Scritti Politti

[rappers]
God damn, body slam, program a JAM (just push the button)
Now this is a warning, yeah
But you're not listening (no)
Just watch where you walk
Or these footsteps will be your last (you hear?)

[Green]
I didn't know if the sun was shining
I don't know if it's night or day
I didn't care 'bout the dark clouds, baby
I'm watching Salome
I took a blade to the Vale of Galen
I cut out, baby, I shut down
I took a vow to be true to someone
Who watched my sorrow drown

All of us start, the moon and stars above
Oh all of that hurt, girl, I got to stay in love
All of us heard that nothing else will do
All of the girls say it's gotta be:
I wrote you a letter and I told you "you were dead"
Ooh la la laa, ooh la la laa

[rappers]
Oh shit, it don't quit, so don't trip (just push the button)
Now all soundboy
When you set out on this journey
Make sure you step with surety

[Green]
I'm cuttin' down on the stuff I'm thinking
Too much 'umm' drives a man insane
Promised my world to a girl forever
Now she can't take the blame.
I should have gone where the sun was shining
Green can't come to the 'phone right now (my baby)
I could have shone like a dark star, baby
Like baby won't allow

All of us start, the moon and stars above
Oh all of that hurt, girl, I got to stay in love
All of us heard that nothing else will do
All of the girls say it's gotta be:
I wrote you a letter and I told you "you were dead"
Ooh la la laa, ooh la la laa
I wrote you a letter and I told you "you were dead"
Ooh la la laa, ooh la la laa

[Ndegeocello]
How many times have I loved you?
How many times have I said I'm thinking of you?
When you was hurting, how many times did I rub you?
Hug you and I dug you, thought nobody's above you
Laugh if you want to or you can even
Walk past if you want to, want to (I warned you, haunt you)
And in ya dreams I'm a stalk you
I taught, look at everything you gone through

When you spoke of walk through, so sick
And I'm a sick man (man)
Inna sick land (land)
With no plan, same old shit, man
Same old quicksand taking me under
Same old nightclub, same old number
Same uncertainty making me wonder
Same old lightning (quiet) thunder

I'm enda my rope, girl, there's nowhere to run to
I can't stop (stop), don't stop (stop)
Don't stop (stop), can't drop
And I'm getting to my roadblock
I can't let it go to my head
So I wrote you a letter, it said:
You was dead
Yeah.

(Keep slipping
Time keep slipping)

Yo, the only thing Majors don't waste is time in bed
My timing is rare, take time, time to prepare
No time for fear, how many times I said it this year?
What time ya going to realise the time is near
Call a time out Scritti Politti Majors climb down
The cracks in the streets waste no time on beats
Most def, mos definitely, the rap sheet
The new release, time to make cream, time to take a piece,
And at the same time, time to build, time is rilla
I swear I bring the heat, the tracks to Val Kilmer.
You know that time waits for no man, in time you'll see
That you're wasting all your time while you watchin' TV
And yo Scritti, I'm on it like walls to graffiti,
From night sticks to punches to NYPD
From new smell of B.B. King you see me fine (what)
You stay away from time man just wasting your time

Ya Timetables keep turning - like tinseltown
You've got the both ends burning - to the boogie down
(Time-time keeps slipping)
They play for time
And work for spaces
Timetables keep turning - and clocks are wound
You've got the both ends burning - and worked around
And in their prime
They change their faces

Yeah, from boogiedown to tinseltown, I had 'em all gettin' down
My baggage claim's got exotic names, I get around
How I'm living now well that's a whole lot different now
From where I'm sittin' at I got a whole different vision now.
I play the tables hard, wild cards I was flipping down
My partner's sitting pat somewhere off in prison now
I'm flipping out they switch chains so suddenly
The way you act today is the cause where you wanna be
Your company shift when you start livin' comfortably
The spotlight switch and then you get right from under me
Don't front with me, I want to be perfectly clear
Time is here I'm keeping yesterday in the rear
A current affair most definitely Majors appear
But the rock is sitting pretty with the Scritti you hear
And it's a block that time sitting you could there, would you?
Sit back and look cuz time ???? you


Timetables keep turning - like tinseltown
You've got the both ends burning - to the boogie down
(Time-time keeps slipping)
They play for time
And work for spaces
Timetables keep turning - and clocks are wound
You've got the both ends burning - and worked around
And in their prime
They change their faces

