Lyrics 

Anomie & Bonhomie   

All typed by James Lawrence

Thank you for the impossible effort!

 

All songs are written by Green Gartside and published by Chrysalis Music Ltd, except 'Umm' and 'Prince Among Men'(written by Green Gartside and Lee Majors, published by Chrysalis Music Ltd/Copyright control), 'Tinseltown To The Boogiedown' and 'Dead Certainty' (written by Green Gartside, Lee Majors and Mos' Def, published by Chrysalis Music Ltd/Copyright control/EMI Music Publishing Ltd),?and 'Smith 'n' Slappy' (written by Green Gartside and Mos' Def, published by Chrysalis Music Ltd/EMI Music Publishing Ltd).

 

Umm

Tinseltown To The Boogiedown

First Goodbye 

Die Alone

Mystic Handyman

Smith 'n' Slappy

Born To Be 

The World You Understand (Is Over & Over & Over)

Here Come July

Prince Among Men 

Brushed With Oil, Dusted With Powder 

Dead Certainty 

 


 

Umm

RAPPER: God damn, body slam, programme a jam (just push the button) 
Now this is a warning, yeah 
But you're not listening 
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 didn't know if it's night or day 
I didn't care 'bout the dark cloud, 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 

RAPPER: Oh shit, it don't quit, so don't trip (just push the button) 
Now all soundboy 
When you set out on the 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 

RAPPER: 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

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Tinseltown To The Boogiedown 

FEMALE: Time keeps slipping, keeps slipping 

RAPPER: Yeah, the only thing Major don't waste is time in bed 
My time is rare, take time, time to prepare 
No time for fear, how many times I said it this year? 
At what time ya going to realise that time is near? 
Call a time out, Scritti Politti, Major climb down 
The cracks of the streets waste no time on beats 
Mos' Def most definitely the rap chief 
The new release, time to make cream, time to take a piece 

And at the same time, time to rebuild, 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 you time while you're watching TV 
And yo' Scritti, I'm on it like walls to graffiti 
From night sticks, to plungers, to NYPD 
From Lucille BB King, you've seen me rhyme 
You stay away from drama if it's wasting your time 

RAPPER: The time tables keep turning 
GREEN: From Tinseltown 
RAPPER: You've got the both ends burning up 
GREEN: To the Boogiedown (time, time keeps slipping) 
They play for time and work for spaces 

RAPPER: The time tables keep turning 
GREEN: And clocks are wound 
RAPPER: You've got the both ends burning up 
GREEN: And worked around (time, time keeps slipping) 
And in their prime they change their faces 

RAPPER: Yeah, from Boogiedown to the Tinseltown I had em' all gettin' down 

My baggage claim's got exotic names, I get around 
How I'm livin' now, well that's a whole lot different now 
From where I'm sitting now, got a whole clearer vision now 
I played the tables hard, wild cards I was flipping now 
My partners hittin' pounds, somewhere up in prison now 
I'm flippin' high, things switch and change so suddenly 
The way you act today is tomorrow's where you wanna be 

You company shifts when you start livin' comfortably 
Spotlights switch and then you dip right from under me 
Don't front for me, I want to be perfectly clear 
Time is here, I'm keepin' yesterday in the rear 
A current affair, Mos' Def and Lee Majors appear 
Bout to write this little ditty with the Scritti, you hear 
And it's about that time, so if you could be then would you 
Sit back and look at who time's bein' good to 

RAPPER: The time tables keep turning 
GREEN: From Tinseltown 
RAPPER: You've got the both ends burning up 
GREEN: To the Boogiedown (time, time keeps slipping) 
They play for time and work for spaces 

RAPPER: The time tables keep turning 
GREEN: And clocks are wound 
RAPPER: You've got the both ends burning up 
GREEN: And worked around (time, time keeps slipping) 
And in their prime they change their faces 

RAPPER: At 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 a L in the C like Christopher Reeves 
D'you all believe that these cats threw dirt on my name? 
Give 'em time, they couldn't win if I gave 'em point game 
At times I used to swerve, now I'm learning my lane 
Trapped in time, what a shame, with nobody to blame 

