Lyrics World

Fluke - Blue Sky

I been bruised, I been used,
I been beaten black and blue,
And I assumed that I'd been the fool,
And it's made me mean – made me cruel,
Made me just the same as you – did things I shouldn't do,
Done things to make it through,
While making up excuses to
Just get ahead – get along – get some more – get some fun,
Gettin' scared of gettin' none – while lookin' after number one,
I gotta get ahead or get none,
Gotta get it all and then some,
Gotta look how far I come – lived so fast – died so young.

I'm chokin' – this smoke has got so think that I can't cope,
And it's so bad I'm almost broke,
And I gone way beyond all hope,
And I can't breathe – I can't see – can't be too good for me,
And I an't seem to find my feet now,
Somebody help me please.

Show me the sunshine.

I want to see the blue sky.
Show me the sunshine.
I want to see the blue sky.
Show me the sunshine.

I want to see the blue sky – come back to me.
Show me the sunshine.
I want to see the blue sky – come back to me.
Show me the sunshine.

Underworld - Jumbo

(talking)

Click...

I need sugar,
I need a little water sugar.
I get thoughts about you,
And the night wants me like a little lost child.
Locked in the safe place,
Looking out the window,
The dark move fast pass the window,
The dark on the other side of the locked door...

Click...

My thumbs on a tetris keyring,
Moving in brillant timing.
You pick up the phone,
And I’m imagining it out.

Click...

Tiny wires in her ears,
Sliding through the city.
Tiny wires in her ears,
Sliding through the city.

Click...

Rising in the morning to speak to you,
Beneath the feet of the city.

Click
You disconnect from me,
Click
When you come to take your century,
Telephone breath between us.
The will of the world is between us,
Only theses wires,
Dust between the wires and green glass,
In the distance,
I am your tourist.

(Talking)

Click...

Sugar...sugar
I want sugar
I want sugar
Sugar...
I want sugar
I will I want sugar
I want sugar
I want sugar
I want sugar
I want sugar
I want sugar
Sugar...

I'll take you there in the morning.
I'll take you there in the morning.

Click...

(talking fades out)

STYX Queen of Spades

Day into night she's with me
How sweet is her warm embrace
Safe in the scent of jasmine
So safe in her gold and lace

Mornings I find, she's left me
So cold so alone, but aware
I try to escape, she finds me
Oh run though I may, she's there, there, there, there, there...

Luck is a lady whose smile is as cold as a stone
She'll bring you things, many things you might never have known
But when your die is cast she'll have the final laugh at you
She'll lock you in a duel, where you come out the fool

CHORUS
Beware of the Queen of Spades
Her black widow's curse might find you yet
Beware of a love that you will regret
Her love means only your death

Day into night she's with me
Turn of a card, she's there
The first time is free, you know
But from now on, pay me, me, me, me, me...

Hahahaha! You Lose!

CHORUS X2

I posted this in another identical thread. Heres an old one of my favourites: BDP - Blackman in effect.

Wake up!
Take the pillow from your head and put a book in it.
It's time for the massive BDP crew at the top of the pile.

Yo. In the morning I'm yawning at noon is when I wake up
Make up my bed break up the bread and said
Scratching my head why am I so damn intimidating?
Is it because of laws designed to keep us waiting and waiting
Thus hating all forms of a setback
Get back if you can't understand a rap act.
This is the language of the people ready to hear the crew
I've got no juice, 'cause I'm not getting juiced
To have juice means you kiss and lick a lot of booty
To have respect means you simply new or newly
Heard what I had to say and felt as though you'd say that too
I'm not down with a juice-crew
But anyway I say today the message I create is great
I don't preach hate, I simply get the record straight
It's not the fault of the black race that we are misplaced
We're robbin' and killin', your own medicine you taste
You built up a race on the concept of violence
Now in '90 you want silence
Well, I want science, not silence but science
Scientific fact about black
The board of education acts as if it's only reality
Is talking 'bout a Tom, Dick and Harry
So now you learn your black history is questions and answers
Every question but the Black Panthers
Timbuctoo existed when the caveman existed
Why then isn't this listed
Is this because the blackman is the original man
Or does it mean humanity is African
I don't know, but these sciences are hidden
For some strange reason it's forbidden
To talk about, or converse on a political outburst
I don't believe that I'm the first
Or should I say the first one, or the first one that's done
Music like I'm still number one
Music like that or this is the incredible uplift
Those that oppose get dissed
But who will oppose the teacher when society's a wreck
So check the blackman's in effect

