311 Lyrics

311 Lyrics by Albums

2006-03-11T11:04:00.000-08:00

Don't Tread on Me [2005]
01 Don't Tread on Me
02 Thank Your Lucky Stars
03 Frolic Room
04 Speak Easy
05 Solar Flare
06 Waiting
07 Long for the Flowers
08 Getting Through to Her
09 Whiskey & Wine
10 It's Getting OK Now
11 There's Always an Excuse

Evolver [2003]
01 Creatures (For a While)
02 Reconsider Everything
03 Crack the Code
04 Same Mistake Twice
05 Beyond the Gray Sky
06 Seems Uncertain
07 Still Dreaming
08 Give Me a Call
09 Don't Dwell
10 Other Side of Things
11 Sometimes Jacks Rule the Realm

From Chaos [2001]
01 You Get Worked
02 Sick Tight
03 You Wouldn't Believe
04 Full Ride
05 From Chaos
06 I Told Myself
07 Champagne
08 Hostile Apostle
09 Wake Your Mind Up
10 Amber
11 Uncalm
12 I'll Be Here Awhile

Soundsystem [1999]
01 Freeze Time
02 Come Original
03 Large In The Margin
04 Flowing
05 Can't Fade Me
06 Life's Not a Race
07 Strong All Along
08 Sever
09 Eons
10 Evolution
11 Leaving Babylon
12 Mindspin
13 Livin' & Rockin'

Transistor [1997]
01 Transistor
02 Prisoner
03 Galaxy
04 Beautiful Disaster
05 Inner Light Spectrum
06 Electricity
07 What Was I Thinking?
08 Jupiter
09 Use Of Time
10 The Continuous Life
11 No Control
12 Running
13 Color
14 Light Years
15 Creature Features
16 Tune In
17 Rub-a-Dub
18 Starshines
19 Strangers
20 Borders
21 Stealing Happy Hours

311 (Blue Album) [1995]
01 Down
02 Random
03 Jackolantern's Weather
04 All Mixed Up
05 Hive
06 Guns (are For Pussies)
07 Misdirected Hostility
08 Purpose
09 Loco
10 Brodels
11 Don't Stay Home
12 DLMD
13 Sweet
14 T & P Combo

Grassroots [1994]
01 Homebrew
02 Lucky
03 Nutsymtom
04 8:16 A.M.
05 Omaha Stylee
06 Applied Science
07 Taiyed
08 Silver
09 Grassroots
10 Salsa
11 Lose
12 Six
13 Offbeat Bare-ass
14 1,2,3

Music [1993]
01 Welcome
02 Freak Out
03 Visit
04 Paradise
05 Unity
06 Hydroponic
07 My Stoney Baby
08 Nix Hex
09 Plain
10 Feels So Good
11 Do You Right

Don't Tread on Me [2005]

2005-10-16T09:46:00.000-07:00

Don't Tread on Me

Before you're pointed at me
There is a possibility
You better turn that thing around
The fits come easily
So don't you tread on me
Cause I will knock you down

Some days it seems it's not worth it
The fight in me is all gone
And I'm not trying to be perfect
But just get one damn thing done
Before I lose control
I pick myself from the floor

Before you're pointed at me
There is a possibility
You better turn that thing around
The fits come easily
So don't you tread on me
Cause I will knock you down

Never come a day that I'll solve you
Consequently I could never leave you
In the shadow of those looming battleships
I love our canoe
I'm ready for the falls
And those still waters we will find are true

Oh there's a clock in my head
And despite what it says
Another one on the wall
They don't agree at all
And there's a schism in me
And despite what you see
You might see me as calm
But I go out like a bomb

Before you're pointed at me
There is a possibility
You better turn that thing around
The fits come easily
So don't you tread on me
Cause I will knock you down

Whoa
Oh in the comfort of strangers
You don't see the danger
Of just letting it flow
This I know

Before you're pointed at me
There is a possibility
You better turn that thing around
The fits come easily
So don't you tread on me
Cause I will knock you down

Thank Your Lucky Stars

I need a break
Something inside me said
The T.V. people counting the dead
A break from all the sadness
Is what I need now, yeah
I remain at a loss for words
Apathy I sense in the hurt
A colder man is senseless no questioning yet

And what's the point
Nothing so dull
Could ever on Earth be brightened in entirely
Just think about it
And what's the point
Nothing so sly
Could ever on Earth be enlightened entirely
Just think about it

Ask me if I'm not blind
I can, I can read all the signs
So many have died
So many out of their minds
Thank your lucky stars
You got it good it's not hard
To be what you are
Thank your lucky stars

We're in a place
I thought we'd never get
People involved that fought or they fled
Running around know how we're going to get out of it, woah
It's a mistake to be paranoid
A mental state that takes strength to avoid
All the hostility and fierce truth we challenge

Here's what's the point
Of living that way
So many close their minds to what others say
Which ever feeling you voice
And what's the point
We're gonna pay
So that I won't wait ?? we'll all have that day
So make a choice

Ask me if I'm not blind
I can, I can read all the signs
So many have died
So many out of their minds
Thank your lucky stars
You got it good it's not hard
To be what you are
Thank your lucky stars

Ask me if I'm not blind
I can, I can read all the signs
So many have died
So many out of their minds
Thank your lucky stars
You got it good it's not hard
To be what you are
Thank your lucky stars

Frolic Room

Yeah
There's a gravity in me
Pulling me to want to see
What is going on tonight
Beneath the electric starlight

I like to mix with walks of life
Who live life on the other side
Pulling mussels from their shell
A place to some that looks like hell

Oh
A classic song that the jukebox has on has me moving
Oh
The faces here make it so surreal

Oh, in the company of pretty girls and new vagrants
One drink away from sleeping on the pavement
I'm not quite sure what I find so appealing
About the happy hour stealing

A party, after party
Til' it started to get grainy
Another, and another
What are we celebrating
There's always something not to miss
Diving back in the abyss
And it gets so very stale
But tomorrow's a new tale

In the Frolic Room
Woah
The seat I assume
Yeah
And I'm drawn to the night
And its damn neon light
Yeah

Where are we meeting up at
Let me guess bet I know
Does it have a sign in the window
Ice cold six packs to go
Sleep it up if you have to
There's a booth always in shadow
The reality is all around you
It's the best reality show

Oh, in the company of the privileged and the nearly damned
Mixing like a cocktail of your spirit slam
In the danger zone is where you'll find me
In a certain dive so inviting

A party, after party
Til' it started to get grainy
Another, and another
What are we celebrating
There's always something not to miss
Diving back in the abyss
And it gets so very stale
But tomorrow's a new tale

In the Frolic Room
Woah
The seat I assume
Yeah
And I'm drawn to the night
And its damn neon light
Yeah

Speak Easy

If there's a scream inside of you
Just let it go
You're beating yourself up baby
Don't you know
You've got to get through
And lift the roof off your soul

It's like the pain locked
In the part of your heart
It's never gonna leave it
Unless you start
To warm it up
Be wise and be smart

Out on the ocean
There's no one around
No one to hear a sound
It's just us out here
Out on the ocean
Speaking free

Away from the city
Away from the ears that
Bug us and judge us
It's so liberating
To be free
And my heart slows down

Nice and easy
And your breathing will be pleasing
Just speak easy
And say what's on your mind
I search for something
To compare you to
Thought long and hard
For a simile true
Now I'm suddenly aware
In the quest you're beyond compare
So speak easy

If there's a shadow in your life
Then there's sunshine
Things turning inside out
All the time
Just rewind
It's all in your mind

Oh so speak easy
Out here we're floating
Late in the night
And the only light to guide us is a
Full moon that's glowing
On the sea

Nice and easy
And your breathing will be pleasing
Just speak easy
And say what's on your mind
I search for something
To compare you to
Thought long and hard
For a simile true
Now I'm suddenly aware
In the quest you're beyond compare
So speak easy

Speak easy
Speak easy
Speak easy

Solar Flare

Not the back of a gentle mother
I do like a manhole cover
It keeps on pounding my head
We'll order water
Torture sauce and economics
Every day just more comics
In a pissing contest
That started out with atomic bombs
Mom will they drop the bomb
Will they think about their children's children
Be a forwardless mess and this
No one to call
You can't make them stall
I want to feed them to each other
Cause I'm sick of them all

How can't you see something's missing
Is anyone listening
We're shooting up flares
Does anyone care

They got this world locked down bound and gagged
From the reds in Pine Ridge to that land in Bagdad

When did our leaders
Become bottom feeders
We're shooting up flares
Does anyone care

They got this world locked down bound and gagged
With constant fear and paranoia toxins in our head

It's just something they know how to do
How to make everyone feel uncalm
The masses just take it while they turn the screws
Bring to a boil, add oil, then bomb
It's just something that we got to fight
How to make everyone feel uncalm
Keep us distracted with ??

Porno shows, MTV hoes, and all the radio
It's the same fucking song
That's just the way it goes
Cold turkey world to democracy's girls
From the rules of engagements sweet heart
This is the world

How can so many sit silent
Enough to the violence
We're shooting up flares
Does anyone care

They got this world locked down bound and gagged
The Botox, Barbie dolls, and magazine ads

It's just something they know how to do
How to make everyone feel uncalm
The masses just take it while they turn the screws
Bring to a boil, add oil, then bomb
Embodying all that we know to be wrong
How to make everyone feel uncalm
When a war chant becomes a popular song

Waiting

No matter what I do
I'll always wait for you
So I guess that's, that's what I got to do

It seems I'm spending so much time waiting
And when you can't make up your mind
I'm waiting for you
If that's what it requires
Then waiting's what I'll do
So hurry yourself up
I'm waiting

Just hang up that phone
You already know on your own
What you need to do
And what you got to do
It feels like I'm losing my mind
You know that I'll deal just fine

It seems I'm spending so much time waiting
And when you can't make up your mind
I'm waiting for you
If that's what it requires
Then waiting's what I'll do
So hurry yourself up
I'm waiting

I know you're thinking
That loves a gamble
And you're not sure that you gonna win, now babe
Take your money and double your bet
And see what happens and watch out
I'm taking my love down to your pawnshop
Tell me baby what should I get
A wedding ring and a boom box
Boom box boom box boom box ooowww

And what else can I say
It will do no good anyway
As long as you know that I'll keep waiting

It seems I'm spending so much time waiting
And when you can't make up your mind
I'm waiting for you
If that's what it requires
Then waiting's what I'll do
So hurry yourself up
I'm waiting

And what else can I say
It will do no good anyway
As long as you know that I'll keep waiting

For you I'd wait forever
Because I know that one day we'll be together
Maybe it's because you know I'll wait
You know I'll wait
I'm still waiting

Long for the Flowers

Between this world and the next
I want to locate a bit of you
Will I feel it
Or gaze an emptiness
Who guessed it could be so unfinished
A never-ending infernal cross
Yes yeah where is that bliss
The ordinary life I knew that was so exquisite.

You long for the flowers
I get more from the hours spent
Man instead of free of descent
A day without argument

You said you long for the flowers
That you remember
A song sang from the shower
How I used to bend words
You ask me where did all that go
And I have no answer
I admit that I'm giving up hope
And wandering if it can survive

One day will we just begin again
One day

Will we begin again

You said you long for the flowers
That you remember
A song sang from the shower
How I used to bend words
You ask me where did all that go
And I have no answer
I admit that I'm giving up hope
And wandering if it can survive

Something to take lightly
The one thing we feel
I wish we're surviving
The time, the time
It steals like a thief

Woah, Something to take lightly
The one thing we feel
I wish we're surviving
The time, the time
It steals like a thief

Getting Through to Her

There was an earthquake
In her dreams so she thinks her
Foundation is crumbling away
Fault lines in her words
Hoping to show her so disturbed that
Has shaped her to what she is today

Getting through to her
Getting through to her
Getting through to her
Getting through to her

Sometimes when I call
She tells me things that were not her fault
And her surface starts to break
Breakdown a hurting sound
I want to tell her that it's ok now
But I'm not too sure just what to say

Getting through to her
Getting through to her
Getting through to her
Getting through to her

All she wants is some breathing room
If not tomorrow surely one day soon
All she wants is some breathing room
If not tomorrow surely one day soon

Excuse me did she say
She wished she went away
And not return to the shame
Brought to her those days
We'll take man's dirty deeds
And suck them out like cosmic beings
Into the sun hoping
They'll be happy burning
But life is not T.V.
Life is not T.V.
Life is not T.V.

She's on wounded knee
The wild crazy horse that's me
Her heart parts ??
I feel refreshed when I watch her sleep
Sometimes it's all I need
It's all about the company we keep

Getting through to her
Getting through to her
Getting through to her
Getting through to her

All she wants is some breathing room
If not tomorrow surely one day soon
All she wants is some breathing room
If not tomorrow surely one day soon
If not tomorrow surely one day soon

It's Getting OK Now

There will come a time
When men will ??
I will take my last breath
And on that day
I'll be dying

At that time will I feel at ease
Will I dream and be at peace
These are things that no one knows
Come on help me now

Why must I think of this until I find
Peace and quiet in the clouding of my mind
There are times but I never come around
I can tell things are getting ok now

What if there is no ending
Turn from where we've been
To a place where all we can see is
Light pouring in

Am I really all that far
Far removed from that ending part
Or just a little closer to
The galaxy's misty heart

Why must I think of this until I find
Peace and quiet in the clouding of my mind
There are times but I never come around
I can tell things are getting ok now

Why must I think of this until I find
Peace and quiet in the clouding of my mind
There are times but I never come around
I can tell things are getting ok now

There's Always an Excuse

Ohhh ohhh
There's always an excuse when you need one
There's always an excuse when you need one
Aw, always a reason for someone

There's always an excuse when you need one
There's always an excuse when you need one
Aw, always tiptoe around the turncoat today
Yeah
Which mood is it gonna be today
Yeah

This time you've done it
You hurt yourself good
Your best friend is gone
And it's understood
All alone and no singing
At a true LA style
Your phone stopped ringing

There's always an excuse when you need one
There's always an excuse when you need one
Aw, there's always an excuse when you need one
There's always an excuse when you need one
Always

Shut it down
Get it right
Cause a person can't win if they don't even put up a fight
Get it right
Everyone has got something that keeps them awake in the night
That's a fact
Don't think of the times that you gave up and let out some slack
Take it back
Don't think you're the only one going through it
Take it back

There's always an excuse when you need one
There's always an excuse when you need one
Awww

There's always an excuse when you need one
Always an excuse when you need one
Always an excuse when you need one
Always an excuse when you need one
Always an excuse when you need one
Always, awww, awww, always

Evolver [2003]

2005-10-16T09:41:00.000-07:00

Creatures (For a While)

My name is volatile
I've been this way a long while
I'd surely like to rest
But the energy gets the best of me
It's been a wild ride
I wouldn't change a minute
I can't slow down inside
Guess that's why I live it

The years of mischief
Followed by weeks of thrift
I land on earth's hard face
No legs could keep that pace
And through the rest I sift

Is there ever a time
When the state of sleeping willingly leaves my mind

Highly frustrated wanna feel elated
Come Monday morn you feel checkmated
You can be uncool and become the rule
Exceptions were made to drown

I'm not used to it, you'd think I'd be by now
The ins the outs the ups and the downs

I wanna make a mess
I wanna blow off stress
I wanna stoke the fire
Just creatures for a while
I wanna make a mess
I wanna blow of stress
I wanna stoke the fire
Just creatures, just creatures
It comes and goes and come and goes

Sometimes I go a little crazy
Sometimes I go a little crazy just like you I do

I know what you were gonna say
But were afraid to cause dismay
You're lyrics switched around
The mixture watered down
And now a pointless display

It's something one won't understand
Unless there in it with me hand and hand

Don't buy the fear don't buy that my dear
The things you love you must keep near and
Carry on and you won't feel withdrawn
Even if you're coming down

Sometimes it's wearable sometimes is bearable
I careen towards balance til' the glass is full

I wanna make a mess
I wanna blow off stress
I wanna stoke the fire
Just creatures for a while
I wanna make a mess
I wanna blow off stress
I wanna stoke the fire
Just creatures, just creatures

It come and goes and come and goes
Sometimes
Sometimes I get a little out there
Sometimes I go off
Sometimes just like you

I go a little crazy
Sometimes I go a little crazy just like you I do
Sometimes I go a little crazy
Sometimes I go a little crazy just like you I do

Reconsider Everything

How many times will they do the same thing?
How did they get programmed to, your following?
Everyone's locked up in their suffering
The only way you can tell is reconsider everything

What if the truth is that there is no truth
The only thing I can prove is there is no proof
Don't be so sure that your source is correct
People believe it before, before they had checked

How many times can they tell you
Til you just give them their way
How many times can sell you
Til you let them have their say

Every time you will ignore your
Heart it will come back twice more
Never deny your on instinct
Reconsider Everything

Everybody want something they control
Some just want grass some they want gold
Either way does it feel good or feel low
Taking you downnot fast but real slow

Rebellion done for it's own sake
Does not a true free thinker make
To go against for it's own sake
You're still controlled by the course that the other man takes

Reconsider everything, reconsider everything
Reconsider everything, reconsider everything
Reconsider everything, reconsider everything
Reconsider everything

Crack the Code

I want the words
something you haven?t heard
will I find them and
will I have what it takes to say them
in the world beside
this one there are no lies and
no suspicion
only dreams without end

You gotta feel what I mean
Look into my eyes and know
I?m trying to come clean
But I stumble every time
And then the words they escape
fail to take shape
It?s all in the code now (come again)

Feel what I mean
Look into my eyes and know
I?m trying to come clean
But I stumble every time
And then the words they escape
fail to take shape
It?s all in the code now

Will you let me retract let me take it back
Sometimes my words lack and my mind flies off the track
What I?m trying to convey is miles from what I say
And you slip away

In life there are times
when nothing will rhyme
there are days I slip
when I know I should climb
breakin? the vows I swore I?d never break
a harsh word a white lie easy to mistake
where have you been
haven?t you noticed
there?s no map that exists
to point us out of this
my heart was the target
it found your arrow
baby you know I want to be
your straight and narrow

I been trying to transmit a feeling
I been hoping you receive what I?m revealing
See the main thing is hang with me and relate
As we communicate watch out
Fenced in like a dog between houses
Balled up by the trouble my mouth gets
Wrapped up in the things that I don?t know
don?t you know
Hoping that you crack the code oh

The first to crack the code
(You may not think I?m ready to have your love again) oh oh
(You may not think I?m ready)
You are the first to crack my code

I want the words
something you haven?t heard
will I find them and
will I have what it takes to say them

You gotta gotta feel what I mean
Look into my eyes and know
I?m trying to come clean
But I stumble every time
And then the words they escape
fail to take shape
It?s all in the code now

Didn?t I know I?m wrong wrong wrong when you knew
You didn?t have to give me so long long long to see through
Not predictable what I will do but you know
Cause you cracked the code

Your body is a country
that you know I?ll return to
craving like a family heirloom
that I am into
no baby how could I follow
everything you do
just remember when we touch
I feel so renewed

The first to understand me that would be you
It can?t work if we can?t be open and true
The best thing to happen to me let it be told
That would be the moment that you cracked my code oh oh

The first to crack the code
(You may not think I?m ready to have your love again) oh oh
(You may not think I?m ready)
You are the first to crack my code

Same Mistake Twice

It?s one thing to make the
Same mistake twice
Another thing to make it
All of your life
It?s one thing to make the
Same mistake twice
Another thing to make it
All of your life

The more you strengthen your denial
The more you turn to your desire
Na na na na
Appetite fight you?ll beat it yet
Na na na na
By hook or by crook on that I would bet
Just hang on in there

It?s one thing to make the
Same mistake twice
Another thing to make it
All of your life

Lost in a barrel of wine and whining
Snared in a trap of your own designing
Don?t be so sure
Nobody knows when it will end
Don?t be so sure
Wouldn?t I speak up if I?m a true friend
Just hang on in there

It?s one thing to make the
Same mistake twice
Another thing to make it
All of your

Life, your life
Another detail just goes by
Fallen into the abyss that has become your life

It?s one thing to make the
Same mistake twice
Another thing to make it
All of your life

All of your life

Beyond the Gray Sky

It is a gift I know
A moment of bliss that we hold
A firecracker flash of light then on
To the next plane soul remain
Come along if you dare
It's gonna be that you're scared
Lovely life I thank you
For the reason to see the pain through

Light a candle for the dead
The wick is burning returning what we have
It's who we are
We'll reach you if you're beyond the furthest star

Don't give up the fight to stay alive and even if
you have to
Find the reason of another's pain if they lose you
If not for your self then those around who care
like I do
One day you'll see the clear blue

Beyond the Gray Sky
Light a candle...
The wick...
It's who we are...

