' to stay by the phone,
'Cause your voice always helps me and I feel not so alone,
But I feel like an idiot, working my day around a call,
That when I pick up I don't have much to say, so,
I want you to know it's a little messed up,
That I'm stuck here waiting,
At times debating, telling you I've had it with you and your career,
Me and the rest of the family here singing "Where'd you go?"."

Where'd you go? I miss you so,
Seems like it's been forever,
That you've been gone.
Where'd you go? I miss you so,
Seems like it's been forever,
That you've been gone.
Please come back home.

Come back home, you know that place where you used to live?,
Used to barbeque up burgers and ribs,
Used to have a little party every Halloween with candy by the pile,
But now you only stop by every once in a while.
Yeah, I find myself just filling my time,
With anything to keep the thought of you from my mind,
I'm doing fine, and I'm planning to keep it that way,
And you can call me if you find that you have something to say,
And I'll tell you;
"I want you to know it's a little messed up,
That I'm stuck here waiting,
At times debating, telling you that I've had it with you and your career.
Me and the rest of the family here singing "Where'd you go?"."

Where'd you go? I miss you so,
Seems like it's been forever,
That you've been gone.
Where'd you go? I miss you so,
Seems like it's been forever,
That you've been gone.
Please come back home.

I want you know it's a little messed up,
That I'm stuck here waiting,
No longer debating,
Tired of sitting and hating and making these excuses,
For why you're not around, and feeling so useless,
It seems one thing has been true all along,
You don't really know what you've got 'til it's gone,
I guess I've had it with you and your career,
When you come back I won't be here,
And you can sing it.

Where'd you go? I miss you so,
Seems like it's been forever,
That you've been gone.
Where'd you go? I miss you so,
Seems like it's been forever,
That you've been gone.
Please come back home

Please come back home

Please come back home

Please come back home

 

Where'd You Go (SOB Remix)

Where'd you go?
I miss you so,
Seems like it's been forever,
That you've been gone

Please come back home.

She said "Some days I feel like shit,
Some days I wanna quit, and just be normal for a bit." (Oh)
I don't understand why you have to always be gone (Oh)
I get along but the trips always feel so long (Oh, oh, oh)
And, I find myself trying to stay by the phone
'Cause your voice always helps me to not feel so alone (Oh)
But I feel like an idiot, workin' my day around the call (Oh)
But when I pick up I don't have much to say (Oh, oh, oh)
So, I want you to know it's a little fucked up
That I'm stuck here waitin', at times debatin'
Tellin' you that I've had it with you and your career,
Me and the rest of the family here singing, "Where'd you go?"

Where'd you go?
I miss you so,
Seems like it's been forever,
That you've been gone

Where'd you go?
I miss you so,
Seems like it's been forever,
That you've been gone
Please come back home...

Come back home / you know the place where you used to live
Used to barbecue up burgers and ribs (Oh)
Used to have a little party every Halloween with candy by the pile (Oh)
But now, you only stop by every once and a while (Oh, oh, oh)
(Shit) I find myself just fillin' my time
With anything to keep the thought of you from my mind
I'm doin' fine, and I'm plannin' to keep it that way
You can call me if you find that you have something to say
And I'll tell you, I want you to know it's a little fucked up
That I'm stuck here waitin', at times debatin'
Tellin' you that I've had it with you and your career
Me and the rest of the family here singing "Where'd you go?"

 

Where'd you go?
I miss you so,
Seems like it's been forever,
That you've been gone

Where'd you go?
I miss you so,
Seems like it's been forever,
That you've been gone
Please come back home...

I want you to know it's a little fucked up
That I'm stuck here waitin', no longer debatin'
Tired of sittin' and hatin' and makin' these excuses
For why you're not around, and feeling so useless
It seems one thing has been true all along
You don't really know what you've got 'til it's gone
I guess I've had it with you and your career
When you come back, I won't be here and you can sing it

 

Where'd you go?
I miss you so,
Seems like it's been forever,
That you've been gone

Where'd you go?
I miss you so,
Seems like it's been forever,
That you've been gone

Please come back home...

Please come back home...

Please come back home...

Please come back home...

Please come back home...

Please come back home...

[RogueSoul]

Edit:

Anybody understands what Scott says at the end of Crackerman?

 

Some man collapsed

Dust burning my eyes

Rollin' / I'm rollin'

I'm a rollin'

[lpliveusername]

 

Some man collapsed

Dust burning my eyes

Rollin' / I'm rollin'

I'm a rollin'

Thanks!

 

 

There are still a few songs without lyrics because I couldn't find those:

The hidden track from Run Joseph Run, the extended version of The Battle, the Bass On The Bottom remix, the Wednesday Was A Good Day remix, Mike Calling To Say Hi, Vegas Baby, Reckless.

+ Stories Of The Lost.

 

I also forgot about the original remix of A Place For My Head.

Or maybe Phase III could be "remixes".

[GlassCastles]

Just an FYI, The Bonus Track from Run Joseph Run, the Sampler Mixtape Intro, and Trades of the Tool are incomplete solely because I couldn't decipher about half of the lyrics. Any help with those would be appreciated.

Edited June 23, 2015 by TheSasstielExperience

[Skipees]

Just an FYI, The Sampler Mixtape Intro and Trades of the Tool are incomplete solely because I couldn't decipher about half of the lyrics. Any help with those would be appreciated.

http://lplive.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=9537

[RogueSoul]

Collaborations
Barack Your World

Livin' in a White House / heartland of America
We had some beers and we shared some laughs
You swore me in slowly / into your Pentagon
And I showed you the meaning of "Chief Of Staff"

My three colors are red, white and blue
And there's only one thing I wanna do to you
I wanna Barack your world (I wanna Barack your world)

People talk about taxes / gas prices and being green
Wagin' wars in countries overseas
All I know for sure is / baby, if you were my Iraq
I'd never pull out, if you know what I mean
(It means I'm gonna come inside of you)

My three colors are red, white and blue
I'm gonna shoot my love all over you

I wanna Barack your world, baby
I wanna stick my ballot into your box
I wanna obadamize you, lady
Your oval office is so sweet / secret-servicing my meat

I wanna Barack your world

I wanna Barack your world, baby
I wanna stick my ballot into your box
I wanna obadamize you, lady
Don't tell me no more lies
You've got a weapon of mass destruction between your thighs

I wanna Barack your world

Bass On The Bottom (Mr. Hahn Remix)

 

Bass on the bottom / Bass on the top

Bass for your mama / Bass for your pop

Bass so strong it'll make your sweat

And you'll be shaking your booty like a mademoiselle

 

Let your body move and let your spirit free

'Cause it makes you silly like you need to be

Make the cutie bounce and make a shawty move

I'll be rockin' that bass 'til the show improve

Bass!

 

B-B-Bass!

Move

Hey!

Bass!

Drop that beat because it feels so sweet

All the people want to feel is the bass in their feet

 

I'm the Lady Tigra, baby don't you know?

Here to bring the bass in case you didn't know

'Cause I love it when the speaker let you feel the boom

The Lady T-I-G-R-A keep bringin' bass to the room

 

Bass in the kitchen / Bass on the block

Bass in your country / Bass on the lawn

Bass so strong it'll make your sweat

And you'll be shaking your booty like a mademoiselle

 

On the east coast, cuties, shake your booties

On the west coast, boys, making noise, 'cause they love the beat

All the boys down south with the rhythm in mind

And all the fellas in the north with the bass in their face

No right / shake it all night

Droppin' bottles on the floor 'til the morning light

Makin' a pimp donate 'cause it feels so great

Kickin' bass so strong its like an earthquake

 

I'm the Lady Tigra, baby don't you know?

Here to bring the bass in case you didn't know

'Cause I love it when the speaker let you feel the boom

The Lady T-I-G-R-A keep bringin' bass to the room

Cow bell!

 

Party people (B-B-Bass!)

Move your body!

Shake it back (Bass!)

Shake it money

Moving slow? (B-B-Bass!)

Bring your best glow

That's okay (Bass!)

Bring your mojo

 

I'm the Lady Tigra, baby don't you know?

Here to bring the bass in case you didn't know

'Cause I love it when the speaker let you feel the boom

The Lady T-I-G-R-A keep bringin' bass to the room

 

Bass

 

Carry Me Away

I was an outcast, outsider. / Trouble maker;
A lost soul! / Outta control in danger.
Didn't have a care in the world, my feelings were numb
Never showing emotion, it's easy for some.
I don't know how it happened? How I got to this point?
But I needed a way out; I was stuck in a ploy.
I needed another path or I'd self destruct
I was down on my luck; my head was so fucked!
A menace runnin' the streets is what I was
Holdin' my heat and rollin' with the serious thugs
You couldn't tell me a thing, I was like my brother,
Words went in one ear and out the other.
Slangin' and bangin' / with a chip on my shoulder.
"An insane, hit the brain! " Certified street soldier!
So close to the grave, (Oh!)
You at an early age, can't tell you the price I've paid!

Oh, the sky overhead, it's like - a canvas of grey.
I don't know how much time I'll be given to stay.
From the first spring of light, 'til the end of the day
I'm just livin' my life, 'til they come carry me away!

I've been there in LA nights in the block where I came up
My pops used to hate when we hanged with them bangers.
Guess he knew one day that we'll become us
That's just how it is when you live where we come from.
"Fight, don't run! " is the motto we live by
Get 'em on the ground and stomp a mind about ten times!
Sure, we was just kids back then
I had no remorse for what we did back then.
Six of us, one call, we'd all pack in
Hit the strip, and go and get the shit crack in!
Gun wars, and drug deals, I seen 'em happen.
When I started losin' homeboys, I wasn't laughin'!
I looked all around and seen none of 'em there!
That's when I figured out - that nobody cared!
If we lived or die, we'll just get high and ride (Oh!)
And I wasn't gonna let this happen one more time!

Oh, the sky overhead, it's like - a canvas of grey.
I don't know how much time I'll be given to stay.
From the first spring of light, 'til the end of the day
I'm just livin' my life, 'til they come carry me away!

My mother would stand for me every step of the way
She didn't judge me! She told me I'd win some day!
When I was at my lowest, when I had no focus
She pulled me out the gutter, said I wasn't hopeless
Every night she prayed for me I was out on the street
Chillin' on the corner with the hand on my heat!
Eyes open wide for the pigs and foes
It's an every day hazard when you hustle for dough!
So many nights I didn't come home, she thought the worst
Maybe somebody shot me down without any remorse.
Maybe I hurt somebody and I was stuck in a cell
Well I regret all those time that I put her through hell!
When I reflect back on those days, my heart aches
And everybody I lost or let down, I wish I could take it
All back and make it better but I can't, so I try to make amends
And be there, through thick and thin!

Oh, the sky overhead, it's like - a canvas of grey.
I don't know how much time I'll be given to stay.
From the first spring of light, 'til the end of the day
I'm just livin' my life, 'til they come carry me away!

Come carry me away!
Come carry me away!
Come carry me away!
Come carry me away!

Change

Here, I wait / for a good thing to resolve
When I'm sinking in a ship I can't control
And I'm sick / with a smile I try and hide
Broken pieces of a lie, I can't let go

I never meant to let you down again
I had it all but watched it drown

Why does every good thing have to end?
I've burned every bridge before it began / (and, now, I'm sinking)
I changed, a man I thought I'd never be
I've burned every bridge before it began / I swear, I'm gonna change

Here, I wait / swimming in a sea of dark
I'm lost in the current of my faults
Here, I sink / holding on with all I had
The tide will rise / I'm gonna own what's mine

I never meant to let you down again
I had it all but watched it drown

Why does every good thing have to end?
I've burned every bridge before it began / (and, now, I'm sinking)
I changed, a man I thought I'd never be
I've burned every bridge before it began / I swear, I'm gonna change

All I wanna do is break free
All I wanna do is break free

I never meant to let you down again
I had it all but watched it drown

Why does every good thing have to end?
I've burned every bridge before it began / (and, now, I'm sinking)
I changed, a man I thought I'd never be
I've burned every bridge before it began / I swear, I'm gonna change

I swear I'm gonna change

(All I want to do is break free)
(All I want to do is break free) / I swear I'm going to change

Cry To Yourself

There's no way to find out what's inside you
Until you fall into the hole
You dug for yourself while you slept here
Too young / too selfish / too cold

And, when you find out what's been waiting
The moment you open your eyes
You'll see your true reflection
The very first time in your life

(You cannot fight what's in you / this will not be denied)
(You cannot fight what's in you / this will not be denied)

Cry to yourself / nothing will help
It's too late to change what's been done
You'll do what you've always done best
You'll run

Into the hole, you fall deeper
The deeper, the faster you run
It won't stop until you accept it
Accept everything that you've done

(You cannot fight what's in you / this will not be denied)
(You cannot fight what's in you / this will not be denied)

Cry to yourself / nothing will help
It's too late to change what's been done
You'll do what you've always done best
You'll run

Cry to yourself / nothing will help
It's too late to change what's been done
You'll do what you've always done best
You'll run

Cry to yourself / nothing will help
It's too late to change what's been done
It's too late to change what's been done
It's too late to change what's been done

Death To Analog (M. Shinoda Remix)

(Motion / upwards and downwards) [x7]

Up up up up / Go go go go go

Something seething / this inner meaning
Nobody knows where the flood is going
Nothing's simple / wanting, waiting
Nobody knows when the end is coming

Ooh, ooh

There's no right / to survive
Got to fight / stay alive

There's no right / to survive
Got to fight / stay alive


Something seething / this inner meaning
Nobody knows where the flood is going
Nothing's simple / wanting and waiting
Nobody knows when the end is coming

Set up the sequence [x3]
Run, run
Set up the sequence / motion [x3]
Run, run

There's no right / to survive
Got to fight / stay alive

There's no right / to survive
Got to fight / stay alive
Stay alive
There's no right / to survive
Got to fight / stay alive
There's no right / to survive
Got to fight / stay alive
There's no right


(Upwards and downwards / motion)

There's no right / to survive
Got to fight / stay alive

There's no right / to survive
Got to fight / stay alive
Stay alive
There's no right / to survive
Got to fight / stay alive
There's no right / to survive
Got to fight / stay alive
There's no right

Dumb It Down

I dumb it d-d-d-down, d-d-d down down
I dumb it d-d-d-down, d-d-d down down
I dumb it d-d-d-down, d-d-d down down
I dumb it d-d-d-down, d-d-d down get down
Now
Get stupider, get g-g-get stupider
Get stupider, get g-g-get stupider
Get stupider, get g-g-get stupider
Get stupider, get g-g-get stupider

They told me dumb it down
The song is too underground
They wanted some other style
Or something with southern bounce
But this is southern Cal, sucker we rocking L.A
So we don't 'Walk It Out' unless you get shot in the leg
I tried to keep it simple and maybe create a dance
I need a single and I gotta repay the advance
So get stupider, pockets are getting poofier
Shooting up the chart and won't stop when it hits Jupiter
Damn, if you don't want your band's stock to plummet
You need a hook so catchy your dog spot can hum it
So understand it's a game, but you gotta get paid
So if life is handing me lemons I'mma make a meringue
I let it rain
Hot Chicken Noodle Soup in your seeds
Make you chew on some Laffy Taffy till you ruin your teeth
Any musical feat's possible if you want a hit
Just grab an 808 kit and dumb it down a little bit

I dumb it d-d-d-down, d-d-d down down
I dumb it d-d-d-down, d-d-d down down
I dumb it d-d-d-down, d-d-d down down
I dumb it d-d-d-down, d-d-d down get down
Now
Get stupider, get g-g-get stupider
Get stupider, get g-g-get stupider
Get stupider, get g-g-get stupider
Get stupider, get g-g-get stupider

Yeah, I dumb it down but I'm sticking to the truth
And I don't mean no soda with no Chicken Noodle Soup
See people are a medium, marshmallowed up
Listen to the stereo inside a small yellow bus
And now they going mad with some crazy type of
Trend where grown men rap in baby diapers
And I could care less who distributes the coke now
I got more respect for all the members in O-Town
You dig it?
Cause now the streets can tell
So stop picking all your lyrics out your Speak N Spell
Now you in the top 10 but who writes it sucks?
Try picking up a pen in your life for once
But what?
It's too hot, puffing kush in the Rover
He should be on the block getting pushed in a stroller
Looks like they need a hit for the year so here's one
Just a little something for the preschool eardrums

I dumb it d-d-d-down, d-d-d down down
I dumb it d-d-d-down, d-d-d down down
I dumb it d-d-d-down, d-d-d down down
I dumb it d-d-d-down, d-d-d down get down
Now
Get stupider, get g-g-get stupider
Get stupider, get g-g-get stupider
Get stupider, get g-g-get stupider
Get stupider, get g-g-get stupider

I dumb it down for ya
I dumb it down
I dumb it down for ya
I dumb it down
I dumb it down for ya
I dumb it down
I dumb it down for ya
I dumb it down

Get stupider, get g-g-get stupider
Get stupider, get g-g-get stupider
Get stupider, get g-g-get stupider
Get stupider, get g-g-get stupider

I dumb it d-d-d-down, d-d-d down down
I dumb it d-d-d-down, d-d-d down down
I dumb it d-d-d-down, d-d-d down down
I dumb it d-d-d-down, d-d-d down get down
I dumb it d-d-d-down, d-d-d down down
I dumb it d-d-d-down, d-d-d down down
I dumb it d-d-d-down, d-d-d down down
I dumb it d-d-d-down, d-d-d down get down

"Get stupid"

Enjoy The Silence (Reinterpreted)

Words like violence / break the silence
Come crashing in / into my little world
Painful to me / pierce right through me
Can't you understand / oh, my little girl?