Near the Tigris and Euphrates Valleys in Asia
Lies the Garden of Eden
Where Adam became a father to humanity
Now don't get mad at me
But according to facts, this seems just fantasy
Because man, the most ancient man
Was found thousands of years before Adam began
And where he was found, again they can't laugh at ya
It's right, dead, smack in Africa
But due to religious and political power
We must be denied the facts every hour
We run to school, tryin' to get straight A's
Let's take a trip way back in the days
To the first civilization on Earth, the Egyptians
Giving birth to science, mathematics and music
Religion, the list goes on, you choose it
Egypt was the land of spiritual blessing
Egypt was the land of facts, not guessing
People from all over the world had come
To learn from Egypt, Egypt number one
So people that believe in Greek philosophy
Know your facts, Egypt was the monopoly
Greeks had learned from Egyptian masters
You might say "Prove it", well here's the answers
640 to 322 b.C. originates Greek philosophy
But in that era Greece was at war
With themselves and Persia, what's more
Any philosopher at that time was a criminal
He'd be killed very simple
This indicates that Greece had no respect
For science or intellect
So how the hell you created philosophy
When you kill philosophers constantly
The point is that we descend from kings
Science, art and beautiful things
African history is the worlds history
This is the missing link and mystery
Once we realise they all are African
White will sit down with black and laugh again
So judge not least ye might be judged
By the judgement ye judge, ye shall be judged
Matthew seven, first verse doesn't budge
No man should walk the Earth and sludgez
if you don't believe, you can go and check
To see how and where the blackman's in effect

✅

I've posted this before somewhere. The second verse of this song never ceases to amaze me. Best hip-hop group in history.

Cunninlynguists - Dying Nation

[Intro: George Bush]
'There's an old saying in Tennesse, I know it's in Texas, it's probably in Tennesse,
That says fool me once... shame on... shame on you.
If you fool me you can't fool me again.'

[S.O.S]
I live in a nation that relies on business and crime
And the leaders are politician guys livin' a lie,
Who bullshit like everyone else for a nickel and dime
America ... just as corrupt as it is online,
Using freedom and entertainment just to keep us sedated
But remember what the declaration of independence stated?
All men are equal and that's the way they're created,
But when that was written, black and white people were segregated.
And this country still breeds racism, just not as blatant,
To call us the land of the free is an overstatement,
Cause ain't NOBODY free, we all being watched quietly,
National security's an invasion of privacy,
Drug trafficking, conspiracy, murder and piracy
What America can't have, they take silently
Sometimes violently, open up your eyes and see,
Even dirty money is supporting our economy,
It's all backwards like negative split photography,
But I guess that's the way it's got to be.
United we stand on this land and we do all crimes
Facin' a Dyin' Nation listenin' for new told lies.

[Hook]
'Facing a dyin' nation (scratches) Listen to the retold lies'

[Deacon the Villain]
I live in a nation where it ain't what's physical that fights us,
Now it's silent strikes from political insiders,
A black market government where being criminal is righteous
Ran by bloodlines that were dirty before Isis.
The crisis has even spread to spiritual infestations,
Confessionals filled with sexual molestations,
Professionals so set on capitalization
They don't notice their children freebasin' in their million dollar basements.
Babies having babies in the hood I grew up in,
Hands are too small for the guns that they be bustin',
Schools underfunded, graduates retain nothing
On Capitol Hill it's barely a topic of discussion.
Kids like, why should I think about college?
When this hood situation is holding me hostage,
And even if I fought and bought the knowledge
I'd prolly get shot 41 times by a cop over my wallet
Shit...
So wherever you are,
Don't inhale the second hand smoke from its victory cigar,
Motivate yourself don't just stand on the side
Facing a dying nation and listening to the new told lies.

