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[Shaq]
Believe it or not, I love all playa hatas (bring it) Ha ha ha ha Cause ain't no love lost here baby Say what you gotta say [Tariq] People know me on these streets playa I ain't new Lookin' at me all funny while I'm countin' my money Surpise What I do is already legalized Analyze what I toss across There ain't no love lost [Shaq] Exuberant, change, cross, exilhurated Flomboyant, but boncey on beat breaks, I'm animated Now it's been stated, I'm lyrically enthusiastic I'm dope like all east coast CDs wrapped through plastic What's the meaning of life, why'all should know In my lifetime I need a whole lotta dough, bro No need to get zealous, you jealous, say you jealous I spike on that like Monica Seles I split a divine rhyme, exsquisite like some elegant wine Here's a toast, the world is mine I promise I'm a keep it punk I represent the real hip-hop, I ain't no freakin' country bumpkin Hooparistic, freakaristic, poetic frenzy with conception I got more flavor than a mystic Fringe benfit-ic, urging why'all to get wit it Style postulates, now pause while you gets splitted I'm not just taco, I'm the whole enchilado Enter any center blowin' up like Desperado [Tariq] People know me on these streets playa I ain't new Lookin' at me all funny while I'm countin' my money Surpise What I do is already legalized Analyze what I toss across It ain't no love lost [Shaq] People know me on these streets playa I ain't new Lookin' at me all funny while I'm countin' my money Surpise What I do is already legalized Analyze what I toss across Ain't no love lost [Tariq] L.A. to Bronx to Bekailen Together we provide a ton of better on the way and We rhyme related Very under-estimated, that's why I'm winnin' In this world of sins, steady grinning, money boss spendin' Distanced from dirty women, Lord, I'm quite influential Spirtualy and mental, what you into I'd a been through Preachin' my words and don't know it, you owe it It shows you want to be me but won't show it Ain't nothin' changed but the playas The game remains the same I had a ten year run, hey, I can't complain Took the next step see, from Coke to Pepsi From the B.X., we ridin' to South Beach on jet ski Play to survive, you ain't live, you just livin' You breathin' a good one, but where I'm from why'all forbidden Come around, bad decision, you'd rather be in prison Ain't no duckin' when I'm delivering, won't be forgiver-in' Layin' there shiverin, half the night You gotta walk towards the light, everything is aight Make sure, everything you endure stays tight Big Shaq, Lord Tariq, Jay-Z outta sight [Jay-Z] People know me on these streets and the towns I been through Looking at me, stay focused, I'm givin' 'em straight focus Surprise, what I do is already legalized Analyze how I floss across Of course there ain't no love lost [Shaq] People know me on these streets playa I ain't new Lookin' at me all funny while I'm countin' my money Surpise What I do is already legalized Analyze what I toss across There ain't no love lost [Jay-Z] Fo' sho', everything's for dough now I flow, why'all gotta pay a little mo' now It's platinumn, nowadays we put the gold down We stepped it up, why'all don't ever want to showdown Get wetted up by the sleeve that leave the bets wild Why'all don't like it, sue me Got settled out Ghettoed out, in the vehicle bent These days I mellowed out See, success make a fella content Un huh You know, this rap stuff, pop a ??? Jay-Z hugo, course playa, you lost playa I know you rappers want to see me fail But quick to see a six-hundred S.L. be |
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| 2. |
| 4:34 |
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Stay awhile, when I'm not alone
I forget all the anger in me Kiss a tear when the hammer falls They're holding me here in never ending circles I can still remember summer madness I can taste the perfume on your cheek The heat is overcome by coldness, how Consoling words are insignificant Say you'll pray Justify the actions These are days of the mob-rule, sharp tongue, curfew When the mind is in solitary confinement Makes the mood that breaks you There's a spirit seeking liberation Here's a fire with a hungry heart If I listen maybe, time will tell me The reasons why we're torn apart As the years go by Don't make any false promises As the years go by Say you'll pray Here the silence is too loud In a steel barred jail on the other side We invented the differences That weaved the web with which we lied Caught in the middle of a cold war zone I left my lover in a far-off place She'll kiss a tear when the hammer's falling And wipe the darkness from my face As the years go by Don't make any false promises As the years go by Just say you'll pray |
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| 3. |
| 7:01 |
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Look beyond the colour
Past the covering on us to see what we are Turn the faded pages The mark we leave on history is what we are Every country is part of us Irrespective of the one where we grew up Yes you are my sister Though we never shared a home that's what you are And your eyes keep shining in the darkness Defying all the chains that's what you are Home for the homeless, hope for the hopeless Between the lines on your face I can read... Nomzamo, Nomzamo... They of the silk white breast seemingly proud They are so much more less on the day of the vow Here's a woman who is tired and weary Leading resistance and still laying wreathes How can we stand by and watch this happen? Is this the justice we preach It seems too much to ask for an equal, peaceful living In a land of screams, stinging tears and broken smiles Following through all extremes 'One who will suffer many trials' Is this a land to inherit? Crumbs on the table the segregated people starve With gleeful oppression the mindless procession Cast nonchalance out of their cars Somewhere, sometime we pay for the crimes we incessantly do If we believe that we are what we leave I left a hope--what did you? Reeling from punches which leave them winded Reeling from laws which should be rescinded now Nomzamo, Nomzamo... |
