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Blunted On Reality 02

The Score. 48
The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill. 94
MTV Unplugged No. 2.0. 126
Fugees
Blunted On Reality
(1994)

"Introduction"

[Wyclef responding to an overlord voice]

THE YEAR

Two-thousand and seventeen master!

THE MAN

Every two-thousand years a prophecy is prophesized

THE MISSION

To carry out the word of the shephard into this cold world

that just keeps folding

THE GROUP

I don't know...

WHO IS THE GROUP

Tran...Tranzlators!!

[Lauryn Hill]

What can make a mighty man run?

Make him drop his pride and hide?

Too black, too strong... WRONG

Spook Sambo Nigga Jane

You ain't so bad, nor big

White sheets make you sad

Fraid you're gonna hang, ahhh

Now THAT'S a black thang

Boy, you scared of me


BOO! See

Hide nigga hide, flee nigga flee run nigga run

If I got my hood, my cross, my tree my gun

My rope

And it's a long one

"Nappy Heads"

[Wyclef]

Why am I trapped in a cage? (THE NAPPY HEADS ARE COMIN OUT)

Barber can I get a fade? (THE NAPPY HEADS ARE COMIN OUT)

Teacher teacher check my grades (THE NAPPY HEADS ARE COMIN OUT)

I grab the mic in a RAGE...

You maintain to put a negro in pain you used to diss me

"You sure you wanna hang with old Eddie Kane?" (The Five Heartbeats)

Ain't nuttin wrong, so snap your head to the song

Word is bond, you get wrong, I'll have you sing like Louis Armstrong

And I say to myself, WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD

But what the fuck was so wonderful bout pickin cotton -- on a farm?

The harder they come, the harder they fall, so come one come all

Don't stall or I'ma stick you like a voodoo doll

Doors locked stop draw for the count, who drops?

Ten-nine-eight-seven-six-five-four-three-two-one-

-you-slept-on-a-kid-from-the-boondocks

Out of Hooterville land of the ill kill


Bellsburg Viking so you know I'm top ranking Phil

Some say newcomer like the yuma but save the rumor

Cause I've been rockin ever since eighty-three

when I used to rock my Pumas

Rap, narcotic psychotic so hear the sentencin

One out of ten, I'm passin the mic next time I'll get WICKED

Heard the man who went before, got intimated

You tried to gas me up, too much gas, you got intoxicated

You wasn't ready for the real'n, dealin, chillin

Wyclef, no competition when I'm bringin pure death

I'm jumpin like a monkey to get mines off

a-from a caterpillar, to the mic moth

(THE NAPPY HEADS ARE COMIN OUT)

Teacher teacher check my grades (THE NAPPY HEADS ARE COMIN OUT)

I coulda sworn I had an A (THE NAPPY HEADS ARE COMIN OUT)

I grab the mic in a RAGE...

[Pras]

You put, one and one together now you think you a rapper

Baseball cap backward, forearms swingin like a hip-hopper

You do the rhyme, thinkin no one can stop ya

I be the followin that chop ya down as I clock ya, hah

When I say five-oh, I mean fifty not guns or cops

Now here's the heavyweight knocker, the freedom fighter

Natural rhythm rock a mic I always rhyme I'm never drinkin vodka

Any old style, I throw it in a locker

[Lauryn Hill]

Well I'm a Gucci rocker, I never drank no vodka

Me got no bag of cheeba cause I never had a knocker


My cousin's name was Shaka, for short we called him 'Aka

I flip it on wack MC's because to me they flow like caca

[Pras]

You boogie move the groove, nothing to prove you lose

Your style remind of yesterday, old news

Sad sung blues who's, chose the one to feel the pain

or bring the cane, tick-tock I come to pick your lock

It's not for capital gain

So watch out for the remain, or cry from bloodstain

Bustin nuts, bustin style

Gettin buckwild some think I'm the descendant of a wilder child

Comin on the mic, from a higher level

Broke is no joke/choke the hell out of the devil

[Wyclef]

(THE NAPPY HEADS ARE COMIN OUT)

What about Martin? (THE NAPPY HEADS ARE COMIN OUT)

What about Malcolm? (THE NAPPY HEADS ARE COMIN OUT)

Rosa Parks? (THE NAPPY HEADS ARE COMIN OUT)

You hung a man after dark (THE NAPPY HEADS ARE COMIN OUT)

Cease the violence! (THE NAPPY HEADS ARE COMIN OUT)

Yo who got the power, to make a man raise from the dead?

Some said that it was Jesus, they said he was a notty dread

But I don't mean to confuse a world that's confused

Mind's atomic, so like a bomb, let me drop it

Can't get too deep, cause some sleep while I wake

in a dream that's made of wine but let me bring it back to grapes

Teacher, explain the parable, it's simple:

It's easier for the camel to go through the eye of a needle


than for you to enter the kingdom, or battle

and walk away, with the title when I get, brutal

Feelings are mutual so sign your life, to Prudential

Don't even flinch, the other becomin spiritual

There's six million ways to die but choose four

cause I can still be in the desert buttnaked and be HARDCORE!

[Lauryn Hill]

When ? checks that means pump your fist

Remember Moses people, this is Exodus

Don't try to stop this, the force comes from Genesis

Them who did us wrong, ask the Lord for forgiveness

The man got a drum, made the land of the dumb

We droppin the bass drum, then we ??

You can't kill the battle with a ?? .. feeling Joshua

So march to St. Lawrence

Yo march I got your back, march!

[Wyclef]

Crown Heights (THE NAPPY HEADS ARE COMIN OUT)

Cease the violence (THE NAPPY HEADS ARE COMIN OUT)

A moment of silence (THE NAPPY HEADS ARE COMIN OUT)

for those who died (THE NAPPY HEADS ARE COMIN OUT)

Public Enemy (THE NAPPY HEADS ARE COMIN OUT)

number one (THE NAPPY HEADS ARE COMIN OUT)

Fredric Douglass (THE NAPPY HEADS ARE COMIN OUT)

Harriet Tubman (THE NAPPY HEADS ARE COMIN OUT)

?? (THE NAPPY HEADS ARE COMIN OUT)

Bob Marley (THE NAPPY HEADS ARE COMIN OUT)

Prazwell (THE NAPPY HEADS ARE COMIN OUT)

To my man Khalid (THE NAPPY HEADS ARE COMIN OUT)


[Lauryn Hill]

Now, speak of resistance, we're nappy heads

Rhymes, kinks, braids and dreads

The mother of creation, epitome of creativity, yeah

and keep your heads nappy

"Blunted Interlude"

[Intro]

[inhales, then coughs]

Ay, nigga pass me the blunt

(Go get the fuck outta here, oh shit)

[inhales and coughing continues]

Ay, pass this over here man, so we can just cipher youknowI'msayin'?

(Cip, yo, this is for dolo son [inhales]

Yo, man, c'mon pass the blunt man (Yo champ, champ, champ)

Yo, pass the blunt man (hold it man)

Whassup man? (Yo, hold it up, aight, take the fuckin' blunt)

Yeah, whassup? (Damn) [inhales continue]

I ain't even get charged yet

(C'mon man, let's cip man about the good ol' days man youknowI'msayin'? (yeah)

See man, white man tryin' to keep this away from us man youknowI'msayin'? (Uh-hmm)

Cause they know when you grab this man

you just be ciphin' knowledge man, knowledge as we buildin' up man

That's why they want no brothers to be out here man, youknowI'msayin'?

That's why they try to make it illegal man (...you far, you far from reality...)
Yo, check this out man, this is, a natural herb man youknowI'msayin'?

It makes your body just and your mind just go to another...

(Yo, but hold - money you is talkin' too, much)

Yo, yo, yo man, yo we just ciphin' man (...talkin' that, pass the motherfuckin' blunt)

I know you Latin shit, burn the fuck out (I hate when motherfuckers do that shit)...

[Wyclef Jean]

Y'all know there's a lot of emcees but just give my CHANCE ON THE MIC!!

Open the, open the, open the, open the, open the, open the

AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!

Open the safe with no key, it's easier than battlin' me

Cause uh-uh, I'll make you walk like a doggy

Some say on and on, but they mean ON-ON!!

I got tired of that new style - BREAKDOWN!!

I have to take it back to the break of dawn

When Melle Mel was Melle Mel and Al Capone was Al Capone

Bootleg is sellin' now it's rap that's sellin' in the village

But I'm just privileged to makin' my home from my spirit

So when you hear me it's the man with the deeper thoughts

At night I can't sleep my brain keep movin' like a body on a horse

I don't stand, don't stand, don't wife me I construct on bricks

Some thoughts it wasn't until he said: "He sunk my battleship"

So hip-hip, load the clip, hip, I miss - DAMN!!

I pay my taxes so I won't mess with Sam

Ya hear the rhyme you stand still, some ask for refill

We move your thoughts so I can see if you for fake or real

Cause Buffalo Bill bit battle inside from my rap meal

And left me on a hill-hill, so when I battle no will

So mama should I kill a man like Cypress Hill, chill

I got no lawyer so I pleadin' my own appeal

How does it feel - when a monkey is your ill


in a J-A-I-L? I have no time to make bail

Saw someone to be macho like fritches that got the lyro

So they had it at bein' a heroes, where did their bodies go, only God knows

You got caught, between the fire and the hoses

You wanna battle? Bring your Moses

Forget what fun-what time Moses

and someone goin' down and it ain't Gastor Douglass

Cause the roughest with the guy, becomes a pussy

So all the bad boy talk, come on cause I'm the nice dog, yeah hawk

Throw many fights in fought courts boss

Never lost, so toss a nickel and change your course

Say mama say mama say mama say what?

[Chorus: Wyclef Jean and Lauryn Hill]

Some thought we were blunted when we wrote this

Cause we were far, from reality

Some thought we were blunted when we wrote this

Cause we were far, from reality

[Lauryn Hill]

Aiyyo, huh-huh, ho with the badder that run the (TENT!!)

Who walks really for lack of listenin' to the drum-set

You silly nimble bad as to my car don't put the bass

oh on the table test the super lantra

You got caught all that toe with twenty-thousand legs

I'm laughin' arrogantly as your nostril bleeds hehehehehe...

Relax and max and drink a Gin on the Tech

Well their gatin' for another pirate to lose his neck, check

I got a call from Captain Hook in so quick

We used to be partners 'fore the clip stole my rapper


I had to be right cause you fight like it was a bitch

I had to change the rhythmic pattern and make sure it fit

So now when I go and see with she

I thought the pirates through a telescope

and bomb 'em like it's make-believe

Blow me my sword I out for my protection

Cause I might ship on landin' side and start an insurrection

A pirate had disguised himself as one of my crew

But I saw true and had to shake a him before he got through

Hey, hey guy the loot the booty, I formed like a ram

I gave an ultimatum and told him he could do time

But he argued and fought me, he tried to bust right

And so I took it upon myself to make the brother walk the plank

[Chorus: Wyclef Jean & Lauryn Hill]

Some thought we were blunted when we wrote this

Cause we were far, from reality

Some thought we were blunted when we wrote this

Cause we were far, from reality

[Pras]

Fo'-to-the-fo'-to-the-fi-fe-come

I smell the blood of an Englishman run son

Ya see the man cannot understand

The hammer and the barrel hum

So when I get them someone will know where the hell I'm from

Cause I'm sprayin' emcees with my mack ten machine gun

The hand that rocks will be the hand of the gun bum

Rum-pum-pum-pum-pum is the drop of my snare drum

Freak-k-k-k-kin' is the beat of my tum-tum

Makin' emcees walk like a doggy, hah-hah, I'll make them walk like a doggy
It's like the blunt to the phillie, the ganja to the sessy

You can't write a rhyme without the roots men-mentality

Cause ain't no milli-vanilli but the kiddy with the skilly

to rhyme so dope I made up my own vocabulab-skilly

Missed it from a bomber-tacky lackin' all the bum

that get her to a to and fro, I guess they made me boy

So can I get the cheers, not the chant from cheers

But the chant from my peers that I know are really down with me (CHEERS!!)

Now that I mean those that been since the beginnin'

(cause some of y'all cut out when it started rainin')

Now check me at the movies I'm rollin' like Black Man

I didn't need Batman, he teamed up with the favourite - EH!!

Tell all your friend-friend, watch all your friend-friend

Cause some say are your friend before wanna dem bring you poison

So I roll by myself and that I carry my (BIT!!)

You wished you stayed around, you know my clip got the (LIP!!)

So empty your hooray, your hooray to your hip

And if your hip's a book you know you got to get off bricks man

[Chorus: Wyclef Jean & Lauryn Hill]

Some thought we were blunted when we wrote this

Cause we were far, from reality

Some thought we were blunted when we wrote this

Cause we were far, from reality

Some thought we were blunted when we wrote this

Cause we were far, from reality

Some thought we were blunted when we wrote this

Cause we were far, from reality

Some thought we were blunted when we wrote this

Cause we were far, from reality

Some thought we were blunted when we wrote this


Cause we were far, from reality

"Recharge"

"And when you feelin down.. recharge!"

[Wyclef]

Now and, forevers, them emperors, are nova

The lovin, the huggin, will never be over

[Pras]

Back up back up boy, don't get me started

Still the MC, hit the target, you get bombarded yeah

Affect the minds, let the blind evaporate

Let me elaborate, ohhhhh nooooooo (it's too late)

Push the button, cause I'ma get ??

Pass me a SCUD missle, so I can bomb the land

[Wyclef]

Yo Pras (what?) Yo Pras (what?) Some start to wonder

Some see lightning, some hear THUNDER

Shades of a black man, maybe the black panther

Makin MC's run when it come to rappin I'm the Darth Vader

I'm not regular, consider me ir-regular

from the regular rapper ones that lumber

But I come from a slum where many bum

Sometimes I cooled out, while my boys were in prison

I always told them that right, overrules wrong


cause ever since a boy mama told me judgment they will come son

So I watch what I do, what I say, how I PLAY

and hope that I make it through the next day

Cause the streets are like a jungle, they got me say

OH-AY-OH-AY-OH, cause Tarzan's a black man

So I'm waiting for a break in the record company

so I could take you MC's, back to camp I mean

Cause with a flick of my wrist, I come rewind another RHYME

I got more rhymes than a church got WINES

Ever since middle school, I used to, rule

The ?? mule, people called my talent beautiful

Never lost a battle, they thought I was buckWILD

??

They didn't know that a ReFugee could rock so well

So here's the resurrection, of Pras, Wyclef, and L

Check me or my team as I recharge your body [4X]

[Pras]

Livin to be given, chillin like Bob Dylan

Like Michael I'm Thrillin, I'm not dealin to be illin

Runnin a mask ??, like the task force

The cause is laws, the laws that broke your jaw

now I'm, gettin raw on a thing like a mean machine

(Why you runnin around with the same old thing?

Humm.. you know what I mean, yeah)

I search and search, I start to faint

but never never never fall in entertain

Don't beam me up Scotty, I'm audi like John Gotti

Drivin in black Caddy


[Lauryn Hill]

Success for the next man is success for myself

Vanity's vanity yet I still wanted wealth

I know there's a true God, but it still makes me think

of Yusef.. now is the notty dread dead?

Believe in the Bible because it promise eternity

Six six six, that makes you, my adversary

So I, watch my back and hopin I don't get taxed

I used to, rip the rapper cause they said we'd been said wack

I know what the critics they say, keep it commercial

I used to freestyle, but everything now is rehearsal

I miss the old school, so tell me what will I do?

I guess I'll start a revolution with the Tranzlator Crew, so..

[Wyclef]

Check me or my team as I recharge your body [8X]

Check it out all MC's I'm about to pull out my slingshot

Here it comes!

Me lick me one, me lick me one one

Me lick me one, me lick me one one

Me lick me onnnnnnnnnnne

Me come for them alllllllll

Me lick me one one one, lick bumba rum

Follow me follow me follow me follow me

Me lick me one, me lick me one one

Me lick me one, me lick me one one

Me lick me onnnnnnnnnnne

Me come for them alllllllll

Me lick me one one one, lick bumba rum


Follow me follow me follow me follow me

(Me lick me one one)

[Wyclef]

They label me (WHAT?) the MC psycho

Prim' you up, but don't mistake me for Sunoco

Cuss to get loose, now you got the micro' Joe

Who talkin about hope? Poquito dinero

means I work hard, but got no money, and that ain't funny

Hey honey when you work for free see it's hard to get a lady baby

But they say good things come to those wait

So I wait, no ego trip, and on the mic I penetrate

Elevate as I battle for high stakes

Many gamble, I eat you like an ANIMAL

cause he gambled for the dime that he didn't have

He woke up in a dream and found his body in a body bag

Wyclef pissed cause, oh what I really said is

is I'm that funky, big up def in pig latin man, hah

A lot of rappers try to outrap, but miss me yo

But I'm askin every teachers everything he know

There's always one trick, to make em slip

So let me predict in pure trick I'm sure the rap form will recharge

Me lick me one, me lick me one one

Me lick me one, me lick me one one

Me lick me onnnnnnnnnnne

Me come for them alllllllll

Me lick me one one one, lick bumba rum

Follow me follow me follow me follow me

Check them style out of Wy and Prazwell


Bad man fire M-16

Police man fire AK-47

Soldier man... them a fire ??

and them gun shoot for.. woy!

Bad man fire M-16

Police man fire AK-47

Soldier man... them a fire ??

and them gun shoot for.. woy!

[undecipherable chat]

"Vocab"

[Chorus]

You got the vocab

I got the vocab

You got the vocab

You know I got the vocab

You got the vocab

I got the vocab

Hey, yo pass the mic so I can tell 'em I got the gift o' gab

Monkey see, monkey what? Monkey, monkey be yourself. [x3]

Hey yo catch me when I'm sober, but now I drink for the belt.

So pass the root straight to the right hand side.

Make no mistake that the buzz is a natural high.

I said it's big emergency mind your busy body

He hit me. I broke his nose. The referee's Mr Fuji.


So hey to the blue jay, mocking bird don't mock.

The last bird who mocked he got caught in my roughneck chicken pot.

So Mr Rooster give me a crookedy croo at 6am

He looked at me a laughin' said my music would make F.M.

Station. You're Haitian. You'll never get nowhere.

But I sweared on my grandmother grave we'd be here.

So now when I back track

I back track far enough to make a nigga run and leave his tongue back.

You think I'm cool I think you're cruel so here's a shell cap.

On your gluteus maximus and leave ya handicapped.

Ratatatat.

[Chorus]

Hoboes above leave the boat for the Pope (?) [x3]

Boat people here we go Hi De Hi De Hi De Ho Yeah

Some quest for the truth, some bust a loop.

And search for some knowledge that come runnin' in the woods.

And if I should a choose to be one

Then I will be a ?? hoodin' with books and look to kill.

My proof is in my puddin'

If I chill in the hood would you be say that I'm hoodin'?

Now. Let me exercise a new style that will brutalise

MCs into a warpath genocide.

Nobody move, nobody get hurt. It's a homocide

So jump jump punks ready to get stuck.

Evil Kenevil was my man, someone for the stunts.

I'm mostly fillies, I'm just straight up front, ha.

Meat ya tryin' to light up you get blast like nitrogen.

Runnin' for mercy, runnin' for oxygen.

Bad L.A. meat you're better off comittin' suicide.


I shoot the lip so high I strip you of your carbon dioxide

Rock-a-bye the lullaby he be singin' 'Oh my'.

Boof Baff another son a go die.

What's the matter with the black man? (Black man) [x2]

Now a statistic. So dreams of her become realistic.

Poor bastard gets mystic I don't believe you checked the psychic

Emancipate your mind. Don't set the limit. Reach the summit.

Free your spirit 'cause your blunted

From the lyrics I just stuttered.

'Live off the streets' says the brother with the machete.

'Live off the lady' says the brother with the glock in patrol.

I live logically, no weak slave to poverty.

You see it's very easy to slip between the asphalt sheet.

Brothers from my way they used to get mad plays.

Till they caught us bustin' doughnuts 'til the break of day.

Brother, my brother, you played me undercover.

She wouldn't be your lover so now you tried to dis her

For sister. You missed her but ask yourself a question.

Can I make a suggestion? I need a true confession.

Is she skivs 'cause the skin that she's in makes you sin?

Does you hit her just to get her integrate another sister?

Mister. I asked him for a hanky. He asked if he could spank me.

So why'd you disrespect me, sir?

Were you thinking I'm misguided or were you tryin to hide it

That you had no father figure.

Which? Check out your wackness. It won't distrust my blackness.

I wonder for a smack, but don't think that it would help this.

What's the matter with the black man (Black man)


All original gunman dem original good (Bahahahahahahaha) [x2]

Come jackin' it up an' I bad an' me fell in ma booby trap

With a rappin' up for the eight track play back laid back sit back

An I'll ?? an me runnin' ?? as a matter a fact

'Cause I trappin' a back like a cool six pack now bring it back. Woah!

United we stand, divided we crumble.

What's the flavour? More Babylon, more Babylon, more Babylon fall [x2]

These days every man want to be a god.

Lay down the gun every man on the floor.

But the real gunman him not play Hollywood role.

Because he pull out his gun and send another boy down.

Watch us bleed. Another gunman go bleed.

Watch us bleed. If I used up all my dust I got ??

Watch us bleed. Me up an' comin' ready.

Watch us bleed. Watch us for original Tranzlator Crew.

Oh, er, every time we come, we come correct, see.

We out

"Boof Baf"

[Wyclef Jean]

I'm Chill-Master-Nell of a thousand emcees

But how are you gonna tell the real I bust from these fo' knees

Cause he sees everyone with a deal with a record company


They go home, they write a rhyme, they think they ready to battle better

Some write forward, some write backward

I wait for them to get the cheeba-ganja then reverse yo

With a verse that's worse than the last one

some say BOO! he's the po he used to diss Jamaicans

and Hatians cause you thought I was American

Ay Pras, remember that song they sang, YEAH!!

Go back to Jamaica, what's good is what's new

But now we move off with Uncle's with a trail-crate of COOLER!!