I waits for no-one, and fat 'n' slow ones, the rich no-funs 
The Samurais 'n' Shoguns, the first stringer no-runs 
A yo gun, you'd better hope to it or you blow son 
This time keeps slipping, make no difference if you don't come 
It's bein' well recorded how we advise we 
Get on our game and spend these moments wisely 
It's time to make chase, give pace, no time to waste 
First you on, then you gone so long, you been replaced 

RAPPER: The time tables keep turning 
GREEN: From Cali High 
RAPPER: You've got the both ends burning up 
GREEN: To the do or die (time, time keeps slipping) 
They set their hearts and fix their courses 

RAPPER: The time tables keep turning 
GREEN: An' dreams of dreams 
RAPPER: You've got the both ends burning up 
GREEN: Of how it seems (time, time keeps slipping) 
They steel themselves, they are resources 

RAPPER: The time tables keep turning 
GREEN: From Tinseltown 
RAPPER: You've got the both ends burning up 
GREEN: To the Boogiedown (time, time keeps slipping) 
They play for time and work for spaces 

RAPPER: The time tables keep turning 
GREEN: And clocks are wound 
RAPPER: You've got the both ends burning up 
GREEN: And worked around (time, time keeps slipping) 
And in their prime they change their faces 

RAPPER: The time tables keep turning 
You've got the both ends burning up 
And all the lies you've been learning 
To keep the future on hold 
The time tables keep turning 
You've got the both ends burning up 
And all the lies you've been learning 
To keep the future on hold

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First Goodbye 
Sung by Green only 

Then I got my first goodbye 
I didn't know what hit me 'til I felt the tears in my eyes 
I was sure that you loved me 
Only goes to show how wrong a heart can be 

They played a song that took me back, girl 
I closed my eyes and we were there in John Frost Square 
It's only now that I realise, girl 
I threw away my one true love 
I watched us standing at the station 
And you were cold and oh you cried, how I lied 
I told you then I didn't need you, girl 
'Cause I was cool and on my way 

Then I got my first goodbye 
I didn't know what hit me 'til I felt the tears in my eyes 
I was sure that you loved me 
Only goes to show how wrong a heart can be 

And then I put my past behind me 
And life was good and times were high, and I could fly 
Even then a voice would find me 
And say your name, and ask me why 
And so in time I tried to find you 
I sent a message care of Sarah, and you were there and said: 
"I was time you put behind you" 
And now you're happy and so in love 

Then I got my first goodbye 
I didn't know what hit me 'til I felt the tears in my eyes 
I was sure that you loved me 
Only goes to show how wrong a heart can be 

It's only now I realise, girl 
Ooh yeah 

Then I got my first goodbye 
I didn't know what hit me 'til I felt the tears in my eyes 
In my eyes (in my eyes) 
In my eyes (ooh baby) 
In my eyes (you made me cry) 
In my eyes 

Then I got my first goodbye 
I didn't know what hit me 'til I felt the tears in my eyes 
I was sure that you loved me 
Only goes to show how wrong a heart can be

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Die Alone 

RAPPER: Disconnected inter-connected, I wrecked it 
GREEN: Not what the letter of the law suspected 
RAPPER: Candy and Sublime are friends of mine 
Maybe I'll have met 'em in the mists of time 
Whenever hold tight to what (what) to whatever I got 
And how I'm going to get to the whether or not 
GREEN: We oughta see through this 
RAPPER: Oh we do this yeah 
BOTH: Discencus is our word for today, now is that OK? 