One day youill see the clear blue
Beyond the Gray Sky

I can't believe you didnit call
What made you want to end it all
Wasn't there something I should have tried
To help you see beyond the gray sky

Seems Uncertain

It seems uncertain
I wish it was forgone
To know the version
That made life go wrong

Wish I had a clue
What rearranged our molecules
Mostly wondering
It seems uncertain

In times of trouble
Everyone joins a team
No one waves a flag
For all human beings

No one?s excited
Unless they are divided
Someone?s going to have to give in
It seems uncertain

I?d like to be
One of the faithful millions
But what I see
Is an excuse for the killing

Your denomination
Should be a private thing
How about a spirit
For all human beings

How could something well guided
Turn out to be divisive
Mostly wondering
It seems uncertain

Still Dreaming

No I?ll not renounce my views do what others do
I?d rather drink the hemlock than be like you, to my soul untrue
It never gets easier so quit tryin pleasing her
Everything is a choice so let me hear your voice

Born in October night
feeling was out a sight
skin I?m in now and then
moves like a meteorite

noise in our culture
is built in our nature
another era will decode
as we head toward rapture

suppose we?re all gifted
suppose that the mist is
a metaphor for change
suppose the veil will be lifted

sacrament that I hold
close and I feel noble
solar marigolds light the souls
return from that other world

Sometimes when I?m awake
I can?t tell if I?m still dreaming
There?s so much here at stake
When every moment is just fleeting
Sometimes when I?m awake
I can?t if I?m still dreaming

It never gets easier so quit tryin pleasing her
Everything is a choice so let me hear your voice
rip up the evening post
kill parasitic hosts
we can shoulder all the karma
that came with Los Alamos

return the sky bottle blue
return that forgotten hue
a looking glass world
seeing into and through you

soul and body are my twins
the latter will give in
when the former views the ocean
as not too cold to get in

to martian life forms
these waters are real warm
but beware we can change the weather
and create a snowstorm

Sometimes when I?m awake
I can?t tell if I?m still dreaming
There?s so much here at stake
When every moment is just fleeting
Sometimes when I?m awake
I can?t tell if I?m still dreaming

No I?ll not renounce my views do what others do
I?d rather drink the hemlock than be like you, to my soul untrue
It never gets easier so quit tryin pleasing her
Everything is a choice so let me hear your voice

Give Me a Call

Ooh you draw such pictures in my head
Ooh with so few words I know what you said

Until the time comes
To carry the one
Make that dream real
And be sure it stays done
So let that thought
Bloom in your mind
A vision that?s caught
Never left behind

You should just give me a call
You should just give me a call

I think about you much more than I should
Now there?s a structure nothing had once stood
No more bluffing it?s cards on the table time
What it must be we will take it as a sign

So just give me a call
So just give me a call

Sunset and my love left me
winter and I?m so far
In darkness will it lead me
where the meanings are

I miss and think of you often
no flowers I forgot them
the weather?s the same
nothing happens
no love?s a hard lesson

patience and years will refashion
what hours will undo
and circles not yet quite circles
somehow close true
I keep on hearing the things that you said
I keep on feeling you go straight to my head
No more bluffing it?s cards on the table time
What it must be we will take it as a sign

So just give me a call
So just give me a call

I call you up but you won?t talk to me
No space for words there?s just no room
I drift away but you pull me in
I?m the ocean youre the moon

Ooh how do I know if it?s just me
Sometimes I think that it must be
You gotta know you can trust me

I think about you much more than I should
Now there?s a structure nothing had once stood
No more bluffing it?s cards on the table time
What it must be we will take it as a sign

So just give me a call
So just give me a call
So just give me a call
So just give me a call

Don't Dwell

Every time I get near your field of gravity
You look so sad to me tell how could that be?
ah- ah she said things I obsess
I would never confess

ah- ah I told her don?t dwell
That will leave you in hell

Sometimes things that you?re scorned for
You should be adored for
But like I told her don?t dwell

I know my love that I look dilapidated
But are you glad I made it
Can you tell me that much
ah-ah Why are you surprised
I don?t take my advice

ah-ah she told me don?t dwell
That will leave you in hell

Sometimes I need reminding
Regret is so blinding
But like I told me don?t dwell

Everything is a choice
Go ahead raise your voice
Might as well forgive your self
That means more than someone else
Set you free break the shell
To your demons farewell
(Ooh na na na na) I tell you don?t dwell

Other Side of Things

Houston we have a problem
all this TV has made us dumb
anxious is what we?ve become
too much prozac in our systems
it?s our mental condition
it?s our mental condition
one thing lacks is education
institutions fuck with our

Emotions are elastic
they stretch out and back
stretch out and back
sometimes they just snap
they don?t go back
they never go back

What if it were true
that you weren?t so blue
and you felt like you
could just do anything
but we?re facing the sunset
and for a moment it
looks like it?s rising
and we are on the other side of things

There?s no procrastination maybe I should do it get to it straight
I see people wasting time with so much pointless debate
I can?t wait for the over analytical politically correct
Upset by threats to the national mindset
I bet we?d let reverse psychology mob mentality over our ecology
A college we could learn but we usually we burn and then we waste it
Taste it time and time again it?s time to take your medicine
Emotions are elastic
they stretch out and back
stretch out and back
sometimes they just snap
they don?t go back
they never go back

What if it were true
that you weren?t so blue
and you felt like you
could just do anything
but we?re facing the sunset
and for a moment it
looks like it?s rising
and we are on the other side of things

(bridge)

What if it were true
that you weren?t so blue
and you felt like you
could just do anything
but we?re facing the sunset
and for a moment it
looks like it?s rising
and we are on the other side of things
side of things

Sometimes Jacks Rule the Realm

Sometimes jacks rule the realm
Can?t you tell
The swimmers drown
Without a sound
A chalkboard scratching sound
Could craze the town
An emperor's clothes
Never be exposed

I took it as a compliment
Regardless what they meant
It could have been innocent
Spent, so spent
Railing against undeserved
Dangling precipitants
Raining down idiots
Always flapping in the
Flapping in the wind

I took it as a compliment
No matter what they meant
Could have been belligerent
Could have been half percent
Could have been wanting
Afraid to have been caught promising
Ended up taunting me

I can?t change that
I can?t change
I can?t change that
I can?t change

I?m watching you
Not sure what?s true
Life can be so cruel
There?s nothing you can do
But it fades...
Only to return
I feel your eyes burn
I really am concerned

Sometimes jacks will rule the realm
Sometimes jealousy will dwell
You can?t begin to dispel
When you can not even tell

What makes me act the way I do
And why am I asking you
What makes me act the way I do
And why am I asking you
What makes me act the way I do
And why am I asking you

Sometimes jacks will rule the realm
Sometimes jealousy will dwell
You can?t begin to dispel
When you can not even tell
Sometimes jacks will rule the realm
Sometimes jealousy will dwell
You can?t begin to dispel
When you can not even tell

From Chaos [2001]

2005-10-16T09:40:00.000-07:00

You Get Worked

This is happening, this here is life
Days spent pondering, truth is a knife
Respect due to those who have caught it
Dedicated to our friends who have sought it

This is happening, this here is life
Days spent pondering, truth is a knife
Respect due to those who have caught it
Dedicated to our friends who have sought it

Brainstorm superseding the norm
When we come together, new planet is born
You revel in the chaos when people are torn
Then you come to find out your welcome is worn

We are advancing and retracting visionaries
Really here, it's not imaginary
The way you work your mind, you find it's an art
Where you feel it most, you feel in your heart

Everybody gets confused
Delusions are everywhere
Buy into fakeness, you'll feel used
Double talk fills the air
Looking all over for happiness
I've got the will to live
It's in front of you right now, don't you feel stressed
Falls through my hands live a sieve

I'm on a new high
With a pen and a pad
And for fun I attend
A jam that's super bad
At the same time
Give it all that I have
Whether you're square
Or the coolest lad

Eatin up my people, purgin their words
The jammies take flight like icarus birds
Drop on you and you get hurt
Cuz if you're under the rock, you get worked

Say, what gives, are you after me
Breakin me down won't you let me be
Won't be having none of your mind control
It ain't gonna work on me no more
I said what gives, are you after me
Breakin me down won't you let me be
Won't be having none of your mind control
It ain't gonna work on me no more

Woo! ha-ha!
You get worked

If you don't watch your back
People are scheming on you
Exploiting all the things you lack
They'll do what they have to do
Your good will is something they'll crack
How many times will the bust
Your originality they will hack
Don't know just who you can trust

I'm on a new high
With a pen and a pad
And for fun I attend
A jam that's super bad
At the same time
Give it all that I have
Whether you're square
Or the coolest lad

Eatin up my people, purgin their words
The jammies take flight like icarus birds
Drop on you and you get hurt
Cuz if you're under the rock, you get worked

Yeah, you get worked
Yeah, you get worked
Yeah, you get worked
Yeah, you get worked

Say, what gives, are you after me
Breakin me down won't you let me be
Won't be having none of your mind control
It ain't gonna work on me no more
You get worked

Sick Tight

Head rush
Come on, we take the stage
And what's up, it's on
This is a blow up
So just listen up
Just take your mouth off interrupt
We came to throw down
It's a showdown
And you know why, we never lie
Get the lowdown son
We're mashin and bashin
The stage we're crashin
If you're on the roof
I know you're dancin
I bet we get the people jumpin overseas
And I know why you're bustin mp3's
The shit shit shocker
The hiphop rocker
Wiser than baraka
Stronger than chewbacca
Kiss never did this nor ozzy ozbourne
Shakin that ass and shakin your firstborn
Back to the future and past to the front
We appear like adrenaline it's just that blunt

Two score and five we came alive
A minor blow up has started
A song for the newly sane and
The broken hearted

Head rush
Come on, we take the stage
And what's up, it's on
From midnight til daylight
You best believe that we're sick tight
You're cryin' bout your life
I think it's absurd
What could be so bad
You come from the suburbs
Just like me
But I could never despair
Most people in this world
Ain't got shit to spare
Suckas look up to thugs
They like the attitude
But fuck that
I'm talkin' gratitude
They harder they act
Just to hide their insecurity
I'm talking honestly
We are assuredly
Dope, I smoke it
But not everyday
Cuz anything all the time's
A drag I say
Three eleven you want to get next to them
My name's nick h, e, x, u, m

Two score and five we came alive
A minor blow up has started
A song for the newly sane and
The broken hearted
We keep an eye for each other then again
Our known associates endure
We make a sick tight connection when we
See our true people on tour

Head rush
Keep it going now
You know we get it right
We keep it flowing now
We're sick tight

We keep an eye for each other then again
Our known associates endure
We make a sick tight connection when we
See our true people on tour

Head rush
Keep it going now
You know we get it right
We keep it flowing now
We're sick tight

You Wouldn't Believe

He was a king 'til she laid waste
Now he can not fill up the space
And I just see him drifting
while he?s drifting
On bourbon alley
feeling low
Just because she let
him go
I don?t think he
even knows
He?ll ever be fine

And he?s got
a head full of ideas
Let me tell ya
That you wouldn?t believe
And he?s got
a heart made of pure gold
And something else
Many tricks up his sleeve
You might think he?s a jester
because he?ll
make you laugh til? you cry
And what else
You better come with your best
if you test him
Unless you?re ready to die

Wonder woman got rid of
wonder man
that man?s not part of
her wonder plan
Letter to the so called
better bet on my man
Believe it you will
find out baby
Damn

Head full of ideas
Let me tell ya
That you wouldn?t believe
And he?s got
a heart made of pure gold
And something else
So many tricks up his sleeve
You might think he?s a jester,
because he?ll
make you laugh til? you cry
And what else
You better come with your best
if you test him
Unless you?re ready to die

A million people come and go
Through a person's ebb and flow
And faces keep on changing
While they're changing
A certain few will
stay in tact
When they?re not they'll don an act
I know this important fact
Don?t get confused like

And he?s got
a head full of ideas
Let me tell ya
That you wouldn?t believe
And he?s got
a heart made of pure gold
And something else
So many tricks up his sleeve
You might think he?s a jester
because he?ll
make you laugh til? you cry
And what else
You better come with your best
if you test him
Unless you?re ready to die

First you love him
then your loving him not
All the while he just
smiles giving all that
he?s got
Do you find it in your
heart to say he?s not
what you sought
Do you want me to
continue with this
or what

Whoa yeah, whoa yeah
Head full of ideas
Let me tell ya
That you wouldn?t believe
And he?s got
a heart made of pure gold
And something else
so many tricks up his sleeve

Full Ride

Yeah, uh-hu, unh
Awww shit
What, unh
You know the freaks can't handle it
We keep on searching from the seaside
To the mountainside, come on
Hardly outstyled and hardly outblazened
Nectar natural, completely amazing
Others more concerned with just fronting on hardness
I flow sweet with millennium niceness
I don't know if they're just scared or what
But a little sincerity would knock them on their butt
I keep my dogs at my side and I keep my shit tight
Let me tell you how I feel, all right

Y'all's radio rock ain't that tuff
Can't move to that ain't deep enough
One more time groove on the line
Chill's up my spine, ready, rewind

The only thing that never gets old is honesty
You'll probably be caught up fronting
The only thing you always try to be is hard
Because you're scared that someone might pull your card
The only thing that never gets played out
Is melody, I'm hearing it calling me
It's plain to see because it's all laid out

Full ride, I'm a master of technology
Livin' my life nice in pursuit of groove-ology
I'm getting vibes like you checking me out
Without a doubt I pull clout and crush crews in a rout
I'm a doberman in any given reaction
Well-mannered and reserved, yet ready for action
I let you have it all, I got nothin to hide
I tell ya how we comin', we comin' full ride
Full ride, full ride, we work in on the inside
As you'd expect we come correct
While others just run and hide
Full ride, full ride, we work in on the inside
As you'd expect we come correct

I get fucked up rockin the jams, I bump disco
Playin' records all day I then let go
I'm the king of my town
But when my girl is around
Parlay like the count of of monte cristo
So simple the jams are in front of me
Get drunk in new york, make fun of me
When we play it's a serous thing
To all the people who that gather
Here's what we bring

The only thing that never gets old is honesty
You'll probably be caught up fronting
The only thing you always try to be is hard
Because you're scared that someone might pull your card
The only thing that never gets played out
Is melody, I'm hearing it calling me
It's plain to see because it's all laid out

Yeah, yeah, what
Full ride, full ride, we work in on the inside
As you'd expect we come correct
While others just run and hide
Full ride, full ride, we work in on the inside
As you'd expect we come correct

Yes, yes, full ride, full ride, we work in on the inside
As you'd expect we come correct
While others just run and hide
Full ride, full ride, we work in on the inside
As you'd expect we come correct, unh

From Chaos

From chaos comes clarity, I tell ya
What you appear to be, you ought to know
Glycerin tears don't fool me, I tell ya
Delusions plaguing everybody

Makin that hybrid music back in '90 now it's on ya
I hear we we're the model for the bad you front, we spawned ya
Finding it hard to come original, we warned ya
We're shakin the white boys in new york, black girls in california
We come through hip-hop, drum-n-bass, and dancehall rhythms
You want our beats and lyrics, you want to get them
Watchin you sink into the depths of opportunism
Missing the point, music's about love not pessimism
I'm sa moving supreme and on my team
I rock the mic with a sweet lean
And you know that stated as a fact
The only dj mc gettin' down like that
Metaphorically we are the chief of police, you're rock n roll
And we're positive you stole more that just the radio
Now it's 2, 1 and we are back in the control
The jammies are coming, people succumbing cuz we got soul

Everyone needs to forget upon re-enrty
Orbiting space quantum saints, we're the only
Beginning from a planet so naturally
Gifted in the heart lies our technology
It's only right, right
Entering in a space of pure delight, light
Next contestant on this jam is, tight
Feels spontaneous you'll improvise, vise