[Pras]

I'm from the island, the island I'm from is the strong island

Emcees must be right, when I syke from lack of freestylin'

Mind must be sharp until my holler girl, I get all in

Black stylin', ridin', Boof'll be trappin'

When they come to battle champ see the shoes flappin'

Huh, coolin' while I'm rappin'

[Chorus: Wyclef Jean]

(BOOF BAF!!), another sound of a guy

(BOOF BAF!!), never boy, duck punk, try

(BOOF BAF!!), another sound of a guy

(BOOF BAF!!), never boy, duck punk, try

[Wyclef Jean]

Said if you write with pencil you must write with (PEN!)

If you have a rooster you must have a (HEN!)

Five plus five you know that equals to (TEN!)

Then spit the yellow man, check it to groove-to-groove site

[Pras]
One, two, I throw a flow to catch it

Three, four, back she know before the track miss

I FUCK ya when style go, to wreck this static

(But yo sister, grab the mic and do damage!!)

[Lauryn Hill]

Aiyyo I used to drive a hooptie, check me down swoopie

Rollin' with the Jones' but I different homozones

See life's got no value if I ain't got no statue

Hannibal heads, I be the kid from "Timbuktu"

One, two, zip me-me, check the mic I'm ready

Three, four, please the army - "Oh God", with Uzi's

So what, converse man, the chicken or the hoodie

get the - hoodie came first then mans' then would be Nancy

To kill the Jesse James rough, step back, check your steps

I'll love your theory like the chi-chi-woo-woo-boogie-man

You say I'm balanced but you're Silence of the Lambs

And when I call your name I say Candyman, Candyman, Candyman

Cause I can, can, yes, I can, can

[Chorus: Wyclef Jean]

(BOOF BAF!!), another sound of a guy

(BOOF BAF!!), never boy, duck punk, try

(BOOF BAF!!), another sound of a guy

(BOOF BAF!!), never boy, duck punk, try

[Wyclef Jean]

Well I'm on fire (FIRE), FIRE (FIRE), FIRE (FIRE)

So let me re-light your viacom

And let you enter the-the-elec-tronic (COOL!!)

And let you enter the-the-elec-tronic (COOL!!)


And let you enter the-the-elec-tronic (COOL!!)

And let you enter the-the-elec-tronic (COOL!!)

All that movin' I call my nozzle you see I was an electronic

You listen to your lyrics in chime - your Panasonic

The ly-ly-ly-lyricaler, the di-di-di-digital

Pras take the mic man, you know you're really critical

[Pras]

Stall emcees-soft-put 'em up for-er-Death Row (yeah)

Rhyme and cultural, style and never old

Slashed the priest-fool, ooh, you're filth-swolled

[Wyclef Jean]

I say no to spliff but my friends still smoke ?Juano?

Coolin' it, coolin' it, coolin' it

Somebody chuck me-who the who'd you think?

hold the mic, hold the mic, I shoot 'em

down with my last one, last one, last one, last one and

(Boo-shoo-coo-coo!!) SMOKE!!

I got my bullet-proof and now to send my bozack

[Chorus: Wyclef Jean]

(BOOF BAF!!), another sound of a guy

(BOOF BAF!!), never boy, duck punk, try

(BOOF BAF!!), another sound of a guy

(BOOF BAF!!), never boy, duck punk, try

[Mad Spider]

Rich rap come from the brothers in the neigborhood

who used to rap on a Polaroid - here comes Father Joe


Let me clock the block as I pull fo'-five

Boof Baf - I cut the block with gat-stops

I used to play hookie just to see how good an emcee was

He said I bust a battle - aight, I still took a gun

No cheeba, cheeba just a Libra on a last ride

I waited so long that I thought I died and came back alive

So hear the spirits, many fear, ?Sir New Stosser?

This the new thing under the Sun, when I come, I come

Bam-bam, alakazam, he grabbed the mic

up the block they ran, I came back with the bag

cause that's my momma man

I'm just patrollin', move off in the block

but the spot that I clock, you get shot if your numbers' about

So don't get caught in the fast lane, the fast lane

A just remain yourself and be the same

Cause many rapper-days, say nuttin' for nuttin'

So here's sut-um to take you from the am to the pm

[Pras]

Cause a imitator could never be greater than the creator

whose the originator, step up infiltrator

See you in the alligator - back stabbin' traitor

Tape recorder, duplicator, roughly rhymin' with the head tranzlator, hah!

AND LEAVE THE FORTY TO BE NAUGHTY IN THE FRIDGERATOR!!!

[Chorus: Wyclef Jean]

(BOOF BAF!!), another sound of a guy

(BOOF BAF!!), never boy, duck punk, try

(BOOF BAF!!), another sound of a guy

(BOOF BAF!!), never boy, duck punk, try

(BOOF BAF!!), another sound of a guy


(BOOF BAF!!), never boy, duck punk, try

(BOOF BAF!!), another sound of a guy

(BOOF BAF!!), never boy, duck...

[Wyclef Jean]

Say gun-man (BOOF BAF!!) say tell me where you get your ?? from (BOOF BAF!!)

You musta get it from the foreign land (BOOF BAF!!)

We want to shoot up the old a Babylon (BOOF BAF!!)

Pay the man to rhyme onto it

Say gun-man (BOOF BAF!!) say tell me where you get your ?? from (BOOF BAF!!)

You musta get it from the foreign land (BOOF BAF!!)

You want to kill your own brother man (BOOF BAF!!), ay, ay, ay (BOOF BAF!!)

[undecipherable singing]

"Temple"

[Intro/Chorus: Wyclef Jean]

Delivered straight from the temple

Hip-hop ya don't stop

One o' clock, two o' clock, three o' clock, ROCK!!

[Lauryn Hill]

Well as an infant I was born into religion

My mother called me back - this brother she forgot to mention

Was just one baptist - me! The stories o' God sent

His only forgotten sooonnn who gave his life


to make sure that I would have one

As I learned in Sunday School, he's got to care

of who's ready to disrespect, my mother and father would be Taboo

But as I grew, I met a Jew, a Catholic

and the pastor just couldn't figure out where baptist fit

Hastily ya paid me that'cha make me sing

Brother has confronted me, mister ??

I get Jehovah, a Buddha or shall I call you Adder

or though rich for tellin' me brother

I just like to be a scholar on the subject called realogy

So that's how I might figure

why they call themselves Christians, ya still call me nigga

And off to store a black hole leaves no control over thought

I leave my body to see the pits

go high when the physical takes control

No communications with the inner stealth

The prize is the up the wise, wise who has a spiritual health

Now to explain they had the problems/visions of gettin' along with herself

She bought a corner, cornered herself and becomes a mourner

Logic brothers...

(Ahhh, yo sister can Praswell and Wyclef get some, check it out)

[Chorus: Wyclef Jean]

Delivered straight from the temple

Hip-hop ya don't stop

One o' clock, two o' clock, three o' clock, ROCK!!

[Wyclef Jean]

Delivered straight from the (TEMPLE), I had no time to (SAMPLE)

My cousin's name was (SAMUEL), I wasn't allowed to use the turntables

My dad was a preacher, so rap music was your devilism


And if it wasn't say: Thank You Lord, I couldn't listen

So why you s-sneak to listen to DJ Red Alert?

To check the competition, a DJ Red Alert goes berserk

Cause as a young lad, I had a big rap pad

Cause he who wanted to practice would someday be the greatest guy

So I checked them as they flippin' sometimes

they're not flippin', they think they rippin'-rappin'

the only rappin' they doin' is in they room before they packin'

You gained the world sucker, but you lost your soul

(The devil approach you us, all you do is tell a foe)

Life after death could be eternal fire

So some get blunted but you're back all on this when it's all over

Mama said that blunt was a stunt to the brain

So some say: I don't smoke but on a sneak-tip he sniff coke

He won the lotto but now he dies of an overdose

While the bum he picked a hole to sleep he wanted a deep throat

So ask yourself the question: Who's really maxin'?

Cause some check in but don't check out and either Hell or Heaven high

But to some Earth is Hell and Heaven's death

So they predict to be Haiti's and kill till there's nothin' left, hah

But I'ma hit with a gun, that's harder than all guns

Mic check from the temple, check the Tech

(And start the nuzzle to get wreck)

Can I get a witness? (Check the Tech)

Get wreck (Check the Tech), check the Tech

(And start the nuzzle to get wreck), can I get a witness?

(Check the Techs), here we go yo

Well I arrive let me tell you what I see in my third eye

Many die they call a battle, they got crucified

Justice, is righteous, in the eyes of the beholder


While the, younger the better but the, older the wiser

Mama used to read in deep from the book of powers

But the bird said the word was absurd, have ya heard?

Knowledge - I come to teach while I increase ya decrease

Some say peace, but on a street a .45's my piece

[Pras]

Hallelujah, hallelujah, praise me two things

try all my cheap - COME!!

On the nineteenth of October I remember

startin' my life as a natural leaver

Cause I lick one-two-three-four-five-six-seven shots

While any priest here builds his church on a solid rock, hit me

So feel the spirit comin' from the Heaven above

(Ay, Pras, how could you be a hood in full of so much love?)

I said: On every man chest there breathes a heart

Hip-hop where it starts, I tried to master the art, come on!!

"How Hard Is It?"

[Mad Spider]

Wait a second, draw back, ban this here I come

Stick this business, stock me up, they took me coat with a stun gun

On a Sunday, a bloody Sunday, so what's the resume?

Heads got felt in the force I heard a Milky Way

I caught a heart attack when I heard my cousin ??

In Avenue D. in Brooklyn New York City


ever since I used my man I moved to Jersey

But realistically, God, could of called me early

Cause I got a big bop I'm wanted by the block

I take a ruff-neck chicken make stop in stone top

Cause I roll with the army of sixty-eight

The Privates' don't make the orders it's the General that makes the wig-wack

Buy her back, buy a cat, I got scratched in a day to kidnap

and at night I was back and the Jeep got attacked by a gang that sold crack

But the posse was strapped it was nothin' but CRAP!!

I got cuffed in the back, in the jail there were rats

So I pulled out my mack to get out of this crap

Though I wish I could zap outta here but I quack like a dog

that pass gats so I put the gas mask on the mic

there were blasts cause I do it it's my task

And all the jumper the guys that I see to me pass the class

Check out the vocab, it'll get out, then get it, do it again

gift of the guy if you're good you're good, if you're bad you're bad

[Chorus: Wyclef Jean]

So how hard is it? (Hard as it can get)

I wanna know, how hard do you wanna it? (Hard as it can get)

[Pras]

One, two (ONE, TWO), three, four (THREE, FOUR)

Hardcore (HARDCORE), hardcore (HARDCORE)

Yo, watch yourself for your health I'll snatch your last breath

Then I left you up for another one bites the dust

You couldn't ride me if you went behind the bush, gush

Leave the style alone, don't try to follow me

Cause a life of the hood make it a little triggery

So keep your eyes on the prize, don't be surprised


Cause on my half I may pull out a semi-automatic sixty-eight

watch around my back it's mainly static

Droppin' emcees like a bad habit

Here come the Pras with a new package

[Wyclef Jean]

Mad and they ignorance, think they can test the performance of an ancient (RAPPER!!)

Let me break it down in a dialect (BADDER!!)

Easier said than what the mono said

cause there's more than righter rapper, paid for the rapper be-bop

Cause he said everybody's rappin', them and they momma

So when I grab the mic I grab it like a gangster

Microphone sniper cause it'll be the prowler

[Mad Spider]

Launch it, it's trife, no magic, the realistic maggot

Don't leave the gadget or you'll be gat it

Simple - the riddle, who's the monkey in the middle

What's the goose - um!

So let me cut his neck loose yo

I keep it positive and not so negative

These is when you diss, emcees take it

So send it to they call the battle

I'ma raw I let it rappin' now I'm more

your ball, you're waitin' for me to fall, but I won't, ssss...

[Chorus: Wyclef Jean]

So how hard is it? (Hard as it can get)

I wanna know, how hard do you wanna it? (Hard as it can get)
[Levi]

I gotta jump on the A-Train, I saw cat with a scat he was blowin' like coal-train

My boys' said give him a call, I gave him a dollar, he said are you a rapper?

Kids have a seat and don't miss a beat and listen to the battle of the saxin' in your emcee

[Wyclef Jean]

Now Red Rock, call Red Rock, call Red Rock, call Red Rock, call Red Rock call

(It could mean rewind the gun-check me baby)

[Lauryn Hill]

I rock and shock the dough is show squeeze and cheese and whether pleasin'

(It could mean rewind the gun-check me baby)

I rock and shock the dough is show squeeze and cheese and whether pleasin'

Coolin' breezin' at the teas and how can emcees do was sneeze

(FLOWER, BLOW!!)

[Chorus: Wyclef Jean]

So how hard is it? (Hard as it can get)

I wanna know, how hard do you wanna it? (Hard as it can get)

So how hard is it? (Hard as it can get)

I wanna know, how hard do you wanna it? (Hard as it can get)

So how hard is it? (Hard as it can get)

I wanna know, how hard do you wanna it? (Hard as it can get)

So how hard is it? (Hard as it can get)

I wanna know, how hard do you wanna it? (Hard as it can get)

So how hard is it? (Hard as it can get)

I wanna know, how hard do you wanna it? (Hard as it can get)

So how hard is it?...


"Some Seek Stardom"

[Lauryn Hill]

AhhhhhH!

Check the crippled man, sittin in the church

My conscience hurts, flesh like me hits the dirt

She's paralyzed from her feet to her thighs

And the man who pulled the trigger didn't even lose his necktie

Hi/I check Jimmy cuttin hair at the barbershop

He plays the bass guitar, like David plays the harp

His knowledge name is Greek, cause whenever he speaks

He's got the wisdom of King Solomon bags in his eyes from no sleep

Sometimes he thought of the fame in Madison Square Garden

So some seek stardom, but they forget Harlem

But seeking first of all the kingdom of God is what my pops told me

So if I fall, could the choir catch me

I flew away, on a mountain, got tempted by Satan

Got bitten by a cobra, but the Lord took my venom

So who's side am I on? I'm on the righteous

Always check the lyrics, no time to contradict

[Chorus:]

Some seek stardom, then they forget Harlem [3X]

They/brothers/sisters/families/people/we/brothers

keep their pockets full, but their souls run empty

Well aiyyo family I beseech you, in the hopes that I may reach you

My mother taught me one day that this mid-day would come someday

Born to talk that jive, with peaky hair grown wild

And teachers disliked me, cause I knew where my culture be


So now yeah mom I read history, I can't neglect my passion see

Rock it's kind of new to me, cause my true love was poetry

White was good and bad was black but black was just a massa lackey

built for that B. Nimble Jack and I'd like to save you from the wicked

D-Dog clear I wouldn't be wet

The black to mourn, tomorrow's death

The evil things, glad that I, while angels wrote this violence why?

Help me make me comprehend my black bezerk and why cast it

Time to blaze the angels nappy heads are braided that you make me

see what's hard for me that don't make you flee

when I enter your vicinity, you see my God ain't never after me

So yo I be wised up with Greek

To go and be, the last and good and see what's wrong with me

and through your insecurity of me and my ability

So bredren won't you let me be or has thou asked to much from thy

to tell the truth and not to lie? Oh my...

[Chorus 2X]

But as I grew, I knew cause the master told me

from a baby to a woman from a woman to a baby

Life is so short, hardcore becomes hard-corpse

Step in a coffin where the money's no longer the source

[singing]

There we go, there we go, there we go

I got mine now won't you get yours, we never open doors

so we neglect, and don't protect the ones that's not

people never really seem to care

And then they cry out, "My people! Why aren't we treated equal?"

As we flee, we flee our own communities

We leave our family in poverty


And then we blame it on another, so family please recover

Oh c'mon please come now with you can come with me now and blow now

if you want to, we're through...

[Chorus 4X]

"Giggles"

[Pras]

Aiyyo, somethin' funny, somethin' got you caught up in digs

It's me, why you wanna pimp with today?

Two made from the boy, yeah

Now, helpless, he's tryin' cause he full of giggles

You gonna need more than an iron to stretch out ya wrinkles

You startin' so ordinary, and me, map me out for sprinkler

You got the fever for the flavor for the giggles

Who got the giggles is the jam of December, hey

I remember we release specifically

Back in grammar school days it's me the E's-M-T

Totally and directly, wonder, more than too fresh and nuttin' really else today

It was my accent and where I came from that ya really hate

The 'N' wear - Levi's, Pumas, struggle Adidas

Some say I'm with the losers cause I didn't have the ladies

No R-E-F-P's, the T as we can't get no punanny

Definitely hittin' them daily

Now I roll with the squad that's so hard and makes

you wanna catch an erection - relax man!!

I don't allow you to put-out actin' on if the one's direction


So it's Pete Prop, yo what's up man, hah

So if ya were thankful then I see cause the paper

gettin' murderin' like the a-lovin' - now the news - Rodney King is

now with the double list comin' through your speakers

remember durin' steebers, why don't you get your speakers tweetered, whoo!!

[Chorus]

Who got the giggles?

You got the giggles, they got the giggles

Everybody got the giggles

Who got the giggles?

You got the giggles, they got the giggles

Everybody got the giggles

[Pras]

Now ya wanna be down, you come around, touch gun of the town

You gotta dig my sound - Wow!!

It seems like everybody's jumpin' on the bandWAGON!!

Her money grabbin' a chick is a suburban dragon

I wasn't all of that - rappin' - but this is now

What's the matter? Ya milkin' like a freakin' cow

Cat guns yo' Tennessee, here kitty, kitty, kitty

Here pussy, pussy, pussy, pussy cat

You start to smell like one - all you really are was the head

I wanna give a shout-out to those who try and curse

my fave for ?? gat, you were funny though

Shall, shall, leave the play-down

These are the things we can do without, huh

So what's this all about man?

Just when I thought I was chillin' with my Lee's

and my fellas, seeds and my pro-kicks


My style was so deaf, "thuggin' won't even make it fresh" he said

So now I need my tracks that ?bite-neck? Fred

It's that ya mess with, it's just stitches that I thread

Loadin' the clip for-go-twenty-four-Karen-Lead

her double-days, puttin' 'G' at her head - RAPOW!! You're dead

[Chorus]

Who got the giggles?

You got the giggles, they got the giggles

Everybody got the giggles

Who got the giggles?

You got the giggles, they got the giggles

Everybody got the giggles

[Chorus: Lauryn Hill]

Who got the giggles?

You got the giggles, they got the giggles

Everybody got the giggles

Who got the giggles?

You got the giggles, they got the giggles

Everybody got the giggles

[Pras]

You ever havin' the giggles to the HUH!!

The hiccups, the kinda hiccups that makes ya wanna come up

In your face and throw up, you're totally ?smuck?!!

You feelin' dirty and quitter, you neither or either a home or hitter

much more like Peter but couldn't beat her pick

caught in the middle with the rhythm, you're feelin'

wish she trippin', you'll be livin' with the A-hahahahahaha......


The giggles

[Chorus]

Who got the giggles?

You got the giggles, they got the giggles

Everybody got the giggles

Who got the giggles?

You got the giggles, they got the giggles

Everybody got the giggles

Who got the giggles man? Who got the giggles man?

Who got the giggles man? Everybody got the giggles

Who got the giggles man? Who got the giggles man?

Who got the giggles man? Everybody got the giggles

Who got the giggles man? Who got the giggles man?

Who got the giggles man? Everybody got the giggles

"Refugees On The Mic"

[Intro: Wyclef Jean]

Yo', check it out, I want all the refugees out there

to just put up your motherfuckin' hands, you know you're a fuckin' immigrant

Put up your hands youknowhatI'msayin'?

I'ma start this shit off like this, this time around

[Chorus: Wyclef Jean]

H-to-the-A-to-the-I-to-the-T-to-the-I
Live or die, it's nothin' but a dark side

Fugees on the mic, yeah, yeah

Yo', refugees on the mic, oh yeah, oh yeah

H-to-the-A-to-the-I-to-the-T-to-the-I

Live or die, it's nothin' but a dark side

Fugees on the mic, yeah, yeah

Yo', refugees on the mic, oh yeah, oh yeah

[Wyclef Jean]

If you wanna snap (SNAP), if you wanna crack (CRACK)

If you wanna shoot, give me a second so I can lay flat

Cause this, some the cemetary's, the reality

Where the tough guys get buried in their property

Word to Sampson, the tone will get you hung

I had a friend, they murdered his father and his three-year-old son

I heard him cursin' the essence of the, the (PAUSE) committed the crime

But ah, murder got no time

The country has no law, it's either rich or poor

I'm out the back door, I got nuttin' to fight for

I'm sailin' on a boat like a goat - I clear my throat

When I got to Brooklyn, I was broke, so I selled coke

I look in through microscope, for my country and the hurt

My eyes bleed, I see Aaron Steed, the Haitian Pope

Figure or Dundee, the-riginal Malcom X

Swing like the ki's, so should I put on David Tomerfest

Though I'm humberlicious strugglin' to jump

let me blow her upper-her bubble in your face - that'cha ego!

Aiyyo, freeze-funk, you got to stay stable

Watch out for the devil, he comes after you after the revival

When will he come, what will he do, what will he say?

That's all a mystery, but have your hand grenade


so you can blow the motherfucker away

Beep, beep, I gotta make a sale so I can eat

So Praswell, grab the mic and be complete

[Pras]

Huh, lovin' the wreck in effect, will be all in checkmate

Another style for Praswell to translate

For those who can't relate to stay down my - no-man wait

No mistake, when I tell you, your prophet is a fake

[Wyclef Jean]

You said a contract on a Haitian, three-hundred g's

Your sharpshooters are lousy, we mend to-high-be-high hoodies

So show your face-a when you waste, I know who's smokin'

The bigger that you try to put out yours just makes me Mr. Nobody

Take high wit'cha just right, it'll be like Michael get ordered, a viper you know!!