FEMALE: Round and round 
Round and round 
GREEN: Round and round and round 

RAPPER: I'll make an incision, sleep like volcano (oh yeah, it's not 
better) 
I'll make the confession, good 'cause I say so (oh yeah, it's not better) 
I'll make an admission, big like neutrino (oh yeah, it's not better) 
I'll make a decision, I'm all ones and zeros 

GREEN: Throw me up 'n' come over 
Throw me down 'n' come under 
Roll around in the clover and wonder 
So you were the alone 
Since I was a boy 
Hold 'em down and we know you'll die alone 

RAPPER: Yeah, let a thousand thoughts contend 
I can hear myself thinking but it all depends 
GREEN: It's like a Tower of Babel 
RAPPER: Unable to get your fix on it 
GREEN: Get your kicks on it 
RAPPER: I bet you're sick with it, tell you how it is 
White grey for your livelong day 
GREEN: Refrigerator humming 
RAPPER: You're going or 
BOTH: You're coming 
RAPPER: You're numb enough to tolerate the pain 
The penalty for gaining an insight, damn right 

FEMALE: Round and round 
GREEN: Round and round and round 
FEMALE: Round and round 
GREEN: Round and round and round 

RAPPER: I'll make an incision, sleep like volcano (oh yeah, it's not 
better) 
I'll make the confession, good 'cause I say so (oh yeah, it's not better) 
I'll make an admission, big like neutrino (oh yeah, it's not better) 
I'll make a decision, I'm all ones and zeros 

GREEN: Throw me up 'n' come over 
Throw me down 'n' come under 
Roll around in the clover and wonder 
So you were the alone 
Since I was a boy 
Hold 'em down and we know you'll die alone 

We know you by now 
We know you by now 

Throw me up 'n' come over 
Throw me down 'n' come under 
Throw me up 'n' come over 
Throw me down 'n' come under

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Mystic Handyman
Sung by Green only 

Mystic Handyman (oh oh ooh), my little girl 
Can you bring a little sweetness into my bitter life? 
'Cause the woman I love has got to let me go 
I will remember her 

She's the one that made me happy 
She's the girl that drove me crazy 

Mr Gregory (oh oh ooh), coo-ooh 
Can you sing a weeping willow and oh my tumbling tears 
'Cause the woman I love has set herself above 
The things I bring to her 

She's the one that made me happy 
She's the girl that drove me crazy 

I'll never forget her 
How she could turn my heart around 
She'll leave me a letter 
It's telling me how it hurts to go 
How she loves me so 

Mr Number one (oh oh ooh), b-b-b-bah 
Ba ba ba bah, b-b-bah, b-b-bah, b-b-bah, b-b-bah 
Oh you know I'll miss her so 
I-I-I ba bah 

She's the one that made me happy 
She's the girl that drove me crazy 

I'll never forget her 
How she could turn my heart around 
She'll leave me a letter 
It's telling me how it hurts to go 
How she loves me so 

I never have loved her 
Not if she leaves me and 
That's not the way 
It should be like now 
Show me how 

Mystic Handyman (oh oh ooh), that little girl 
Can you bring a little sweetness into my bitter life? 
'Cause the woman I know has got to let me go 
I will remember her 

She's the one that made me happy 
She's the girl that drove me crazy 
She's the one that made me happy 
The girl that drove me crazy 

She's the one that made me happy 
She's the girl that drove me crazy 
She's the one that made me happy 
She's the one that drove me crazy 

She's the one that made me happy 
She's the girl that drove me crazy 
She's the one that made me happy 
The girl that drove me crazy 

She's the one that made me happy 
She's the girl that drove me crazy 
The one that made me happy 
She's the girl that drove me crazy 

She's the one that made me happy 
She's the girl that drove me crazy 
She's the one that made me happy 
She's the girl that drove me crazy

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Smith 'n' Slappy

RAPPER: Hey, what you want, baby? 
Ha-ha, it's what you need, baby 
Ha, what you feel baby? 
Ha-ha, I got all of that 
True indeed indeed indeed 
I got it, ha-ha 
I got it, yeah yeah 
I got it, I got it, I got it 

GREEN: I got a Smith 'n' Slappy grind for you (what you got now?) 
I got your payment here in kind for you (what you got now?) 
I've got a piece of never mind for you (how'd you get that?) 
I've gotten over underlinin' you in red 

