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SONG TEXT / LYRICS: at night in amsterdam i saw your colors melt away and all our fears they faded with the light of the day we felt our feet on the cobblestone following every canal we came so close to catastrophe but slipped away somehow blame it on the drugs but i know what i felt in my heart that night was true see the world through love and you never have to follow it will find you blame it on the drugs but i know what i felt in my heart that night was true see the world through love and you never have to follow it will find you so long since amsterdam the months have passed like days that city stays with me even confined to this tiny space i try to get high but i swear i m not movin how can i stay i don t know what i m doin try to rewind to that place in my mind but all can think of is you blame it on the drugs but i know what i felt in my heart that night was true see the world through love and you never have to follow it will find you blame it on the drugs but i know what i felt in my heart that night was true see the world through love and you never have to follow it will find you it will find you blame it on the drugs blame it on the drugs and it will find you blame it on the drugs blame it on the drugs and it will find you blame it on the drugs blame it on the drugs and it will find you blame it on the drugs blame it on the drugs and it will find you and it will find you and it will find you and it will find you blame it on the drugs but i know what i felt in my heart that night was true see the world through love and you never have to follow it will find you blame it on the drugs but i know what i felt in my heart that night was true see the world through love and you never have to follow it will find you and it will find you blame it on the drugs blame it on the drugs blame it on the drugs blame it on the drugs blame it on the drugs

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: the secretary said the prices vary to cast in one s image so i made the pilgrimage she told me a story about the model lady whose features were subtle she wanted her own model the story continued the secretary enthused how making the model s model gave her staff trouble you see she had no features her face was smooth and clear so it was very difficult to sculpt an accurate result but what is why we think some people have beauty said the secretary at least this is my theory because they are featureless anyway it caused us some stress and we charged her according to the time that was put in then i wandered the warehouse among hundreds of models and fiberglass aroma out there in pacoima

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: 6 foot 2 stood a daughter in the house of fools oh she made her own moves but how she ever gonna take her bruise got plastic foods sitting all above the house and pool oh staring hands through and suddenly she got a bit confused what ever am i going to do i m always going fro and to no i need a little cool how am i ever gonna see this through oh ice cream smooth is the sugar gonna get her tooth oh she managed to the track and the man the side of it lost track stick a stone breakthrough but the devil never met her too no he wants to make a move some days she disappeared without proof what ever am i supposed to do i m living in the brooklyn zoo no i need a little cool how am i ever gonna shake these fools fathers shock confuse and her mother has to pay the tooth oh from on the wrong roof but her sister was a bit unloose so now there s just a few every real is nothing more to do no i need some other thrill and made an offer that i can t refuse what ever am i supposed to do i m living in the big excuse oh i m walking like i m you and i m never gonna rain the oh sunny afternoon in a satellite screaming pool fool she s calling all through and her shadow cat face was cute what ever is a girl to do you always going fro and to no you need a little cool take a little more time to lose what ever am i supposed to do i m living in the brooklyn zoo oh i need a little cool am i ever gonna shake these fools what ever is a girl to do you always going fro and to no you need a little cool take a little more time to lose

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: i gotta go find a way to disappear my mind s already down that road but my body s left standin here would you lend me your ear am i really out here alone stand ready til the coast is clear pocket full of your castin stones what s left for me why stick around i m gonna start runnin when my feet hit the ground runnin runnin runnin runnin

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: i won t say that you re selfish i won t say that you are unkind i won t say that you re helpless i won t say that you didn t try i won t say that you re evil i won t say that you are alright i won t say you re deceitful i won t say that you re on my mind take pity upon me i know honesty is a virtue take pity upon me i won t lie if it will hurt you i won t say i don t love you i won t say i don t love you i won t say i don t love you i won t say i don t love you i won t say i don t love you i won t say i don t love you i won t say i don t love you i won t say i don t love you take pity upon me i know honesty is a virtue take pity upon me i won t lie if it will hurt you but my god life s real all the time woah i won t say i don t love you i won t say i don t love you i won t say i don t love you i won t say i don t love you

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: i m gonna beat myself up for beating myself up i m gonna take my lunch money for beating myself up yeahhhh i m gonna go blast off to the moon for beating myself up i m gonna send myself to my room for beating myself up yeah when are you gonna do that hey wait when are you gonna do that when are you gonna do that i think i ll do it now now and and i m gonna kick myself out of my house for beating myself up i m probably gonna send myself a strongly worded e mail for beating myself up when are you gonna do that when are you gonna do that when are you gonna do that give it to me now just do it

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: body says to my brain jesus christ why don t you love me i ve been feeling so ugly can you just be patient brain says to my body baby you know that i m sorry and i swear to god i m trying i just don t know how to change what kind of pageant is this why the hell have i been acting like this what kind of pageant is this why the hell have i been acting like this body says to my brain i am going on vacation and you know i love you baby i ve just gotta get away brain says to my body jesus christ you are so lovely and we re all each other s got babe i just don t know how to change what kind of pageant is this why the hell have i been acting like this what kind of pageant is this why the hell have i been acting like this what kind of pageant is this why the hell have i been acting like this what kind of pageant is this why the hell have i been acting like this

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: oh boy do you wanna come over in an hour you may leave a sour taste in my mouth oh boy do you wanna be my lover i would love you and i d love you and i d love you and i d never recover don t you know how much i suffer don t you know how much i suffer don t you know how much i suffer oh boy can you tell i am trying if you die then i will die a trillion times oh boy it feels like i am dying stay with me an hour and i ll be fine don t you know how much i suffer don t you know how much i suffer don t you know

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: good day nice to meet you i guess not trying to cause a big scene i m not exactly a boy in a dress but thank you i know what you mean do you wanna ask me something do you wanna look at me do you wanna ask me something open me up and see do you wanna learn a new trick you re gonna be so good at it do you wanna learn a new trick you ll think it s so funny that you thought you couldn t do it do you wanna learn a new trick you re gonna be so good at it do you wanna learn a new trick you ll think it s so funny that you thought you couldn t do it do you wanna ask me something see the way you look at me it s all gonna be fine if you just stop staring you ll be able to see do you wanna learn a new trick you re gonna be so good at it do you wanna learn a new trick you ll think it s so funny that you thought you couldn t do it do you wanna learn a new trick you re gonna be so good at it do you wanna learn a new trick you ll think it s so funny that you thought you couldn t do it

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: i pretend to wash my hands again again again again again but you know i just can t i can t i can t i can t i can t don t tease me i just can t take it don t tease me i just can t fake it i pretend to be your friend again again again again again but you know i just can t i can t i can t i can t i can t don t tease me i can t take it don t tease me i just fake it

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: i took a bite of my everything bagel with cream cheese tomato red onion and lox got on a train at a station got off in the city and walked a few blocks went to a room where a woman with joy in her name shot my face with a light a light so intense and specific it burned up the hairs and they fell out tonight i m starting to move more like a fish in the sea than a train on a track glued to my seat from the kid s table i m learning to walk with a chair on my back i took a selfie with god and they told me they get kind of lonely on top of the sky but when i said come by for dinner they vanished at once and they never said why i m starting to move more like a fish in the sea than a train on a track glued to my seat from the kid s table i m learning to walk with a chair on my back i m starting to move more like a fish in the sea than a train on a track glued to my seat from the kid s table with a chair on my back

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: shotta boys i see them talking at bar get your drink and spend on like a foreign car kevin costner wanna play your bodyguard seen the movie shottas i play richie x it ain t hard to do i know who richie is richie rich boys they don t give a f you don t wanna flex nah you don t wanna flex boy you don t wanna flex nah you don t wanna flex keep your muscle in your shirt boy you don t wanna flex nah you don t wanna flex nah you don t wanna flex keep your muscle in your shirt boy you don t wanna flex ehh don t make me do it ehh don t make me do it i don t wanna do it i don t wanna do it i don t wanna i don t wanna i don t wanna do it please don t make me do it i don t wanna do it i don t wanna i don t wanna i don t wanna yea compare me to whip cause when you push i start no whitney houston here don t need no bodyguard that poker face don t help don t make me pull your card might end up in that river now your body hard ain t never bang but i know 40 haitian jacks keep flexing all you want them zoes got my back i m bout my stix about these hun ed stacks never broke thumbing through a billy paper cuts and more never short come correct don t play me like a poppy sho i m in the zone tell me tell me how much for the zone give me a deal and we on there go my phone prrr shotta sequel coming home got a business mind like big meech want the south to love me like i m pimp c hey clef he called me off the bench man so now i m bring the bars like jimmy henchmen shotta boys i see them talking at bar get your drink and speed on like a foreign car kevin costner wanna play your bodyguard guard the guard your body keep your body hard seen the movie shottas i play richie x it ain t hard to do i know who richie is richie rich boys they don t give a f you don t wanna flex nah you don t wanna flex boy you don t wanna flex nah you don t wanna flex keep your muscle in your shirt boy you don t wanna flex nah you don t wanna flex nah you don t wanna flex keep your muscle in your shirt boy you don t wanna flex ehh shotta boys i see them talking at bar

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: johnny went to school he kept getting jumped today was the day that he wouldnt run hes a warrior he said hes a warrior little jimmy little jimmy always put his work he stand up like mad when they threw him in the dirt hes a warrior hes a warrior little susie little susie they say was moody dressed in black dressed in black always wore a hoodie shes a warrior eh shes a warrior youre a warrior youre a warrior little mikey little mikey play your guitar tell them one day youll be a ghetto superstar youre a warrior youre a warrior little johnny little johnny follow your dreams little johnny little johnny you have the mean youre a warrior youre a warrior youre a warrior youre a warrior youre a warrior every man have to follow him dream every man have to find him queen every man have to make his way every man have to live to this way every man have to follow him dream every man have to find his queen every girl you gotta live this way youre a warrior youre a warrior warrior warrior like this youre a warrior warrior warrior like this youre a warrior

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: i dreamed i was a wet patch on the concrete evaporating in the morning sun it felt so nice to sit there doing nothing whatsoever as whatever held me together came undone i woke up and my body was my body it looked like candy and it felt like styrofoam and if i could i d take it off take a walk around the block since i m stuck here i guess i ll call it home daydream of a girl who looks just like me or at least the way i d look if i were her i think about the way that she would feel to be and i think it might feel right but i m not sure i wake up and my body is my body it looks like candy and it feels like styrofoam and if i could i d take it off take a walk around the block since i m stuck here i guess i ll make it home home home home

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: thats the girls man they playing double dutch thats my man he rolling up the dutch and thats me man i am playing superhero yah now we running from the 5 0 718 boy they running from the 5 0 305 man they running from the 5 0 404 boy they running from the 5 0 hawaii 5 0 man we running from the 5 0 thank god for them bars over guitar nice with the hands you need a partner we can spar other younglings that i know boy they dont use hand guards they use the trigger like quickdraw mcgraw yeah me and my brother with the bubble boost im on the roof im screaming i got the juice 1 brick 2 brick 3 brick 4 now dea boy they bringing down the door man they searching for that cocahina now my boy is deported back to ponkakana yea though they try to set me up like hurricane i felt the horror man but i aint touch the cane yeah its still mucho trabajo though the road is rocky imma ko apollo where i come from north mon ah die sling shot hit birds from the sky so when i landed in the country with eagles eyes im in the kitchen cooking american pie thats the girls man they playing double dutch thats my man he rolling up the dutch and thats me man im playing superhero yeah now we running from the 5 0 310 they running from the 5 0 973 boy they running from the 5 0 212 now they running from the 5 0 hawaii 5 0 man we running from the 5 0 best friends turns to ex friends we were recruited like the x men they got my whole firm tap wikileaks i can hear them from the back they gon have me go beast mode and do two bars in morse code yea but i cant stand to see another cop take another life of a kid and i cant stand to see another nut thats the futious style on the air ypd lapd everybodys frighten cause when the storm comes you dont to get hit with lightning 509 man we running from the 5 0 876 boy we running from the 5 0 514 man we running from the 5 0 oh no man we running from the 5 0 everybody itchy with the twitter finger always wanna switch face negga everybody itchy with the twitter finger always wanna switch face negga

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: ehh i ain t got no regrets as long as i got you we got next we got next i ain t got no regrets as long as you got me we got next we got next see through your colors gotta go you be taking me back to cocobana when i hold your hips and salsa they say opposites attract she so papa i be talking that popo money on the street she puts the money in the bag but if i ever need anything she neva hesitate your guns with these roses and flowers counting the days and hours when we gon be that tower and me and you kamasutra clap on clap off lights out take off you the real thing never been a knock off dance i ain t got no regrets i ain t got no regrets as long as i got you we got next we got next i ain t got no regrets as long as you got me we got next we got next yeah ouwe yeah you the baddest and yeah you the realest yeah i m the flyest you know i get litty you stick around till you give me them digits and now that i got you i fell like i m winning every five days either one us tripping like who is that negga or who them bitches girl i ain t gonna play with you you thinking of running game on you i m addicted to you like you re a drug i be thinking bout the things you do see i like the way you rock your hips things you really do and show she is crazy she all about paper she making moves she making moves she making moves i ain t got no regrets as long as i got you we got next we got next i ain t got no regrets as long as you got me we got next we got next

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: no i don t everything s over now no i don t everything s over now no i don t everything s over now no i don t everything s over now no i don t everything s over now no i don t everything s over now no i don t everything s over now no i don t everything s over now no i don t everything s over now no i don t everything s over now no i don t everything s over now no i don t everything s over now no i don t everything s over now

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: if this ain t rough how cause i ve stayed up i m making distractions i won t lay down cause i woke it up if this ain t rough ain t rough so long overgrown i had it down so long before i was headstrong days passing by now dull if this ain t rough how cause i ve stayed up i m making distractions i won t lay down cause i woke it up if this ain t rough ain t rough if this ain t rough how cause i ve stayed up i m making distractions i won t lay down cause i woke it up if this ain t rough ain t rough it was not my intention but i m wanting it all back i m wanting it all had i lost my reflection when i let it all go it was not my intention what was my intention so gone so withdrawn don t see no one no sun no fun i m numb i m numb sleeping through my alarm if this ain t rough how cause i ve stayed up i m making distractions i won t lay down cause i woke it up if this ain t rough ain t rough if this ain t rough how cause i ve stayed up i m making distractions i won t lay down cause i woke it up if this ain t rough if this ain t rough if this ain t rough was not my intention was not my intention it was my infliction it was my infliction was not my intention was not my intention had lost my reflection had lost my reflection was not my intention was not my intention it was my infliction it was my infliction was not my intention was not my intention had lost my reflection had lost my reflection if this ain t rough how cause i ve stayed up i m if this ain t rough i was headstrong cause i ve stayed up i m but i want it all back it was not my intention what was my intention

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: imagine if everything that we were made of it was something that we imagined stuck in a fantasy that we created between i ve relied on the people that i may have dreamt of it s seeming that i don t see the same it s reoccuring where i don t bleed the same as them but i m not staying staying no i m not blanking it out it out friends keep changing changing no i m not faking it now it now cause i m not like them naivety desired to be in the energy closer than most to the enemy i ve been alone without recognising it at all backwater can not find a connection then there is no progression but i ve discovered what makes my happiness keep on going but i m not staying staying no i m not blanking it out it out friends keep changing changing no i m not faking it now it now but i m not staying staying no i m not blanking it out it out friends keep changing changing no i m not faking it now it now but i m not staying staying no i m not blanking it out it out friends keep changing changing no i m not faking it now it now cause i m not like them