Yeah, a viper cause you might lose a life to the side by like

what did I have to in the line of the barkin' of the bright side

You tried to scare me but I won't mover-a

The bully of the block becomes the hour of the glock

So cuckoo!! The sounds I run are rollin' with the bodyguard

But don't forget the day it's sunny but it'll be foggy

And in the funeral, you'll be singin' a new tune

May your soul rest on the moon (?Jack in wood spoon!!?)

In Channel Seven, you said: "Death before Cut"

You killed so many that your conscience ended up - whattup? (WHAT!!)

Aiyyo black men, you're dyin' by a dozen cousin

So all I do is walk away yo' Prince as if nothin' happened

You call me a punk, I gotta step cause all you did was flex

But don't get closer cause the kid still gotta keep his rep
See I'm known for the crew like the jewel was the jewel

Like the follow got the boo, like the miller got the boo

Let the fool cop the man-jewel, suck up, up the ?cool-lew?

Oh why you got the ha-ha-lew-lew?

I got the rap loose, so sci-bi-dee-bob-bob, you don't stop

You do the rap-rap, from hip-hop to be-bop, from be-bop

to beep-beep, the Haitian kid, beeper's goin' off beep-beep

I gotta make a sale so I can eat, beep, beep

The Haitian kid, beeper's goin' off, you know I got no time to sleep, so beep-beep

[Chorus: Wyclef Jean]

H-to-the-A-to-the-I-to-the-T-to-the-I

Live or die, it's nothin' but a dark side

Fugees on the mic, YEAH!!

Yo', refugees on the mic, oh yeah, oh yeah

[Pras]

Man, I went to cops the other day to plead for my innocence

They brought me in another charges of a legal residents

And L-E-N, on a foreign land, a ??

Watch me go back to my land and then there will be a thing

Gorillas in the mist, where everything, and the light becomes a priest

They put up they guard, they pump up they fists

Now I'm number one on they motherfuckin' hit-list...

Goin' down for first degree of manslaughter

Makin' change out of emcee's makin' them outta quarters

That's they value, that's what they worth

Cause the first shall be last and the last shall be first, yeah

What we learned was to burn, now cause you c-came

with that machette, it's your turn

It's not funny, but twenty a month is what you earn baby
(We on to the Yankee, pass the mic to the "Yankee")

[Lauryn Hill]

Well I'm as cool to ya the mic I'm checkin' comin' from my temple

With a message, to deliver, but the back is very simple

I'm the girl "Yankee" rollin' wit' the kids from Haiti

coolin' as a mighty grab who gets the last laugh hahaha...

You bite size with my Haitian from they stinks as my "Yankee"

wonderin' who was the first to pull over girl as soon as it came out son

My history - a hypocrite, so what we gonna do?

The dope is dope is only get the man since that is true

So hip-hip with my lip as I rip with a felt tip

with a righteous situation, interpretation, a graduation

Your ventilation, and education, segregation, emancipation

a capitalization, it's agration, not separation, ya breath the Haitians...

H-to-the-A-to-the-I-to-the-T-to-the-I...

"Living Like There Ain't No Tomorrow"

[Wyclef Jean]

Yo check it out. This is the boy Wyclef from Tranzlators, I'm coming from the

Booga Basement with a roots drink in my hands. So put the Rotts tonics in the

air, yeah cause I'm-a start this one off like THIS. Cause niggaz are living

like there ain't no tomorrow. I nuked this on the S900 cause I couldn't fford

a 1100. I'm-a start this one a little something like this. Here we go.

Hey yo people you're living like there ain't no tomorrow

You get caught in the terra asside em and ga morro


Father, forgeive him for he know not what he done

When the bum search for drums, the son search for condoms

He seek no, with his ring but with his head

That leave many dead in hospital beds; now you and death are newlyweds

So before I enter the tunnel I step back and shake it

Is it world the death or better life in a casket

Destuction of the flesh, new reporter wasn't coming

The devil cursed him cause he couldn't follow 10 commandments

[Hook]

Living like there ain't no tomorrow

You're living like there ain't no tomorrow

You're living like there ain't no tomorrow

You open up your eyes and them was ga marrow. WOO!

Living like there ain't no tomorrow

You're living like there ain't no tomorrow

You're living like there ain't no tomorrow

Open up your eyes.

I called up the VP, she told me she was busy watching TV with Roxy

I told her I was coming, she said that ain't necessary

three's a crowd, so what's the philosophy?

Another girl trying to take my girl away from me, easy

Fuck the door, I jumped through the window

SOMEWHERE over the rainbow

Paranable and the bitch still in my home

Stick stick in your socket, I sacrifice you like a live rabbit

Fatal attraction the coffin's the cabinet

Cause in the 90's girls got dicks

So keep the light on and make sure that the chick don't that back

She said that she did it with some girl named Lisa
I said what's the boot yo, she pulled the camcorder

Bust it, so what's the charge, you called me a womanizor?

I tried to say sorrym she said say sorry for Taquisha.

Chairs come flying my way like balls at basketball practice.

Call the priest cause she's turning to the exorcist

She kicked me out cause she was paying for the apartment

That's real, you got no girl, if you got no money to spend

But she had loved me for my mind and my poetic skills

But bow I'm checking magazings and getting cheap thrills

Asking myself when will it end?

Cause when it came to sex, my hand was my best friends

[Hook (Replace you're with I'm and me)]

I had a cousin like a brother

He tried to play me undercover

He said I didn't bang her

But the girl was his secret lover

But I played stupid like my brain had no minerals

It's so hard to say good-bye we singing at the funeral

Girls smash it up easy, when they know they got the bugsy

He used to sleep alone, but now he's riding Mrs. Daisy

You say all my business my life's my life my knife's my knife

So I be the lion that guards the trife

But at the party, I still move my waistline

A girl approached me and asked me for the time

I said; no disrespect, but check the watch on your wrist

And if you're looking for a hit check Charles Bronson from Death Wish

Then All of a sudden her man pushed me from the back

I turned out real cool- I said why did you do that?

The name is Clef, Clef bon


Then mark my word that I'm-a break your fucking arm

Unless you apologize and pick on someone your size

Not too cookoo-hit you-but the 4 to the 5

Point it to your nose

Now your blood turns to snow.

[Hook]

Yeah, word is born

"Nappy Heads (Remix)"

[Wyclef]

Yo Mona Lisa, could I get a date on Friday?

And if you're busy, I wouldn't mind taking

Saturday-ay-ay, ay-ay-ay

Round up de posse, Fugee comin around the way

[Wyclef]

Yo, hey nappy head

[Lauryn]

Yo whashup?

[Wyclef]

Whatchu got there?

[Lauryn]

Hah, I got some of that lyrical cheeba cheeba


[Wyclef]

Worrrrrd?

A cheeba cheeba y'all, well I'm a Libra y'all

A cheeba cheeba y'all, well I'm a Libra y'all

[Verse 1: Wyclef]

You wanna battle swing I bring commanding men like I was king

In all your dreams I write the horror flick of Stephen King

Cling to false also those papers say ock

I got tired of the fat lady so I sing to my own opera

Ba-lang-balang-balang-to-de-man-de-rock-cause I love thee

If you live by the sword you will be die by the gun

Cause all guys tell lies, and more girls commits it

I was ordered to Code Red, but now I'm chillin with A Few Good Men

Assassination on the kid from the capitol

I never play the soap opera but now I'm a General Hospital

Condition critical, spirit over who's the physical

So if I die, catch me at the funeral

I'll fly away, ohh glory

With a mic in my hand to a land where only God knows me

And the angels write raps on holy paper

I said I'm lookin for Jesus, he said take the escalator

One flight up, is guaranteed you'll be there

My sister'd be there, my mother'd be there

So, Mona Lisa, could I get a date on Friday?

And if you're busy, I wouldn't mind taking

Saturday-ay-ay, ay-ay-ay

Round up de posse, Fugee comin around de way

[Verse 2: Lauryn Hill]


I don't puff blunts so I always got my breath

Never had to battle with a bullet proof vest

They call me cock-weasel but I, still cave a chest

I don't wear Jheri curls cause I'm nah from the West

No disrespect to the West, true indeed

I rock it to the East, the East is the seed

To see that them days back, yo sheepskins and Hot Tracks

Peace to Mr. Magic, things are getting tragic

Now we on some new stuff, I never feared the Ku Kluk

My own clan is actin up, I blame it on the Phillie blunt

Whatcha gonna do, kids are acting oooohhhh

Hill is gettin fed up, yo where's the coporate at

A Mister Three Piece Suit

Check the square roots, Girbauds and Timberland boots

Nahhhh that's the serpents, and know them garment tips

I got a head full of problems and a hand full of nappy roots

I feel a Jones' comin down, yo I...

(I got the slang to make the chitty-bang-bang

a-rid-dang-de-dang, the nappy head bang)

No I, got hte slang to make the chitty-bang-bang

a-rid-dang-de-dang, the nappy heads bang

(Yo Mona Lisa, could I get a date on Friday

And if you're busy, I wouldn't mind taking

Saturday-ay-ay, ay-ay-ay

Round up de posse, Fugee comin round de way

Ay-ay-ay, ay-ay-ay

Nappy heads in the zone and we're not goin home!)

[Verse 3: Prazwell, Wyclef]

Hey yo a battle is a battle but a battle's not a battle


if it'sssssssssss snake doesn't rattle

Cause my style's as old as a reptile

As slick as a new Nile, as new as a new child

So come follow me to the land of Abraham

This land's your land, this land's my land

The blacker the black man, the better the next man

(Yo some nappy heads need to check they necks for red)

Ihhhh, feel injection

Put the needle to your skin feel reality's heroin

You maintain to put a negro in pain you used to diss me

"Oh you wanna hang with old Eddie Kane?" (The Five Heartbeats)

Ain't nuttin wrong, snap your head to the song

Word is bond, you get wrong, I'll have you sing like Louis Armstrong

And I say to myself, what a wonderful world

But what the hell was so wonderful bout cotton in the farm

Mr. Slaaaaaave Maaaaan!

The harder they come, the harder they fall, so come one come all

Don't stall or I'ma stick you like a voodoo doll

Doors locked stop drawer for the count who drops

You slept on a kid from the boondocks

Out of Motorville land of the ill kill

Bellsburg Viking so you know I'm top ranking Phil

Some say who coming like like the yuma but save the rumor

Cause I've been rockin ever since eighty-two

when I used to rock my Pumas...

A cheeba cheeba y'all, well I'm a Libra y'all [4X]

Yo Mona Lisa, could I get a date on Friday

And if you're busy, I wouldn't mind taking


Saturday-ay-ay, ay-ay-ay

Round up de posse Fugee comin around de way

Ay-ay-ay, ay-ay-ay

Nappy heads in the zone and we're not goin home!

[repeat 2X]

I wear my sunglasses at night

To spy on my girlfriend that's right

They dancin romancin freakin at night!

yes yes yes a yes yes y'all

[repeat 2X]

Mona Lisa...

...nappy heads in the zone and we not goin home!

A cheeba cheeba y'all, well I'm a Libra y'all [4x]

and to the beat y'all, and to the beat y'all, come on everybody

[to fade]
Fugees
The Score
(1996)

"Red Intro"

Yo, this fucker I was wit the other day, I was chillin'

With scott and the minute that we got in front of our

Crib with a shotgun. cause jokers gonna be bustin' up

In there trying to get food, clothing, shelter, tv's, forks,

Radios or whatever they can get there hands on. shit

Is getting mad ill out here man. joker's running out here

Like with masks on; I was with my man pee, he think

He like charlie chan or robert de niro

Or bruce lee or some shit, jumping from behind trees on

Muhfuckas, like cowboys bang bang or whatever you

Know. trying to shoot a joker he had beef with, he wound

Up shootin my man up in the street, tyring to be cowboys

They can't even shoot, trying to be gangsta's but when the

Beast come on the muthafuckin' block everybody break out.

They beat my man bob g. up the other day, cops, pigs vampin'

On him, everybody just standin' around just watching that

Shit take place. cause they only gangsta's when it comes to

Being gangsta's to themselves. they want to be corleone, luigi,

Or gambino or gotti or whatever the fuck. they run around callin'

Themselves rahiem or fuquan or mustapha cause we think they

Got power, but fuck them, I got power. I got power, I got family,

I got family business on avon, on chancellor, on prince street


On chadwick, on stratford on chancellor on vailsburg. all of the

Brick city. that's my family, we gonna settle the score, once

And for all. I'm not lettin' nobody I'm going out like

A bandit. and all of these zealots trying to steal and trying to

Bite what I got like all of these big record companies, these

Corporations these stores they try to rob me. naw man, I'm going,

I'm a get mine. me and my girl we gonna go out together

We gonna be a soldier kid. when I go out, she go out. and we

Gonna make what we believe manifest cause if you ain't ready

Now, you ain't never gonna be ready...

I'm always ready.

How Many Mics

[CHORUS (REPEAT 2X):]

How Many Mic's Do We Rip on the Daily

Say me say Many Moni, Say me say manymanymany

[LAURYN:]

I get mad frustrated when I rhyme

Thinking of all the kids who try to do this

For all the wrong reasons

Seasons change, mad things rearrange

But it all stays the same like the love Doctor Strange

I'm tame like the rapper,

Get red like a snapper when they do that

Got your whole block saying"TRUE DAT"


If only they knew that,

It was you who was irregular,

Sold your soul for some secular

Muzak that's wack,

Plus you use that loop over and over

Claiming that you got a new style

Your attempts are futile, Ooo chile

Your puerile,

Brain waves are sterile

You can't create, you just wait to take, my tape's

Laced with malice

Hands get calloused

From grippin' microphones from here to Dallas

Go ask Alice if you don't believe me,

I get Inner Visions like Stevie

See me, ascend from the chalice like the weed be

Indeed be like Khalil Muhammad

MC's make me vomit

I get controversial

Freak your style with no rehearsal

Ooo, contraire mon frere

Don't you even go there

Me without a mic is like a beat without a snare

I dare to tear into your ego,

We go, way back like some ganja and pelequo

Or Coleco-Vision

My mind makes incisions in your anatomy

And I'll back this with Deuteronomy

Or Leviticus, God made this word

You can't get with this

Sweet like licorice,


Dangerous like syphillis, yeah.

[CHORUS (REPEAT 4X):]

How Many Mic's Do We Rip on the Daily

Say me say Many Moni, Say me say manymanymany

[CLEF:]

I used to be underrated

Now I take iron, makes my s*** constipated

I'm more concentrated.

So on my day off,

With David Sonnenberg I play golf

Run through Crown Heights screaming out Mazel Tov

Problem with no man

Before black, I'm first human

Appetite to write like Frederick Douglass with a slave hand

Street pressure word to poppa, I ain't goin' under

One day I'll have a label and make deals with Tommy Motolla

Momma always told me "You're one in a million"

Always watch your back, never tangle with Haitian Sicilians

Now I got a record deal, "How does it feel?"

I'm never gonna survive unless I get crazy like Seal.

Cause the whole world's out of order

So at night the fiend's dance on Grease with John Travolta

One got slaughtered as he coughed blood from his mouth

The other tried to duck and caught a left with my Guiness Stout

Brother brother can't you get this through your head

It's a set up by the fed's they're scoping us with their Infra-reds.

[CHORUS (REPEAT 3X):]

How Many Mic's Do We Rip on the Daily


Say Me Say Many Moni Say me say manymanymany

[PRAZ:]

Too many MC's not enough Mic's

Exit your show like I exit the turnpike

Dice and dynamite like Dolomite

Double deuce delight, I don't Dick Van Dyke

Startlight to starbrite the freaks come out at night

Like my man Wyclef (I wear my sunglasses at night)

And my panache will mosh your entourage

Squash your squad and hide your body under my garage.

And when the cops come lookin'

I'll be bookin' to Brooklyn

Leave the trails broken flippin' tokens to Hoboken

A clean getaway like Alec Baldwin

Drivin' in my fast car playin' Tracy Chapman

[CHORUS (Repeat to end):]

How Many Mic's Do We Rip on the Daily

Say me say Many Moni, Say me say manymanymany

"Ready or Not"

[CHORUS:]

Ready Or Not, Here I Come, You Can't Hide

Gonna Find You and Take it Slowly

Ready Or Not, Here I Come, You Can't Hide


Gonna Find You and Make you want me.

[CLEF:]

Now that I escape, sleepwalker awake

Those who could relate know the world ain't cake

Jail bars ain't golden gates

Those who fake, they break,

When they meet their 400 pound mate

If I could rule the world

Everyone would have a gun in the ghetto of course

When giddyupin' on their horse

I Kick a rhyme drinkin' moonshine

I pour a sip on the concrete, for the deceased

But no don't weep, Wyclef's in a state of sleep

Thinkin' 'bout the robbery that I did last week.

Money in the bag, banker looked like a drag

I want to play with pelicans from here to Baghdad

Gun blast, think fast, I think I'm hit

My girl pinched my hips to see if I still exist.

I think not, I'll send a letter to my friends,

A born again hooligan only to be king again.

[LAURYN:]

I play my enemies like a game of chess, where I rest,

No stress

If you don't smoke sess, lest.

I must confess, my destiny's manifest

In some Goretex and sweats I make treks like I'm homeless

Rap orgies with Porgy and Bess,

Capture your bounty like Elliot Ness, YES

Bless you if you represent the Fu


But I'll hex you with some witch's brew if you're Doo Doo

Voo Doo,

I can do what you do, easy, BELIEVE ME

Frontin' niggas give me hee-bee-gee-bees

So while you're imitating Al Capone

I'll be Nina Simone

And defacating on your microphone.

[Chorus:]

Ready Or Not, Here I Come, You Can't Hide

Gonna Find You and Take it Slowly

[LAURYN'S INTERLUDE]

You can't run away

From these styles I got, oh baby, hey baby

Cause I got a lot, oh yeah

And anywhere you go

My whole crew's gonna know

You can't hide from the block, oh no.

[PRAZ:]

Ready or not, refugees takin' over

The Buffalo soldier, dread-lock rhasta

On the twelfth hour, fly by in my bomber

Crews run for cover, now they're under pushin' up flowers

Superfly true lies, do or die,

Toss me high - only puff la,

With my crew from lock high

I refugee from Guantanamo Bay

Dance around the border like I'm Cassius Clay


[Chorus (Lauryn) REPEAT 3X:]

Ready Or Not, Here I Come, You Can't Hide

Gonna Find You and Take it Slowly

Ready Or Not, Here I Come, You Can't Hide

Gonna Find You and Make You Want Me

"Zealots"

[CLEF:]

Another MC lose his life tonight, lord

I beg that you pray to Jesus Christ, why

O lord, father don't let him bury me, whoa

[CLEF:]

I haunt MC's like Mephistophales

Bringin swords and Damacles

Secret service keep a close watch as if my name was Kennedy

Abstract raps simple with a street format

Gaze into the sky and measure planets by parallax.

Check out the retrograde motion, kill the notion

Of biting and recycling and calling it your own creation.

I Feel like Rockwell, "Somebody's watching me"

I got no privacy whether on land or at sea.

And for you biting zealots, your raps are cacophonic

Hypocrite, critic, but deep inside you wish you had the pop hit.

It hurts don't it, the refugees come to your turf and take over the earth.
[INTERLUDE (Lauryn):]

See my rhymes are the type of fly rhymes

That can only get down with my crew

And if you try to take lines or bite rhymes

We'll show you how the refugees do.

[LAURYN:]

Behold, as my odes, manifold on your rhymes

Two MC's can't occupy the same space at the same time.

It's against the laws of Physics.

So weep as your sweet dreams break up like Eurythmics

Rap rejects my tape deck, ejects projectile

Whether jew or gentile

I rank top percentile,

Many styles,

More powerful than gamma rays

My grammar pays,

Like Carlos Sanatana plays

Black Magic Woman

So while you fuming, I'm consuming

Mango juice under Polaris,

You're just embarrassed

Cause it's your "Last Tango in Paris"

And even after all my logic and my theory,

I add a muthaf**ker so you ignint niggas hear me.

And you remember take notes,

As I sow my rap otas

And for you biting zealots, here's a quote.

[Chorus (CLEF):]
Another MC lose his life tonight, lord

I beg that you pray to Jesus Christ, why

O lord, father don't let him bury me, whoa

[CLEF:]

You can try but you can't divide the tribe

These cats can't rap, Mr. Author I feel no Vibe

The magazine says the girl should have gone solo,

The guys should stop rapping, vanish like Menudo.

Took it to the heart, but every actor plays his part

As long as someone was listening, I knew it was a start,

For me to get a chance, grab my pen and revamp

Do a cameo while everybody do the dance.

Quick now, cause you runnin' out of lucka

Playin' Mr. Big, I'm gonna get you sucka.

While you munchin at your luncheon, I'll be planning your assassination

Then hit you like the Dutchmen

[PRAZ:]

I compress sound sets with my rap DBX

Then drop vocals on my 456 AMPEX

Bring terror to the shop of horror,

As she cries "Mi amor"

The phantom dies in the opera

And to the youngin's who carry gadgets

And kill 6 days a week then on a sabbath.

Violence ain't necessary, unless you provoke me

Then get buried like the great Mussolini

And for you bitin' Zealots

Your rap styles are relics

No matter who you damage


You're still a false prophet.

[Chorus (CLEF):]

Another MC lose his life tonight, lord

I beg that you pray to Jesus Christ, why

O lord, father don't let him bury me, whoa

"The Beast"

[CHORUS:]

Warn the town the beast is loose,

Word 'em up y'all

C'mon

[LAURYN:]

Conflicts with night sticks

Illegal sales districts,

Hand-picked lunatics, keep poli-TRICK-cians rich

Heretics push narcotics amidst its risks and frisks,

Cool cliques throw bricks but seldom hit targets

Private-DIC sell hits, like porno-flicks do chicks.

The 666 cut W.I.C. like Newt Gingrich SUCKS D***

[CLEF:]

Meanwhile the government brings Star Wars from glocks to glockers

C.O.P. has an APB out on Chewbacca

Mista Mayor, can I say something in yo honor

Yesterday in Central Park they got the Jogger


Okay, okay.