From chaos comes clarity, I tell ya
What you appear to be, you ought to know
Glycerin tears don't fool me, I tell ya
Delusions plaguing everybody

Don't even try it, you don't want to disrespect me
If dealing with punks was school, I'd have a harvard degree
You can't make me hate you no mater how punk you act
No matter what you do I don't react
I'm a perfect example of not giving a fuck
About the catty rude people that just suck
What do you know all of the sudden, ah I usurp you
Look it up in the dictionary to find out what I do
I go back to the style I came from
It's not something you can fake son
You're a con man who's run is done
You lead a world wide web of deception

Everyone needs to forget upon re-entry
Orbiting space quantum saints, we're the only
Beginning from a planet so naturally
Gifted in the heart lies our technology
It's only right, right
Entering in a space of pure delight, light
Next contestant on this jam is, tight
Feels spontaneous you'll improvise, vise

From chaos comes clarity, I tell ya
What you appear to be, you ought to know
Glycerin tears don't fool me, I tell ya
Delusions plaguing everybody

I Told Myself

Picked up on the wrong scent
Not gonna make a dent
How many times
Are you in my rhymes
Burn me once shame on thee
But burn me again, shame on me
I'm chasing and facing the point misplacing
When I think of you my mind's racing
I'm spacing out when I get to the point
Of no return, I get burned
I told myself I'm through with you
The last thing that I'll ever do
Let down my guard shouldn't be too hard
I know it's over, got to elevate, disregard

I can't believe I fell for it, but did it again
I told myself I'm gonna quit, but did it again
I can't believe I fell for it, but did it again
I told myself I'm gonna quit, but

This was supposed to be the last time
I told myself this wouldn't happen again
I told myself I wasn't ever going to call you
I told myself I wasn't going to let you back in
But here I am dialing, trying

I told myself to get a hold myself
I won't freak out, let you tweak out
On ecstacy not next to me
Somethin tells me baby girl that you're testin me
I told myself to get a hold myself
And I'm tryin' I'm not lyin'
Don't make me mad, you know I love you bad
I want to sniff the glue that hold me to you
I told myself to get a hold myself
But don't rush me can't you trust me
The sound I hear whenever you are near
I know it's never wrong and it's my favorite song

I can't believe I fell for it, but did it again
I told myself I'm gonna quit, but did it again
I can't believe I fell for it, but did it again
I told myself I'm gonna quit, but

This was supposed to be the last time
I told myself this wouldn't happen again
I told myself I wasn't ever going to call you
I told myself I wasn't going to let you back in
But here I am dialing, trying

And now it's all turned bad
Turned bad, turned bad
Your ploy to make me jealous
Is obvious and sad
It has the opposite effect
Now you're left with what you had
You had

The rain comes down as love turns to dust
I was joking she took me serious
The rain come down as love turns to dust
I was joking she took me serious
Yes, serious

This was the last time that I was ever going to call you
I told myself I wouldn't let you back in
But here I am dialing, trying

Champagne

I will never understand you
When will I stop trying
I mean, cuz it's just not how I planned to
Spend my time til' dying

I mean, champagne
California on the brain
She's got an appetite for no refrains
Just verses, she curses as blood vessels burst in defiance
She made an alliance to the dark side of hollywood
Where everything looks good
So I treat her right as any other player would
Lightly, then she wants to fight me
Too bad, that's just too bad
I can't be around to pick up your bags and your debts
She wants to love me with threats
Not taking chances, I'm hedging my bets
With other girls I'm not providing pearls
I'm free, free

I will never understand you
When will I stop trying
I mean, cuz it's just not how I planned to
Spend my time til' dying
I mean

I know loving me isn't easy
I'm home and next thing I'm leaving
But when I look at you it's like praying with my eyes
I follow you to sleep so I will find
Your dream place and hey, I'm not an angel
But girl you make me feel like I know one, one

Champagne
California on the brain
She's got an appetite for no refrains
Just verses, she curses as blood vessels burst in defiance
She made an alliance to the dark side of hollywood
Where everything looks so good
So I treat her right as any other sucker would
Lightly, then she wants to fight me
Too bad, that's just too bad
I can't be around to pick up your bags and your debts
She wants to love me with threats
Not taking chances, I'm hedging with my bets
With other girls I'm not providing pearls
I'm free, free
Never understand

Hostile Apostle

I can't free myself of the suspicion
For your motives on your mission
Some people live for the rules
I live for exceptions
Can't take part in the deception
But I know just how it feels
To wanna blow the world away
Just to get to what is real
It won't work cuz
Everybody grinds to a halt now and then
Everybody's game gets salt then again
No matter what the papers say, they're normal as they come
Bodyguards, ball of wax, the hide behind the gun
They get a panic pulse when they are so far from home
To me that is the reason to continue to roam
Exhilaration mix with the people skunk blazing
Checking out the shows that are sadly unamazing

Hostile apostle, who are you following
Negative energy that you're swallowing
Some coked out malcontent
Who's soul is up for rent
Victim of lost soul, hostile apostle

Unlimited in time and space and nearest universal
Light is what we're reachin for, it's not rehearsal
Follow this around, follow this hustle
Makin use of everything, movin' all your muscle

Angry human leads impressionable boy
To skulls and piercings and will to destroy
All of your heroes speak nothing to me
One emotion, one tempo, and no real feeling

In this field we are the presence of the thoughts you're missin'
Keepin' positive intact from all the people dissin'
Open your eyes, look at who you're kissin'
If you can't hear it people, just listen

Hostile apostle, who are you following
Negative energy that you're swallowing
Some coked out malcontent
Who's soul is up for rent
Victim of lost soul, hostile apostle

Angry human leads impressionable boy
To skulls and piercings and will to destroy
All of your heroes speak nothing to me
You don't have to be a prick just to be heavy

Chaingin' all the time we changin' all the same
Change in this life and this eternal flame
Warm in the sun, refresh in the breeze
Glow in the stars, blossom in the trees
Livin' through life in infinite extent
Spread undivided, operate unspent
No high, no low, no great, no small
Build and bound, connect and equal all

Wake Your Mind Up

Wake your mind up, clear your eyes up
Move and rise up before your times up
Clock is ticking, your caught slippin'
Stop to realize, look and listen

Well I guess that's life
When you see a dark road up the way
And I guess that's life
When you gotta roll through anyway
Now don't scream, don't fight
Fear never ever made it go away
Same ghost town as yesterday
Made you feel like love was miles away

Wake your mind up, clear your eyes up
Move and rise up before your times up
Clock is ticking, your caught slippin'
Stop to realize, look and listen

Now those sleepless nights
Thoughts just cloud up my brain
Feeling helpless, repeating the same
Old memories of pain and I wish it would rain, yo
Gimmie starlit skies for dreamland
I know it's really smaller than it seems but when
The pressure gets under my skin
I just wanna get out and scream in the wind, yo

The world we're livin in is complicated
The streets that we walk on are dark and jaded
A wandering suld that's filled with hatred
In it is poison, the youth is tainted
Social engineering keeps us separated
Media control is highly overrated
Ignorance is bliss to those uneducated
Listen to the message cuz it's time we faced it

Wake your mind up, clear your eyes up
Move and rise up before your times up
Clock is ticking, your caught slippin'
Stop to realize, look and listen

I'm controller of my destination
Gotta change my mind to help me break away
The sun creeps over the hillside to shed this light
No man could take away
And I guess that's life
You see a new side from the norm
A new direction and meaning to the form
And the calm in the eye of a storm, yo

Show me a desert that can never be drenched
I'll show you a thirst that can never be quenched
Temptation chronicles, the story of my life
Been spent on a dose of balancing strife
Inspiration it comes and goes
You can bet when it hits, I'm on the phone
Singing to my voicemail trying to get it down
In a sensation of shape shifting sound
You're telling fables to cover up your foibles
From overindulgence on things you find enjoyable
Designed to take my mind away from the truth
Try to make me out to play the sleuth
They want you to think someone's watching you
So they can make up a set of rules for you
I'm just trying to find a path that I can stomach
Just trying to make some sense out from it, unh
Don't stop, don't stop what you got
Don't stop til you find the sweet spot

Wake your mind up, clear your eyes up
Move and rise up before your times up
Clock is ticking, your caught slippin'
Stop to realize, look and listen

Amber

Brainstorm
Take me away from the norm
I got to tell you something
This phenomenon
I had to put it in a song
And it goes like

Whoa, amber is the color of your energy
Whoa, shades of gold displayed naturally
You ought to know what brings me here
You glide through my head blind to fear
And I know why
Whoa, amber is the color of your energy
Whoa, shades of gold displayed naturally

Whoa, amber is the color of your energy
Whoa, shades of gold displayed naturally

You live too far away
Your voice rings like a bell anyway
Don't give up your independence
Unless it feels so right
Nothing good comes easily
Sometimes you gotta fight

Whoa, amber is the color of your energy
Whoa, shades of gold displayed naturally
Launched a thousand ships in my heart, so easy
Still it's fine from afar, and you know that
Whoa, brainstorm take me away from the norm
Whoa, I got to tell you something

Uncalm

Uncalm, uncalm, uncalm
Listen to the drummer, just listen to the strings
Listen to the dj just rappin' and things
Once I get a message from you, I get all edgy
My minds racing but you know I'm not ready, uh, I say
For you, baby all our dreams trickle through
We are back in your teenage bedroom
Salvador dali honeymoon, for you

It's like you and me on plymouth rock
Embarking on a journey that I never thought
Would happen to me so effortlessly
Sparks flying, your laughter is a symphony
Spring, what a little moonlight can do
Soon the summer sun is on you
All the while we don't hear the news or feel blue

On the scales of desire your absence weighs
More than someone else's presence
I wanna kiss reason goodbye today
I wanna show it's purple essence
On your lips baby it'll fade away
Return your natural iridescence
On the scales of desire your absence weighs
More than someone else's presence

You make me feel uncalm and I think I like it
Make me think of a song that I could not write yet
Melodies create themselves, I'm just a conduit
You make my heart accelerate and I'm on to it
For you baby there's so much that I will do
To be near the sweetness on you
Funny everything seems so new when with you

On the scales of desire your absence weighs
More than someone else's presence
I wanna kiss reason goodbye today
I wanna show it's purple essence
On your lips baby it'll fade away
Return your natural iridescence
On the scales of desire your absence weighs
More than someone else's presence
Uncalm, uncalm, uncalm

I'll Be Here Awhile

I?ll be here awhile ain?t going nowhere
I?ll be here awhile ain?t going nowhere
I?ll be here awhile ain?t going nowhere
I?ll be here awhile

Far is solace in the maddening pace
Sad state written on my face

Not a tight rope walk but dance
Uncertain game of chance
But I?ll see it through in time

I?ll be here awhile ain?t going nowhere
I?ll be here awhile ain?t going nowhere
I?ll be here awhile ain?t going nowhere
I?ll be here awhile

And if a person place or thing can deliver
I will quiver with delight
Tempted by the hand that could
Blind my vision and sight

But at twenty years of age
In frolic and in rage
I will see it through in time

I?ll be here awhile ain?t going nowhere
I?ll be here awhile ain?t going nowhere
I?ll be here awhile ain?t going nowhere
I?ll be here awhile

But the dawn has come into the endless night
And everything?s going to be all right

But at thirty years of age
Through frolic and in rage
All regressed and healed in time

I?ll be here awhile ain?t going nowhere
Said I, said I, said I
I will survive

Soundsystem [1999]

2005-10-16T09:37:00.000-07:00

Freeze Time

Are 'yall ready for 311? x2
I'd like to stay here just like this
Its just a momentary bliss
That's all we can hope for
That's a reason to cope for
This life, this life and no more

You will be immortal man
One in the hand
You will know exactly then
When you have
You found the cure
And morse codes for rapture
Get with your rhythm
Get with your nature

The moment's running down a mountian
It can be captured from a fountain
Sometimes all that it can be
Absence of agony
Presure from the lack of pain

You will be immortal man
One in the hand
You will know exactly then
When you have
You found the cure
And morse codes for rapture
Get with your rhythm
Get with your nature

Serendipitous my travels throughout time
I grab a moment like a thief and then
I make it mine
Nothing will comare to your realization
When you com to find out
Your new object of fixation

I try to freeze time try to freeze time for your mind
Perfect snapshot to always rewind
Golden buttered jam golden buttered jam for your slam
Remember it in your synapse diagram

Sweetness is your bein'
Zen human walkin'
Steppin' out from shadows
Flowin' like a breeze soft and
When dawn unveils the mornin' star risen
Feel the light feel the love you're christened
With this life not ours not for long
But for the taking take it

The birth light breaking break it
Between the light and dard is a seem
This is caving in
Mutating rearanging your soul
Changing form again

You will be immortal man
One in the hand
You will know exactly then
When you have
You found the cure
And morse codes for rapture
Get with your rhythm
Get with your nature

Serendipitous my travels throughout time
I grab a moment like a thief and then
I make it mine
Nothing will comare to your realization
When you com to find out
Your new object of fixation

I try to freeze time try to freeze time for your mind
Perfect snapshot to always rewind
Golden buttered jam golden buttered jam for your slam
Remember it in your synapse diagram

You will be immortal man
One in the hand
You will know exactly then
When you have
You found the cure
And morse codes for rapture
Get with your rhythm
Get with your nature

Come Original

You got to
You got to

Come original you got to come original
All entertainers come original
You got to come original you got to come original
All entertainers
Hear why
To come original it ain't nothin' strange
You got to represent you got come full range

Full range of emotion full range of styles
When you come to town you'll have them
Comin' for miles

Come original you got to come original
All entertainers come original
You got to come original you got to come original
All entertainers
Hear why

Black eyed peas they comin' full range and
Nofx they comin' full range and
Roni size he comin' full range
The one mr. vegas you know it ain't easy

A warning to the crews out there who think they're hot
If you're not original rockers you will get shot
Down by the kids neglectin' your art, the stuff you did
Eventually it get so bad puts you to bed
Cuz when the lightning flashes sweet electricity
All the world then stands revealed with the clarity
Of raw voltage, briefly we see and the hope is
You'll be able to tell just what dope is

Come original you got to come original
All entertainers come original
You got to come original you got to come original
All entertainers
Hear why

Funk slap bass mixed with the dancehall and
Hip-hop beats and punk guitar and
Deadly on the mic is the one sa
The name is 311 and you know it ain't easy

This is not a test there's no time to mope
How you gonna cope with radioactive isotope
And boss dj illness upon you now quickly
Infecting you fast upon the airwaves
This message brought to you by the so large system
Activate and attune yourself with meditation
And green plants they've got mad life they're sentient
They're beautiful as you and they like to dance

Everything we do we gotta come original
Put your hand up in the air and prepare for battle
Sit upon the rhythm like a tire upon a rim
We do it non-stop and then we do it again
Some a them whine and some a them bitch
They can not do it never switch
Comin' up from the heart and
Delivered with a wild pitch
Sit up on top the rhythm like a wild stallion
This is the ruling system

Come original you got to come original
All entertainers come original
You got to come original you got to come original
All entertainers come original
You got to come original you got to come original
All entertainers come original
You got to come original you got to come original
All entertainers

Come original

Large In The Margin

Large in the margin
My drama unfolds behind closed doors
Told on the down low
I believe that I'm sold
But really I don't know
Maybe it's better but I can't think so
Maybe it's better to fight
One never ever know
Believe the rumors that grow like tumors
It's more fun than the truth that we know
Trying to hard to reach a highter plain

Will fuck you up
When you least expect it
You think you're moving closer
When suddenly you wrecked it
But all the same the pain gains wisdom
As if you ain't had enough
Then you're in some
Prison of your own creation mental dilation
Look at what you're facing
Placing blame in every direction
But in the end it's your own infection

There's no way to avoid listening
You'll always end up listeing
Here's hoping the voices aren't too unkind
Here's hoping the voices are benign
It's easier when you hear it
There's no reason to fear it
Its you
You

You think they'll probally find you
Well then, you're probally right
Cuz they'll come back to remind you for eternity
Of when you gave up the fight
Somehow they always will find you
The voices in the night, every night
Keep coming back to remind you for eternity
Of when you gave up the fight

There's no way to avoid listening
You'll always end up listeing
Here's hoping the voices aren't too unkind
Here's hoping the voices are benign
It's easier when you hear it
There's no reason to fear it
Its you
You

Flowing

Along the way to close my eyes
I lost where I was going
The more it will spin the more that I try
To stop my mind flowing
Away away
To all that I despise
Along the way to close my eyes

You can't be let down if you don't expect the world
Expect to lay awake there by your sleeping girl
If somebody cares then there is no way you can tell
Cursed consciousness it's your private hell

Along the way to close my eyes
I lost where I was going
The more it will spin the more that I try
To stop my mind flowing
Away away
To all that I despise
Along the way to close my eyes

Tick tick tick the clock bludgeons your mind
Endlessly replaying times that were unkind
Go away sun I'm not prepared for you today
It seems you are it seems you are

Along the way to close my eyes
I lost where I was going
The more it will spin the more that I try
To stop my mind flowing
Away away
To all that I despise
Along the way to close my eyes

Can't Fade Me

We bust the sound
The kids all gather round

And what's comin' from their radios
They all turn down

The creativeness
We are scientists

Move 'em with soul
Move 'em with this

When the bass kicks
We get intimate

With the music and the people
Yeah they're into it

Takin' off crusin' through the air

The sound is aerodynamic
Let me take you there

I am a cool and mellow man

Always got a plan

Copin' out problems every time I can

I'd like to be known as a great communicator

If you got beef don't save it for later

I battle evil weekly monthly yearly
But every step I take, the devil stays near me

Otherwise maintain on the globe

Just another space trippin' vato

Massive yang and yin on this earth we spin

Sometimes I gotta center find out who I am

I chill out I let in the wind

I gotta feel the pulse fo the planet on my skin

I go tnews for ya it ain't nothin' nice
We all got demon we all gotta vice
The struggle never ends
To keep it in check
But I never stop trying
To make the trek whadup

Which one is it who ya gonna believe
Undivided in my material being
Undivided life you can't fade me
Desperate the cling I make to positiviery
Stay getting it on til the doubt is gone
If you could be dissuaded you were
Dead all along
Like what's up now you can't fade me
Still in that same old trade of positiviry