[Hook]

[Kno]
Somebody dial 9-1-1.
It's mass confusion, mass contusions,
At last we losin' Uncle Sam to a mass of tumors,
And that's the rumor at least, it's soon to be seen
If its true that the beast is soon to decease,
Catchin' blood clots in the crude oil
That runs through his veins and up through his brain
Its tough to maintain,
If he was low income he'd already been gone,
Insurance paperwork gettin handled by Enron,
And scandalous friends call to speak
Even Bill O'Reilly's wrapped in a hospital bedsheet
With a pointed hat, where the ointment at?
Wax the taxpayers backside for a tax hike,
Woulda had a Catholic priest at his bedside
But they were too busy giving these Boy Scouts a leg ride
Temperature stay high but no pain,
Cos the presidents hooked on phonics and cocaine.
Product of old age and Alzheimers disease
Medical bills raised from all types of fees,
Looks to the American people to show love,
But his social security ran out - pull the plug.

[flatline]

Which Reminds me of a song.

Queen- Bohemian Rhapsody
Words and music by freddie mercury

Is this the real life-
Is this just fantasy-
Caught in a landslide-
No escape from reality-
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see-
I’m just a poor boy,i need no sympathy-
Because I’m easy come,easy go,
A little high,little low,
Anyway the wind blows,doesn’t really matter to me,
To me

Mama,just killed a man,
Put a gun against his head,
Pulled my trigger,now he’s dead,
Mama,life had just begun,
But now I’ve gone and thrown it all away-
Mama ooo,
Didn’t mean to make you cry-
If I’m not back again this time tomorrow-
Carry on,carry on,as if nothing really matters-

Too late,my time has come,
Sends shivers down my spine-
Body’s aching all the time,
Goodbye everybody-I’ve got to go-
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth-
Mama ooo- (any way the wind blows)
I don’t want to die,
I sometimes wish I’d never been born at all-

I see a little silhouetto of a man,
Scaramouche,scaramouche will you do the fandango-
Thunderbolt and lightning-very very frightening me-
Galileo,galileo,
Galileo galileo
Galileo figaro-magnifico-
But I’m just a poor boy and nobody loves me-
He’s just a poor boy from a poor family-
Spare him his life from this monstrosity-
Easy come easy go-,will you let me go-
Bismillah! no-,we will not let you go-let him go-
Bismillah! we will not let you go-let him go
Bismillah! we will not let you go-let me go
Will not let you go-let me go
Will not let you go let me go
No,no,no,no,no,no,no-
Mama mia,mama mia,mama mia let me go-
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me,for me,for me-

So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye-
So you think you can love me and leave me to die-
Oh baby-can’t do this to me baby-
Just gotta get out-just gotta get right outta here-

Nothing really matters,
Anyone can see,
Nothing really matters-,nothing really matters to me,

Any way the wind blows....

Or.

The Killers- Indie Rock & Roll

Glamorous
Indie rock'n'roll is what I need
It's in my soul, it's what I need
Indie rock'n'roll, it's time
Two of us
Flipping through a thrift store magazine
She plays the drums, I'm on tambourine
Bet your, your bottom dollar on me

It's Indie rock'n'roll for me
It's Indie rock'n'roll for me
It's all I need
It's Indie rock'n'roll for me

In a clutch
I'm talking every word for all the boys
Electric girls with worn down toys
Make it up, break it up, what do you care
Oh what do you care?

