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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

[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

I am a victim of my time
A product of my age
There's no choosing my direction
I was a holy man but now
With all my trials behind me
I am weak in my conviction

And so I walk to try to get away
Knowing that someday I will finally have to face
The fear that will come from knowing that
The one thing I had left was you
And now you're gone

You were a victim of my crimes
A product of my rage
You were a beautiful distraction
I kept you locked away outside
Let misery provide
And now I am ashamed

And so I walk to try to find a space
Where I can be alone to live with my mistakes
And the fear that will come
From knowing that the one thing
I had left was you
And now you're gone

[Chorus:]
Is there nothing at all
That I can do to turn your heart
Is there nothing to lean on
That could help erase the scars
Te quiero - me quiero
And I could use a little strength before I fall
Is there nothing at all

I am victim of my time
A product of the age
You alone are my obsession
You were the one I left behind
You've been heavy on my mind
It's been a lonely road I've traveled

And so I walk to try to get away
Knowing that someday I will finally have to face
The fear that will come from knowing that
The one thing I had left was you
And now you're gone

[Chorus:]
Is there nothing at all
That I can do to turn your heart
Is there nothing to lean on
That could help erase the scars
Te quiero - me quiero
And I could use a little strength before I fall
Is there nothing at all

I am a victim of my time
A product of my age
There's no choosing my direction
I was a holy man but now
With all my trials behind me
I am weak in my conviction

And so I walk to try to get away
Knowing that someday I will finally have to face
The fear that will come from knowing that
The one thing I had left was you
And now you're gone

You were a victim of my crimes
A product of my rage
You were a beautiful distraction
I kept you locked away outside
Let misery provide
And now I am ashamed

And so I walk to try to find a space
Where I can be alone to live with my mistakes
And the fear that will come
From knowing that the one thing
I had left was you
And now you're gone

[Chorus:]
Is there nothing at all
That I can do to turn your heart
Is there nothing to lean on
That could help erase the scars
Te quiero - me quiero
And I could use a little strength before I fall
Is there nothing at all

I am victim of my time
A product of the age
You alone are my obsession
You were the one I left behind
You've been heavy on my mind
It's been a lonely road I've traveled

And so I walk to try to get away
Knowing that someday I will finally have to face
The fear that will come from knowing that
The one thing I had left was you
And now you're gone

[Chorus:]
Is there nothing at all
That I can do to turn your heart
Is there nothing to lean on
That could help erase the scars
Te quiero - me quiero
And I could use a little strength before I fall
Is there nothing at all

Moi
je ne savais presque pas parler francais
quand on s'est connus tous les deux
de ton cote tu ne dis pas un mot d'anglais
mais tu devinais dans mes yeux
et nous etions heureux.

Tous les reves sont permis
pourtant
ce soir
je te quitte.
Ton coeur a change si vite
que nos reves sont finis.

Bye
bye
I love you
love you
c'etait le plus bel ete de ma vie.
I love you cheri.
Le coeur meurtri
je pars en laissant derriere moi
tant de peines

tant de jours

tant d'amour
avec toi.



Tous les reves sont permis
je t'aimais
j'avais confiance.
J'attendais de I'existence
ce que tu m'avais promis.

Tous les reves sont permis
tu n'as pas ete fidele.
Tu m'as fais pleurer pour elle
trop de fois tu m'as menti.

Bye
bye I love you
love you
. . .

Bye
bye I love you
love you . . .

Mais pour nous pardonner

reg rette r

et s'aimer
comme avant.

When the feeling takes me over, what else can I do but run?
Through the corridors I follow, I shoot into oblivion;
If you close your eyes and listen, you can hear the children play,
I love it when their eyes are watching, I'll have it when they disobey.

It's a different kind of loving, such a dirty rigmarole,
But just in case there's no tomorrow, I'll bring fire from their souls;
If you close your eyes and listen, you can hear the children shout,
I hate it but I won't be happy till I've turned them inside out.