All I ever wanted / all I ever needed
Is here / in my arms
Words are very / unnecessary
They can only do harm

Vows are spoken / to be broken
Feelings are intense / words are trivial
Pleasures remain / so does their pain
Words are meaningless / and forgettable

All I ever wanted / all I ever needed
Is here / in my arms
Words are very / unnecessary
They can only do harm

All I ever wanted / all I ever needed
Is here / in my arms
Words are very / unnecessary
They can only do harm

All I ever wanted / all I ever needed
Is here / in my arms
Words are very / unnecessary
They can only do harm

(Enjoy the silence) [x6]

Freestyle

I'm serious!
It can't get no bigger than this.
The homie Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park
Puttin' it down with the DJ Vice
Let 'em know Mike!

Let it begin with the stutter of light in short circuits
Driven to givin' minimal life more purpose
Behind closed curtains / I don't even exist
This / magic's created in the mirrors and the mist
It's / Mike Shinoda and DJ Vice at the same time
Rhymes like rain that trickle down your main line
And flood your streets over a high-tech beat
To sneak tuneful beats into turntable techniques
I don't sleep to dream / I sleep to build stamina
Energy to plan in advance / get your camera
With these rhymes, you better seal off the parameter
One line and you're swimmin' off the south coast of Canada
This is the sound / me and Vice in the cut
Roughin' it up / just in case you might get tough
Nitrogen under my breath, just to light things up
And DNA in every line so it's live enough / DJ Vice

Freestyle (Demo)

Let it begin with the stutter of light in short circuits
Driven to givin' minimal life more purpose
Behind closed curtains / I don't even exist
This / magic's created in the mirrors and the mist
It's / Mike Shinoda and DJ Vice at the same time
Rhymes like rain that trickle down your main line
And flood your streets over a high-tech beat
To sneak tuneful beats into turntable techniques
I don't sleep to dream / I sleep to build stamina
Energy to plan in advance / get your camera
With these rhymes, you better seal off the parameter
One line and you're swimmin' off the south coast of Canada
This is the sound / me and Vice in the cut
Roughin' it up / just in case you might get tough
Nitrogen under my breath, just to light things up
And DNA in every line so it's live enough / DJ Vice

Gold Guns Girls (M. Shinoda Remix)

Ooh
Gold [x13]

Girls [x17]

All the gold and the guns in the world
(Couldn't get you off)
All the gold and the guns and the girls
(Couldn't get you off)
All the boys, All the choices in the world

I remember when we were gambling to win
Everybody else said, "Better luck next time."
I don't wanna bend, Let the bad girls bend
I just wanna be your friend
Is it ever gonna be enough?

Girls [x6]
Is it ever gonna be enough? (Girls [x2])
Girls
Is it ever gonna be enough? (Girls [x2])
Girls
Is it ever gonna be enough? (Girls [x2])


Girls [x6]
Is it ever gonna be enough? (Girls [x2])
Girls
Is it ever gonna be enough? (Girls [x2])
Girls
Is it ever gonna be enough? (Girls [x2])


All the lace and the skin in the shop
(Couldn't get you off)
All the toys and the tools in the box
(Couldn't get you off)
All the noise, all the voices never stop


I remember when we were gambling to win
Everybody else said, "Better luck next time."
I don't wanna bend, Let the bad girls bend
I just wanna be your friend

Why you givin' me a hard time?
I remember when we were gambling to win
Everybody else said, "HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!"


Girls [x6]
Is it ever gonna be enough? (Girls [x2])
Girls
Is it ever gonna be enough? (Girls [x2])
Girls
Is it ever gonna be enough? (Girls [x2])



Girls [x6]
Is it ever gonna be enough? (Girls [x2])
Girls
Is it ever gonna be enough? (Girls [x2])
Girls
Is it ever gonna be enough? (Girls [x2])


More and more, more and more, more and more,
More and more and
More and more, more and more,
more and more and more and more and more

More and more, more and more, more and more, (Is it ever gonna be enough? [x2])
More and more and (Is it ever gonna be enough?)
More and more, more and more, (Is it ever gonna be enough? [x2])
more and more and more and more and more (Is it ever gonna be enough? [x2])

Girls [x16]

More and more, more and more, more and more, (Is it ever gonna be enough? / Girls [x2])
More and more and ( Is it ever gonna be enough? / Girls)
More and more, more and more, (Is it ever gonna be enough? / Girls [x2])
more and more and more and more and more (Is it ever gonna be enough? [x2] / Girls [x3])

More and more, more and more, more and more, (Is it ever gonna be enough? [x2] / Girls [x3])
More and more and (Is it ever gonna be enough? / Girls [x2])
More and more, more and more, (Is it ever gonna be enough? [x2] / Girls [x3])
more and more and more and more and more (Is it ever gonna be enough? [x2] / Girls [x4])

Is it ever gonna be enough? (Is it ever gonna be enough?) [x10)
Is it ever gonna be enough?

Hard (M. Shinoda Remix)

Uh huh
Ryu
J-Dilla
Let's go

Yo
It ain't (Hard)
They tell now who the illest is
J-Dilla bitch, Styles in your grill again
That old killer shit back to the gutter scum
Number one rap record of the summer son!
Feet stomp to the beat like war drums
Chandelier shook and the freaking floor sunk
The R-Y-U that should do it
Shoot a missile at the moon and attach you to it
It's too (Hard)
Born for the weak and peacy
I'm thinking that the world's going to need some clean sheets
Shitting on you rappers I practice free speech
Don't protect whales but I rap for Green Peace!

It's time to hop in to cruise to the new shit
Huh
I'm bout as cool as me chewing a toothpick
Soon as the sun sets I'm out with the whole clan
Tearing the village down
Oh man!
Folks don't understand
When I'm holding this part of this perfect unit
To do it you recognize that we started this murder music
I'm moving through all the rubbish and yes
They know they love it at best
Cause I've been known to keep them clubbing the debt

You ain't a (Star)
So why you walk around acting like you (Hard)
Ain't nobody got you bumping in the (Car)
You don't party with your people at the (Bar)
What is it?
What what what is it?

You a (Star)
Before you bring it boy you better think (Hard)
Drop a hundred thou on a red and pink (Car)
Get it free never blow money at the (Bar)
What is it?
What what what is it?

Huh?
Aww I see you got your heart broken
Little weenie posted up with both arms folded
Clocking all my jewels and they don't know how we did it
Marking every move smooth to my MLB fitted (Fitted!)
Ooh!
Your baby sitter is going to be a minute late
Why?
Cause you ain't even old enough to innovate
Skulls in your grill got you neighborhood fame
But dang (Dang)
You ain't really known for your skill

Ok!
Think about it before you pop off
Keep cool when you fucking with a Boss Hog
Hot sauce I'mma bag this Poptart
Seen 'em down the block trying to flag a cop car
Not to notice a bomb goes wowee
Demigodz roll like Musab al-Zarqawi
People know who control the Cali
Roll tanks through the west bank home to valley
You ain't (Hard)
Cause your whack clique was ousted
So sick I spit raps in hazmat outfits
You ain't about shit, Holmes admit it
Cause real hustlers don't talk they just go get it!
Uh huh
S.O.B
Ryu and Tak
Uh

You ain't a (Star)
So why you walk around acting like you (Hard)
Ain't nobody got you bumping in the (Car)
You don't party with your people at the (Bar)
What is it?
What what what is it?

You a (Star)
Before you bring it boy you better think (Hard)
Drop a hundred thou on a red and pink (Car)
Get it free never blow money at the (Bar)
What is it?
What what what is it?

So follow me follow me closely
I see you fellas were jealous so I crack a smirk and polish my trophy
Shaking the ground
I put my hands in the gravel
Try taking me down so I can stand in your shadow
Nah
You and your buddy going to see in an instant
Dummy, without me it wouldn't be what it is then
So recognize and zip your lip jack push 'em aside
What a surprise yea it's me so kick it

Yo
You hear the baby whining it don't effect me shit
How dare you disrespect me, kid
I'm sick of the games
Look at where you sit in the plane
You could be chilling with a first class ticket to fame
It ain't (Hard)
Matter fact it's easy
Ima crack your cd
It sounds good cause your tracks are cheesy
On the path to greatness
Your raps are basic
Think about it when you filling out that application

You ain't a (Star)
So why you walk around acting like you (Hard)
Ain't nobody got you bumping in the (Car)
You don't party with your people at the (Bar)
What is it?
What what what is it?

You a (Star)
Before you bring it boy you better think (Hard)
Drop a hundred thou on a red and pink (Car)
Get it free never blow money at the (Bar)
What is it?
What what what is it?
Huh?
What what what is it?
Huh?
What what what is it?
Huh?

What what what is it?
Huh?

Hey You

Hey, you!
Green Lantern
Hey, you!
S.O.B. / B.
Hey, you!
Ma-Ma-Machine Shop
Hey / Hey, you! (Yeah)
You're losing (Uh huh? / Ready)
Hey, you! (That style)
You're losing (You're losing your mind)
Hey, you! / Hey, you! (Let's go!)

You're running out of time (Hey, you!)
I came to take what's mine (Hey, you!)
If you think I'm stepping aside (Hey, you!)
Then you're losing your mind (You're losing)
Losing your mind (You're losing)

You're running out of time (Hey, you!)
I came to take what's mine (Hey, you!)
If you think I'm stepping aside (Hey, you!)
Then you're losing your mind (You're losing)
Losing your mind (You're losing)


You see the machine guns are blazing
Microphone fiend
And I'm buzzed and faded
Loved and hated
Pump slugs in ya favorite
Rappers
You punks ain't that courageous
Back!
To the middle
Up front they feel me
Clap!
Put ya hands up
Tickle the cieling
Got godz in the house
And we got the chrome
Hey yo Ryu!
"I'm sayin yo off the dome"
Ok I'm from the S.O.
Run in the west coast
A cup full of exo
Fucking wreck
I don't care about a freestyle
Cut the check
You could battle if you want
I'm a punch instead
Roll out the red carpet
The cameras see us
Step out the black phantom
With Cameron Diaz
Damn
Hide your women I'm coming to get 'em
Move it
That's
My
Bitch you're losing


You're running out of time (Hey, you!)
I came to take what's mine (Hey, you!)
If you think I'm stepping aside (Hey, you!)
Then you're losing your mind (You're losing)
Losing your mind (You're losing)

You're running out of time (Hey, you!)
I came to take what's mine (Hey, you!)
If you think I'm stepping aside (Hey, you!)
Then you're losing your mind (You're losing)
Losing your mind (You're losing)



Yo
Take 5 while I make mine
Double on your bet
Shoot a roll for the snake eyes
Never let it get to the point where you skate by
Let me break a sweat
Cause I ears and you ain't fly
Why?
Nevermind
On the grind from 9 to 6
She hella fine
With a fiery diamond wrist
Got off stage and I'm done with the show
She followed behind
And asked me to sign her tits
O-K
So we happened to stroll away
But it's cool
I'm in ya area code today
Keep my mouth sealed
Going on with the plan
I mean yo
What the hell am I supposed to say?
Sippin' gin bean chilling
When I felt a hand brush me
Stunned by the Ribkat letters on my cuff link
Blowin off dust
Going out of my shell
The chainsaw for the game
And my sharp fangs rusted


You're running out of time (Hey, you!)
I came to take what's mine (Hey, you!)
If you think I'm stepping aside (Hey, you!)
Then you're losing your mind (You're losing)
Losing your mind (You're losing)

You're running out of time (Hey, you!)
I came to take what's mine (Hey, you!)
If you think I'm stepping aside (Hey, you!)
Then you're losing your mind (You're losing)
Losing your mind (You're losing)

Hey, you!
You're losing [x6]

Home Sweet Home

Home, sweet home [x4]


You know I'm a dreamer
But my heart's of gold
I had to run away and hide
So I wouldn't come home low

Just when the things went right
Suddenly it all went wrong
Just take this song and you'll never feel
Left all alone

Take me to your heart
Feel me in your bones
Just one more night
And I'm comin' on this
Long and winding road

I'm on my way
I'm on my way
Home, sweet home
Tonight, tonight!
I'm on my way
I'm on my way
Home, sweet home

You know that I've seen
Too many romantic dreams
Up in lights, fallin' off
The silver screen

My heart's like an open book
For the whole world to read
Sometimes nothing keeps me together
At the seams


I'm on my way
I'm on my way
Home, sweet home
Tonight, tonight!
I'm on my way
Just set me free
Home, sweet home


Home, sweet home [x3]

I'm on my way
Well, I'm on my way
Home, sweet home
Tonight, tonight!
Yeah
I'm on my way
Just set me free
Home, sweet home

Ooh, ooh
Just take this song
And you'll never feel left
All alone

I'm Eighteen

Lines form on my face and hands
Lines form from on my existence
I'm in the middle without any plans
I'm a boy and I'm a man

Eighteen and I don't know what I want
Eighteen / I just don't know what I want
Eighteen / I gotta get away
I've gotta get out of this place
I'll go runnin' in outer space
Oh, yeah

I got a baby's brain and an old man's heart
Took eighteen years to get this far
Don't always know what I'm talkin' about
Feels like I'm livin' in the middle of doubt

'Cause I'm eighteen I get confused every day
Eighteen / I don't know what to say
Eighteen / I gotta get away

Whoa, yeah
Yeah
No

Lines form on my face and my hands
Lines form from the left and right
I'm in the middle / the middle of life
I'm a boy and I'm a man

I'm eighteen and I like it
Yes I like it
Oh, I like it, love it, like it, love it
Eighteen, eighteen, eighteen, eighteen, and I like it

Karma Killer

I scream through the morning
I'm kicking the twilight as she comes
Time waits, ever dawning
Spooning the thickness out and feeding our open mouths

The price you pay is always
Too high / or too familiar
Sunshine / karma killer

Time waits ever dawning
When you're following the animals around / (around)
I scream through the morning
Feeding our open mouths and spooning the thickness out

The price you pay is always
Too high / or too familiar
Sunshine / karma killer
Too high / or too familiar
Sunshine / karma killer

My eyes are weary now
My eyes (my eyes are weary) are weary
My eyes are weary now

Too high / or too familiar
Sunshine / karma killer
Too high / or too familiar
Sunshine / karma killer
Karma killer
Karma killer
Karma killer

Will I ever miss you? [x4]

Magic Doors

Alright

They say welcome back Mike, it's a pleasure to have you
You the hot shits like metal to magnets
Come 'round back to the staff door access
Light up a Cuban, spot a pig mattress
Autograph action, sneak through the door
S.O.B. and me turning your peace into war
So turn the fucking beat up some more
And step back pronto, reload the combo
Mike, Ryu and Tak
It's like some Mo Wade and Marley Marl symphony rock
You could turn off the beat and couldn't get me to stop
I could give a fat fuck if you're with me or not
I do not give a damn
Got tracks on the Billboard but here I am
With my man Green Lantern raising hell again
And so way past go, never sold my soul

I'm losing myself (Never sold my soul)
My desire I can't have
No reason am I for

Ryu

You see what I've become, top gun mach one
Achtung baby I'm the best, I ain't got another option
Grotesque yet, so fresh, yes never lost not once
You see what I've become, the last six months
My lyrics went from "oh shit" to "oh fuck"
This dude is a problem, don't front
The last of the west coast rappers that don't suck
This isn't even fun no more
I done killed so many people that my gun gets bored
Why fight now, I already won this war
Everything you think is hot man, I done before
From the block shit to the rap shit
To the rock shit even to the pop shit
Fatten up my pocket, profit
Fucking with me, see nothing is free
It's R-Y-U from that S.O.B, suck it

Can't get a grip, plan sorta slips
Stand in front of a fan with his hands full of shit
Covered the face before the cameras click
Damn, they call him a hell of a man with a lisp
Can't escape the dark or erase the thought
His heart beats quicker than a racing horse
So he blocks his own reflection and ducks from sunlight
Then both worlds collide and result in a gunfight
Cuts in his chest still, Russian roulette wheel
Mistakes might have splattered in the guts into left field
Ooh, take a deep breath for the recess
Things on the brain to remain as a defect
Yeah, a newborn with a new curse
Fits like a shoe horn in a blue hearse
Dim the lights for the lampshade glow
Pull out the pen and let the whole damn thing blow


I'm losing myself
My desire I can't have
No reason am I for

Mike Calling To Say Hi

Kutmaster Kurt!
It's Mike from Linkin Park, what up man?
I am just calling to say hi
Because I was listening to the remix
And I was thinking to myself, "How does Kurt get to be so dope?"
So I thought I'd give you a call and say hi.