I take my twist with a shout
A coffee shop with a cause, then I'll freak you out
No sex, no drugs, no life, no love
When it comes to today

Stay if you wanna love me, stay
Oh don't be shy, let's cause a scene
Like lovers do on silver screens
Let's make it yeah, we'll cause a scene

It's Indie rock'n'roll for me
It's Indie rock'n'roll for me
It's all I need
It's Indie rock'n'roll for me

In a clutch
I'm talking every word for all the boys
It's Indie rock'n'roll for me
It's all I need
Makin' up, breakin' up, what do you care
What do you care?
It's Indie rock'n'roll for me

Two of us
Flipping through a thrift store magazine
It's Indie rock'n'roll for me
It's all I need
Makin' up, breakin' up, what do you care
What do you care?
It's Indie rock'n'roll for me

Originally posted by GCBestBand_EVER
My fav lyrics are... hmmmm this is hard. probably All the lyrics, to ALL the songs written by GC

Here is one song from the newiest GC cd that I really like!

(Is anybody listening?)

Is anybody listening?Can you hear me when I call?Shooting signals in the air because I need somebody's help,I can't make it on my own so I am giving up myself!
Is anybody listening?Listening!

That so far is my favorite song from GC!Enjoy!JM 💃

Lacuna Coil - Angel's Punishment

Destruction...

War...

To fight in defence,
Forgotten words
Of friendly hate

War, destruction
War, destruction

I don't know why,
A soul deceased,
A broken hope,
A choking breeze.

War, destruction
War, destruction

Can't you take me away from your lies?

Destruction...

Dark paradise,
Collecting souls
To analyse...

War, destruction
War, destruction

The bitter blood,
Of children's cry,
Inside the truth,
Far from my sky.

War, destruction
War, destruction

Can't you take me away from your lies?

Videodrone - Faceplant

Like ecstasy to the spine
A moment of lost words no memory of time
A twist from within.
Like the calling of the Lord
A shock a convulsion no shape or form
I'm feeling again.

I feel so scared,
I feel so used I feel so confused.
You creeped right into my soul as I was sleeping
I don't know and I don't care.
No I don't care.

[Chorus]
I lift you to my lips
Now everything makes sense when it's over.
And if I fall down again,
Won't you let me in when I'm sober?

We connect like puzzle pieces
Look into my eyes no words are needed
Where have you been all my life?
I seek you on every corner
Thought you were the devil or maybe my lover
You opened up my eyes.

I feel so scared,
I feel so used I feel so confused.
You creeped right into my soul as I was sleeping
I don't know and I don't care.
No I don't care.

[Chorus]

Can't get you out of my head
Now maybe,
Can't get you out of my head.
Can't get you out of my head
Now maybe,
Can't get you out of my head.

[Chorus]

Led Zeppelin Stairway to heaven:

There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to heaven.
When she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for.
Ooh, ooh, and she's buying a stairway to heaven.

There's a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure
'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
In a tree by the brook, there's a songbird who sings,
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiving.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it makes me wonder.

There's a feeling I get when I look to the west,
And my spirit is crying for leaving.
In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees,
And the voices of those who standing looking.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it really makes me wonder.

And it's whispered that soon if we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason.
And a new day will dawn for those who stand long
And the forests will echo with laughter.

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now,
It's just a spring clean for the May queen.
Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on.
And it makes me wonder.

Your head is humming and it won't go, in case you don't know,
The piper's calling you to join him,
Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow, and did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.

And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul.
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold.
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last.
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll.

And she's buying a stairway to heaven

Zeppelin: Going to California

Spent my days with a woman unkind, Smoked my stuff and drank all my wine.
Made up my mind to make a new start, Going To California with an aching in my heart.
Someone told me there's a girl out there with love in her eyes and flowers in her hair.
Took my chances on a big jet plane, never let them tell you that they're all the same.
The sea was red and the sky was grey, wondered how tomorrow could ever follow today.
The mountains and the canyons started to tremble and shake
as the children of the sun began to awake.