All day long, here I go!
All day long, all day!

If I won't live a lie it's in my self defense
That I remember hiding then
If I'm eroding all the innocence
Am I running rigid once again?
And he won't hear me now in the darkest hour
I'll never see him now
Oh I can take the mystery in the darkest hour
And he won't hurt me now
If we are lost in paradise
Our recollection all but gone
We will make the only sacrifice
For the strength to carry on
In spite of everything I recognize the end
And feel the scars that never heal
I keep the purity, buried as I am
In an effort to conceal
Don't underestimate what I've retained
All my souvenirs, forget-me-nots,
I'll pretend all you want me to
I won't believe it if you don't
Burn it up again, it's here and I've
Let it live through other stolen lives
Save your hollow breath
Feast your tired eyes
You need protection as well as I
Nothing any good ever came from me
Thought I could run you in the ground
What do I do, what kind of fool
Covers you like an animal?
Out of the way,
I'm anyone wilder than you are
Anyone who ever had a heart
Wouldn't deny me
Woe betide the one, not to be outdone,
Who will remember all that stuff,
Didn't I say it then enough?
If I could let it be, I would
Start it again, when does it end?
I'm in there somewhere
Nobody can carry me over
Now the dead winds have blown
With the cold rains
If I should fall from your side
Keep it in your mind
How I tried to keep him here
How I promised he'd be safe
And he never said a word
And he never cried
Another day leads me on
And I will follow
Whatever it takes now, I'll do
If it's over
And he won't hurt me now, I know

They took the man from out of town
They won't believe his alibi
And on that day the sky fell down
I swear I heard that young boy cry
He told them:--
I'm no ordinary
In your eyes I never will be
I'm strange and peculiar.
Drive on, Drive on,
I want to go to paradise
Drive on, Drive on,
The feeling cuts me like a knife
Drive on, Drive on.
The rains came late again this year
The crops won't grow without the sun
It's better there than over here
When will Dreamtime come?
He told them:--
I'm no ordinary
In your eyes I never will be
I'm strange and peculiar.
Drive on, Drive on...
I want to go to Paradise
Drive on, Drive on
The feeling cuts me like a knife
Don't lose your head
Just take your time
Can't you see if I'm worth having
I'm worth waiting for.

I can feel the movement
Growing all around me everywhere
I can hear the language of the revolution every day

If you pledge to join me
We can fight for reason everywhere
All the things we wished for
Are ours for the asking anyway

Many years ago we lived here
All too soon our hopes were drowned
Now as if I never knew you
Life goes on in different towns
and I can walk round you, past you, through you
Because you're only ghosts now
Yes, I can walk round you, past you, through you
Because you're only ghosts now

Somehow in this silent city
A little of us still remains
Mingled with the distant laughter
Fused with dust in future rains
And I can walk round you, past you, through you
Because you're only ghosts now
Yes, I can walk round you, past you, through you
Because you're only ghosts now

Moi
je ne savais presque pas parler francais
quand on s'est connus tous les deux
de ton cote tu ne dis pas un mot d'anglais
mais tu devinais dans mes yeux
et nous etions heureux.

Tous les reves sont permis
pourtant
ce soir
je te quitte.
Ton coeur a change si vite
que nos reves sont finis.

Bye
bye
I love you
love you
c'etait le plus bel ete de ma vie.
I love you cheri.
Le coeur meurtri
je pars en laissant derriere moi
tant de peines

tant de jours

tant d'amour
avec toi.



Tous les reves sont permis
je t'aimais
j'avais confiance.
J'attendais de I'existence
ce que tu m'avais promis.

Tous les reves sont permis
tu n'as pas ete fidele.
Tu m'as fais pleurer pour elle
trop de fois tu m'as menti.

Bye
bye I love you
love you
. . .

Bye
bye I love you
love you . . .

Mais pour nous pardonner

reg rette r

et s'aimer
comme avant.