Never Let Me Down

Face to face, falling grace
What an empty and angry start
Out of place and out of phase
As we tear ourselves apart
And through it all
Inside I bleed for something
To fill the void

Even now at the bottom of this fall
I can hear the sounds
Of your promises to never let me down

Wasting time, aching mind
Never let me put you aside
Thoughts conspire, mental fire
Threatening to burn me alive
And through it all
Inside I bleed for something
To fill the void
I gotta feel again


Even now at the bottom of this fall
I can hear the sounds
Of your promises to never let me down


Shadows that I'm falling in
Cycles that I'm killing
Dying in the process
For better days, for better days
I can hear you calling
If I could breathe you in again
Heaven knows I want it


Even now at the bottom of this fall
I can hear the sounds
Of your promises to never let me down


To never let me down
To never let me down

 

[[AndOne]]

Barack Your World

 

"(It means I'm gonna cum inside of you)"

 

I'd say it actually "come" cause that's the whole point of this word play, Iraq, invasion and such.

[RogueSoul]

I'd say it actually "come" cause that's the whole point of this word play, Iraq, invasion and such.

Good thing, I felt weird typing that

 

I need two posts for Collaborations. Oh boy. I've been working on this this for SIX HOURS...

 

Place 4 My Head

 

 

I wanna be in another place

I hate when you say you don't understand

I wanna be in the energy

Not with the enemy

A place for my head

 

I watch how the moon sits in the sky in the dark night

Shining with the light from the sun

But sun doesn't give light to the moon assuming

The moon's going to owe it one

It makes me think of how you act to me you do

Favors and then rapidly you just

Turn around and start asking me about

Things you want back from me

I'm sick of the tension

Sick of the hunger

Sick of you acting like I owe you this

Find another place to feed your greed

While I find a place to rest

 

I want to be in another place

I hate when you say you don't understand

(You'll see it's not meant to be)

I want to be in the energy, not with the enemy

A place for my head

 

Maybe someday I'll be just like you and

Step on people like you do

And run away all the people I thought I knew

I remember back then who you were

You used to be calm used to be strong

Used to be generous but you should've known that you'd

Wear out your welcome now you see

How quiet it is all alone I'm so

Sick of the tension sick of the hunger

Sick of you acting like I owe you this

Find another place to feed your greed

While I find a place to rest I'm so

Sick of the tension sick of the hunger

Sick of you acting like I owe you this

Find another place to feed your greed

While I find a place to rest

 

I want to be in another place

I hate when you say you don't understand

(You'll see it's not meant to be)

I want to be in the energy, not with the enemy

A place for my head

 

We're all gonna be crushed when it all apart

Ruin another high low

Hoping that you won't know the strain it puts to me

See what you've done, and consequently

I've run away, Just hidden again

Within the boundaries of the nameless

Don't mean to say this, but your dragging me down

Lost in the chaos, being tossed around

Singing within to myself

Head full of hectic

Hope that someday I'll regret this

Everything's the wrong place, the wrong time

Addict to the panic, in my confines

Singing within to myself

Head full of hectic

Hope that someday I'll regret this

Everything's the wrong place, the wrong time

Addict to the panic, in my confines

 

I wanna live in another place

Where no one can say that I live for them

(You'll see it's not meant to be for me)

I wanna be in the energy, not with the enemy

A place for my head

 

I wanna, I wanna, I wanna...

 

Two, two

Three, three

Yo, yo, yo

Keep me in the john to keep me calm

You and your mom keep on dram

Used to be a team, passed that baton

But you flopped that bomb when you dropped that bomb

Take it the john your Babylon

Flush down with the sound that you carry on

I don't really give a damn

You pissed on my lawn

Took a dump like a punk

Now the battle's on

So sick of you stressing

Sick of you 'fessin'

Sick of you acting like I owe you some

Find another place to feed your face

If you don't we gonna bump get it up get crunk

Sick of you stressin'

Sick of you 'fessin'

Sick of you acting like I owe you some

Find another place to feed your face

If you don't we gonna bump get it up get crunk

 

Riding' with a head full of bodies of red

And when I said its still stuck in my head, but mislead

Thinking the things I do would make you never wanna come back

Running' on thumb tacks, you could never run from that

Being trapped in this view, something that I never wanted to do

Went through all you've got to see, to where I want to be

Is over the pen again, letting it out of me

In the center of the day in the dream

Seeing all my thoughts getting lost in between

Realize want not the weight of the scene

From the killing of the killer, with a head full of screams

 

I wanna live in another place

Where no one can say that I live for them

(You'll see it's not meant to be for me)

I wanna be in the energy, not with the enemy

A place for my head

 

You try to take the best of me

Go away

You try to take the best of me

Go away

You try to take the best of me

Go away

You try to take the best of me

GO AWAY

 

You try to take the best of me

You try to take the best of me

Go away

You try to take the best of me

You try to take the best of me

GO...

 

YOU TRY TO TAKE THE BEST OF ME

GO AWAY

YOU TRY TO TAKE THE BEST OF ME

GO AWAY

YOU TRY TO TAKE THE BEST OF ME

GO AWAY

YOU TRY TO TAKE THE BEST OF ME

GO AWAY

 

I want to be in another place

I hate when you say you don't understand

(You'll see it's not meant to be)

I want to be in the energy, not with the enemy

A place for my head

 

GET...

A...

WAY...

 

I am so sick of the tension (GET)

Sick of the hunger

Sick of you acting like I owe you this (A)

Find another place to feed your greed

While I find a place to rest

Sick of the tension

Sick of the a hunger

Sick of you acting like I owe you this

Find another place to feed your greed

While I find a place to rest

Sick of the tension (WAY)

Sick of the hunger

Sick of you acting like I owe you this

Find another place to feed your greed (GET AWAY FROM ME)

While I find a place to rest

 

 

 

Razors Out

 

 

Closing in, I hear the voices

Haunting bells, echoe voices

 

Remove the frame and focus in

As I begin to wave

You pretend to take the scene

And I'll pretend to pray

 

From the top, to the end

You've got your razors out

To the end, til you stop

You cut the frames out

 

Frozen, I can hear the voices

Controlling our fate, echo voices

 

You remove the frame and focus in

As I begin to wave

You pretend to take the scene

And I'll pretend to pray

 

From the top, to the end

You've got your razors out

To the end, til you stop

You've cut the frames apart

 

Remove the frame and focus in

As I begin to wave

You pretend to take the scene

And I'll pretend to pray

 

From the top to the end

You've got your razors out

To the end, 'til you stop

You cut the frames apart

 

From the top to the end

You've got your razors out

To the end, 'til you stop

You cut the frames apart

 

 

 

Reckless

 

 

[Mike]

What up, this is Mike Shinoda

From Fort Minor and Linkin Park

And you're rocking with Skam

 

Skam: Ayy, yo Mike?

Mike: Yeah?

Skam: What's my codename?

Mike: Lieutenant Cornbread!

 

Right, left [x4]

 

Now know when I looked in the mirror

I could feel what I see

All this negative chi

And it compels me to be

Better than I ever was

Everything I never was

Pearly, your hammy, your father

So don't forget it, cuz

 

Never wore the tights or played with a mic

I'm serious, I'm being assembled in the mind of a dyke

It's time to ignite / This student set flames to the streets

They think it was a gang coming how I bang on the beat

Like swingin' / Bats in chains or gats in pains

In the hand of a stormtrooper

Let it splatter your brains

We know it was my lord Vader

His sword is your savior

We changin' the season, maybe that's the reason you all hate us

 

Hearing complicated

Really? It's as simple as that

We're harder than watching someone you love destroy themselves

From the inside to out

Never had time for thou

Eight reasons coming in

I'm looking for a hardline out

We know I operated a call

All my hatred to y'all

Turned explosives like strapping a clay mortar / My balls

To my first drop / Now I'm waiting to fall

Realities too much / I can't take in it all

 

I'm reckless

Give me the chance, I'll do it again (Reckless)

Course there's nothing to throw to the wind (Reckless)

Close to the edge and out of control (Reckless)

Say what you want as long as you know

 

This is my life, it is the cause of death

Ain't nothing going right, but I ain't making no lefts

There too much pride to quit and ask for help

I don't love you, bitch

I don't love myself

I'm reckless

 

Altering the program / The speed of the constant

Every word unhinging like a hydrogen bomb struck

And burned to an experience that altered your conscience

That old scam is gone

Transform into a monster

I don't want to talk to God, it's pointless, he don't want us

This reality bores me

I feel I'm beyond it

Oh, you think it's honkey-dory? Oh boy, that's nonsense

This sort of fit for us so the answer's upon us

You'd rather watch the world burn

'Til it's coppin' and doggin'

So I've worked with the devil, I've been their oval office

Ain't it funny how your life sorta represents a coffin?

You dyin' to retake the street that you lost

Turnin' and tossin' / It happens so often

Got me feelin' so awkward, I think I'd rather by nauseous

My souls are burning, my mind's a hospice

There's only one word to describe the state of mind that I'm lost in

 

I'm reckless

Give me the chance, I'll do it again (Reckless)

Course there's nothing to throw to the wind (Reckless)

Close to the edge and out of control (Reckless)

Say what you want as long as you know

 

This is my life, it is the cause of death

Ain't nothing going right, but I ain't making no lefts

There too much pride to quit and ask for help

I don't love you, bitch

I don't love myself

 

My intuition is wrong inside my brain to the brink

And now my dreams feel more real than when I'm awake

I wonder where I'll be when I make that mistake

It's like hacking a computer, time is all that it takes

 

When you're reckless, you don't think much

Lifelike on big red pills laced with pink dust

The moment you take it, it all goes from green and to blue

Now you're out in the world naked

Wish you wasn't you

It's residual cell fitness

With nothing much left in it

Potentially is around me singin' I be ant-ridden

Hope for round vision / The end is beginning

I'm going nowhere fast / My head just keeps spinning

The air just keeps getting thicker / Everything is a blur

We have a picture to remember, it's like nothing occurred

My train of thought goes back and forth through so many things

Can't remember where I was in the decisions I made

Ha, I got there for that matter

Hop up and don't stand up

Subtract me from the equation / This shit just won't add up

The sum of all things / The path of the one

Is made by the many / The end has begun

 

I'm reckless

Give me the chance, I'll do it again (Reckless)

Course there's nothing to throw to the wind (Reckless)

Close to the edge and out of control (Reckless)

Say what you want as long as you know

 

This is my life, it is the cause of death

Ain't nothing going right, but I ain't making no lefts

There too much pride to quit and ask for help

I don't love you, bitch

I don't love myself

I'm reckless

 

 

 

Resurrection

 

 

"The international community struggles

To get help into Haiti following

The worst disaster in United Nations history

Amidst the frustration and chaos

Surrounding the humanitarian efforts on the ground

There have been some miraculous rescues"

 

Like a phoenix

From its ashes

We will rise

Follow angels

Into heavens

We will rise

 

Nothing's gonna take you down

We are everlasting now

We are everlasting now, now

 

Now I've been shaken

But I'm not broken

I won't be breaking

Anytime

I have fallen

But I'm not ruined

I'll keep on moving

Into my

Resurrection

(Oh, oh, oh, ohhh, oh)

Resurrection

(Oh, oh, oh, ohhh, oh)

 

Urgency, emergency's among us

Life is in the crisis, tragedy's upon us

And we won't leave you stranded

Rapidly we comin'

To take you out the darkness

Show you where the sun is

Cries from the rubble

Are the voices this is sung with

And those that have stopped singing

We can still hear you under it

Right up out your worrying

Right into the wondrous

Right up off the ground

Right to where the thunder is

And it's where your sisters

And your mothers and your brothers is

Aunties and your friends

And your fathers and your husbands is

Watching with the rest of the world in astonishment

Live from up above, us via news coverage

Seen even more than the misery that happens is

The love, the strength, the history, the passion

The courage of an impoverished people

That the world once abandoned

Shining, infinite everlasting now

 

Now I've been shaken (I've been shaken)

But I'm not broken (I'm not broken)

I won't be breaking (Won't be breaking)

Anytime

I have fallen (I have fallen)

But I'm not ruined (I'm not ruined)

I'll keep on moving (I'll keep on moving)

Into my

Resurrection

(Oh, oh, oh, ohhh, oh)

Resurrection

Resurrection

(Oh, oh, oh, ohhh, oh)

Resurrection

Resurrection

(Oh, oh, oh, ohhh, oh)

Resurrection

(Oh, oh, oh, ohhh, oh)

We pray every prayer we know

(Oh, oh, oh, ohhh, oh)

 

We will rise up

We will rise up

Oh, oh, oh, ohhh, oh

We will rise up

We will rise up

Oh, oh, oh, ohhh, oh

We will rise up

We will rise up

Oh, oh, oh, ohhh, oh

We will rise up

(Resurrection)

 

 

 

Riders On The Storm

 

 

Riders on the storm

Riders on the storm

Into this house we're born

Into this world we're thrown

Like a dog without a bone

An actor out on loan

Riders on the storm

 

There's a killer on the road

His brain is squirmin' like a toad

Take a long holiday

Let your children play

If you give this man a ride

Sweet memory will die

Killer on the road, yeah

 

Girl, you gotta love your man

Girl, you gotta love your man

Take him by the hand

Make him understand

The world on you depends

Our life will never end

Gotta love your man, yeah

 

Riders on the storm

Riders on the storm

Into this house we're born

Into this world we're thrown

Like a dog without a bone

An actor out on loan.

Riders on the storm

 

Riders on the storm

Riders on the storm

Riders on the storm

Riders on the storm

Riders on the storm

 

 

 

Rock and Roll (Could Never Hip Hop Like This)

 

 

DJ Jazzy Jeff: I am the original DJ Jazzy Jay from the Mighty Mighty Zulu Nation.

Grand Wizard Theodore: And first I'll say my name is um, original scratch creater Grand Wizard Theodore.

DJ Jazzy Jeff: For those who don't know, I started back out in '74. Africa Bambata, Disco King Mario, Cool Herc, Grandmaster Flash and you know, some of the pioneers who did it back then you know.

Grand Wizard Theodore: Hip hop is universal now it all depends upon on what you do.

DJ Jazzy Jeff: Hip hop is like what you would call the bastard child of a lot of different forms of music.

Grand Wizard Theodore: I just feel good that like, like a lot of rock bands are like recognizing the culture.

DJ Jazzy Jeff: We used to play these beats because they used to drive us on the dance floor.

Grand Wizard Theodore: And people don't really know that it's a rock record until like the guitars come in and stuff like that.

DJ Jazzy Jeff: We didn't have no hip hop beats back in the days we had to take it from everywhere we could get it from.

Grand Wizard Theodore: Just trying to take it to another level.

DJ Jazzy Jeff: That's what keeps the music new and keeps it fresh.

Grand Wizard Theodore: As far as, you know, rock is concerned, I think rock is, you know, a big part of hip hop.

DJ Jazzy Jeff: Rock helped influence hip hop, hip hop helped influence the world.

 

La la la la la,

La la la la la,

La lala la la la [x2]

 

Yeah, hey

Shhh...

Can you hear me?

Okay.

Listen

 

Yo / it's like a triple-staged darkness / listen and drift

Every muscle in your skin starts to shake and shift

You can hate the gift / but my phrases daze your clique

Spray your face when I spit / I mean it

You're just too conceited / repeatin' and repeatin'

You're a thugged-out gangsta pimp 'til you believe it

It seems like there's too much Pac / we don't need it

I'm cool on your heat / you can keep it

It's not a big secret / this is a game you can't win

You're singin' the same thing, but we're bringin' the answer

Just / close your eyes and pretend again

That your skin isn't as thin as the skin you're in (bitch)

 

Gimme a second just to spell it out

So / nobody can twist what I'm talkin' about

I don't / have to fake anything I feel

Because / we both know every word is real

 

So / gimme a second just to spell it out

So / nobody can twist what I'm talkin' about

I don't / have to fake anything I feel

Because / we both know every word is real

 

Right about now / the funk soul brother

Right about now / the funk soul brother (Handsome Boys)

Right about now / the funk soul brother

Right about now / the funk soul brother

 

I got the skills of titanium / straight to the cranium

Try to play me and we can go to war like Iranians

A deep cat / I speak rap / as long as the beat phat

My shit'll be off the meat rack

Lord Finesse / don't harass the guards

With the four-bars / they'll piss on, like, half your squad

So they're savage / I ain't gettin' bashed

I don't harass if you niggas playin' Russian Roulette with automatics

See / on the street, I'm top of the rank

Three words / when I get the dice, stop the bank

Bet against me / you'll get your cash

Leavin' my street team all for nothin' but ass-whoopin's

Hard-hitters / (Handsome Boys) / the large niggas

The type that sports chicks on the arm like John Ritter

The bomb, nigga / been stabbin' the third

Better play Jehovah Witness / just spread the word / (spread the word)

 

The sky opens wide / to swallow me again

Once I am inside / I'm lost and can't pretend

These pictures in my mind / are not a part of me

These memories hold me tight / 'til I can hardly breathe

 

(Breathe, breathe, breathe, breathe)

(Breathe) / I can hardly breathe

(Breathe, breathe, breathe, breath)

(Breathe) / I can hardly stop the memories

 

Nothing I can say or do will take away what I've been through

What you were is what I've come to be

Nothing you can say to me will take away these memories

What you were is what I've come to be

 

Ahh...