RAPPER: Recall Marley dealin' it, big willin' it 
How you feelin' it? Watch the snow bird gonna fly the whole world 
Speak with forked tongue, and the beating down the war drum 
In your schemes and dreams of fortune walk one 
Caution! keep the chin up, blink the eye out 
Keep the infidel with the wishing well to dry out 
Find out they only lie about what they cry out 
Architect-designed but psyche psyche their mind out 

Time out, expect that, correct that, check that 
They put you on a setback, bounce like a jet pack 
Promises and guaranties by modern day pharisees 
They use familiarity to push peculiarity 
Bubblin' hot, trouble 'n' spot, bomba claat 
Kids framin' the biz, claimin' they is what they're not 
Most definitely Scritti Politti on the dot 
Me and Green on the stage, get you need, so we got 

GREEN: Come 'n' rock-a me now 
Come and teach your teacher how 
Come 'n' shock-a me now 
Gonna show the people how (c'mon bring me party) 

Come 'n' rock-a me now 
Come and teach your teacher how 
Come 'n' shock-a me now 
Gonna show the people how (c'mon bring me party) 

I've got a dark and canine day for you (what you got now?) 
I've got tomorrow put away for you (what you got now?) 
I've got the tokens here to pay for you (how'd you got that?) 
I've got a not a lot to say for you, surprise 

RAPPER: Most definition, got more lines than a petition 
Lay you flat, break the track in half, like intermission 
With the raw rap, got your back like raw strap 
International like them pancakes, toss that 
World travellin' unravellin' the mystery cats who're dissin' me 
Get the boot like Italy, when I land like Sicily 
It'll be considerably warmer in the spot for those who got bad karma 
I'm gonna put it on you but for now 

I'm just chillin' 'cause I got that feeling 
If it don't move you then you're numb like penicillin 
Full committee with Politti, main objective gettin' busy 
From the shores of Green Medina to the home of Sarafina 
To the stairs of Catalina, everywhere inbetween that 
I'll make your whole denomination react, believe dat 
Ooh we at, top of the dial, rocking your file 
Sound clash number one to wear, this is how we're runnin' it 

GREEN: Come 'n' rock-a me now 
Come and teach your teacher how 
Come 'n' shock-a me now 
Gonna show the people how (c'mon bring me party) 

Come 'n' rock-a me now 
Come and teach your teacher how 
Come 'n' shock-a me now 
Gonna show the people how (c'mon bring me party) 

I got a Smith 'n' Slappy grind for you (what you got now?) 
I got your payment here in kind for you (what you got now?) 
I've got a piece of never mind for you (how'd you get that?) 
I've gotten over underlinin' you in red 

RAPPER: Movin' out like, what it sound like? 
Competition gets speechless in my thesis 
Resonatin' like the atco from the macho 
Getting busy from the get-go from you pet show, rough or gentle 
You recognise it's something special 
Acapella instrumental, all essential 
Use my pad and my pencil to draw the mental 
Got a number one again, yo, tell ya can't fall, bring it in bro' 

GREEN: Come 'n' rock-a me now 
Come and teach your teacher how 
Come 'n' shock-a me now 
Gonna show the people how (c'mon bring me party) 

Come 'n' rock-a me now 
Come and teach your teacher how 
Come 'n' shock-a me now 
Gonna show the people how (c'mon bring me party) 

Come 'n' rock-a me now 
Come and teach your teacher how 
Come 'n' shock-a me now 
Gonna show the people how (c'mon bring me party) 

Come 'n' rock-a me now 
Come and teach your teacher how 
Come 'n' shock-a me now 
Gonna show the people how (c'mon bring me party)

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Born To Be 
Sung by Green only 

I was born to be with you 
I was born by the way 
Born to betray 
I was born to be with you 

I was born to be with you 
I was born disinclined 
Out of kindness or mind 
I was born to be with you 

I believe that everyone can find their perfect match 
Millions are lonely, uninvolved and unattached 
You can count me among them if you can find me at all 
The man in the moon used to say I was born to be with you 

I was born to be with you 
I was born prepossessed 
Of your worst and your best 
I was born to be with you 

I was born to be with you 
Such a dumb thing to say 
Such a high price to pay 
To be born to be with you 

Destiny upside your head, and stars are in your hands 
I make no decisions, declarations or demands 
You can count all your blessings on the one hand of time 
The man in the moon used to say I was born to be with you 

Oh woah woah woah 
Woah woah woah woah 

I was born to be with you 
I decided today 
Who's to know, who's to say 
I was born to be with you 

Born to be with you 
Born to be with you (I decided) 
Born to be with you 
And no one can stop... 

