Intro: Raekwon the Chef. [Can it be that it was all so simple then]. KnowhatI'msayin take you on this lyrical high real quick. Nineteen ninety three exoticness. KnowhatI'msayin let's get technical. Where's your bone at get up on that shit aight. Yo!!. Verse One:. Started off on the island AK Shaolin. Niggaz whylin gun shots thrown the phone dialin. Back in the days of eight now makin a tape now. Rae gotta get a plate now. Ignorant and mad young wanted to be the one. Till I got (BAM! BAM!) thrown one. Yeah my pops was a fiend since sixteen. Shootin' that (that's that shit!) in his blood stream. That's the life of a crimey real live crimey. If niggas know the half is behind me. Day one yo growin all up in the ghetto. Now I'm a weed fiend jettin the Palmetto. In Medina yo no doubt the God got crazy clout. Pushin the big joint from down South. So if you're filthy stacked up. Betta watch ya back and duck. Cause these fiends they got it cracked up. Now my man from up north now he got the law. It's solid as a rock and crazy salt. No jokes I'm not playin get his folks. Desert Eagle his dick and put 'em in a yolk (AAH!). And to know for sure I got reck and rip shop. I pointed a gat at his mother's knot. (Yo Rae don't do that shit man! Don't do that shit! <gun shots>). Fuck that. <Chorus>. <Raekwon> Dedicated to the winners and the losers. (Can it be that it was all so simple then?). <Ghost Face Killer> Dedicated to all jeeps and land cruisers. (Can it be that it was all so simple then?). <Raekwon> Dedicated to the Y's 850-I's. (Can it be that it was all so simple then?). <Ghost Face Killer> Dedicated to niggas who do drive-bys. (Can it be that it was all so simple then?). <Raekwon> Dedicated to the Lexus and the Ax. (Can it be that it was all so simple then?). <Ghost Face Killer> Dedicated to MPV's phat!. (Can it be that it was all so simple then?). <Raekwon> Nigguh yeah yeah!. Verse Two: Ghostface Killer. Yo!. Kickin the fly cliches. Doin duets with Rae and A happens to make my day. Though I'm tired of bustin off shots havin to rock knots. Runnin up in spots and makin shit hot. I'd rather flip shows instead of those. Hangin on my living room wall. My first joint and it went gold. I want to lamp I want to be in the shade. Plus the spot light. Gettin my dick rubbed all night. I wanna have me a phat yacht. And enough land to go and plant my own sess crops. But for now it just a big dream. Cause I find myself in the place where I'm last seen. My thoughts must be relaxed. Be able to maintain. Cause times is changed and life is strange. The glorious days is gone and everybody's doin' bad. Yo mad lives is up for grabs. Brothers passin away I gotta make wakes. Receivin all types of calls from upstate. Yo I can't cope with the pressure. Settlin for lesser. The god left lessons on my dresser. So I can bloom and blossom find a new way. Continue to make hits with Rae and A. Sunshine plays a major part in the daytime. [Peace to mankind Ghostface carry a black nine nigga. Word up. It's on like that]. [Can it be that it was all so simple then]