Ahh...

 

La la la la la,

La la la la la,

La lala la la la [x2]

 

 

 

Second To None

 

 

It's the real authentic

Leave ya'll dented

Forget what ya heard

If I said it, I meant it

Did it for real

While ya'll pretended

Back for more

I'm startin' the war to end it

Raw

Rippin' like I'm working a chainsaw

New York to Cali

New Jersey to Crenshaw

Speak the gift while you plead the fifth

My team is sick

We eat, sleep, and breathe this shit

Rough and rugged

Killin 'em soft

We don't leave one standin' when we breakin' 'em off

Takin' a loss?

Not a chance in your life

If being fresh is wrong, I don't wanna be right

Stop, drop, and roll

We got soul

Safety popped off when we lock and load

So this how we get this done

You can check on the rep, yep, second to none

 

Check on the rep, second to none, yea

This how we get this done

You can check on the rep, second to none

Check on the rep, second to none, yea

This how we get this done

You can check on the rep, second to none

 

Yo, check the rep, yep, enough respect

If not for the jewels I drop, the chunky neck

I'm funky fresh

Equipped with a rusty Tek

Am I the best?

Well I gotta put it bluntly, yes

You can't touch me

The flows'll get ya

Squeeze breath outta your chest like boa constrictors

I'm a killer and I usually know my victims

So I catch a lot of bodies on the homie system, uh

Don't get it twisted, I'll break your jaw

You'll be sippin' fried chicken through a crazy straw

Liquid diet, bitch

We official pirates

I ghost ride the ghost ship

Drinkin' and drivin', yea

You ain't nothing but a whiny kid

That cries like a wimp 'cause nobody rides with him

I ain't a thug, pimp, gangsta or grimey, done

But you can check on the rep, yep, second to none

One

 

Check on the rep, second to none, yea

This how we get this done

You can check on the rep, second to none

Check on the rep, second to none, yea

This how we get this done

You can check on the rep, second to none

 

Then all the playas wanna step in the gate

You can find me at the gym, bench pressing the weights

Getting' diesel on that ass and I'm so disgusting

I'mma tell the whole god dang globe to suck it

I'm bad

Now you feelin' something surround you

My chemical mix, they got you pumpin' the valium

The audience closed in and they had a reaction

Similar to explosions off of battery acid

My rhymes a razor, to slash your neck with

So follow my trail path what next, your exit

Into the dungeon, what you bringin' a bucket?

No one's hearin' your screams, so start playin' the trumpet

I'm outta your reach now

So give me some rocket fuel

Hookin' a beat down and do the impossible

A couple of months later, the record was done

So you can check on the rep, yep, second to none

 

Check on the rep, second to none, yea

This how we get this done

You can check on the rep, second to none

Check on the rep, second to none, yea

This how we get this done

You can check on the rep, second to none

 

 

 

Shoot First

 

 

Shoot first, ask questions last

(Shot gun pump bring a blast from the past)

Shoot first, ask questions last

(You better run fast, motherfucker run fast)

Shoot first, ask questions last

(Got a nine in the waist, .45 in the stash)

Shoot first, ask questions last

(You better run fast, motherfucker run fast)

 

Just gimme a reason

I'm squeezin', til you stop breathin'

For treason, I got shotguns like duck season

The world's comin' to an end

A.P. with my A.K., me and my little friend

T-minus 10 seconds and I'm (blastin' off)

I'm the I.R.A. with a (Kalashnikov)

This ain't rocket science

It's machine gun math

Cause I'm armed to the teeth, see my heat, when I laugh

I'm the chief on a warpath, fuck knucklin' up

There's a reason why my niece call me "Uncle Buck"

Some cracker went and fucked our whole gene pool up

Look how many white kids, go and shoot their school up

You on X-Box Live shootin' at a dead mutant

In real life, we got more guns than Ted Nugent

My shit bangs, not all of that emcee jive

Fuck an MPC, I got an MP5 and I

 

Shoot first, ask questions last

(Shot gun pump bring a blast from the past)

Shoot first, ask questions last

(You better run fast, motherfucker run fast)

Shoot first, ask questions last

(Got a nine in the waist, .45 in the stash)

Shoot first, ask questions last

(You better run fast, motherfucker run fast)

 

So when I get lifted, I'm gifted

The paradigm shifted, I flipped it

Took an Ap beat, and I ripped it

I ain't Mike

But I'm just like a Thriller, damn

I'm feelin' like I could just kill a man

420 hits, I take money hits

And squeeze triggers, like a Playboy Bunny's tits

I shoot first, get the loot burst

Quicker than a hot slug, comin at ya crew, and I could do worse

You don't wanna see that, leave that

Yeah, I bring the heat to the party, like a DJ brings the beat back

I got a weed sack

You might get high a little

Instead of gun smoke, you might wanna try a little

You wanna buy a little homie, that's a nice try

This ain't Half Baked

I ain't Mr. Nice Guy

My trigger finger's itchy

I think I'm gonna blast

Shoot first ask questions last

 

 

Shoot first, ask questions last

(Shot gun pump bring a blast from the past)

Shoot first, ask questions last

(You better run fast, motherfucker run fast)

Shoot first, ask questions last

(Got a nine in the waist, .45 in the stash)

Shoot first, ask questions last

(You better run fast, motherfucker run fast)

 

Yes sir, I'm back y'all

Let the ratchet attack y'all

Put some dimples in ya face like a Cabbage Patch doll

Nobody ill as this

I let the bullets talk for me, I'm a ventriloquist

Chase you on the highway with weapons and

That hard stare you had before will turn to panic lookin' for the exit ramp

I'm all of that, and a plate full of pork chops

No morals, I'll turn a day care, into a dope spot

Demigodzilla, my outer shell got special scales

Measure my weight like Killer Whales (You need a special scale)

I get it poppin' fam, take you the promise land

Submerge you under water, couldn't live if you was Aquaman

Bonkers with the barnacles and sharp articles

Skim you limb to limb, down until you're bone particles

Comic illustrators

Wanna illustrate us

But ain't enough space to draw my gun in 30 pages

Ahh

 

Shoot first, ask questions last

(Shot gun pump bring a blast from the past)

Shoot first, ask questions last

(You better run fast, motherfucker run fast)

Shoot first, ask questions last

(Got a nine in the waist, .45 in the stash)

Shoot first, ask questions last

(You better run fast, motherfucker run fast)

 

I like pistol smoke

 

 

 

Slow Ya Roll

 

 

Heyyyy! I gotta slow down

I said we gotta slow down

 

Let me take you back to high school, ninety-fo' (Yeah!)

When at least when a nigga had time to go (Come on!)

Walk to the bus stop, sellin' rocks on the way

Lil' bad motherfucker with a pocket full of yay (Yay!)

Fell in love with a shorty that was bad

I would go and skip class just so I could see that ass

But she was too fast, and I was too slow

Cause she wanted a nigga who already had dough (Yeah!)

She found her a man who was like twenty-fo'

But what she didn't know that he had plenty hoes

She was too young (too young!) so now he got a new one (New one!)

Cause shorty went and bought her a new gun

See when she catch this nigga she gon' do somethin

Not fight, but shorty gon' shoot somethin

But she never got a chance, a change of plans

Shot herself in the back puttin' the gun in her pants

 

 

Live life young nigga, quit tryin' to be grown

You gon' miss momma when she dead and gone

So slow your roll - slow it down my nigga

Slow your roll - slow down my nigga

Live life lil' mama, quit tryin' to be grown

You gon' miss daddy when he dead and gone

So slow your roll - c'mon gotta slow down

Slow your roll - think you gotta slow down

 

I got a graveyard tatted on my arm

So I'ma just start with my uncle William Hahn

My momma only brother, he served in the Navy

He lost his life because the war made him crazy

My nephew Shannon, 15 years old

When I think how he died I get real cold

Cause they found him in a field with some crack stones

There was no flesh, it was just bones

I was just home, with my cousin Craig

And then I got a phone call said they found him dead

So what's next, ain't went to Bizz funeral yet

Instead of one casket I need two of them shits

It don't quit, just when you think I'm seein better days

My auntie just find that she got AIDS

And it's fucked up, cause her life don't end

And she locked up, so she dyin' in the pen', damn

 

Live life young nigga, quit tryin' to be grown

You gon' miss momma when she dead and gone

So slow your roll - slow it down my nigga

Slow your roll - slow down my nigga

Live life lil' mama, quit tryin' to be grown

You gon' miss daddy when he dead and gone

So slow your roll - c'mon gotta slow down

Slow your roll - think you gotta slow down

 

This can't be life, we're living

Cause I don't wanna live no more

I don't wanna live no more

This can't be life, we're living

Cause I don't wanna live no more

I don't wanna live no more

 

This can't be life we're living

Cause I don't want it no more, no more

This can't be life we're living

Cause I don't want it no more

No more

 

Live life young nigga, quit tryin' to be grown

You gon' miss momma when she dead and gone

So slow your roll - slow it down my nigga

Slow your roll - slow down my nigga

Live life lil' mama, quit tryin' to be grown

You gon' miss daddy when he dead and gone

So slow your roll - c'mon gotta slow down

Slow your roll - think you gotta slow down

 

Woah, oh, oh, oh

Ooh, woah, oh, hey

Ooh

Ooh

 

 

 

Suicide Music

 

 

You could take our lives

Fill us up with lies

'Cause I know where I'm going when I die

And I don't even cry, middle finger to the sky

'Cause I know where I'm going when I die

 

Yeah, 'cause even if I got to live a life of crime

You got it, I'mma get it

Never need a nine-to-five

I'll push it to the limit 'til it's time to say goodbye, that's fine

'Cause I know just where I'm going when I die, die, die

 

See me in the microscope, see me in the fish tank

Chicks want to know my real name plus the dick length

Me? I'm a scientist

God to a lab rat

Now I'm just a has-been rapper when the hazmat

Ducking straight shots, sewing up wounds

Filling up tombs

Let the bass boom

Blood everywhere, so chaotic

I'm a bullet with your name on it

Seeking body after body, I'm the Mayor, Giovanni

Ain't in office anymore but he's still illuminati

Death to the king, overthrow everything

They'll be searching our apartments in an ATF sting

 

Get Busy, the scum of the earth

Hold a black magic séance to summon my verse

I'm a walking skeleton, the zombie that will rush the crowd

Devil baby, I was born inside a mushroom cloud

 

You could take our lives

Fill us up with lies

'Cause I know where I'm going when I die

And I don't even cry, middle finger to the sky

'Cause I know where I'm going when I die

 

Yeah, 'cause even if I got to live a life of crime

You got it, I'mma get it

Never need a nine-to-five

I'll push it to the limit 'til it's time to say goodbye, that's fine

'Cause I know just where I'm going when I die, die, die

 

Suicide music

Nothing to fucking fool with

Full clip and an Uzi, shooting out of Suzukis

No excuse, we blast now

Splatter your goose down

Clapping like it's the end, I ruin your fucking movie

Asking for passes

Homie, I'm not a cuby here to bang

Blow your brains all over your bitch's boobies

Take me alive? Never, better to die free

I'm writing "fuck the police" inside a goodbye letter

Peace, fade to black, call the Priest

Tell him to call Heaven and save me a few seats

Sorry it's so last minute, I'm bringing a few peeps

Body the lieutenant and took a shot at the chief

Sheesh, I guess I got a little problem with authority

Tend to get a little bit gruesome and gory

Volume on ten if I got to get it in

Always keep a pistol grip pump sitting on my lap like a yorkie

 

 

You could take our lives

Fill us up with lies

'Cause I know where I'm going when I die

And I don't even cry, middle finger to the sky

'Cause I know where I'm going when I die

 

Yeah, 'cause even if I got to live a life of crime

You got it, I'mma get it

Never need a nine-to-five

I'll push it to the limit 'til it's time to say goodbye, that's fine

'Cause I know just where I'm going when I die, die, die

 

Kill yourself, call me if you need some help

Kill yourself, call me if you need some help

Kill yourself, call me if you need some help

Kill yourself, call me if you need some help

Kill yourself, call me if you need some help

Kill yourself, call me if you need some help

Kill yourself, call me if you need some help

 

Who is it?

 

 

 

System

 

 

System

System, God

System

System, God

 

You fell away / what more can I say?

The feeling's evolved / I won't let it out

I can't replace / your screaming face

Feeling the sickness inside

 

Why won't you die?

Your blood and mine

We'll be fine

Then, your body / will be mine

 

So many words / can't describe my face

This feeling's evolved / so soon to break out

I can't relate / to a happy state

Feeling the blood run inside

 

Why won't you die?

Your blood and mine

We'll be fine

Then, your body / will be mine

 

Why is everything so fucking hard for me?

Keep me down to what you think I should be

Must you tempt me and provoke the ministry?

Keep on trying / I'm not dying so easily

 

I will not die / (why is everything so fucking hard for me?)

I will not die / (why is everything so fucking hard for me?)

I will not die

 

Why won't you die?

Your blood and mine

We'll be fine

Then, your body / will be mine

 

Why won't you die?

Your blood and mine

We'll be fine

Then, your body / will be mine

 

 

 

The Catalyst (King Fantastic Remix)

 

 

God bless us every one

We're a broken people living under loaded gun

Woah [x2]

God bless us every one

We're a broken people living under loaded gun

Woah [x2]

God bless us every one

We're a broken people living under loaded gun

Woah [x2]

I am King Grease One / I do not back down

See the scars on my head? Boy I earned that crown

I been scammed I been shot I been stumped the fuck out

I lost pieces of my soul representing this Hell

Saying skinny body acting they are what they're folks

They tell you I go over realer / That nigga is no joke

So win, lose, or draw this is where I stand

And if I got to see my end I goin' out like the man

God bless us every one

We're a broken people living under loaded gun

And it can't be outfought (Woah!)

It can't be outdone

It can't be outmatched (Woah!)

It can't be outrun

No

God bless us every one

We're a broken people living under loaded gun

And it can't be outfought (Woah!)

It can't be outdone

It can't be outmatched (Woah!)

It can't be outrun

I think I hear 'em coming

Get my burners out the basement

Get my baby and my woman

Send them out the back / Put on my bulletproof

Tell our homies we got that shit now to head up to the roof

I will not go alive / I ain't cut like that

I am Killer Tony's son, I go nuts like that

Wild man, shotgun zulu ridin' for their cars

And god bless the one that is second to the draw

God bless / bless us every one

We're a broken people living under loaded gun

And it can't be outfought (Woah!)

It can't be outdone

It can't be outmatched (Woah!)

It can't be outrun

No

God bless us every one

We're a broken people living under loaded gun

And it can't be outfought (Woah!)

It can't be outdone

It can't be outmatched (Woah!)

It can't be outrun

Lift me up / Let me go [x2]

Lift me up / Let me go [x2]

God bless / bless us every one

We're a broken people living under loaded gun

And it can't be outfought (Woah!)

It can't be outdone

It can't be outmatched (Woah!)

It can't be outrun

No

God bless us every one

We're a broken people living under loaded gun

And it can't be outfought (Woah!)

It can't be outdone

It can't be outmatched (Woah!)

It can't be outrun

No

God bless us every one (LIFT ME UP)

We're a broken people living under loaded gun (Woah)

And it can't be outfought (Oh, woah)

It can't be outdone (Oh)

It can't be outmatched (Oh, woah)

It can't be outrun (Oh)

No

God bless us every one (LIFT ME UP)

We're a broken people living under loaded gun (Woah)

And it can't be outfought (Oh, woah)

It can't be outdone (Oh)

It can't be outmatched (Oh, woah)

It can't be outrun (Oh)

God save us every one

Will we burn inside the fires of a thousand suns

The Instrumental

 

 

And he never lies...

Ooh...

And he never lies...