Life's Not a Race

A day like today is for you
To let your mind unwind like you ought to
Feel the earth turn 'round when your heart rate slows
Contemplating the thing only your heart knows
That life's not a race

So hard to believe
Part of me will fade
In the mystery
In a future world
Long ago
Part feels for your love
And lives to tell you so

The world whirls around your mind in a golden spiral
The natureal way that things organize
You can't stop entropy sowhy even try
Observe the conscious flow and don't mystify
Life's not a race

So hard to believe
Part of me will fade
In the mystery
In a future world
Long ago
Part feels for your love
And lives to tell you so

Slippin' into a trance
A chance encounter in the autumn
What do I see an opportunity
And then, I got 'em
Sought a chill-out mix to
Carve some space
To make you wanna listen
Its a a bubblin' spring and
Double in kings of
This soundsystem

So hard to believe
Part of me will fade
In the mystery
In a future world
Long ago
Part feels for your love
And lives to tell you so

Do you see world without end
The rising sun my friend
Imagine cloud like
You will form again
In the spaceyboredom
In the autumnof late afternoon
You are calm
Just like a sleepy room

Strong All Along

Feel the bass knives pass your flesh enter your bone
Solitude in your dance floor rhythm zone
Let your body go just don't follow the letter
Do what you feel the more absurd the better
Don't be afraid whatever you got, show
Flaunt your personality, let me know your style
You could make a mean hand out of what you been dealt
311 on wax, wax on felt

Feelin' real great cuz the wheather is mild
So you reevaluate your personal style
What makes you laugh stand apart
Makes you feel good what's in your heart
Feelin' real great cuz the wheather is mild
So you check us out on tour cuz your likin' the style
Drums the bass the master plan
Nice guitars the mics in our hands

Stong all along, strong all laong
Come to find out the arm of the truth is long
I'll break it down for you like this
For the hard of listening
You think you're taking the cake
But what's left icing

To every foundation and every crew
I've got the medium here's what we're gonna do
Sendin' out props straight from us to you
To every foundation and every crew from the malibus hores to the brooklyn zoo
We've got the mdium here's what we're gonna do
You wanna touch us, we wanna touch you too
Givin' respect to those who keepin' it true

If you are real of a replica
If your steez be like akira
Wild ass sioux or the cippewa
Your tribes pawnee or the omaha
You can touch me with your fresh aura
Cuz your energy be phenomena
Now move the people and then olla
Take on the love and the good karma

Stong all along, strong all laong
Come to find out the arm of the truth is long
I'll break it down for you like this
For the hard of listening
You think you're taking the cake
But what's left icing

Feelin' real great cuz the wheather is mild
So you reevulate your personal style
What makes you laugh stand apart
Makes you feel good what's in your hear
To every foundation and every crew
I've got the medium here's what we're gonna do
Sendin' out props straight from us to you
To every foundation and every crew

Stong all along, strong all laong
Come to find out the arm of the truth is long
I'll break it down for you like this
For the hard of listening
You think you're taking the cake
But what's left icing

Sever

Just sever that leash and release
Your freedom of speech
You just have to believe
Your deed will be recieved
Somehow somewhere
You won't be repaid with a blank stare
Let me know if you dare

There's no one that could cure you like she does
She does
No one could leave you so alone

Here I goes
My vibe is holy
My eyes closed
Either I'm asleep
Or what I'm thinkin' is deep
Eventually I sigh and kick the sheets
Try to peace together why I'm here
Nothing except my own damn eyes and ears
And then it seves so I listen to my heart
Alwasy and ever
If it's not ggod it might get better
If it's not good it might just sever

I tell you money there's other honey
You always show it but you don't know it
Staring at the door thinking
About the mess your in
In your couch sinking deep
Over the girl that's gone

Just sever that leash and release
Your freedom of speech
You just have to believe
Your deed will be recieved
Somehow somewhere
You won't be repaid with a blank stare
Let me know if you dare

Now all you think aobut her drink about her in vain
But all else feels like you're betraying

We're walkin' it up face up and shakin' it up
We know of and extended field
This is the deal we're letting and getting
The vibes that we want
Open up your heart and proceed to feal
Now your inchin' up to the summit never plummet
Boot your system up
And then bail with the middle finger up
Why you so abrupt baby don't be corrupt

Standing in the club playin' the wall
That they're not her is all
You think and that is true
But what else can youdo
Trying to turn back time
Or just tow the line
Cuz the space you're in
Is no place like home

Eons

You got a wishing well within
That's ready to begin
See how we roll x2

I'm trying to compromise
Because with me there are no lies
See hwo we run
It's already begun

Now that I'm back to a pushing pen
That weights two hundred tons
I'd like to drop it on you
And watch it all fall throught

Nobody knows just what
You're battling inside
You can hide
Nobody knows just why

Most everyone will lie
If they need to

The ones who aggravate you most
And happen to be ever close
Seem to be the ones lurching
For the same things that you are seaching
The ones that make you feel ill
And you think that nature should have killed
Those you curse when you're alone
Seem to be so close to home

Not an even field to be on
Feels like stading still for eons and eons
Stare it dead in the eye, what now?
All we can do is try to shut it down
Shut it down
Not an even field to be on
Feels like stading still for eons and eons
Stare it dead in the eye, what now?
All we can do is try to shut it down
Shut it down

Evolution

My computer is future shockin'
Download this and you'll start talkin'
Upgraded you're now walkin'
Compatible with all that is rockin'
Comin' on fast it's gettin' digital
It's so huge like a spiritual
Rippling out to every individual
This is life it is a miracle

Evolution has exponental timing it'll be
Half as long til the next breakthrough that blows our mind
It's up to the people to brave on with experimentation
Move foth the species by using our imagination

But can we handle it
Could we dismantle it
Or should we fear the boid and just be para-paranoid
If it's understood it could be used for good and would
If you will believe in all we can concieve

On the periodic table they got it all wrong
Let me lay it down for you in this osng
People want pt
They want au
Lemme tell you what you really ought to know
Figure out ways to master silicon
Fiber optic connectors
Whatever's beyond
So many people don't even attempt to understand
The limitless possibillities of man

Evolution has exponental timing it'll be
Half as long til the next breakthrough that blows our mind
It's up to the people to brave on with experimentation
Move foth the species by using our imagination

I feel trapped I gotta adapt
Remain calm collected
Before I get zapped
My computer is a rebel acting all fine
And just like that payin me no mind
What's up is it's program over come by a glitch
Is it becoming conscious and if so ain't that a bitch
I paid too much for this piece I'll be dammed if it tries
Any funny buisness it'll be the one that pays the price

Evolution has exponental timing it'll be
Half as long til the next breakthrough that blows our mind
It's up to the people to brave on with experimentation
Move foth the species by using our imagination

Yes can we hanle it
We could we dismantle it
We should not fear the boid and just be para-paranoid
If it's understood it could be used for good and would
If you will believe in all we can concieve

Leaving Babylon

Will I say?
Leaving this babylon

Say I'm leaving this babylon
Leaving this babylon
Will not be to long
Will not be to long
Say my people are starving
But your money's running

I said my people are starving
But your money's running

I say your dollar, dollar cut down real low
You ain't got nothin' to show
Gonna' step right through the door
Not gonna' come back no more
Cuz a polition lied
My mama just did cry
And nothing ever gonna' change
My father just desides
Her sisters just a line
And I ain't got nothing to claim
Oh...

Will I say?

Will I say
That, did it go away?
Now did you leave today?
Yeah...yeah...

Mindspin

Are you missing us
Maybe wanting to be kissing us
If you must
When please don't be dismissing us

When we'regone ballin' on the bus
Are we immersed in a sea of replicants
Hard exteriors and fake gold fronts
Losing yourself in the flavor of the mouth
Gotta be a better reason to colonize a star
Gotta be a better reason man's come so far

Is that you in the mama-ocean-purple-sea
Is that you in this dream I see waving me
Closer with one hand
While the other shields your eyes as if surprised
To see the universe begin

Being up on the mindspin
Are you still glad that it has been
Six years and a seven months
This is what you want don't front
I'm feelin' it right now
In this, the goldhour
Part click and part man
Reconcilling my lifespan

Keeping things whole
We move out of the space where air flows
When all of a sudden here we are and here we go
The evolutionary mind turns twists backflips

In space-time
The continuum
Real life planetarium
It's a natural fact

Time is speeding up
There isn't much left
Heart rate increasing
Bustin' through your chest
Compressed
Is your life in the physical
But out of memory comes a vision
Which is a merical
Yeah that
Normally we just can't see
It's not natural or typical
Of our same old thing
Livin' to fast
Unable to grasp the past
Or the futre when at last we ripple
After our big splash

Being up on the mindspin
Are you still glad that it has been
Six years and a seven months
This is what you want don't front
I'm feelin' it right now
In this, the goldhour
Part click and part man
Reconcilling my lifespan

You reamain and refrain
From the pain of wasted time
The last thing on my mind is
Running high fuel supply
Reason why
We just don't quit
Can you get with
A mlding of two minds
What's the worst thing
You could find
A paper trail
That prevails
In dernystification
People want to beieve
In mysteries
People want to believe
In mysteries

Is the truth so bad? x4

Livin' & Rockin'

Livin' & rockin'
Fire is my method for destruction
Leaving charred wreckage from my latest eruption
Unpredictable, my erratic demeanor
Bobbing and weaving as my mind gets leaner
Though I'm trippin' on legs that stumble but I don't fall down
You know I'm singing out things you mumble for a lack of resoudn
Pissed off mist lifts to honesty
Now come down motherfucker with your philosophy

I'm at ease when I feel there's a breeze
Give me a little please
Aristotle I'm not but think of socrates
So are you ready for your lesson blood?
Domocaratic non erratic socratic method
We'll take away the pain
We'll pacify the bullshit built up in your brain
In times of change or the same old thangs
As you maintain or rearange

Can't nobody do it like 311
Fuckin' up competition cuz there really is none
Steppin' on your game from the first floor tore up
Electricitywe store it up

Can't nobody do it like 311
Break it down, what it is, dedication
Sending out gratitude like we laid it out on down
Throw down fuck the bullshit we're still the sound

Wild and lost speed mad
Along way from sad
Lookin' good like you should you're bad
An itinerant dimension mystic is your spirit see
Like color absolute bodiless indeed
Casual kindred sprit past
All the obstacles you're dealin' with at last
The nasdaq, two puppies, baby needs new shoes
Car alarms, your rent, wedding bells, the blues

The tragic fucking comedy that was last night
Unfolds to my inner devils sheer delight
A poinless fucking banter in an endless bout
With whiskey woaked frolic room tobacco mouth
Then a sickening trip to what I call the elitist cesspool
Beckonong all the sycophants and defeated yes-fools
Hung over, broke, and a round of apologies
Now come down martinez with the modern mythology

Can't nobody do it like 311
Fuckin' up competition cuz there really is none
Steppin' on your game from the first floor tore up
Electricitywe store it up

Can't nobody do it like 311
Break it down, what it is, dedication
Sending out gratitude like we laid it out on down
Throw down fuck the bullshit we're still the sound

Transistor [1997]

2005-10-16T09:35:00.000-07:00

Transistor

If you want more beats for you buck there's no luck (4x)
Then there's no luck
Then again if you came for drama then I can't understand a
Music critics (2x)
Not afraid of a guy who'll tell you he's never been in a mix
Been in a mix (2x)
We're from the grassroots so big up to our friends
Every crew, every click, and every posse
Big up to all the heads not of hypocracy

You're a transistor
Lightning resistor
Conducting to the mother star
That's what you are

Renegade sound system 311 (4x)
311
Brothers from another planet and here once again
Automatic (2x)
Quantam saints of the universe in a holographic
Cosmic remix (2x)
From the mysterious blue planet
We can breathe anywhere
Under water, out in space, and in la
Your polluted air's no problem for these homeys

You're a transistor }
Lightning resistor } (2x)
Conducting to the mother star }
That's what you are }

Prisoner

Whoa oh prisoner
My pretty oh oh prisoner

A black ocean is the sky above
Tiny lights bob what star you from

Trapped in material plane
She wants to fly and they think she's insane
But she knows what she know
Give that girl wings and that's all she wrote

Twilight zone (2x)
I'm floating in the dark alone and
Is there any love out here let me know

A laser lights pinpoints the top of my dome
Then through my body
As if scotty's beaming up a wayward soul
Mutant races in an ancient universe
Dark shadows humans rhymin' in a raggae verse

It's gone if you blink
I can see it as soon as you think it

Dancehalls crystal balls
On sidewalk malls
Psychic people outdoors reading palms

I believe that you know more
To survive the dimension if four

Oh prisoner
My pretty oh oh prisoner

Look at the way she's searching
Trapped in a world that's hurting
So bad it makes her cry
But I won't let her say good bye

Twilight zone (2x) }
I'm floating in the dark alone and } (2x)
Is there any love out here let me know }
No way (2x)

Galaxy

Between mars and jupiter
There's a gap
For another planet
Now way back yeah
Maybe a mad man
Just blew the shit
Out of it
Now we're tryin'
To get back
In alignment
Explains why we
Go through cycles
Always tryin' to find it
Closin' into the age
Of aquarius
Crazy weather
Floods tornadoes
Low jet streams
Not gettin better
Enterin' a twilight zone
Activities grown
Every single day
More people spottin' ufo's

Let's come together with this
New coast shit
We got the motherfuckin' kids
Now let's freak this shit
It's messed up when you're feeling
Everything is wrong
Takeover the pentagon

It's fucked up in this paradigm
Cuz I'm burnin' fossil fuels
I don't even need too
Free energy has been harnessed
We don't use it why
Cuz the techniques been suppressed
The hours glass has passed through granules
Thats cool we gotta break it
Bust all these rules and switch
Change up the pitch
Rearrange our views and this
Dumb shit we'll ditch

Chorus

I found a bootleg of the cosmic conscious
Then erased it
Visualized the breath technique
Slowly became it
Now something is watchin' me
Since I have found the keys
To free this energy
My high speed light body
Cuz the galaxy is crazy
It doesn't amaze me
That we're livin' out of phase
And quickly decaying
6 protons, 6 neutrons, 6 electrons
Is encoded in this plane
We live on

Beautiful Disaster

Today seems like a good day to burn a bridge or two
The one with old wood creaking that would burn right away on cue
I try to be not like that but some people really suck
Some people need to get the axing chalk it up to bad luck

I know a drugstore cowgirl so afraid of getting bored
She's always running from something so many things ignored
I might do that stuff if it didn't make me feel like shit
I'm on some old reality tip so many trips in it

Beautiful disaster
Flyin down the street again
I tried to keep up
E ate up
Now I wish you all the luck
You're a butterfly in the wing you wore me out and left m so many things ignored
I try to be not like this, but I thoud without a care
A pretty train crash to me and I can't care
I do, I don't, whatever

I know a drugstore cowgirl so afraid of getting bored
She's always running from somethinght I'd make a good song
There's nothing to see shows over people just move along

Inner Light Spectrum

When I shadow box inside my skull
Bothered by the senselessness
I wish for the messiah
Indian woman, babylon

There is one thing I will say on life
We are livin' yeah
Let it flow
Cuz it won't stop

And when the kind consiousness yes come unto you
You will know and it won't stop

When I wipe the sleep from my eyes
Will my fondest dream please come true
Crush my heart with a hammer
Make a purer one babylon

There is one thing I will say on life
We are livin' yeah
Let it flow
Cuz it won't stop

And when the kind consiousness yes come unto you
You will know and it won't stop

But mean people I say choke on it
Gagging all the way
May you remember the texture for days
But you'll get used to
The feeling of your pride
Of your pride (2x)
Chugalug it (2x)
Time after time (3x)
Learning your lesson (2x)
Will do you fine
Do you fine (2x)

Electricity

This song started as a rant against haters
But that'd be giving in to the instigators
If there is one thing I'd like to pull off
When someone steps with hate all I do is just scoff
You can't burn me (2x)

The same force that flows through every circuit
The juice that's spent everytime you work it
Every life form is based on this simplicity
The soul that you have is electricity

You can't avoid that
Evolution is fact
We're all from the same lucy
Despite differences you see

I'm in disbelief at what people will believe
All along I thought we had our hearts on our shirtsleeve
If one thing I can say as a piece of advice
Don't believe it till you see it and then see it twice
It's so funny (2x)

The same force that flows through every circuit
The juice that's spent everytime you work it
Every life form is based on this simplicity
The soul that you have is electricity

You can't avoid that
Evolution is fact
We're all from the same lucy
Despite differences you see
A call out for unity
In every province and city
What do you think we've been saying
Since we first started playing

What Was I Thinking?