Let's get the confusion straight in ghetto Gotham

The man behind the mask you thought was Batman is Bill Clinton.

Who soon retire, the roof is on fire

Connie Chung brung the bomb as it comes from Oklahoma

Things are getting serious, Kuumbaya,

On a mountain satan offered me, Manhattan help me Jah Jah

[CLEF:]

You can't search me without probable cause

Or that proper ammunition they call reasonable suspicion

Listen I bring friction to your whole jurisdiction

You planted seeds in my seat when I wasn't lookin.

Now you ask me for my license/registration

"WHAT THE F**K" is my name

"WHAT THE F**K" is my occupation

Well I'm an MC, I'm down with the Fugees

Mother Mary caught a flashback like Rodney now the cops got Lolly.

[LAURYN:]

The subconscious psychology that you use against me,

If I lose control will send me to the penetentiary

Such as Alcatraz, or shot up like al Hajj Malik Shabazz

High class get bypassed while my ass gets harrassed.

And the fuzz treat bruh's like they manhood never was,

And if you too powerful, you get bugged like Peter Tosh and Marley was.

And my word does nothing against the feds,

So my eyes stay red as I chase crazy bald heads, WORD UP.

[CHORUS:]

Warn the town the beast is loose, Ah - ah, Ah - ah


Word 'em up y'all

[CLEF:]

The chase is on I feel like the bad guy

Fifth gear 125 like New Jersey drive

Looked in my rear view mirror

Police was getting closer

Heard a roar in the sky,

Looked up and saw the Blue Thunder.

My inner conscious says throw your handkerchief and surrender,

BUT TO WHO???

The star spangled banner ooh.

Say can't you see cops more crooked than we

By the dawn's early night robbin' niggas for kis.

Easy low key crooked military

Pay taxes out my ass but they still harrass me.

[PRAZ:]

The streets of corruption got me bustin and cussin' in the concrete jungle

Thoughts being dribbled like that tall kid Mutumbo

Handled by Hannibal

Soon I'm gonna be a fugitive like Dr. Kimble.

[CLEF:]

Hey yo should I slow down?

[PRAZ:]

Nah kid go faster,

Just cause they got a badge, they could still be impostors.

Probable cause, got flaws like dirty draws

Meet me at the corner store so we can start the street wars.


[CHORUS:]

Warn the town the beast is loose, Ah - ah, Ah - ah,

Word 'em up y'all

"Fu-Gee-La"

[CLEF:]

We used to be number 10

Now we're permanent one,

In the battle lost my finger, Mic became my arm

Pistol nozzle hits your nasal, blood becomes lukewarm

Tell the woman be easy Naah squeeze the Charmin

Test Wyclef, see death flesh get scorned.

Beat you so bad make you feel like you ain't wanna be born

And tell your friends stay the hell out of my lawn.

Chicken George became Dead George stealin' chickens from my farm.

Damn, Another dead pigeon

If your mafiosos then I'm bringin' on Haitian Sicilians

Nobody's shootin', my body's made of hand grenade

Girl bled to death while she was tongue-kissing a razor blade.

That sounds sick maybe one eday I'll write a horror

Blackula comes to the ghetto, jacks an ACURA

Stevie Wonder sees Crack Babies Be-Coming Enemies of their own families.

What's going on?

Armageddon come you know we soon done

Gun by my side just in case I gotta rump

A boy on the side of Babylon, trying to front like he's down with Mount Zion.
[CHORUS (Lauryn):]

Oooh La La La, It's the way that we rock when we're doing our thang

Oooh La La La, It's the natural LA that the Refugees Bring

Oooh La La La La La La Lalala La Laaah, Sweeeeet Thing

[LAURYN:]

Yeah in saloons we drink Boone's and battle goons till high noon,

Bust rap toons on flat spoons, take no shorts like poon poon's.

See hoochies pop coochies, for Gucci's and Lucci

Find me in my Mitsubishi, eatin' sushi, bumpin' Fugees.

Hey Hey Hey

Try to take the crew and we don't play play

Say say say

Like Paul McCartney, not hardly,

ODD-ly enough

I can see right through your bluff

Niggas huff and they puff but they can't handle us, WE BUST

Cause we fortified, I could never hide, seen "Cooley High", Cried when Cochise died.

I'm twisted, black-listed by some other negroes,

Don't remove my Polos on the first episode.

Ha Ha Ha Ha, You shouldn't diss refugees, and

Ha Ha Ha Ha, You whole sound set's bootie , and

Ha Ha Ha Ha, You have to respect JERSEY, cause I'm superfly when I'm super-high on

the Fu-Gee-La.

[(LAURYN) CHORUS:]

Oooh La La La, It's the way that we rock when we're doing our thang

Oooh La La La, It's the natural LA that the Refugees Bring

Oooh La La La La La La Lalala La Laaah, Sweeeeet Thing


[PRAZ:]

I sit 90 degrees underneath palm trees,

Smokin' beadies as I burn my calories,

Brooklyn roof tops become Brooklyn tee-pees,

Who that be, enemies, wanna see the death of me.

From Hawaii to Hawthorne, I run marathons, like

Buju Banton, I'm a true champion, like,

Farakkhan reads his Daily Qu'ran it's a phenomenon, lyrics fast like Ramadan.

[(CLEF) REPEAT 2X:]

What's goin' on

Armageddon come you know we soon done

Gun by my side just in case I gotta rump

A boy on the side of Babylon, trying to front like he's down with Mount Zion.

[(LAURYN) REPEAT CHORUS 2X:]

Oooh La La La, It's the way that we rock when we're doing our thang

Oooh La La La, It's the natural LA that the Refugees Bring

Oooh La La La La La La Lalala La Laaah, Sweeeeet Thing

"Family Business"

[OMEGA:]

Where I was born, nothing is promised

My life is filled with less hope than the prophecies of Nostradamus

Omega marks the ending of predictability, birth of agility


Who will it be to test me and expose their futility.

Iron like a lion from Zion stop tryin' so hard,

I think I smell your brain cells fryin'.

The family's behind you if you're worthy

Philosophies developed deep in the back streets of dirty Jersey

Troops with scully hats and Timberland boots

No more break-dancing for loot.

Niggas hustle and shoot

In the Garden State, it grows stink weeds and criminals

Government funds are minimal

Oppression's subliminal

[CLEF:]

These days it's hard for we to find peace of mind

Between insanity and sanity there lies a thin line.

Some dwell in hotels with Jezebels

A stone age and fall a victim to the Plague

Unclean bad dreams of Wyclef being a fiend, one last kiss from my sweet serpentine

Eliminate then break, navigate to rejuvenate thoughts of suicide with my nickel plate.

Reconcilation came from my enemy-friend

Who said family don't bend

We stay silent till the end.

Now who would think that your best friend

Would be your worst enemy and your enemy your best friend.

Stare into the air inspiration from the atmosphere

I think of old ghosts, that ain't even here.

Like Alex Haley take notes on this Biography

My family tree consists of street refugees.

A ghetto land, where we talk slang

Stolen cars bang, like my chitty bang-bang sh-bang

For the heads, we ain't sellin' cocaine today


So refrain and let my family reign okay

[CHORUS: (Omega)]

Just walkin' the streets death can take you away

It's never guaranteed that you'll see the next day

of Shaton don't play

At night the evil armies So defend the family that's the code to obey

[CLEF:]

But if I fall asleep and death takes me away

Don't be surprised son, I wasn't put here to stay

At night the evil armies of Shaton don't play

So the family sticks together and we never betray.

[CLEF:]

Nah Fuck that

Fifty-two pick up, no cops around

Fifty-two thousand in cash, I don't want no savings bonds

Have the money ready, I smell something fishy

Your wife's in my custody

One false move and you'll find her body in the sea.

That's the voice of the kid, that's the kidnapper

I do my work and then I catch my ticket to Jamaica.

Meet me in the alley, make sure you bring the money

This ain't the seventies I'm far from a jive turkey

[LAURYN:]

My circle it can't be broken

Open, cut-throatin', provokin'

Record promotin, tokens chokin' on they words like smoke and.


Cause we soft spoken, doesn't mean that we've forgotten

Your bootie smells rotten and one day you will be gotten

See joker's is scatter-brained, their focus is unrestrained

My army is trained, you never find us beefin' in vain.

Cause I've seen fire and I've seen rain

You claim fame, while modest niggas remain.

I can judge a character like Ito judge a verdict

And if you bringin' threats I give you sex if I ain't heard it.

See poppin' shit's about your attitude and how you word it

I've seen the biggest niggas on the block get murdered

And they deserverd it

Or so the beast said when they served it ???

That shit is nervous

So what's my purpose?

Family, we must preserve it.

Your number's retired

I hope you like the hell fires

You'll be screamin' Murder she Wrote like Chaka Demus and Pliars.

[CHORUS: (Omega)]

Just walkin' the streets death can take you away

It's never guaranteed that you'll see the next day

At night the evil armies of Shaton don't play

So defend the family that's the code to obey

[LAURYN:]

If I should fall asleep and death takes me away

Don't be surprised son, I wasn't put here to stay

At night the evil armies of Shaton don't play

So the family stick together and we never betray.


[FORTE:]

We used to jump rope,

But now we gun hope

Bustin' shots off of project roof tops

Sending signals with the blunt smoke.

Ock, don't talk a lot if you can't hold it in lock

If you think lips sink ships,

Imagine full glock clips.

I hold a glass of Remy Martin

Gettin' milks by the carton

Extortin' the light weights for thinkin' they important

The night pays and heavenly ways

Ain't nothin' free ah

Knowledge of your family and steppin' to your B.I.

You see I, stay on top of shit like a fly

My niggas reach when they got beef

Then jet down to South Beach

Yo mouthpiece is yappin'

I hear it in your rap and

My family is thick so that bullshit could never happen.

[CLEF:]

Just walkin' the streets death can take you away

It's never guaranteed that you'll see the next day

At night the evil armies of Shaton don't play

So defend the family that's the code to obey

[LAURYN:]

If I should fall asleep and death takes me away


Don't be surprised son, I wasn't put here to stay

At night the evil armies of Shaton don't play

So the family stick together and we never betray.

"Killing Me Softly"

[LAURYN:]

Strumming my pain with his fingers,

Singing my life with his words,

Killing me softly with his song,

Killing me softly with his song,

Telling my whole life with his words,

Killing me softly with his song.

[FUGEES:]

Hi, yo yea yea.

This is wyclef refugee

El boogie up in here...

Rise well, little

While I'm on this I got my girl L one time! one time!

Hey yo L you know you got the lyrics!

I heard he sang a good song, I heard he had a style,

And so I came to see him and listen for a while.

And there he was this young boy, a stranger to my eyes,

Strumming my pain with his fingers (one time),


Singing my life with his words (two times),

Killing me softly with his song,

Killing me softly with his song,

Telling my whole life with his words,

Killing me softly with his song.

I felt all flushed with fever, embarrassed by the crowd,

I felt he found my letters and read each one out loud.

I prayed that he would finish, but he just kept right on...

Strumming my pain with his fingers (one time),

Singing my life with his words (two times),

Killing me softly with his song,

Killing me softly with his song,

Telling my whole life with his words,

Killing me softly with his song

[CLEF:]

Yo L-Boogie, take it to the bridge

[LAURYN:]

Strumming my pain with his fingers (yes, he was singing),

Singing my life with his words,

Killing me softly with his song,

Killing me softly with his song,

Telling my whole life with his words,

Killing me softly with his song.

[Fading:]

Strumming my pain

Singing my life with his words,


Killing me softly with his song,

Killing me softly with his song,

"The Score"

[CLEF:]

Look into the rhyme

Rum to the ripple

Sing boo,

But at times I come in triple.

Blaow, blaow put the heater to your head

Now your dead.

Wyclef don't give a *beep* if your dead.

Raaaaah, raaaah

Let me attack just like the black cat

You in the wrong neighborhood, check the map.

Hooo, you've got to go for backup

To do what you gotta do.

So you'll be back with France CU

Traitor in your crew is mafo heat

Put the poison in your tea

and kill the toad, But I'll be back with the centipede

I'm on some new technique, drunken bamboo

Awoo hoo a hoo, I'm taking all crews what.

Competition, stimulation for the rap man

Losers check your tooters


While I'm suckin' on your girls h******.

Don't play macho, while you got the gun

Cause if you got to reload . . .

[CLEF:]

Wyclef the multi-talented

Average heads can't handle it

I'll bring it to you live

Only if you want it.

Me and my guitar go back like the days of the RMC's

(C'mon check out my melody)

The W-Y-C-L-E-F, Wyclef

Through any contest

I'm victorious

Still keep it real, if you will and manifest

Through your skills, not by how many shells you peel.

[PRAZ:]

I'm a bring down the ruckus

Play the nutcracker

Rough-neck rednecks make me no bother

Time after time, ask Cyndi Lauper,

Boss, you don't want to f**k with my partners

Motion, commotion, what's your proposal

Uphold two-fold, the crew is disposal

Like utensil, false idental,

I autograph my lyrics with a number 2 pencil

[LAURYN:]

I'm the L, Won't you pull it

Straight to the head


With the speed of a bullet

Cuttin' jokers off at the meeky-freeky gullet

Lyrical sedative, keep niggas medative

Head rushers I give to creative kids and fiends

Dreams of euphoria,

Aurora,

To another galaxy

Phallic-sy

Be this microphone, but get lifted

Lyrically I'm gifted

Burn on in without the roach clip (it)

Henders, mind-bender

Pleasure sender,

So frequently your nerve endings belong to me

Wrongfully you put me down not receiving the full capacity of my smoke

Wack niggas choke

From the fumes that I emote,

Or emit shit

See even I feel the mahogany L

Natural hallucinogen

Turning boys to men again

With estrogen dreams

Release blues, yellows and greens

From Brownsville to Queens

[DIAMOND-D:]

I creep like a theif, no doubt the man's swift

I'm more magnificent than Lee Van Cliff

You stand stiff and got the nerve to let your man riff

(We know where to run)

And start flakin' like dandruff.


C'mon son my steelo's tight

Cause by far I'm the best producer on the mic

On the right, analytical conceptions

With precision and leave lyrical incisions.

"The Mask"

[CHORUS:]

Have you ever worn the mask one-two one-two,

(M) to the (A) to the (S) to the (K)

Put the mask upon the face just to make the next day,

Feds be hawkin me

Jokers be stalking me,

I walk the streets and camouflage my identity,

My posse in the Brooklyn wear the mask.

My crew in the Jersey wear the mask.

Stick up kids doing boogie woogie wear the mask.

Yeah everybody wear da mask but how long will it last.

[CLEF:]

I used to work at Burger King. A king taking orders.

Punching my clock. Now I'm wanted by the manager.

Soupin me up sayin "You're a nice worker,"

"How would you like a quarter raise, move up the register"

"Large in charge, but cha gotta be my spy,

Come back and tell me who's baggin my fries,

Getting high on company time."

Hell no sirree, wrong M.C.


Why should I be a spy, when you spying me,

And you see whatcha thought ya saw but never seen.

Ya missed ya last move, Checkmate! Crown me King,

Hold my 22 pistol whipped him in his face.

Hired now I'm fired, sold bud now I'm wired,

Eyes pitch red but da beat bop my head

Hit the streets for relief, I bumped into the Feds,

I got kidnapped they took me to D.C.,

Have me working underground building missiles for World War III.

[CHORUS:]

(M) to the (A) to the (S) to the (K),

put the mask up on the face just to make the next day.

Brothers be gaming, Ladies be claiming.

I walk the streets and camouflage my identity.

My posse Uptown wear the mask.

My crew in the Queens wear the mask.

Stick up kids with the Tommy Hil wear the mask.

Yeah everbody wear the mask but how long will it last.

[LAURYN:]

I thought he was the wonder, and I was stunned by his lips,

Taking sips sipping Amaretto sour with a twist,

Shook my hips to the bass line, this joker grabbed my waistline,

Putting pressure on my spine trying to get L-Boog to wind,

I backed up off him then caught him with five finger to his face,

I had to put him in his place,

This kids invading my space,

But then I recognized the smile, but I couldn't place the style,

So many fronts in his mouth, I thought he was the Golden Child,

Then it hit me that's Tariq from off the street around Grams.
I haven't seeen him since fifteen, when he got booked for doing scams.

I tried to walk away but he wouldn't let me leave,

He ran up quick behind me asking, "Yo what happened to my nigga Steve?"

Steve was like this kid I went with back in Grammar School.

I chuckled knucklehead I seen him yesterday he's cool,

He's busted, "so who you checking for now?"

Probably some intellectual.

I kept the conversation straight and he kept trying to make it sexual.

Then his old lady tried to play me waved her hands up in my face,

Yo I told her check your man cause bitch you acting out of place.

[CHORUS:]

(M) to the (A) to the (S) to the (K),

put the mask up on the face just to make the next day.

Brothers be gaming, Ladies be claiming.

I walk the streets and camouflage my identity.

My posse Uptown wear the mask.

My crew in the Queens wear the mask.

Stick up kids with the Tommy Hil wear the mask.

Yeah everbody wear the mask but how long will it last.

[PRAZ:]

3a.m. in th morning on the Boulevard,

I'm still at large engaged with my entourage,

me and Godfather and a 67 Dodge.

I stepped out the note to post up my guard

searching for my car that was stolen from Scotland Yard.

My first instinct was to check the chop shop garage.

As I rung the bell someone tapped me on my back,

I turned around to look it was a rookie in a mask.

He said, "I got a itchin' on my trigger,


Don't move nigga I'm taking you for murder."

See cops got two faces like two laces on my Reeboks.

My knees knock as I step back for a claear shot,

Well did you shoot him? Naw kid I didn't have the balls,

That's when I realized I'm pumpin'too much Biggie Smalls.

[CHORUS:]

(M) to the (A) to the (S) to the (K),

put the mask up on the face just to make the next day.

Brothers be gaming, Ladies be claiming.

I walk the streets and camouflage my identity.

My posse Uptown wear the mask.

My crew in the Queens wear the mask.

Stick up kids with the Tommy Hil wear the mask.

Yeah everbody wear the mask but how long will it last.

"Cowboys"

This is the Fugees, Outsiders up in here:

[(CHORUS) CLEF:]

Everyone wants to be a cowboy

Grab your guns boy

Forty-five by my side,

No the n***er dies.

[PACE1:]
Zen, zen zen zen zen zen zen

You shot your bullet, but the bullet when ****

Desperado, do work for new boy

I pull out my gun and plug two like Trugoy

[WYCLEF:]

Wyclef

[PACE1:] [PACE 1]

[WYCLEF:]

Yo this was how the West was won,

[PACE1:]

Our motto, a true Desperado.

[WYCLEF:]

Rappers want to be actors

So they play the Jesse James Character

[PACE1:]

And get they bones fractured.

[PACE1:]

You ain't got no guns, you off to the precinct

Inside tuff guys are feminine like Sheena Easton

[WYCLEF:]

Woman cry, woman cry, Son still dies

Thrown off the building like the Fall guy


Caved in the grave cause you didn't know how to behave

Playin' cowboy now you sleep with the slaves

[PACE1:]

Who's the desperado, sellin' bottles in the alley

On some villain shit, wearin' a mask like Jim Carrey

With his gat cocked, stinkin' up the crack spot

Pace 1 dies with both eyes on the jackpot

[WYCLEF:]

The town that I'm from beggars eat cat chowder

Sundance Kid is the everyday purse snatcher

If you see him coming, you better start running

Like a terrorist I guarantee you he'll be humming.

PACE1: Dynamite, dynamite, Clef I got the cash

[WYCLEF:]

Yo let's skip town like Harlem nights.

[LAURYN:]

We make moves in stage coaches

Rah Digga likes the roaches

If anyone approaches

We be like noches, buenos

And I compose a poem for the many gun-slingers

R & B singers, perpetrating guns with two fingers.

[RAH DIGGA:]

My style is perhaps one of the foulest

I inhale large clouds of smoke through my chalice.

(Buckin' at stars) and write rhymes for hours


The ghetto missy, drinkin' whiskey sours.

[LAURYN:]

Bust this scenario, can't no other n***ers in the barrio

(From Newark to Ontario), bust us when we in stereo.

Cause me and Rashida rock the battles

It's apparent, you're no talent, cause your blazin' in your saddle.

[RAH DIGGA:]

Watch these rap b***hes get all up in your pockets

Then bounce with accountants that give me good stock tips

Cause props is up, Digga's through the roof

Burnin' n***ers like I'm 90 proof.

[LAURYN:]

And for all you head beaters

The lead eaters, the cheaters soon to be retreaters

While mamasitas carry real heaters.

[RAH DIGGA:]

I rock the Dooby and

L rocks the Nubian twists

96

Muthaf***as gettin' dissed

[CLEF: (Chorus)]

Everyone wants to be a cowboy

Grab your guns boy

Forty-five by my side,

No the n***er dies.


[Young Zee:]

Yeah, when the OUT's hooked up with the Refugees

It be more n***as than the NAACP

Comin' up on weed of all type

Smokin' home-grown out tobacco pipes.

[PRAZ:]

(You've got to know when to hold them,

Know when to fold them)

I can take the sunshine, piss in your wine

Steal your concubine, walk away with your goldmine.

Young Zee: So ooh aaah achiga, Mamase Mamasa Mamakusa

[PRAZ:]

F*** the sheriff, I shot John Wayne

Push him off the runaway train in the movie Shane

Yeah me and that kid, um "What's his name?"

[Young Zee:]

That would be me, Young Zee from No Brain

Smokin' pure from the health fodd store,

While my whore slaps cops like Zsa Zsa Gabor

F**k with OUT's it's like those Islam brothers,

We march through your hood with a million muthaf***as.

So let's get high off the Fu-Gee-La

When the east is in the house, like I'm Blahzay-blah

[FORTE:]

When pandemonium strikes, at midnight

Full moon splits soft niggas in a lunatic

On some absurd s**t


You talk back, hustlin' crack don't make you bigger

N***as who take your measurements quick, don't make it quicker.

