| LYRICS
STARTING
THE GARDEN
[assuming that this track really ends at 0:45 of Bring
my Family Back]
Beg you listen me,
don't be kissing me 'til I'm done
Unsung champion, reason, like seasoning
Pepper your thoughts with spice, and entice you to a space
Where I dwell with bass players and layers and loops
Think what I think with my prayers. It's nice. My world is everything I've become
Contained in the hum between voice and drum
I'm coming from the same place I'm still running from
But even sitting in the garden one can still get stung
Go back
BRING
MY FAMILY BACK
I'm on lonely street age nearly
three
Recently Mama's cryin all the time
is it because of me/Or my younger sister,
even Dad was weeping when he kissed her/Face
all puffy like a blister, cryin like he missed
her/Since we moved away from the house
where we used to play/They say I'll
understand on day but I doubt it Mama
never say nothin' about it/How'd it get to
be so crowded/I found it a strain,
everywhere I look I See pain/And I can't
escape the feelin', maybe I'm to blame/So
I strain to listen, Prayin' for a decision,
Wishin' they where kissin'/This feels like
extradition or exile, Mama finds it hard to
smile/So I make pretend cups of coffee in
her favorite style/She says child I'm
working so there's nothing you lack/But
she know I want my Dad I want my family
back
I'm on Lonely Street, age forty
three/Couldn't gauge when to quit so my
wife quit me/Took offense, took the kids, I
wish that was the end/But before she took
her leave she took care of my best
friend/Workin all the hours God send was
not the tactic/Y'see cuz after ten years I'm
left with jackshit/Wanted to make the cash
quick so I useta work real late/Bad sex, My
woman's vex, even if I stay awake/And if
I'm honest, I had a little cake at the
office/I was eatin/We'd do our cheatin over
coffees, makin tea for the bosses/Makin
free with me and I agree I got sleazy too
easily/But I'm forty three, this dosen't
usually happen to me/Now I'm lonly, I
wonder what my son's doin'
today/Suddenly I'm blinkin' like the screen
on my computer display. And I'm
drinkin'/Concerned about what's down the
track if I don't get my family back
I'm on Lonely Street, number fifty
three/Boarded up property, I'll probably get
pulled down/Litter all around inside there's
no/sound and no light/
But yo it gets busy at night, People
creepin'/Derelicts sneakin' to fix.
Speakin'/On the way my timbers creakin',
Roof leakin'/And bricks comin' loose, knee
high in refuse/But even though I'm a slum
I'm still of some use/There was a time
when my walls where decorated/And under
my roof children where educated/But now
paint's faded, windows are smashed/
A crash in the economy robbed me of my
family and no strategy/combats negative
equity so that's it. Like violence it's
drastic/I'm freakin', and seekin' to be
more than just a house for crack/
Somebody bring my family back
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HOUR OF NEED
You know that I'm foolin', playing
games for a day
I hang with my people whenever I can
You say that I'm scruffy, misguided and blue.
Like a fly on a string, there's a web that surrounds you, but I will find
a way in.
Yeah, in your hour of need I'll be there, yes I will.
Yeah, in your hour of need I'll be there, yes I will.
(yes I will, mmm)
You lay a place at your table, let me sleep in your bed (mmmm, yeah)
Yeah you hurt and confused me ?? queen for a day
(Rachael:) I know I'm foolish (yeah you are), passionate, unfair
'Cause in my hour of need, I know you've always been there
And in your hour of need I'll be there, yes I will
In your hour of need I'll be there, yes I will
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POSTCARDS
(Dido): My love has gone
His boots no longer by my door
He left at dawn and as I slept, I felt him go
[Loop of Erik Satie, as in Pet Shop Boys' Jack The Lad]
(Maxi): New York, New York, temperature's droppin'
The band's out shoppin', not stoppin' 'til ears pop
Cops protect shops, lots of yellow cabs and bellhops
And it never stops
I'm waitin' to do an interview, so much to tell you
Today I feel close enough to smell you
Additional dates they were plannin' just fell through
Florida's out
We fly September 22 to Heathrow, but there's not really long to go
Tonight will be a brilliant show
Lettin' you know I miss you
More than four hits the floor at a party
Send my love to everybody
Please, send my love to everybody (everybody everybody everybody...)