The word that I heard was so absurd }
I can't believe it slipped from my lips }
The tongue with which it was sung was so dumb } (2x)
I wish to pull it from my skull }
}
What the fuck was I thinking (8x) }

Jupiter

Sometimes the only thing that saves you
Think of bad things luck never gave you
And although your true love has just left you
Well at least you mother kept you

Be sure that a dreams alive
There only short burst in life
Are you able to be satisfied
Do you expect fun all the time

Hey we can rock it easy and lay it in the fold
Hey we can shake you simply just by being cold
And if it falls apart will you still be my friend
Get back we're gonna stick together

And so many things that have gone wrong
At least you have ears to hear this song
And if you reading in close caption
There's still bad things that could have happened

Long time since we've first came here
And sometimes we fall on deaf ears
One thing I've got to say before sales dive
Stay positive and love your life

Hey we can rock it easy and lay it in the fold
Hey we can shake you simply just by being cold
And if it falls apart will you still be my friend
Get back we're gonna stick together

Use Of Time

With the words staying me slow
The verbs that just don't flow
Confusing use of time
Partial stoning of the heart
Waiting for something to start
Confusing use of time

But the trying again
Makes me think it's all gonna end
Confusing use of time

But everytime I turn the volume down
All the I hear is the deafening sound
Of you hearts pound

But the trying again
Makes me think it's all gonna end
Confusing use of time

Today, the longest day
Hearing repeating things you'd say
Confusing use of time
Can you hear the void I describe
What could I say vacancy sounds like
Confusing use of time

But the trying again
Makes me think it's all gonna end
Confusing use of time

The Continuous Life

When things are outta whack
And they might collapse
And at the end of the day
You still can't relax
And physically you ache
Like a cavity feelin' the bind
On your mind and the rest
Of your body
Listen to your heartbeat
Flow and imagine
Become jackson pollack
Air brush chinese dragons
On a sky blue convertion
Van or an electra
Buick of the mind full of
Fuminous matter
And slowly all the pressure
Recedes and you stop to decay
Naturally think clearly
Ultimately though your grace
Will give way to traffic jams
Submachine guns in hand
City red-necks who think
Like the omega man
Feelin' the extremes
Of the times we're livin'
Stockpile spaghetti-o's
And cheerios plannin'
To survive that fall-out shit

It's not ambuguous }
It be continuous }
It's all about us }
It's for real my man } (2x)
The continuous life there is no end }
Movin' through life }
Movin' through death }

My radio emits a signal form
A strange noise the kind of which
I've never heard before
I scan the dial for more stations
But all I get is an eerie feelin'
I'm not dreamin' this is the real dealin'
There's nothin' like this trance
I'm caught in a daze
Cuz I'm finally out of my body
The blue lights are ablaze
Yeah I'm really amazed
And feelin' so light that's right
Lift off and I'm into the sky
As if a hologram were created
To shift my conciousness
Changed again and I'm flung
In the riff
I wanna be free I wanna do right
I move through the portal
To be purified

It's not ambuguous }
It be continuous }
It's all about us }
It's for real my man } (3x)
The continuous life there is no end }
Movin' through life }
Movin' through death }

No Control

Do you want me to cry?
Cry for you
How can you say that you're blue
A rich rock star you are
Yet you still complain, that's insane
Imagine if you had a child of two
You're a single mom, son named tom
You work a long hard day just to bill pay
With no time to play then what would you say

Still in this world what it means to me
Losin' my grip as I trip on anomalies
My thired eye is the prize of unifyin' horus
The pleadies will smash out of taurus
Energy pure decompose in the porous
Soil of life moving on it's courses
Crystals 'neath the surface radiate the cycle
Combing minerales they will flex and let go
Toxically were built to never last
Cuz the waste we make all day
Steady growin' fast
I get up intake my blue-green algae
Let it penetrate
Strengthen my grasp
Holistic healers dealin' our galactic growth
Reversin' fx of shit wrecked chernobyl

Wanna take it further } (2x)
Let's take that funk further }

We've all got pain that's real
And we should say how we feel
And I've felt so alone
But I know I've always got a home
The question I'm up serving
Is am I really deserving

Gamma waves bacterial plagues
Cow mutilations all the time
Not to mention visitations
More than 2000 years
Of fuckin' with our fears
The only thing true
We gotta love each other
Try to leep a positive vibe
They make it tough for ya
You're cut off and lonely
While you hustle for dough
We can overcome the wrongs
While we're reachin' the point
Stick together all forever
Now continue to flow

Wanna take it further } (2x)
Let's take that funk further }

Running

Here in the world feel it flowing
River of life on a human journey
Don't be afraid of becoming the sea
Don't worry yourself (3x)
Many stories will
Be left untold
But understand everything must go

Slow slow lover
Rub you down
We don't want no one
Hurting don't make a sound
Oh livin' is a journey
Waking believing running
For shelter now
Slow slow lover
Rub you down
We don't want no one
Hurting don't make a sound
Oh livin' is a journey
Waking believing running

What's that you do
You're running around
There's people that need you
And you're letting down
And when it's time to care
You always leave town
Don't hurry yourself (3x)
There's some wildness
There and mercy
It's the emptiness we
Love touching

Slow slow lover
Rub you down
We don't want no one
Hurting don't make a sound
Oh livin' is a journey
Waking believing running
For shelter now
Slow slow lover
Rub you down
We don't want no one
Hurting don't make a sound
Oh livin' is a journey
Waking believing running

Give thanks and praise
For good things you found
Humble people
Not ashamed nor proud
And always try to keep
Your feet on the ground
And love yourself

Slow slow lover
Rub you down
We don't want no one
Hurting don't make a sound
Oh livin' is a journey
Waking believing running
For shelter now
Slow slow lover
Rub you down
We don't want no one
Hurting don't make a sound
Oh livin' is a journey
Waking believing running

Light Years

You're a thousand light years runnin' through my brain
Reminding me that no one's sane
Not all the time
Yes

You're a thousand light years runnin' through my brain
Reminding me that no one's sane
Not all the time
Yes I still remember you
In a way that you'd want me to
I man a man you know see
Who will do right for you

Never let your regret make you wish we had not met
I cannot think that way yeah
I drove you crazy I see that plainly
You waited on pins for me
But needles never ever love
What did you think of

Tune In

You're a power spot rotating
Everchanging
Transmitting like a radio wave
Frequently feeling
What's goin' on
Times are weird all this static
Things erratic
Seems like we lost the magic
See hear how clear
Is inner quality
A yin and yang type of thang
Sacred geometry
Ascending mad
Energy crazy bad
You're something nasa
Fuckin' wish they had

Tune in for those who are wantin'
Vision feel it from within
Sing along
Tune in for those who are wantin'
Vision feel it from within
You know

You're a star creator
Soul craft generator
Movin' through time and space
Son you're a liberator
But you're memory
Has been erased
The things you knew
Misplaced check it out
Babylon
Life style we scorn
Now we live again
In la tokyo and new york
Come on pay a fee
Smoke your booty weed
Put gas in your tank
Keep you city bumpin'

Tune in for those who are wantin' }
Vision feel it from within }
Sing along } (2x)
Tune in for those who are wantin' }
Vision feel it from within }
You know }

Rub-a-Dub

Ooh, what else can I do (2x)
Ooh, face in a screw
Ooh, racing to prove
You never remember
The blossom sender
Still in a rub a dub style

Long time you don't know what I'm doing whoa
Long time see troubles are brewing yeah
Stick to the way you rock it and know that
You'll cope with that
Not gonna let it sit til I say
How dope was that
Keep you head pumping til you get in the zone
Not giving up not going home

Stick to the way you rock it just do it real slow
Nobody can really say cuz nobody really know
Only thing that matters if it's funky to you
You got a choice of what you can do

Ooh, what else can I do (2x)
Ooh, face in a screw
Ooh, racing to prove
You never remember
The blossom sender
Still in a rub a dub style

Stick to the way you rock it just do it real slow
Nobody can really say cuz nobody really know
Only thing that matters if it's funky to you
You got a choice of what you can do

Starshines

I am a music lover some how I get paid
This song would still exist if no money was made
That's the difference
I summed it up in a sentence
I'm sittin' here perfectly still cuz I've got no place to go
Be about two months until we light up
The show follow me now
I sing of spring it's a marvelous thing
What else swing the thing you bring

Yo I got to say hola }
Orange county to angola }
I go back to the beat } (2x)
It never lets me down }
Zone in and let it rola }

I deem stream of sweat that connects me to you
I still be all about that thing that you do
We dip dip dive and herbalize
I don't look over my shoulder but I know there are spies
But then long time crew
Stuck like glue
You never let me down
Always came through
Always kept the flow
Even when you didn't know
Don't ask us
We make it up as we go

Yo I got to say hola }
Orange county to angola }
I go back to the beat } (2x)
It never lets me down }
Zone in and let it rola }

Seems like people are the viruses
And earth is simply tired of us
So many headz what if something would give
And kill off our race
Maybe diseases from space
Arriving from a comet
With a trail left for the planet
Say the wake it created was the start of the end
Filled with spores that were engineered
Plant pathogens
What's in the future for the view is many changes
Humans could be in danger
What would you eat to be a remainder
As your food is maimed
To take you out the frame
Some would vaporize
Some would remain
The same suckers with no cares about
The wave of the world I feel
Their lives are destined for hard times too

There's a parallel universe that might be blocked
But by emotion we put into it we could unlock
I'm not saying we could escape fate tunneling in this vast
Untranslatable energy filled of dust and ash

Strangers

Now I don't know you you don't know me }
But I can show you where's the beat } (2x)
And you can do as you feel as long as you move }
Two perfect strangers sharing a groove }

Suckers step up and want to cause friction
But violence is for those who can't handle diction
Competion is waning circumnavigate the draining
Complaining about those who are steady maintaining the jam

Jump into the pit and just slam
Big respect goes out to those who can
Lose their shit once in a while
Act a fool just to mark time yo that's my style

And you can do as you feel as long as you move
Two perfect strangers sharing a groove

Borders

There are days I wanna leave la
I wanna break out the maze
Escape the dark haze these days
So many kids I know your feelin' crazed
Crave material thangs and makin' slave wages
Baggy pockets only got laundry fluff
Livin' where rich people always buyin' some stuff
So you try to act tough and hide what's inside
Hold your head high gettin' fucked up and throwin' dice
As bad as yours and bad enough I'm sure
My heart wants to love but must navigate through war
Cuz seein' that we're wired to short circuit
Must mean the meek who will inherit the earth already work it

There's a land by the sand grab the money
Plastic the life end of the century
People actin' fake can't see the omens
Wake up yourself cause change is comin'
There's a land by the sand grab the money
Hollywood is such a place fuelin' the frenzy
And everybody starts to peep around corners
Before they take their next step they know their borders

In this $19.98 plus shipping and handling type
Netherworld everytime merchandise dips in our coffers
We buy that image that cost of livin' uh huh
The fakest shit and act cool our friends are watchin'
Attention shoppers check the selection in our reflection
Don't you feel good does it enhance your fresh complexion
You gotta have it you got got to have it (2x)
As the world turns and all the money we burn
On the bullshit to make us happy sometimes we never learn
We're self centered we think were better
We look down as a people upon our elders

There's a land by the sand grab the money
Now let go of it cause it's dissolving
It created all your fears and kept you hustling
Made you sever all the ties to your family
There's a land by the sand grad the money
Plastic the life end of the century
People actin' fake can't see the omens
Wake up yourself cause change is comin'
There's a land by the sand grab the money
Hollywood is such a place fuelin' the frenzy
And everybody starts to peep around corners
Before they take their next step they know their borders

Stealing Happy Hours

Massive laminate fortress
Hazy cannibus porches
Saying no to the bores
It's not mine or yours then I said
The wait sucks I don't mind waiting
Once you get here there's no more gates and I gotta say

Stealing happy hours (4x)

Don't wait on minute more to ask me
You make me feel like hank chinaski
In war all the time war war all the time
No one else can seem to find

Stealing happy hours (4x)
Stealing happy hours (4x)

311 (Blue Album) [1995]

2005-10-16T09:33:00.000-07:00

Down

Chill. light on my sight as my ego becomes
A funky child with some words on my tongue
Be like intake of breath and my mouth gets loose
While I scatter my spit I dream of juice
Have you ever made out in dark hallways
Displayed a kiss that made your day or say
Play a track from your record collection
It's your mix, congratulations

We've changed a lot and then some some
Know that we have always been down down
And if I ever didn't thank you you
Then just let me do it now

I bet you light up when we start the show follow me now
Very closely because I told you so you know
We glow because we throw sun rays
We be freaky and we wanna stay

Chorus

Lightning strikes yo we be in that violent force of light
Guaranteed to turn it out as bad as dolemite
'cuz we're dope kid change like a chameleon
And the channel whenever that wack show real world is on
You know we dazzle like ghetto box boomin' battles
Rattle inside your head feel redeemed like cola bottles
Fall in love with you teachers on the wax
We are self made check the technique 311 in la

Chorus

Keep my feet on the ground
Keep my head in the clouds
Electrified by the sound
Comes from the down
And

Chorus

Random

Sound boy proceed to blast into the galaxy
Go back rocket man into the sky you'll see
Hear it all the time, come back rewind
Aliens are watching up in the sky
Sound boy proceed to blast into the galaxy

Sound boy when you come round
Sound boy won't you stay
No one gonna harm you
The all want you to play

I watch the birds of prey that
Hunt the canyon below my house
Looking for a meal like a lizard or a mouse
I wonder if they appreciate the setting like me
To control your own direction choose to be free
And I reserve the right to be as trite as I want
And you can lick but don't bite
I toss you here to vermont
I kick it lickety split
And hand it to the man in the tan van
And as for you and your crew I don't hate you

Peace is my priority 'cuz marley said for sure-ity
Just what do you think I'm doin'?
I'm not just here for screwin'
Yo and if it's sore take care of it
Perhaps from too much stucking
But anytime you're aware of it then keep on fucking

You know we cool
Hey hey isn't that random?
When we come bout people get ready
Hey hey isn't that random, gonna freak do it national
Sound boy gonna rock you
People rock steady
Hey hey isn't that random?

To be the one who has it all is not that hard
And I'll be that type of dude in a funky car
I dream of a suit that will fit my rhyme
When I recognize my girl from a former life

I love it when the only sound that I hear
Is your infectious laughter
I will hear you again in 800 years
If I'm still lucky

Go north on outpost then take a left on mull-holland
To me that's where I like it and macapa drive is callin'

I get up to the sun and then I stretch out
Beginning to look like summer
And I'm down with no doubt. (swing)

Chorus

I break a silly peace for offering
Rap weasel then I'm boffering
I'd give you an exclusive on my playlist
The thought and styles I kick are from a random hat pick
That's why most radio will never play this tell 'em again

Me a rude boy from omaha, nebraska
Sick as a porno flick yet gold as precious laughter
Many don't agree but we can't care about that
'cuz we're never gonna wear the old hat, spoken

Jackolantern's Weather

Well I beat a bad rap when I skip a soul trap
Just trippin' and laughin' at the crap
Dap is what I get the best skins that I hit
You know we rock the fuckin' joint and we split
Singin' an ryhmin's what I'm better for
When I describe I'm a scribe with a metaphor
I use a simile lightly 'cuz that shits played
The common way most ryhmes are made, ya know
I rock like this I flow like that
But all those comparisons are just that
Kickin' different styles I'll be right here
Today, tomorrow, next week and next year
I always say what I feel and that is a promise
Nothing in life is above being honest
Sauna is cool compared to being on stage
But that's how it's gotta go in the stone age

The fame in my game I name rapture
Like a polished rock I'll make it shine for sure
Word is that I've traveled become unraveled
I been around the world baby gimme an apple
I'll be your boogie man rather than son-of-sam
What I am is what I am
Though we don't have too long to love a day a night
We only love those who, love us right back

The kid is smart the kid is clever
Stompin' in jack-o-lantern's weather
Backpack strapped 'cuz the world is cold
Headphones pumpin' don't ya know

The kid is smart the kid is clever
Stompin' in jack-o-latern's weather
Rocks his hood and plays it mellow
While maple leaves change into yellow

And oh shit damn honey at it again
Tryin' to beat my high score since the age of ten
See my high score flash on the back glass
I was malcontented doug in gifted class
Now here's the deal we came to heal we gonna rock in rio
Oh no it's not a joke it's how we feel
Put to test like a sugar ray scientist
I'm always dancing in my sunday best
I'm betting on my bliss and my path is lit' see
The microphone is live and I'm rockin' my body
Smooth like reggie miller in an airborne freeze frame
Funky like the kung-fu that can put you to shame

Chorus

I'm like hey wait a minute
Give a check on two then I'm ready to begin it
With a boom boom bap coming outta your trunkies
Give a fat shout out to the phunk junkeez
Striken like a cancer taken chances
But I love to see the girl windin' like the belly dancer
Standin' up front with a tight stomach showin
Me on stage singin, flowin
We just kickin' it live we just kickin' it live
'cuz if you can't kick it live you gonna die
'fraid so punk so quit talkin' junk
You need a live show like a ball player needs a dunk

All Mixed Up

You've got to trust your instinct
And let go of regret
You've got to bet on yourself now star
'cause that's your best bet

Watch me now with a wicked and wild and I said
We come with the funky style
That gets us known for the show
And we'll mix the hip hop reggae if we say it is so
And fuck the naysayers cause they don't mean a thing
'cause this is what style we bring

Now it's morning but last night's on my mind
There's something I need to get off my chest
And no matter what may come to shine
The dream will always be mine

All mixed up you don't know what to do
Next thing you turn around and find the person is you
Thought a freak might be the thing
But the first could be the last so just get off your ass
All mixed up you don't know what to do
Next thing you turn around and find the person is you
Thought a freak might be the thing
But you know this will pass so just get off your ass

You've got to trust your instinct and let go of regret
You've got to bet on yourself now star
'cause that's your best bet

Watch me now with a wicked and wild and I said
Sick sick bit got to have it
Like bustin' in on a session but you got to call it quits
Sick sick bit just can't quit
Fact that you don't even know makes it fully legit

Now it's morning but last night's on my mind
There's something I need to get off my chest
And no matter what may come to shine
The dream will always be mine

You keep me coming,
That is a gal that'll kill 'dem stunning,
Keep me coming,
That is a gal that'll kill 'dem stunning,
Keep me coming,
That is a gal that'll kill 'dem stunning,
Keep me coming,
That is a gal that'll kill 'dem stunning,

You make me nervous throat dry
My brain is empty don't know why
But I saw you doing something
Which is really truly nothing
But you could bust me out all day

Many moons since first I saw you
Many moons since first we did the do
Many moons since first I saw you
Many moons since first we did the do

And why did I try when I knew it was no and
Why did I try when I saw it was so
But save it for late we should just let it skate
Cause the waiting feel is fine

Hive

Coming like a nightmare word like I'm gonna go for it
Fuckin' around what ya got to show for it?
Let it be know that I'm in the zone
And whatever I need I just pick up the phone
'cuz I'm true with it and you're new with it
I just swing the thing and then I'm through with it
I don't need friends to act like foes
'cuz I'm nick hexum the one who knows
'cuz it takes two and we swings better than you
Then it's time for the dub so we roll out the club
And you know just what I do
I'm hitting in the freak mode
Puttin' on a load sippin' on a guinny
Then lo and behold una vision from bottom to top
And I just can't stop
311 show them the air is rarified
But you don't give a damn 'cuz the groove is hellafied
Grew up punk, listen to funk
I'm a hyper type of fella that does not touch junk
You're the back of the pack and the bottom of the stack
That's what you get when you're steady talkin' shit
Not goin' for self that shit is on the shelf
It's 95 and we go for the hive