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| 4. |
| 5:58 |
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Weird scenes are coming through the airwaves
From a flickering tube An old film with an older theme And those actors could be us But the ending is good so I'm thinking "There's the rub" Later when we meet It's emotion going through the motions A kick to break up or a kiss to make up But then there'll be another scene Like the one yesterday When we say hello, we mean goodbye Feigning paradise, wanting to cry Love, all our passion I'm sorry to say Is part of the game we play So we're into action on cue And go spinning like a reel Summing up this relationship And the way I feel I think maybe we should go on out Into the moonlight, out of the spotlight And examine where we are and where we've been to Where we're going is down without a happy ending When we say hello we mean goodbye Feigning paradise, wanting to cry Love, all our passion I'm sorry to say Is part of the game we play |
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| 5. |
| 3:48 |
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I wish I had a penny
For every time I told her I loved her But that sincerity I know won't raise the fare She was born with a wanderlust And against the odds she made the grade Now out of sight is out of mind to her I'm scared... It's a big bad big bad dead end world If I close my eyes I can't forget you, stranger In my sleep I see you dancing into danger Mister don't shoot her You can't see the whites for the reds of her eyes Maybe she's been crying over me While you're lying over her Talk of us is words in perfect tenses It seems that action men have broke down your defences We're passing strangers But your leaving left me wondering why These times have changed us Caught in the middle of a big bad dead end world Caught in the middle of a big bad dead end world Friends rally round but it's not just a question of sympathy Others come and go why won't you come and go with me? We're passing strangers But your leaving left me wondering why These times have changed us Caught in the middle of a big bad dead end world Caught in the middle of a big bad dead end world |
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| 6. |
| 9:42 |
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Free as the wind
Tall as a tree Wide as a mind Deep as a sea You crawled on my land Now I grow in your hand Always like the first time Unlike the others They're so-so So called lovers Theirs is the push that comes to shove But not in our evolution It's natural From great to grand True love is never really planned And wipes the memory of those who came Before our evolution It's natural And with you see me walk on air I know that I can do it When you're holding tightly to my sleeve The one with my heart upon it Hard as a mountain range Bright as a harvest moon The set gets rearranged But there's still time to join our show Every dog must have its day Everyone's a winner And every time the lights go down on us I'm the beginner How lady luck has changed "So long Salem" The set gets rearranged But there's still time to join the show Free as the wind Tall as a tree Wide as a mind Deep as a sea An interlude With haunting melodies of nursery rhymes Singing the changes, singing the changes, singing I hear talk of classroom drama Maybe it's a kind of psychodrama Children, the mirrors of our yesterdays On the land out of the sea Blowing in the breeze Mind over metaphor Fall in love with innocence Don't dally long with diligence Stand up choose me Don't refuse me They pawned our world of peace A flock of sheep to fleece Our flood of love won't cease No harm can come our way And it's easy to see what sets us apart From the creatures still on the ocean bed Our evolution it's natural It goes from great to grand Falls into place like something that we planned When you curl your arms around my frame Or curl your lips around my name And do just what comes natural The first thing on your mind Do just what comes natural I prefer your kind of human nature |
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| 7. |
| 4:07 |
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Sooner or later
Ready or not We find ourselves dissolved in soil The big sleep state I don't worry When you got to go you got to go But wouldn't it be nice to have a say In our final day When I take my dying breath You'd better bet your life I'm going out Screaming Like I came in Screaming Love and emotion We're told will keep us sheltered From the threat of the bear But danger is everywhere So take my hand now As they adopt their fighting stance Parade our derision And assume the position, configuration When I take my dying breath You'd better bet your life I'm going out Screaming Like I came in Screaming I want to be the first to go, to test the water I miss those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer In our younger phase All the things I took for granted but most of all You When I take my dying breath You'd better bet your life I'm going out Screaming Like I came in now Screaming |
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| 8. |
| 7:00 |
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Here we are
Alive and free Far away in time from our darkest day That took our young and brave From the cradle to the grave 70 years ago on July one 1916 on the Somme The enemies had never seen fighting like this before Such a simple plan-- How could any german man survive through that ordeal? Company 'A' to Company 'B' "Morale is high here, sir, but I don't think it's safe to go" Company 'A' from Company 'B' "Mister you have your orders and you must obey" So the first line rose, and the first line fell And a poet who survived later wrote about A "Sunlit vision of Hell" And "Larks singing" Because after all it's just another summer's day in France And the Tommies on the Somme sang "We are fighting to turn no-man's land into a common ground" A common ground |
