Late 808

I’m in love with Mary Jane
She’s my main thing
She makes me feel all right
She makes my heart sing

Ain’t found a way to kill me yet
Eyes burn with stinging sweat
Seems every path leads me to nowhere
Wife and kids, household pet
Army green was no safe bet
The bullets scream to me from somewhere

Here they come to snuff the Rooster, oh yeah
Yeah here come the Rooster, yeah
You know he ain’t gonna die
No, no, no, you know he ain’t gonna die

Sing with me, sing for the year
Sing for the laughter and sing for the tear
Sing with me, it’s just for today
Maybe tomorrow the good Lord’ll take you away
Dream on, dream on, dream on
Dream until your dream come true
Dream on, dream on, dream on
Dream until your dream come true

I used to pray for times like this, to rhyme like this
So I had to grind like that to shine like this
In a matter of time I spent on some locked-up shit
In the back of the paddy wagon, cuffs locked on wrists
Seen my dreams unfold, nightmares come true
It was time to marry the game and I said, “Yeah, I do”
If you want it you gotta see it with a clear-eyed view
Got a shorty, she tryna bless me like I said achoo

There must be some kind of way out of here
Said the joker to the thief
There’s too much confusion
I can’t get no relief
Businessmen they drink my wine
Plowmen dig my earth
None will level on the line
Nobody offered his word
Hey

No reason to get excited
The thief, he kindly spoke
There are many here among us
Who feel that life is but a joke
But you and I, we’ve been through that
And this is not our fate
So let us not talk falsely now
The hour is getting late
Hey

Happiness, hit her like a train on a track
Coming towards her, stuck still no turning back
She hid around corners and she hid under beds
She killed it with kisses and from it she fled
With every bubble she sank with a drink
And washed it away down the kitchen sink
The dog days are over
The dog days are done
The horses are coming so you better run

Gucci on sight, hey
Rollie on ice, yeah
Take my advice, hey
Live a better life

Now here you go again, you say you want your freedom
Well, who am I to keep you down?
It’s only right that you should play the way you feel it
But listen carefully to the sound of your loneliness

Like a heartbeat drives you mad
In the stillness of remembering of what you had
And what you lost and what you had and what you lost

Thunder only happens when it’s raining
Players only love you when they’re playing
Say women they will come and they will go
When the rain washes you clean, you’ll know, you’ll know

Whether you’re a brother or whether you’re a mother
You’re stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive
Feel the city breakin’ and everybody shakin’
And we’re stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin’ alive

I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom, for me and you
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world

I see skies of blue and clouds of white
Bright blessed days, dark sacred nights
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world

The colors of the rainbow
So pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces
Of people going by
I see friends shaking hands, saying how do you do
They’re really saying, I love you

I hear babies cry, I watch them grow
They’ll learn much more
Than I’ll never know
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world
Yes, I think to myself
What a wonderful world

My ice, Klondike, ride around, dough right (yeah)
Ride around, get right, get rich, good night (oeh)
Good night (good night)

Get down on it!
Get down on it!
Get down on it!
Get down on it! C’mon and
Get down on it!
Get down on it!
Get down on it!
Get down on it!

One time for the birthday bitch
Two times for the birthday bitch
Three times for the birthday bitch
Fuck it up if it’s your birthday bitch

A-won’t you take me to Funkytown?
Won’t you take me to Funkytown?
Won’t you take me to Funkytown?
Won’t you take me to Funkytown?

How ’bout the whole gang get geeked? (Yeah, yeah)
How ’bout that?
How ’bout the whole gang get freaks? (Yeah, yeah)
How ’bout that?
How ’bout we run the whole scene? (Yeah, yeah)
How ’bout that?
Whole scene (Yeah, yeah)
How ’bout that?

Blue jean baby, L.A. lady, seamstress for the band
Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you’ll marry a music man
Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand
And now she’s in me, always with me, tiny dancer in my hand

I’m ridin’ through New York (skrrt skrrt, bang bang)
Finna go and shoot New Jersey up (bang, bang, bang, bang)
Tryna take my chain, I ain’t goin’ (I ain’t goin, nigga)
We gon’ come and blow New Jersey up (bang, bang, bang)

I guess you wonder where I’ve been
I searched to find a love within
I came back to let you know
Got a thing for you and I can’t let go
My friends wonder what is wrong with me
Well I’m in a daze from your love, you see
I came back to let you know
Got a thing for you and I can’t let go

All my ex’s live in Texas
And Texas is the place I’d dearly love to be
But all my ex’s live in Texas
And that’s why I hang my hat in Tennessee

Do you love this shit?
Are you high right now?
Do you ever get nervous?
Are you single?