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: strolling past the daffodils i won t forget how it feels to be lost in the maze laying on the sun kissed patch of grass we found round the back of that palace garden place there wasn t a cloud in sight nor people strolling by you held your hand in mine and i sighed for there was not much to be found in your eyes and oh of all the sights i ve seen never knew it d be you me and buckley bee in the cool warm shade and i should ve kissed your face i should ve explored all of the places ooo oh my how you seem to make me shy ooo and every time you kiss me on the lips i think of how i could get used to this used to your kisses so wakey wakey rise and shine oh so wakey wakey rise and shine twas another lovely evening again last night honestly did i not oblige to your every whim seen as i was beholden ooo oh my how you seem to make me shy ooo and every time ooo and every time ooo and every time you kiss me on the lips i think of how i could get used to this

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: verse 1 right turn fall down you re there to pick me off the ground and i can t tell ya how you ve turned my world around you come closer your blue eyes have won me over and i ll never be the same without ya here with me through the sun and the rain i thought you should know that you re my hero chorus let s grow old together with my heart in your hands and your hands holding mine we ll face the world together cause you are the one i ve been waiting to find it s no secret so i can t keep it cause it s true baby i love you verse 2 long day come home when you re there i never feel alone and my cares melt away into your arms again your smile takes me just awhile to remind myself to breathe cause your still the most amazing thing i ve ever seen i thought you should know that you ll always be my hero bridge years turn us gray but my heart still jumps when you re next to me i feel so safe cause you re still by my side on those cloudy days and i m so amazed by you words and music by lanae hale 2009 centricity music publishing ascap

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: i m not gonna sing the blues cause i don t wanna cry i only wanna be as free as the skies don t let anyone bring you down say what you wanna say but i ve got it right and i aim to feel this good the rest of my life can t let anyone bring me down hey look at me i want everyone to see how happy our lives could be how happy we could be that s what i m doin here singin my song i just wanna make you see what you knew all along don t let anyone bring you down hey look at me i want everyone to see how happy our lives could be how happy we could be i m not gonna sing the blues cause i don t wanna cry i only wanna be as free as the skies can t let anyone bring me down no i hope i made you feel good i hope i made you feel good i hope i made you feel real good i hope i made you feel good1

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: it s two o clock and i can t stop thinking of you monday s gone tuesday s long i ll make it through wednesday s fine but it s a crime it s not the end of the week now thursday what can i say it s not the day i m here i m waiting for sunday i m waiting for sunday i m waiting for sunday cause that s the day i m with you friday s blue can t wait to see you not much to do i complain on saturday i m still missing you i m waiting for sunday i m waiting for sunday i m waiting for sunday cause that s the day i m with you i m waiting for sunday i m waiting for sunday i m waiting for sunday i m waiting for sunday i m waiting for sunday i m waiting for sunday i m waiting for sunday i m waiting for sunday i m waiting for sunday i m waiting for sunday i m waiting for sunday i m waiting for sunday i m waiting for sunday i m waiting for sunday i m waiting for sunday i m waiting for sunday cause that s the day i m with you

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: you can make me cry you can break my heart but i ll never say we re through even when i cry i can t stay mad at you you can run around you can tell me lies but there s nothing i can do i ll never say goodbye cause i can t stay mad at you i got mad at you last night when you were holding another girl tight but when i thought of all your charms i bounced back in to your arms one thing you ll know for sure i won t be the one to fall in love with someone new i ll love you til i die and i can t stay mad at you i bounced right back into your arms one thing you ll know for sure i won t be the one to fall in love with someone new i ll love you til i die and i can t stay mad at you you got me where you want me

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: if you didn t want me you shouldn t have been born that started all the trouble now the damage been done you never should have been born cause now you re the one for me and if you didn t want me to follow you round you never should have showed up around my town you never should have come to town cause now you re the one for me and it s too late cause now you re stuck with me you better give up it s me you choose i say ha ha ha ha it s me you lose it s to late cause now my mind is set you better give up because i won t forget that could never never be well you re the one for me oh babe oh honey well it s too late you re the one for me if you didn t want me you shouldn t have been born and we never should have met that morn we never should have met cause now you re the one for me and if you didn t want me to want you this way well you never should have seen my rock n roll band play you never should have seen the lovers play cause now you re the one for me and it s too late now you re stuck with me better give up it s me you choose i say ha ha ha ha it s me you lose it s too late because now my mind s is set better give up because i won t forget that could never never be well you re the one for me oh baby oh honey it s too late you re the one for me you re the one for me you re the one you re the one you re the one it s too late you re the one

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: but now after loving you what else is there to do for honey all the rest is just gonna have to be second best i know i ll go through life comparing her to you that s cause i m no good i m no good to anyone after loving you your precious love cannot be erased by just another woman with a pretty face and your memory you know it will remain for it cannot be erased other loves may come along they can t live up to you that s cause i m no good i m no good to anyone after loving you i said i m no good i m no good to anyone after loving you i said i m no good i m no good i m no good to anyone to anyone to anyone to anyone after loving you that s cause i m no good i m no good to anyone after loving you

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: well things have been getting kinda heavy these days trying to figure out which road to take there s many decisions to be made and the only time i feel ok is when i m in your arms dana baby girl you ve got me missing you all day long from the second i wake up to the second my day is done with every breath that i take in well i ll swear on every inch of my lungs i m with you yeah i don t how to say this any other way but every little thing is going to be alright so baby don t you worry cause i have got complete faith that things will be ok it s just for now we sing so far away from home everything s such a daze no i don t want to go it hurts to drive away in the rearview mirror i can see the breaklights hit your face as you re waving me goodbye we all change our dreams as the days go by with feelings so hopeless we wonder why we leave the ones we love one good thing about the road is that it opens up your eyes it will make you miss your home and everything that s right in your heart will be as clear as the north carolina days spent realizing who you are don t ever change don t ever change don t ever change don t ever change

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: yeah run through the woods to the house on the hill the one we ll make warm as soon as we get in or should i say as soon as i get in so can i ravage you right where you stand your heart on your sleeve and my love in your hand and this is going exactly as i planed so tonight we explore the boundaries the skin has offered the voice pitches out and it goes yeah yeah yeah with your bright eyes and your green lights and a night we won t forget for the rest of our lives we then hit the ground as hard as we can your back to the floor and my head on your chest and i must say the beast in you is showing you grab for the air as if something is there something watching this machine we have built is this love or is it just pure sin break out your punches this is a night for the rest of our lives you play in love your hardly ever stay in love its safe to say you ve given up on your heart burning our open mouths our eyes our eyes

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: i met you where nobody knew my name and our spark quickly turned into a flame winter nights are feeling hot like summer inside i can t get you off my mind i don t want to know why i can t let you go i remember the first words that you said and i can t get that night out of my head it s complicated but i m not frustrated cause i know you re out there patiently waiting i don t want to know why i can t let you go i don t want to know why i can t let you go you go when the sun burns up and the ocean dries out i ll be all you need all you need to breathe when the moon falls down from the black night sky i will light the way promise me that you ll stay i know that you feel it still you won t believe in me my heart pounds like thunder i don t need to wonder i don t want to know why i can t let you go i don t want to know why i can t let you go i don t want to know i don t want to know i don t want to know i don t want to know i don t want to know i don t want to know

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: it s all a lie you gonna listen to them cause they re out for blood you leave your life in their hands last night you made it easy for them to prey upon you cause they ll lure you to a place a place where they can devour you you ve been warned so many times have you forgotten what was said you ve been warned so many times and now you re dead so tell me is this the way you want it baby they ll drink from your body until there s nothing left it s all a lie you gonna listen to them cause they re out for blood you leave your life in their hands from now on you better watch out you never know what s behind you cause they ll wait wait until until it s dark to surround you you ve been warned so many times you just don t care if it s right you ve been warned so many times you re just asking for their bite so tell me is this the way you want it baby they ll drink from your body until there s nothing left it s all a lie you gonna listen to them cause they re out for blood you leave your life in their hands so is this what you call sexy lose yourself like it s nothing

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: verse 1 i m not sorry i fell it s just harder to tell that i m doing alright by myself every night do you remember all of our letters my dorm room where i would hold you shut out the outside just you and i in our own world on our own time pre chorus so when you re off you re on your own just know that everything s not hollow i think you deserve to know that wherever you go i ll follow chorus i m not far from where you are feel me inside your heart been pushing me out i m pulling you in we fell in love then we fell again we fell in love we fell again we fell in love we fell again yeah we fell in love we fell again yeah verse 2 caught in a fog of faceless voices home or on the road i m never alone for you i hid them away and i ve been feeling the weight too many times too many times yeah i ve been feeling weight said i ve been feeling the weight of things but my body is lighter now guess i got used to the way we made it through every day but we taught each other how chorus bridge chorus

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: close your eyes have no fear the night is wide but shell find you here it curls like coffee cup smoke on that off white dress you used to know so well that dizzy smile in clouded swirl that soft skinned while when i was hers those lips that finally formed in the haze of light from your bedroom door once more said dont fear the coming wave nothing breaks with it i am in the rain i am the empire state and i wont change a bit i miss all of you now my home as much as stranger sounds whispered it pulls like nothing ive known between a place to live and space to grow my home all alone all alone all alone all alone all alone im gonna be the one who sees you im gonna be the one who knows im gonna be the one who fears you im gonna be the one you chose

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: keep in mind a good journey the kind of trip to live one day oh lord that makes me feel this is my way i know a place a warm and sunny land between love and stress it s so strong on people s face i ve seen heavy legend please carry on crazy island jah bless a turn of phrase that guides you and protects homeless is your current condition fearless where the guys to serve you and protect well bless ho lord music makes you happy rastaman enjoy big sound system every time passa passa will play till sunrise ho jamaica hoy i know a place a warm and sunny land between love and stress it s so strong on people s face i ve seen heavy legend please carry on crazy island one day we gone inna dis island take a plane for zion inna carribeans just to feel vibrations this day we saw real land of musical foundation i tell reality no tell a fiction blow one time rubadub style come inna di dance and open your mind so it s a big bombtrack go slecta mix dat cause if you like the sound kingston killin dat inna bmb sound gunshot around dat inna hellshire the sun burnin dat inna rae town old school runnin dat gimme jerk chicken i am only eat dat all day i stay highest and i m reasonning all day i m resting in the shade all night i stay in sound system keep on dancin some a dem sing for almighty one some a dem make the fire burn some a dem meke the party on jamaica you must stand firm i know a place a warm and sunny land between love and stress it s so strong on people s face i ve seen heavy legend please carry on crazy island i search the vibes in zion everyday me love free life the hills and the valleys my spirit rise blue montain all the day my spirit rise h c est une ralit reggae toute la journe dans les rues les taxis et de jour comme de nuit et dans tous les quartiers du plus pauvre au friqu tu trouveras des party a n est jamais fini et dans toute cette misre la crativit dborde et reste prospre sous la violence et l enfer nous avons dcouvert un paradis sur terre crazy crazy land love yo come on dub inc band let s go keep the fire make the show jamaica woh i know a place a warm and sunny land between love and stress it s so strong on people s face i ve seen heavy legend please carry on crazy island

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: everywhere i turn i learn the meaning of the word temptation every rule that s made to keep me contained makes me wanna break one and every vice i seek it makes it harder just to keep my concentration every girl i see has got some love for me damn i wanna make some and i say oh the devil s got a hold on me i sold my soul to the deadliest of enemies now i d rather be a sinner than a saint rather be who i am than who i ain t no need to fake it my introduction to a path of self destruction and i can t shake it i ve been tempted never expected being bad could feels so good i can t help but sin i don t wanna give in but something tellin me i should is it the life out west your short cut dress the fact that i couldn t care less cause if i m in the mood for disorder all i gotta do is travel south of the border gonna be hot hot hot hot where i m heading i tell you i m not not not on my way to heaven and i now i gotta dig deep from my conscience clear it pray to the father son and holy spirit god knows god knows god knows god knows god knows god knows i wouldn t mean it oh the devil s got a hold on me i sold my soul to the deadliest of enemies now i d rather be a sinner than a saint rather be who i am than who i ain t no need to fake it my introduction to a path of self destruction and i can t shake it

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: just like candy just like candy its the same feeling i m creepin low in a flip flop drop top stang leanin to the left gold dayton s on that thang i m the mjg pimp tight put it to the floor 5 0 swang a right and the peanut butta guts is a must drop it in the shop take em out wrap em up and the ten clear coats to make it shine make me circle through the neighborhood 55 times with my gas tank full drank a bull fall up in the park after dark try to pull me a young stout woman sumpin pretty nice round hips with them well shaped titties as the sun goes down i m gettin dirty fall up in pressure world get cleaned in a hurry in my 77 chevy ass tight pull off cuttin rubber disappearin in the night just like candy just like candy its the same feeling 10 o clock in the morning as 8 got up chiefin hay with some kool aid in my favorite cup comb my hair get my grill right so i can feel tight heavy starch in my jeans and a fresh pair of nikes as i strike out the door to my superb parked by the curb candy coated bird the sun got my candy lookin good enough to eat you can tell by the way the girls act across the street hit the horn but no stallin keep ballin 4 o clock sunday i gotta hit the mall and fall in full of them green trees hurry up so i can catch martin luther king fools all in the way with that econo spray need to take a few classes learn about molasses pressure got me beamed i m talkin on the phone tellin penny thats the way to do it baby represent ya home just like candy just like candy its the same feeling my candy coated paint will bring flavors to your mind and in the summertime we got the whole block blind some busta in a primed out pinto poppin game lying sayin he go and get the same thang if you ain t ridin wood and leather your ride ain t hittin a plain dashboard crushed velvet got you itchin 99 95 thirty day paint jobs got niggas ridin round lookin like a junk yard you need to put a check with a check with a check stack up on your grip get your shit sprayed wet see most of these new paint jobs they ll do but if it ain t candy then the job ain t true its reserved for them ballaz who make that cheese it ain t candy if it didn t cost a couple of g s on your jeep your truck your chevy or your lexus 5th wheel and the grill like them playaz do in texas my folks gettin sideways in vallejo ballaz in memphis slammin shut the cadillac doors full of ink so blinked i could fly to a world where you have to roll candy or you die descending my mind goes back into reality to some having candy paint is just a fantasy custom leather everywhere you look is woodgrain big ball tellin you its all about the candy mane x5 just like candy just like candy its the same feeling

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: you know sometimes you have to use a little composure be playa about the situation but this is not the time nigga this is not the time nigga its time to ride its time to ride sometimes you have to keep it calm play it low bite your bottom lip to keep from clickin on a ho in the streets what the fuck don t nobody play from memphis to the bay niggas diein all day over yea shipped with coke and candy cut up into bricks bitches that be thick be settin up them tricks gettin licks rules don t apply to gettin rich start a business sell a ki pimp a bitch make that switch real niggas flip shit and farm the shit with a bad ass yellow bitch eight ball translation three and a half you not affiliated nigga if you have to ask rich kid a queens nigga a green nigga when i say green nigga all about his cream nigga i suggest invest in a tank and a vest cuz me and all my niggas gone ride one time for my real niggas two times for the game its all in your brain man if i had a buck for everytime i ve fucked up i would be the big willy nigga with my feet up but i m in the field killin for a meal around fake hoes talkin about they keep it real money murder all in my eyes real niggas ride and they don t ask why i m a real ass nigga who i be mj livin to handle business every god damn day now who in the fuck be talkin shit behind my back lookin to find a hundred and thirty ways to get jacked tie you in the sack procede to pack you off too young yea you brought some pain i brought the rain and i stun to feel i wonder will these fake ass bitches become real hell naw don t forget bout the spliff and i tell ya ll should i spell ya ll fake ass bustas before i see ya and i can tell by the scent in the air i don t wanna meet ya and i don t care if its the motherfuckin holidays i ain t gone preach just pose and look up at me like a big ol pimp ass i ll beat cha nigga i smash down to take care of killers who spit trash small pounds no limit soldiers we kick cash at the drop of ball d i m e p i m p tight pass nigga for real trick don t tell me preacher man could you pray for me cuz i m about to sin my homicidal poetry killin again and again t mix gave me the gun when he sat and made the track a mental picture forms when i fire up a batch of sticky green love controllin what i m speakin sprayin niggas leavin niggas layin up leakin for weeks and weepin from my grim reapin realiwin mj wake em up from sleepin i m creepin peepin in your windows smokin regular now you gonna leave us behind we two steps ahead of the competition we leave em wishin upon the moon we here with t mix creatin a boom to move the room its that pimp shit that hardcore shit that shit you run from see i ain t got time for this superstlye shit i know where i come from ghetto hood ass nigga hard nine if you ever wanna meet me in person i ain t hard to find