Seems that the wrath of the Gods
Got a punch on the nose and it started to flow;
I think I might be sinking.
Throw me a line if I reach it in time
I'll meet you up there where the path
Runs straight and high.

To find a queen without a king,
They say she plays guitar and cries and sings... la la la
Ride a white mare in the footsteps of dawn
Tryin' to find a woman who's never, never, never been born.
Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams,
Telling myself it's not as hard, hard, hard as it seems.

The Beatles: Real Love

All my little plans and schemes
Lost like some forgotten dream
Seems like all I really was doing
Was waiting for you

Just like little girls and boys
Playing with their little toys
Seems like all they really were doing
Was waiting for you

Don't need to be alone
No need to be alone

It's real love
It's real, yes it's real love
It's real

From this moment on I know
Exactly where my life will go
Seems that all I really was doing
Was waiting for love

Don't need to be afraid
No need to be afraid

It's real love
It's real, yes it's real love
It's real

Thought I'd been in love before,
But in my heart I wanted more
Seems like all I really was doing
Was waiting for you

Don't need to be alone
No need to be alone

It's real love
Yes it's real, yes it's real love
It's real, yes it's real love...

The Beatles: Across the universe

Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup,
They slither while they pass, they slip away across the universe
Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my open mind,
Possessing and caressing me.
Jai guru de va om
Nothing's gonna change my world,
Nothing's gonna change my world.

Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes,
That call me on and on across the universe,
Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box they
Tumble blindly as they make their way
Across the universe
Jai guru de va om
Nothing's gonna change my world,
Nothing's gonna change my world.

Sounds of laughter shades of earth are ringing
Through my open views inviting and inciting me
Limitless undying love which shines around me like a
Million suns, it calls me on and on
Across the universe
Jai guru de va om
Nothing's gonna change my world,
Nothing's gonna change my world.

Talib Kweli- Get By

[Talib]
Yeah.. my Lord.. yeah

[Verse 1: Talib]
We sell, crack to our own out the back of our homes
We smell the musk at the dusk in the crack of the dawn
We go through "Epidodes II," like "Attack of the Clones"
Work 'til we break our back and you hear the crack of the bone
To get by.. just to get by
Just to get by, just to get by
We commute to computers
Spirits stay mute while you eagles spread rumors
We survivalists, turned to consumers
To get by.. just to get by
Just to get by, just to get by
Ask Him why some people got to live in a trailer, cuss like a sailor
I paint a picture with the pen like Norman Mailer
Me and Willa raised three daughters all by herself, with no help
I think about a struggle and I find the strength in myself
These words, melt in my mouth
They hot, like the jail cell in the South
Before my nigga Core bailed me out
To get by.. just to get by
Just to get by, just to get by
We do or die like Bed-Stuy through the red sky
with the window of the red eye
Let the lead fly, some G. Rap shit, "Livin' to Let Die"

[Chorus: Background singers]
This morning, I woke up
Feeling brand new and I jumped up
Feeling my highs, and my lows
In my soul, and my goals
Just to stop smokin, and stop drinkin
And I've been thinkin - I've got my reasons
Just to get (by), just to get (by)
Just to get (by), just to get (by)

[Talib and background singers]
(ba ba ba, ba da bada, ba da bada, ba da bada, ba da badahh
Just to get (by), just to get (by)
Just to get (by by by by by by)
(ba ba ba, ba da bada, ba da bada, ba da bada, ba da badahh
Just to get (by), just to get (by)
Just to get (by by by by by by)