Send my love to everybody (everybody everybody everybody...)
Honey, I'm writin' from D.C., feelin' queasy
Stayin' healthy on the road isn't easy
The ??? [D.M., as in doctor? T.M, as in transcendental meditation?]
recommends an antigen
One of them could resist again
I miss you like a lock in the door
What's more, I go to sleep with my Walkman 'cause half the crew snored
Don't mean to be a bore, everybody's been great,
But there's fifteen of us in a bus state-to-state
So I stay up late with a tape, or meditate
My bed is travellin' at fifty-five m.p.h.
When we make it to LA, I'll still be miles away
It's not my best day
I'm a get some rest, God bless
(Dido): My love has gone
(wo wo)
My love has gone (has has has ...)
(wo wo)
(Maxi): We just stopped a diner so I'm takin' time to write a few lines
I'm fine, sunshine, the bus driver's reclinin' by the grass as the trucks
pass
Gleamin' with the flash of sunlight from the glass on the windscreen
As for us, there's too much to relate
We've done five gigs, yet we're only in our third state
America's big, you'd love how they pile up your plate
Only place in the world even I can gain weight
Our next date is Wilmington, Delaware
Open air, there's a rumor Melle Mel'll be there
Anyway, all my love, God bless, I'm yawning
I really miss watching you get dressed in the morning
(Dido): My love has gone
(wo wo)
My love has gone
(wo wo)
My love has gone
No earthly ships will ever
Bring him home
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TAKE
THE LONG WAY HOME
(oooh)
...it's the day after my birthday and....I went off to Heathrow, and...
they got to check my records...and they said "You're not supposed to go
from Heathrow"...chose the really really long way, got it now, and it's
really kickin'...I went to the wrong hotel as well...
[Obviously, there's a lot missing in the above, and there's a little bit
of Maxi rumbling after this, no?]
(Maxi): I got it sleepin' rough on the streets in the rain
I got it learning to share my people's pain
I got it makin' flowers, growin' hearts of stone
I got it 'cause I always took the long way home
I got it sleepin' rough on the streets in the rain
I got it learning to share my people's pain
I got it makin' flowers, growin' hearts of stone
[filtered rumbling, incomprehensible voice]
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WHY GO?
Don't go
I didn't know you'd be here, and I wasn't meant to come.
I'd be sitting watching TV if there was anything decent on,
if I'd missed the taxi or found nothing good to wear.
But for some uncertain reason, some strange uncertain reason,
this is how it all it all began.
(Why go?) Why go, (when you could stay awhile)?
(Why go?) Why go, (when you could stay awhile)?
If I made some coffee, would you sit and talk some more?
I know words are usually pointless when you've used them all before.
The way your smile fills the room --
Stay awhile. Kick off your shoes. Don't go. Please stay. --
It always happened this way.
(Why go?) Why go, (when you could stay awhile)?
(Why go?) Why go, (when you could stay awhile)?
The way your smile fills the room --
Stay awhile. What's there to lose? --
The way you laugh, when I say, Don't go. Please stay.
Why go? Why go, when you could stay awhile?
Why go? Why go, when you could stay awhile,
when you could stay with me tonight?
Tonight?
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SHE'S MY BABY
Mmm, come to papa
I see you workin', through the ??? curtain in the kitchen
Switchin, leavin' me twitchin', I'm itchin' to be kissin' you
But discipline is the rule, so I sit my own ??? in that cool sheet
Irresistible
We fool around twice a week, she make me weak
Nice when she put her tongue in my cheek
Not petite, baby got a large physique
She take charge, take me where I dare not repeat
I go ... like a hi-hat, plantin' kisses on your back
You like that, Mrs. X, reputation intact
Nobody in my block know we're like down like that
And the next flat, one down from where I live with my mum
And Uncle John, he ain't my uncle when it's been far too long
But me and she been going strong, almost a year
Wait 'til the coast is clear, I don't bolt for fear of getting caught
Maybe we ought to start, maybe not
I go ... like a hi-hat, plantin' kisses on your back
For now, my baby gets all I got
Boom, how come we always trash the room?