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: 3 kids started off being friends to the end growing up in a time that turned boys to men carlo was the slick one the little girls liked him and all the little niggas in the hood wanted to fight him but carlo main nigga james wasn t having that james had boxing game and left niggas laying flat all of us 12 or 13 at the time drinking cheap wine and smokin brown bag dimes i was into writing rhyme in class at school waitin for the bell to ring so we can go and shoot pool one day some up the block niggas came talking shit bragin on they clique and how many crews they click with tryin to start some extra clip shit them niggas so for real james so cool to get with fucked his whole grill carlo that slick nigga pulled a 22 they got some heat too what the fuck we gonna do bust and hit the backdoor now we in the alleyway running heart pumpin fast tryin to see another day blessed to escape the mayhem time and time again we escaped the mayhem yo whats been goin on dogg man that shit goin down dogg what s goin down with you i done heard you got rich huh you don t fuck around with us in the hood no more huh you know it s funny how shit changes right how life can loosen up a friendship that s so tight years after all the horseplay and misdemeanor crimes us being homeboys didn t seem so fine years of just fuckin around rappin in the neighborhood found me with a gold album tryin to live my life good carlo got popped with 8 keys in a minivan somewhere in tex arcan doin about a hundred man that nigga james straight cutthroat on them snouts robbin dope boys gettin what the fuck he want the game changed now you gotta play with death now i have to ask myself chorus do you remember your childhood back when you didn t have to have loot to have friends now it s all about your benjamins your cash flow and if a nigga fuck with that he better know time changed everything between us and if i see you in the streets i gotta bust you used to be a friend to me one i could trust now if you see me in the streets you better bust one day i m on my way to the studio ya dig pick up a zip of hay after i drop off my kids flippin through the hood seen james with his little crew blue rags up in a drop top malibu bloodshot eyes i could smell the dip burnin bumpin dj squeeky flashin what the earnin he asked about carlo well what can i say i write him when i get a chance but i pray for him everyday lookin at my ride tellin me nigga you comin up fuckin with that rappin stuff i guess you just forgot about us nah cat it ain t like that i gotta eat that s when james clicked and pulled out his fuckin heat i hit the gas he kept bustin till the clip was empty 17 shots and didn t nothin hot nip me quickly grabbed my shit and opened it up wide the nigga on the passenger side instantly died james bailed i gave chase fuck the consequence if i let him live he ll start another incident 12 years ago i never thought i d see the day shit would ever be this way chorus

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: you are now witnessing the effects of the buddha yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo redman kick through your door liquidated then i come through your pores think the track is bleedin get at the gauze mix fidgit fore i rip it in four s look at my face you can tell that i m slick the blunt excersize 10 in the clip y all niggas ready for the un conterfit d o dot bee bo tuck in your shit that bogus holder of the sticky dolja got me appearing on the wanted poster it s like when your body get caught on rotor s wnen i snap like strings through boat motors my kitchen fridge look like jeffery dahmer s boys screamin for mama from the drama my hunger for hip hop got my gun up yo eightball hit the marijuana yeah yeah eightball blazin the hay inhale a pound almost every day real playas run the game that they play that s why i m doin it the playa way i say dope lines potent and real showin skills all my homies can feel smile let you see the name on my grill cut the track up let me show you the deal i be twisted with that redman we get it all cookin dope makin bread man i got the eagle full of hollow tip lead man hear what i said man can all that weak noise i write busta go and get your little weak boys you know what bring a player joy playin with them glock toys see i avoid all suckas trippin full of liquor actin like a bunch of women lippin interested in what i be grippin dippin in the benz zippin pass all you haters fakin runnin round seein real players imitatin breakin concentration all up in my situation hay blazin get y all shit together coffee shoppe we with whatever eightball stay high forever yo doc keep it tucked under my leather we here to keep the party live smoke hay till we chinky eyed wanna brawl we can meet outside red and ball be down to ride yo yo look around you mothafuckers it s a hip hop holocaust yeah you just found the right superheroes to take care of that shit mothafucker head rush and green stinky feelin like a nigga dropped a mickey drink up the hen and watch me get tipsy who wanna ride with me 160 up and down 48 trackin ski mask kick in doors in straight beat jackin ball battin rhymes all in your skull crackin actin like i got a problem that s heavy to me smokin brothers like a dooby in a gangsta movie mc s turn stank like a old lady coochie ball and red be all up in your shit so deep that it be damn near permanent so authentic you can tell it from counterfeit who wanna hit of the purest coffee shop crop guaranteed to be bomb to the last drop ball and red keep it stone like bedrock we keep it hot yo i m raunchy the blackout mode i snatch cheese that your mousetrap hold yo who fucks ya baby hey kojak knows my flows kodak couldn t hold that pose wow goofy playin tough in the streets blue collar mc s suffer the heat until i reach the isosceles heat right angle better double your sleeve i m just a black nation wide singer cops lookin for red but can t arraign us you need more than lion trainers to tame us famous for cuffin mics with 5 fingers that s why i walk so distorted any form of hash aborted word so superb it ll turn to herb if you snort it 50 sack and a nick can vouch for it if you hardcore spit it out out out out doc who be arousin police my underground funk be plowin the streets so if you claimin you the best mc bring your arm over here and handcuff me we battle till the cattle learn to speak cross examine me i m straight up framed get y all shit together coffee shoppe we with whatever eightball stay high forever yo doc keep it tucked under my leather we here to keep the party live smoke hay till we chinky eyed wanna brawl we can meet outside red and ball be down to ride get y all shit together coffee shoppe we with whatever eightball stay high forever yo doc keep it tucked under my leather we here to keep the party live smoke hay till we chinky eyed wanna brawl we can meet outside red and ball be down to ride

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: of all the roads i ve traveled and all the sights i ve seen the most amazing thing is the power of our dreams and anything is possible for those who can believe just get your heart to rearrange its priorities for us to make love work we ve got to try a little harder and for love to work we gotta hold on a human heart is just too precious to spend it feeling hurt let s start to take the chance to make love work it takes faith in one another to see things eye to eye and it s hard to trust but you know it s worth the try there s a candle in my window and whenever you feel blue you can bet your bottom dollar i ll be there for you for us to make love work we ve got to try a little bit harder and for love to work we gotta hold on a human heart is just too precious to spend it feeling hurt let s start to take the chance to make love work oh i do believe in miracles but i know they don t come easy so why don t we give destiny a helping hand for us to make love work we ve got to try a little bit harder and for love to work we gotta hold on a human heart is just too precious to spend it feeling hurt let s start to take the chance to make love work life is just too beautiful to spend it feeling hurt let s start to take the chance to make love work

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: something in the way you used to call my name two syllables too slow expecting me to know that you had all the right intentions killing me the way you did and i know you were born good so i won t hold it against you cause you re still just a kid you wanna love me sometimes you wanna fuck me but not stay the night and tell all your friends that i m a pathetic little thing for loving you more than anything why do i love you why do i why do i love you why do i why do i love you why do i tell me why you re of a different breed a whole new species entirely but if you think i ll take what you ve given me oh if you think i ll take what you ve given me oh you must be fucking crazy why do i love you why do i why do i love you why do i why do i love you why do i tell me why why do i love you why do i why do i love you why do i why why

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: sun goes up sun goes down another day another night come round waiting for you to come back home i ve got my question got my doubts it s nothing we can t figure out so darling don t toss me out of my own begging you please please please don t go falling out of love with me give me one more chance before you say goodbye begging you please please please don t go falling out of love with me give me one more chance and i ll keep you satisfied so tell me darling just confess it s something blue about the way you kiss so what puts that lonesome looking in your eyes if there s someone else tell me what s his name i don t need none love s not a game a thousand kisses a thousand miles begging you please please please don t go falling out of love with me give me one more chance before you say goodbye begging you please please please don t go falling out of love with me give me one more chance and i ll keep you satisfied darling don t tell me if you could do it all again but you be sure i ll not let love fall through your hands begging you please please please don t go falling out of love with me give me one more chance before you say goodbye begging you please please please don t go falling out of love with me give me one more chance before you say goodbye give me one more chance and i ll keep you satisfied

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: step aside partner it s my day bend an ear and listen to my version pardon me boy is that the chattanooga choo choo boy you can gimme a shine i ve got my fare you leave the pennsylvania station bout a quarter to four read a magazine and then you re in baltimore dinner in the diner nothing could be finer when you hear the whistle blowin eight to the bar then you know that tennessee is not very far shovel all the coal in gotta keep it rollin there s gonna be a certain party at the station satin and lace i used to call funny face she s gonna cry until i tell her that i ll never roam won t you choo choo me home get aboard all aboard won t you choo choo me home 1

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: lootaveli baby you know you can t be trusted lootboyz lootboyz lootboyz lootboyz lootboyz wake up to my ends motherfuck a friend take a knee amen get back to my bands if i flipped her once i could flip again if i juuged you once i could juug again wake up to my ends motherfuck a friend take a knee amen get back to my bands if i flipped her once i could flip again if i juuged you once i could juug again wake up to my ends motherfuck a friend 40 by my bible pray he understand i m just glad he let me get another chance diamonds on my baby jesus always wanna dance smokin buku gas lookin like i m from japan man the way it s lookin soon i ll touch a hundred bands shooting for a m but you know i had to plan used to serve them junkies out my mama minivan chrysler town country come and get yo lunches i got nothing for you less you placin orders all this dope illegal like it cross the border i m a product of miami off the coke why you cross me dawg i thought we was bros crazy how the closest to you wanna bust ya humble through my struggles runnin through the jungle gotta take a risk make that paper double wake up to my ends motherfuck a friend take a knee amen get back to my bands if i flipped her once i could flip again if i juuged you once i could juug again wake up to my ends motherfuck a friend take a knee amen get back to my bands if i flipped her once i could flip again if i juuged you once i could juug again

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: 1 2 3 4 a message to our enemies never fuck with one who s had to fight for being free whether it s one or two or three we ll take our pleasure out on making you believe and i m taking you out and i m taking you down you ll see and i m taking you out and i m taking you down with me the pride of america is the fear that s in your eyes and your insecurity will undo you in time i hear the people say hey hey hey hey hey cause we re the pride of america a message to your enemies never fuck with one who s had to fight for being free whether it s one or two or three we ll take our pleasure out on making you believe and i m taking you out and i m taking you down you ll see and i m taking you out and i m taking you down with me the pride of america is the fear that s in your eyes and your insecurity will undo you in time it s just like the old folks say it s an eye for an eye there s no turning back now you re on the front lines hell yeah it s on the line feeling fine when it s all on the line hell yeah and i hear the people saying hey hey hey hey hey cause we re the pride of america hey hey hey hey hey cause we re the pride of america hey hey hey hey hey cause we re the pride of america hey hey hey hey hey the fuckin pride of america

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: i said sometimes i spill my mental out on a beat i send my thoughts up to the sky they take me off of my feet i paint this image for you a replica of my pain i let you hear out my problems but hope you dont feel the same my emotions been a wreck my head been on phsyco i can never win this war but i still try to fight though beauty in the struggle the struggles a friendship i been talking to my demons back and forth on some friend shit asking how seeing who wonder when itll stop question why they build you up knowing damn well you drop always asking for some sun but it dont leave when it rain i wanna love all of my scars but they remind me of pain see i dont love you i dont hate you woah woah woah 8x see i dont love you i dont hate you i dont see no other option lately i just been observing lately i been on my watching im just acting like it matters im just speaking like you hurt me i dont love you i don t hate you but i feel you dont deserve me i been right here steady trying i been out here slowly dying i stay low key with my crying demons never leave my side i just feel like it don t matter i just feel like its depression say its only in my head so you can really get to stepping i dont need the energy lately you been seeming toxic everytime i mention problems you just go and change the topic we should really start to face them facing everything is key you may be out run all these demons but my demons catching me see i dont love you i dont hate you woah woah woah 8x wish i could give you all my visions for a day just to let you sit with it and hear the shit you say you always call me crazy you been right and im apologetic but im human too and often times it seems you do forget it my mind run my heart follows and i cant stop it i feel my mental lift the world so i just cant drop it i guess i need to say im sorry once again for stressing but often times i feel you busy and i need attention i want the doctor just to tell me that im fine and good but even when they do i feel like i m misunderstood the things i feel never add up when it s even im sick of fighting love and hate i feel like leaving see i dont love you i dont hate you woah woah woah 8x

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: rich girl why so low you ve got so much to keep you high i guess i just don t know the things that keep you up at night tell me all your wildest dreams i care too much to let you be i know we haven t met but please here s a drink to your fantasies follow me to the lonely inn the lonely inn yeah yeah yeah yeah call for me at the lonely inn the lonely inn yeah yeah yeah yeah i ll be waiting in my room for you i ll show you how to live at the lonely inn i ve got enough room for two i know you ve never been to the lonely inn champagne at your door uhh ahh taste like trouble with a twist feeling so ignored uhh ahh here is where we coexist no we haven t met but please here s a drink to your fantasies follow me to the lonely inn the lonely inn yeah yeah yeah yeah call for me at the lonely inn the lonely inn yeah yeah yeah yeah i ll be waiting in my room for you i ll show you how to live at the lonely inn i ve got enough room for two i know you ve never been to the lonely inn it s not over you can stay quiet lover it s time to play place your order sweet sorbet drippin chocolate down your legs i ll be waiting in my room for you i ll show you how to live at the lonely inn i ve got enough room for two i know you ve never been to the lonely inn i ll show you how to live at the lonely inn i know you ve never been to the lonely inn1

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: don t call me i don t call me i don t wanna hear from you don t call me i don t call me i don t wanna hear from you cuz it s not how we thought this would be but hey hey i m sorry i i i i m sorry took you out on a date give up my fairies so i can t breathe you re walking fast boy cuz she wants my blonde it s perfect but if you really wanted to stop this killing spree and if you really wanted to stop killing me hey i m sorry i i i i m sorry and i know it s not easy being lonely yeah when you re alone you think of me and i do the same i say the same thing over and over yeah i do the same love the same thing over and over but hey hey i i i i i i i i oh oh oh i m sorry

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: why don t you come over i know it s raining but i don t care why don t you come over it s cuz i make you stay well don t go there no don t go there ah ay oh don t you well i don t want you to oh i i want you but i i never wanted to you can fill me up i promise you didn t have me baby you can fill my cup but then you ll get real thirty well don t go there no don t go there ah i i don t you but i i never wanted to oh i i want you oh i i want you but i i never wanted to go there so don t go there no don t go there no don t go there no don t go there i i i i don t want you oh i i i never wanted you oh i i want you but i i never wanted to go there

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: if you lie if you lie if you lie then so will i so will i you say you re goin you say you re goin but you never leave you say you re goin you say you re goin but you never leave it confuses me if you lie if you lie if you lie then so will i then so will i you say you re goin you say you re goin but you never leave you say you re goin you say you re goin but you never leave it confuses me if you lie if you lie if you lie then so will i so will i