Yeah
Now one time I thought I had it all
Mass of broads, flash awards, cash cards,
Time's a double-edged sword,
One day you hear applause next day when you leave
You catch an L in the C like Christopher Reeves
But y'all believe that this pass through dirt in my name
Give 'em time because you ain't if I ?? 'em point game
At time I used to swerve now I'm learning my lane
Trapped in time what a shame with no one to blame.
You waste of no one cuz that's slow one, because you're no fun
Standing like a shogun, ??? drinking no rum
Hey Yoda, you better how do it like you closer
'Cuz time keep slipping, make no difference if you don't come
It's me you want record and how he's ???? advisory
Get our game and do our thing and spend these moments wisely
It's time to make chase get pace, no time to waste
First you on then you gone, so long, you've been replaced

Timetables keep turning - like county high
You've got the both ends burning - to the do or die
(Time-time keeps slipping)
They set their hearts
And fix their courses
The timetables keep turning - and dreams of dreams
You've got the both ends burning up - of how it seems
They steel themselves
They are resources

Timetables keep turning - like tinseltown
You've got the both ends burning up - to the boogie down
(Time-time keeps slipping)
They play for time
And work for spaces
Timetables keep turning - and clocks are wound
You've got the both ends burning - and worked around
And in their prime
They change their faces

Timetables keep turning
You've got the both ends burning up
And all the lies you been learning
You keep the future ??
Timetables keep turning
You've got the both ends burning up
And all your lies you been learning
You keep the future ??

> To do what I should do
to long for you to hear
I open up my heart ...
and watch her name appear
A word for you to use
a girl without a cause
A name for what you lose
when it was never yours
The first time baby that I came to you
I'd do things that you want me to
The second time baby that I came to you
Oh you found my love for you
The third time baby that I came to you
Oh Oh Oh I knew
The last time baby that I came to you
Oh how your flesh and blood became the word
Name the girl outgrew the girl was never real
She stands for your abuse
the girl is no ideal
It's a word for what you do
in a world of broken rules
She found a place for you
along her chain of fools
The first time baby that I came to you
I'd do things that you want me to
The second time baby that I came to you
Oh you found my love for you
The third time baby that I came to you
Oh Oh Oh I knew
The last time baby that I came to you
Oh how your flesh and blood became the word--------
O M Acha

> To do what I should do
to long for you to hear
I open up my heart ...
and watch her name appear
A word for you to use
a girl without a cause
A name for what you lose
when it was never yours
The first time baby that I came to you
I'd do things that you want me to
The second time baby that I came to you
Oh you found my love for you
The third time baby that I came to you
Oh Oh Oh I knew
The last time baby that I came to you
Oh how your flesh and blood became the word
Name the girl outgrew the girl was never real
She stands for your abuse
the girl is no ideal
It's a word for what you do
in a world of broken rules
She found a place for you
along her chain of fools
The first time baby that I came to you
I'd do things that you want me to
The second time baby that I came to you
Oh you found my love for you
The third time baby that I came to you
Oh Oh Oh I knew
The last time baby that I came to you
Oh how your flesh and blood became the word--------
O M Acha

Sweetest girl in all the world
His eyes are for you only
Sweetest girl in all the world
His eyes are for you only
Sweetest girl in all the world
His words have died before me
Sweetest girl in all the world
His words have died before me

When they walk in the park, I never can tell
When they walk in the dark, I never can tell
It's just loving - ooh loving

The sweetest boy in all the world
His life has got so lonely
Sweetest boy in all the world
His life has got so lonely
Sickest group in all the world
How could they do this to me
The sickest group in all the world
How could they do this to me

What I want I will take, what you think that you know
Oh such an awful mistake to never let go
It's just loving - ooh loving



The weakest link in every chain
I always want to find it
The strongest words in each belief
Find out what's behind it
Politics is pride too
Vagaries of science
She left because she understood
The value of defiance

When the government falls, I wish I could tell
When, oh when necessity calls, I never can tell
It's just loving - ooh loving

Sweetest girl in all the world
These words are for you only
Sweetest girl in all the world
These words have died before me

When they walk in the park, I never can tell
When they walk in the dark, you know that it never can be told