 

Uhh.. yeah

He just sits, and watches the people in the boxes

Everything he sees he absorbs and adopts it

He mimics and he mocks it

Really hates the box but he can't remember how to stop, it

Uhh, so he continues to watch it

Hoping that it'll give him somethin that he can box with

Or how the locksmith, see the box as, locked in the box

Ain't got the combination to unlock, it

That's why he watches, scared to look away

Cause at that moment, it might show him

What to take off the locks with

So he chained himself to the box, took a lock and then he locked it

Swallowed the combination and then forgot, it

As the doctors jot it all down, with they pens and pencils

The same ones that took away his voice

And just left this instrumental, like that

 

And he never lies (he never lies, he never lies, uhh)

And he never lies (uhh, he never lies, he never lies, no)

And he never lies (he never lies)

'Cause he never said anything at all

 

He just sits, and listens to the people in the boxes

Everything he hears he absorbs and adopts it

Anything not comin out the box he blocks it

See he loves the box and hope they never stop it

Anything the box tell him to do, he does it

Anything it tell him to get, he shops and he cops it

He protects the box, locks it in a box

When he goes to sleep, but he never sleeps

'Cause he stays up to watch it, scared to look away

'Cause at that moment, it might get stolen

And that's the last of the boxes

So he chained himself to the box, took a lock and then he locked it

Swallowed the combination and then forgot, it

As the doctors jot it all down, with they pens and pencils

The same ones that took away his voice

And just left this instrumental, like that

 

And he never lies (he never lies, he never lies, uhh)

And he never lies (uhh, he never lies, he never lies, no)

And he never lies (he never lies)

'Cause he never said anything at all

 

(Anything at all..) He never lies

Uhh, and you can't tell me just who you are

You buyin' them clothes just to hide those scars

You built that roof just to hide those stars

Now you can't take it back to the start

And you can't tell me just who you are

You buyin' them clothes just to hide those scars

You built that roof just to hide those stars

Now you can't take it back to the start

 

And he never lies (he never lies, he never lies, uhh)

And he never lies (uhh, he never lies, he never lies, no)

And he never lies (he never lies)

'Cause he never said anything at all

Anything at all

 

Uhh, and you can't tell me just who you are

You buyin' them clothes just to hide those scars

You built that roof just to hide those stars

Now you can't take it back to the start

And you can't tell me just who you are

You buyin' them clothes just to hide those scars

You built that roof just to hide those stars

Now you can't take it back to the start

 

And he never lies (he never lies, he never lies, uhh)

And he never lies (uhh, he never lies, he never lies, no)

And he never lies (he never lies)

'Cause he never said anything at all

Anything at all

Anything at all

 

Uhh, and you can't tell me just who you are

You buyin' them clothes just to hide those scars

You built that roof just to hide those stars

Now you can't take it back to the start

And you can't tell me just who you are

You buyin' them clothes just to hide those scars

You built that roof just to hide those stars

Now you can't take it back to the start

You can't tell me just who you are

You buyin' them clothes just to hide those scars

You built that roof just to hide those stars

Now you can't take it back to the start

And you can't tell me just who you are

You buyin' them clothes just to hide those scars

 

 

The Walking Dead

 

 

Suppose you were to die tonight.

What would you say?

Do you believe in life after death?

 

In the chill of the night / I can feel my heart racing

As I run towards the light / that seems so far away (so far away)

Wandering forever / in the darkest of shadows

Wondering if I will ever see you again

 

Wondering if I will ever see you again

 

I'll take your love / (take your love) / take your hate

(Take your hate) / I'll take your desire

I'll take the world / when it turns on you

(When it turns on you) / I'll set it on fire

 

(The walking dead)

 

Digging in the dirt / I can feel you getting closer

Steadying my hands through the blistering pain

Anxiously awaiting / for the earth to reveal you

Wondering if I will ever see you again (see you again)

 

Wondering if I will ever see you again

 

I'll take your love / (take your love) / take your hate

(Take your hate) / I'll take your desire

I'll take your heart / I'll take your pain

(I'll take your pain) / I'll bring you to life

 

I'll bring you to life

 

(The walking dead) / I'll bring you to life

 

In the chill of the night / I can feel my heart racing

As I run towards the light / that seems so far away (so far away)

Wandering forever / in the darkest of shadows

Wondering if I will ever see you again

 

Wondering if I will ever see you again

 

I'll take your love / (take your love) / take your hate

(Take your hate) / I'll take your desire

I'll take the world / when it turns on you

(When it turns on you)

 

(The / The / The walking dead)

(The walking dead)

 

 

I'll take your love / (take your love) / take your hate

(Take your hate) / I'll take your desire

I'll take the world / when it turns on you

(When it turns on you)

(The walking dead)

I'll take your love / (take your love) / take your hate

(Take your hate) / I'll take your desire

I'll take your heart / I'll take your pain

(I'll take your pain) / I'll bring you to life

 

 

There is no such thing as death

There is only change, change, change

 

 

 

The Young & The Hopeless (Mr. Hahn Remix)

 

 

Hard days made me, hard nights shaped me

I don't know, they somehow saved me

And I know I'm making something

Out of this life they called nothing

 

I take what I want, take what I need

They say it's wrong, but it's right for me

I won't look down, won't say I'm sorry

I know that only God can judge me

 

And if I make it through the day

Will tomorrow be the same?

Am I just running in place?

And if I stumble and I fall

Should I get up and carry on?

Will it all just be the same?

 

'Cause I'm young and I'm hopeless

I'm lost and I know this

I'm going nowhere fast, that's what they say

I'm troublesome, I'm fallen

I'm angry at my father

It's me against this world and I don't care

I don't care

(I don't care) [x2]

 

And no one in this industry

Understands the life I lead

When I sing about my past

It's not a gimmick, not an act

 

These critics and these trust fund kids

Try to tell me what punk is

But when I see them on the streets

They got nothing to say

 

And if I make it through today

Will tomorrow be the same?

Am I just running in place?

And if I stumble and I fall

Should I get up and carry on?

Will it all just be the same?

 

'Cause I'm young and I'm hopeless

I'm lost and I know this

I'm going nowhere fast, that's what they say

I'm troublesome, I'm fallen

I'm angry at my father

It's me against this world and I don't care

I don't care

I don't care

Now, I don't care

 

 

I don't care

I don't care

I don't care

I don't care

I don't care

I don't care

 

I'm young and I'm hopeless (I don't care)

I'm lost and I know this (I don't care)

I'm going nowhere fast, that's what they say (That's what they say)

That I'm troublesome, I'm fallen (I don't care)

I'm angry at my father (I don't care)

It's me against this world and I don't care

 

I'm young and I'm hopeless (I don't care)

I'm lost and I know this (I don't care)

I'm going nowhere fast, that's what they say (That's what they say)

That I'm troublesome, I'm fallen (I don't care)

I'm angry at my father (I'm angry at my father)

It's me against this world and I don't care (It's me against this world and I don't care)

I don't care

I don't care

I don't care

 

I don't care

I don't care

I don't care

 

 

 

Vegas Baby

 

 

Wait

Wait just a-

Wait just

Wait just a-

Wait just a-

Wait just a-

Wait just a-

 

Wait / wait / wait

 

Cut your engines, cool your wings and hit the runway

Man, we only got 'til Sunday

It's only one way to lay me down easy

I got a need to live sleazy, believe me

It's all a game, no shame, no pain

The limo's out front, passed baggage claim

Pop the bottle, give us something to sip

And hop the '15 to the strip!

 

Vegas baby [x2]

Wait / wait / wait

Vegas baby [x2]

Wait / wait / wait

 

We're highrollers so we can't be cavannas

Sippin' banana drinks with chicks from Atlanta

She say's her name's Anna, but I know she's lying

"She ain't lookin' packin'?

"Nah, I'm chimin'."

And I'd by lying but I'm copped all stay

All day, all night, always

Ladies and gents, let the three-wheel spin

And let 'em turn like there's three-wheel rims

Got a room with a view / Residential suite

But ain't nobody even trying to sleep

They say what happens here stays here, right?

Well I ain't even saying what I did last night!

Come on!

 

Vegas baby [x2]

Wait / wait / wait

Vegas baby [x2]

 

Wait / wait / wait

 

From the room, to the floor

To the table, to the case

To the limo, through the door

To the floor, to the stage

Of the limo, through the bar

To the club with the whales

You can take the limo straight to jail

Make bail, grab a limo then

You can do it all over again (Come on!)

You can't account for what I've looked through

Because the house always wins

And I do too

Never through, never gone from grace

And still splitting each and everything with a face

In the place with the ice where the dice are shooting

Rock that shit like my man Wayne Newton

 

Vegas baby [x2]

Wait / wait / wait

Vegas baby [x4]

Wait / wait / wait

Vegas baby [x4]

Wait / wait / wait

Vegas baby [x2]

 

Vegas baby [x4]

 

 

 

Wednesday Was A Good Day (M. Shinoda Remix)

 

 

Break me, shit, yo

 

Just waking up in the morning gotta thank God

I don't know but today seems kinda odd

No barking from the dogs, no smog

And momma cooked a breakfast with no hog

I got my grub on, but didn't pig out

Finally got a call from a girl want to dig out

Hooked it up on later as I hit the do'

Thinking will i live another twenty fo'

I gotta go cause I got me a drop top

And if I hit the switch, I can make the ass drop

Had to stop at a red light

Looking in my mirror not a jacker in sight

And everything is alright

I got a beep from Kim and she can fuck all night

Called up the homies and I'm askin' y'all

Which park, are y'all playin' basketball?

Get me on the court and I'm trouble

Last week fucked around and got a triple double

Freaking brothers every way like M.J.

I can't believe, today was a good day

 

Drove to the pad and hit the showers

Didn't even get no static from the cowards

Cause just yesterday them fools tried to blast me

Saw the police and they rolled right past me

No flexin', didn't even look in a niggas direction as I ran the intersection

Went to $hort Dog's house, they was watchin' Yo! MTV Raps

What's the haps on the craps

Shake 'em up, shake 'em up, shake 'em up, shake 'em

Roll 'em in a circle of niggaz and watch me break 'em

With the seven, seven-eleven, seven-eleven

Seven even back do' little Joe

I picked up the cash flow

Then we played bones, and I'm yellin' domino

Plus nobody I know got killed in South Central L.A.

Today was a good day

 

Left my niggas house paid

Picked up a girl been tryin' to fuck since the twelfth grade

It's ironic, I had the brew she had the chronic

The Lakers beat the Supersonics

I felt on the big fat fanny

Pulled out the jammy, and killed the punanny

And my dick runs deep so deep so deep put her ass to sleep

Woke her up around one

she didn't hesitate, to call Ice Cube the top gun

Drove her to the pad and I'm coasting

Took another sip of the potion hit the three-wheel motion

I was glad everything had worked out

Dropped her ass off, then I chirped out

Today was like one of those fly dreams

Didn't even see a berry flashing those high beams

No helicopter looking for a murder

Two in the morning got the fat burger

Even saw the lights of the Goodyear Blimp

And it read Ice Cube's a pimp (yeah)

Drunk as hell but no throwing up

Half way home and my pager still blowing up

Today I didn't even have to use my A.K.

I got to say it was a good day

 

Hey wait, wait a minute fool stop the shit

What the fuck am I thinking about?

 

 

 

What Do They Know? (Mindless Self Indulgence vs Julien-K & Chester Bennington Remix)

 

 

Beat me up

Beat me down

Mess me up

Beyond all recognition

 

For what it's worth

I'd do it again

With no consequence

I will do it again

 

Hard up, so hunt me down, down, down

Jump the gun bust a cap hit the ground

 

Yo, yo, yo, word

My tendency's never returned

Received like a big fat jerk

I been silly, but not absurd

Cause you know that's what I heard

Tell ya thoughts that's most impure

So everything's splendid, sure

I just there to in-jure

 

On the fence

The consequence

What do they know

About that

 

On the track

Ahead in the back

What do they know

About that

 

I'm quite depressed

I'm quite a mess

 

Beat me up

Beat me down

Mess me up

Beyond all recognition

 

For what it's worth

I'd do it again

With no consequence

I will do it again

 

Hard up, so hunt me down, down, down

Jump the gun bust a cap hit the ground

 

Yo, yo, yo, word

My tendency's never returned

Received like a big fat jerk

I been silly, but not absurd

Cause you know that's what I heard

Tell ya thoughts that's most impure

So everything's splendid, sure

I just there to in-jure

 

On the fence

The consequence

What do they know

About that

 

On the track

Ahead of the pack

What do they know

About that

 

I'm quite depressed

I'm quite a mess

 

Hey, someone to stab in the back

Hey, someone to fall through the crack

Hey, someone to punch in the face

Hey, someone to fall through the crack

 

Written all over my face (Written all over my face)

Jump the gun bust a cap hit the ground

 

yo yo yo, word

My tendency's never returned

Received like a big fat jerk

I been silly, but not absurd

Cause you know that's what I heard

Tell ya thoughts that's most impure

So everything's splendid, sure

I just there to in-jure

 

On the fence

The consequence

What do they know

About that

 

On the track

Ahead in the back

What do they know

About that

 

I'm quite depressed

I'm quite a mess

 

 

 

You Cannot Fuck With This

 

 

100 Miles & Runnin'

Celph Titled to hold the gun and

Put the pump to your stomach

Till they're pumpin' your stomach

 

I'll be dumpin' every clip that don't fit in my waist

Butt naked with a shot gun

I'm Soul Escape

 

You the L.A. Timmy McVeigh?

 

Nah, my name is Tak

And I tote a Glock till your shit splits and bricks

We airin' out laundry

A buck to clean ya

On a Cannon Ball Run

Quick tuck your knees up

 

Fuck the streets up

It's a no brainer

Toe bangers

Run up in delivery rooms with coat hangers

Any buffoon that show anger (What?)

We bringin' plenty of goons with gold razors

That hold chrome lasers

 

No stranger to beef

I'm a dangerous beast

In Shinoda's backyard

Chained to a tree

If you wanna act hard, stay 25 feet

Away

But they keep me on a 30 foot leash

 

You can not fuck with this!

Fuck with this you wish you could

You can't my camp will kill you quick

You can not fuck with this!

You can not fuck with this, we'll bust your shit

Demigodz and we get the place jumpin' bitch

 

Break it down

 

Yea, Shinoda we told you we was gon' fuck this up

From the Chrome Depot to the platinum Creepshow you stupid motherfuckers

 

I'll stab a knife in your chin

See your lights go dim

Me and the chain gang fresh out the psycho bin

 

I'll strike again

Blastin' foes

With a rubber grip

Made from the same shit as Michael Jackson's nose

 

Yo, it's a wrap now

Casket closed

Still dippin' on fo' fo's

Wrapped in rose

Gats that will wet 'em like a plastic hose

 

When I blaaaat the toast

You turn to Casper The Ghost

 

You're done, that's it, adios

Back in the boat we tie a rope around your neck

Hang him after the show

Dump the body in a creek, now they wavin' a flag

Your shit is weak

Get the fuck off Bangers and Mash

 

I'm back cravin' a blast when I walk into Star Bucks

With an A.R. tucked

Now watch me Star buck

Get 'em (Hit 'em) (Split 'em)

It's the D.E.M.I.G.O.D.Z

Easy

 

You can not fuck with this!

Fuck with this you wish you could

You can't my camp will kill you quick

You can not fuck with this!

You can not fuck with this, we'll bust your shit

Demigodz and we get the place jumpin' bitch

 

Back up, get backed up, get smacked up

Fall back and clapped up in a bag wrapped up

Everybody wanna know what's up

When Demigodz to all show they always fuck shit up

Back up, get backed up, get smacked up

Fall back and clapped up in a bag wrapped up

Every time we get rowdy and drunk

We puttin' cowards and punks

Dead bodies in trunks

 

It's a motherfuckin' party in here

We finna get big

Stab you in the leg with a shovel

Have a shin dig

Your girl next to you is scared to death

I'll blow that bitches wig off, put some hair on your chest

 

Yes

I'm from that S.O.B

Here the guns go

Boom boom boom

Like a techno beat

Pop shit that'll make you wanna slit your wrist up

You still playin' doctor I'm on some Nip/Tuck

 

Yeah, line 'em up now

My cliques on

Hit hit time to touch down

To kick dope shit

Back for more

We make all y'all drop

That's the raw

That chrome piece goes pop

 

You can not fuck with this!

Fuck with this you wish you could

You can't my camp will kill you quick

You can not fuck with this!

You can not fuck with this, we'll bust your shit

Demigodz and we get the place jumpin' bitch

 

Back up, get backed up, get smacked up

Fall back and clapped up in a bag wrapped up

Everybody wanna know what's up

When Demigodz to all show they always fuck shit up

Back up, get backed up, get smacked up

Fall back and clapped up in a bag wrapped up

Every time we get rowdy and drunk

We puttin' cowards and punks

Dead bodies in trunks

 

 

 

You Cannot Fuck With This (Razor Tag Version)

 

 

Blaaaat!