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: here comes the sun little darling here comes the sun and i say it s all right it s all right it s all right it s all right here comes the sun little darling here comes the sun and i say it s all right it s all right it s all right it s all right well here come the sun here come the one it s lord jamar a new day has begun just look at me shine as i rise in the east i welcome you with the universal greeting of peace don t look directly at me my light is too intense and it covers the spectrum that why brothers respect it i bring life to the planet i make sight in advantage i do damage but without me you could never manage now here comes the sun the moon and the stars you could feel my heat no matter where you are i sizzle the street the leather in your car hotter than the middle east candle hot and everything revolve around me look at the earth she revolve around me but she keep the boundaries cause one wrong turn and she might get sunburn here comes the sun little darling here comes the sun and i say it s all right it s all right it s all right it s all right here comes the sun little darling here comes the sun and i say it s all right it s all right it s all right it s all right here comes the sun little darling here comes the sun and i say it s all right it s all right it s all right it s all right here comes the sun little darling here comes the sun and i say it s all right it s all right it s all right it s all right i keep my earth ninety three million miles away but she still feel my warm when i m touching her face it s all right it s all right it s all right it s all right it s all right i keep my earth ninety three million miles away but she still feel my warm when i m touching her face it s all right it s all right it s all right it s all right it s all right here comes the sun little darling here comes the sun and i say it s all right it s all right it s all right it s all right here comes the sun little darling here comes the sun and i say it s all right it s all right it s all right it s all right

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: on a distant shore miles from land stands the ebony totem in ebony sand a dream in a mist of grey on a far distant shore the pebble that stood alone and driftwood lies half buried warm shallow waters sweep shells so the cockles shine a bare winding carcass stark shimmers as flies scoop up meat an empty way dry tears crisp flax squeaks tall reeds make a circle of grey in a summer way around man stood on ground i m trying i m trying to find you to find you i m living i m giving to find you to find you i m living i m living i m trying i m giving

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: late again when i get home you ll be waiting still you know there ain t no use in you complaining i know that i can show some respect especially when i m wrong but when i get back i know you ll say you ve been away too long ooooh la la la oooh i wonder why i stay when everybody s gone yeah there s always something there that keeps me hanging on ooooh la la la oooh i wonder why i stay when everybody s gone away there s always something there that keeps me hanging on i know that i can show some respect especially when i m wrong late again when i get home you ll be waiting joe egan vocals keyboard gerry rafferty vocals guitar paul pilnick lead guitar tony williams bass rod coombes drums

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: you put something better inside of me you put something better inside of me i could look out the window or stare at the wall but really it didn t matter no i just didn t care at all could be sitting by the water counting every stone cause nothing means nothing when you re empty and on your own but you put something better inside of me you put something better inside of me makes me so much stronger i m amazed at the change in me well i knew what i was doing i was running away busy going nowhere just wasting the time of day walking down the road kicking up the stones nothing means nothing when you re empty and on your own but you put something better inside of me you put something better inside of me makes me so much stronger i m amazed at the change in me

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: now blue ain t the word for the way that i feel and a storm is brewing in this heart of mine this ain t no crazy dream i know that s it real you re someone else s love now you re not mine crazy arms that reach to hold somebody new but my yearning heart keeps saying you re not mine my troubled mind knows soon to another you ll be wed that s why i m lonely all the time please take these treasured dreams i had for you and me and take all the love i thought was mine someday my crazy arms will hold somebody new but right now i m so lonesome i could die crazy arms that reach to hold somebody new but my yearning heart keeps saying you re not mine my troubled mind knows soon to another you ll be wed you re someone else s love now you re not mine well you re someone else s love now you re not mine

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: i don t want you to hold me tight til you re mine to hold and i don t even want you to stay all night just until the moon turns cold all i need is black roses white rhythm and blues and somebody who cares when you lose black roses white rhythm and blues you say that somebody really loves you you d find her if you just knew how but honey everyone in the whole wide world is probably asleep by now and they re dreaming of black roses white rhythm and blues and somebody who cares when you lose black roses white rhythm and blues close your eyes sleep away all your blues i ve done everything but lie now i don t know what else i can do ah the night time sighs and i hear myself but the words just stick in my throat would you think that somebody like me might hurt much more than it shows just send me black roses white rhythm and blues and somebody who cares when you lose black roses white rhythm and blues white rhythm and blues white rhythm and blues white rhythm and blues white rhythm and blues white rhythm and blues

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: i m so happy with my feet on the ground so happy my head spins around quite content to sit on this fence quite content now a little bit older the mirror people one day shall be free the mirror people laugh at you and laugh at me the mirror people know not how to cry so they scream the mirror people scream inside because i could be nothing at all because i should be nothing at all i wish i could be nothing at all i wish i could be nothing at all time goes by so slow when your stuck to me time goes by so slow when your stuck to me yes it s true we re all in a gutter and yes it s true please set me free the christian says i love love everybody and you and you and you can be free but i m so happy with my feet on the ground so happy my head spins around quite content to sit on this fence quite content now a little bit older because i could be nothing at all because i should be nothing at all i wish i could be nothing at all i wish i could be nothing at all time goes by so slow when your stuck to me time goes by so slow when your stuck to me

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: in cold light of morning while everyone is yawning you re high in the cold light of morning the party gets boring you re high as your skin starts to scratch and wave yesterdays action goodbye forget past indiscretions and stolen possessions you re high in the cold light in the cold light of morning while everyone s yawning you re high in the cold light of morning you re drunk sick from whoring and high staring back from the mirrors a face that you don t recognize it s a loser a sinner a cock in a dildo s disguise in the cold light tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow as your skin starts to scratch and wave yesterdays action goodbye forget past indiscretions and stolen possessions you re high in the cold light of day tomorrow s only a kettle whistle whistle whistle whistle whistle whistle whistle whistle whistle away in the cold light of day2

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: she went north on hawthorne boulevard from where she lived in torrance her junky buddies met her at west boulevard and florence they telephoned a beaner whom they said would have the best twenty minutes later all their chins were on their chest she was with a guy from trinidad a welder name of lester she met him at the corner of la cienega and manchester it was an inglewood heroin morning she had a needle in her arm it was an inglewood heroin morning one day she s gonna buy the farm a block away was where she went when she had gone to cop so she went to fill her cooker up out behind the donut shop her veins were shot but he was a genius at the art of registration for a minute or two she engaged in intravenous masturbation her chances seemed 50 50 she would be the victim of a murder but she was geezing with him in the bathroom at the astro burger they went to see the ponies run at hollywood park but u turned out of the parking lot when they saw an undercover narc they found a peaceful place to fix and she said this is where it s at she cashed in her chips on the shitter in a lennox laundromat

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: breathe it in and breathe it out and pass it on it s almost out we re so creative so much more we re high above but on the floor it s not a habit it s cool i feel alive if you don t have it you re on the other side deeper you stick it in your veins the deeper the thoughts there s no more pain i m in heaven i m a god i m everywhere i feel so high it s not an habit it s cool i feel alive if you don t have it you re on the other side i m not an addict it s over now i m cold alone i m just a person on my own nothing means a thing to me oh nothing means a thing to me it s not a habit it s cool i feel alive if you don t have it you re on the other side i m not an addict free me leave me watch me as i m going down free me see me look at me i m falling and i m falling it is not a habit it is cool i feel alive i feel it s not a habit it s cool i feel alive if you don t have it you re on the other side i m not an addict i m not an addict i m not an addict i m not an addict

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: way down low where the streets are littered i find my fun with the freaks and the niggers i don t want much man give me a little or i m gonna take my chances if i get em i love them whores they never judge you what can you say when you re a whore they cast that pearl and it don t upset em they take their chances if they get em hear me go off give me some more motherfucker need a little more goddamn you give me some more motherfucker give me some more you give me breadcrumbs i m tired of living the bosses dream they ll squeeze you dry man if you let em better take your take your take your chances if you get em hear me go off give me some more motherfucker need a little more goddamn you give me some more motherfucker give me some more oh i love them whores oh i love them whores oh i love them whores oh i love them whores please give me more please give me more

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: failure s like a scarlet letter we keep it buried neath our skin and how do you like me better it s old truth out new truth in freedom s not something you fight for it s just the key that holds us in and what did your mother work for a cardboard house with fake wood trim it s been a long time since i ve been good it s been a long time since i ve been good this mask i m wearing doesn t fit me like it should it s been a long time since i ve been good he wants to start a revolution he s putting on his favorite grin there s a problem with your children pay them off they don t fit in it s been a long time since i ve been good it s been a long time since i ve been good this mask i m wearing doesn t fit me like it could it s been a long time since i ve been good we re going to see about his face it s an easy part to replace bow your head and just say grace freedom s not something you fight for it s just the key that locks us in and what did your father die for a cardboard house with fake wood trim guess you showed him it s been a long time since i ve been good it s been a long time since i ve been good this mask i m wearing doesn t fit me like it did this mask i m wearing doesn t fit me like it should it s been a long time since i ve been good

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: i wake up here in this basement floor the smell is thick and sick i m starring at my body poking out from underneath the dirty blanket someone asks me how we got here well hell if i know confused to leave my body s all messed up i don t want any fun anymore and who the hell was that and where the hell am i i should slow down but it was me who chose the life so what is right to be nah i still don t know it s terrible these people i see so if you really want to do this you should know i would never recommend me to you i don t know who s driving this car but it looks like reno outside no one sits next to me and thats cool cause i m excited inside this place shouldn t be so fancy to me why don t you believe the things they say the things they say see i think they re all crazy but they say they re sure it s me so who do you think must be tell me where is the light tell me where has it gone you want off the path but you well everyone will disapprove and here we can only lose no i can t ruin you no no i can t ruin you i would never recommend me to you oh what have we done tell me where is the light tell me where has it gone you want off the path but you well everyone will disapprove and here we can only lose no i won t ruin you no no i won t ruin you i would never recommend me tell me where is the light tell me why has it gone i ve gone too far i can never be reformed i think it s them who s crazy but they say they re sure its me damn them damn the world for out voting me

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: can t go back can t go home though you ve been told anything goes when everything s gone you risk it all and hope you might find something inside that something inside will ease your trouble mind i swore i d never do this anymore it s always the heartache behind each door when you try to fix a life that s shattered as mine there s always a few little pieces you can t find i swore i d never do this anymore it s always the heartache behind each door when you try to fix a life that s shattered as mine there s always a few little pieces you can t find there s always a few little pieces you can t find

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: i guess you wonder where i ve been i searched to find a love within i came back to let you know got a thing for you and i can t let go my friends wonder what is wrong with me well i m in a daze from your love you see i came back to let you know got a thing for you and i can t let go some people go around the world for love but they may never find what they dream of what you won t do do for love you ve tried everything but you don t give up in my world only you make me do for love what i would not do my friends wonder what is wrong with me but i m in a daze from your love you see i came back to let you know got a thing for you and i can t let go but then i only want the best it s true i can t believe the things i do for you what you won t do do for love you ve tried everything but you won t give up in my world only you make me do for love what i would not do make me do for love what i would not do make me do for love what i would not do make me do for love what i would not do

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: down down down rudup do let s go steady again down down down rudup do let s go steady again let s go steady again like we did before let s go steady again and be lovers once more wear my ring around your neck like you used to do don t you know it s wrong to break come on baby let s kiss and make up let s go steady again like in the past let s show all of our friends that our love can last i don t care who was wrong come back here where you belong come on baby let s go steady again monday we said goodbye tuesday all i did was cry wednesday i almost lost my mind thursday i was feeling blue friday was the same way too never had a day sad as saturday even sunday was no fun day let s go steady again like we used to do say you re ready and then we can start anew for seven days we didn t speak it s been a long and lonely week come on baby let s go steady again

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: life passes slowly just this side of paradise eyes watching skies with salt water rain there you stay watching day follow day living lonely and only just this side of paradise oh it s easy to see when the moon passes by and a cloud dies in a clear black sky living lonely and only just this side of paradise oh it s easy to see when the moon passes by like a leaf spin slow slow maybe that s where the sun and the rain live together maybe it s time to get up and move out forever life passes slowly just this side of paradise eyes watching skies with salt water rain there you stay watching day follow day

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: there is a ghost and it goes out on the land on the land it s lifted up it feels and flows on many hands on many hands oh my lover oh my lover never was there another where has my lover man gone there is a dream you ve had before and forgot many times so many times when you remember who i am just call when you remember who i am just call when you remember who i am just call when you remember who i am there is a tree but its leaves have gone for what it seem it stands alone oh my lover oh my lover gonna gonna find another where has my lover man gone away away across the land across the land across the land

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: they say love is just a game to play why is it so hard to stay stay true we send secrets on the weekend nothings like a sweet friend like you trudy love could be for always love could be for all days for you trudy are you coming back to stay are you gonna lead the way are you we hide nothing from the outside our flowers kiss the sunshine in bloom we know something that they dont know something that they cant prove or see trudy love could be for always love could be for all days for you trudy are you coming back to stay are you gonna lead the way are you i knew youd keep the i passed you on the bridge stay true trudy love could be for always love could be for all days for you trudy are you coming back to stay are you gonna lead the way are you

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: i met this woman and i really liked her as soon as i met her all i could think of was wondering if there was the opposite of a restraining order i liked her cause she wasn t normal she liked to dance really fast to very slow music which i found very erotic due to a head injury as a small boy i was playing jacks way too fast her eyes were a little bit too close together like the headlights on a jeep i used to call her ac almost cyclops in her spare time she liked to waste time she was a mail order bride s maid she would drink so much she would slur her pauses she lived in a beautiful house it had cathedral floors you d walk in and fall right down into the middle we went out for about six months then she went back to school in seattle she was studying forensic astronomy she wrote me this beautiful letter and i read it at the bottom i crossed her name off and wrote my own name and i sent it back to her i never heard from her ever again apparently she didn t like what she wrote the reason i m so laid back is because in high school i smoked a lot of ritalin my problem is i was reincarnated without ever having been alive the first time my nephew has hdadd high definition attention deficit disorder he can hardly pay attention but when he does it s unbelievably clear i saw an advertisement for some invisible fences i thought that d be perfect for my invisible dogs i live in massachusetts i didn t shovel a driveway this past winter since i bought the flamethrower you know the earth is bipolar i ve been emailing my answering machine which has been sending faxes to my cellular subconscious which has call waiting so in case i m thinking of something else i can get back to myself later it s out of control now don t you think i heard soon they re gonna have digital numbers my dog has a website all it is is naked cats

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: how s hope feeling today tired and sick of this place red wine is fast at the lip of your glass saying i m going to ruin everything everything so its better my sweet that we hover like bees cause there s no sure footing no love i believe