Sweetest girl in all the world
His eyes are for you only
Sweetest girl in all the world
His eyes are for you only
Sweetest girl in all the world
His words have died before me
Sweetest girl in all the world
His words have died before me

When they walk in the park, I never can tell
When they walk in the dark, I never can tell
It's just loving - ooh loving

The sweetest boy in all the world
His life has got so lonely
Sweetest boy in all the world
His life has got so lonely
Sickest group in all the world
How could they do this to me
The sickest group in all the world
How could they do this to me

What I want I will take, what you think that you know
Oh such an awful mistake to never let go
It's just loving - ooh loving



The weakest link in every chain
I always want to find it
The strongest words in each belief
Find out what's behind it
Politics is pride too
Vagaries of science
She left because she understood
The value of defiance

When the government falls, I wish I could tell
When, oh when necessity calls, I never can tell
It's just loving - ooh loving

Sweetest girl in all the world
These words are for you only
Sweetest girl in all the world
These words have died before me

When they walk in the park, I never can tell
When they walk in the dark, you know that it never can be told

Get you girl - a part of this world
?Take it and show you nothing is ever what it seems?
Get you girl - a matter of fact
?Teach you a lesson nothing is ever more than dreams

You got it girl with the sugar and spice
?Story of a love in a lost paradise (another day baby)
?Hot and the sweet girl - a word of advice?
Hit me up with a shot of the sugar and spice (anyway baby)

Let you girl - alone to believe?
In a measure for measure in a three standard stoppages for you?
Get you girl - a test of your love?
Don't try and tell me how tough at the top it is for you

You got it girl with the sugar and spice?
Story of a love in a lost paradise (another day baby)
?Hot and the sweet girl - a word of advice?
Hit me up with a shot of the sugar and spice (anyway baby)

(sugar and spice, everything nice
Sugar, looks so nice... everything is nice sugar)

You got it girl with the sugar and spice?
Story of a love in a lost paradise (another day baby)
?Hot and the sweet girl - a word of advice?
Hit me up with a shot of the sugar and spice (anyway baby)
You got it girl with the sugar and spice
?Story of a love in a lost paradise (another day baby)

Get you girl - the best of both worlds?
Do the puppy dog for me girl
?Sugar and spices here for you?
Get you girl - got a way to make it better?
Take it and show you?Sugar and spices here for you

(sugar and spice, the best of both worlds)

Small talk
Small talk
Small talk

Ooh we're tired of prophesying
We heard the word was good but it's stupefying
Small talk get up and do some death defying small talk

I heard a whisper
that careless talk costs more than you bargained for
In seventh heaven if a thing's worth doing it's worth doing badly

Small talk oh baby it's so inconsequential
Everybody heard enough about your big potential
Small talk oh no information given small talk

Small talk oh well your such a little socialite
We heard your chit chat now you get it up and get it right
Small talk oh show us what your made of baby small talk

Small talk
Small talk
Small talk

Ooh we're tired of prophesying
We heard the word was good but it's stupefying
Small talk get up and do some death defying small talk

I heard a whisper
that careless talk costs more than you bargained for
In seventh heaven if a thing's worth doing it's worth doing badly

Small talk oh baby it's so inconsequential
Everybody heard enough about your big potential
Small talk oh no information given small talk

Small talk oh well your such a little socialite
We heard your chit chat now you get it up and get it right
Small talk oh show us what your made of baby small talk

Sex sex sex - well don't bush around the beat
This is the soul of indiscretion so let's get indiscreet, yeah
Sex sex sex - watch you break out in a sweat
It's what you gonna get
Sex sex sex (uh-huh) - but you got the motion that the boys and
girls all wanna touch and take it home
Just cut that small talk 'n' the floorplay
Just cut that cute display
(get it up, get it on)
Just cut that chi chi 'n' machismo
I said oh oh oh

Sex sex sex - well you came here just to dance
Well c'est ci bon don't worry it's the same jouissance, yeah
Sex sex sex - don't ever let that go
You find any reason for what you wanna do now
But you got the motion that the boys 'n' girls all wanna touch and take it home
Get up and jump to debasement
Get up and masterstroke
(get it up, get it on)
Amoral disarmament baby
I said oh oh oh - yeah