So much for being optimistic
They say love is in the air, so I
Hold my breath until my face turn purple
Keep a few bad bitches in my circle
My nuts hang like ain’t no curfew
Bitch, if you wave, then I will surf you
I flew jet, she flew commercial
But we still met later that night
After my session, she came over
I was aggressive and she was sober
I gave her a pill, she started confessing
And started undressing and ask me to hold her
And so I did, but that was last month
And now she’s texting me asking for closure
Damn, she say this shit gon’ catch up to me
I keep tissue paper
We eat each other whenever we at the dinner table
She say she hate that she love me
And she wish I was average
Shit, sometimes I wish the same
And I wish she wasn’t married
Promises, I hope I never break ’em
Met a female dragon, had a fire conversation
But, interviews are like confessions
Get the fuck up out my bedroom
Confusing me with questions like…

Whoa, Black Betty (bam-ba-lam)
Whoa, Black Betty (bam-ba-lam)
Black Betty had a child (bam-ba-lam)
The damn thing gone wild (bam-ba-lam)
She said “I’m worryin’ outta mind” (bam-ba-lam)
The damn thing gone blind (bam-ba-lam)
I said oh, Black Betty (bam-ba-lam)
Whoa, Black Betty (bam-ba-lam)

Love and happiness
But wait a minute, something’s going wrong
Someone’s on the phone
Three o’clock in the morning, yeah
Talkin’ about, how she can make it right, yeah
Well, happiness is when
You really feel good about somebody
There’s nothing wrong
Being in love with someone
Yeah

Don’t you know we too grown up to be doing this shit right now?
Don’t you know we came too far to be losing our trust right now?

My daddy left home when I was three
And he didn’t leave much to ma and me
Just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze
Now, I don’t blame him cause he run and hid
But the meanest thing that he ever did
Was before he left, he went and named me “Sue.”

Well, he must o’ thought that is quite a joke
And it got a lot of laughs from a’ lots of folk
It seems I had to fight my whole life through.
Some gal would giggle and I’d get red
And some guy’d laugh and I’d bust his head
I tell ya, life ain’t easy for a boy named “Sue.”

Well, I grew up quick and I grew up mean
My fist got hard and my wits got keen
I’d roam from town to town to hide my shame
But I made a vow to the moon and stars
That I’d search the honky-tonks and bars
And kill that man who gave me that awful name

You can get the biggest Chanel bag in the store if you want it
I gave ’em the drip, they sucked it up, I got ’em on it
I bought a new Patek, I had the watch, so I two-toned ’em
Takin’ these drugs, I’m gon’ be up until the mornin’
That ain’t your car, you just a leaser, you don’t own it
If I’m in the club, I got that fire when I’m performin’
The backend just came in, in all hundreds
Vibes galore, cute chicks, they all on us

Old ways, new women, gotta keep a balance

Money, it’s a crime
Share it fairly, but don’t take a slice of my pie
Money, so they say
Is the root of all evil today
But if you ask for a rise
It’s no surprise that they’re giving none away
Away, away, away
Away, away, away

Don’t you like me for me?

Is there any better feeling than coming clean?

And I know myself and I’ll never love anyone else

I won’t love anyone else

I’ll never love anyone else

I know it don’t seem difficult to hit you up
But you not passionate about half the shit that you into
And I ain’t havin’ it
And we both know that I don’t mean to offend you
I’m just focused today
And I don’t know why it’s difficult to admit that I miss you
And I don’t know why we argue, and I just hope that you listen
And if I hurt you I’m sorry, the music makes me dismissive
When I’m awake I’m just drifting, I’m not complaining
It’s just to say that I stay pretty busy, lately

Trying to do, what we know we must
When you love somebody, you know you got to trust
I think about it, again and again
I said that I will babe, oh but I don’t know if I can
You say you’re sorry, oh I say I am too
Then we turn right around
Then again we be untrue

Every day I spend my time
Drinkin’ wine, feelin’ fine
Waitin’ here to find the sign
That I can understand
Yes I am.
In the days between the hours
Ivory towers, bloody flowers
Push their heads in to the air
I don’t care if I ever know
There I go

The sky is crying
Can you see the tears roll down the street
The sky is crying
Can you see the tears roll down the street
I’ve been looking for my baby
And I’ve been wondering where can she be

I’m smokin on the gas like Citgo

Hello? (hello) (hello)
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me
Is there anyone at home?
Come on (come on), now
I hear you’re feeling down
Well I can ease your pain
And get you on your feet again
Relax
I need some information first
Just the basic facts
Can you show me where it hurts?