[Verse 2: Talib]
We keeping it gangster say "fo shizzle", "fo sheezy" and "stayin crunk"
Its easy to pull a breezy, smoke trees, and we stay drunk
Yo, our activism attackin the system, the blacks and latins in prison
Numbers of prison they victim black in the vision
Shit and all they got is rappin to listen to
I let them know we missin you, the love is unconditional
Even when the condition is critical, when the livin is miserable
Your position is pivotal, I ain't bullshittin you
Now, why would I lie? Just to get by?
Just to get by, we get fly
The TV got us reachin for stars
Not the ones between Venus and Mars, the ones that be readin for parts
Some people get breast enhancements and penis enlargers
Saturday sinners Sunday morning at the feet of the Father
They need somethin to rely on, we get high on all types of drug
When, all you really need is love
To get by.. just to get by
Just to get by, just to get by
Our parents sing like John Lennon, "Imagine all the people watch"
We rock like Paul McCartney from now until the last Beatle drop

[Chorus: Background singers]
This morning, I woke up
Feeling brand new and I jumped up
Feeling my high's, and my low's
In my soul, and my goals
Just to stop smoking, and stop drinking
And I've been thinking - I've got my reasons
Just to get (by), just to get (by)
Just to get (by), just to get (by)

[Talib: repeat 2x - with background singers]
Yoyoyo, yo
Some people cry, and some people try
Just to get by, for a piece of the pie
You love to eat and get high
We decieve when we lie, and we keepin it fly

Yoyoyo, yo
When, the people decide, to keep a disguise
Can't see they eyes, see the evil inside
But there's people you find
Strong or feeble in mind, I stay readin the signs

Nirvana -Radio friendly unit shifter

Use just once and destroy
Invasion of our piracy
Afterbirth of a nation
Starved without you skeleton key

I love you for what I am not
I do not want what I have got
A blanket acne'ed with cigarette burns
Speak at once while taking turns
Second rate third degree burns

What is wrong with me
What is what I need
What do I think I think

This had nothing to do with what you think
If you ever think at all
Bi-polar opposites attract
All of a sudden my water broke

Hate, hate your enemys
Save, save your friends
Find , find your place
Spin, spin the truth

Lyrics may not translate all that well here, but blast this one out of your speakers at full volume and you'll feel the rage, specially from Grady Avenell 😎

Soulfly - Pain (feat. Grady of Willhaven & Chino of Deftones)

(Max)
Speak up - you know what is up,
Code of silence, who set you up?!
Some shit so wrong in this world
It's all f*ucked up now you're gone.
Speak up - you know what went on
How could you let it go?
It's murder you covered up,
Stained blood on your soul.

It's murder...

(Grady)
Down on my knees
Hands stretched to heaven above,
Christ this pain is hard to live with
Don't fill my heart with love,
Engulf my heart with vengeance.
You need to see our pain,
Don't fill this heart with love,
The truth needs to be told.

Chorus
You can't mask(Chino)
Pain (Max)
Pain (Chino)
My pain (Max)
Our Pain (All)
You can't mask (Chino)
Pain (Max)
Pain (Chino)
My pain (Max)
Our pain (All)

(Chino)
Aaargh!!!
How the f*uck am I supposed to sit still?
All you motherf*uckers out there throwing a rock,
Better get at this shit why don't you back off quick?
What's - the - body - under my skin?
You won't find what's wrong, we got it back on
One slept under the covers...
That's the cause of your life.

Chorus

There are a couple of songs that have lyrics that have made me stop and think, but none more so then Fear Factory's : Cyberwaste
Because i personally feel it is so true, particularly in a Internet based society. In particular:

"Spread your word this point of you
And connect the machine
Goddamned words, ocean of lies
Taunting you to decieve

Nothing you say matters to us
Nothing you say matters to us
You are a virus spreading disease
Your life is so sad spreading lies of hate
Nothing you say matters to us
Nothing you say matters to us

So you'll seize up in your lies you
Tell up at the site
Sees you, signals and hate me to stand
Me with your lies

Reap what you sow
Your words are s**t

You are a virus spreading disease
Your life is so sad spreading lies of hate

Awesome that you know my thoughts
(All I want to do is see)
Made back screen with your disease
(Tapping only on the keys)
Change your face in front of me
(Safe behind the cyberscreen)
Wishing that you knew the truth
(All I know is what I read)"

Thow that in with Fear Factory's tradmark aggresive music, and you have 'one hell of a song'.