Stick and slide with vigor

City streets hot like liquor

21 gun salutin, shootin' niggas from the roof and

Got nerve to mouth about it and the weight you claim you movin'

Your whole style is loose and we gon' sew it like it's cotton.

You fail to recognize that everybody could get gotten

the bounty on your head, says your dead by manana

Pop babies whisperin' that there's a body dropped, behind the lot

Police blew up the spot and locked the whole block

Medina is the east side of town lounge never till we yawnin'

Gun players regular front page is the bonus

Life will keep existing while I'm s***tin' on the corners

Life will keep existing while I'm s***tin' on the corners

[CHORUS: (Clef)]

Everyone wants to be a cowboy

Grab your guns boy

Forty-five by my side,

No the n***er dies.

"No Woman, No Cry"

[CLEF:]

A dedication to all the refugees worldwide

One time say, say, say


I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Brooklyn.

Observing the crookedness as it mingled with the good people we meet.

Good friends we had,

Good friends we've lost along the way.

In this great future you can't forget your past,

So dry your tears I say

And to my peeps who passed

Away,

No woman, no cry, no woman no cry, say say say.

Hey little sister don't shed no tears

No woman no cry say say say.

I remember when we used to rock in a project yard in Jersey,

And little Georgie would make the firelight,

As stolen cars passed through the night

And then we'd hit the corner store for Roots, paper, and brew.

My drink's my only remedy

For pain of losing family, but while I'm gone Shorty,

Everything's gonna be alright, everything's gonna be alright,

Fugees come to the dance tonight, everything's gonna be alright,

O everything's gonna be alright,

The gun man's in the house tonight,

But everything's gonna be alright.

[CHORUS: Oh ah oh ah (7 times)]

[CLEF:]

No woman no cry, no woman no cry.

Hey, little sister, don't shed no tears

no woman no cry say say say.

I remember when we used to sit in a government yard in Trenchtown.


The hypocrites as they mingled with the good people we meet.

Good friends we had Oh good friends we've lost

Along the way hey.

In this great future,

You can't forget your past so dry your tears I say

And no woman no cry. No woman no cry say say say.

Hey, little sister, don't shed no tears

No woman no cry and to my peeps who passed away

[CHORUS: Oh ah oh ah (5 times)]

"Manifest"

[CLEF:]

I woke up this morning

I was feeling kind of high

It was me, Jesus Christ and Haile Selassie

Selassie said greetings in the name of the most high,

Jah Rhastafari,

Christ, took a sip of the Amaretto,

Passed it down the table said today I'll be betrayed by one you 12 disciples

Give me a clue who could do this to you?

The kid on the block who makes less money than you.

Crooked cops pulled up, they offered him 20 pieces of silver

All he got to do is deliver the savior

Right on Bergen St. from bad luck to good luck

My cup runneth over, pass it down, guzzle up

The time has arrived, the prophecy will manifest


I saw death, I got scared, butterflies on my chest

Father if possible, pass this cup before me,

But it's too late I chose my destiny in Gethsemane.

[LAURYN:]

You see I loved hard once, but the love wasn't returned

I found out the man I'd die for, he wasn't even concerned

And time it turned,

He tried to burn me like a perm

Though my eyes saw the deception, My heart wouldn't let me learn

From um, some, dumb woman, was I,

And everytime he'd lie, he would cry and inside I'd die.

My heart must have died a thousand deaths

Compared myself to Toni Braxton thought I'd never catch my breath

Nothing left, he stole the heart beating from my chest

I tried to call the cops, that type of thief you can't arrest

Pain suppressed, will lead to cardiac arrest

Diamonds deserve diamonds, but he convinced me I was worth less

when my peoples would protest,

I told them mind their business, cause my s*** was complex

More than just the sex

I was blessed, but couldn't feel it like when I was caressed

I'd spend nights clutching my breasts overwhelmed by God's test

I was God's best contemplating death with a Gillette

But no man is ever worth the paradise MANIFEST

[PRAZ:]

Gun-clap Shell cap,

Got them crawling on they back

Come through with the Fu

They be who the F**k is that


It's unpredictable, when my tongue performs like Jujitsu

Cut you with my lyrics, stab you with my pencil

Lethal injection, witness protection

Refugee camp's under investigation

Gunshot bursts in all directions

For the wack MC's we read your revelations

Discharge through your pores

Get raw and kill Boors

I can Capleton when I'm on a Tour

Some manifest, with slugs in they chest

God bless all the Cowboys in the Wild Wild West

"Mista Mista"

Mista mista

Can I get five dollars

So I can get something to eat

Hell no motherfucka

You can't get no money from me

Cause everytime I give you a dollar

You go get shot up with more and more needles

And you tell me that you're drug free

Drug free

Mista mista

I haven't ate anything for a week

Can I get a quarter?

Hell no motherfucka
What can a quarter get you?

Nothing motherfucka

You are just fucked up

Off them fucked up drugs

You know you need to leave alone

But you keep telling me that you're drug free

Motherfucka

You ain't drug free, you're a fiend

And everytime I try to help you

You pretend as if it's okay

Then later on in the week

You go back to shootin' needles, to sniffin'

Oh mf, but you told me you were drug free

Drug free

You ain't drug free motherfucka

So you damn well, can't get no motherfuckin money


Fugees

"Blame It On The Sun"

Refugees up in here

Booga Basement style

On a John Fields show

Giving you a little reggae, a little R&B, a little hip hop

Stevie Wonder style

You know how we do

Buss it

Where has my love gone?

How can I go on?

Is peace not here for me to see?

(I'll be gone to November, I'll be gone to November)

Where is my spirit?

See I'm nowhere near it

It seems dear love is gone away

So I blame it on the sun, the sun that didn't shine.

I blame it on the wind and the trees.

I blame it on the nights I never was in love.

I blame it on the times that could not be.

But my heart blames it on me.

Yeah Imma tell you a little story Pras.

It went like this,

Buss it,
You see I loved hard once

But the love wasn't returned

I found out the man i died for he wasn't even concerned

In time he turned he tried to burn me like a perm

But my eyes saw the deception my heart wouldn't let me learn from um

Some dumb woman was I and every time he lied he would cry and inside I'd die

My heart must've died a thousand deaths

Compared myself to Toni Braxton thought I'd never catch my breath

Nothing left, he stole the heart beating from my chest

I tried to call the cops that type of heat they can't arrest

Pain suppressed will lead to cardic arrest

Diamonds deserved, diamonds but he convinced me I was worthless

Buss it,

Wish I could tell you what I am feeling

But words won't come for me to see

(What I want to know is)

Who poured the love out?

What made this bitter doubt?

Is peace not here for me to see?

So I blame it on the sun, the sun that didn't shine

I blame it on the wind and the trees.

I blame it on the days that ended once too soon

I blame it on the nights that could not be

But my heart blames it on me

(Buss it)

But my heart blames it on me

But my heart blames it on me

Blames it on me, on me, on me


Who poured the love out?

What made this bitter doubt?

who poured the love out?

Yo yo see cool it down, mc's should slow it down

Ohh, watch out

Before they lose control

Yo yo see cool it down, mc's should slow it down

Ohh, watch out

Fugees is on a roll

We just looking for the love today

Where's the love at?

All the peace mc's settle the violence

Play more music, make more phat beats

Leave all the violence some place else

Where is the love

Say where is the love

Where is the love

Where is the love

Where is the love [x2]


Fugees

"Take It Easy"

[Lauryn:]

Brethren dont cut me when I'm going.

I dont hear myself.

We bout to drop, drop drop drop.

You can bring the beat up a little bit in the headphones.

Bring the beat up a little bit.

We bout to drop.

We bout to drop, drop, drop, drop.

[L-Boogie:]

I got moxy, I'm so d**n foxy

Industry try to block me like cops and paparazzi

Full stop, Don't copy, Just cop me properly

Everybody same policy, universal equality

Responsibility, polity, to survive economically

Some people do it comically, Fruits of freedom, equality

Invest your money properly, people own me apology

Intellectual property, stealing stolen commodity

Souls searching or controlling and robbery, Cold lack of comradere

Clones, Copy-cats bother me, Mine, Own, Blind cats, follow me

Honesty, honesty, honestly, all these jokes are common-league

Puppets with no autonomy

Yup Its Fugees Entirely

[Chorus]

I see you looking but you better take it easy

Tell your crew I said tell em take it easy


Here's come the rocket launcher, you better take it easy, take it easy, take it easy

[Lauryn:]

too sleazy

Too much ex mami, take it easy

Good with the sex mami, you'll be like, take it easy

Ay papi, better take it easy, take is easy, take it easy

[Clef:]

You movin bricks but you better take it easy

Here's a tip, you're too flashy

I don't tip twice, but you best friend he DT

And that dog sniffin in the back ain't Lassie

And I ain't rhymed in a minute, but ya'll ain't catch up

And that ain't blood on your shirt, man that's ketchup (That's ketchup)

Picture Clef getting a writer to give him help

I'd rather kill myself become a ghost and write for myself (OH MY GOD!!)(***see C)

Cuss I'm the top celebrity, top celebrity, top celebrity, MC (Bing!)

I flow for the thugs, gypsies, and hippies (Bing!)

A ghetto maestro with a Nat Turner flow (Bing!)

Malcolm X come out, hit the Klu Kulx Show (SHOOWOOWOO)

[Chorus]

I see you looking but you better take it easy

Tell your goons that they better take it easy

Here's come the rocket launcher, take it easy, take it easy, you better take it easy

[Lauryn:] too sleazy

Too much ex mami, take it easy

Good with the sex you'll be like take it easy

Ay papi, mami take it easy, take is easy, you better take it easy
[L-Boogie:]

Don't you know

originals get plagerized, majors minors, must supervise

Haters, Climbers get scrutinized, Placaters, Blind and stupid guys

Wicked people choose homicide, Dregs of society heathen dem

Beggars, bogus misleading dem, Nigra, Negro, Negrito dem

Angelitos con libre dem, Chico's, Chica's completing them

Addiction, fiction, bleeding them, capitalism eating them,

Misunderstanding cheatin them, The ignorance defeating them

True loyalty is leaving them, got royalty believing them

Eyes open deceiving them, Reconciling, Receiving them

Reckless driving and grieving them, Matthew Andrew and Peter them

(Slow down)

We bout to reconcile [repeat]

We bout to reconcile (reconcile)

We bout to reconcile (recon, recon, reconcile)

We bout to reconcile, (tell em to give off my style) (Slow Down)

We bout to reconcile (reconcile like Public Enemy)

We bout to reconcile (Slow Down) (reconciliation) (tell em to get off my style)

We bout to reconcile (running with my crew again)

We bout to reconcile (Slow Down) (tell them to get my off style) [repeat]

[Pras:]

Stop the track, what ya'll thought I wasn't coming

been in the L.A., few flicks, few millions

back with the Fugees, foo-fighting for a few billions

dub plate dealing, sound boy killin

anything we do, we want that cap for me realin?

Angelo, Simone, Michelle, you know them willin,

Can't fight the feelin, when I pull in the SFR,

every girl love's a ghetto superstar (that's Pras baby)


Run hip hop like pin stripe Lees and

I got love for my crew like Big had for Cease (C's)

Pull and sqeeze on these MC's,

I don't really wanna do it, take it easy

I see you looking but you better take it easy

Tell your goons that they better take it easy

Here's come the rocket launcher, take it easy,

take it easy, you better take it easy

[Lauryn:]

too sleazy

Too much ex mami, take it easy

Good with the sex you'll be like take it easy

Ay papi, mami take it easy, take is easy, you better take it easy

We got L-Boogie in the house

[Lauryn:]

what

Prazwell in the house,

Clef,

Jerry Wonder, yeah

Big Ro (Rohan) I see you in the back

Let's get this thing started

Let's stay focused, focused, focused, focused

Oh, If you don't know what's goin on man

The Fugees back on the street, serious thing right now

You scared yet, ah pack your dibby dibby dub box


The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill
(1998)

"Lost Ones"

It's funny how money change a situation

Miscommunication leads to complication

My emancipation don't fit your equation

I was on the humble, you - on every station

Some wan' play young Lauryn like she dumb

But remember not a game new under the sun

Everything you did has already been done

I know all the tricks from Bricks to Kingston

My ting done made your kingdom wan' run

Now understand L. Boogie's non violent

But if a thing test me, run for mi gun

Can't take a threat to mi newborn son

L's been this way since creation

A groupie call, you fall from temptation

Now you wanna ball over separation

Tarnish my image in your conversation

Who you gon' scrimmage, like you the champion

You might win some but you just lost one

You might win some but you just lost one

You might win some but you just lost one

You might win some but you just lost one

You might win some but you just lost one


Now, now how come your talk turn cold

Gained the whole world for the price of your soul

Tryin' to grab hold of what you can't control

Now you're all floss, what a sight to behold

Wisdom is better than silver and gold

I was hopeless now I'm on Hope road

Every man want to act like he's exempt

When him need to get down on his knees and repent

Can't slick talk on the day of judgement

Your movement's similar to a serpent

Tried to play straight, how your whole style bent?

Consequence is no coincidence

Hypocrites always want to play innocent

Always want to take it to the full out extent

Always want to make it seem like good intent

Never want to face it when it's time for punishment

I know that you don't wanna hear my opinion

But there come many paths and you must choose one

And if you don't change then the rain soon come

See you might win some but you just lost one

You might win some but you just lost one

You might win some but you just lost one

You might win some but you just lost one

You might win some but you just lost one

You might win some but you really lost one

You just lost one, it's so silly how come

When it's all done did you really gain from

What you done done, it's so silly how come


You just lost one

Now don't you understand man universal law

What you throw out comes back to you, star

Never underestimate those who you scar

Cause karma, karma, karma comes back to you hard

You can't hold God's people back that long

The chain of Shatan wasn't made that strong

Trying to pretend like your word is your bond

But until you do right, all you do will go wrong

Now some might mistake this for just a simple song

And some don't know what they have 'til it's gone

Now even when you're gone you can still be reborn

And, from the night can arrive the sweet dawn

Now, some might listen and some might shun

And some may think that they've reached perfection

If you look closely you'll see what you've become

Cause you might win some but you just lost one

You might win some but you just lost one

You might win some but you just lost one

You might win some but you just lost one

You might win some but you just lost one

You might win some but you really lost one

You just lost one, it's so silly how come

When it's all done did you really gain from

What you done done, it so silly how come

[repeat to end]
"Ex-Factor"

It could all be so simple

But you'd rather make it hard

Loving you is like a battle

And we both end up with scars

Tell me, who I have to be

To get some reciprocity

No one loves you more than me

And no one ever will

Is this just a silly game

That forces you to act this way

Forces you to scream my name

Then pretend that you can't stay

Tell me, who I have to be

To get some reciprocity

No one loves you more than me

And no one ever will

[Hook:]

No matter how I think we grow

You always seem to let me know

It ain't workin'

It ain't workin'

And when I try to walk away

You'd hurt yourself to make me stay

This is crazy

This is crazy
I keep letting you back in

How can I explain myself

As painful as this thing has been

I just can't be with no one else

See I know what we got to do

You let go and I'll let go too

'Cause no one's hurt me more than you

And no one ever will

[Repeat Hook]

Care for me, care for me

I know you care for me

There for me, there for me

Said you'd be there for me

Cry for me, cry for me

You said you'd die for me

Give to me, give to me

Why won't you live for me

[Repeat]
"To Zion"

[Talking]

One day you'll understand

Zion!

Unsure of what the balance held

I touched my belly overwhelmed

By what I had been chosen to perform

But then an angel came one day

Told me to kneel down and pray

For unto me a man child would be born

Woe this crazy circumstance

I knew his life deserved a chance

But everybody told me to be smart

Look at your career they said,

"Lauryn, baby, use your head."

But instead I chose to use my heart

Now the joy of my world is in Zion

Now the joy of my world is in Zion

How beautiful if nothing more

Than to wait at Zion's door

I've never been in love like this before

Now let me pray to keep you from

The perils that will surely come

See life for you my prince has just begun

And I thank you for choosing me

To come through unto life to be

A beautiful reflection of his grace


See I know that a gift so great

Is only one God could create

And I'm reminded every time I see your face

That the joy of my world is in Zion

Now the joy of my world is in Zion

Now the joy of my world is in Zion

Now the joy of my world is in Zion

Marching, marching, marching to Zion

Marching, marching

Marching, marching, marching to Zion

Beautiful, beautiful Zion

[repeat to end of song]

"Doo Wop (That Thing)"

It's been three weeks since you've been looking for your friend

The one you let hit it and never called you again

'Member when he told you he was 'bout the Benjamins

You act like you ain't hear him then gave him a little trim

To begin, how you think you really gon' pretend

Like you wasn't down then you called him again

Plus when you give it up so easy you ain't even fooling him

If you did it then, then you probably f*** again

Talking out your neck sayin' you're a Christian


A Muslim sleeping with the gin

Now that was the sin that did Jezebel in

Who you gon' tell when the repercussions spin

Showing off your ass 'cause you're thinking it's a trend

Girlfriend, let me break it down for you again

You know I only say it 'cause I'm truly genuine

Don't be a hardrock when you're really a gem

Babygirl, respect is just a minimum

Niggas f***ed up and you still defending them

Now Lauryn is only human

Don't think I haven't been through the same predicament

Let it sit inside your head like a million women in Philly, Penn.

It's silly when girls sell their soul because it's in

Look at where you be in hair weaves like Europeans

Fake nails done by Koreans

Come again

Come again, come again, come again, come again

Guys you know you better watch out

Some girls, some girls are only about

That thing, that thing, that thing

The second verse is dedicated to the men

More concerned with his rims and his Timbs than his women

Him and his men come in the club like hooligans

Don't care who they offend popping yang like you got yen

Let's not pretend, they wanna pack pistol by they waist men

Cristal by the case men, still in they mother's basement

The pretty face, men claiming that they did a bid men

Need to take care of their three and four kids men

They facing a court case when the child's support late


Money taking, heart breaking now you wonder why women hate men

The sneaky silent men the punk domestic violence men

The quick to shoot the s***n stop acting like boys and be men

How you gon' win when you ain't right within

How you gon' win when you ain't right within

How you gon' win when you ain't right within

Come again

Come again, come again, come again, come again

Girls you know you better watch out

Some guys, some guys are only about

That thing, that thing, that thing

"Superstar"

Come on baby, light my fire

Everything you drop is so tired

Music is supposed to inspire

How come we ain't getting no higher?

Now tell me your philosophy

On exactly what an artist should be

Should they be someone with prosperity

And no concept of reality?

Now, who you know without any flaws

That lives above the spiritual laws


And does anything they feel just because

There's always someone there who'll applaud

Come on baby, light my fire

Everything you drop is so tired

Music is supposed to inspire

How come we ain't getting no higher?

I know you think that you've got it all

And by making other people feel small

Makes you think you're unable to fall

And when you do, who you gonna call?

See, what you give is just what you get

I know it hasn't hit you yet

Now I don't mean to get you upset

But every cause has an effect

Come on baby, light my fire

Everything you drop is so tired

Music is supposed to inspire

So, how come we're not getting no higher?

I cross sands in distant lands, made plans with the sheiks

Why you beef with freaks as my album sales peak?

All I wanted was to sell like 500

And be a ghetto superstar since my first album, Blunted

I used to work at Foot Locker, they fired me and fronted

Or I quitted, now I spit it - however do you want it?

Now you get it!

Writing rhymes my range with the frames slightly tinted

Then send it to your block and have my full name cemented

And if your rhymes sound like mine, I'm taking a percentage

Unprecedented and still respected when it vintage


I'm serious, I'm taking over areas in Aquarius

Running red lights with my 10,000 chariots

Just as Christ was a superstar, you stupid star

They'll hail you then they'll nail you, no matter who you are

They'll make you now then take you down

And make you face it, if you slit the bag open

and put your pinky in it, then taste it

Come on baby, light my fire

Everything you drop is so tired

Music is supposed to inspire

So, how come we ain't getting no higher

[repeat to end]

"Final Hour"

I treat this like my thesis

Well written topic

Broken down into pieces

I introduce then produce

Words so profuse

It's abuse how I juice up this beat

Like I'm deuce

Two people both equal

Like I'm Gemini

Rather simeon
If I Jimmy on this lock I could pop it

You can't stop it

Drop it

Your whole crew's microscopic

Like particles while I make international articles

And on the cover

Don't discuss the baby mother business

I been in this third LP you can't tell me, I witness

First handed I'm candid

You can't stand it

Respect demanded

And get flown around the planet

Rock Hard like granite or steel

People feel Lauryn Hill from New-Ark to Israel

And this is real

So I keep makin' the street's ballads

While you lookin' for dressin' to go with your tossed salad

You could get the money

You could get the power

But keep your eyes on the final hour

Now I be breakin' bread sippin Manichevitz wine

Pay no mind party like it's 1999

But when it comes down to ground beef like Palestine

Say your rhymes, let's see if that get you out your bend

Now I'm a get the mozzarella like a Rockerfeller

Still be in the church of Lalibela

Singing hymns a cappella

Whether posed in Maribella in Couture

Or collectin' residuals from off the Score

I'm makin' sure

I'm with the 144


I've been here before this ain't a battle this is war

Word to Boonie

I makes a lot like a Sunni

Get diplomatic immunity in every ghetto community

Had opportunity went from

Hoodshock to Hood-chic

But it ain't what you cop

It's about what you keep

And even if there are leaks

you can't capsize this ship

Cause I baptize my lips every time I take a sip

You could get the money

You could get the power

But keep your eyes on the final hour

I'm about to change the focus

From the richest to the brokest

I wrote this opus

To reverse the hypnosis

Whoever's closest

To the line's gonna win it

You gonna fall tryin to ball

While my team win the pennant

I'm about to be in it

For a minute

Then run for senate

Make a slum lord be the tenant

Give his money to kids to spend it

And then amend it

Every law that ever prevented

Our survival since our arrival

Documented in the bible


Like Moses and Aaron

Things gon change, it's apparent

And all the transparent gonna

Be seen through

Let God redeem you

Keep your deen true

Watch out what you cling to

You can get the green too

Observe how a queen do

And I remain calm readin' the 73 Psalm

Cause wit all this on I got the world in palm

You could get the money

You could get the power

But keep your eyes on the final hour

"When It Hurts So Bad"

When it hurts so bad, when it hurts so bad

Why's it feel so good?