Yo, Green Lantern man

You know how we do, man

We shittin' on niggas dot com

New York connection, Miami connection

We a problem

 

100 Miles & Runnin'

Celph Titled to hold the gun and

Put the pump to your stomach

Till they're pumpin' your stomach

 

I'll be dumpin' every clip that don't fit in my waist

Butt naked with a shot gun

I'm Soul Escape

 

You the L.A. Timmy McVeigh?

 

Nah, my name is Tak

And I tote a Glock till your shit splits and bricks

We airin' out laundry

A buck to clean ya

On a Cannon Ball Run

Quick tuck your knees up

 

Fuck the streets up

It's a no brainer

Toe bangers

Run up in delivery rooms with coat hangers

Any buffoon that show anger (What?)

We bringin' plenty of goons with gold razors

That hold chrome lasers

 

No stranger to beef

I'm a dangerous beast

In Shinoda's backyard

Chained to a tree

If you wanna act hard, stay 25 feet

Away

But they keep me on a 30 foot leash

 

You can not fuck with this!

Fuck with this you wish you could

You can't my camp will kill you quick

You can not fuck with this!

You can not fuck with this, we'll bust your shit

Demigodz and we get the place jumpin' bitch

 

Break it down

 

Yea, Shinoda we told you we was gon fuck this up

From the Chrome Depot to the platinum Creepshow you stupid motherfuckers

 

I'll stab a knife in your chin

See your lights go dim

Me and the chain gang fresh out the psycho bin

 

I'll strike again

Blastin' foes

With a rubber grip

Made from the same shit as Michael Jackson's nose

 

Yo, it's a wrap now

Casket closed

Still dippin' on fo' fo's

Wrapped in rose

Gats that will wet 'em like a plastic hose

 

When I blaaaat the toast

You turn to Casper The Ghost

 

You're done, that's it, adios

Back in the boat we tie a rope around your neck

Hang him after the show

Dump the body in a creek, now they wavin' a flag

Your shit is weak

Get the fuck off Bangers and Mash

 

I'm back cravin' a blast when I walk into Star Bucks

With an A.R. tucked

Now watch me Star buck

Get 'em (Hit 'em) (Split 'em)

It's the D.E.M.I.G.O.D.Z

Easy

 

You can not fuck with this!

Fuck with this you wish you could

You can't my camp will kill you quick

You can not fuck with this!

You can not fuck with this, we'll bust your shit

Demigodz and we get the place jumpin' bitch

 

Back up, get backed up, get smacked up

Fall back and clapped up in a bag wrapped up

Everybody wanna know what's up

When Demigodz to all show they always fuck shit up

Back up, get backed up, get smacked up

Fall back and clapped up in a bag wrapped up

Every time we get rowdy and drunk

We puttin' cowards and punks

Dead bodies in trunks

 

It's a motherfuckin' party in here

We finna get big

Stab you in the leg with a shovel

Have a shin dig

Your girl next to you is scared to death

I'll blow that bitches wig off, put some hair on your chest

 

Yes

I'm from that S.O.B

Here the guns go

Boom boom boom

Like a techno beat

Pop shit that'll make you wanna slit your wrist up

You still playin' doctor I'm on some Nip/Tuck

 

Yeah, line 'em up now

My cliques on

Hit hit time to touch down

To kick dope shit

Back for more

We make all y'all drop

That's the raw

That chrome piece goes pop

 

You can not fuck with this!

Fuck with this you wish you could

You can't my camp will kill you quick

You can not fuck with this!

You can not fuck with this, we'll bust your shit

Demigodz and we get the place jumpin' bitch

 

Back up, get backed up, get smacked up

Fall back and clapped up in a bag wrapped up

Everybody wanna know what's up

When Demigodz to all show they always fuck shit up

Back up, get backed up, get smacked up

Fall back and clapped up in a bag wrapped up

Every time we get rowdy and drunk

We puttin' cowards and punks

Dead bodies in trunks

 

You know it's a fucking invasion

Green Lantern

 

 

[lpliveusername]

Soul, remove

Blaaaat!

Yo, Green Lantern man

You know how we do, man

We shittin' on niggas dot com

New York connection, Miami connection

We a problem

 

and

 

You know it's a fucking invasion

Green Lantern

 

from the lyrics of "You Cannot Fuck With This". Those parts are only in the mixtape version.

----------------------------------------------------

Ending of "Walking Dead":

There is no such thing as death

There is only change, change, change

Edited June 23, 2015 by lpliveusername

[Astat]

...Well, looks like I've found what I'm doing this week.

[lpliveusername]

I used TheSasstielExperience's lyrics.

Red = corrections

Underline = shows what's different from the explicit version

[...] = nothing

 

You can see that Mike re-wrote/re-recorded a few lines for this release.

 

 

THE RISING TIED (NON-PA)

01. Introduction

"The record that you made,
That's underground hip-hop, ("Okay.")
But with big...with big sounds,

But with big...with big sounds,
That's what takes it over 'cause the sounds are so big,
It's an underground...that's an underground hip-hop record,

The richness of the music and everything, I knew it was going to be somethin' serious."

 

02. Remember The Name

You ready?!
Lets go!
Yeah!
For those of you that wanna know what we're all about?
It's like this ya'll (c'mon!)

This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill,
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will,
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain,
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name!

Mike! - He doesn't need his name up in lights,
He just wants to be heard whether it's the beat or the mic,
He feels so unlike everybody else, alone,
In spite of the fact that some people still think that they know him,
But no, he knows the code,
It's not about the salary,
It's all about reality and makin' some noise,
Makin' the story, makin' sure his clique stays up,
That means when he puts it down Tak's pickin' it up! Let's go!

Who the hell is he anyway?
He never really talks much,
Never concerned with status, but still leavin' them star struck,
Humbled through opportunities, given to him despite the fact,
That many misjudge him, because he makes a livin' from writin raps,
Put it together himself, now the picture connects,
Never askin' for someone's help, or to get some respect,
He's only focused on what he wrote, his will is beyond reach,
And now when it all unfolds, the skill of an artist...

This is twenty percent skill,
Eighty percent beer,
Be one hundred percent clear cause Ryu is ill,
Who would've thought that he'd be the one to set the west in flames,
And I heard him wreckin with The Crystal Method, "Name Of The Game",
Came back dropped Megadef, took em to church,
I like "Bleach" man, Ryu had the stupidest verse,
This dude is the truth, now everybody be givin him guest spots,
His stock's through the roof I heard he [...] with S. Dot!

This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill,
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will,
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain,
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name!

They call him Ryu The Sick,
And he's spittin' fire with Mike,
Got him out the dryer he's hot,
Found him in Fort Minor with Tak,
Been a [...] annihilist porcupine,
He's a [...], he's a [...],
The type woman want to be with, and rappers hope he get [...],
Eight years in the makin', patiently waitin to blow,
Now the record with Shinoda's takin' over the globe,
He's got a partner in crime, his [...] is equally dope,
You wont believe the kind of [...] that comes out of this kid's throat...

Tak! He's not your everyday on the block,
He knows how to work with what he's got,
Makin' his way to the top,
People think its a common owners name,
People keep askin' him was it given at birth,
Or does it stand for an acronym?
No he's livin' proof, Got him rockin the booth,
He'll get you buzzin' quicker than a shot of vodka with juice,
Him and his crew are known around as one of the best,
Dedicated to what they doin' give a hundred percent...

Forget Mike, nobody really knows how or why he works so hard,
It seems like he's never got time,
Because he writes every note and he writes every line,
And I've seen him at work when that light goes on in his mind,
It's like a design is written in his head every time,
Before he even touches a key or speaks in a rhyme,
And those other fellas he runs with, those kids that he signed?
Ridiculous, without even trying, how do they do it?!

This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill,
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will,
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain,
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name!
This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill,
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will,
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain,
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name!

Yeah! Fort Minor!
M. Shinoda! Styles Of Beyond!
Ryu! Takbir!
Machine Shop!

 

03. Right Now

Someone right now, is leavin' their apartment,
Looking down at the street, and wonderin' where their car went,
Someone in a car, is sittin' at a signal,
In front of a restaurant, starin' through the window,
At someone right now, with their finger in their teeth,
Who could use a little floss, right across the street,
There's somebody on the curb, who really needs a jacket,
But spent half the rent at a bar getting plastered,
Now he's gotta walk 14 blocks,
Just to work at a shop where he's about to get fired.
Someone right now, is lookin' pretty tired,
Staring at a laptop, tryin' to get inspired,
As somebody living right across the street,
Just wrote the best thing that she's written all week,
But her best friend is coughing up blood in the sink,
He can't even think what happened, feeling so confused,
And he knows it looks bad but there's nothing he can do,
I wonder what it's like to be right there in his shoes, but...

Yo, I'm just takin' it in,
Out the window of a hotel bedroom again,
Tomorrow I'll be gone, I don't know when I'll be back,
But in this world everything can change just like that (like that) (just like that) (just like that) (just like that)

Somebody right now is droppin' his vote,
Inside a box and tryin' not to get [...] in his throat,
For the act of freedom,
Right now, somebody's stuck in Iraq,
Hoping that he gets shipped back breathing,
In a war, but he's not really sure of the reasons,
So we show our support when the press mislead him,
Though we mourn, remain proud, salute the troops,
Get some, I know you boys got some work to do.

Meanwhile, right now someone's 25-to-life-ing,
Standing on a corner with their thumb up hitchhiking,
Scratching off a lotto ticket, hopin' for a real winner,
Sneaking through the border just to work and eat a real dinner,
Right now, someone wishes they were you and I,
Instead of second-guessing fatal thoughts of quiet suicide,
But right now I'm staring out the window at a fiend,
With holes in his arm, and holes in his jeans,
He pulled out a cigarette and sparked a light,
And walked right around the corner just out of my sight, but...

Yo, I'm just takin' it in,
From a second story hotel window again,
The T.V's on and my bags are packed,
But in this world everything can change just like that (like that) (just like that) (just like that) (just like that)

Yo, I'm just takin' it in,
From a second story hotel window again,
The T.V's on and my bags are packed,
But in this world everything can change just like that (like that) (just like that) (just like that) (just like that)

Yeah, right now somebody's sittin' in the darkness,
Tryin' to figure how to put some heat in they apartment,
But they got a little mattress, little carpet,
And they appreciate it 'cause some people on a park bench.
You see 'em when you rushing to get to the office,
Wife ride by 'em when she comin' home from the market,
Right now somebody comin' out the pocket,
Tryin' to dump that [...] they runnin' 'round the block with,
Same time, the cops is raisin' the [...],
With aim to fill your legs and your back with some hot [...].
Right now somebody's strugglin' to stop this man,
That's kickin' and punchin' and cussin' at the doctors.
Down the hall a child is takin' it's first breath,
The doctors ain't even passed him to the nurse yet, yo,
I wonder if he understands what it's worth yet,
Life, the time spent while we here on the earth yet,
The answers to the questions we all seek,
Can be found, it depend on how free y'all think,
Right now, it's somebody who ain't eat all week,
That would kill for the [...] you throw away in the street,
I guess one man's trash is the next man's treasure,
One man's pain is the next man's pleasure,
One say infinity, then next say forever,
Right now, everybody got to get it together, man,

I'm just takin' it in,
In another strange hotel lobby again,
With my luggage on my back, I don't know where I'm at,
I'm in a world where it all change just like that (like that) (just like that) (just like that) (just like that)

Yo, I'm just takin' it in,
Out the window of a hotel bedroom again,
Tomorrow I'll be gone, I don't know when I'll be back,

But in this world everything can change just like that (like that) (just like that) (just like that) (just like that)

 

04. Petrified

Ya'll are not not re-ready (no!),

Not re-ready (no!),
We about to drop it steady (so!),
Do it like that, like that, like that,
Like that, like that, like that, like that...

Now why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

Now why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

How you doin ya'll, my name's Mike,
I'm fluent with the new I'm doin it all night,
I like what I do, I do what I like,
I can quit and get it back like I'm riding a bike.
Like STOP...
Bring it back, bring it back,
We got that balance keepin us on track,
That you get when you're movin' quick with no slow,
You stare like you don't care, but you do though.
I know, you really must be so lonely,
Puffed up like you're tough but so phony.
You and your boys you don't know me,
You really wanna hold me? Show me homie.
Let's get it over with for good,
I got a friction addiction I wish you would,
Machine Shop rockin' when we step inside,
And we got everybody so petrified!

Now why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

Listen you are not ready,
Like children and a building you cant stand steady.
It must be the beat so heavy,
Causin' panic attacks like a crack in the levy.
Give you that Robert Plant,
Dancin' days are back, feelin all in the track,
And infact? For those knowin' the name I'm back,
With some brand new attack we can do it like that,
You really must be so lonely,
Puffed up like you're tough but so phony.
You and your boys you don't know me,
You really wanna hold me? Show me homie.
Tough talk doesn't mean a thing,
Get over yourself, you know when we're up in the scene,
It's Machine Shop rockin' when we step inside,
And we got everybody so petrified!

Now why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

Now why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

Ya'll are not not re-ready (no!),
Not re-ready (no!),
We about to drop it steady (so!),
Do it like that, like that, like that,
Like that, like that, like that, like that...

Ya'll are not not re-ready (no!),
Not re-ready (no!),
We about to drop it steady (so!),
Do it like that, like that, like that,
Like that, like that, like that, like get up...

Why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

Why's everybody so petrified? (What!)
Petrified (what!), step aside,
And just drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')
Drop that! (cmon')

Drop that! (cmon')
Like stop! (stop x10)
Machine shop! (shop x10)

 

05. Feel Like Home

Yeah

These days are dark and the nights are cold,
People acting like they lost their soul,
And everywhere I go I see another person like me,
Trying to make it all feel like home (feel like home)

These days are dark and the nights are cold,
People acting like they lost their soul,
And everywhere I go I see another person like me,
Trying to make it all feel like home (feel like home)

Standin' on the bridge in the dark and I'm seein' my breath,
Tryin' to make it home without freezin' to death,
And my grandfather's face is stuck in my mind and how,
Seeing him tonight's gonna be the last time.
I should've brought a jacket,
Blowin' in my hands like it's really gonna stop the chill,
I buy a cup of cofee with a five dollar bill, thinkin',
Layin' in that box people look so still,
At times like these you start thinkin',
Your first beath in, and your clock starts tickin',
I'm not trying to bum anyone out,
Not trying to be dramatic, just thinkin' out loud,
I'm just tryin' to make some sense in my mind.
Some defense from the cold that I'm feeling outside, and for a minute,
Escape with some rhythm and rhyme, and,
Get away from the grey, just a bit at a time.

Yeah, kinda funny how this world can treat you,
Like a freak in a sideshow, a carnival creature,
Climbin' outta cans, I'm a diamond in the sand,
But you can't tell the difference on a beach full of rhinestones,
My life's like tryin' to swallow a pinecone.
It's tough when you live fast, just to die slow,
Talk to dial tones, my dreams are far-fetched,
It seems, so I sleep underneath this park bench,
I know it don't make sense,
And I don't expect for you to know what it's like.,
[...] everything in my sight.
Push [...],
[...], I keep [...] 'til my lips turn white,
And my chest gets tight, but who the [...] really cares,
When you're so far left, that even death looks right.
All I can do is hope for the best and pray,
That it gets a little better than yesterday.

(These) These days are dark and the nights are cold,
People acting like they lost their soul,
And everywhere I go I see another person like me,
Trying to make it all feel like home (feel like home)

These days are dark and the nights are cold,
People acting like they lost their soul,
And everywhere I go I see another person like me,
Trying to make it all feel like home (feel like home)

Yo, pardon me, I think I'm next to url,
Too many problems goin' on, that's why I left my girl.
Packed my bags and I traveled with a pen and my notepad,
Pissed that I was broke and all the things that I don't have,
But still, I try to find a way to escape,
From all the hate planted in my head which lead to mistakes,
But now I'm breakin' the mold, see I was patient and calm,
Many sleep in the rain, but I'm awake in the storm,
Writing my life in a short film, The Rise and Fall,
How I managed to scorch hills, and climb the walls,
Pound pavement, aimless in this cold existance,
Even though things are changin', I'm goin' the distance,
Overcomin' the doubt that had controlled for so long,
And put it all behind me, 'cause life still goes on,
Now I'm much stronger and know where I stand,
While lost souls search over and over again.

These days are dark and the nights are cold,
People acting like they lost their soul,
And everybody's tryin' not to cry, trin' to get by,
And tryin' not too feel out of control,
And if you look hard enough,
Sometimes you'll find a place that might just remind you of home,
But if it doesn't feel like home,
You can do what I do,
Just pretend you don't feel so alone.

Feel like home
Feel like home
Feel like home
Feel like home
Feel like home
Feel like home
Feel like home
Feel like home

 

06. Where'd You Go

Where'd you go? I miss you so,

Seems like it's been forever,
That you've been gone.