"Black then white are all i see in my infancy.
red and yellow then came to be, reaching out to me.
lets me see.
as below, so above and beyond, I imagine
drawn beyond the lines of reason.
Push the envelope. Watch it bend.

Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind.
Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must
Feed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines.

Black then white are all i see in my infancy.
red and yellow then came to be, reaching out to me.
lets me see there is so much more and
beckons me to look thru to these infinite possibilities.
as below, so above and beyond, I imagine
drawn outside the lines of reason.
Push the envelope. Watch it bend.

over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind.
Withering my intuition leaving opportunities behind.
Feed my will to feel this moment urging me to cross the line.
Reaching out to embrace the random.
Reaching out to embrace whatever may come.

I embrace my desire to
I embrace my desire to
feel the rhythm, to feel connected enough to step aside and weep like a widow
to feel inspired to fathom the power, to witness the beauty,
to bathe in the fountain,
to swing on the spiral
to swing on the spiral
to swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human.

With my feet upon the ground I move myeslf between the sounds and open wide to suck it in.
I feel it move across my skin.
I'm reaching up and reaching out. I'm reaching for the random or what ever will bewilder me.
what ever will bewilder me.
And following our will and wind we may just go where no one's been.
We'll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one's been.
Spiral out. Keep going.
Spiral out. Keep going.
Spiral out. Keep going.
Spiral out. Keep going.
Spiral out. Keep going."

"Lateralus"-Tool.

-AC

Ice Cube - Alive on arrival:

Down at the best spot
Its me and JD and they sellin more birds than a pet shop
The spot's hot and everybody nervous
That's when the blue car served us
Oh why did fools had to let loose
Heard six pops from a deuce deuce
Big Tom had to push us
13 niggaz runnin straight to the bushes
For they gats so they could draw down
But why a motherf*cker like me had to fall down
Not known why I dropped out
F*ck it, still can't afford to get popped out
So now I gotta jet
Only ran one block, but my shirt soakin wet
Tryin to see if we got him
Looked down at my sweatshirt red at the bottom
Didn't panic but I still looked cracked out
Yelled to the homies then I blacked out

Woke up in the back of a tray
On my way, to MLK
That the county hospital jack
Where niggaz die over a little scratch
Still sittin in the trauma center
In my back is where the bullet entered
Yo nurse I'm gettin kind of warm
B*tch still made me fill out the f*ckin form
Coughin up blood on my hands and knees
Then I heard "freeze nigga don't move"
Yo, I didn't do a thing
Didn't wanna go out like my man Rodney King
Still got gaffled
Internal bleeding as the bullet starts to travel
Now I'm handcuffed
Being asked information on my gang affiliation
I don't bang, I rock the good rhymes
And I'm a victim of neighborhood crime

I need to see a MD
And ya'll mothaf*ckers giving me the third degree
Look at the waiting room
Its filled to the rim like the county jail day room
Nobody gettin help
Since we poor
The hospital move slow
Now I'm layed out
People steppin over me to get closer to the tv
Just like a piece of dog shit
Now will I die on this nappy ass carpet
One hour done passed
Done watched two episodes of M*A*S*H
And when I'm almost through
They call my name and put me on ICU
Halfway dead
No respect and handcuffed to the bed
Now the trauma starts
Cause the bullet must be just a hair from my heart
So I begin the ass kissin
Just to get looked at by an overworked physician
Got the chills, but my temperatures 103
Only got a band-aid and an IV
That's when I start cussin
Police steady askin me who did the bustin

Why oh why can't I get help
Cause I'm black, I gots to go for self
Too many black bodies the hospital housin
So at 10 P.M. I was Audi 5000

Masta Ace: Other side of town

Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen. Sorry to bother you today. My name is
Joe. And, um, I'm not on crack, I don't do drugs, I'm just trying to get
something to eat. If you can give just a penny, a nickel..a dime, a
quarter..anything will be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time...
and have a nice day.