When it hurts so bad, when it hurts so bad

Why's it feel so good?

I loved real, real hard once

But the love wasn't returned

Found out the man I'd die for

He wasn't even concerned

I tried, and I tried, and I tried


To keep him in my life

I cried, and I cried, and I cried

But I couldn't make it right

But I, I loved the young man

And if you've ever been in love,

Then you'd understand

What you want might make you cry

What you need might pass you by

If you don't catch it,

If you don't catch it,

And what you need ironically

Will turn out what you want to be

If you just let it,

If you just let it

See, I thought this feeling

It was all that I had

But how could this be love

And make me feel so bad?

Gave up my power,

I existed for you

But whoever knew the voodoo you'd do?

But I, I loved the young man

And if you've ever been in love you'd understand

What you want might make you cry

What you need might pass you by

If you don't catch it

And what you need ironically

Will turn out what you want to be

If you just let it,


What you want might make you cry

What you need might pass you by

If you don't catch it

And what you need ironically

Will turn out what you want to be

If you just let it,

If you just let it

When it hurts so bad, when it hurts so bad

Why's it feel so good?

When it hurts so bad, when it hurts so bad

When it hurts so bad, when it hurts so bad

Why's it feel so good?

When it hurts so bad, when it hurts so bad

When it hurts so bad, when it hurts so bad

When it hurts so bad, when it hurts so bad

When it hurts so bad, when it hurts so bad

"I Used To Love Him"

As I look at what I've done

The type of life that I've lived

How many things I pray the father will forgive

One situation involved a young man

He was the ocean and I was the sand

He stole my heart like a thief in the night


Dulled my senses blurred my sight

I used to love him but now I don't

I used to love him but now I don't

I chose a road of passion and pain

Sacrificed too much and waited in vain

Gave up my power ceased being queen

Addicted to love like the drug of a fiend

Torn and confused wasted and used

Reached the crossroad which path would I choose

Stuck and frustrated I waited, debated

For something to happen that just wasn't fated

Thought what I wanted was something I needed

When momma said no I just should have heeded

Misled I bled till the poison was gone

And out of the darkness arrived the sweet dawn

I used to love him but now I don't

I used to love him but now I don't

Father you saved me and showed me that life

Was much more than being some foolish man's wife

Showed me that love was respect and devotion

Greater than planets deeper than oceans

My soul was weary but now it's replenished

Content because that part of my life is finished

I see him sometimes and the look in his eye

Is one of a man who's lost treasures untold


But my heart is gold I took back my soul

And totally let my creator control

The life which was his to begin with

I used to love him but now I don't

[Repeat to end]

"Forgive Them Father"

Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those that trespass against us

Although them again we will never, never, never trust

Dem noh know weh dem do, dig out yuh yei while dem sticking like glue,

Fling, skin, grin while dem plotting fah you,

True, Ah Who???

Forgive them father for they know not what they do

Forgive them father for they know not what they do

Beware the false motives of others

Be careful of those who pretend to be brothers

And you never suppose it's those who are closest to you, to you

They say all the right things to gain their position

Then use your kindness as their ammunition

To shoot you down in the name of ambition, they do

Forgive them father for they know not what they do


Forgive them father for they know not what they do

Why every Indian wanna be the chief?

Feed a man 'til he's full and he still want beef

Give me grief, try to tief off my piece

Why for you to increase, I must decrease?

If I treat you kindly does it mean that I'm weak?

You hear me speak and think I won't take it to the streets

I know enough cats that don't turn the other cheek

But I try to keep it civilized like Menelik

And other African czars observing stars with war scars

Get yours in this capitalistic system

So many caught or got bought you can't list them

How you gonna idolize the missing?

To survive is to stay alive in the face of opposition

Even when they comin' gunnin'

I stand position

L's known the mission since conception

Let's free the people from deception

If you looking for the answers

Then you gotta ask the questions

And when I let go, my voice echoes through the ghetto

Sick of men trying to pull strings like Geppetto

Why black people always be the ones to settle

March through these streets like Soweto

Like Cain and Abel, Caesar and Brutus, Jesus and Judas,

Backstabbers do this

Forgive them father for they know not what they do

Forgive them father for they know not what they do


It took me a little while to discover

Wolves in sheep coats who pretend to be lovers

Men who lack conscience will even lie to themselves, to themselves

A friend once said, and I found to be true

That everyday people, they lie to God too

So what makes you think, that they won't lie to you

Forgive them father for they know not what they do

Forgive them, forgive them

Forgive them father for they know not what they do

Forgive them, forgive them

Gwan like dem love while dem rip yuh to shreds,

Trample pon yuh heart and lef yuh fi dead,

Dem a yuh fren who yuh depen pon from way back when,

But if yuh gi dem yuh back den yuh mus meet yuh end,

Dem noh know wey dem do,

Dem no know, dem no know, dem no know,

Dem no know, dem no know wey dem do

"Every Ghetto, Every City"

I was just a little girl

Skinny legs, a press and curl

My mother always thought I'd be a star


But way before my record deal,

The streets that nurtured Lauryn Hill

Made sure that I'd never go too far

Every ghetto, every city and suburban place I've been

Make me recall my days in the New Jerusalem

Story starts at Hootaville grew up next to Ivy Hill

When kids were stealing quartervilles for fun

"Kill the guy" in Carter park

Rode a Mongoose 'til it's dark

Watching kids show off the stolen ones

Every ghetto, every city and suburban place I've been

Make me recall my days in New Jerusalem

You know it's hot, don't forget what you've got

Looking back,

Looking back, looking back, looking back

You know it's hot, don't forget what you've got

Looking back

Thinking back, thinking back, thinking back

A bag of Bontons, twenty cents and a nickel

Springfield Ave. had the best popsicles

Saturday morning cartoons and Kung-Fu

Main street roots tonic with the dreds

A beef patty and some coco bread

Move the patch from my Lees to the tongue of my shoe

'Member Frelng-Huysen used to have the bomb leather

Back when Doug Fresh and Slick Rick were together

Looking at the crew, we thought we'd all live forever

You know it's hot, don't forget what you've got


Looking back

Thinking back, thinking back, thinking back

You know it's hot, don't forget what you've got

Looking back

Thinking back, thinking back, thinking back

Drill teams on Munn street

Remember when Hawthorne and Chancellor had beef

Moving Records was on Central Ave.

I was there at dancing school

South Orange Ave. at Borlin pool

Unaware of what we didn't have

Writing your friends' names on your jeans with a marker

July 4th races off of Parker

Fireworks at Martin stadium

The Untouchable P.S.P., where all them crazy niggers be

And car thieves got away through Irvington

Hillside brings beef with the cops

Self-Destruction record drops

And everybody's name was Muslim

Sensations and '88 attracted kids from out-of-state

And everybody used to do the wop

Jack, Jack, Jack ya body

Nah, the Biz Mark used to amp up the party

I wish those days, they didn't stop

Every ghetto, every city and suburban place I've been

Make me recall my days in New Jerusalem

You know it's hot, don't forget what you've got

Looking back
Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back

You know it's hot, don't forget what you've got

Looking back

Thinking back, thinking back, thinking back

Thinking back, thinking back, thinking back

[To end]

"Nothing Even Matters"

Now the skies could fall

Not even if my boss should call

The world it seems so very small

'Cause nothing even matters at all

Nothing even matters

Nothing even matters at all

Nothing even matters

Nothing even matters at all

See I don't need no alcohol

Your love makes me feel ten feet tall

Without it I'd go through withdrawal

'Cause nothing even matters at all

Nothing even matters

Nothing even matters at all


Nothing even matters

Nothing even matters at all

These buildings could drift out to sea

Some natural catastrophe

Still there's no place I'd rather be

'Cause nothing even matters to me

Nothing even matters

Nothing even matters to me

Nothing even matters

Nothing even matters to me

You're part of my identity

I sometimes have the tendency

To look at you religiously

'Cause nothing even matters to me

Nothing even matters

Nothing even matters to me

Nothing even matters

Nothing even matters to me

Now you won't find me at no store

I have no time for manicures

With you it's never either or

'Cause nothing even matters no more

Nothing even matters

Nothing even matters no more

Nothing even matters


Nothing even matters no more

Now my team could score

And make it to the Final Four

Just repossess my 4x4

'Cause nothing even matters no more

Nothing even matters

Nothing even matters no more

Nothing even matters

Nothing even matters no more

"Everything Is Everything"

Everything is everything

What is meant to be, will be

After winter, must come spring

Change, it comes eventually

[2x]

I wrote these words for everyone

Who struggles in their youth

Who won't accept deception

Instead of what is truth

It seems we lose the game,

Before we even start to play

Who made these rules? We're so confused


Easily led astray

Let me tell ya that

Everything is everything

Everything is everything

After winter, must come spring

Everything is everything

I philosophy

Possibly speak tongues

Beat drum, Abyssinian, street Baptist

Rap this in fine linen

From the beginning

My practice extending across the atlas

I begat this

Flippin' in the ghetto on a dirty mattress

You can't match this rapper / actress

More powerful than two Cleopatras

Bomb graffiti on the tomb of Nefertiti

MCs ain't ready to take it to the Serengeti

My rhymes is heavy like the mind of Sister Betty

L. Boogie spars with stars and constellations

Then came down for a little conversation

Adjacent to the king, fear no human being

Roll with cherubims to Nassau Coliseum

Now hear this mixture

Where hip hop meets scripture

Develop a negative into a positive picture

Now, everything is everything

What is meant to be, will be

After winter, must come spring


Change, it comes eventually

Sometimes it seems

We'll touch that dream

But things come slow or not at all

And the ones on top, won't make it stop

So convinced that they might fall

Let's love ourselves then we can't fail

To make a better situation

Tomorrow, our seeds will grow

All we need is dedication

Let me tell ya that,

Everything is everything

Everything is everything

After winter, must come spring

Everything is everything

Everything is everything

What is meant to be, will be

After winter, must come spring

Change, it comes eventually


"The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill"

My world it moves so fast today

The past it seems so far away

And life squeezes so tight that I can't breathe

And every time I've tried to be

What someone else thought of me

So caught up, I wasn't able to achieve

But deep in my heart

The answer it was in me

And I made up my mind

To define my own destiny

I look at my environment

And wonder where the fire went

What happened to everything we used to be

I hear so many cry for help

Searching outside of themselves

Now I know that His strength is within me

And deep in my heart

the answer it was in me

And I made up my mind

to define my own destiny

And deep in my heart

the answer it was in me

And I made up my mind

to define my own destiny


"Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You"

You're just too good to be true.

Can't take my eyes off of you.

You'd be like heaven to touch.

I wanna hold you so much.

At long last love has arrived.

And I thank God I'm alive.

You're just too good to be true.

Can't take my eyes off of you.

Pardon the way that I stare.

There's nothing else to compare.

The sight of you leaves me weak.

There are no words left to speak.

But if you feel like I feel.

Please let me know that it's real.

You're just too good to be true.

Can't take my eyes off of you.

I need you baby, if it's quite all right,

I need you baby to warm a lonely night.

I love you baby.

Trust in me when I say, "OK." (it's OK)

Oh pretty baby, "Don't let me down," I pray.

Oh pretty baby, now that I found you, stay.

And let me love you, oh baby let me love you, oh baby...

You're just too good to be true.

Can't take my eyes off of you.

You'd be like heaven to touch.


I wanna hold you so much.

At long last love has arrived.

And I thank God I'm alive.

You're just too good to be true.

Can't take my eyes off of you (I want you, I want you).

I need you baby, and if it's quite all right,

I need you baby to warm a lonely night.

I love you baby.

Trust in me when I say, "It's OK."

Oh pretty baby, "Don't let me down," I pray.

Oh pretty baby, now that I found you, stay.

And let me love you, oh baby let me love you, oh baby....

I need you baby, if it's quite all right,

I love you baby, you warm a lonely night.

I need you baby.

Trust in me when I say, "It's OK."

Oh, oh pretty baby, "Don't let me down," I pray.

Oh, pretty baby, now that I found you, stay.

And let me love you, oh baby let me love you, oh baby....

"Tell Him"

Yo heh heh tell him it's like uhh you know uhh

Sweet sweet tell him


Let me be patient let me be kind

Make me unselfish without being blind

Though I may suffer I'll envy it not

And endure what comes

Cause he's all that I got and

Tell him...

Tell him I need him (yeah)

Tell him I love him (tell him)

And it'll be alright

[Background singing]

Tell him be alright be alright

Tell him tell him I need him

Tell him I love him

It'll be alright

Now I may have faith to make mountains fall

But if I lack love then I am nothin' at all

I can give away everything I possess

But left without love then I have no happiness

I know I'm imperfect (I know I'm imperfect)

And not without sin (and not without sin)

But now that I'm older all childish things end

And tell him...

Tell him I need him (yeah)

Tell him I love him (tell him)

And it'll be alright

[Background singing]

Tell him be alright be alright

Tell him tell him I need him


Tell him I love him

It'll be alright

[Bridge]

I'll never be jealous

And I won't be too proud

Cause love is not boastful

Oooh and love is not loud

Tell him I need him

Tell him I love him

Everything's gonna be alright [w/ ad libs]

Oooh oooh yeah yeah aww yeah

Now I may have wisdom and knowledge on Earth

But if I speak wrong then what is it worth?

See what we now know is nothing compared

To the love that was shown when our lives were spared

And tell him...

Tell him I need him (yeah)

Tell him I love him (tell him)

And it'll be alright

[Background singing]

Tell him be alright be alright

Tell him tell him I need him

Tell him I love him

It'll be alright
MTV Unplugged No. 2.0
(2002)

"Mr. Intentional"

Yeah, yeaaayh, yeah heh, yeah heh, yeah heh...

See the road to hell, is paved with good intentions

Can't you tell, the way they have to mention

How they helped you out, you're such a hopeless victim

Please don't do me any favors, Mr. Intentional

All their talk, is seasoned to perfection

The road they walk, commanding your affection

They need to be needed, deceived by motivation

An opportunity, to further situation

Why they so important, is without explanation

Please don't patrionize me, Mr. Intentional

Oh, ohhh, ohh ohhh

We give rise to ego, by being insecure

The advice that we go, desperatly searching for

The subconscious effort, to support our paramour

To engage in denial, to admit we're immature

Validating lies, Mr. Intentional

Open up yours eyes, Mr. Intentional

Stuck in a system, that seeks to suck your blood

Held emotionally hostage, by what everybody does

Counting all the money, that you give them just because

Exploiting ignorance, in the name of love

Stop before you drop because that's just the way it was
Please don't justify me, Mr. Intentional

Oh undementional, Mr. Intentional

Ohhh, oh don't you do me any favors

Ohhh, ohhhh, ohh ohhhh

Wake up you've been sleeping

Take up your bed and walk

Stop blaming other people

Oh it's nobody else's fault

Except the truth about you

You know that life goes on without you

And your expensive misinventions

Disguising your intentions

Don't worship my hurt feelings, Mr. Intentional

Oh, oh oh oh

See I know you can't help me, Mr. Intentional

The only help I need to live, is unprofessional

The only wealth I have to give, is not material

And if you need much more than that, I'm not available

Please don't entertain me, Mr. Intentional

Oh I dont need your sympthy, Mr. Intentional

Stay away from me, Mr. Intentional

So undementional, Mr. Promotional, Mr. Emotional, Mr. Intentional

Ohhh ohhhh, ohhhh

"Adam Lives In Theory"

Adam lives in theory

Trying to turn stone into bread


Masquerading like he got it figured out

Cut off from the sunshine, only smart in his own head

Leaving his descendants to hope and doubt

Left to his devices, those worth the sacrifices

Praying to the alter of himself

Making pilgrimages, thinking he's religious

Like he's got all the light, and no one else

He takes the unsuspected

Cause he knows they're not connected

And he shows them how to be just as he is

Virtually real, and commercially appealed

To the lust of all the people where he lives

Eve was so naive, blinded by the pride and greed

Wanting to be intellectual

Drifting from the way she got turned down one day

And now she thinks that she's bisexual

Caught up in emotion

Burning up in her devotion

To the king of exploitation in the field

She handed him her virtue

Cause he told her "I won't hurt you"

So she lay with him to see how good it feels

Now can you tell me, what, what we gonna do now

Where we gonna go now, what we gonna say now

Now can you tell me, what, what we gonna do now

Where we gonna go now, what we gonna say now


Now after the sensation, and the empty fornication

She brought affection home into her bed, quickly multiplying

Now the 3 of them are dying by the poison she perceived to be good head

Now Eve and her husband are perverted in their judgment

Cause everything appears to be the same

They entertain suggestion,

Next time just use protection

Desiring to cover up their shame

But much to their demise, poor decision closed their eyes

To the very antidote to their dilemma

Burning in their lust,

Both of them adulterous

Destroying the original agenda

Praying to the sky, in order to maintain a lie

They exhausted every possible conclusion,

They can't even entertain the solution,

In a brain filled with vain information and pollution

Hiding from the truth,

He provided an excuse to explain away his desperate situation

When confronted, blamed his wife

Giving birth to carnal life

Refusing to acknowledge what he done

Now if we can agree with who created us to be

Who says we're guilty everyone before his eyes

Making no exceptions, since the day of our conception

Predisposed to hating truth, and loving lies

Then can you tell me, what, what we gonna do now


Where we gonna go now, what we gonna say now

Then can you tell me, what, what we gonna do now

Where we gonna go now, what we gonna say now

Stop walking in pride, let the thief be crucified

Un-learn everything you know, and let him teach you

Line upon line, precept upon precept, say goodbye,

To this decaying social system

He wants to know, how far we're willing to go

If we love him like we say we do,

He will try us

Just don't regress,

Or slip into hopelessness

Once he's satisfied his love,

He won't deny us,

And then he'll tell us,

What, what we gonna do now

Where we gonna go now, what we gonna say now

And then he'll tell us,

What, what we gonna do now

Where we gonna go now, what we gonna say now


"Oh Jerusalem"

Oh Jerusalem yeah, oh Jerusalem, oh Jerusalem, oh Jerusalem...

Realizing that there's no place else to go

And there's nobody I know who can help me

Text book solutions are so improbable

Cause everybody else is just as empty

Naked as the day that I was born, I tried to hide

...behind education and philosophy

Hopeless explanation to describe a situation

I can't see because the world's on top of me

Oh wretched man that I am, who will deliver me

From the body of this death

Freeing me from dust, and the superficial trust

Of an enemy that seeks to take my breath

Failing to connect, cause I'm morally defect

By reason of the God inside my head

Causing me to see, only what pertains to me

Believing I'm alive when I'm still dead

Limited to earth, unable to find out my worth

Cause I... can't see past my own vanity

If I'm not included, then I just have to remove it

From my mind because it has to be in sanity

Oh wretched man that I am, who will deliver me

From the body of this death

Can I even factor, that I've only been an actor

In this staged interpretation of this day

Focused on the shadow, with my back turned to the light

Too intelligent to see it's me in the way

What a paradox, having God trapped in a box


All this time professing to be spiritual

Naturally pretending, that I'm actually defending

God through my facade don't need material

Oh Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness

That thou may be saved from thy deception

How long, shall thy face those lies within thee

Oh Jerusalem, keeping thee from perfection

Submit to truth, leave the deception of thy youth

So we could walk in the council of authority

Forget the proof, our generation so aloof

Only follow in the steps of the majority

Trust in the Lord, with all thy heart

And lay not to thine, oh an understanding in all thy ways

Acknowledge Him, and He shall correct our paths

Be not wise in thine own eyes and you can follow him

We judge and condemn, just as ignorant as them

Who religion tells us that we should ignore

Perpetrating we're in covenant with Him

Exposed by the very things that we adore

We grin and shake hands, then lay ambush for the man

Who has a different point of view then us

Infuriated cause he doesn't understand

Bringing up those things we don't want to discuss

Why still do evil, we don't know how to do good

Walking on in darkness running from the light, ey

Led to believe, because we live in neighborhoods

Telling us what's going on will be alright

Oh so repressed, so convinced that I was blessed

When I played with my game of Monopoly


Oh to suggest, that my life is still a mess

Who reveal the pride I'm hiding is what's stopping me

Oh Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness

That thou may be saved from thy deception

How long, shall thy face those lies within thee

Oh Jerusalem keeping them from perfection

Abide in me and I in you, as the branch cannot bare

...fruit of itself except in the vine

I am the vine, ye are the branches, He's in live in me

And I in him, the same bring forth much fruit

Without me, you can do nothing

Oh Jerusalem, you're traditions have deceived you

I've chosen you, you haven't chosen me

Do whatsoever, you asking my name he may give to you

But in vain they call my name

teaching doctrines just the same

Justified among themselves

But God know with the heart, what man esteemed as smart

Is an abomination to Emmanuel

Just repent, turn from selfish motivation

So iniquity will not cause your demise

Make you a new heart and a new spirit

...for why would he die

Oh Jerusalem, please tell me why

I have no pleasure in the death of him to die

Says the Lord God where forth turn yourselves and live

It's not the talkers, but the walkers and his word

Are the only ones the Father will forgive


Oh Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness

That thou may be saved from thy deception

How long, shall thy face those lies within thee

Oh Jerusalem, providing you no protection

Oh Jerusalem...