Born to be with you(I was born) 
Born to be with you (now) 
Born to be with you (with you little girl) 
Born to be with you (you're in my hands) 

Born to be with you 
And no one can stop... 
Born to be with you (I've decided) 
Born to be with you (you're in my hands) 

Born to be with you 
Born to be with you 
Born to be with you (the stars are crossed) 
Born to be with you (over our town) 

Born to be with you 
Born to be with you

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The World You Understand (Is Over & Over & Over) 

RAPPER: And when you want that hip hop, beat bop, body rocking 
Give me something I can ride and ride 
GREEN: Something I heard 

RAPPER: And when you want that hip hop, back beat, [42nd] 
Give me something that the world can't hide 
GREEN: Something you said 

GREEN: I tell you who we are 
Eloise and Ebelard 
We turnin' Pere Lachaise 
Over and over and over 

RAPPER: And when you want that hip hop, beat bop, body rocking 
Give me something that the gods decide 
GREEN: Something I heard 

RAPPER: And when you want that hip hop, back beat, 42nd 
Give me something I can hold inside 
GREEN: Something you said 

GREEN: I tell you who we are 
Eloise and Ebelard 
We turnin' Pere Lachaise 
Over and over and over 

I came to conquer you 
Nothing else will ever do for me 
I wonder what you are 
The 4th of July, girl? 

It will get better now (you know what I mean) 
It will get better now 

RAPPER: And when you want that hip hop, beat bop, body rocking 
Give me something that the world can't hide 
GREEN: For nothing 
RAPPER: Tomorrow 
GREEN: Something I heard 

RAPPER: And when you want that hip hop, back beat, 42nd 
Give me something I can ride and ride 
GREEN: Far away 
RAPPER: For ever 
GREEN: Something I said (better now) 
Something you say (better now) 

GREEN: We got a warning here 
Coming at you loud and clear 
The world you understand 
Is over and over and over 
(And over and over and over) 

It doesn't bother you 
Nothing else will ever do for me 
I wish you were what you are 
The first day of fall, girl 

(You know what I mean) 
It will get better now (you know what I mean) 
It will get better now (you know what I mean) 
Better and better and better and better 
It will get better now 

Time after time after history (history) 
Better and better and better and better 
It'll get better now 
Time after time after you hear me (oh it'll get better now) 

Time after time after history (it'll get better now) 
Time after time after you hear me 
It'll get better now 
It'll get better now

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Here Come July 
Sung by Green only 

Here come July 
The world is there for me to share 
Here come July 
It sort of feels so hyper-real 

Here come July 
To test you all before the fall 
Here come July 
The end of school, the death of cool 

Here come July now 
And everybody's burning up 
My summer's high now 
The world has never been so happy in its heart of hearts 

Here come July 
To sort the men from boys again 
Here come July 
To melt away the need to say 

Here come July now 
It heat'll hurt your feelings 
It's feeling fine now 
The sun will scorch the pavements of all piety and sin 

It doesn't mean nothing, it doesn't mean shit 
How can I be a part of it? 
It doesn't mean nothing, it doesn't mean spit 
How can I be a part of it? 

It doesn't mean nothing 
Some things never do to me 

I'll mean the world to you 
Maybe I could double all the negatives we know 

Here come July 
I love it makes it hard to take 
So why d'you lie? 
To me about the truth will out 

Here come July now 
And I can't hear your lipgloss 
No case to try now 
The sun will be on subterfuge, iniquity and you 

It doesn't mean nothing, it doesn't mean shit 
How can I be a part of it? 
It doesn't mean nothing, it doesn't mean spit 
How can I be a part of it? 