Sex sex sex - well your angle is acute
You gotta lotta finesse in your sharkskin suit now
Sex sex sex - you don't need no excuse
Your body has a function so you put it to a use, yeah
But you got the motion that the boys 'n' girls all wanna touch and take it home
Just cut that small talk 'n' the floorplay
Just cut that cute display
(get it up, get it on)
Amoral disarmament baby
I said oh oh oh - yeah

Sex sex sex

Sex sex sex - c'mon 'n' break that rule
Let's break t into pieces that are long 'n' sweet 'n' cool, yeah
Sex sex sex (oooh)- you ain't got no money
But you will afford to loosen up and let it go
Get up and jump to debasement
Get up and masterstroke
(get it up, get it on)
Just cut that chi chi 'n' machismo
I said oh oh oh - yeah

Sex sex sex - well let's lay it on the line
You can let me know with your eyes an' I'll let you know with mine, yeah
Sex sex sex - but don't bush around the beat
This is the soul of indiscretion, let's get indiscreet, yeah

You got the motion that the boys and girls all wanna touch and take it home
Just cut that small talk 'n' the floorplay
Just cut that cute display
(get it up, get it on)
Amoral disarmament baby
I said oh oh oh - yeah

The girls are hip 'n' the men are divine
'n' everything is gin and roses
You are new to me an' I'm so happy
You can whisper and I will listen
The world becomes a motion picture
I got it beat oh I got it licked, yeah
Rock-a-girl blue
It seems so sad

But the film goes dim like a faraway star
A frozen frame like silver paper
When the kissing gets very hard
Just to try and get at something
When the representatives turn to leaders
As long as you know as long as you need us
We'll be there
You know it's true

Don't they love like a rock-a-boy should
Don't they rock like lonely lovers
Don't they want to make the money
Don't they want to be the Beatles
Things ain't clear, they're just transparent
The trick of the trade is to make them apparent-ly
Rock-a-boy blue
You know that I said that you know that

I learnt to live with the beats in the bar
Made me sick with repetition
I learnt to love that one note samba
No surprise or definition
I guess I can learn to love what I'm used to
If you can get used to just getting used by
Rock-a-boy blue
Baby, then more fool you

I learnt to live with the beats in the bar
That made me sick with repetition
I learnt to love that one note samba
No surprise or definition
I guess I can learn to love what I'm used to
If you can get used to just getting used by
Rock-a-boy blue
Baby, more fool you

I just wanted to be so happy girl 'cos I want you baby I do want you baby?
Got to believe the doctor girl he told me yesterday (yes he did)?
Said you don't need the pharmacology 'cos I want you baby I do want you baby
?Don't need the cardiology to have a change of heart?

You gotta new and dangerous condition boy?
He said you know you're gonna lose your own volition boy
?Philosophy now

Oh for a girl (the bomb baby) Fix me a world (the blue shoes)?
Oh for it stirred or it shaken (to get to know you)?
Pull me through (the bomb baby) what can I do? (the blue shoes)?
Oh now I know I'm mistaken (to get to love you)

Could you get me a new philosophy 'cos I want you baby I do want you baby?
I got to see a prophet girl before the day is out (yes I do)
?And I don't want apothecary girl 'cos I want you baby I do want you baby
?I got to see the Avatar to talk the world away

?You gotta new and dangerous condition boy
?He said you know you're gonna lose your own volition boy?
Philosophy now

I took a backseat a backhander I took her back to her room
I better get back to the basics for you
You gotta conscience compassion you got away with the word
You gotta heart full of complacency too
I don't have a purpose omission I'm empty by definition
I got a lack girl that you'd love to be
You wanna diva a deduction you wanna do what they do
Wanna do damage that you can undo
Apart from everyone away from your love
A part of me belongs apart from all the hurt above
I got a perfect way to make a new proposition
I got a perfect way to make a justification
I got a perfect way to make a certain a maybe
I got a perfect way to make the girls go crazy
I took a day job amendment I took a liking to you
I took a page out of my rulebook for you
You wanna message a confession you wanna martyr me too
You wanna margin of error for two
Maybe tomorrow the next letter or when the weather gets better
I've got to wait here for your moon to turn blue
I made an offer an exception I made a sense out of you
You took a good look at your book but I knew
In times of tenderness in terms baby so true
Until such time as I can understand all the things you do
Want to forgive you for all the things that you do
Wanna forget how to remember with you
Maybe tomorrow the next letter or when the weather gets better
I've got to wait here for your moon to turn blue
This is a perfect way to make a new proposition
This is a perfect way to make a justification
This is a perfect way to make a certain a maybe
This is a perfect way to make the girls go crazy