Listen up this you're gonna bump to this
And if I'm feelin' mean I'm gonna clutch my fist
Now when I say mean, I mean I'm gonna rock it
You're gonna find out kid I'm bout to shock it
When I'm on I'm gone I hear the beat that spawns
The way we freak it and we kick up a storm
The day we turn to pop the show will stop
So feel the beat and get lost now

Back to part 2 the hard way we play
Sublime on time to all the fans I'm sa
And if you don't know I say check the show
Do what you got to on the dance flo
Some say the style is wack but I say fuck that

Get the hell back and watch us rock the set
We cast the mold bust it cold explode
Megatrendsetters known around the globe
Friends takin' you where you never been
We done what we wanted craftin' poems
You can rock there is a glow around you
Lose control holmes just like we do
Hard to obtain brotha' what's my name
Mad to find unlike ya mamma and your masquerade
I drive a mach-1 no dashboard jesus
I hear voices say that's doug martinez

You're all up in my mix like fuckin' betty crocker
You think you're playing me but actually you're a jocker
You bad mouth me bitch man you givin me juice
It ain't nothin' but a party everybody get loose
Notice what I don't do when stress steps to me
Whatever your complaint so sue me
I say fuck the naysayers and keep goin
Gotta do what I gotta do to get the people glowin'
So let everybody gather the more the better
I represent the traveler him he's a shredder

At ease with yourself and don't try to please me
I'm just here today then quickly I'm out
On the town one light I'm a glow worm
For several hours wiggle jiggle like I'm a huge sperm
Can't appreciate a brothers love of funky music
You think I'm a silly rabbit 'cuz my style has tricks
Of the way I feel now I just got to rock
The music be poppin through me like electric shocks
I think and blink and I wink but that shits not tiny
'cuz in a blink of an eyelash you will not find me

You're the back of the pack and the bottom of the stack
That's what you get when you're steady talkin' shit
Not goin' for self that shit is on the shelf
'cuz it's 95 and we go for the hive

Guns (are For Pussies)

Here comes the thunder down under, we're natural wonders
Night falls when weleave all you feel is the hunger
Sunrises of people all shapes and sizes
Dig onthe decade and realize it's funky
No matter this rude boy stll got that swagger
My ears have heard all these crews but we're badder Interracial, special,
positive beings I am I be a cool awakwening
It's getting hectic the metrics thebody electric
Everybody in worn out blue jeans or tacky dresses
This is the citywe've reached we've come to
Go unrecognized on the corner or make moves
All thelights are red all the poets are dead
A familiar nightmare appears in my head
Times are a changin' myself I'm rearrangin'
Dream eight-thousand-five-twelve allblazin'
Born to act out,
Paranoid with a gat
Born to act out,
Think you knowwhere it's at
Born to act out,
But you're lookin' like a sissie
Born to act out,
Guns are for pussies I'm not from Philly but some say I'm a blunt
That's justthe way I am and no I'm not going to front
And yes I took a trip to find outabout the ways of big
City seedy bars and drugs that make you feel shitty
Prettyolder women in skirts conversation frisky
Stinking cigarettes and plenty ofbourbon whisky
Sad classical music on the jukebox of doom Hollywood Blvd.
Barflyfrolic room
Tomb of lost souls some beyond salvage
Some just having fun openingsteam valvage I was one becoming
the other hellbent to discover
Had to pull upthe reigns or else smother
Take it brother all the way and then you're scared
Don't want to be unprepared
You're getting paranoid,
And then guns are shared
You guys think you're hard,
But you're in fear of getting harmed
I fear no manand
I am unarmed

Misdirected Hostility

Not I'm not the type to just act like I know
Puttin on an angle putting on a show
Speaking on nothing makes you a stunt
I'll tell you right here yo I don't front
I cross the t's and skip nonlegitimacies
Or else please
I cannot handle all the negative vibe merchants
Is that all you have in you per chance
So much angst an pain it's so wack
You should take a tip from the one frank black
Play some pachinko play some parcheesi
Cause all the angst shit is just cheesy

It's the 311 bliss too smooth for pissed
Lyrics talkin loud again
Yeah we are the party men
Cosmetics that you fretted
We sport the high asthetic
Here go rap kickin the dazzled crazy mathematic
I am what I am mix some old school jams onto tape cuz the
Party's in the crates I scan step into the realm
What you gonna do
Get the party people something funky to listen to

Misdirected hostility, that's what you got see
Misdirected hostility, that's what you got see
Misdirected hostility, that's what you got see
Misdirected hostility, that's what you got see

Bodyrock pop and lock here's an example
Boulevard chrome beats always ampin your temple
Punks get got in the age of hip hop
It's just begun like stolen bikes on the blacktopborn to sing a lyric
Immaculately concepted
No strain in your game if your game is respected
Come as you are radio star
Drown out the hatred with a rhyme
An electric guitar dispatched when rap shattered
The glass of radio access

May we turn some soul on their rhythmless dances
You know the time and they'll know the scoop
They'll say it was a rhyme and a beat of a rap group

Your rhymes have been outmoded
Your rhymes have been outmoded
Your rhymes have been outmoded
Your rhymes have been outmoded

Your rhymes have been outmoded
So just quityourbellyachin'
You're saying that your tortured
Give me a fuckin break and
Maybe take out the source
Of your disparing what do I mean
Kick the fuckin heroin
I speak from experience
Because I didn't see clearly once
Acting like I dunce
In 1989 I was cocaine and jim beam
But now it's 95 and I'm ginseng

Misdirected hostility, that's what you got see
Misdirected hostility, that's what you got see
Misdirected hostility, that's what you got see
Misdirected hostility, that's what you got see

Purpose

I believe in your purpose baby
Coming up to the surface and maybe
I'll never see you again then again who knows
Make me quiver hands will shiver
Still got all the things that I woulda give her
Yeah, yeah but it's slow going
Something's showing yeah, yeah

Love is a stream that will find it's own course
Making due is a thing a thing I will do no more

Whenever you come back I'll be waiting
Trifling the slack no head gating
This is all pure fiction you know that's right
Just pure fiction that's all right

I believe in your purpose baby
Coming up to the surface and maybe
I'll never see you again then again who knows
Make me quiver hands will shiver
Still got all the things that I woulda give her
But it's slow going something's showing
Yeah, yeah

Loco

Hey you got to step outside to see what's going on
Hey you can't run and hide when the 'psybin trip is on
Not like this have you seen such green
A spot like this becomes serene
I'm glad your here I have no fear

We trip the 'shrooms fantastic
And shit gets drastic elbow pull and kick
We trip the 'shrooms fantastic
'n sit gets drastic, check it out

Right now my brain is fragile
But you seem so agile we'll make it in tea
And we'll see what there is to see

Chorus

Make an instrumental add a little vocal
Take to the stage and make the people go loco
Make an instrumental add a little vocal
Take to the stage and make the people go loco

Boom boom you got the spinning of the room
Quite right you got the breaking of the light
Boom boom you got the spinning of the room
Quite right you got the breaking of the light
Ad the sun and the moon and the spinning of the room
It does to my sight what the prism does to light

You're quicker than me ridiculous see
You come follow me get lobotomy
You're quicker than me ridiculous see
You come follow me get lobotomy

Chorus

Make an instrumental add a little vocal
Take to the stage and make the people go loco
Make an instrumental add a little vocal
Take to the stage and make the people go loco

Make an instrumental add a little vocal
Take to the stage and make the people go loco
Make an instrumental add a little vocal
Take to the stage and make the people go loco

Brodels

Ooh you know we pepper you
With a sonic assault side step a you
I cannot think of a better way
That we could celebrate freedom
Than make up a set of goals and cold beat 'em
See dumb verbal tags like audio spaghetti
Give a shout to the one they call yeti
I bet he put the cabash on any foes whatsoever
Like original brodel trevor
Positive vibe merchant grandson of lord buckley
Scotish ralston shows up if you're lucky
Ad raspler the sweed a friend in deed
He's keeping an eye on the other guy's greed
These are 311 characters I dubbed everyone
The story ain't over but my rhyme is done

It was the year that I first touched ground
So I grabbed the microphone and I got down
Just like james brown gather round of our sight and sound
Pound for pound we throw down rather profound
I'll put you in another world I can't hear you
Like having phone sex with a deaf girl
No doubt we got the jams that'll smack ya
I penned three books of lyrics 2 for action 1 for backup
'cuz I'm a cold rockin' brother got transistor tunes
And it feels real good to get close to you

The brodels is the nazz and the nazz knows where it's at
The brodels is the nazz who knows a cat who can feed a cat
The goal is to be a poet and a carpenter
To be one who loves to be one who works
The nazz not something that can be given
The brodel is inside you it comes from within
When I feel into the sea
When the world came and kissed me
Transformed my shit told the shark I was a dolphin
Swam quick funny though
Parranahs chilled and laughed at
The way that I took off my polka dots on top of that
The wales know I'm quick watch out
And I get funky fresh as for the fishes I'm lit luminous
I'm not nouveau techno I glow like a glacial
In skin that swims faster than speed
I am I be dropped out of nothing I will return to nothing
Rotate my style my rhyme my way magician of a rythm
Lover of animals damn I wanna hear 'em
Aquatic my way I got soul shape

Well I'm 6 foot 3 and like mohammed ali
I float like a butterfly and sting like poison ivy
Drive a 69 lincoln suicide doors
Around the town I'm slinking fat subs of course
We're the greatest show on earth
You know we turn it out daily
In and out of town like barnum and bailey
I know that is a simile but I couldn't resist
From solomon roadie for the pj's
I don't think he'll be pissed
I eat a cobb salad, smoked fish, duck, or clam chowder
Chill with indica and guinness
Steer clear of white powder
I run into my brother give him a pound and a yodel
They know my word is bond talkin' bout the brodels

The brodels is the nazz and the nazz knows where it's at
The brodels is the nazz who knows a cat who can feed a cat
The goal is to be a poet and a carpenter
To be one who loves to be one who works
The nazz not something that can be given
The brodel is inside you it comes from within

And we're fresh dude just check my man p
He said I will not muddle my mind with impertinency
Lost a lot in vegas plays a lot of sega
Saw a phrase that he likes and put it on his leg
And we're fresh dude just check my man d he said

Comin' in ruff and tuff all systems are tweakin'
People all over the world they must be thinkin'
All the shit that we kickin' our shoes must be stinkin'

Don't Stay Home

Life could slip away in absent minded numbness
I'm only sayin this 'cuz I wish for the best
When you always stay in self-incarceration
I thinks it's such a shame

Don't stay home this time no don't stay home
If he don't have to he don't want to
Don't stay home this time no don't say no

Oh how I'd like to diffuse your time bomb anger
It's screaming danger danger this kind of world
Don't care if you're home so you better get some

Don't stay home this time no don't stay home
If he don't have to he don't want to
Don't stay home this time no don't say no

Everything I'm sayin' you can dismiss
Because I sat alone on this past christmas
I deserved to be alone
But I guess I should have gone home

Hey don't break the mold kid just eat around it
Yeah that's what I did
I'll be running around the block
For no apparent reason
Somethin' you'll catch me doin' in any season
Gotta break a sweat man gotta go bust out
Biddy by by by by
Good-bye to the drout, yea

Don't stay home this time no don't stay home
If he don't have to he don't want to
Don't stay home this time no don't say no

Don't stay home this time no don't stay home
If he don't have to he don't want to
Don't stay home this time no don't stay home

DLMD

Don't let me down, don't let me down again
Don't let me down, don't let me down again
Don't let me down, don't let me down again
Don't let me down, don't let me down again

Swelled up eye's oh my the girl got beat
And the stupid motherfucker who made you think so
That punk is a coward let that be told
I hear voices in the night that are electric
He kicks the shit out of her because he's heartless
She won't leave she has low self esteem
He's got gravitational pull
Sucks her body till her heart and her limbs grow cold

Hang in there use your head
How can I love you after you're dead
Hang in there keep trying
How can I love you after dying

Here's what you got to tell him
I'm thinking of a picture that's keeping me in stitch
You're causing me a mental glitch
'cause jealousy is such a bitch
I hereby emancipate myself from that
You can consider yourself free to flirt and chat
With whoever you want
It should have always been that way
The way that you flaunt the way that you play
My mind is blank slate I'm pretending you're erased
You cannot let me down when I cannot see your face

Chorus

Ode to a beat up girl, I know you're out there
Stronger than you think, stand up if you care
Get up off the ground, don't let me down
Get up off the ground, don't let me down

Chorus

And you, I'm a let you pass without kicking you're ass
Because I'm above it you hurt someone I love
It takes two to make a thing go right and that's trite
But one just to sneak and weasel through the night

If you hurt her again I'll fuck you up
If you hurt her again I'll fuck you up, fuck you up
If you hurt her again I'll fuck you up
If you hurt her again I'll fuck you up, fuck you up

Sweet

Take a chance n something star you gotta
All the live long day
If I had to name one thing would data
Be hard pressed to say
You can say that I'm gushy
At least you know what I think
I know that I'm lucky I know you're on the brink
You got it good good good you got it good so good
You make up ridiculous words
Which mean exactly nothing
I know just what you mean and that's the funny thing
It's understood it's understood

Buddy buddy buddy I know why you wander
Through the sweetness on the ground
The sweetness of the flowers
You make your way on a cloudy day
You've got to move
The world you prove is too sweet yeah

We parted much too soon I know but that's how it goes
There's someone better out there for you and me
Can't wait to get on the road and feel the shows
And be like phenomenon 1 and 2 and 3
I don't mean to brag and I don't mean to boast
But I'm the guy could that give you the most
It's good good good it's understood

Chorus

T & P Combo

People sing about the coming of spring
But what is comin' down around it's snow or it's rain
It's insane and I'm still in the same gang
The way the weather act's it's a shame ok
Badder behavior in our shit is flavor
Grandiose endeavors yes the quest is greater
Make no mistake I know the time and I wake
I slip only when p-nut gets me baked from that shake

Yeah you can't fuck with this
You're walter middy don't take it as a dis
But the fantasy has got to end this minute
I had a fucking dream and yo now I'm in it
I've been at many function but I know I'm about the function
If someone brings you down keep punching
We bunched in a little house where conditions got squalid
But where we at now - solid

I concur time it slurs and it blurs
The vision like a drug and yo it's the word
How absurd deliver us from nerds
And funky 40 oz glass littered curbs
Soon the church pitted bell will clang
Boys on the corner mack with slang play a dice game
When I walk by it some bag lady goes sha-na-na-na

Your street time is limited 'cuz this band rocks it
Take your whole crew put 'em all in your pocket
If your feelin' sick rub it on with vicks
'n take 2 to 6 of our sweet super mix

Your street time is limited 'cuz this band rocks it
Take your whole crew put 'em all in your pocket
If your feelin' sick we got the elixir
Rub it on down with the sweet super mixer
Late night radio players late night airwave invaders
Yeah we got the force late night radio

Zooma zooma zooma yeah we got the boom
Blowin' up the spot so so give us room
We prowl sometimes we howl hysterical
When we take the stage see a miracle
I realize today nothing is more vestigial
Than the young space walkin' individual
For years and years bubbling up with soul power
To detonate this planet or reach another

Yeah we take it up a notch
We diggin' the shit so deep like ralston digs scotch
Botch this and I'll regret it no that's not what I'm saying
Remember this instead I'm staying
We played in a little house where conditions got squalid
But where we at now - solid
We hauled a van with a rv that was a bad call
It all went up in flames but I haven't seen it all

Homey steps to me and say hey where ya goin'
Oh just headin' back to where I done my growin'
If you must go somewhere over the rainbow
The adventures of a cosmic hero
From planet to planet my tags a crater
If you're not in the future you're not here either
Labeled psychedelic we can play disco
When the going gets weird you know the weird turn pro

Your street time is limited 'cuz this band rocks it
Take your whole crew put 'em all in your pocket
If your feelin' sick rub it on with vicks
'n take 2 to 6 of our sweet super mix

Your street time is limited 'cuz this band rocks it
Take your whole crew put 'em all in your pocket
If your feelin' sick we got the elixir
Rub it on down with the sweet super mixer
Late night radio players late night airwave invaders
Yeah we got the force late night radio

Grassroots [1994]

2005-10-16T09:32:00.000-07:00

Homebrew

Now I know, fools get their own when they chit chat
Haven't heard yet but you can bet I'm not with that
With that talk with the digi walk
I stalk a bird you heard absurd word to the fact
I'm a cat nippin sippin on the flask
Passin it talking shit but only if your ass
In front of me cause you could run from me but
In the end revenge send ends to the defendant
I can't get get caught in the spiral cause every bit of energy
It goes to my survival out my way
I'm a flicka flacka blotter ya try to find a weakness
But the shit keeps gettin harder

Fourth of july with lucy in sky
I remember pine trees and the coat of many colors
I was nineteen
I'd do anything
Shit like that now scares me but I'd like to do it again
It was independence day
I've seen the other side and I say
I've been insane
And I won't ever be the same

Cuz we flow we must be fly
First to flow nickel my brother, so wise
And then I rise
Here's an ill kid pimpin' cuz he is so slick
Step's from darkness his body electric
A drone buzzes the air a cracklin' tone
Then boomin' like thunder in a cosmic jungle
Deathe defyin; like knievel he weeble
Words that will wobble awkward and evil
Cuz he flow and rock the hardest of the crowds
A marvel pow how you like me now
I've returned the kiss of death the last damien
From the abyss fresh eternal alien
Now famished from pathless way I ma, do damage
To the wack mc's I know you can't stand this
Right about now get down I'm the annihilator
Rockin with the rhythm of my rhyme detonator

Lucky

I'm takin' to the bridge and there's a different country
I'm bringing with me the people I know deep down are funky
Oh yeah we dap we got the juice it's on tap
Never take the time to rewind all the weak crap
Here take it it's yours the gift is calling
The sunshine be falling our way first every morning
I'm a magician you see I'm christened with condition
Held over from a future would I've come to you so listen
There's a place out in deep space
Where all the brothers chant and dance and rant
And shave their heads like buddha
I'm a fly guy you know I'm smoother
Of course no remorse is felt for all those loser crews

I do not care what you do, I always screw up
But when I do it's nothing like you, I wish you grew up
You're saying anything like promise to get clean
Won't kick half dead fucked up in the head
Just get him out of here he's making me sick