Here come July now 
Here it comes (woah) 
Here it comes 
I'm gonna crash, gonna burn, gonna watch as the worlds collide 
I'm gonna crash, gonna burn, gonna watch as the worlds collide 

(It doesn't mean nothing) 
Here come July now (it doesn't mean nothing) 
Here come July now

 

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Prince Among Men

RAPPER: Yo, yo watch out, here we come, I never trust no-one 
Make my own laws up ever since day one 
Make my own rules, I'm a choose my own life 
And who are you to say how I spend my nights? 
Whether bustin' off steel or I'm bustin' on mikes 
Well I'm turning out lights or I'm ready to fight 
Trust no-one (no-one), same man who brought me here 
Was the same man who left me broke and disappeared 

Shed a tear for the future, don't know what it holds 
You can have no clothes, look up and strike gold 
And the world's so cold I ask my own questions 
Find my own answers, learn my own lessons 
Count my own blessings, book my own sessions 
Worst comes to worst, got my own Smith & Wessons 
Don't bother me, I'm screaming, fuck authority 
I hate those cats with a suit and a tie 

GREEN: Starts to come apart 
Our high regard for making marks (and being organised) 
It's hard to just discard 
Our being smart for losing heart (you've got the Gorgan's eyes) 
Run for cover superstars and 
Show me that it's over 

I'm telling you 
Because the man to believe in now 
Is just leavin' 
You'll never find his likes again 

RAPPER: Yes I try to believe in myself and walk surely 
You know your boring speaches can't do nothing for me 
The world saw me and gave me no other thing 
With the prince amongst men, who will soon be king 
Sit on a gold throne, yeah rule everything 
Or maybe just a page in a young man's dream 
Can't really conversate if you're ain't down with my team 
Can't really set it straight if you don't the team 

So live your own life, how you feel about that? 
Well I'm a keep making money and watch my funds stack 
They watched the craft stack, I watch the format 
Technique is what they lack, I write my own rap 
As a matter of fact, when you turn up the track 
Make sure it sounds phat, how d'you feel about that? 
Yo it's time to rule the world, man your positions 
I'm out to the world, peace, I hope you listen 

GREEN: Sure, it all depends on circumstances 
(But the chance is that you never know) 
More than means and ends but only glimpses 
(Of an answer then it's time to go) 
Run for cover Ubermensch 
Show me that it's over 

I'm telling you 
'Cause we're the men to believe in now 
But we're leaving 
You'll never find our like again 

'Cause we're so crazy 
We got that dark in our hearts 
So watch your apple carts 
'Cause here we go 

In duplicate 
Indifferent to rain 
Indifferent to pain 
Indifferent to pain 

Never to me, never to me, never to me now 
Give it to me, give it to me, give it to me now 
Never to me, never to me, never to me now 
Give it to me, give it to me, give it to me now

 

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Brushed With Oil, Dusted With Powder
Sung by Green only 

Brushed with oil, dusted with powder 
The day began to decline 
A broken door, hotel bedroom 
The sun cut through the blind (oh but I tell you) 

The officer asked "how did it start?" 
Oh shit, "you I wish I knew" I said 
"On Highbury Fields, the Westside Highway 
Or here in the Hollywood hills" 

In a black and white, to Orange County 
The sky was a beautiful blue 
A pack of lights 'n' some keys they found there 
They wondered how much I knew (oh but I tell you) 

The officer asked "how did it start?" 
Oh shit, "you I wish I knew" I said 
"On Highbury Fields, the Westside Highway 
Or here in the Hollywood hills" 

And yes, it's over 
And yes, oh the powerful have found me 
It was beautiful to see 
It was how I'm meant to be 
It was love, no matter what they say 
It's wonderful to be here 

Abraham, my father, had a girl he called his angel 
I made my excuses and I like the way it feels 

The officer asked "how did it start?" 
Oh shit, "you I wish I knew" I said 
"On Highbury Fields, the Westside Highway 
Or here in the Hollywood hills" 