How do you do?
I'm from the other side of town
The place where the only skin you see is the color brown
The sun never shines in this place where I live
And it's hard to do right when you feel negative
I have no compassion
I only know aggression
And there is nothing great about this oppression
People I see on TV, in there towns live the good life
But I live out of bounds
Where nobody comes unless they're forced to come
In school, they call me the bum from the slum
But they don't know
My sista has no food to eat
And her hand-me-down shoes are too tight for her feet
The way I see things, life isn't fair
So I never learned how to share or to care
But to hope - and hope
Instead of feeling down
And that's how it is
On the other side of town

I live on the other side of town

Pardon me, brotha
As you stand in your glory
I hope you don't mind as I tell the whole story
Some people livin life like fun in the sun
But yo, others are givin strife, and that's all they know
I feel no comfort in talks from the President
So put back on Cosby
A shack is my resident
I think if I ever die, it might be a blessin
Some say I never try, but why are they stressin
I'll never get ahead; my raps have a better chance
I'm livin on Wonder Bread with holes in my leather pants
I'm not on the drug scene; they call me a crack head
I just had a bugged dream that I was a black man
Workin in the hospital
Then in came in a half-dead rich b*tch
Yo, they must be insane
You think I would save her?
Yo, she wouldn't save me
I asked for a quater once, and guess what she gave me
A f*ckin penny
A quarter her coat costs half a mill
If it's up to me, yo, she's pushin up daffodils
In a casket
Payback's a female dog
Yo, send her ass to the morgue
Then I woke up, and I sat with a frown
Damn, I woke up
But on the other side of town

The other side of town

My teacher's a fat man
Yo, how can they tempt me so
F*ck geometry, my stomach is empty, yo
Can't you teach me to win this crazy game?
You and I are in so many ways the same
People tell me, but I don't believe that shit
Why do you sell me a dream, then leave me spit?
The truth is bare, and so is my cupboards, too
I wonder what could even L. Ron Hubbard do
Because my mind right now is on the brink of breakin
Yo, look how I think
I think I'll stick up the store with the Arab guy
I'm sick of him anyway; his prices are too high
Or maybe I'll start sellin Avon door-to-door
Then pull a jammy, and make a bigger score
Nah, maybe I'll start sellin dope for my cous
Then I could drive the same car he does
The life of a poor man
Consider me desperate
I sleep in a cold room
And wish I could just get
A piece of the pie
Is that asking too much?
I can't even reach what others have in their clutch
I wish I could go on, but I have to end this
And get back to livin a life that is winless
There's no use swimmin, so I might as well drown
In my sorrows
Cause tomorrow's the other side of town

36 Crazyfists - Installing The Catheter

Through the long sleep,
Darkness bleeds through the silver and I,
Reminded the layout as the wings,
They all died.
And it all hates like you,
Destroys the message.

Another open eye to secrets,
With plans to scrape them clean.
And I have stacked them
Higher then anyone believed.
And it downplays the scene,
It all comes crashing.

Don't be removed,
I got you where I said
That I would always put you.
And I'm heading for the bottom,
The bottom of you.

Come and take me over,
The lights have been removed,
With pieces at ankles, we answered.
And it all tastes like you,
And all it captures.

Take on me as long as you think
That you can handle,
And taking me to truth
And tearing me from scandal.
And it all saves like you,
Define disaster.

(Female voice)
And I don't die like you,
Tormented skies,
Treated to taste and outlast the sun.
I design what ailes.

Coldest of the cold stay outside,
Bring on harm's way.