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: this text is annotated click on the highlights to read what others are saying if you d like to add your own insights comments or questions to specific parts of the lecture visit the lecture page on genius highlight the relevant text and click the button that pops up your annotation will appear both here and on genius sam alright good afternoon todays speaker is peter thiel peter was the founder of paypal palantir and founders fund and has invested in most of the tech companies in silicon valley he s going to talk about strategy and competition thank you for coming peter peter awesome thanks sam for inviting me thanks for having me i sort of have a single ide fixe that i m completely obsessed with on the business side which is that if you re starting a company if youre the founder entrepreneur starting a company you always want to aim for monopoly and you want to always avoid competition and so hence competition is for losers something well be talking about today i d like to start by saying something about the basic idea of when you start one of these companies how do you go about creating value what makes a business valuable and i want to suggest there s basically a very simple formula that if you have a valuable company two things are true number one that it creates x dollars of value for the world number two that you capture y percent of x and the critical thing that i think people always miss in this sort of analysis is that x and y are completely independent variables and so x can be very big and y can be very small x can be an intermediate size and if y is reasonably big you can still have a very big business so to create a valuable company you have to basically both create something of value and capture some fraction of the value of what you ve created and sort of just to illustrate this as a contrast if you compare the us airline industry with a company like google on search if you measure by the size of these industries you could say that airlines are still more important than search just measured by revenue theres 195 billion in domestic revenues in 2012 google had just north of 50 billion and certainly on some intuitive level if you were given a choice and said well would you want to get rid of all air travel or do you want to give up search engines the intuition would be that air travel is something that s more important than search and this is of course just the domestic numbers if you d look at this globally airlines are much much bigger than search than google is but the profit margins are quite a bit less they were marginally profitable in 2012 i think in the entire hundred year history of the airline industry the cumulative profits in the us have been approximately zero the companies make money they episodically go bankrupt they get recapitalized and you sort of cycle and repeat and this is reflected in the combined market capitalization of the airline industry which may be something like a quarter of google s so you have search much smaller than air travel but much more valuable i think this reflects these very different valuations on x and y if we look at perfect competition there s some pros and cons to the world of perfect competition on a high level this is something you always study in econ i it s always easy to model which is why i think econ professors like talking about perfect competition it somehow is efficient especially in a world where things are static because you have all the consumer surplus thats captured by everybody and politically its what were told is good in our society you want to have competition and its somehow a good thing of course there are a lot of negatives it s generally not that good if you re involved in anything thats hyper competitive because you often don t make money ill come back to this a little bit later so i think on one end of the spectrum you have industries that are perfectly competitive and at the other end of the spectrum you have things that i would say are monopolies and theyre much more stable longer term businesses you have more capital and if you get a creative monopoly for inventing something new i think it s symptomatic of having created something really valuable i do think the extreme binary view of the world i always articulate is that there are exactly two kinds of businesses in this world there are businesses that are perfectly competitive and there are businesses that are monopolies there is shockingly little that is in between and this dichotomy is not understood very well because people are constantly lying about the nature of the businesses they are in and in my mind this is not necessarily the most important thing in business but i think it s the most important business idea that people don t understand that there are just these two kinds of businesses so let me tell you a little bit about the lies people tell if you imagine that there was a spectrum of companies from perfect competition to monopoly the apparent differences are quite small because the people who have monopolies pretend not to they will basically say and its because you dont want to get regulated by the government you dont want the government to come after you so you will never say that you have a monopoly so anyone who has a monopoly will pretend that they are in incredible competition and on the other end of the spectrum if you are incredibly competitive and if youre in some sort of business where you will never make any money you ll be tempted to tell a lie that goes in the other direction where you will say that you re doing something unique that is somehow less competitive than it looks because you ll want to differentiate you will want to try and attract capital or something like that so if the monopolists pretend not to have monopolies the non monopolies pretend to have monopolies the apparent difference is very small whereas the real difference i would submit is actually quite big so theres this business distortion that happens because of the lies people tell about their businesses and the lies are sort of in these opposite directions let me drill a little bit down further on the way these lies work and so the basic lie you tell as a non monopoly is that we re in a very small market the basic lie you tell as a monopoly is the market youre in is much bigger than it looks so typically if you want to think of this in set theoretic terms you could say that a monopoly tells a lie where you describe your business as the union of these vastly different markets and the non monopolist describes it as the intersection so in effect if you re a non monopolist you will rhetorically describe your market as super small you re the only person in that market if you have a monopoly you ll describe it as super big and there s lots of competition in it some examples of how this works in practice i always use restaurants as the example of a terrible business this is always sort of the idea that capital and competition are antonyms if someone accumulates capital a world of perfect competition is a world where all the capital gets competed away so you re opening a restaurant business no one wants to invest because you just lose money so you have to tell some idiosyncratic narrative and you ll say something like well we re the only british food restaurant in palo alto so its british palo alto and of course that s too small a market because people may be able to drive all the way to mountain view or even menlo park and there probably are no people who eat nothing but british food at least no people who are still alive so that s sort of a fictitiously narrow market there is sort of a hollywood version of all of this the way movies always get pitched where its like a college football star you know joins an elite group of hackers to catch the shark that killed his friend now that s a movie that has not yet been made but the question is is that the right category or is the correct category it s just another movie in which case there are lots of those its super competitive its incredibly hard to make money no one ever makes money in hollywood making movies its really really hard so you always have this question about is the intersection real does it make sense does it have value and of course there are startup versions of this and in the really bad versions you just take a whole series of the buzzwords sharing mobile social apps you combine them and give some kind of narrative and whether or not that s a real business or not it is generally a bad sign it s almost this pattern recognition when you have this rhetoric of these sort of intersections it generally does not work the something of somewhere is really mostly just the nothing of nowhere it s like the stanford of north dakota one of a kind but it s not stanford let s look at the opposite the opposite lie is if you are let s say the search company thats down the street from here and has about a happy sixty six percent market share and is completely dominant in the search market google almost never describes itself as a search engine these days and instead it describes itself in all these different ways so it sometimes says its an advertising company so if it was search you would say well it s like it has this huge market share that s really crazy so it s like an incredible monopoly it s a much bigger and much more robust monopoly than microsoft ever had in the nineties maybe that s why its making so much money but if you say it s an advertising market you could say well search advertising is seventeen billion and that s part of online advertising which is much bigger and then you know all us advertising is bigger and then by the time you get to global advertising that s close to five hundred billion and so you re talking about three and a half percent so a tiny part of this much larger market or if you don t want to be an advertising company you could always say youre a technology company the technology market is something like a one trillion dollar market and the narrative that you tell about google and the technology market is well we re competing with all the car companies with our self driving cars were competing with apple on tvs and iphones were competing with facebook were competing with microsoft on office products were competing with amazon on cloud services and so we re in this giant technology market where there s competition in every direction you look and no were not the monopoly the government s looking for and we should not get regulated in any way whatsoever so i think one has to always be super aware that there are these very powerful incentives to distort the nature of these markets one way or the other the evidence of narrow markets in the tech industry is if you basically just if you look at sort of the big tech companies apple google microsoft amazon they have just been building up cash for year after year and you have these incredibly high profit margins and i would say that the that one of the reasons the tech industry in the us has been so successful financially is because it s prone to creating all these monopoly like businesses and it s reflected by the fact that these companies just accumulate so much cash they don t even know what to do with it beyond a certain point let me say a few things about how to build a monopoly and i think one of the sort of very counterintuitive ideas that comes out of this monopoly thread is that you want to go after small markets if youre a startup you want to get to monopoly youre starting a new company you want to get to monopoly monopolies have a large share of the market how do you get to a large share of the market you start with a really small market and you take over the whole market and then over time you find ways to expand that market in concentric circles the thing that s always a big mistake is going after a giant market on day one because that s typically evidence that you somehow haven t defined categories correctly that normally means there is going to be too much competition in one way or another so i think almost all the successful companies in silicon valley had some model of starting with small markets and expanding if you take amazon you start with just a bookstore we have all the books in the world it s a better bookstore than anybody else has in the world when it starts in the 1990s it s online there s things you can do that you could not do before and then you gradually expand into all sorts of different forms of e commerce and other things beyond that ebay you start with pez dispensers you move on to beanie babies and eventually its all these different online auctions for all these sorts of different goods whats very counterintuitive about many of these companies is they often start with markets that are so small that people don t think they are valuable at all when you get started the paypal version of this was we started with power sellers on ebay which was about twenty thousand people when we first saw this happening in december of 1999 january 2000 right after we launched there was a sense that these were all it was such a small market it was terrible we thought these were terrible customers to have it s just people selling junk on the internet why in the world we want to be going after this market but there was a way to get a product that was much better for everybody in that market and we got to something like twenty five thirty percent market penetration in two or three months and you ve got some walk in to brand recognition and are able to build the business from there so i always think these very small markets are quite underrated the facebook version of this i always give is that if the initial market at facebook was ten thousand people at harvard it went from zero to sixty percent market share in ten days that was a very auspicious start the way this gets analyzed in business schools is always that s so ridiculous it s such a small market it can t have any value at all so i think the business school analysis of facebook early on or of paypal early on or of ebay early on is that the markets were perhaps so small as to have almost no value and that they would ve had little value had they they stayed small but it turned out there were ways to grow them concentrically and that s what made them so valuable now i think the opposite version of this is always where you have super big markets and there is so many different things that went wrong with all the clean tech companies in the last decade but the one theme than ran through almost all of them is that they all started with massive markets every clean tech powerpoint presentation that one saw in the years 2005 to 2008 which is the clean tech bubble in silicon valley started with where the energy market where the market was measured in hundreds and billions of trillions of dollars and then once you re sort of like a minnow in a vast ocean that is not a good place to be that means you have tons of competitors and you dont even know who all the competitors are you want to be a one of a kind company you want to be the only player in a small ecosystem you dont want to be the fourth online pet food company you dont want to be the tenth solar panel company you dont want to be the hundredth restaurant in palo alto your restaurant industry is a trillion dollar industry so if you do a market size analysis you conclude restaurants are fantastic business to go into and often large existing markets typically means that you have tons of competitions so it s very very hard to differentiate the first very counterintuitive idea is to go after small markets markets that are so small people often don t even think that they make sense that s where you get a foothold and then if those markets are able expand you can scale into a big monopoly business there are several different characteristics of these monopoly businesses that i d like to focus on there is no single formula in technology there is always a sense that in the history of technology every moment happens only once the next mark zuckerberg wont build a social network and the next larry page wont be building a search engine and the next bill gates wont be building an operating system if you are copying these people you are not learning from them there are always very unique businesses that are doing something that has not been done before and end up having the potential to be a monopoly the opening line in anna karenina that all happy families are alike and all unhappy families are unhappy in their own special way is not true in business where i think all happy companies are different because they re doing something very unique all unhappy companies are alike because they failed to escape the essential sameness in competition one characteristic of a monopoly technology company is some sort of proprietary technology my sort of crazy somewhat arbitrary rule of thumb is you want to have a technology that s an order of magnitude better than the next best thing so amazon had over ten times as many books it may not have been that high tech but you figure oh well it can sell ten times as many books and be more efficient along the way in the case of paypal bill turner was using checks to send money on ebay it took seven to ten days to clear and paypal could do it more than ten times as fast you want to have some sort of very powerful improvement some order of magnitude improvement on some key dimension of course if you just come with something totally new it s just like an infinite improvement i would say the iphone was the first smart phone that worked it may not be in fact but it s so definitely an order of magnitude of an improvement so i think the technology needs to be designed to give you a massive delta over the next the next best thing i think there often are network effects that can kick in and that really help the thing and these are linked to monopolies over time the thing that is very tricky about network effects is they re often very hard to get started and so you know everyone understands how valuable they are there s always this incredibly tricky question why is it valuable to the first person who s doing something economies of scale if you have something with very high fixed costs and very low marginal costs that s typically a monopoly like business and then there is this thing of branding which is sort of this idea that gets lodged into people s brains i never quite understand how branding works so i never invest in companies where its just about branding but it is i think a real phenomenon that creates real value i think one of the things i m going to come back to this in a little bit towards the end but one of the things thats very striking is that software businesses are often are for some reason very good at some of these things they are especially good at the economies of scale part because the marginal cost of software is zero so if you get something that works in software it s often significantly better than the existing solution and then you have these tremendous economies of scale and you can scale fairly quickly so even if the market starts small you can grow your business quickly enough to stay at the same size as the growing market and maintain the monopoly of power now the critical thing about these monopolies is it s not enough to have a monopoly for just a moment the critical thing is have one that lasts over time and so in silicon valley there is always this sort of idea that you want to be the first mover and i always think in some ways the better framing is you want to be the last mover you want to be one of the last companies in that category those are the ones that are really valid microsoft was the last operating system at least for many decades google was the last search engine facebook will be valuable if it turns out to be the last of social networking site and one way to think of this last mover value is this idea that most of the value in these companies exists far in the future if you do a discounted cash flow analysis of the business you ll look at all these profit streams you have a growth rate the growth rates much higher that the discount rate and so most of the value exists far in the future i did this exercise at pay pal in march of 2001 we d been in business for about twenty seven months and the growth rate was a hundred percent a year we were discounting future cash flows by thirty percent and it turned out that about three quarters of the value of the business as of 2001 came from cash flows in years 2011 and beyond and whenever you do the math on any of these tech companies you get to an answer that is something like that so if you are trying to analyze any of the tech companies in silicon valley airbnb twitter facebook any emerging internet companies all the ones in y combinator the math tells you that three quarters eighty five percent of the value is coming from cash flows in years 2024 and beyond it s very far in the future and so one of the things that we always over value in silicon valley is growth rates and we undervalue durability growth is something you can measure in the here and now you can always track that very precisely the question of whether a company will be around a decade from now thats actually what dominates the value equation and thats a much more qualitative sort of a thing and so if we went back to this idea of these characteristics of monopoly the proprietary technology network effects economies of scale you can think of these characteristics as ones that exist at a moment in time where you capture a market and take it over but you also want to think about are these things going to last over time so theres a time dimension to all these characteristics so networks in fact often have a great time element where as the network scales network effects actually get more robust and so if you have a network business it s often one that can become a bigger and stronger monopoly over time proprietary technology is always a little bit of a tricky one so you want something that is an order of magnitude better than the state of the art in the world today that s how you get people s attention that s how you initially break through but then you don t want to be superseded by somebody else so there are all these areas of innovation where there was tremendous innovation but no one made any money so disk drive manufacturing in the 1980 s you could build a better disk drive than anybody else you could take over the whole world and two years later someone else would come along and replace yours in the course of fifteen years you got vastly improved disk drives so had a great benefit to consumers but it didn t actually help the people who started these companies there s always this question about having a huge breakthrough in technology but then also being able to explain why yours will be the last breakthrough or at least the last breakthrough for a long time or if you make a breakthrough then you can keep improving on it at quick enough pace that no one can ever catch up so if you have a structure of the future where there s a lot of innovation and other people will come up with new things and the thing you re working on that s great for society it s actually not that good for your business typically and then economies of scale weve already about i think this last mover thing is very critical im always tempted i don t want to overdo chess analogies but the first mover in chess is someone who plays white white is about a one third of a pawn advantage so there is a small advantage to going first you want to be the last mover who wins the game so theres always world chess champion capablanca line you must begin by studying the end game i wouldn t say thats the only thing you should study i think perspective of asking these questions why will this still be the leading company in ten fifteen twenty years from now is a really critical one to try to think through i want to go in two slightly other directions with this the monopoly versus competition idea i think this is the central idea on my mind for business for starting a business for thinking about them there are some very interesting perspectives i think it gives on the whole history of innovation in technology and science we ve lived through 300 years of incredible technological progress in many many different domains steam engines to railways the telephone refrigeration household appliances the computer revolution aviation all different areas of technological innovation then there s sort of an analogous thing to say about science where we ve lived through centuries of enormous amounts of innovation in science as well the thing that i think people always miss when they think about these things is that because x and y are independent variables some of these things can be extremely valuable innovations but the people who invent them who come up with them do not get rewarded for this certainly if you go back to you need to create x dollars in value and you capture y percent of x i would suggest that the history of science has generally been one where y is zero percent across the board the scientists never make any money theyre always deluded into thinking that they live in a just universe that will reward them for their work and for their inventions this is probably the fundamental delusion that scientists tend to suffer from in our society even in technology there are sort of many different areas of technology where there were great innovations that created tremendous value for society but people did not actually capture much of the value so i think there is a whole history of science and technology that can be told from the perspective of how much value was actually captured certainly there are entire sectors where people didn t capture anything you re the smartest physicist of the twentieth century you come up with special relativity you come up with general relativity you don t get to be a billionaire you don t even get to be a millionaire it just somehow doesn t work that way the railroads were incredibly valuable they mostly just went bankrupt because there was too much competition wright brothers you fly the first plane you don t make any money so i think there is a structure to these industries thats very important i think the thing that s actually rare are the success cases so if you really think about the history in this and this two hundred fifty years sweep why is almost always zero percent it s always zero in science it s almost always in technology it s very rare where people made money you know in the late eighteenth early nineteenth century the first industrial revolution was the textile mills you got the steam engine you sort of automated things you had these relentless improvements that people improved efficiency of textile factories of manufacturing generally at a clip of five to seven percent every year year after year decade after decade you had sixty seventy years of tremendous improvement from 1780 to 1850 even in 1850 most of the wealth in britain was still held by the landed aristocracy and the workers didn t make that much the capitalists didn t make that much either it was all competed away there were hundreds of people running textile factories it was an industry where the structure of the competition prevented people from making any money there are in my mind probably only two broad categories in the entire history of the last two hundred and fifty years where people actually came up with new things and made money doing so one is these sort of vertically integrated complex monopolies which people did build in the second industrial revolution at the end of the nineteenth and start of the twentieth century this is like ford it was the vertically integrated oil companies like standard oil and what these vertically integrated monopolies typically required was a very complex coordination you ve got a lot of pieces to fit together in just the right way and when you assemble that you had a tremendous advantage this is actually done surprisingly little today and so i think this is sort of a business form that when people can pull it off is very valuable it s typically fairly capital intensive we live in a culture where it s very hard to get people to buy into anything that s super complicated and takes very long to build when i think of my colleague and friend elon from paypal success with tesla and spacex i think the key to these companies was the complex vertically integrated monopoly structure they had if you look at tesla or spacex and you ask was there sort of a single breakthrough i mean they certainly innovated on a law of dimensions but i don t think there was a single 10x breakthrough on battery storage they may be working on some things in rocketry but there was no sort of single massive breakthrough but what was really impressive was integrating all these pieces together and doing it in a way that was more vertically integrated than most other competitors so tesla also integrated the car distributors so they wouldn t steal all the money as has happened with the rest of the car industry in the us or spacex basically you pulled in all subcontractors where most of the large aerospace companies have single sourced subcontractors that are able to charge monopoly profits and make it very hard for the integrated aerospace companies to make money and so vertical integration i think is sort of a very under explored modality of technological progress that people would do well to look at more and then i think there is something about software itself that s very powerful software has these incredible economies of scale these low marginal costs and there is something about the world of bits as opposed to the world of atoms where you can often get very fast adoption and fast adoption is critical to capturing and taking over markets because even if you have a small market if adoption rate is too slow there will be enough time for other people to enter that market and compete with you whereas if you have a small to midsize market have the fast adoption rate you can now take over this market so i think this is one of the reasons silicon valley has done so well and why software has been this phenomenal industry what i would suggest that we will leave you with is there are these different rationalizations people give for why certain things work and why certain things don t work and i think these rationalizations always obscure this question on creating x dollars in value and capturing y percent of x so the science rationalization were always told is that the scientists arent interested in making money theyre doing it for charitable reasons and that you re not a good scientist if youre motivated by money i m not even saying people should always be motivated by money or something like this but i think we should wish to be a little bit more critical of this as a rationalization we should ask is this a rationalization to obscure the fact that y equals zero percent and the scientists are operating in this sort of world where all the innovation is effectively competed away and they cant capture any of it directly the software distortion that often happens is because people are making such vast fortunes in software we infer that this is the most valuable thing in the world being done full stop and so people at twitter make billions of dollars it must be that twitter is worth far more than anything einstein did what that realization tends to obscure is again that x and y are independent variables and that there are these businesses where you capture a lot of x and others where you don t so i do think the history of innovation has been this history where the microeconomics the structure of these industries has mattered a tremendous amount and there is sort of this story where some people made vast fortunes because they worked in industries with the right structure and other people made nothing at all because they were in these very competitive things we shouldn t just rationalize that way i think it s worth understanding this better then finally let me come back to this sort of overarching theme for this talk this competition is for losers idea which is always a provocative way to title things because we always think of the losers as the people who are not good at competing we think of losers as the people who are slow on the track team in high school or do a little less well on standardized tests and don t get into the right schools so we always think of losers as people who can t compete and i want us to really rethink and re value this and consider whether it s possible the competition itself is off it s not just the case we don t understand this monopoly competition dichotomy intellectually so weve been talking about why you wouldnt understand it intellectually because people lie about it its distorted the history of innovation rationalizes it in all these very strange ways i think it s more than just an intellectual blind spot but also a psychological blind spot where we find ourselves very attracted to competition and in one form or another we find it reassuring if other people do things the word ape already in the time of shakespeare meant both primate and imitate and that is something about human nature it s deeply imitative ape like sheep like and this is very problematic thing that we need to always think through and try to overcome there is always this question about competition as a form of validation where we go for things that lots of other people are going for it s not that there is wisdom of crowds it s not that lots of people trying to do something is the best proof of that being valuable i think it s when lots of people are trying to do something that is often proof of insanity there are twenty thousand people a year who move to los angeles to become movie stars about twenty of them make it i think the olympics are a little bit better because you have you can sort of figure out pretty quickly whether youre good or not so there s little less of a deadweight loss to society you know the sort of educational experience that at a place the pre stanford educational experience there is always sort of a non competitive characterization i think most of the people in this room had machine guns and they were competing with people with bows and arrows so it wasnt exactly a parallel competition when you were in junior high school in high school there is always the question does the tournament make sense as you keep going there is always this question if people going on to grad school or post doctoral educations does the intensity of the competition really make sense there is the classic henry kissinger line describing his fellow faculty at harvard the battles were so ferocious because the stakes were so small describing academia and you sort of think on one level this is a description of insanity why would people fight like crazy when the stakes are so small but it s also i think simply a function of the logic of a situation when it s been really hard to differentiate yourself from other people when the differences are when the objectives differences really are small you have to compete ferociously to maintain a difference of one sort or another that s often more imaginary than real there is always sort of a personal version of this i tell where i was sort of hypertracked in my eighth grade junior high school yearbook one my friends wrote i know youre going to get into stanford four years later i went to stanford law school ended up at a big law firm in new york where from the outside everybody wanted to get in and on the inside everybody wanted to leave and it was this very strange dynamic where i realized this was maybe not the best idea and i left after seven months and three days other people down the hall told me it s really reassuring to see you leave peter i had no idea that it was possible to escape from alcatraz which of course all you had do was go out the front door and not come back but so much of people s identities got wrapped up in winning these competitions that they somehow lost sight of what was important what was valuable competition does make you better at whatever it is that you re competing at because when you re competing you re comparing yourself with the people around you im figuring out how to beat the people next to me how do i do somewhat better than whatever it is they re doing and you will get better at that i m not questioning that i m not denying that but there often comes this tremendous price that you stop asking some bigger questions about what s truly important and truly valuable don t always go through the tiny little door that everyone s trying to rush through maybe go around the corner and go through the vast gate that nobody is taking q do you have any ways to determine the difference when looking at an idea or thinking about your own idea a i would say the question i always focus on is what is the actual market so not what s the narrative of the market because you can always tell a fictional story about a market it s much bigger much or smaller but what is the real objective market so you always try to figure it out and you realize people have incentives to powerfully distort these things q so which of the aspects of all these you mentioned you would you say is applicable to google a well they have they have network effects with the ad network they had proprietary technology that gave them the initial lead because they had the page rank algorithm which was an order of magnitude better than any other search engine they had economies of scale up because of the need to store all these different sites and at this point you have brand so google has all four maybe the proprietary technology is somewhat weaker at this point but definitely it had all four and maybe three and a half out of four now q how does this apply to palantir and square a that s sort of a set of companies that are doing different copycat payment systems on mobile phones there s square there s paypal they have different shapes that s how they differentiate themselves one is a triangle one is a square maybe at one point the apes run out of shapes or something like that but at palantir we started with a focus on the intelligence community which is a small submarket we had a proprietary technology that used a very different approach where it was focused on the human computer synthesis rather than the substitution which i think is the dominant paradigm so there is a whole set of things i would say on the market approach and on the proprietary technology q what do you think about lean startups a so the question is what do i think about lean startups and iterative thinking where you get feedback from people versus complexity that may not work i m personally quite skeptical of all the lean startup methodology i think the really great companies did something that was somewhat more of a quantum improvement that really differentiated them from everybody else they typically did not do massive customer surveys the people who ran these companies sometimes not always suffered from mild forms of aspergers so they were not actually that influenced not that easily deterred by what other people told them to do i do think we re way too focused on iteration as a modality and not enough on trying to have a virtual esp link with the public and figuring it out ourselves i would say the risk question is always a very tricky one because it s often the case that you don t have enough time to really mitigate risk if you re going to take enough time to figure out what people want you often will have missed the boat by then and then of course there is always the risk of doing something that s not that significant or meaningful you could say that a track in law school is a low risk track from one perspective but it may still be a very high risk track in the sense that maybe you have a high risk of not doing something meaningful with your life we have to think about risk in these very complicated ways i think risk is this complicated concept q doesn t the last mover advantage already imply that there s competition to begin with a yes there s always a terminology thing i would say that there are categories in which people sort of are bundled together the monopoly business i think they really were a big first mover in some sense you can say google was not the first search engine there were search engines before but on one dimension they were dramatically better than everybody else they were the first one with page rank with an automated approach facebook was not the first of social networking site my friend reid hoffman started one in 1997 they called it social net so they already had the name social networking in the name of their company seven years before facebook their idea was that it going to be this virtual cyberspace were i d be a dog and you d be a cat and we d have all these different rules about how we interact with each other in this virtual alternate reality facebook was the first one to get real identity so i hope facebook will be the last social networking site it was the first one in a very important dimension people often would not think of it as the first because they sort of lump all these things together q if someone worked at goldman sachs out of college and left after six months and is now studying cs at stanford how would you recommend rethinking their competitive advantage a i am not great at the psychotherapy stuff so i don t quite know how to solve this there are these very odd studies they have done on people who go to business school this one was done at the harvard business school where it s sort of the anti asbergers personality where people are super extroverted generally have low convictions few ideas and you have sort of a hothouse environment you put all these people and for two years and at the end of it they systematically end up the largest cohort systematically ends up doing the wrong thing they try to catch the last wave in 1999 everyone tried to work with mike milken this was a few years before he went to jail for all the junk bond stuff they were never interested in silicon valley or tech except for 1999 2000 when they timed the dotcom bubble peaking perfectly 2005 to 2007 was housing private equity stuff like this this tendency for us to see competition as validation is very deep i don t think there s some easy psychological formula to avoid this i don t quite know how what sort of therapy to recommend my first starting point which is only going to be maybe ten percent of the way is to never underestimate how big a problem it is we always think that this is something that afflicts other people we always point to people in business school people at harvard or people on wall street but it actually does afflict all of us to a very profound degree we always think of advertising as this thing that works on other people for all the stupid people who follow ads on tv but they obviously work to some extent and they work to the disturbing extent on all of us and it s something we must work to overcome thank you very much 32