"Freedom Time"

[Singing Chorus]

Everybody knows that they're guilty

Everybody knows that they've lied

Everybody knows that they're guilty

Resting on their conscience eating their inside

It's freedom, said it's freedom time now

It's freedom, said it's freedom time now

Time to get free, oh give us yourselves up now

It's freedom, said it's freedom time

[First and only verse]

Yo, there's a war in the mind, over territory

For the dominion

Who will dominate the opinion

Skisms and isms, keepin' us in forms of religion

Conformin' our vision

To the world churches decision

Trapped in a section
Submitted to committee election

Moral infection

Epidemic lies and deception

Insurrection

Of the highest possible order

Destortin' our tape recorders

From hearin' like under water

Beyond the borders

Fond of sin and disorder

Bound by the strategy

It's systematic depravity

Heavy as gravity

Head first in the cavity

Without a bottom

A faith, worse than Saddam

Once got him

Drunk of the spirits

Truth comes, we can't hear it

When you've been, programmed to fear it

I had a vision

I was fallin' in indecision

Apollin', callin' religion

Some program on television

How can dominant wisdom

Be recognized in the system

Of Anti-Christ, the majority rules

Intelligent fools

PhD's in illusion

Masters of mass confusion

Bacholors in past illusion

Now who you choosin'


The head or the tail

The bloodshed of male

More confidence in the tale

Conference is in Yale

Discussin' doctrines of Baal

Causin' people to fail

Keepin' the third in jail

His word is nale

Everything to the tree

Severing all of me from all that I used to be

Formless and void

Totally paranoid

Enjoy darkness as the Lord

Keepin' me from the sword

Block for mercy

Bitter than purgatory

Hungry and thirsty

For good meat we would eat

And still, dined at the table of deceit

How incomplete

From confrontation to retreat

We prolong the true enemys defeat

Death to the ascendancy

Causin' desperation to get the best of me

Punishment 'til there was nothing left of me

Realizin' the unescapable death of me

No options in the valley of decision

The only doctrine, supernatural circumcision

Inwardly, only water can purge the heart

From words that fiery darts

Thrown by the workers of the arts


Iniquity, shapen in

There're no escapin' when

You're whole philosophy is paper thin

In vanity

The wide road is insanity

Could it be all of humanity

Picture that

Scripture that

The origin of a man's heart is black

How can we show up for

An invisible war

Preoccupied with a shadow, makin' love with a whore

Achin' in sores

Babylon, the great mystery

Mother of human history

System of social sorcery

Our present condition

Needs serious recognition

Where there's no repentance there can be no remission

And that sentence, more serious than Vietnam

The atom bomb is Saddam and Minister Farakkhan

What's goin' on, what's the priority to you

What authority do we do

When the majority hasn't a clue

We majored in curses

Search the chapters, check the verses

Recapture the land

Remove the mark from off of our hands

So we can stand

In agreement with his command

Everything else is damned


Let them what is understand

Everything else is damned, let them with ears understand

[Singing Chorus]

It's freedom, said it's freedom time now

It's freedom, said it's freedom time now

It's freedom, I'ma be who I am

It's freedom time, said it's freedom time

Everybody knows that they've lied

Everybody knows that they've perpetrated inside

Everybody knows that they're guilty, yes

Resting on their conscience eating their insides

Get free, be who you're supposed to be

Freedom, said it's freedom time now

Freedom, said it's freedom time

Freedom, freedom time now

"I Find It Hard To Say (Rebel)"

[Lauryn Hill Talking]

...I've written it about the whole Amadou Diallo situation...

...It was such a hot time in the city at that point, I was afraid that if I

put the record out, people would Misunderstand what I meant by "Rebel" and

they just take it to the streets...


[One and only verse]

Ok, yeah, alright...

I find it hard to say, that everything is alright

Don't look at me that way, like everything is alright

Cuz my own eyes can see, through all your false pretenses

But what you fail to see, is all the consequences

You think our lives are cheap, and easy to be wasted

As history repeats, so foul you can taste it

And while the people sleep, too comfortable to face it

His life so incomplete, and nothing can replace it

And while the people sleep, too comfortable to face it

Your lives so incomplete, and nothing can replace it

Fret not thyself I say, against these laws of man

Cuz like the Bible says, His blood is on their hands

And what I gotta say, and what I gotta say, is rebel

While today is still today, choose well

And what I gotta say, is rebel, it can't go down this way

Choose well, choose well, choose well...

...choose well, choose well, choose well

And while the people sleep, too comfortable to face it

Your lives are so incomplete, and nothing, and no one, can replace it

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

And what I gotta say, and what I gotta say

And what I gotta say, and what I gotta say

And what I gotta say, and what I gotta say

And what I gotta say, and what I gotta say

Is rebel... rebel, rebel, rebel, rebel, rebel, rebel

Rebel, rebel, rebel, rebel, rebel

Repent, the day is far too spent, rebel... rebel!

Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up...
Wake up and rebel

We must destroy in order to rebuild

Wake up, you might as well

Oh are you... oh are you satisfied

Oh are you satisfied

Rebel... ohhh rebel

Why don't you rebel, why don't you rebel?

Why don't you rebel?

I'm fading myself down now...

"Just Like Water"

[Verse 1]

Moving down the streams of my lifetime

Pulls the fascination in my sleeve

Cooling off the fire of my longing

Boiling off my cold within his heat

Melting down the walls of inhibition

Evaporating all of my fears

Baptizing me into complete submission

Dissolving my condition with his tears

[Chorus]

He's just like the water

I ain't felt this way in years

He's just like the water


I ain't felt this way in years

[Verse 2]

Coursing through my senses, he's prevailing

Floating through the space of my design

Drowning me to find my inside sailing

Drinking in the mainstream of his mind

Filling up the cup of my emotions

Spilling over into all I do

If I only I could get lost in his ocean

Surviving on the thought of loving you

[Chorus]

He's just like the water

I ain't felt this way in years

He's just like the water, the water

I ain't felt this way in years

[Verse 3]

Bathing in the fountain of his essence

He causes my expression to remain

Humbled on a mountain by his presence

Washing my intentions with his name

Sealing off the floodgates of his passions

Saving all his liquid for his own

Moisturizing me to satisfaction

In my imagination? No no!

He's pouring out his soul to me for hours and hours

Drawing out my nature with his hands

Yearning I'm so thirsty for his power

Burning to be worthy of his land


[Chorus]

He's just like the water

I ain't felt this way in years

He's just like the water

I ain't felt this way in years

[Ad Libs Remainder]

Cleaning me

He's purging me

And moving me around

He's bathing me

And he's claiming me

And moving me around

Around and around and around

And around

Watching me, claiming me

Moving me around

He's purging me

He's been cleaning me

And moving me around

And around

"Just Want You Around"

I just want you around

I just want you around


I just want you around

I just want you around

Thought that I had lost you

I can hardly make a sound

When I thought I couldn't hold you

Knew the world had let me down

Should have took the time to tell you

You keep my feet on the ground

I hope that you can hear me

Cause I know its not profound

I just want you around

I just need you around

I just want you around

I just need you around

When I thought I was without you

I got used to being down

It was my fault I used to doubt you

But that aint me next time around

Please believe me when I tell you

Cause all my words are bound

This is my cross now let me bare it

I was lost but now I'm found-found-found

I just want you around

I just need you around

I just want you around

I just need you around


Took this love for granted

Kept my feelings underground

Should have watered what I planted

Should have known what I have found

I'm not used to being lonely

I don't like the way it sounds

You're the only one I know-yeah

Who don't turn my upside-down

I just want you around

I just need you around

I just want you around

I just need you around

Yeah I want you around

I just need you around .......

"I Gotta Find Peace Of Mind"

I gotta find peace of mind

I know another cord...

I gotta find peace of mind

See, this what that voice in your head says

When you try to get peace of mind...

I gotta find peace of mind, I gotta find peace of mind

He says it's impossible, but I know it's possible

He says it's impossible, but I know it's possible


He says there's no me without him, please help me forget about him

He takes all my energy, trapped in my memory

Constantly holding me, constantly holding me

I need to tell you all, all the pain he's caused, mmmm

I need to tell I'm, I'm undone because, mmmm

He says it's impossible, but I know it's possible

He says it's impossible without him, but I know it's possible

To finally be in love, and know the real meaning of

A lasting relationship, not based on ownership

I trust every part of you, cuz all that I... All that you say you do

You love me despite myself, sometimes I fight myself

I just can't believe that you, would have anything to do

With someone so insecure, someone so immature

Oh you inspire me, to be the higher me

You made my desire pure, you made my desire pure

Just tell me what to say, I can't find the words to say

Please don't be mad with me, I have no identity

All that I've known is gone, all I was building on

I don't wanna walk with you, how do I talk to you

Touch my mouth with your hands, touch my mouth with your hands

Oh I wanna understand, the meaning of your embrace

I know now I have to face, the temptations of my past

Please don't let me disgrace, where my devotion lays

Now that I know the truth, now that it's no excuse

Keeping me from your love, what was I thinking of?

Holding me from your love, what was I thinking of?

You are my peace of mind, that old me is left behind

You are my peace of mind, that old me is left behind

He says it's impossible, but I know it's possible

He says it's improbable, but I know it's tangeable

He says it's not grabbable, but I know it's haveable


Cuz anything's possible, oh anything is possible

Please come free my mind, please come meet my mind

Can you see my mind, oh

Won't you come free my mind?

Oh I know it's possible

Anything, anything, anything, anything, anything, yeeey

Anything, anything, anything, anything, yeeey

Anything, anything, anything, anything, anything, yeeey

Oh free! Free, free, free your mind

Free, free your mind... free, free your mind

Free, free, free, free your mind

Oh, it's so possible, oh it's so possible

I'm telling you it's possible, I'm telling you it's possible

Free, free... free, free... free, free... get free now

Free, free... free, free, free, free... free, free

You're my peace of mind, that old me is left behind

You're my peace of mind, you're my peace of mind

He's my peace of mind, he's my peace of mind

He's my peace of mind, he's my peace of mind

What a joy it is to be alive

To get another chance, yeah

Everyday's another chance

To get it right this time

Everyday's another chance

Oh what a merciful, merciful, merciful God

Oh what a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful God

[Repeat till fade]


"Mystery Of Iniquity"

[sing songy Chorus intro]

It's the mystery of Inequity...

Said it's the misery of Inequity...

Said it's the history of Inequity...

When it all...

All falls down...

Telling you all...

It all falls down

Children...

Eat your bread

Little children...

Eat your bread

Cuz it all...

All falls down...

Telling you all...

It all falls down

[First and only verse]

Yo!

Ya'll can't handle the truth in a courtroom of lies

Perjures the jurors

Witness despised

Crooked lawyers

False Indictments publicized

Its entertainment...the arraignments

The subpoenas

High profile gladiators in bloodthirsty arenas

Enter the Dragon


Black-robe crooked-balance

Souls bought and sold and paroled for thirty talents

Court reporter catch the surface on the paper

File it in the system not acknowledged by the Maker

Swearing by the bible blatantly blasphemous

Publicly perpetrating that "In God We Trust"

Cross-examined by a master manipulator

The faster intimidator

Receiving the judge's favor

Deceiving sabers doing injury to they neighbors

For status, gratis, apparatus and legal waivers

See the bailiff

Representing security

Holding the word of God soliciting perjury

The prosecution

Political prostitution

The more money you pay.. the further away solution

Legal actors

Babylon's benefactors

Masquerading as the agency for the clients

Hypocritical giants

Morally non-compliant

Orally armed to do bodily harm

Polluted, recruited and suited judicial charm

And the defense isn't making any sense

Faking the confidence of escaping the consequence

That a defendant is depending on the system

Totally void of judgment purposely made to twist em'

Emotional victim blackmailed by the henchmen

Framed by intentions

Inventions whereby they lynch men


Enter the false witness slandering the accused

Planting the seed openly showing he's being used

To discredit, edit, headed for the alleged

Smearing the individual fearing the unsuspected

Expert witness (the paid authority)

Made a priority to deceive the majority

Of disinterested peers

Dodging duty for years

Hating the process

waiting to be returning to their careers

Do we expect the system made for the elect

To possibly judge correct?

Properly serve and protect?

Materially corrupt

Spiritually amuck

Oblivious to the cause

Prosperously bankrupt

Blind leading the blind

Guilty never defined

Filthy as swine

A generation purin it's own mind

Legal extortion

Blown out of proportion

In vein deceit

The truth is obsolete

Only two positions:

Victimizer or Victim

Both end up in destruction trusting this crooked system

Mafia with diplomas keeping us in a coma trying to own a piece

of the "American Corona"

The Revolving Door


Insanity every floor

Skyscraping, paper chasing

What are we working for?

Empty traditions

Reaching social positions

Teaching ambition to support the family superstition?

When the Son of Podition is Commander in Chief

The standard is Thief

Brethren can we candidly speak?

Woe to the men

Trusted in the chariots dem'

Leaning on horses

They run their intellectual sources

Counterfeit wisdom creating the illusion of freedom

Confusion consumes them

Every word they speak it turns them out really white

Internally they absent of light

trapped in the night and bonded to the Cain of the night

Under the curse

Evil men waxing more worse

Faxing the first

Angelic being cast to the earth

It's time for rebirth

Burnin up the branch and the root

The empty pursuits of every tree bearing the wrong fruit

Turning me ill

Let him who stole, no longer steal

Oh it's real

Surrender for Jehovah is real

How long will you sleep

Troubled by the thoughts that YOU keep


The idols YOU heap

Causing the destruction you reap

Judgment has come

Find it and return to the One

Abandon the flesh

Self-interest: Broadway to death

Pride and the Greed

Hide and subdividing the seed

The knowledge of Good and Evil is what caused us to lie

Caused us to die

Let your emotions be crucified

Renounce all your thoughts

Repent and let your mind be re-taught

You'll find what you sought...was based on the deception you bought

A perception of naught

Where the majority remains caught

Loving a lie

Not realizing in Adam, all die

Loving a lie

Not realizing in Adam, all die

Loving a lie

Not realizing in Adam, all die

Loving a lie

Not realizing in Adam, all die

[sing songy Chorus Outro]

It's the mystery of Inequity


Say it's the history of Inequity

Say it's the misery of Inequity

When it all...

All falls down

I'm telling you all...

It all falls down

"I Get Out"

[Singing Chorus]

I get out, I get out of all your boxes

I get out, you can't hold me in these chains

I'll get out

Father free me from this bondage

Knowin' my condition

Is the reason I must change

[Verse 1]

Your stinkin' resolution

Is no type of solution

Preventin' me from freedom

Maintainin' your pollution

I won't support your lie no more

I won't even try no more

If I have to die, oh Lord

That's how I choose to live


I won't be compromised no more

I can't be victimised no more

I just don't sympathize no more

Cause now I understand

You just wanna use me

You say "love" then abuse me

You never thought you'd loose me

But how quickly we forget

That nothin' is for certain

You thought I'd stay here hurtin'

Your guilt trip's just not workin'

Repressin' me to death

Cause now I'm choosin' life, yo

I take the sacrifice, yo

If everything must go, then go

That's how I choose to live

[Pause]

[Singing rest of Verse 1]

That's how I choose to live...

Hehehehe, awhh

No more compromises

I see past your disguises

Blindin' through mind control

Stealin' my eternal soul

Appealin' through material

To keep me as your slave

[Singing Chorus]

But I get out


Oh, I get out of all your boxes

I get out

Oh, you can't hold me in these chains

I'll get out

Oh, I want out of social bondage

Knowin' my condition

Oh, is the reason I must change

[Singing Verse 2]

See, what you see is what you get

Oh, and you ain't seen nothin' yet

Oh, I don't care if you're upset

I could care less if you're upset

See it don't change the truth

And your hurt feeling's no excuse

To keep me in this box

Psychological locks

Repressin' true expression

Cementin' this repression

Promotin' mass deception

So that no one can be healed

I don't respect your system

I won't protect your system

When you talk I don't listen

Oh, let my Father's will be done

[Singing Chorus]

And just get out

Oh, just get out of all these bondage

Just get out

Oh, you can't hold me in chains


Just get out

All these traditions killin' freedom

Knowin' my condition

Is the reason I must change

[Singing Verse 3]

I've just accepted what you said

Keepin' me among the dead

The only way to know

Is to walk then learn and grow

But faith is not your speed

Oh, you've had everyone believed

That you're the sole authority

Just follow the majority

Afraid to face reality

The system is a joke

Oh, you'd be smart to save your soul

Oh, when escape is mind control

You spent your life in sacrifice

To a system for the dead

Oh, are you sure...

Where is the passion in this living

Are you sure it's God you servin'

Obligated to a system

Getting less then you're deserving

Who made up these schools, I say

Who made up these rules, I say

Animal conditioning

Oh, just to keep us as a slave

[Singing Chorus]
Oh, just get out

Of this social purgatory

Just get out

All these traditions are a lie

Just get out

Superstition killing freedom

Knowin' my condition

Is the reason I must die

Just get out

Just get out

Just get out

Let's get out

Let's get out

Knowin' my condition

Is the reason I must die

Just get out

"I Remember"

I remember, when you looked into my eyes

You saw right through me

And I could not hide

I was exposed, just like a child

All of my heart, you hold in your hands

I'm yours to command

I'm yours to command


I, I feel so humbled

With you in my life

With you in my life

I remember, when I looked into your eyes

I saw a reflection of myself

And I could not lie, out of control

Too weak to deny

All of myself is naked before you

But what can I do?

There's nothing I can do

I feel so beautiful

With you in my life

With you in my life

I remember, I remember, I remember, I

With you in my life

With you in my life

"So Much Things To Say"

Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah yey

Why, why, why, why, why, why, why

Why, Why, heh


They've got so much things to say right now

They've got so much things to say

They've got so much things to say right now

They've got so much things to say

I'll never forget no way, how they crucified Jesus Christ

I'll never forget no way, how they sold Marcus Garvey for rice

I'll never forget no way, how they turned their back on Paul Bogle

So don't you forget no way...

Who you are, and where you stand in the struggle

They've got so much things to say right now

They've got so much things to say

They've got so very many things, to say right now

They've got so much things to say

I'n'I nah come to fight flesh and blood

But spiritual wickedness in high and low places

And don't you fight me down

I'll stand firm, and give Jah all the thanks and praises

I don't expect to be justified, by these laws of men

Though the we can find me guilty, Jah will proove my innocency

Cuz when the rain falls, it don't, fall on one man's house top

Remember that

See when this rain falls, it don't, fall on one man's house top

They've got so much things to say right now

They've got so much, so much things to say

They've got, heh, so much things to say right now

They've got so, so much things to say

But let them keep talking, oh let them keep talking

Cuz non of them walking, oh non of them walking, no

And while they still talking, see I'ma be walking

I'ma be walking, so let them keep talking

Said I never forget no way, how they crucified Jesus Christ


And I, I'll never forget, how they sold Marcus Garvey for rice

Said I, never forget, how they turned their backs on Paul Bogle

So non of you, non of you forget...

Who you are, and where you stand in the struggle

Cuz when this rain, cuz when this rain, rain, rain, rain, rain falls

It don't fall on one man's house, I'm telling you the rain...

I'm telling you the rain, rain, rain, rain, rain don't fall

It don't fall... they...

They've got, they've got, so many very things to say about me

I'm telling you: lie

They, and they, and they will have so many things

They'll have so many things to say about you... to say about you

Cuz they don't know me, know me

They don't know me, oh they don't know me, oh they don't know me

Oh they don't know me well

They, they, they, they, they, they, they don't know my Father

Cuz if they did, if they did... hey ey... theeey... heh..

"The Conquering Lion"

The conquering lion

Shall break every chain

The conquering lion

Shall break every chain

Give him the victory

Again and again and again and again

Give him the victory


Ohh

The conquering lion

Shall break every chain

The conquering lion

Shall break every chain

Give him victory

Again and again and again and again and again and again

Give us some victory

Ohh, yeah

Ohh, conquering lion

Shall break every chain, every chain, every chain

The conquering lion, yeah ohh

Shall break every chain

Give us some victory

We need some victory

We need some victory

Again and again and again and again

Give, give, give, us some victory

Ohh, ohh, ohh

The conquering lion

He'll break every chain

Every one of your chains, every one of your chains

The conquering lion

Hey, he's gonna break all of those chains if you just let him

Give him, give him the victory, give him the victory

Again and again and again and again

Give him the victory

Ohh, ohh, ohh


Other Songs

"All My Time"
(feat. Paid Alive)

[Lauryn Singing]

You can't run away...gonna find you

and take it slowly

You can't run away...gonna find you

and make you want me

[Chorus]

All my time it could be spent with you

So what you gonna do?

Make sure your game is true

See all my time it could be spent with you

So what you gonna do?

Make sure your game is true

[Rapping]

Well could it be that through these Cartiers I swear

their stares a specimen smooth as Sidney Poitier

Clean cut & dapper seems he's straight & narrow

Tingle in the bone marrow ???

but I ain't that aggressive instead I act suggestive

bat my eyelashes make smooth & subtle passes

timed perfectly with the classic under my dark glasses

(he must have put a spell on my mind) [sung overlapping]

amountin' all the words to do magic

with all due respect he approached it


and offered the roach clip as I respectfully declined to smoke it

(Nah nah I don't I don't do that) [spoken]

Broken the ice his demeanor was nice

he tried to freak it to my mental

(Ay yo it wasn't accidental)

Yo his talk was slick my resume is kinda thick

(So let's blow this scene girl and check this flick)

and show me why ?Paid alive? ain't ya average click

Recognize Paid Alive about to lock this shit

[Chorus]

Yeah yeah I know you got a car

but we should keep it in the lot

I got a urge to ride the train

let's do some walkin' in the rain

it sounds insane but meditative for the brain

plus I'd like to get to see if you as crazy as you claim.

[Paid Alive]

?? like Iceberg Slim in Donald Gowens

uncut it's all raw dog hit me off

Paid Alive baby girl on sand this connection

be hit through your burrow territorial section

True I come correct in all mine & denim

truck trues top kid really wear linens

No question I'll show you affection

as I proceed to lead ya direction

[Lauryn: rapping]

Well these procedures that you agreed to


I'm gonna need to know a little more

about ya self & family [License]

well who's paid and who's live?

Where you live what you drive?

Ever did a homicide?