Grab your coat 'cause you know someone'll be home soon
And now you see there be a need to explain gently
Why this mother of three is playin' games with me
She's my baby
(yeah)
She's my baby
(Chorus: Rachael, filtered) she's my baby, sweet sweet baby x2
I'm a slave to your outrage
Rocket ??? give shocks, and a ??? cage
Color-coded alloys, much noise, ?????? poise
Exalt enough to know the roots of old age
Yes yes. Who got the keys to my RS?
We goin' on a road test, hit the M4 and head west
Forever impressed, with the sound of my two-liter
We cover ground, engine singin' like Anita Baker
And if I take a corner too quick you get sick, when I do my handbrake
trick
Watch me ride, me broadside's wide like a battleship
Side slip, push, out ???, stick it in gear and get the gas uplift
It never failed to bring a grin to the limb(?)
Baby's equipped
me and she gone clear
I got ??? reduction on my understeer
I been fairly and squarely described as hairy
People say my baby is scary
Look, you pays your money and you takes your choice
I just love to hear my baby's voice
She's my baby
(Chorus)
I roll up(?) her position, everything's in position
my friend's demonstrating ??? suspicion
I listen for a minute before taking sides
Sleep the eyes, on the limit, sit down and spin it like we do
Every Friday, 'round my way where I play before we ????
No alcohol is a rule
My baby gets passed around I don't frown
I love to see my friends getting down
When it's just me and she you know it's never precarious
But sharing with your buddies is hilarious
Variously we argue and
Disagree and get heated
Have to tell my people that we see it and we start the anti-stress process
'Til there's a big mess of twigs and seeds to meet your needs
????????? hello: clarity, mellow
She's my baby
(Chorus)
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GOD IS A DJ
[Lyrics to Monster Mix]
This is my church
This is where I heal my hurt
It's a natural grace
Of watching young life shape [?]
It's in minor keys
Solutions and remedies
Enemies becoming friends
When bitterness ends
This is my church x3
This is my church
This is where I heal my hurt
This is my church x3
This is my church
This is where I heal my hurt
It's in the world I become
Content in the hum
Between voice and drum
It's in the church [?]
The poetic justice of cause and effect
Respect, love, compassion
This is my church
This is where I heal my hurt
For tonight
god is a DJ
god is a DJ
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HEM OF
HIS GARMENT
(Maxi in background: .... wish he
was a man???)
Oh I wish I could be touched by the hem of his garment
(Maxi: ...in a dream...)
To be proud has never been so mean, so hard, so strange, so cruel
Oh I wish I could be touched by the hem of his garment
(Pauline: mmmm, I've come a long way x5)
The hem of his garment)
Dagger should be the tool of a ???
I'm a fool, you're a ??? (Maxi: it's not...?)
Why should such violence, such pain hang between you and me
When love should be a queen on her throne looking after her own
I wish I could be touched by the hem of his garment
Two chairs, this table, one leg, in this house [???]
Seriously, I think we could be,
Feel we could be, touched by the hem of his garment
(Pauline chorus)
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KILLER'S
LULLABY
I'm sittin' at a coffee table,
unable to see straight
Watchin' parallel lines unwind and undulate
Behind the rain-streaked windowpane, the scene's bleak
Another train leavin' home, conceding defeat with a low moan
Hangin' in the sky, made of stone
Everybody's leavin' home, I called my man Jerome
To come meet me in the twilight zone
Leave your mobile phone at home and come alone
I bought him coffee and a snack, settled back, started speakin'
He was tweakin' with the peak of his cap
While I'm seekin' to discover what it takes to keep sober
Not cover my mistakes, try to maybe make sense of the evidence
It's over, she's gone for good
Why should I lie, singin' a killer's lullaby
Identified by the dying ring of her goodbye
The last thing you hear before your life disappears
Now it just gets worse, like my stomach ???, feel like I've been cursed
We slept for centuries of bitter memories
And I can ??? previous he's and she's
I'm movin' round this old house for the last time
Singin' my past crimes, been here for lifetimes
Hearin' the chimes of the old clock that used to mark
You got eternity for takin' stock, this place is like a padlock
You look shocked. Trust me, nothing ever leaves but the dust,
There's just us and I'm here to torment and tease
And that's how it was for centuries
Me and my memories, and you brought the keys
???????