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SONG TEXT / LYRICS: you re looking back on all the secrets you wished you could know and all the demons that left you alone don t hold back on the fire that burns brighter and fix your eyes on the light that keeps blinding it s everything you wanna be i ll be everyone everywhere till your heart gives out it s everything you wanna be i ll be everyone everywhere live and let go out of the dark when you re losing your hope live and let go out of the dark it s our time to show the world make your way through this crowd of shadows hollow days from your past they need you now they need you now there s no more room for hiding as you re looking back it s everything you wanna be i ll be everyone everywhere till your heart gives out live and let go out of the dark when you re losing your hope live and let go out of the dark it s our time to show the world you re looking back on all the secrets and all the demons that you left alone i ll be everyone i ll be everywhere out of the dark until your heart gives out live and let go live and let go out of the dark when you re losing your hope live and let go out of the dark it s our time to show the world live and let go out of the dark when you re losing your hope live and let go out of the dark it s our time to show the world

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: rock this i d say it s finally time you free your mind no way to say this ain t the place or the time we are the heralds of a lost generation so now it s time to speak if you have had enough can you see it can you feel it now you ve got it baby don t you say you ve had enough this is a roller coaster everything you re wishing for don t you say you ve had enough got no more time for your love songs all my life just wanna see you take the world on got no more time for your love songs dear just wanna see you piss the world off better late than never or than a bullet to the head no point to living moments like the walking dead you see reflections in the mirror of who you think you need to be i ll set you free so maybe leave your mind and your body at the door and give me all that soul and give me all that soul got no more time for your love songs all my life just wanna see you take the world on got no more time for your love songs dear just wanna see you piss the world off got no more time no time for me tell me can you feel it got no more time no time for me tell me can you see it got no time got no time don t say you ve got no time for me cause baby when you said that you would never walk away leave your leave your mind and body at the door and give me all that soul give me all that soul give it all to me got no more time for your love songs all my life just wanna see you take the world on got no more time for your love songs dear just wanna see you piss the world off got no more time no time for me tell me can you feel it got no more time no time for me tell me can you see it got no time got no time no time no time

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: here i am out on a limb i m giving up so come on honey give in but you don t my arms or legs no how and i ve been trying i ve been trying to figure it out baby i might as well break it to you now you re still the one you re still the one where d you go you missed the warm spring i would know i felt everything yeah the blossom bloomed and wouldn t you know it s a shame it s a shame how it never did grow i listened to your songs they were kinda getting old you re still the one you re still the one and in the end call it what you may a war a twister or a tidal wive well hell i say we just made a couple bad mistakes it s a whiskey burn we just need to chase but there you go you turn your face away i should ve known it s how you ve always played you redact your cards but you never did show you had a queen and king and you chose to fold could ve paid you debts but now you re gonna owe you re still the one you re still the one you re still the one

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: i m more or less professional i m perfection like rolex perpetual but i bet you don t got this necklace though this cross is so large it look like a set of referee hands calling a technical shit this cross is so foul think i mma call it solar as a token to coming and taken over my self control while im trying to overtake your estate while im flying on karma s involved theres no escape my brother never beat a case he used to hit me from prison asking me to come perform there i told him i couldn t thatd be a waste i m not trying to berate the guards i might rhyme and really raise the bars theres enough truth in me to set this whole penitentiary free anyway now im about to spit at you a couple of completely rational things im just a kid with a passion in the back yard flipping on a mattress splashing in the rain who happened to make it international who made made a few enemies on his way to rap supremacy after he done captured your brain somebody whos sincerely driven by the spirit of lyricism instead of gimmicks designed to get into some kind of capital gain i ain t never asked for fame i know niggas who rap who ain t rapping cause they chasing stats well they bout that green like franklin and jackson well im bout that green like st patricks and only stats im on is knowing i ll whoop all their asses in any and all weight classes i know fasho in my heart i already coordinate classics i just need y all to correlate that wit y all settling for these throwaway corny swore away rappers is like putting cat shit between two gourmet crackers and the actual performers are onstage throwing spoiled eggs at ya please you deserve homemade mac and cheese and thats just the start i d sell my album for 5 to a guy with only 10 dollars to his name before i will to a rich guy for 10 000 cause a guy whos got less to spend now got to go into his heart just to make his investment into the art and that reminded me of myself at 19 in harlem i told wifey i would not be back unsigned and came back signed with a million dollars you looking in the eyes of an mc who clearly sees the climate shifting and the odds against me theres no secret theres no reason for me to go get more features i dont need you to promote or support me i dont need your beat i dont need to force things we dont need to speak more i dont need to be out in the street more i dont think i need to tweet more all i really need is these flows what do we know all you really need to know about me is the quality dope just because im kind of popular what ya tryin to bother me for i ain t never came out and bothered none of y all when yall was partying with the migos i aint gotta politic bitch im a black star ali kweli mos im a king tech and sway alumni nigga stretch and bobbito shout to peter rosenberg shout my nigga ebro shout my nigga c tha god shout to yee tho radio not for me i see its not about l y r i c no more no more interviews im ceeyo i ain t interested nah i d rather kick it with and sit around and listen to that kid stitches spit while i sniff an entire ki of coke nah id rather let slim jesus baptize my kids in a synagogue while im swinging in my vehicle look my pedigree has officially been elevated to best flow er that the mean i gotta step down in order to give a mortal direct orders i speak to the culture like hova does y all beef and squash beef and then address make up y all speak to the culture like boy george and culture club but y all keeping me focused on dodging these vultures and you know what i might even be the greatest artist in history think about it all these schemes these are not just fresh rhymes sir these don t get thought of these get conjured then these are compounded in the exxon and stockpiled until it s time to hop out of my complex mind and possibly create it or repeat it in concert these are my greater beliefs too deep for you to rate or critique as far as the haters its too late you done already made me a monster prhyme is something you can thank me and heron for bad meets evil is something you can thank me p and denaun for bar exam is me saying thank you for being down for us im slam dunking that book of ryan my nigga encore me and key wane got something coming soon its a mind blower the lord looking down on me like shine boy