And yes, it's over 
And yes, oh the powerful have found me 
It was beautiful to see 
It was how I'm meant to be 
It was love, no matter what they say 
It's wonderful to be here

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Dead Certainty

RAPPER: Ha ha, Scritti Politti gettin' busy 
Most definitely Lee Majors with the flava 
Notify all your neighbours on ya pager 
We bustin' it down just this way 
From UK to the USA 
Whether you be at your work or play 
We bustin' it down for you y'all 
It's like this, like this y'all 

Come on, this one right here, it's for them knuckleheads who keep frontin' 

Thinking they know everything but they know nothing 
Step to the function, with the bass ackwards assumption 
That Mos Def and Lee Majors ain't sumpin' bumpin' (yeah come on) 
I know that look in your face, it's uncertainty 
You wanna dance and act hard, it's not working B 
Well who you herbin' be? You ain't serving me 
Well my crew got it hot like Mercury 

GREEN: I've got my suspicions 
They made your mind up 
(Your certainties are dead now) 
Too smart to be sure 
They made your mind up 
(Your certainties are dead uh) 
Too sure to be certain 
They made your mind up 
(Your certainties are dead) 
Too smart to be sure 
They made your mind up 
(Your certainties are dead now) 
I've got my suspicions 

RAPPER: You can't say you know rap if you don't know me 
An' don't say you know rhymes if you can't MC 
The only thing I know B, is that I'm living to die 
Slice the pie eighty ways and find ways to get by 
While the know it alls roam the street, knowing they lie 
I'm with the Scritti P O L I T T I 
Tryin' to fly like R Kelly in the belly of the beast 
Watch the know it alls blow it, all stuck in the streets 

Stay in your seats, I'm dead, certain this sounds sweet 
In a world where life's cheap, got to know where to sleep 
Knowing the creep and know who's really under your sheets 
And what you don't know just might hurt you, now that's deep 
Change position, some listen, some be slippin' 
Some trippin' and some of ya'll need ass whippin' 
For talking what you don't know, here's some advice 
The price for dead certainty, sometimes could be you life, like that 

GREEN: I've got my suspicions 
They made your mind up 
(Your certainties are dead now) 
Too smart to be sure 
They made your mind up 
(Your certainties are dead uh) 
Too sure to be certain 
They made your mind up 
(Your certainties are dead) 
Too smart to be sure 
They made your mind up 
(Your certainties are dead now) 
I've got my suspicions 

RAPPER: Some jokers can't take advice to save their life 
Try to shine some light makin' it tight like that alright 
In the trade of life they play the teacher, never students on the low-low 
The jokers don't know what they be doin' 
You confuse them with your ways an' acts and your disposition 
But be the first to talk about how other cats don't listen 
But that's you black, I'm speaking true fact, I seen you do that 
Somebody drop a gem and you be like "For real, I knew that" 

Save it, the entire approach is gettin' aged 
It's part the reason why your crew will not return your pages 
You're getting famous for being straight out shameless 
You enter nameless and exit like some entertainer 
You see that be that what there why I keep us talkin' 
Whatever, just long as you tell the story walking 
You want to be cerebral then use your cerebellum 
'Cause for real they don't know that you slow until you tell 'em 

GREEN: I've got my suspicions 
They made your mind up 
(Your certainties are dead now) 
Too smart to be sure 
They made your mind up 
(Your certainties are dead uh) 
Too sure to be certain 
They made your mind up 
(Your certainties are dead) 
Too smart to be sure 
They made your mind up 
(Your certainties are dead now) 

I've got my suspicions 
Make your mind up 
I've got my suspicions 
Make your mind up 
I've got my suspicions 
Make your mind up 
I've got my suspicions 
Make your mind up 

Sure I'm certain, I'm certain I'm sure 
I won't find what I'm searching for 
What you see from the grave to the cradle 
Sure I'm certain, I'm certain I'm sure 
I won't find what I'm searching for 
What you see from the grave to the cradle 

I've got my suspicions 
Make your mind up 
Make your mind up 
Make your mind up 

RAPPER: I've got my suspicions, yeah

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