I moved in ???? from tragedies and music
???? for the hundred years since I came here
You ???, same hair, same quizzical stare
I could get here
And the sheer frustration was more than I could bear
I was really cursed, thought I'd been through the worst part
That was just the first part, just the start
Every night I'd be sitting ??? prickin' my heart
In case the man she'd been chasin' gets to first base
And I just can't escape, I'm in bad shape
You making love to someone else is more than I could take
And so I make all the movement I can to no avail
Scream and yell, sinkin' deeper into my personal hell
(heaven heaven heaven)
I'm getting heated, I'm sorry, have another coffee
I needed to release my ??? chest from just a piece of this pressure
Unless an escape route is found, I'm going down underground
Into lifetimes of pain, it's absurd
The heaviest chain is contained is the sound of one word
So I'm referred back to hell
Just as well, I hate needles ????? the thought of syringes
Okay, I'm going insane with shame
I do my watch at makin' love over and over again
With what I call a farmer's swain
Unintelligent, pea-brained retard who thinks he's always hard
Oh God, of course I'm jealous, well there's all the sex ????
Jesus, what's he going to make up next?
A ???, the way she gently scratches his chest
You used to do that to me back in 1253
Pity me, while you lie with your lover
I sit and suffer in despair while you ruffle his hair
Unaware of who else is there
I move quick, I want to try my trick one last time
You know it's possible to vaguely define my outline
When dust move in the sunshine
So I'm tryin' to change, vibrate myself to near-human pitch
Which reminds me how I used to come unstitched
And switch 'round the house in a blind rage
It took years and an ocean of tears to find the key to this cage
if i was at another stage ???? age, it's difficult to gauge
But I know that I'll see you again, on that you may depend
I just don't know how or when
(you are my lost love)
Yeah, Jerome took me home under steel skies
Knowing I'm prone to dramatize but unknown for telling lies
And what I verbalize he can see behind my eyes
But why ???? identify killer lullabies
And he surmised
No surprise couldn't hear that
Closed my eyes as he steered that old black BM[W] home again
Not knowing how and not knowing when
(5:37 ?? x3)
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Reverence
Watch me ride...
Take the words and the bass,
Taste, and then swallow me,
You're chasing the devil
Cos you're level if you follow me
For quality, and I make no appology
For linking my thinking with computer technology.
Cos this is like a modern day hymn
For the new church,
I search for the truth,
I've got a hole in my tooth,
I'm on ?, yes sir,
I'm from the street university
Where we learn to earn even in times of adversity.
And I will find it easy when you're ? a hard time,
Petit crime sometimes,
But now I'm inclined to find
A fresh direction,
Check out the funky section.
Cos this is the part where I start to rip up words,
A compfort coming straight from my heart,
I'm not a mystic,
My views are realistic, simplistic,
One special brew I get pissed quick,
And get sick so I don't do it no more,
I won't find peace of mind
Rolling around on the floor.
The point I want to make,
?
The mistake is to take without giving,
From within,
You know how I'm living,
I'm cool, I'm looking after myself,
And I could never place wealth before my spirit,
I feel it's unhealthy,
The devil creep around you so stealthy, stealthy
'Till you get bold, rush the gold,
And before you're much older,
You're soul is sold, where's it getting ya,
Competition starts swearing ya,
Gold-diggers setting you up,
Soon be forgetting your existance,
Do you need a for instance,
I have to admire your persistance
In sticking to a game plan,
That brings you pain man,
And at the end of the day nothing is gained,
So listen to the voice within,
I'll see ya later,
Pay heed to the Grand Oral Deseminator.
I keep lying and trying,
Denying the call from inside
You can't hide responsibilty
So decide from today just who it's going to be,
Thou shalt have no other od but me,
So set you free see,
But you'll have to listen,
And who's that false idol
I see you kissing?
Money, success and untold wealth, good health
And all you have to do is love yourself.
It's a fact you'll attract all the things that you lack,
So just chill
And get off the race track
And take a pace back, face facts,
It's your descision,
You don't need eyes to see,
You need vision,
Continue to view the lord as being separated
And you'll be living a lie that's being perpetrated,
For many centuries, I'm on a mission,
These facts in my rap,
I don't sing,
But I want to share the peace that they bring,
My name is G.O.D.