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: joey mic check mic check it go okay the wait s up waited up really don t know where to start niggas fresh home want me dead and gone i m darin y all it s in arms reach when i m sleep i m prepared for y all niggas bleed big agrees ain t nobody scared of y all besides let me summarize they ain t got to wherewithal i m every where they never there when i m gon hear from y all y all know me as joe don t wanna see me as mouse let me address all these rumors so they don t leave out the house i mean it started with clue that s when the bullshit begun i was the best in my city niggas knew i was the one ain t have a dime to my name still niggas thought that i won and niggas that never did it want to tell me how it was done i m hearin some wanna clap they don t fuck with me nigga they say i never go back well that s a luxury nigga it s somethin i can afford so what they say get ignored they pray i m on the wrong end of that ford they want me man down they want me man down okay let s start it from scratch put it all on line my character s been defamed i put it all online told em that s where we were headed said i was wrong all the time and now we finally here i waited a long ass time been called every name in the book been a liar a deceiver a cheater a woman beater am i all am i neither been absorbin the ether robbin paul to pay peter high price to pay to strangers i been offering me to i ve been more than a leader even with my back to the wall thought i was finished forever when i was practicin falls now you second guessin yourself you gotta ask what you saw they fishin wishin it s fiction but ain t no actin at all can t even fathom the gall they mad i m appalled too much passion to call nothin but bars ain t no fashion involved how is path ain t adored how the fuck they laughin i can blast through the door ain t fathom havin so much cash in the drawer first they love me and then they hate me then they love me again first it s lovely and then it s ugly then it s fuck me again bitches don t text back and then they suck me again but still it s none of my business what they think of me again when we talk about skill they just love again i call em out for the kill they just doubt me again but i was born for the storm i mean abnormal s the norm maybe they wanna know how long will they mourn they want me man down they want me man down i m wishin this was a dream maybe it s smoke in this mirror wish i could change it all just by blowin smoke in the mirror been such a long ride wishin i was on the side to get caffeine pills to stay awake with sean price if i was by eric garner i d have yelled at the pigs gave him all my cash he wouldn t have to sell that cig shout to bobbi kristina let her know that i love her wish she was alive or didn t die the same as her mother maybe my thinkin is off when i blink i get thoughts of bullets shakin the door and tape around chinx porsche see it damaged my heart i d be right in yams car to get the purp out his cup and get his hands off the bar tell stack that i miss him see we losin a lot i wanna hear from shakir i still miss stuart scott chris lighty robin williams still to this day i pray nobody ever feel that way too many men die they want me man down

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: my life is in a turmoil my thighs are black and blue my sheets are stained so is my brain what s a girl to do oh what s a girl to do i passed out with a novel or a needle in my hand i passed out with a ragdoll and i passed out with a man i say my 3 hail marys i barely paint my face my friends decay around me and i view them with distaste my life is is in a turmoil my thighs are black and blue my sheets are stained so is my brain what s a girl to do oh what s a girl to do well some girls have a mission and some girls have their work some marry with precision and some just dish the dirt and once i had a lover and i once had a profession and once i laughed at nothing and they called it a depression i ve tried dancing up and down the wrong side of the tracks and i ve walked on the right side or just lay here on my back so i think i ll quit while i m behind now that i m 22 my sheets are stained so is my brain what s a girl to do oh what s a girl to do

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: my name is mary anne but they all call me frances i saw the coast was clear do you mind me being near i ve seen faces in high places messing up for good say what am i doing here what am i doing here what say you re feeling meek saw the writing on the wall feel sad and blue paradise is close at hand in images of elsewhere i ve seen faces in high places messing up big style i log on for company my isp comforts me goodbye godspeed i can t give you what you need if i ve sounded distant thus far it s cos i m as lost as you are paradise is close at hand in images of elsewhere goodbye godspeed i can t give you what you need if i ve sounded distant thus far it s cos i m as lost as you are goodbye godspeed i can t give you what you need if i ve sounded distant thus far it s cos i m as lost as you are

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: time is running out youve got to act now stay one step ahead of that moronic text somehow theres no turning back here in the danger zone youve got to manually delete that text from that dudes cell phone thank you officers good luck rebecca it s a textmergency baby cant you see textmergency that term just occurred to me its gonna catch on instantly wait what about textastrophe that sounds better to me textastrophe that could really spread virally i prefer textmergency i accidentally texted my mother in law a picture of my erection i once group texted my whole staff about my yeast infection exactly its so relatable thats why i coined the phrase textastrophe thats the meme dont you agree all due respect textmergency is the better term miss c hmmm i wanna go with textastrophe i already put it on urban dictionary you fools it doesnt matter what its called thats right its me the ghost of steve jobs what matters is that i control your lives from the grave technology is slowly alienating everyone from their loved onesha ha ha ha ha and when you send a few words to the wrong recipient and it immediately destroys your life thats called a messagepocalypse get out of here steve jobs guys what about that lawyer chick weve gotten really off track shes searching for the spare key looked under the mat its clearly hidden in that owl look in that flower pot hurry hurry up and check that buddha sconce check the buddha sconce check the buddha sconce she did it now she can delete the text she wont need to come up with a textcuse texplanation textmergency just flows no dude textastrophe its what it is dude shes totally right textscuse me

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: i put horses heads in people s beds cos i am the mob when duty calls gonna bust some balls cos i am the mob don t try and tell me it s not one for the money two for the money three for the money am i your easter bunny come on i try my level best my best to please but i m gonna put a bullet between your knees baby come on oh just tell them stop blowing the don put his kecks back on cos i am the mob stop muckin around with the brand new sound cos i am the mob don t try and tell me it s not one for the money two for the money three for the money am i your easter bunny come on oh baby come on i try my level best my best to please but i m gonna put a bullet between your knees baby come on just please tell them that luca brasi ah he sleeps with the fishes luca brasi ah he sleeps with the fishes luca brasi ah he sleeps with the fishes missus oh tell them just tell them luca brasi ah he sleeps with the fishes luca brasi ah he sleeps with the fishes luca brasi ah he sleeps with the fishes missus oh luca brasi ah he sleeps with the fishes luca brasi ah he sleeps with the fishes luca brasi ah he sleeps with the fishes i am the mob

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: hit the pot with the fork scrape the cocaine just like an egg yolk slam dunk a brick just like i m on a court feeling like john gotti walking out the court broke my wrist when i jumped out the gym balling hard like i m on espn pinky ring hit me for the 10 slide through the trap forgiato my rims in the trap let the story begin 09 me and guwop getting it in young rich nigga came up straight out the rip 2010 had to empty the clip 2011 30 on my hip 2012 i m on a private jet 13 30 m s what s next 14 had a 100 m check 2015 nigga we made it jump out the gym and i went to las vegas 2016 came from trapping on baby made 3m overseas we gonna go to australia me and bow wow all about paper stack up the money taller than skyscraper smoke up gelato then i hit the vape hop in the lambo we stunt on the haters yeah yeah just bought a private jet we don t land at lax you know bow get it popping shhh rich niggas talking shut up nigga let me speak mine been balling for a long time you know hoes come and go dog just like lebron s hairline kid red in this bitch right wackstar here fruits up getting money with these white folks now now a nigga gotta suit up in the building like i own it lamborghini doing donuts niggas talking like they want it bad bitches yeah we on them hop out the wraith young nigga knocking your bitch look at the stones on my wrist stripper parties in the suite at the ritz forbes calling because they know niggas rich we don t make music for broke niggas only for rich niggas out getting money i stay to myself i keep shit on the low and they say that i m broke boy y all funny still ball i m a minute made fan now still getting like mike checks in the mail now blowing big blunts kush smoke in the air now young niggas in here turnt we don t pipe down young niggas turnt we don t pipe down posted on the block with the glocks out posted on the block in the drop with bow wow pinky ring 10 chain cost a 100 thou young rich niggas yeah we all about paper rollie my wrist bust down on a hater the niggas mad just look at they faces went and spent 50 thousand for a bracelet posted on the block i m gripping serena williams how i play with the racks like it s tennis shoot this draco just like dennis the menace standing in zone 1 i m serving the pigeons hit the p jet with a hundred and fifty chickens drunk and testing thought they say it s finger licking knock out the plug i ain t leaving no witness sipping on actavis feeling the promethazine in my kidneys club jumping because we in it niggas mad because we winning money coming by the boatloads fuck saving we gonna spend it costa mesa with your bitch we just spent about a grit left nothing on the racks we just fucking up saks designer this designer that always ten we on the map speaking of the town still the king of that homie i m just stating facts party at jamie foxx s house fucking hoes on the couch never catching feelings with these bitches fuck them one time then kick them out been stunting since a jit red bottoms for the kicks switch the rolly for the cartier niggas balling penny hardaway got a gotti never drove it drive the rover like it s stolen diamonds came from elliot the jeweler so you know my neck and wrist is frozen i just got a check nigga so i m gonna flex nigga got a driveway full of foreigns i don t drive corvettes nigga

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: left ring 10 hundred cash neck piece 30 grand whip cost 300 grand god damn i m on a shopping spree bracelet 20 bands rims cost me 5 grand house cost 500 cash god damn i m on a shopping spree lying in a whip that don t release until 2010 50 thousand dollars spent just to make my rims spin half a million dollars spent on the house i live in even more spent on the seat i sit my ass in soulja boy tell em a k a the assassin prises cuts in my watch like i threw some glass in damn exclusive shit sent from china if you looking for me i m probably in your girl s vagina i m looking in the mirror tell me who s finer bought a lamborghini didn t need a cosigner hey what i spent was just minor every cut served soulja boy s headliner damn now tell me you don t feel this ay you can t say i m just one hit ay are you bitch niggas serious i m quick on the track like the fast and the furious left ring 10 hundred cash neck piece 30 grand whip cost 300 grand god damn i m on a shopping spree bracelet 20 bands rims cost me 5 grand house cost 500 cash god damn i m on a shopping spree i m on a shopping spree i m on a shopping spree i m on a shopping spree i m on a shopping spree i m on a shopping spree i m on a shopping spree from a cutlass to a chevy chevy to a lamborgini you can t be me or see me unless you see me on t v shiny and greesy i wonder if stevie wonder can see me necklace a jungle of bbs just check my selection of pieces uhh i got a stupid collection you see it chain worth a millie you silly really a millie and 20 hah man i pass out 50s and 20s i pass out 50s and 20s i pass out 100s and 50s we make more money than chemists doctors and lawyers and dentists chemists the doctors the lawyers money together couldn t get me 2 door gulardo 160 drop top 120 house worth a million and three dula truck 63 g s old school s a hundred a piece that cost me 75 g s 65 actually but my rims cost me 10 of them things gucci yo gotti the king soulja done did it again this team be 82 g s that beat is 82 keys soulja left ring 10 hundred cash neck piece 30 grand whip cost 300 grand god damn i m on a shopping spree bracelet 20 bands rims cost me 5 grand house cost 500 cash god damn i m on a shopping spree i m on a shopping spree i m on a shopping spree i m on a shopping spree i m on a shopping spree i m on a shopping spree i m on a shopping spree see money ain t the object let s give you a option you go to your stash partner and i ll come out my pockets 2 hundred hundreds that s like 20 grand just enough for me to buy my bride a new band i m like soulja boy tell em they think that i m playing come down here to tennesse and see that i m the man ain t talkin about no rappin i m talkin about that trappin i m talkin about that brick i ll ram it straight up pistol package ringpiece 2 000 grand neckpiece 4 000 grand fin to cop a chevy but instead i went and copped a lamb woo took your bitch on a shopping spree gucci this prada this i think that hoe in love with me ain t got security i keep lots of thugs with me we call them goons cause i rock lots of jewlery cocaine everything who the fuck ain t feelin me gun powder on the market realest nigga in the streets left ring 10 hundred cash neck piece 30 grand whip cost 300 grand god damn i m on a shopping spree bracelet 20 bands rims cost me 5 grand house cost 500 cash god damn i m on a shopping spree i m on a shopping spree i m on a shopping spree i m on a shopping spree i m on a shopping spree i m on a shopping spree i m on a shopping spree

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: don t get mad cause the kids like me don t get mad cause the kids like me don t get mad cause the kids like me don t get mad cause the kids like me don t don t don t don t get mad cause the kids like me don t get mad cause the kids like me don t get mad cause the kids like me don t get mad cause the kids like me don t don t don t don t get mad cause the kids like me don t get mad cause the kids like me don t get mad cause the kids like me don t get mad cause the kids like me don t don t don t don t get mad cause the kids like me don t get mad cause the kids like me don t get mad cause the kids like me don t get mad cause the kids like me everybody know i got the kids yelling don t get mad cause the kids like soulja boy tell em and they parents they can t see it they blind they wonder why they kids talkin bout soulja boy all the time they can t understand they ways they wonder why they son and they daughter got they name on they shades or why they only wear bathing apes or why they sit at the computer watching soulja boy all day if you don t get it it s a movement i ain t saying that you stupid you just need improvement they say the records ain t selling no more it s cause everybody on the internet hitting download now it s my turn to hit it if you don t get it by the end of this song you won t get it real talk i spit it i got the kids on lock and it s just the beginning let s go don t get mad cause the kids like me don t get mad cause the kids like me don t get mad cause the kids like me don t get mad cause the kids like me don t don t don t don t get mad cause the kids like me don t get mad cause the kids like me don t get mad cause the kids like me don t get mad cause the kids like me don t don t don t don t get mad cause the kids like me don t get mad cause the kids like me don t get mad cause the kids like me don t get mad cause the kids like me don t don t don t don t get mad cause the kids like me don t get mad cause the kids like me don t get mad cause the kids like me don t get mad cause the kids like me why you mad fo why you hatin fo soulja boy tell em what the streets been waitin fo now i m signed and it s goin down takin over radio tv everything man ain t gon buy my time fo no body ain t gon bite my tongue for nobody if you book me for a show i ma crank up the whole party while you listenin to this song ease your mind if you don t get what i m sayin press rewind now right now i m 16 but when you hear this song i ma be 17 and runnin things superman i started that but the biggest form of flattery is just a lot of copycats it s all good cause i m on deck it s so mazing what i did with a mic and the internet new rappers everyday worldwide no deals just the fans and the fans they on my side don t get mad cause the kids like me don t get mad cause the kids like me don t get mad cause the kids like me don t get mad cause the kids like me don t don t don t don t get mad cause the kids like me don t get mad cause the kids like me don t get mad cause the kids like me don t get mad cause the kids like me don t don t don t don t get mad cause the kids like me don t get mad cause the kids like me don t get mad cause the kids like me don t get mad cause the kids like me don t don t don t don t get mad cause the kids like me don t get mad cause the kids like me don t get mad cause the kids like me don t get mad cause the kids like me i m the kids favorite rapper do that dance never if anyone else can do it i can do it better got the grown folks scratchin they head they say what s goin on what s so special about soulja boy man what s goin on this all i gotta say in my rap when it spread to the grown folks man it s a wrap if you hatin better pump your breaks don t get mad cause the kids fans and they watchin my face soulja boy my favorite rapper no he my favorite rapper no my favorite rapper yahhh yahhh yahhh don t get mad cause the kids like me don t get mad cause the kids like me don t get mad cause the kids like me don t get mad cause the kids like me don t don t don t don t get mad cause the kids like me don t get mad cause the kids like me 1