I took a backseat a backhander I took her back to her room
I better get back to the basics for you
You gotta conscience compassion you got away with the word
You gotta heart full of complacency too
I don't have a purpose omission I'm empty by definition
I got a lack girl that you'd love to be
You wanna diva a deduction you wanna do what they do
Wanna do damage that you can undo
Apart from everyone away from your love
A part of me belongs apart from all the hurt above
I got a perfect way to make a new proposition
I got a perfect way to make a justification
I got a perfect way to make a certain a maybe
I got a perfect way to make the girls go crazy
I took a day job amendment I took a liking to you
I took a page out of my rulebook for you
You wanna message a confession you wanna martyr me too
You wanna margin of error for two
Maybe tomorrow the next letter or when the weather gets better
I've got to wait here for your moon to turn blue
I made an offer an exception I made a sense out of you
You took a good look at your book but I knew
In times of tenderness in terms baby so true
Until such time as I can understand all the things you do
Want to forgive you for all the things that you do
Wanna forget how to remember with you
Maybe tomorrow the next letter or when the weather gets better
I've got to wait here for your moon to turn blue
This is a perfect way to make a new proposition
This is a perfect way to make a justification
This is a perfect way to make a certain a maybe
This is a perfect way to make the girls go crazy

When I was seventeen (Tell us about it Green)
there was a world to know about (Check it out)
Everyday she'd call me (What'd she say?)
Is it over yet? Do you love me?

Overnite - and while your trouble's away
Under the stars up above - I'll build you another day
Close your eyes - I'll be home before it's light
And all the tears you cry - will dry in the dead of night

And now I'm in between (Tell us about it Green)
It all became a mystery (Check it out)
Everyday she calls me (What does she say?)
It is over yet? Do you believe them?

Overnite - and while your trouble's away
Under the stars up above - I'll build you another day
Close your eyes - I'll be home before it's light
And all the fears you have - will die in the dead of night

Someday - maybe soon - we could show them a way
I would love just to watch it falling
Oh my pretty one - show me a way

Overnite - I heard a satellite say
There'll be a wind from the west - to blow all your dreams away
Close your eyes - and maybe before it's light
Oh all the hopes that you have - will die in the dead of night

Hard that I'm gonna hear about you, oh about you, baby I do
Hard that I'm gonna be without you, oh without you, baby I do
I stand to lose if I love you, you stand to gain
We stand for all who believe in vain

Let's fall in love n' be glad to get it over, oh I'm over baby for you
Call him and tell him that it's over, oh it's over baby it's through
I got the time that you left me, you got the keys to his car
We've got the nerve to have got this far (far, far)

I'm tellin' you baby 'cos baby it's true
I'm gonna be the lover to fall for you
I'm tellin' you baby 'cos baby it's true
I'm gonna be the lover to fall for you
I'm tellin' you baby 'cos baby it's true
I'm gonna be the lover oh I'm gonna be the lover

Heard your the heroine of virtue ,oh I heard it, baby it's true
Heard how your honesty had hurt you, oh I heard it, baby it's true
I found a new hermeneutic, I found a new paradigm
I found a plan just to make you mine (mine, mine)

N' now I know that I need you to be near me oh mear me baby you do
Know that I need you girl to hear me oh you hear me baby I do
Come back n' give me a reason come back 'n take me away
Come back n' mean all the things you say (say, say)

I'm tellin' you baby 'cos baby it's true
I'm gonna be the lover to fall for you
I'm tellin' you baby 'cos baby its kiss
There's gonna be a day when the rich get this
I'm tellin' you baby 'cos baby it's true
I'm gonna be the lover oh I'm gonna be the lover

Heard your the heroine of virtue, oh I heard it, baby it's true
Heard how your honesty had hurt you, oh I heard it, baby it's true
Know that I need you to be near me oh mear me baby you do
Know that I need you girl to hear me oh you hear me baby I do
Love n' be glad to get it over, oh I'm over baby for you