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| 9. |
| 5:27 |
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With all the tears and rain
In every pleasure and every pain and despair, delight, disdain I hurt you, didn't i? The summer was almost gone I won't forget the first time Swimming in pools of your innocence Leave your mark and the colourflow of you Hey don't you feel sensation? Hey don't you feel the yearn? Just lying there for the taking Don't give, make me earn all your love Promise me all your soul Give to me all your heart You'll never be on your own For all your life You know you made me shine Through orange lights and wet streets But that's outside our undercover You concerned me when you showed me The colourflow of you Hey don't you feel emotion? Hey don't you feel spellbound? Just lying there for the taking What you lost I found all your love Promise me all your soul Give to me all your heart You'll never be on your own For all your life Some people make it look so easy Some you think they'd never heard of compromise But we can speak oceans by motions We simplify all your love Promise me all your soul Give to me all your heart You'll never be on your own For all your life The colourflow of, colourflow of, colourflow of you |
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| 10. |
| 4:12 |
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[Shaq]
Believe it or not, I love all playa hatas (bring it) Ha ha ha ha Cause ain't no love lost here baby Say what you gotta say [Tariq] People know me on these streets playa I ain't new Lookin' at me all funny while I'm countin' my money Surpise What I do is already legalized Analyze what I toss across There ain't no love lost [Shaq] Exuberant, change, cross, exilhurated Flomboyant, but boncey on beat breaks, I'm animated Now it's been stated, I'm lyrically enthusiastic I'm dope like all east coast CDs wrapped through plastic What's the meaning of life, why'all should know In my lifetime I need a whole lotta dough, bro No need to get zealous, you jealous, say you jealous I spike on that like Monica Seles I split a divine rhyme, exsquisite like some elegant wine Here's a toast, the world is mine I promise I'm a keep it punk I represent the real hip-hop, I ain't no freakin' country bumpkin Hooparistic, freakaristic, poetic frenzy with conception I got more flavor than a mystic Fringe benfit-ic, urging why'all to get wit it Style postulates, now pause while you gets splitted I'm not just taco, I'm the whole enchilado Enter any center blowin' up like Desperado [Tariq] People know me on these streets playa I ain't new Lookin' at me all funny while I'm countin' my money Surpise What I do is already legalized Analyze what I toss across It ain't no love lost [Shaq] People know me on these streets playa I ain't new Lookin' at me all funny while I'm countin' my money Surpise What I do is already legalized Analyze what I toss across Ain't no love lost [Tariq] L.A. to Bronx to Bekailen Together we provide a ton of better on the way and We rhyme related Very under-estimated, that's why I'm winnin' In this world of sins, steady grinning, money boss spendin' Distanced from dirty women, Lord, I'm quite influential Spirtualy and mental, what you into I'd a been through Preachin' my words and don't know it, you owe it It shows you want to be me but won't show it Ain't nothin' changed but the playas The game remains the same I had a ten year run, hey, I can't complain Took the next step see, from Coke to Pepsi From the B.X., we ridin' to South Beach on jet ski Play to survive, you ain't live, you just livin' You breathin' a good one, but where I'm from why'all forbidden Come around, bad decision, you'd rather be in prison Ain't no duckin' when I'm delivering, won't be forgiver-in' Layin' there shiverin, half the night You gotta walk towards the light, everything is aight Make sure, everything you endure stays tight Big Shaq, Lord Tariq, Jay-Z outta sight [Jay-Z] People know me on these streets and the towns I been through Looking at me, stay focused, I'm givin' 'em straight focus Surprise, what I do is already legalized Analyze how I floss across Of course there ain't no love lost [Shaq] People know me on these streets playa I ain't new Lookin' at me all funny while I'm countin' my money Surpise What I do is already legalized Analyze what I toss across There ain't no love lost [Jay-Z] Fo' sho', everything's for dough now I flow, why'all gotta pay a little mo' now It's platinumn, nowadays we put the gold down We stepped it up, why'all don't ever want to showdown Get wetted up by the sleeve that leave the bets wild Why'all don't like it, sue me Got settled out Ghettoed out, in the vehicle bent These days I mellowed out See, success make a fella content Un huh You know, this rap stuff, pop a ??? Jay-Z hugo, course playa, you lost playa I know you rappers want to see me fail But quick to see a six-hundred S.L. be |
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| 11. |
| 6:34 |
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Here we are
Alive and free Far away in time from our darkest day That took our young and brave From the cradle to the grave 70 years ago on July one 1916 on the Somme The enemies had never seen fighting like this before Such a simple plan-- How could any german man survive through that ordeal? Company 'A' to Company 'B' "Morale is high here, sir, but I don't think it's safe to go" Company 'A' from Company 'B' "Mister you have your orders and you must obey" So the first line rose, and the first line fell And a poet who survived later wrote about A "Sunlit vision of Hell" And "Larks singing" Because after all it's just another summer's day in France And the Tommies on the Somme sang "We are fighting to turn no-man's land into a common ground" A common ground |
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