We push a sucker out
With much force and much clout
Didn't want to do it
Thats not what were about
But we got to have a limit
How low can you get it
Seems about time to
Change the subject
And sing about the wise eyed
That makes me feel
Good and never do
I leave misunderstood

Damn you know I feel good true
I got a choice of what I'm gonna do it's like this that
Swingin on my bat
Mix a melody with some back chat
Tell 'em again
Dam I know you feel good too
You got a choice of what you're gonna do it's like this that
Nippin' on a cat
Mix a melody with some back chat

I'm rollin' slow no particular place to go so nothings changed
The more things stay the same the more it doesn't matter
To a late day st. bernard acting hard
But I throw down like a crazy retard
But what cold make a man
Wanna walk around the school yard with his tool hard
What could make the switch to call a woman a bitch
It probably downed when you couldn't get a date to the prom
And you were stuck with beavis
Let's leave us on a note of positively
I'm saying this for levity
But if I leave it brief I call it brevity
I said I see the people rocking
Which means there's no stopping the flow
And you can just tell 'em that you know

Every night yeah we turning up
And comin' off live
Like and final 311 battle breakin idols
On the one you never heard before
You know the hard-core rockin
Pumping the dance floor
Leave ya feet sore lookin for your micatin
Because the mic is deadly in the mood we in
Certified not fakin coool like a jamaican
Every time the enemy hear us they will be shakin'

Nutsymtom

The cold funk has you sunk feel the mids pump
Blessed are those who erupt when we turn up
Right now we corrupt
Cons the shades we don in the neon night
We're gonna feed on the mics and blast through a pipe
I gotta feed on the mics and blast through a pipe
I gotta cool capability to toast and ill
Yo my daddy told me, "Hey son you must act chill"
Alien rough
My galaxy is tough
Here comes the bang of a hip-hop thang that we bring and swing
Men from Mars ain't ever gonna hang
With dope Buddha's come to the stage we are attackin
Space assassin naked live and never slackin
Come a day on the way enter on S.A.
Amplified form another world far away
I got the pang of a gang and I come from the Southside
Here's the thang that I bring and I promise to come live
While the masses passes upon there fucking asses
And if you don't see get glasses
That is a shot out to the words of Curt Grubb
The motherfucker is not scrub I said the man is the kind
With the one that I call Brine Shrimp
We never ever do skimp I limp on a stage in a huff
Like magic dragon I puff on the stuff of a Humbolt cone
Then I'm stoned watch out
Smoke the weed that come from Northern California
Don't do no cocaine that come from Columbia
That the thing that mash up your nature
Mash up your body and mash up your culture
Take a tip from the the flipped script of Daddy Freddy
I give complete props to the one that rocks steady
With dexterity and goes on and on and on
And turn out the dope shit like the one that's called
Pawn Shop Press yes it's on what's up
P-Nut change it up

8:16 A.M.

Stranger flowers yet
There will never come a day that will ever regret
The hours days years and the minutes
The joy the pain the sunshine and rain in it
The drives on the coast to nowhere
Nothing to say just sit and stare
There's nothing like the comfort of a silence that's comfortable
Not talking small just skip the bull
Then I find myself in servility
Didn't think that was my ability
I go a yard and a mile to make you smile
But then I'm happy see
I got so many ways to make your gaze elliptical
Got a ways to go future's so
Criptical and I'm glad
Just another many things we've had

It's 8:16 A.M. will you wake up to me
The first thing that you see
My eyes open I'm just hopin' you feel the same as me
The day starts carefully
On the sidewalk with the dog
You're right last night I was a hog
Come on I'm sorry
It's 73 degrees
January easily glides

Stranger flowers still
If you're gonna wanna go another day I will
Like this make it a deal
Sealed with a kiss
Sealed with a fell of impermanent bliss
Today my love we shall let the world slide
Turn off the ringer and just glide
For we shall never be younger again than
What do you see

It's 8:16 A.M. will you wake up to me
The first thing that you see
My eyes open I'm just hopin' you feel the same as me
The day starts carefully
On the sidewalk with the dog
You're right last night I was a hog
Come on I'm sorry
Holiday on the radio
Billie knows that is the way to go

A place where we both can spend out saved time
Not collecting interest
Maybe the same reason we always find ourselves home bound
I've got to do some homework
The leave response we want to leave Wisconsin
For a new life a new trailer with an antenna and a porch
Of course we'll bring the dog

Omaha Stylee

In a minute everything you have can all be straight gone
In a minute things you though were tied can come straight undone
How about some knocks on wood some so far it's so good any day
What you think is solid earth can jump up and spread out
To the north and south that's what plates are about
Nature has no conscience no kindness or ill will
The dreams they had make me sad because of the vides of them
When one girl dreamt a fire in hers and then it happened
To me and my family my bro's and I were driving
The rv bleeding flames us leaping through fire surviving
Zoned with no home there was fire all on it
Umm let me have my life I want it

I'm gonna let you know that I said
We're coming in kill we're coming chill
We've comin in how we will
Gone to tell the whole world what's the deal
And I say know no critical boarder cuz
We do what we want
Got more funky styles that my laser jet got font
Not one to get over sounding like the norm
Friendly to the radio all that shit is corn
All we coming with is a little bit of swing
And we go on like it ain't no thing

Omaha stylee did not think there was one
Where you know the radios weak and the shows are more fun
But you know we fuck up the dance since 1988
Many did not think when they hear that we come from this state

Still we're down like that x3
Makin the funk that smells of skunk

Such occasions occur back in the day
It begins you're a raw kid all the way
Son of a gun but they you drifted
All are endowed but few are gifted
At the break of dawn behaving like a spy
Lampin in the light the cold world awakens
Deeper is the light to open up the sky
Look into my eyes see the dialatin'
Omaha stylee is the shit we come with man

Embedded in out souls it breathes out from this band we always knew
That we could
Thank you if you too felt we would

We will arise explore these worlds and find the grass roots
How to crew to do the grinding of the grounds to brew
My dude on the one come off like teflon
Rock your shit and you will rise on

If you're a farmer outstanding in your field say
Do as you eill do as you wish follow your bliss say
We travel round the world giving it our best
Like to see the people dancing and bouncing and the rest
The hammer and the chisel and the rule it compass
We forged the sword chariots of war our battle axe
There's much power in anger but loves a bigger banger
Complete props to my crew this is what we do

Applied Science

Nod your head to this as a lot of apprentice
Some of this were standing on the shoulder of giants
Some tryants some benevolent
To the followers it's relevant
The rest get bent on lending opinions
I'm sending to a brand new level
I revel in completion delition of suckers
Getting served like smuckers jam
Fool know rules but the rest keep bouncing back
With the lack of further adieu see
As one can deduce we
Slam the shit out hard and long
Cuz we got more song

Something you might like now
All-star bound
Yeah your so sound
Cool as the blue water all around
From a force field flashing
Aliens are sending
Black evolutions of love you are hearing
The dark supernatural is the world we call
Our own home lightning in the mind comes out in song
But we're wild they say never trust us we're shady
In lieu of the crew your into we are baby
Cuz music will be coming out the words we speak
We erect breakbeats shatter wax still on the platter
Our shit is badder we come fly then we scatter
Cuz we deep and we solid yeah we hear ya holler

Electricity running through the soul it feels good
Some time the only thing that really ever could
Feed that hunger I crave it I love it I gave it
I shove it in a battery and save it for later
A waiter in the dorothy pavilion in '89
I met some wierdos and had myself a real good time
Downtown l.a. is a soul graveyard
Where you got to be hard or get jacked
It lacked a certain sense of something
Something basic no karm int he least I broke east
You know I had to face it

I guess I flaked but it was no mistake because
311's got the boom

My mic check is giving me
Electric company
I can't see the high wide sky
Or stars above me
Are you a flower
Or more like a high rise tower
If so the soul of sweet delight
On you will shower
There's a place for us they say is somewhere
Not a dream but a place and you will be there
Your slippin' but content because your spirit
And hills are alive with the sound of music

Taiyed

Returning from the water cold alive and shining
Rock a mic in the afterlife while your moon is rising
Heatin' up forcing steam whirling to be seen
The dark held stars are the frost of my breathing
Swimming through the darkness I'm a ghostly shark
Developing like a photograph slowly in the dark
The hearafter the action the main attraction
One love in all of this that I'm going after

Now there's fire inside but black space surrounds you
You think 'where oh where am i'
But even your light continues
See through us see a soul we have not yet
Learned to harness see the next world inside it
We are the people of skin who left water
Inside the dark womb inside of our mother
Prone to the beat and vibe of our tribe
We catch the drift and ride moving tides
Out from a love that will keep on burning
Now see yourself to the next world returning
This life an old place we face to live again
What is it to understand the heareafter

Silver

Don't fear mere words cuz if it takes a word ruin ya
You should have already hard you're finished through and soon ya
See that stifling sentences is so much more suspicious
Much worse could come of that so much more delicious
To the dastardly basturdly plans of little mice and men
Ugly rears it's head and speaks from now and then
People love to disagree so avoid the endless bout make no attempt
To try and suss the stupid out
But of the racist institutions simple minds belong
Not happy just being human, no wish to get along
Little people need exclusions sucker groups to throng
It makes them feel special it makes them feel strong
Now I got a click but it's more like a family
Not an ethnic trip more like an ethic see
I write the rhyme today tell it to you later
Whether were coming in wack or what it's a waste to be a hater

Graffiti bombs-from the palms-love is so strong
Can't be stopped too long
For the night it will come
Shaped in the form of mars that stone afar
Ghetto cool oh well
Now you feel the spell
The color rocks the bell
The king of swing rise to the top
The thythm possessed in ya and it don't stop
The mise is broken the demon locin'
Dropping the bomb and all that is left is the smokin'
Cloakin' chokin; the lyrics are spoken
Infrared vision scopin' condition
Now breakin' 'em all to pieces like a sly rap bandit
Witha fly lu-kang kick in mortal combat and I land it
So get your own back when I jam it cold and
Hearing about you rhyme style been outmoded
The dopest flow upon the planet
Dope is the word the bro throw up on the down low goddammit

You juice your fucking friends like dracula
But when we kick you out you're just brokula
You left a big surprise from pacific bell
Called all your relatives and your friends in hell
Now let me tell you something you fucking piece of shit
You'll never have no money, now tell me was it worth it?
You leave a trail of lies that's why you keep moving
We won't come after you we'd only end up provin
In the end revenge send ends to the defendant
I know that statement's true I wear it like a pendant
I know you'll hear this song so I think it's funny
The name is theif or trust and money.

Like captain picard we come hard in light years
Our star has long bust but now reappears
In your sky at night rising and immense
Yes you see ourselves in the shine of it
And so passing under the dome of the great sky
Beware we are the stars holmes that you ruled by
Where death reborn into the world is a gift
So the future with no voice of it's own will uplift
All is gone
All is calm y'all

Set wrecked in l.a.
In the wetlands of new york
Atlanta and phoenix
Portland, lincoln and n.o.

Grassroots

I flip when I kick it trippin it
So I can check shit not in a daily style
But once in every while so I can
File check file check the files of my brain
Many of meaning manage to come from the insane
And the butcher the baker the fabulous drama maker
A cracker on a truck goin' breaker breaker
Listen to everyone then disregard it
The maningful shit comes back back to where it started
In your cranium surrounded by pot like a geranuim
A capital 2 burns in my mind give me some peace
I looked at her I looked at him and neither one did know
Where the wild thoughts grow check it out

I look to absolutes and there absolutely none
The truth is what you shoot for not one
Nothing brings it all together the journeys never done
I'd sing you stormy weather but it's been sung so
Let's have some fun
Three eleven hass grass roots
Challenge comes and goes and there will be another
I say bring it on
The roots that grow underground are as big as the tree
That you see if not it will fall down
We waste so many moments standing on convention
The only survey is when our heart pays no attention

Move with persistence cover much distance
Knowing no perdition that's my game for instance
Three eleven true to no tradition
And the three eleven crew not dow with convention
But a hundred different people already told what we about
So I make not attempt to try and suss the stupid out
I'd turned into a roughneck that was not my intention
It doesn't even really matter unless I fail to mention that
Peace to all crews that want some peace
First the mid then the west then we slide through the east
A piece to any crew that want a peice
But peace to all crews that want peace
Check it out

Salsa

We were born in the seventies
The rippin and rhyming and brethren see
We're filling taste great
In the old school I was eight
Fot the new school I was late
But in high school I was debate
I rate in the great state of california
I'm warning ya
Je vais a la plage parce que le guignol est chouette!
I kick nonsense in french tasty like crepe suzette
I bet you gonna wanna try this but it takes niceness
I like a beat that's unique and I like my head zooming
And in my continental you know that shit's booming
With the diamond int eh back suicide doors
You can look from here to eternity
And never receive your morsel.

Another tale of ordinary madness
The girl who gave you her sex I heard was homeless say
All I really wanna is to feel nirvana
Won't you take me tonight and we just might find
A bottle of wine and feel our nasty nature
Your toung lickin' up my tounge
Your radio pickin' up a smokey jazz love song
Madness becomes you even though your
Livin' life it's hard to exist when you're tempted
By flesh you wanna bust through
Beautiful legs in the bar there is poetry
She bends and suspends and her ass
Is a marvelous thing
A dance dancin' at a club the hereafter
Who can't really dance but that doesn't really matter
And she won't hear applause
Cus your drunk and lost
All light is gone
Your arms spread like a cross
And you're dreaming that the world
Will soon fall apart
Topless firl in your gaze
Which is hazy
Takes your dollar
In the gutter without cigarettes
Or wine your hungover
I was warned of your normal
Behaviour and felt
My life was too short to
Consider your wack self
It's like this when you dip down
And you are boxin'
Reeling against the ropes and you
Face some young mexican
Your scrappin' your kneck gets
Snapped back your eyes have bled
Your thinking' about a comeback
But your takin' it to the head
You little bastard
Better watch you back
Cuz we're after
Your punk ass by God we're gonna jack it
You're played out and small time
And your show is over
You're 'bout as lucky as a three leaf clover
And your older ho bag sceezer
In her droopy saggy skin
Who thoughtshe was a model
But in truth a never-has-been
I'll slap that witch as if I were her pimp
And my crew will attest to her fradulence

Lose

I can see it now have to show you how
The funny thing is that we couldn't have it any other way
Still it kills me when we say
All we've been through
All the congs that I've sung for you
We both know I'm gonna lose you

I hate to be alone
There comes a time to reap what you've sewn
All we've been through
All the songs that I've sung for you
We both know I'm gonna lose you

Let's think of all the good times
Instead of wish we could times
So much better that way
This is what I ask for
This is what I deserve
Be careful what you ask for

Six

You know patience pushing a dream brings my demons to life
Songs are vacations our soul salvation will you
Suspend your disbelief I'd like to be the, thief
That steals that jaded necklace that you're always wearing
I'd take that thing and with my knive I'd start pairing so
Chop chop piece piece and send it to the raiders of la
There are so many this land of plenty
The things we lack straight square within our grasp
Ever you do ever you think
Whether you're brown or you're pink
I think not thinkings better bout it
When you stop to think
The jaded ones will wither
While the optimistic grow
I settle that a bet will let a large amount
So indulge me just for a minute imagine no one holdin out
All trying for peace my brothers down
Some others down it happens slow
Think you should know the direction that the world go peace

They number six to make them feel like men
They one up us cuz we're much to much for them
Ok the method to the mischeifs over there then
Sike shazam we strike with the lightnin
Through space we move and emit an ill tracer
We're set to light your world kid we're your maker
Check it our karma plus the avant garder
Style of out sect wise to ways comes to wreck
While the masses mill around curse in anguish
311 stompin' em down with the quickness
We see all the crews that be comin' around
Like a drive through estes park you savor the sun
But when the clouds come make animals

Offbeat Bare-ass

Any different people can apply to drop the funk
It's not a country club review board steady talkin junk
Many people would have it others go put and grab it
Some trip over toots and say fuck it I'm sunk
I put it in a limerick and kick the slick nick verbs
I am the one who scores the herb
When we're on the road p-nut rolls it up
Throw me a joint on stage what's up
I will tell a cop that I know my fucking rights
And we can match wits all night for real
He said if I had nothing to hide
Then of course I wouldn't mind if he looked through our ride
Uh, no I'd really rather you didn't
And no we don't have guns hidden
We stood there for a while continue to decline
Firmly, I didn't lose my mind
I didn't let him break me he's just another human
Not a bit of shame in what we were doin' that day
He couldn't make us stay
We had our shit together
It don't matter whether
We sport the dread locks or a shaved head
Or if we have a sticker from the dead
I said a better verse rehearsed about the roughneck curse
Last week I keep an even keel and bow in place
And face the music every minute

Never could see my homey comin' till he passed
Funky gas by my way all the day I couldn't laugh
Oh by now I'm chill with it
Bare ass in my face I'm ok but chad's like 'uh-uh no he isn't'
So I proceed to hear him get loose with the
Fartin' all over my face sometimes my tummy
He fucked with my flow although I thought it funny
I probably wouldn't care if I smoked more kind bud
But that wouldn't do me shit cuz then he'd fuck me more up
Crazy ill and chillin' rude but i'ze a real cool dude
He didn't believe the day would come when he would get his top
But then one day right in front of his face I got him
He looked over said 'god damn get me some water'
The one time I hadn't wasted till I got mine
Smeared his nose with my armpit funk slime
So you get it the picture just how sick we were then
But before I jet 'hey yo chad sniff my finger man'

I can see a lot of people who feel like I do
I can see a lot of people who feel like I don't
I go on step lightly even when I'm heavy
High jump the slump open up fot eh revy horton heat
Sweet what am I displayin' forgot what I was saying
I know I must be laying a pipe you got a gripe
With the way I get high
Graffix bong sing along with a cry of a
Mandatory sentence for a crime with no victim
When everyone knows jail terms should be picked in
Order of the pain that they cause
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law
Until you violate the rights of another
Respect the space of your sister and your brother
The war on drugs may be well intentioned
But it falls fucking flat when you stop and mention
The overcrowded prisons where a rapists gets paroled
To make room for a dude who has sold
A pound of weed to me that's a crime
Here's to good people doin time y'all