Hard that I'm gonna hear about you, oh about you, baby I do
Hard that I'm gonna be without you, oh without you, baby I do
I stand to lose if I love you, you stand to gain
We stand for all who believe in vain

Let's fall in love n' be glad to get it over, oh I'm over baby for you
Call him and tell him that it's over, oh it's over baby it's through
I got the time that you left me, you got the keys to his car
We've got the nerve to have got this far (far, far)

I'm tellin' you baby 'cos baby it's true
I'm gonna be the lover to fall for you
I'm tellin' you baby 'cos baby it's true
I'm gonna be the lover to fall for you
I'm tellin' you baby 'cos baby it's true
I'm gonna be the lover oh I'm gonna be the lover

Heard your the heroine of virtue ,oh I heard it, baby it's true
Heard how your honesty had hurt you, oh I heard it, baby it's true
I found a new hermeneutic, I found a new paradigm
I found a plan just to make you mine (mine, mine)

N' now I know that I need you to be near me oh mear me baby you do
Know that I need you girl to hear me oh you hear me baby I do
Come back n' give me a reason come back 'n take me away
Come back n' mean all the things you say (say, say)

I'm tellin' you baby 'cos baby it's true
I'm gonna be the lover to fall for you
I'm tellin' you baby 'cos baby its kiss
There's gonna be a day when the rich get this
I'm tellin' you baby 'cos baby it's true
I'm gonna be the lover oh I'm gonna be the lover

Heard your the heroine of virtue, oh I heard it, baby it's true
Heard how your honesty had hurt you, oh I heard it, baby it's true
Know that I need you to be near me oh mear me baby you do
Know that I need you girl to hear me oh you hear me baby I do
Love n' be glad to get it over, oh I'm over baby for you

My diplomacy, my security, my hope and my ice-cream
My tomorrow and my temperature, my lips and my selfishness
My cigarette, my uncertainty, my penetration
My notebook and my limit, my importance and my glycerine
My customer, my function, my lawlessness, my charm
My hunger, my refusal, my tissue and my vodka
My ommission, my ability, my telephone and my holler
My relaxing, my distress, my bedroom, my cassette
My dictation and my pulse, my fortune and my death
My flake and my restlessness, my headache and my dirt
My paper and my charity, my rose and my pallor
My guess and my closet, my light 'n' my time
My worry, my perversity, my transgression
My temptation and my polythene, my gunshot
My jealousy and my water
My demands 'n' my angels 'n' my waiting 'n' my distance
My death, my curtness, my insulin, my memory
My partner 'n' my sadness, my story, my wantoness
My wish, my despair, my erasure, my plantation
My white chocolate, my thoughtlessness, my gracelessness
My courage and my crying, my pockets 'n' my mistakes
My body and my sex, my gaze and my helplessness
My letter, my sugar, my homework, my walk
My records, my smile and my struggle
My reflection, my eyelid, my fragility, my discretion
My hair, my austerity, my tattoo, my demise
My fooling and my terror, My problem and my judgement
Oh my disguise, my tongue
My ownership, my formula, my property, my thought, my razor
My blessing and my silence, my lust and my practise
My sincerity, my penecillin, my window and my androgyny
My mother, my recorder, my pity and my posing
My light, my carelessness, my drummer, my drummer, my drummer, my drummer
My tenderness 'n' my car, my undoing and my history
My bottle and my drugs, my drugs, my drugs
Tomorrow, my temperature, my lips and my selfishness
My cigarette, my uncertainty, my penetration, my notebook

My limit, my importance and my glycerine, my customer, my function
My lawlessness, my charm, my hunger
My refusal, my tissue and my vodka, my admission

My ability, my telephone and my holler, my relaxing
My distress, my bedroom, my restlessness, my headache
My dirt, y paper and my charity, my rose
My pallor, my guess and my closet
My light 'n' my time, my worry, my perversity
My transgression honey, my temptation honey
My polythene, my jealousy
My water, my demands, my angels
My waiting 'n' my distance, my death, my curtness, my insulin
My memory, my partner, my refrigerator
My sadness, my story, my wantoness, my skipping
My wish and my despair, my erasure, my plantation, my chocolate
My thoughtlessness, my gracelessness, my courage and my crying
My pockets, my homework
Like lions after slumber in unvanquishable number
Oh yeah.