The Grand Oral Diseminator.
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Don't Leave
Packing your bags like people in
the movies do,
All severe, and not saying a word,
And I'm sitting down here just watching you,
And I'm thinking:
Where is all the love gone?
Where's the love gone to?
Don't leave,
You got me hurting,
Don't leave
You know it's never been easy to love someone like me,
Oh, don't leave.
Hanging with friends like we used to do,
I didn't know anything was wrong,
And last night while I was thinking it through,
Trying to find who am I and what d'you need me to do?
Don't leave.
There's a record you used to play,
there's Judy singing 'best to be without you',
And I know just what she's singing______
Where did all the love go?
Where's the love gone to?
Don't leave.
You got me hurting,
Don't leave.
You know it's never been easy to love someone like me,
Oh, don't leave.
Where did all the love go?
Where's the love gone to?
Don't leave.
We'll fly around the world, give you what you're giving me,
I should have dressed you up in pearl,
Find me a ? to touch your skin,
Don't know how to write a love song,
But Don't leave.
You got me hurting,
Don't leave.
You know it's never been easy to love someone like me,
Don't leave.
Don't leave.
Don't leave.
Don't leave.
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Salva Mea
How can I change the world if I
can't even change myself?
I cannot change the way I am?
I don't know, I don't know.
I take a look at the world behind these eyes,
Every nook, every cranny reorganise,
Realise my face don't fit the way I feel.
What's real?
I need a mirror to check my face is in place,
Incase of upheval, fundamental movement below,
What's really going on I wanna know,
But yo, we don't show on the outside, so slide.
Just below my skin I'm screaming...
I need a mirror for my spirit,
Yeah, acn you feel it?
When I get deep, wanna hear myself sleep,
Not drowning, tumbling around and around in the voices
Like a crowd in my head so loud,
I wonder what it's like to be dead,
I hope it's quiet, noise in my head like a riot,
Anyremody you have for me I'll try it.
Just below my skin I'm screaming...
I'm going deep, so deep that I can't sleep,
The pills ain't cheep but the bills are steep,
So I ___ with a booze and a slpiff,
Try to snooze,
But who's dreaming ____ this is win or loose,
Put down the drink, try not to think,
Let it go, fundamental movement below,
And yo, reality is dreaming,
Just below my skin I'm screaming...
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If
Lovin' You Is Wrong
Watch me ride:
I'm a sexual animal, eat you like a cannibal,
Crammed full of energy,
I'm inflammable,
Yeah, I finish my beer
So come here and get nice while I lick you here,
Put your legs over there and kinda swing on the chair,
I swear you look wicked with your panties in your hair,
Eyes half closed,
Cute little nose,
And like a pound of self-raising I just rose and rose,
Stepped out of my clothes started doing the right thing,
I was pumping and she was biting,
Yeah, lightning flashed and thunder roared,
The girl had her finger on my keyboard,
Oh lord, this is gonna last all night,
If lovin' you is wrong I don't wanna be right.
If lovin' you is wrong, I don't wanna be right.
If I come first well that's the worse scenario,
I push you harder than Sanchez Vicario,
I mean it, 20th Century Fox on the screening,
One take like an earthquake make the bed brake,
We be famous worldwide overnight
And get tired of magazine articles we're forced to write.
I take a delight in making the bed springs sing all night,
If lovin' you is wrong I don't wanna be right.
If lovin' you is wrong, I don't wanna be right.
I give a massage,
Skin supercharge,
Imagination on turbo situation large,
Sometimes you handle me kinda course,
Like a horse, the bed______
____ keep from flying.
I got my teeth in her neck...
If lovin' you is wrong, I don't wanna be right.
If lovin' you is wrong, I don't wanna be right.
If lovin' you is wrong, I don't wanna be right.
If lovin' you is wrong, I don't wanna be right.
If lovin' you is wrong, I don't wanna be right.
If lovin' you is wrong, I don't wanna be right.