She said;
"Some days I feel like shh, some days I wanna quit,
And just be normal for a bit,
I don't understand why you have to always be gone,
I get along but the trips always feel so long, and,
I find myself tryin' to stay by the phone,
'Cause your voice always helps me and I feel not so alone,
But I feel like an idiot, working my day around a call,
That when I pick up I don't have much to say, so,
I want you to know it's a little messed up,
That I'm stuck here waiting,
At times debating, telling you I've had it with you and your career,
Me and the rest of the family here singing "Where'd you go?"."

Where'd you go? I miss you so,
Seems like it's been forever,
That you've been gone.
Where'd you go? I miss you so,
Seems like it's been forever,
That you've been gone.
Please come back home.

Come back home, you know that place where you used to live?,
Used to barbeque up burgers and ribs,
Used to have a little party every Halloween with candy by the pile,
But now you only stop by every once in a while.
Yeah, I find myself just filling my time,
With anything to keep the thought of you from my mind,
I'm doing fine, and I'm planning to keep it that way,
And you can call me if you find that you have something to say,
And I'll tell you;
"I want you to know it's a little messed up,
That I'm stuck here waiting,
At times debating, telling you that I've had it with you and your career.
Me and the rest of the family here singing "Where'd you go?"."

Where'd you go? I miss you so,
Seems like it's been forever,
That you've been gone.
Where'd you go? I miss you so,
Seems like it's been forever,
That you've been gone.
Please come back home.

I want you know it's a little messed up,
That I'm stuck here waiting,
No longer debating,
Tired of sitting and hating and making these excuses,
For why you're not around, and feeling so useless,
It seems one thing has been true all along,
You don't really know what you've got 'til it's gone,
I guess I've had it with you and your career,
When you come back I won't be here,
And you can sing it.

Where'd you go? I miss you so,
Seems like it's been forever,
That you've been gone.
Where'd you go? I miss you so,
Seems like it's been forever,
That you've been gone.
Please come back home

Please come back home
Please come back home
Please come back home

 

07. In Stereo

"That beat is hard!"

This is how it goes,
Welcome one and all to the show,
We’re wired up, fired up, and we're ready to go,
In the back of the parking lot outside of the bar,
Twenty deep, twenty feet from the boulevard,
Black hoodies, black caps, black label in glasses,
Previewin' this music before all the masses,
'Cause the first thing I need when I got a new beat,
Is to see how it sounds echoin' off the street,
I just take it for a spin, pop the CD in,
Slide it up to ten and get that rear view shakin',
And play it again so there’s no mistakin',
San Andreas the block get this place earthquakin' like..OH!

Oh-oh!
Ready for it? Here we go,
We got the whole block rockin' in stereo,
We're takin' control, lettin' everybody know,
And if you feel it lemme hear everybody go,
Oh-Oh!

You’re not ready, I got plenty cuts,
For twenty months dropped steadily,
Plenty tracks to empty on your wack pedigree,
I’m backed heavily, while you’re back peddling,
Forget the chit chat on me homie, kick back,
I’m on a trip that can get your homie's chin slapped,
So zip your lip back, listen and watch,
We got the whole block rockin' off the way the beat knocks,
You dont have to warn the people on the corner, they know,
That if you’re standing on that corner then you’re getting that show,
World premiering you're hearing that machine shop flow,
San Andreas the block get this place earthquakin' like..OH!

Oh...oh!
Ready for it? Here we go,
We got the whole block rockin' in stereo,
We're takin' control, lettin' everybody know,
And if you feel it lemme hear everybody go,
Oh...oh!
Ready for it? Here we go,
We got the whole block rockin' in stereo,
We're takin' control, lettin' everybody know,
And if you feel it lemme hear everybody go,

Turn the key, turn the volume up to loud,
Roll right, roll every window down,
Let the whole block know what this is about,
Turn it up, ya'll, burn that system out,
Turn the key, turn the volume up to loud,
Roll right, roll every window down,
Let the whole block know what this is about,
Turn it up, ya'll, burn out that system like OH!

Oh...oh!
Ready for it? Here we go,
We got the whole block rockin' in stereo,
We're takin' control, lettin everybody know,
And if you feel it lemme hear everybody go,
Oh...oh!
Ready for it? Here we go,
We got the whole block rockin' in stereo,
We're takin' control, lettin everybody know,
And if you feel it lemme hear everybody go,
Oh...oh!

Let’s go ahead and test out the speakers, you ready?
Let’s go, like this!

 

08. Back Home

Uh! Yeah...yo,
We about to take ya'll to the tip, to the crib...
Let's do it Mike!

Yeah!

Back home (back home),
Everybody's searching for somethin',
But all they can find is a whole lot of nothin',
Back home (back home),
Ain't nobody hopin' and prayin',
'Cause they feel like nothing can save 'em,
And they try to hold out but they can't fight the fact,
That life goes black when those lights go out,
But I guess you gotta just watch out for your own,
'Cause ain't a damn thing free back home! (Back home)

Back home, they holler "disciple" and "blackstone",
Same block they freebase yo we trapped on,
Where our grandmothers marched, the [...] clap on,
There's liquor stores, beauty supplies, and rap songs,
I travel the world just to come back to it,
The crib got a lot of soul like black music,
I'm attached to it,
In many ways the city raised me, and gave me,
The drama, honor, and bravery,
The streets seem hollow, when I go to Chicago,
It's cheap wine and sorrow,
Times is hard to swallow,
In search of God's tomorrow, I borrow words from the,
Bible, and use them for survival, gangs rival,
Signs painted on walls like hieroglyphics,
I tell 'em that this is all tribal,
Used to do dirt, shorty's goin' through the same cycle,
And trials like Michael, tryin' not to stay idle!

Back home (back home),
Everybody's searching for somethin',
But all they can find is a whole lot of nothin',
Back home (back home),
Ain't nobody hopin' and prayin',
'Cause they feel like nothing can save 'em,
And they try to hold out but they can't fight the fact,
That life goes black when those lights go out,
But I guess you gotta just watch out for your own,
'Cause ain't a damn thing free back home! (Back home)

Back home it's not Compton but close,
The same problems exist and the pain throbbin',
And folks are so common,
It don't, really bother us much we just swallow it (uh!),
Crack the bottle and smoke, hope tomorrow something,
Magical happens that'll put me back in the biz,
But the chances of it actually happening's kinda slim,
Back home, we get the good life at a glimpse,
In the form of a rap star, [...] dealers, and [...],
I'm back home!

Back home, I try my best to keep it together it's cold, (cold)
Like the Windy City streets of December,
I pace back and forth, looking for the courage to shine,
But can't tap the source, need something to nourish my mind,
I know we all lose quite a bit in life,
Only to gain some,
Life of the dark winding roads we came from,
But I move with the night, so I'm used to the shade,
And never lose sight, bringing truth back to the game!

Back home, we've got a lot of things on our minds,
We're always behind on something cause there's not enough time,
And we're non-stop, bottom line, doing what we gotta do,
To get some food in the fridge and stay out of the hospital,
Back home there's people calling us hopeless,
People trying to tell us all we need is some focus,
But focus,
Focus is overrated,
Cause you see every blemish and mistake and can't change it,
Back home is Alvarado, K-Town and J-Town,
Or Little Tokyo for those that don't know,
Where figures shiver, living right in the litter,
Where kids write bigger, right inside the LA river,
On the concrete, a symbol of our everyday way,
Its that color and concentration over heavy and grey (and grey),
And by the time the ink dries on this page,
I'll be half a day away from the place where I stay!

Back home (back home),
Everybody's searching for somethin',
But all they can find is a whole lot of nothin',
Back home (back home),
Ain't nobody hopin' and prayin',
'Cause they feel like nothing can save 'em,
And they try to hold out but they can't fight the fact,
That life goes black when those lights go out,
But I guess you gotta just watch out for your own,
'Cause ain't a damn thing free back home! (Back home)

We takin it back home ya'll,
Yeah it's Common Sense (yeah!),
My guy Mike (what up Com'?),
S.O.B. (uh-huh),
Yeah, this is how we rotate,
It's good music (ha ha ha),
Hip-hop (don't stop!), yeah
Uh, it's home for me baby...yeah!

 

09. Cigarettes

Yeah..go ahead and uh, cue those special effects..(haha)
Yeah..

Man I love this rap game,
Mainly 'cause its cool to add a little,
Spice to the life you've been through,
Everyone exaggerates a tiny little bit,
Make your record sound more gangster than it really is,
You cant appear weak, man, we wanna hear street,
We wanna hear you spit your thug over this here beat,
Don't take it as sarcastic, I can't get enough,
I'm telling you,
You can call my bluff, if it's not rough,
Then I really don't need it,
I'm not even ashamed,
I got too much reality thats filling up my brain,
So sell me on the product, I'm addicted to the game,
Suck it up like a cigarette, light it up man...

Its just like a cigarette, its something that I do,
Once in a while but between me and you,
Its just like a cigarette, nobody's really fooled,
I don't want the truth, I just wanna feel cool!

Let me tell you something that I realized tonight,
My hip hop radio's like Marlboro Light,
They're both selling stories,
And they sound about the same,
Cigarettes say their safe,
Rappers claim they really bang,
We dont care if it's true, when we lay the money down,
We don't believe the words,
We just love the way they sound,
They're acting like we're idiots, they're lying to our face,
Maybe we are idiots, we buy it anyway,
I'm runnin out to get the next rapper's CD, just,
Suckin up the guns, drugs, and misogyny,
The same way that I suck up all the stories when I breathe,
That little bit of death supposedly cancer-free,
And everything they say's got the truth twisted up but,
Twisted up's what I want man,
I can't get enough,
'Cause even though we know it's all just a big bluff,
We just light another up, what,
We don't give a what!

Its just like a cigarette, its something that I do,
Once in a while but between me and you,
Its just like a cigarette, nobody's really fooled,
I don't want the truth, I just wanna feel cool!

Its just like a cigarette, its something that I do,
Once in a while but between me and you,
Its just like a cigarette, nobody's really fooled,
I don't want the truth, I just wanna feel cool!

Man, listen to my words, listen for awhile,
Lip Service radio, dont touch the dial,
If you're in the car, turn up the track, man,
Give your whole neighborhood some second hand rap, hey,
Matter of a fact, listen for awhile,
Lip Service radio, dont touch the dial,
If you're in the car man turn up the track, and,
Give the whole neighborhood some second hand rap!

Its just like a cigarette, its something that I do,
Once in a while but between me and you,
Its just like a cigarette, nobody's really fooled,
I don't want the truth, I just wanna feel cool!

Its just like a cigarette, its something that I do,
Oh, for real, but between me and you,
Its just like a cigarette, nobody's really fooled,
I don't want the truth, I just wanna feel cool!

 

10. Believe Me

Yeah

I guess,
That this is where we've come to,
If you don't want to,
Then you don't have to believe me,
But I,
Won't be there when you go down,
Just so you know now,
You're on your own now,
Believe me!

Yo, I don't want to be the one to blame, you like fun and games,
Keep playing 'em, I'm just sayin',
Think back then we was like one and the same,
On the right track, but I was on the wrong train,
It's like that, now you gotta face the pain,
And the devil's got a fresh new place to play,
In your brain like a maze you can never escape,
The rain, every damn day is the same shade of grey.

Hey, I used have a little bit of a plan, used to,
Have a concept of where I stand,
But that concept slipped right out of my hand and now,
I don't really even know who I am, yo,
What do I have to say,
Maybe, I should do what I have to do to break free and,
Whatever happens to you, we'll see,
But it's not gonna happen with me.

I guess,
That this is where we've come to, (Yeah)
If you don't want to,
Then you don't have to believe me,
But I,
Won't be there when you go down, (Yeah)
Just so you know now,
You're on your own now,
Believe me!

Back then, I thought you were just like me,
Somebody who could see all the pain I see,
But you proved to me unintentionally,
That you would self-destruct, eventually,
Now I'm faking like the mistake I made doesn't hurt,
But it's not gonna work, 'cause it's really much worse than I thought,
I wished you were something that you were not,
And now this guilt is really all that I got.

Uh, you turn your back and walk away in shame,
All you got is a memory of pain,
Nothing makes sense so you stare at the ground,
And hear my voice in my head when no one else is around,
So what do I have to say,
Maybe, I should do what I have to do to break free and,
Whatever happens to you, we'll see,
But it's not gonna happen to me,

I guess,
That this is where we've come to, (Yeah)
If you don't want to,
Then you don't have to believe me,
But I,
Won't be there when you go down, (Yeah)
Just so you know now,
You're on your own now,
Believe me!

I guess,
That this is where we've come to, (Yeah)
If you don't want to,
Then you don't have to believe me,
But I,
Won't be there when you go down, (Yeah)
Just so you know now,
You're on your own now,
Believe me!

I'll do what I have to do,
(You're on your own now believe me)
Whatever happens to you,
(You're on your own now believe me)
What do I have to say,
(You're on your own now believe me)
It's not gonna happen to me,
(You're on your own now believe me)

(Yeah)

So, here's the thing...

 

11. Get Me Gone

"The dude, he said that, like, when we were making the first Linkin Park record
He was like,
'Yeah you know, I don't know about the rapping like, I don't know if it's... maybe you should just be a rock band.'
You know what I mean, like, trying to change us,
Like they signed us as an act, like what we sound like, and then he's like (Yeah)
'Oh I don't know maybe you should just play keyboard'."

Before the first song that you heard me on,
There were people already tryin' to get me gone,
Tellin' me to quit rapping, just play the keys, that
"My band had a singer", "They didn't need me",
But my band had my back,
So we did the tracks, put out the album,
And the talk went flat,
It was funny at first, but then the humour faded,
When some magazines printed that our label made us,
We were too be good to be true,
Some were saying ghost writers were writin' all that we do,
So we had to disprove it, we spelled it out,
To the detail, how we do it, when we're making this music,
After that I made it a rule:
I only do e-mail responses to print interviews,
Because these people love to put a twist to your words,
To infer that you said something that was absurd.
Oh, did I lose you at 'infer'?
Not used to hearing a verse that uses over first grade vocabulary words?
People used to 'infer' that we were manufactured,
Now I've got the interviews on file,
Which people said what, which number to dial,
So now every enemy screaming insanity,
All they're ever gonna be's another big fan of me, (Yeah!)

(*Laughter*)
"Can you believe that? Like that's crazy,
It sounds crazy right, like this point,
At this point you're thinking...you hear that you're like,
'That guy..is out of his mind!', But honestly at that point...
Like besides the fact he wanted me to just play keyboards or whatever,
Didn't want me to rap..he was like 'Maybe Joe Hahn..should, um...wear a lab coat, and a cowboy hat on stage',
Like when we play? ('yo?!')
I swear to god he was crazy!
('So Joe..in a cowboy hat?!')
Yeah, and later on he claimed he wrote all our songs,
So yeah..that was..that was really nice."

 

12. High Road

Lets go ya'll!

These people are running off at the mouth,
Tryin to convince me that I'm running on empty,
Tryin to convince themselves that the record with Jay was a fluke,
That the record that I'm makin is a mistake,
And I cant take this,
Lemme tell you where I'm at with this,

The trash that you talk's really gonna have to quit,
I'm not plastic and fake, when I make tracks,
I take facts and lay 'em out for the masses,
You have to see so you know that I'm not playing,
And start asking me the names that I'm not saying,
But I'm tryin to be bigger than the bickering,
Bigger than the petty name calling,
Under the breath talking,
Rumors and labels and categorization,
I'm like a struggling doctor: no patience, (haha)
But you can say what you want about me,
Keep talkin while I'm walkin away!

You can say what you have to say,
'Cause my mind's made up anyway,
I'm taking the high road, going above you,
This is the last time that I'm gonna trust you,
You can say what you have to say,
'Cause my mind's made up anyway,
All that talk that you talk might work a lot,
But it's not gonna work today! (Not gonna work today)

You people are running off at the mouth,
Tryin' to make me take myself off safety,
Tryin' to make my friends turn their backs,
On the team we built,
Buildin up some mistaken information,
And I cant take this,
Let me spell it out plain for you angry groups,
Complaining 'bout the things we do,
I'm not changing direction,
I'm stepping my game up,
Maintainin my name, same way I came up,
You're gonna see that I'm not playing,
And start asking the names that I'm not saying,
But I'm trying not to mention the names of,
People who wanna siphon attention,
You like the hype but,
Pretendin you're part of the picture wont pass,
You're like a high school dropout: no class,
You can say what you want about me,
Keep talkin while i'm walkin away! (yeah)

You can say what you have to say,
'Cause my mind's made up anyway,
I'm taking the high road, going above you,
This is the last time that I'm gonna trust you,
You can say what you have to say,
'Cause my mind's made up anyway,
All that talk that you talk might work a lot,
But it's not gonna work today! (Not gonna work today)

Why does it always have to be,
Somebody's always watching me,
All I really need is some room to breathe (breathe),
'Cause I cant stand to keep this in,
All I really want, I'll say again!