Bare ass yeah x4

1,2,3

Long time did I run down like that
I would have three years ago-today but not now
It's not like that

It's all right to feel good
It's all for nothing to be wrong
The deepest dream that we have
Could be tomorrow's song

Just what did he say stop
1 and 2 and 3
Run up the hill do as you do
I'm going to chill you know you really
Ought to do the same
They wanna bug you
But I won't let them today
It's a sure shot to the bomb drop
Every single
You know you swing
It and you fling it
And you make some shit up but
It's just 123

Music [1993]

2005-10-16T09:31:00.000-07:00

Welcome

Groove as your soul sings. Spinnin' all around as we dust a melody

Welcome to this groove you can move right
We gonna take you higher not caught in the quagmire
I can't survive on a stupid nine to five I'd rather be poor
Writing tunes livin' on a commune
Kickin' it with my brothers and significant others
Life in pursuit of only money we think it's funny
The only thing that money it could ever bring to me
Would be some gifts for my friends follow me now
Trips for my family

The only thing I love is freedom the people around me I need 'em I'd
like to build the world a spliff but like I said I said
You could never get me interested in dreams of wealth
Myself my birthday happens to land on April twelfth whack

A Coney Island of the mind it's mine
I swipe the sweets strip the beats in the sunshine
Loco holmes I stroll because I'm thinking
A tone poem alone is love medicine then the demon
Spring revolution in my spirit here it is and I will kill with it

Traveling head spinnin' from the medicine
Illusions fadin' out an comin' on again
unwind your mind then find entire minutes abstract
the tract of sight day breaking in it
doles out my share of the world ocean and sun
Rising with whirling motion

I fought kicked and screamed my way to getting born now I feel
Warm and I say come on the night won't save anyone
won't you roam
We've grown so we can write again our soul select its own way for
The travellin'
we're here we're breathing and we wanna keep our
Blood running so we're gonna keep gunning till the next homecoming
I like the boogie to the bang bang boogie say up jump the boogie
To the bang bang come on

Freak Out

Let the games begin if you wanna fuck with me
You can't disturb the course of P & C & T & D & me
I'm on a mission
To set straight
The vice, the curse, the date, the gate relate
to this. I insist B it's weak to dis see I'm runna up so suckers stick to your 40
How could I give a damn, give a damn if you approve what it's about. I just freak out

Just guess ya'll c'mon come back slipped outta whack as the master. Laid out the music

Death I just say fuck you, the void unknown we're thrown through while lost in life's psychedelic trip we take
There's another more bizarre we have to make
world we have nowhere beyond
Take out the earth the bass is gone
At life's end we'll feel the calm
How strange we should be here at all

Chorus:
If you don't have someone to do it with it's not worth doin'
To all my friends, it's not the end the earth has not swallowed me yet

Into whose womb were you woven what kin of your skin dropped you then
Bodies cloven
Light of daybreak blinded next exit
The wild darkness forming inside it
My day wasn't promised me each death it brings reminding me we
Are rumbling through this cursed universe where death is birth
Think not but what your manifest is worth
Giving up a verse the curse occurs a thirst
To burst first breaking through the center of the universe
Slamming down on the lingo flow so jam to the bumrush single
Long ago has been become now when you find out there's no break
In the rhythm. Black anima makes my stamina stand alone disown the cinema farewell to posing decades dozing comin up the steps of the new
Screen rising scenes from the lost world shapes hard to tell. Which is which as if drawn by a child holmes

Chorus
This is the heat to flush your face

Visit

He wouldn't say he cared at all if you asked him.
You're heading for a fall brother it goes right past him.
In another world he's in another place
you now the need for speed. Is just another form of greed
but when you jones'n your brains frozen.
You're not thinkin' bout the choices you makin' you're just rollin'.
On and on it's anybody's guess cuz no one's at the wheel at the front of
that mess yes.

The sun's goin' down for me it's goin' down for me.
He and she are what I need yes they're what I need.
But I'm gonna buy a ticket I'm not gonna even pick it.
I heard it he said it I heard it.
But it we but it went something like.

Chorus :
Visit.
I wanna visit the world.
So now I visit the world.
With my time on this world.

Because livin' when you're hungry is a dog in an alley.
Now I mind my business cuz I'm rhymin' down in Cali.
I ain't playin' when sayin' kings of the ghetto feel they losing ground.
Vato's goin' loco because everyone's brought down.
This is a visit then we dead fade to dust strickin'.
I'm wearing my Doc Martens cuz I'm always down for kickin'.
This my friend the city pity everywhere the enemy.
Ready or not homey stompin' everyone in front of me.

Jump up and down cus that's the 311 style.
Cruise on by the frowners float follow me now with a smile.
Looking at the ocean I say there's plenty.
Looking at the river I say there's plenty.
Chorus

Jump up and down cuz that's the 311 style.
Cruise on by the frowners float follow me now with a smile.
I got a golden ticket I'm not gonna even pick it.
I heard it he said it I heard it
but it went but it went something like.
Chorus. Chorus.

Paradise

Everything you do it comes back to you. Whatever it may be.
If it isn't one thing rest assured that something.
Will come back and pay you for your deed
A shortcut's a self defeating means, if you cannot do it clean.
You'll never reach your reward.
And when the day is done, what you receive is the sum.
Of what you took out, from what you put in.

Times deep in a dream seem a veiled realm.
Shadows what I think and feel is real.
Times in our tribe feel the tribe when we thrive.
We have no fear of death and no fear of life.

Chorus :
I can't forget you and our version of paradise.
I can't forget you and our version of paradise.

Everything you do it comes back to you, whatever it may be.
What you did as a devil or did as an angel.
The favor returns itself somehow.
If you take my money I?ll buy you a drink and you'll see.
That no one rides for free.

Afraid of what I said then your mind is stricken.
I'm wearing my heart sleeveless and I'm always up for kickin?.
This is my favorite city pity everywhere the enemy.
From the beginning serious history
nothing's ever given to no one. Rides for free.
From the beginning radiant energy's
music what I need to keep my sanity.

I say we fear no evolution stand up musical revolution.
Follow me now when I say we can never stop in we never give.
Cuz this is how we breathe and live.
Some of them whine and some of them bitch.
They cannot do it we never switch.
We do it for ourselves and we do it for you.
If you don't like it well I hope you do.
I've got to be honest.

Chorus. Chorus.

Unity

Even if I cared to try I couldn't please them.
Their petty complaints, stupid restraints ain't gonna work.
It's all to cheese and regret, don't fret, just push it away.
And say I'm like the wind, relentless and irritating.
A position that I think worth stating.

Swing I'm doin' my thing.
Groove I'm showin' and provin'.
That maverick deal that makes you feel ill.
It runs in my family.
Fussin' and cussin' and bitchin' and kickin'.
If you ask me I think that you're just chicken to try, don't pretend you're my friend. Remember I said it one day you'll regret it.

Oh God I can't believe it.
You have asked and so you shall receive it in the ear.
Victory draws near but no fear my dear. I'll be here another year.
What's it all about I scan a new plan for the next year
In nineties try these you wanna just bust out.
I cool out and I'm done bein' mad. To just know hate well that's so sad.
What a life, strife. Backfire and your face know your place come on like.
Word, they come like a herd but they said.
We'd drop like a lead zeppelin in your face.
But that's nothin' home team. I ain't got to my ace in the whole yet,
bet that I will. Get my fill, get my thrill.
We'll be back one day and we'll try not to spite.
But until then you stay out of my sight.
Oh, God, I can't believe it this groove's so dope. I'm about to have a fit and here's a flash. I freaked so hard I got whiplash.
And when it comes to writing stay away from our stash.

Swing I'm doin' my thing.
Groove I'm showin' and provin'.
That maverick deal that makes you feel ill.
It runs in our family.
Stoppin' and goin' and lyin' and trying'.
My brain is on fire it feels like I'm flying
through space. Yes doing my best but it'll get better this much I confess.

Oh God I can't believe it but when this era's through I'll say that's it.
Edification will take place.
Pull up the reigns. And get out of the race.

My bros are down for the Unity.
311 is down for the Unity.
Unanimity of the Unity.

Hydroponic

Mother nature supreme step back and dream the hydroponic scene.
Found around knocked out of bounds wound into the mind of my stone cloud.
Taste the thinnest of oxygen rising higher a stoner cus I can groove something.
Wrecking nothing to prove see that's in my nature.
So fresh, the vital bud of the chronic tastes of something thicker.

Everything I eat is from the Earth, right.
I am what I eat straight up Earth, right.
Nothing but a walking sack of Earth nice to meet you how do ya do.
Guess what. Ya you're one too.
My skin holds me in my brain moves me then boom.
I jump straight off the speaker in a form a celebration that we're moving.
Freely disconnected I'm truly grateful I'm going back the Earth.
I'm not gonna waste life being hateful.

Chorus
Kingdom coming through ya.
Jumpin' out my skin.
The skin I'm in.
And the hydroponics? on.

Did it because we wanna toke up until it's gone an abstract notion.
Here to connect me to the ocean.
'Cause I'm water and carboAnd not much else. I felt compunction.
Conjunction junction what's your function.
I'll be hookin' ups verbs and nouns and phrases and clauses as to the causes.
Of misery quizzically I look to my own book hooked on trying to fathom.
The solar systems and atom in a larger molecule called a galaxy cool.
The milky way is where I stay.

Astronomy steppin' stompin' a pow wow I rock the mike and shake up the ground.
And I'm a bust out like wild dandelions in fat bloom.
I'm shooting through the cosmos because I loom
you know I'm higher I'm shining brighter yes yes.
Like where water comes together with other water foamin'.
Now I'm Homin'. Like a bird soarin' right to the mood.
I'm a wildflower busting out I go boom.

Chorus.

My Stoney Baby

The fish who keeps on swimming.
Is the first to chill upstream.
I want your fish right by me.
That's how it has to be.
The songs I sing they don't mean a thing if you're not there to hear it,
but then soon is the time you'll be by my side.
It's copesetic if you let it so set up and keep the down stream down and up stream up.
Girlfriend boots & all you lookin' fresh again.
Move toward me so I can smell the sweetness of your flesh dam.
Cool down your fine self when I find my way to the wetness of your sweet mouth.

Sweetly in every way that you treat me.
A fish story but you know it's picture perfect.
Our morning glory every time that we wake.
The morning ride is the longest ride take it.

Like this take it like that take a yin and a yang.
It's time to find the kind.
Like my man jack sprat to do down forever it's wetter.
Titillate the flow.
Can't say it any better.
Swimmin' and hummin' with a body and soul.
It's time to find the kind titillate the flow.
Swimmin' and hummin'.
Can't say it any better.
My Stoney Baby.
My Stoney Baby.

And now I'm in here with my friend ruskie.
In their house but they're not home.
If they find out what's been on.
They'll kick us out and we'll be gone.
No pool and that's not too cool.
The songs I sing they don't mean a thing. If you're not there to hear it,
but then soon is the time you'll be by my side.
It's copesetic if you let it so set it up and keep the down stream down and up stream up.

My stoney, my baby, swings w/the groovin'. Funk the groovin' thang whistlin'.
As I rip my rhymes.
Time and time again struttin'. And in the summertime.

So screw it strip down and be generic.
Strip down and be a passenger, strip down and be a messenger.
In askin' why I'm borI come up blank in the winter.
In askin' why I'm born I come up on when I'm on her.
My summer his summer it could be one to go down to go down.

It's time to find the kind titillate the flow.
Forever together and then I kiss.
Swimmin' and hummin' with a body and soul.
It's time to find the kind titillate the flow.
Swimmin' and hummin'.
And then I kiss.
My Stoney Baby.
My Stoney Baby.
My Stoney Baby.
My Stoney Baby.

Nix Hex

Story time
Sways away the haze
They spent contemplating, formulating, theory siring above me swimming
Pay tribute to the few we look up to
Come again
You my soul fool
Who will know us but our brothers
Those who down with us are thinking
New school, tip top, pound the feeble
Walking and talking
Low down and evil
Follow me now
Yo Vato
The nix hex is on

Would everybody just look at the hook
I took it strait from my brain
Reminds me of the time I was insane
And so I wrote it when I was loaded
And voted the least likely to turn out like a square

I?m singing it for your mind and no
I?m singing it for your ears
Jump up and down and leave the ground and know that?s why your here
And they say down diggey down down, down diggey diggey down,stronger, longer
Line up your ways of know what I?m thinking say it again

And now I?m with my home team back with a good seat
I gladwick like chadwick to tell you what I mean
Were laying back on it just like good sex
Smooth yet physcodelic its called the nix hex-um

The monologue of a singalong
Las banderas de san juan piden pa ?????
"I'm feelin' fine, lord it's time"????? Go tell it on a mountain ,then again bring a friend
You'll maybe get dizzy with a scence of vertigo

Uplifted soul from the view that I'm on nothin' but love
But love
But love in my blood sonic in the vortex
This is the hip thing
Called the nix hex
Dig it

Begin
Come see me now come see me now baby
Come see me now come see me now aye
Come see me now come see me now Baby
Come see me now come see me now

I'm wickedy wild I need to put down
I come without a wreck so let's get
I'm wickedy wild I need to put down
I come without a wreck so let's get down

I want to make some music in this country
And I am the rhythm missionary with the melody
Wait a minute, just a minute
Yes yes time to rhyme and shine now rip it rip

Jump up and down cause that's the 311 style
Cruise on by the frowners, float follow me now with a smile
I got a golden ticket not gonna even pick it
I heard it he said it I heard it but it we but it went something like

The rhythm will make you want to move your body
I had it once and never ever forgot it

Plain

I'm in a good way on a bad day.
Thinking of a plan a way to stay on top of it.
Nailin' in I have a fit if I sit, sit doin' nothin'.
Which is what. I done so far but I carve a niche
which sits in my good things brain.
Layin' the tracks like a loco mo, spark the Jay.

Chorus :
Tabla Rosa is my brain don't mean to bug or drive you insane.
Don't have to guess just what I'm sayin if I had a point I'd say it plain.
Dammit my brain is blank
and now I say it would be a lie if I said I was inspired
nothin' to say but that's ok..

Nod your head to this.

Messin' around, I'm not having it.
You bite the hand I put your head out.
I come to know a travesty and so sad to see.
The scene dictated frustrated former musicians.
Switching' the emphasis from art to money.
But I demand autonomy what else my friend.
I tell you what 's wrong to me the industry's ability to manufacture stars.
They churn them out like Iwojema makes cars.
But the blame lies not with those suits for trying.
It's the sheep that keep on buying that soulless crap.
Whatever they put in front of ya.
The hysteria of America.

Nod your head to this.

Well, stress is the enemy and not a friend to me.
One thing I see is to be easy goin' throwin' down sit back.
And watch my life flowin' and knowing life is but a dream.
You can ask my home team.
Let me tell you how I seem.
My economy seems to be in words not action actually ya see yes.
I'm a tempest and I rarely rest but that's what you go to do.
If you want to be the best so I'm on a threshold so don't tell me no.
I just flow and know I can count on my bros.

Chorus

Don't you know that the devil he's in me and God she is too.
My Yin hates my Yang, but what the fuck ya gonna do.
I choose a rocky ass path but that's how I like it.
Life's a bowl of punch go ahead and spike it.

Feels So Good

Well everybodys got an opinion thats loud and unbending
I spend my time healing and mending, together
Its a question of whether live positive well i give
P-Nut joins our back, must be arthritic
Tim is from the '70's and so we live it
SA has the wisdom of a nobel laureate
I'm down for our days of glory
It's easy to do when you're up with Sexton
A rhythmatic genius, turnin' up the next one
Would you know, you're a bro, I flow in that circumstance
You'll get your chance

Becuase payback is a motherfuckin' mission
To the sharp-ass rocks slippin' on us but we rock
It comes to writing on us derision
Sendin you a voice now we're sending you a vision

And those who fought me they say they taught me everything I know
I go aww, when I hear that, that chit and that caht, bullshit!
So sick of me knowing everything, saying!

In your face
That's right
And it feels so good
In your face
Yeah
It feels so good

Take it to 'em bro, throw down, now say
Settin' forth a course I'm really wiggin' out
In my dome I roam, no time to doubt
Fucked up you right there while I was rhymin'
Now you're sulking in the corner, a baby crying
Hittin' up now we feelin' to rock Mars
Fuckin' up the shit, now their heads bob
We ain't new to jack swing, the groove and that
We got crazy factiffs and we all that
I don't often rock and I'm a laureate
I don't pull the punch you know I'm throwin' it
Freestyles my style on the mic and flex
You're stalkin' the mind of a punk that's next

I get retarted now that I started you know
A condition which I keep close together
Like the kind buds you know my scene
My team thinks I sing supreme, but you, the weasel,
Try to bring us down but in reality it make you look like a clown
Too bad cause we'll be sittin' in the sun and choose a rocky ass fast ball

In your face
That's right
And it feels so good
Choose a lock y'all
In your face
Yeah
It feels so good

Yo P-Nut, beat that thing

Won't you warm the mic Nicholas
Can't get with this my stream of conscieceness is a sea
Much like Bukowski with a rage
Speakin' to page
Beasts in the cage
Jumpin' off the stage
Divin'
Thrivin'
Strivin' for a better day or say
(Strive for a better day SA?)
Beat back by flesh
Shatterd doors braggin' fists to the sky we're feelin' high
Has to live and die

Just take a moment to have a fit once in a while
You know, you know
I do it daily and like it but that's my style, yeah, here I go

In your face
And dow your throat
And it feels so good
'fraid so
Fuck it up y'all
In you face
And down your throat
It feels so good
That's all

Do You Right

Passin' the kind buds.
Kickin' back in the sand in the sun.
To be alive is lovin'.
Where the shore meets the seam.
Man I'm hummin' I'm hummin

I'm free as I stare at the sea.
And I'm not comin' down.
The world is yours once you have found.
The good is to share.
Which is elsewhere.

The beauty of green is where light is now broken by what it touches. Remembering what you once had told me hit home.
And hasn't it always been so.

Chorus :
I'm free as I stare at the sea.
And I'm not comin' down.
The world is yours once you have found.
The good is to share.
Which is elsewhere.

Like I said before I'll say it once more.
Knew you would make me feel so good.
Wanna do you right.
Can't get enoug