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: dear god i pray for all my haters all my haters all my haters all my haters dear god i pray for all my haters all my haters all my haters all my haters all my haters they hatin on me but i don t know why they tryna stop me tryna slow down my grind ah i won t let em i won t let em i won t let em i won t let nah they tryna stop me but i won t let em ain t no way to say no how i can t give up i ain t gon give up cannot give up i just can t give up my life is a movie and everybody s watching are you entertained looking at me partner i made it out the hood let us get this understood people think my life is good but there s way more too rumors spreading fast they trying to take my glory but it s two sides to everybody s story so let me tell this story truthfully no lying i hate when my momma called me crying telling me dre i feel like dying telling me dre i feel like dying i remember growing up west side of atlanta couldn t pay the light bill so we kept the candles i m asking mama questions she giving false answers i didn t want to leave my hood i just couldn t stand it moved to mississippi and i finally had a family moved to mississippi and i finally had a family my dad my sister and my newly born brother the first time i had to call another woman mother flair i love ya i know i didn t show it my mom asking for money and you asking for nothing every day i told ya one day i ma make it and if i never told ya really appreciate ya and if i never told ya i really appreciate ya and if i never told ya i really appreciate ya it s in my soul i got passion i won t stop i can t stop rappin haters blastin out they mouth just cause soulja from the south but i won t stop i can t stop no i won t stop i can t stop dawg i won t stop nah just can t stop dawg ain t gon stop dawg i can t stop dawg i got girls claiming i got em pregnant my life is really hectic i m going through the spectrum don t hate it just respect it and if you can t respect it then i guess that s too bad and if my life don t change then i guess that s too sad with every move i make i make a lot of people mad but with a lot of moves i make i make a lot of people glad glad glad yeah glad man i do it from the heart and if i wasn t gonna finish why i would i even start i m soulja boy tell em and my life is a movie but all i gotta say is please free my nigga gucci soulja boy tell em my life is a movie but all i got to say is mane free my nigga gucci it s in my soul i got passion i won t stop i can t stop rappin haters blastin out they mouth just cause soulja from the south but i won t stop i can t stop no i won t stop i can t stop dawg i won t stop nah just can t stop dawg ain t gon stop dawg i can t stop dawg soulja boy tell em 18 years old born july 28th 1990 chicago illinois cook county hospital took the world by storm made history life is good and that s what everybody say still holding it down s o d money gang to the death palm tree entertainment from the start collipark music man interscope records isouljaboytellem the album and what i would advise to you to do is cop the next one and the next one this is what i do mane from the east coast to the west coast to the south all the way up north overseas soulja boy comin through your speakers i m so hot i m too too too hot all my fans i love you that s who i do it for 1

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: too young to leave forever old enough to know better i wish you cared enough to try you thought you found your answers flirting with disasters crashed and burned for the last time couldn t you see that we loved you there was someone up above who was just waiting on your call if i could i would try to tear right through the sky to tell you one last time goodbye goodbye left with memories and surprise when the life of the party dies the records skipping no more tears cause you rocked too hard for way too long to live on in a sad sad song that you ll never get to hear couldn t you see that we loved you there was someone up above who was just waiting on your call if i could i would try to tear right through the sky to tell you one last time goodbye goodbye couldn t you see that we loved you there was someone up above who was just waiting on your call if i could i would try to tear right through the sky to tell you one last time goodbye goodbye goodbye goodbye

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: keely aimee sat next to me my hair stood up on end and keely aimee maybe one night we could be better friends i know this town s been hard on you i ve seen the neighbors close their shades but keely they ve got their secrets too so you fell in some mud you haven t fallen from grace keely aimee i m sure you dreamed you d do far greater things but keely i wish you wouldn t dwell on what could and couldn t be i know how dreams can let you down i ve had some rude awakenings but keely i still go back to sleep in the dead of night you spring to life for me keely aimee keely aimee keely aimee i know this world is such a heavy weight and keely aimee those crows feet perched at such an early age well i d help you shoo those birds away if the burden s just too much see keely i love your suffering like gravity loves a stumbling drunk so keely aimee lay next to me rest your head against mine in all of the world i ve never known a sadder valentine and when will i sleep and dream of the city towering into the clouds we ll run through the streets anonymously a whole new life if only we knew how keely aimee if only we knew how keely aimee oh no no if we knew how

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: it s alright knockin me out yeah uh uh loaded up and comin down she s an h bomb baby gonna wreck this town like a love hurricane she lit my wick and she burned my flame she said i know what you wanna do i l make your dreams come true bump the la la shake it all night got a trick for ya up my sleeve bump the la la do it all night that s what i need watch out i can t stop it now on the flip side there s more flicked her switch and she said i ll give ya room service and breakfast in bed your wish my command i said yeah yeah i ll be your marathon man all day all night all week long gonna give it to you bump the la la shake it all night got a trick for ya up my sleeve bump the la la do it all night that s what i need all day all night all week long make my dream come true bump the la la shake it all night got a trick for ya up my sleeve bump the la la do it all night that s what i need uh uh uh uh bump the la la yeah bump the la la take it take it up all night bump the la la oo yeah bump the la la bump it bump it bump it bump it

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: every now and then i like to pick up the phone and make a call down memory lane well how you been well baby you could say i ve been lonely too i ve been picking up the pieces ever since the day i left you sleeping on the motel road i heard you had two kids got married it was quite the show you re my one stone true regret as i m lying alone in my bed on this silent night i say a little prayer for you on this silent night i send this message through i was wrong to run should have took a little time for life cause loneliness is no repayment for sacrifice i m doing time in paradise on this silent night i remember how we touched we were young in love didn t know what was wrong or right we just stuck to each other like the earth sticks to the sun you taught me how to laugh i learned how to cry it was easy as one two three we were lucky and wild back then just happy to be now i think about you with desire and my heart s still full of fire on this silent night i say a little prayer for you on this silent night i send this message through i was wrong to run should have took a little time for life cause loneliness is no repayment for sacrifice i m doing time in paradise on this silent night in my mind i see the wind blow through your hair i have a photograph of you and i somewhere painting pictures of the life that we would share i wear this badge of sorrow but how was i to know i found the truth comes easy when you live in the light i guess it only goes to show so you think i m crazy cause i feel this way going to pick myself up off the ground and i ll turn it around on this silent night i say a little prayer for you on this silent night i send this message through i was wrong to run should have took a little time for life cause loneliness is no repayment for sacrifice i guess it s time to say goodbye on this silent night on this silent night on this silent night

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: clown muthafucka clown yeah back in your muthafuckin ass once more dub c cj mac and ice cube and diggy daz knocking down your door crazy toones whats happening yeah break it down like that show these niggas where their heart at show these niggas where heart 10 years ago a friend of mine gave me a half a chicken told me hoodsta go grind bought a half a gallon beaker and a pound of pro swear to god you niggas never see me short no more from the southern cali alleyways to birds in virginia mr woo swoop the coupe on dubs i aint bullshittin flossy flossy you droppin carachi i got china white now what you set like bling look at my wrist you see my diamonds done blinking one stone 7 karat ring nigga cj mac i swerve impalas spend dollars and floss jewels im on cristal bust a pistol first boss move you niggas hate me but give me respect and love head known to keep a bitch taco naked punk biatch i fuck em if shes stealing me clothes fuck a misdemeanor bitch and fuck with felony hoes now all of yall are ogs all my real niggas roll with these we got something vicious up our sleeves making niggas bleed dead in the street for what you claim for the rep and the name get looney insane we tie em to the brain motto of tha gang we blast and maintain we got fame status for flying giving niggas static making their muthafuckin hearts so panicked we back cube dub cj mac true indeed riders punk we westsiders no other can divide us make the barrel blow my fire making all these sucker ass niggas run and expire like that what it is my opponents get shut til the end thats how it is supreme gangsta shit we dream gangsta shit supreme gangsta shit we dream gangsta shit the mega don uh huh the episode scrillions is what a nigga fold we meant it rollin in tinted the authentic ghetto scented we invented highly recommended go independent and defend it aint scared to throw up my dub and represent it its beretta and mister mo cheddar let ice cube rhyme last niggas know better see me in this godfather you better tuck your tail fuck a bitch dreams niggas waiting too in hell take a photo niggas know though ice cube went from soul glo to a fuckin mogul bet your hoe know wes in town fresh off con air gave a concierge cab fare pullin hair slappin titties giving her shitties to new jack cities delectable rich and pretty now what in the fuck is this c mac cube daz how would the fuck i look letting yall clown without me riding with yall ass take it up outta the cadillac hittin front and back talking shit on rings tattoos and golf hats last year was curb servin this year im counting stacks with the don the dillinger me the killer my nigga c mac blown off gnac strictly gs bitch no fleas in my clique just niggas in colored beanies with that 7 digit itch keep it rich cause gangsta rap shit nigga im in love with it stuck with it if it aint that gangsta shit i cant fuck with it since the days of funkadelic ive been giving it up creasing these khakis folding the tongue on these chucks they say gs keep the world spinningwell if thats true picture me spinning the globe on my middle finger like meadowlark lemon fuck the world im through with you bustas in 98 give me the pussy the money and the mic and im straight

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: sometimes i m to the left sometimes i m to the right sometimes i m in between sometimes i know what i know and i know just where i ve been yeah sometimes i m nothing at all that s why we re making this friendly call oh lord won t you shine your light on a poor boy won t you light up the road on the way back home oh lord won t you shine your light on a poor boy won t you light up the road on the way back home light up the road light up the road on the way back home light up the road light up the road on the way back home light up the road light up the road on the way back home light up the road light up the road on the way back home now we ve all known love and we ve all known the pain borrowed some sunshine while standing in the rain we ve all been lonely with no one at all that s why we re making this friendly call oh lord won t you shine your light on a poor boy won t you light up the road on the way back home oh lord won t you shine your light on a poor boy won t you light up the road on the way back home light up the road light up the road on the way back home light up the road light up the road on the way back home light up the road light up the road on the way back home light up the road light up the road on the way back home light up the road light up the road on the way back home light up the road light up the road on the way back home light up the road light up the road on the way back home light up the road light up the road on the way back home light up the road light up the road on the way back home light up the road light up the road on the way back home light up the road light up the road on the way back home light up the road light up the road on the way back home

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: a baseball glove in the second grade put this little scar on my chin and at 31 they put glasses on me when i couldn t tell an h from an n i bounced back from all of that nothin s ever bothered me until you put the lonely on me you put the blue you put the fool you put the tears on my face you put the rain in an otherwise sunny day baby you you put the lonely on me now every little thought is a bridge to cross cause everyone s a memory of you first they make me sad then they make me mad then they make me wanna forget the truth i bounced back from all of that til i see you out on the street and then you put the lonely on me well now you put the blue you put the fool you put the tears on my face you put the rain in an otherwise sunny day i can t recover i can t get over watching you walk away i get all shook up when i think about losin your love baby you you put the lonely on me

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: he was a hot blooded rebel he was aiming to please he had more than a tattoo up his sleeve marylou peggy sue suzy q norma jean yeah he was pretty as a picture on his motorbike he never met a mirror that he didn t like sorry dude with your rude attitude take a hike goodness gracious mercy me somebody tell me when will i be lucky lucky in love roll myself a seven when i throw the dice i ve been waiting for the king of hearts still i get the joker every time when will i be lucky in love i met a sweet talking guy from paris tennessee he bought me french fries at the dairy queen came on strong fore too long he was on bended knee now when i hear his footsteps up my block i hear the tick of his biological clock sorry hon gotta run it s been fun still in shock goodness gracious mercy me somebody tell me when will i be lucky lucky in love roll myself a seven when i throw the dice i ve been waiting for the king of hearts still i get the joker every time when will i be lucky in love goodness gracious mercy me somebody tell me when will i be lucky lucky in love roll myself a seven when i throw the dice i ve been waiting for the king of hearts still i get the joker every time when will i be oh when will i be oh yeah when will i be lucky in love

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: you gotta understand you gotta understand this c mon now understand this i have a lot to say and today i woke up feelin the power to get loose okay first my name is spelled t to the a r y n i got the faith no religion so come on baby listen with 20 20 vison i m not no competition no decision when you come to the club you ll see my ass a wigglin la la la la la laaaa it s like that and like this fast flips i twist with an assist from my sib the zig zag scientist in the lab we flip hits consistently we be the b double o m k a t see i m free you can t catch me my name is taryn call me miss manning if ur nasty i roll fast i roll the skates pass the extend the middle finger cause i m a singer baby now understand this i m gonna take you to the promise land so understand this now understand this yeah i think i got the master plan so understand this and if you need a longer look take a picture well i got kat class and i got kat style i keep my claws sharp with my boomkat nail file wa wa wa wa waaaaa no one comes before me so the top 40 had to sort me into a brand new catagory no shit so be a witness as taryn gets to bust like no other now understand this i m gonna take you to the promise land so understand this now understand this yeah i think i got the master plan so understand this and if you need a longer look take a picture stop lala lalla la la la la lala just leave it up to the ah waaa now understand this im gonna getcha im gonna getcha and if you need a longer look take a picture shake your thangity thang thang

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: you hit me so hard like a wong kar wai beginning i m exploding in smiles my equilibrium spinning rapture rapes the muses but you don t notice that it s kissing you rapture rapes the muses and the void that s left confuses it s confusing rapture rapes the muses but you don t notice that it s kissing you rapture rapes the muses and the void that s left confuses it s confusing you keep me lit like antediluvian troy but one always reveres what one s bound to destroy gloomy erebus is an anathema to me all of them dancing like flames and the sad enmity i wonder if i understand am i too young to understand rapture rapes the muses but you don t notice that it s kissing you rapture rapes the muses and the void that s left confuses it s confusing rapture rapes the muses but you don t notice that it s kissing you rapture rapes the muses and the void that s left confuses it s confusing rapture rapes the muses but you don t notice that it s kissing you rapture rapes the muses and the void that s left confuses it s confusing rapture rapes the muses but you don t notice that it s kissing you rapture rapes the muses and the void that s left confuses it s confusing1

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: when the last insult comes down from your friends hoping all your blind ambition will fall and the love you know has come to an end and the silence answers your call save me it s gone too far it s gone too far when your waiting for your ocean to rise all alone at night long after i ve gone and your conversations all end in lies and you wake up singing one of my songs save me it s gone too far it s gone too far save me it s gone too far it s gone too far

SONG TEXT / LYRICS: i i long to be beside of you i was wrong to tell you what was true cause i know i m a victim of my pride i belong to all that i ve been through i drove for miles in a city in trance i came to ask for a second chance but i won t dance no i won t dance i came for miles on a broken wheel i came to see whether love can heal but i won t kneel no i won t kneel cause i can t bend can t hold can t lend can t fold can t lose won t cry can t choose cause i know why i i i want to always be with you i was wrong to tell you what i knew cause i know i m a slave to lonely pride i belong to all that i ve been through i drove for miles in a city in trance i came to ask for a second chance but i won t dance no i won t dance i came for miles on a broken wheel i came to see whether love can heal but i won t kneel no i won t kneel cause i can t bend can t hold can t lend can t fold i get close and get scared i m this close in my head won t you give me something something to hold won t you give me something something to hold something to