You can say what you have to say,
'Cause my mind's made up anyway,
I'm taking the high road, going above you,
This is the last time that I'm gonna trust you,
You can say what you have to say,
'Cause my mind's made up anyway,
All that talk that you talk might work a lot,
But it's not gonna work today! (Not gonna work today)

 

13. Kenji

"My father came from Japan in 1905,
He was 15 when he immigrated from Japan,
He worked until he was able to buy - to actually build a store.."

Let me tell you a story in the form of a dream,
I don't know why I have to tell it but I know what it means,
Close your eyes and just picture the scene, as I paint it for you,
It was World War II when this man named Kenji woke up,
Ken was not a soldier, he was just a man with a family,
Who owned a store,
In LA, that day,
He crawled out of bed like he always did,
Bacon and eggs with wife and kids,
He lived on the second floor of a little store he ran,
He moved to LA from Japan,
They called him 'Immigrant,' in Japanese,
He'd say he was called "Iisei," that meant,
'First Generation In The United States,' when,
Everybody was afraid of the Germans, afraid of the "Japs",
But most of all afraid of a homeland attack,
And that morning when Ken went out on the doormat,
His world went black 'cause,
Right there; front page news,
Three weeks before 1942,
"Pearl Harbour's Been Bombed And The Japs Are Coming,"
Pictures of soldiers dying and running,
Ken knew what it would lead to,
And just like he guessed, the president said,
"The evil Japanese in our home country would be locked away,"
They gave Ken, a couple of days,
To get his whole life packed in two bags,
Just two bags,
He couldn't even pack his clothes,
And some folks didn't even have a suitcase,
To pack anything in,
So two trash bags is all they gave them,
When the kids asked mom "Where are we going?"
Nobody even knew what to say to them,
Ken didn't wanna lie,
He said "The US is looking for spies,
So we have to live in a place called Manzanar,
Where a lot of Japanese people are.",
Stop it don't look at the [...]!
You don't wanna get the soldiers wondering,
If you're gonna run or not 'cause if you run then you might get [...],
Other than that try not to think about it,
Try not to worry 'bout it; bein' so crowded,
Someday we'll get out, someday, someday.

"Yeah, soon as war broke out, the F.B.I. came and...they just come to the house,
and, 'You have to come.', 'All the Japanese have to go", they took Mr. Ni,
The people couldn't understand, 'Why did they have to take him,
Because he's just an innocent laborer?' "

So now they're in a town with soldiers surrounding them,
Every day, every night, looked down at them,
From watchtowers up on the wall,
Ken couldn't really hate them at all,
They were just doing their job and,
He wasn't gonna make any problems,
He had a little garden, vegetables and fruits that he gave to the troops,
In a basket his wife made,
But in the back of his mind, he wanted his family's life saved,
Prisoners of war in their own damn country,
What for?
And time passed in the prison town, he wondered,
If he'd live it down if and when they were free,
The only way out was joining the army, and supposedly,
Some men went out for the army, signed on,
And ended up flying to Japan with a bomb,
That fifteen kiloton blast, put an end to the war pretty fast,
Two cities were blown to bits,
The end of the war came quick,
And Ken got out,
Big hopes of a normal life, with his kids and his wife, but,
Then they got back to their home, and,
What they saw made them feel so alone,
These people had trashed every room,
Smashed in the windows and bashed in the doors,
Written on the walls and the floor:
"Japs not welcome anymore.",
And Kenji dropped both of his bags at his sides and just stood outside,
He, looked at his wife without words to say,
She looked back at him wiping tears away,
And, said "Someday we'll be okay, someday,"
Now the names have been changed, but the story's true,
My family was locked up back in '42,
My family was there it was dark and damp,
And they called it an "internment camp".

"When we first got back from camp, it was pretty, pretty bad."
"I remember my husband said, 'Oh we're gonna stay 'til last.'
Then my husband died before they closed the camp."

 

14. Red To Black

Whoa, whoa
Whoa, whoa
Whoa

I had a friend named Victor
The two of us used to hang every single day
And it seemed like overnight that his whole life / just changed
I know when his mom and dad broke up / it didn't make sense
But I know that his dad was a drunk and he gambled away the rent
Pretty soon Vic was seeing red / taked off / but instead (Whoa)
He'd drink every night 'til he passed out (Whoa)
Then he'd do it all again
The whole time / smiling on the outside to cover the pain (Whoa)
But on the inside / all he was trying to do was get away (Whoa)

He's dying to get away
Let the pain of yesterday
Go slipping through the cracks...

Yo, funny how things change color
Then fade to another shade / when you had it made
It was all good / but now look / just another day
It was so fresh / it was so clean
Now it's all gone / one, two, three
Lights out / which way to turn
Can't get a grip / All alone in a big white house
Every day gets worse / and you just curse 'til your head bursts
And it hurts so bad / she left / now you suffer
Should've thought of that one first
No family / no kids / can accept what you did / now you wanna
Run away but you can't cause the past comes back again

Slippin' through the cracks / sip a little [...]
Go to be half dead
What about the rent? Why does every cent gotta be a bet
When's it gonna end
Oh my God / we don't got a penny left
My mom's gotta find a way to get a job
Outta debt / outta dodge / out of breath / out of this big problem
My pop's wanna get away from the pain (Whoa)
In a better place in his brain
But the [...] he takes makes him wasted (Whoa)
So sick he was gonna think the good Lord would come take him (Whoa)
I'm shaking him
Wake up you son of a [...] (Whoa)

He's dying to get away
Let the pain of yesterday
Go slipping through the cracks
Hiding himself away
Watching all the memories fade away
From red to black

He's dying to get away
Let the pain of yesterday
Go slipping through the cracks
Hiding himself away
Watching all the memories fade away
From red to black

Slipping through the cracks
Slipping through the cracks
Slipping through the cracks

Time's up

 

15. The Battle

Times up, times up, times up!
Alright Celph you got 30 seconds,
You ready?
Alright Celph Titled hit em!

Hhaha..yeah! Aight, that's all you got?

These hungry rappers battle for a buck and some change,
There really be kids starving, give a [...] if it change,
Shock rap, not that, you get signed you might blow up,
"Release Party In Iraq", you might blow up,
I see you trying to think a few lines you might get at me with,
Slap happy with babies who're born with crack in they cribs,
Too much to cram under you oversized fitted,
And the public school system failed you,
Either you're ignorant or...

 

16. Slip Out The Back

You know me
I used to get caught up in everyday life
Trying to make it through my day so I could sleep at night
Trying to figure out my way through the maze of rights and wrongs
But like you used to say
Nothing feels like it's really worth it
Forget perfect / I'm trying not to be worthless
Since I last saw you I've been looking for a purpose / well
I met this kid who thought like I did
He had a weird way of looking at it
This is what he said

Slip out the back before they
Know you were there / and
At the worst you'll see nobody cares
'Cause you don't wanna be around when it all goes down
Even heroes know when to be scared

Slip out the back before they
Know you were there / and
At the worst you'll see nobody cares
'Cause you don't wanna be around when it all goes down
Even heroes know when to be scared

Now / I don't remember where
I met him
Or remember his name
But he walked funny like he was just too big for his frame
Just over five foot / but he weighed a buck fifty
And what he said seemed so right it stuck with me / listen
It's like poker / you can play your best
But you gotta know when to fold your cards and take a rest
And know when to hold your cards / hold your breath and
Hope that nobody else is stacking the deck / because
I don't need to tell you that life isn't fair
It doesn't care
It arbitrarily cuts off your air
And like you / I want someone to say it's okay
In the truest part of our hearts everybody's afraid / we're just
Underappreciated and overwhelmed
Fighting so hard to hide our fear that we're scaring ourselves
You understand what I'm saying / cause you always did
But it's different in the words of a cowardly kid

Slip out the back before they
know you were there / and
At the worst you'll see nobody cares
'Cause you don't wanna be around when it all goes down
Even heroes know when to be scared

Slip out the back before they
know you were there
At the worst you'll see nobody cares
'Cause you don't wanna be around when it all goes down
Even heroes know when to be scared

And I'm no hero
You remember how it was / you know
All I ever did was worry / feeling out of control
To the point where everything was going end over end
I'm spinning around in circles again
This is where you come in
All of this to explain to you why I had to
Separate myself away from yesterday's life
Please remember
This isn't how I hoped it would be
But I had to protect you from me

That's why I
Slipped out the back before you knew I was there
I know you felt unprepared
But every single time I was around I'd just bring you down
And I could tell that it was time to be scared
That's why I
Slipped out the back before you knew I was there
And I know the way I left wasn't fair
I didn't wanna be around just to bring you down
I'm not a hero
But don't think I didn't care

 

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19. Be Somebody

Uh! M.S., Lupe,
You know...I'm a fan man, I'm a real fan, (Gonna be somebody)
I feel real honored to be up in here, you know what I'm sayin'? (Gonna be someone)
They had to bring out the expensive mics for this one,
You know what I'm sayin? The $7000 headphones for this one here, (Gonna be somebody, gonna be someone)
You know what I'm sayin?
Come on..talk to em'!

This is the story of them against us, win or lose,
Forcing your feet into someone else's shoes,
Everybody's got somethin' to say,
That we aughta live their way,
What we're doing's not "okay",
In this world everybody's got a chip on,
Both sides of their neck,
Got no respect, wait up a sec!
You ever feel like the pressure is too much to take,
Too much weight?
Ladies and gentleman,
If anybody can hear me right now please shout back,
We're not the only one's feeling so trapped,
In a dream of somebody else...infact,
They got their heads full of some overblown scheme,
Opportunity they missed back when they were sixteen,
And all they wanna do is push you to be that,
And all you wanna do is scream back...

Gonna be somebody...
For anybody telling me I can't,
Gonna be someone...
For anyone who told me I had no chance,
Gonna be somebody...
I'm telling you the time has come, (like that)
Gonna be someone...
And maybe you'll get it when I'm finally done.

We don't sleep to dream,
We sleep to build stamina,
Energy to do our thing,
Get your camera,
Cause this ride is about to begin,
Sit down and buckle it in,
Let me say it again,
In this world everybody's got a chip on,
Both sides of their neck,
Got no respect, wait up a sec!
When I was young,
They said the odds of making it were slim to none,
Ladies and...[rewind],
I'm tired of them saying the dream you have doesn't exist,
Telling you you're worthless, telling you should quit,
Basically telling you that you'll never be [rewind]!
Really, they're pissed 'cause they'll never acheive,
Some opportunity they missed back when they sixteen,
And all they wanna do is push you to be that,
And all you wanna do is scream back...

Uh!
They're gonna think you're crazy mumblin to yourself,
In the basement all day 'uh-uh-uh'in to yourself,
My pop's didn't dig it, was shovelin' to myself,
My boy's used to get it, they dug it because they felt,
My undertaking took me I was makin in my stealth,
A wealth of rhymes, of crazy I would chuckle to myself, (ha)
Then they went into the mental rolodex,
See I knew em' by heart like a brain in my chest,
Then I, took em' to school where subjects was getting felt,
Books under my seat, notebook laying on my desk,
My teacher's like, "Mr. Jaco?"
"Yes?"
"With all that knowledge, you aint tryin' to college,
Be a lawyer or a doctor, get a whole lotta dollars,
Rather degrade woman and glorify violence?"
Well the work that works for me, might not work for you,
No homework, I got work to do!

Gonna be somebody...
For anybody telling me I can't,
Gonna be someone...
For anyone who told me I had no chance,
Gonna be somebody...
I'm telling you the time has come, (like that)
Gonna be someone...
And maybe you'll get it when I'm finally done.

(Finally done)

Yeah this one goes out to those fantastic human beings,
That keep us down and hold us back,
And give us fuel for what we do...thanks!

 

20. There They Go

Ready? Let's go.

Yeah, ladies and gentlemen,
Pleased to meet you,
I go by the name of Sixx John,
Of course you know Mike Shinoda. (Yeah)
Uh-oh,
West coast,
Let's go!

(One time) For my machine shop crew, and then it's,
(Two times) S.O.B and LP too, and then it's,
(Three times) It's Mike and Sixx on the track, and then,
(Four times) When we come in through the back, they're sayin'

Oh no, close the door, shut the lights, and start the show.
Better let everybody know, get on the mic and there they go.
Oh no, close the door, shut the lights, and start the show.
Better let everybody know, get on the mic and there they go.

Armed and dangerous, [rewind],
Y'all can't really hang with us in this,
Everybody's so afraid of us...[rewind],
Makes me wanna hang it up and quit.
Forget about all the things you heard before,
'Bout time that we're kicking down your door,
Everybody's gonna hit the [rewind] floor,
Like "please Mike, don't hurt me anymore",
I don't gotta have a secret lie or an alibi,
Everybody knows why I'm here,
I'd just as soon crack a bottle,
As crack you over the head with a bottle of beer!
So just listen up there, powderpuff,
Better believe that I'm not playin',
You can love it, you can hate,
But don't mistake it, everybody sayin'

Oh no, close the door, shut the lights, and start the show.
Better let everybody know, get on the mic and there they go.
Oh no, close the door, shut the lights, and start the show.
Better let everybody know, get on the mic and there they go.

What you really wanna do is this,
Just make believe that I don't exist,
But you won't because everytime you go to spit (yo check this ou-),
I talk over you just like this (haha!)
It's annoying, just for you,
You could scream all day til your face is blue.
I'm gettin' in your head and you know it too,
And that's just me, you don't know my crew,
My man Sixx John understand though,
The way that he flows, you can call him Rambo,
Never missed a shot, never run outta ammo,
Comin' with heat like a goddamn commando,
And add in S.O.B,
Ryu, Tak, Vin Scully,
Cheapshot, and now you see,
[rewind] with me? Nah.
Sixx?

Oh no, uh-oh,
Whatever you yell when you see that door close,
I'ma bail through the back (fo' sho'),
Straight to the bar so I can act (a fool),
I figured you guys would get a little surprise,
Your eyes wide when it's me and Mike Shinode,
I'm just plain old Sixx John from the Nam-district,
This is not supposed,
I still talk with awkward speech,
I'm like a dog that's off his leash,
Step out with a Fort Minor patch on a black tee,
Niggas gotta walk these streets.
I'm ain't trippin' homie, talk is cheap,
A cappella or we can bark on a beat,
And if that ain't enough action,
I've got 17 pages in this little magazine I keep.

Oh no, close the door, shut the lights, and start the show.
Better let everybody know, get on the mic and there they go.
Oh no, close the door, shut the lights, and start the show.
Better let everybody know, get on the mic and there they go.

We've got this place rockin',
Beat knockin', non stoppin',
If ya'll are with it, lemme hear it now (yeah, yo)

We've got this place rockin',
Beat knockin', non stoppin',
If ya'll are with it, lemme hear it now (yeah, yo)

(One time) For my machine shop crew, and then it's,
(Two times) S.O.B and LP too, and then it's,
(Three times) It's Mike and Sixx on the track, and then,
(Four times) We do it like that, like that, like that, like that.

Clap...clap bitches!

 

21. The Hard Way

Oh
Oh
Whoa

Come with me / let me walk you thru the world that I currently stay in
You can take a look around and tell me if I'm mistaken
You can meet and talk to / everybody that I live with
Maybe you can tell me why everybody's so distant
Is it me or maybe / when I look around daily
I don't even know the people I can put my trust in lately
People that used to hang with / now they're acting so different
I'm still the same person why doesn't anybody listen
Can somebody please / just explain to me
What happened to the way that we always said we'd be
Right now I don't know why I pushed through the pain that I got through
And I'm losing hope

Deafenin' voices / that frequency inside my head
That says / I'm going at it the hard way
I focus / get everything inside out of my brain
That claims / I'm going at it the hard way

Come with me / let me walk you thru the world that I currently live in
Not a thing is forgotten / not a thing is forgiven
Nobody can hold their own underneath the weight but
Nobody can take the blame for their own mistakes so
What do you do when somebody lets you down
And you wanna say something but you can't cause they're not around
Inside you think they know the extent of the pain
But they won't even admit that they were the one to blame
Can somebody please / just explain to me (Oh)
What happened to the way that we always said we'd be
'Cause right now I don't know why I pushed through the pain that I got through (Oh)
And I'm losing hope

Deafenin' voices / that frequency inside my head
That says / I'm going at it the hard way
I focus / get everything inside out of my brain
That claims / I'm going at it the hard way

Voices (voices)
In my head (in my head)

Can somebody please / just explain to me
What happened to the way that we always said we'd be
'Cause right now I don't know why I pushed through the pain that I got through
And I'm losing hope
Give me one reason not to

Deafenin' voices / that frequency inside my head
That says / I'm going at it the hard way
I focus / get everything inside out of my brain
That claims / I'm going at it the hard way

Oh
Whoa
Whoa
Whoa
Whoa
Whoa

Edited June 23, 2015 by lpliveusername

[RogueSoul]

Thanks a bunch lplusername, everything's loking great on your end.

 

Good luck, Astat. Lol