[I hope not] let our molecules collide

In time we'll tell if you can indoor with L

if you tryin to knock it down then I'm not that type of girl

my mind's a pearl and I done been around the world

but if you righteous I might just let you spend the night and...

[Chorus]

[Lauren: sung parts]

(See all my tiiiime)...OK that's right what?

Nah ain't nobody about wastin' my time

Like (ye yeah ye yeah ye yeah ye yeah ye yeah ye yeah)

Show me why Paid Alive ain't ya average click

(See all my time...)

[ad libs]

"Black Rage"

Black rage is founded on two-thirds a person

Raping and beatings and suffering that worsens

Black human packages tied up in strings


Black rage can come from all these kinds of things.

Black rage is founded on blatant denial,

sweet economics, subsistent survival,

deafening silence and social control,

black rage is found in all forms in the soul,

When the dog bites, when the bee stings, when Im feeling sad,

I simply remember all these kinds of things, and then I dont fear so bad

Black rage is founded who fed us self hatred

Lies and abuse while we waited and waited

Spiritual treason

This grid and it's cages

Black rage was founded on these kinds of things

Black rage is founded on dreaming and draining

Threatening your freedom

To stop your complaining

Poisoning your water

While they say it's raining

Then call you mad

For complaining, complaining

Old time bureaucracy

Drugging the youth

Black rage is founded on blocking the truth

Murder and crime

Compromise and distortion

Sacrifice, sacrifice

Who makes this fortune?

Greed, falsely called progress


Such human contortion

Black rage is founded on these kinds of things

So when the dog bites

And the bee stings

And I'm feeling mad

I simply remember all these kinds of things

And then I don't fear so bad

Free enterprise

Is it myth or illusion

Forcing you back into purposed confusion

Black human trafficking

Or blood transfusion

Black rage is founded on these kinds of things

Victims of violence

Both psyche and body

Life out of context IS living ungodly

Politics, politics

Greed falsely called wealth

Black rage is founded on denying of self

Black human packages

Tied and subsistence

Having to justify your very existence

Try if you must

But you can't have my soul

Black rage is founded on ungodly control

So when the dog bites

And the beatings

And I'm feeling so sad

I simply remember all these kinds of things


And then I don't feel so bad

"Ex-Factor (A Simlpe Mix)"

[Lauryn Hill]

Y-yo.. [echoes], y-yo.. uhh

Y-yo.. [echoes], y-yo.. uhh

Y-y-yo.., yo, y-yo..

Y-y-yo.. [echoes]

Y-yo..

uhh, y-yo..

Uh-uh..

Y-y-yo..

It could all be simple but you'd rather make it hard

Loving you is like a battle we both end up scarred

Tell me who I have to be to get some reciprocity

No one loves you more than me and no one ever will

Is this just a silly game that forces you to act this way

Forces you to scream my name, then pretend, that you can't stay

Tell me who I have to be to get some reciprocity

No one loves you more than me and no one ever will

[Lauryn harmonizes]

[Chorus: Lauryn]
No matter how I think we grow

You always seem to let me know

It ain't workin, it ain't workin, uhh

And when I try to walk away

You'd hurt yourself to make me stay

This is crazy, this is crazy..

[Lauryn Hill]

I keep letting you back in, how can I explain myself?

As crazy as this thing has been, I just can't be with no one else

I know what we've got to do, you let go I'll let go too

No one's hurt me more than you and no one ever will

[Lauryn: rapping]

Yo, y-yo, yo yo

I'm here now, not just because it's my year now

I'm clear now, only feelin cats that's sincere now

Heart of lioness, scientist, street Zionist

Don't twist it, it's consistantly consistent

If you missed it, this train is bound for glory

End of story, my whole repoitory is Psalm 40

They bomb for me

Thinkin they can mess with your plan, but I'ma play lamb

Knowin that the Kingdom's at hand, and showin those who want it

you gon' bring em the land, descendants of Ham

Not concerned with the platinum status

Cause every joint I threw, I would do for gratis

I'm on the train with my Pips like I'm lil Gladys

or in the Range throwin chips to the kids in Addis (Ethiopia)

Abbaba, two kids and and a baby father


Hot to lava, we Don Dadda, Don Dadda

[Chorus: Lauryn]

No matter how I think we grow

You always seem to let me know

It ain't workin, it ain't workin

And when I try to walk away

You'd hurt yourself to make me stay

This is crazy, this is crazy..

[Lauryn Hill]

Care for me, care for me, I know you care for me

There for me, there for me, said you'd be there for me

Cry for me, cry for me, you said you'd die for me!

Give to me, give to me..

Care for me, care for me, you said you'd care for me

There for me, there for me, said you'd be there for me

Cry for me, cry for me, you said you'd die for me!

Give to me, give to me, why won't you live for me?

Ohh noo.. why won't you live for me?

Why..hahhhihhhhhh, won't you live, for me, for me, for meeee

Care for me, care for me, I know you care for me

There for me, there for me, said you'd be there for me

Cry for me, cry for me, you said you'd die for me!

Give to meeeeeee..

Give to meeeeeee..
It could all be simple, but you'd rather make it harrrrrd..

Loving you, loving you, is like a bat-tle..

Hmmmhmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Give to meeee.. care for meeee..

Give to meeee.. care for meeeeeee..

Care for meeee.

"His Eye Is On The Sparrow"


(feat. Tanya Blount)

[Tanya Blount:]

Why should I feel discouraged

Why should the shadows come

Why should my heart feel lonely

And long for heaven and home

When Jesus is my portion

A constant friend is he

His eye is on the sparrow

And I know he watches over me

His eye is on the sparrow

And I know he watches me

[Lauryn Hill:]

I sing because I'm happy

I sing because I'm free

His eye is on the sparrow


And I know he watches

[Tanya:]

He watches me

[Lauryn:]

His eye is on the sparrow

And I know he watches

[Tanya:]

I know he watches

[Lauryn:]

I know he watches me

[Lauryn & Tanya:]

I sing because I'm happy

I sing because I'm free

His eye is on the sparrow

[Lauryn:]

And I know he watches me

[Tanya:]

He watches me

[L&T:]

His eye is on the sparrow

[Tanya:]

And I know he watches me

[Lauryn:]

He watches me

[Tanya:]

He watches me, I never thought...

[L&T:]

He watches me
"Joyful, Joyful"
(feat. St. Francis Choir)

[Lauryn]

Joyful, joyful

Lord we adore Thee

God of Glory, Lord of Love

Hearts unfold like flowers before Thee

Hail Thee as the sun above

Melt the clouds of sin and sadness

Drive the dark of doubt away

Giver of immortal gladness

Fill us with the light

Fill us with the light

Oh, fill us with the light of day

[Beat Starts]

[Chorus: Choir]

Joyful, joyful

Lord we adore Thee

God of Glory, Lord of Love

Hearts unfold like flowers before Thee

Hail Thee as the sun above

Melt the clouds of sin, sin and sadness

Drive the dark of doubt away

Drive it away

Giver of immortal gladness

Fill us

Fill us with the light of day


Light of day

[Rapper 1]

Check the rhyme

Joyful, joyful

Lord we adore Thee

And in my life I put none before Thee

'Cos since I was a youngster I came to know

That you were the only way to go

[Rapper 2]

So I had to grow and I come to an understanding

And I'm down with the King

So no-one commanded

You tell me "Who you down with" see

All I know is that I'm down with G.O.D

You down with G.O.D?

[Choir]

Yeah, you know me

[Rapper 1]

You down with G.O.D?

[Choir]

Yeah, you know me

[Rapper 2]

You down with G.O.D?

[Choir]
Yeah, you know me

[Rapper 1 & 2]

You down with G.O.D?

[Choir]

Everybody

[Lauryn and Girls]

Join the mighty chorus

The mighty, mighty chorus

Which the morning stars begun

The Father of Love is reigning over us

[Choir]

By the way!

What have you done for Him lately

Ooooh yeah (Oh)

What have you done for Him lately

He watches over everything

So we sing!

[Repeat Chorus by Choir with Lauryn's ad-libs]

[Choir with (Girls, Boys, Lauryn's Vocals)]

Fill us (Fill us with the light of day Lord, oh fill

us)

Fill us (Oh we need you yes we do, ooh fill us)

Fill us (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)

Fill us (With the light of day Lord)


Fill us (With the light of day Lord)

Fill us (With the light of day Lord)

Fill us (We need you, we need you to Pray, we need

you, need you today)

Fill us (We need you I'm gonna say)

Fill us (Fill us, fill us, fill us, fills us!)

Fill us

Fill us with the light of day (Oh yeah)

LIGHT OF DAY!

"Keep It Tight"

[(Lauryn "L-Boogie" Hill)]

Yo... (Can I see you?)

Lauryn Hill on the track... (In the morning)

New art got my back...

DJ Skribble just relax, haha! I'm a get you the joint! haha! (Can I see

you?)

Yeah...morning (In the morning!)

Uh Huh, Uh Huh, Uh Huh, Uh Huh, Uh Huh, Uh Huh!

[Lauryn]

As I span the cosmos (The cosmos)

Mahogany travel at the speed of sound (Sound)

Span the mainstream but still esteemed underground (Unh!)

My parameters, and wrap up contaminants


Travel twice Earth's diameter, intimidating amateurs (Intimidating...what?!)

At the Apollo, I played the shepherd sheep followed (Sheep followed)

Chicks try to model after me like I'm Tyra (Like I'm Tyra) [Pause] Banks

(Banks!)

Wanna thank me because my statements are prodigious (...digious)

Styles so prestigious, make a sinner act religious (Act religiouus)

Street academics, seen alot of girls mimic (Huh)

But when it's all over you can tell who's the gimmick (You can tell!)

L slang-bangs (Slang-bang!) like a dub plate (Bing!)

Jericho Sound System, mash up your club dates! (Mash up your...)

Sweeter than a cherry on a fruit cocktail

Whenever, Wherever, Whatever (Whenever, Wherever, Whatever! - Singing)

Like Maxwell (Unh)

My pentium, makes more chips than Intel (Intel)

I didn't mean to turn you on (I didn't mean to turn you on!)

Like Sherell! ( Uh Huh)

Kids move they body like they're tripping off of acid, Anthony

Not even fantasy can surpass it (Unh, unh!)

Once you blast it one starts to feel kinky

I think thee, goes by the name of Young Slinky

And just when you thought it was safe to relax (Safe to relax!)

L-Boogie spits with perfect syntax! ( Perfect syntax!)

Then, DJ Skribble make you dribble on the wax (What?)...

DJ Skribble make you dribble on the wax!

[Chorus: Lauryn Singing]

Can I hear you in the morning, (Can I see you?)

like I hear you late at night?

Chance to hear you (In the morning)

Amp the party

DJ Skribble Keep It Tight!


(Can I see you?)

Just a short time in the morning

Like I hear you late at night (In the morning!)

Chance to hear you

Amp the party

DJ Skribble Keep It Tight!

Can I hear you in the morning (Can I see you?)

Like I hear you late at night (In the morning!)

Chance to hear you

Amp the party

DJ Skribble, KEEP IT TIGHT!!! [Forte'] (L-Boogie!) [x3] (Keep It Tight!)

Keep It Tight! (Keep It Tight)

Keep It Tight

"Lose Myself"

I Used To Do It For The Love A Long Time Ago

And All I Ever Wanted Was Love

I Used To Love Without Fear A Long Time Ago

And All I Ever Wanted Was Love

Then Somebody Came Around And Tried To Hurt Me

Tried To Make Me Feel Like I Was Unworthy

Took Pure Love And Tried To Make You Dirty

Truth Was, That He Never Did Deserve Me No

I Had To Lose Myself

So I Can Love You Better


I Had To Lose Myself

I Had To Lose Myself

So I Can Love You Better

I Had To Lose Myself

I Had To Lose Myself

So I Can Love You Better

Lose Myself In Love

And That's Just The Way It Is

You Couldn't Tell Me I Was Love When I Needed It

When All I Ever Wanted Was Love

Should've Told Me Just Because You Were The Receiving End

But All I Ever Wanted Was Love

There's Something About The It Takes To

Give Love And The Good That It Makes You

True Love Can Never Really Forsake You

But It Took A Little While Just For Me To See

I Had To Lose Myself

So I Can Love You Better

I Had To Lose Myself

I Had To Lose Myself

So I Can Love You Better

Lose Myself In Love

And That's Just The Way It Is

I Had A Paralogic Fear Of Facing Failure

And I Couldn't Love You Perfectly With Fear In My Head

So I Perilously Had To Face The Danger

So I Could Come Back And Love You Whole Instead

I Love You

So I Can Love You Better


I Had To Lose Myself

I Had To Lose Myself

So I Can Love You Better

I Had To Lose Myself

I Had To Lose Myself

So I Can Make It Better

Lose Myself In Love

And That's Just The Way It Is

And So It Goes That I Never Meant To Hurt You

Couldn't Stay But I Never Meant To Desert You

Whole Lot Of Things That I Just Had To Work Through

Time To Heal And Restore Myself

Confrontation Of My Fears And Anxiety

Cried A Whole Lot Of Years I Suffered Quietly

I Know It May Have Taken Years, I Can Finally

Tell You That You Were Always On My Mind

I Had To Lose Myself

So I Can Make It Better

I Had To Lose Myself

I Had To Lose Myself

So I Can Make It Better

I Had To Lose Myself

I Had To Lose Myself

So I Can Make It Better

Lose Myself In Love

And That Was Just The Way It Is

It Takes Strength To Absorb All The Abuse I Did

Greater Love To Absorb All Of The Abuse I Did

Hey Baby Its Not An Excuse I Did


And I'd Do It All Again Because For You I Live

It Takes Strength To Absorb All The Abuse I Did

Greater Love To Absorb All Of The Abuse I Did

Hey Baby Its Not An Excuse I Did

And I'd Do It All Again Because For You I Live

I Had To Lose Myself

So I Can Make It Better

I Had To Lose Myself

I Had To Lose Myself

So I Can Make It Better

I Had To Lose Myself

I Had To Lose Myself

So I Can Make It Better

I Had To Lose Myself

I Had To Lose Myself

So I Can Make It Better

Lose Myself In Love

And That Was Just The Way

And That Was Just The Way It Is

"Repercussions"

I was born into this world

Little bitty baby girl


And when I look at why looking so glad

In a racist world

Now its a difficult process

The matter is of perception

When I look in the mirror what do I see

Is it my reflection?

[CHORUS:]

Seein' repercussions (talkin bout the things we do)

Ya need to know the repercussions (things can come right back to you)

Look at them repercussions (what goes around comes around)

Hey repercussions

See I was born into this

In another space in time

Time has moved on a death has grown closer

Surely has blown my mind (blown my mind)

Aint that a bitch...the way the world spins around (spins around spins around spins around)

Everything everything everything that I said and I did

Surely came back around

[CHORUS:]

See repercussions (talkin bout the things we do)

Repercussions (things sure can come back to you)

Yeah repercussions (what goes around comes around)

Yeah repercussions (they will get you down)

Repercussions (talkin bout the things we do)

Yeah Repercussions (things sure can come back to you)

Ya need to know that repercussions (what goes around comes around)

Repercussions (they will get you down)


"Selah"

Nothing can be done against the truth

no matter how we remain in denial, yeah

Wasting time, replacing time with each empty excuse

but that'll only work a little while

Coping with despair, knowing you're not there

ashamed to just admit I've been a fool

So I blame it on the son, run away from everyone

hoping to escape this ridicule

Trapped in misery, wrapped so miserably

and this deception, I wear it like a skin

Dying to maintain, oh I keep trying to explain

a heart that never loved me to begin

Oh I'm such a mess, I have no choice but to confess

that I've been desperately trying to belong

Lieing to myself and everybody else

refusing to admit my right was wrong, and then he came

And then he came

Selah, oh and it means

Praise and meditation, and then he came

Selah, oh and it means

Did you think about that, and then he came

Selah, oh and it means

Praise and meditation, and then he came

Selah, oh and it means

That it is seen
How beautiful is fruit still in denial of its roots

my guilty heart behaves so foolishly

This treason from within that reasons with my sin

won't be happy till it sees the death of me

Selfishly addicted to a life that I depicted

conflicted cause it's not reality

Oh what's left of me, I beg you desperately

cause me to agree with what I know is best for me

Please save me from myself, I need you, save me from myself

please save me from myself so I can heal

The chocies that I've made, oh have been nothing but mistakes

what a wasted use of space, should I die before I wake

In all of my religion, I've fortified this prison

obligated to obey the demands of bad decisions

Please save me from myself, I need you

save me from myself, please save me from myself so I can heal

And then he came

Selah, oh and it means

Praise and meditation, and then he came

Selah, oh and it means

Did you think about that, and then he came

Selah, oh and it means

Praise and meditation, and then he came

Selah, oh and it means

That it is seen

And then he came

And then he came, then he came, then he came

And then he
And then he came

"The Sweetest Thing"

The sweetest thing I've ever known

Was like the kiss on the collarbone

Soft caress of happiness

The way you walk, your style of dress

I wish I didn't get so weak

Ooo, baby, just to hear you speak

Makes me argue just to see

How much you're in love with me

See, like a queen, a queen upon her throne

[Chorus]

It was the sweet, sweet, sweetest thing I know,

It was the sweet, sweet, sweetest thing I know

I get mad when you walk away (don't walk away)

So I tell you leave, when I mean stay

Warm as the sun dipped in black

Fingertips on the small of my back

More valuable than all I own

Like your precious, precious, precious, precious dark skin tone

[Chorus]
It was the...Ah

I tried to explain

Ah...but baby, it's in vain

Speaking on my mother's phone

The touching makes me think I'm grown, (you ain't grown)

Sweet prince of the ghetto

Your kisses taste like armoretto

Intoxicating, oh, so intoxicating

How sad, how sad that all things come to an end

But then again, I'm, I'm not alone

[Chorus]

"Turn Your Lights Down Low"

[Bob Marley (Lauryn)]

(Uh) Turn your lights down low

And pull your window curtain

Oh let the moon come shining in

Into our life again

Saying ooh, it's been a long, long time

(Long, long time)

I got this message for you girl

But it seems I was never on time

Still I wanna get through to you girl on time, on time (word)


I want to give you some love

I want to give you some good, good loving

(Uh, uh, right, uh)

Oh I, oh I, oh I

Yeah, I want to give you some good, good loving (uh)

[Lauryn]

Turn your lights down low

(Word, word, uh, uh)

Never never try to resist, oh no

(Na, na, na, na)

Oh, let your love come shining in

(Na, na, na, na)

Into our lives again

(Na, na, na, na)

Saying ooh, I love you

(I love you, I love you)

And I want you to know right now

(Know right now)

Ooh I love you

(Uh-uh, yeah, uh)

And I want you to know right now (uh)

That I, that I

I wanna give you some love (uh, yeah)

I wanna give you some good, good loving

Oh I, oh I, oh I

I wanna give you some good, good loving (yeah, uh-uh)

[Lauryn]

Loving you is a like a song I replay


Every three minutes and thirty seconds of every day (uh, uh)

And every chorus was written for us to recite (right)

Every beautiful melody of devotion every night

It's potion like this ocean that might carry me

In a wave of emotion to ask you to marry me

And every word, every second, and every third

Expresses the happiness more clearly than ever heard (uh)

And when I play them, every chord is a poem

Telling the Lord how grateful I am cause I know him (what? word)

The harmonies possess a sensation similar to your caress (uh)

If you asking then I'm telling you it's yes

Stand in love, take my hand in love, Jah bless (right)

[Lauryn & Bob]

I want to give you some good, good loving

I want to give you some love

I want to give you some good, good loving

Oh I, oh I, oh I

I wanna give you some good, good loving

[Lauryn (Bob)]

Good, good, good loving

(I wanna give you some good loving)


"Redemption Song"
Featuring Ziggy Marley

Lauryn:

Oh Pirates yes they rob I

Stole I from the merchant ships

Minutes after they took I

From the bottomless pit

But my hand was made strong

By the hand of the Almighty

We forward in this generation

Triumphantly

Won't you help to sing

These songs of freedom

'Cause all I ever have

Redemption Songs (x3)

Ziggy & Lauryn:

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery

None but ourselves can free our minds

Have no fear for atomic energy

'Cause none of them can stop the time

How long shall they kill our prophets

While we stand aside and look

Yes, some say it's just a part of it

But we've got to fulfill the book

Won't you help us sing

Another song of freedom

'Cause all I ever have


Redemption Song (x3)

L. Boogie

Lauryn:

Yo, If they can stop this fruit

They would pop this route

Chop this fruit

Treat us like a prostitute

Knock this youth

See me in my khaki suit

God's recruit

From fallin even God's salute

Tribal truth

Ja people can't be mute

Share my youth to Babylon can't regroup

Sing, to Babylon can't regroup

Sing, to Babylon can't regroup

Lauryn & Ziggy:

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery

None but ourselves can free our minds

Have no fear for atomic energy

'Cause none of them can stop the time

How long shall they kill our prophets

While we stand aside and look

Some say it's just a part of it

We've got to fulfill the book

Won't you help to sing

Another song of freedom, yeah


'Cause all I ever have

Redemption song (x 5)

"Feeling Good"
(originally by Nina Simone)

Birds flying high, you know how I feel

Sun in the sky, you know how I feel

Breeze drifting on by, you know how I feel

It's a new dawn, it's a new day

It's a new life for me, yeah

It's a new dawn, it's a new day

It's a new life for me

And I'm feeling good

Fish in the sea, you know how I feel

River running free, you know how I feel

Blossom on the tree, you know how I feel

It's a new dawn, it's a new day

It's a new life for me

And I'm feeling good

Dragonfly out in the sun, you know what I mean

Don't ya know

Butterflies having fun, you know what I mean


Sleep in peace when day is done, that's what I mean

And this cold world is a new world

And a bold world for me

Stars when they shine, you know how I feel

Scent of a pine, you know how I feel

Oh, freedom is mine and I know how I feel

It's a new dawn, it's a new day

It's a new life for me

[Scatting]

I'm feeling good

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