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Angeline
You've been out on the tiles,
Winning the smiles of men of low persuasion,
But I know you drink yourself crawling in the street until dawn,
Girl you look like a bad dream,
You've been places I've never been.
Come home, come home Angeline.
Come home, come home Angeline.
You've been places I've never been.
You took the small change from the job in the hall,
Be back in an hour but you're not back at all.
The children are crying, the flowers are dying,
There's no food on the table,
I don't think I'm able to cope,
You've been places I've never been.
Come home, come home Angeline.
Come home, come home Angeline.
You've been places I've never been.
Cheap perfume and alcohol, dancing on tables,
With kissing for strangers all laughing and howling,
And jokes and tall tales that ain't funny at all,
Bluffers and smugglers, boozers and gamblers,
Jump old queens and tarts at the babbled bar.
Oh, they've been pushing you too far.
Come home, come home Angeline.
Come home, come home Angeline.
You've been places I've never been.
Come home, come home Angeline.
Come home, come home Angeline.
You've been places I've never been.
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Insomnia
I only smoke weed when I need to,
And I need to get some rest,
I confess, I burnt a hole in the matress,
Yes, yes, it was me, I plead guilty,
And on the count of three I pull back the duvet,
Make my way to the refrigerator,
One dry potato inside, no lie
Not even bread, jam,
When the light above my head went bam!
I can't sleep, something's all over me,
Greasy, insomnia please release me,
And let me dream about making mad love on the heath,
Tearing off tights with my teath.
But there's no relief,
I'm wide awake in my kitchen,
It's dark and I'm lonely,
Oh, if I could only get some sleep,
Creeky noises make my skin creep,
I need to get some sleep,
I can't get no sleep....
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Dirty Ol' Man
He's a dirty old man,
And a dirty old man,
He's a dirty old man and a friend of mine.
I'm a dirty old man?
My life is cold,
I'll chill you to the bone,
Heart of stone,
Have a care,
You know my breath stinks,
I leave shit everywhere,
So be aware ?
Don't you dare try appealing to my better nature,
You better wait, you're missinformed,
Ain't nothing warm about me,
? concrete clay and steel,
And what else is real?
I mean the actual deal,
People seem to love living under my skin,
Some of them call me London,
I'm also known as New York.
Anywhere in the world you find me
I talk the same bad talk,
Walk the same walk from side to side,
ou're transparent to me,
There ain't a thing you can hide,
Derive glamour from the stamina it takes to survive.
Now give me your cash and go
Before you're heart brakes,
You're living under my wing
And all you got I'm gonna take,
I'm a dirty old man.
He's a dirty old man and a dirty old man,
He's a dirty old man and a friend of mine.
I'm a rough old man beyond heart ache,
To improve my mood I could use an earthquake,
I sit awake for my people to release the pain,
So I can know peace again
In my skin, sin diceit and mistrust soaked in,
I think I might just ?
Often drops of woe, streets flow with tears,
I fall down all around your ears.
If I could, if I was made of wood start a fire, no lie,
Cos I wouldn't bet on people changing just yet
My eyes are wet and my heart is full of fear and regret,
I started young, I got teenagers carrying guns.
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Baseball Cap
Oh, smack, there goes my baseball
cap I'm on the floor,
I think I took a bruse to my jaw,
Jumped me from behind at least three, maybe four,
I never see my hat no more.
Oh, smash. There goes my baseball cap,
It's gone, gone, gone, gone,
I can't get it back.
Oh, smash, there goes my baseball cap,
It's gone, gone, gone, gone,
I can't get it back.
14 years old and hard to the core,
I'm walking home making plans for war,
My hands was cut, my uncle says 'what's up?'
Let me guess, your clothes are in a mess, you're in distress,
Sit down, take five and let me look at your knees,
Your still alive son, please take it easy
Sometimes you have to let the world know you're not bluffing,
But enough is enough, don't loose your life over nothing,
Scuffling in the street is no way to die,
And I don't want to have to meet your mama's eye,
So try and listen hard before you fall into the trap
Of making war over a baseball cap.
Oh, smash, there goes my baseball cap,
It's gone, gone, gone, gone,
I can't get it back.
Oh, smash, there goes my baseball cap,
It's gone, gone, gone, gone,
I can't get it back.
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