When I think about the sadness in my life it makes me turn to gladness as I strive to be the better man in this life for me and my baby And as we walk those streets uptown uh huh people looking at us up and down uh huh but what they don’t know is that I know that our true love can never be no-no And you’re everything I ever wished for in my heart passionate and patient it seemed like from the start In other words you’re just a cool ass motherfucker and this world may mistreat us but they’ll never delete us If you’re looking for a lover to treat you with respect you’re in good luck baby you’ve reached the right address We’ll both settle down buy a house do it right I’ll be your man and of course you’ll be my life Because I feel like we have won like the Earth has just begun I pray that this will never cease that our love will always increase This is so old fashioned yet newly monumental we’ve got earths to settle no end to our potential You make me wanna pop every time I see you drop that zipper so candidly on your gingerale jammies No matter what they say about this operation we’re changing minds and ideals without the use of confrontation And we die we’re flying express non-stop to heaven we conquered finite battles without the use of ammunition I feel like a we have won Nothing can be said or can be done We’ll neither break nor will we bend our love is true til the end

First you want oil and then you want peace This is contradictive it’s so contradictive You want a change but you don’t want to bleed This is contradictive it’s so contradictive If you took the time to see how your children will suffer needlessly Maybe then you’ll stop to breed and start facing the truth honestly Cuz we have some time but not a lot of time my friends And we’re facing a future that we don’t Nah we don’t fully comprehend just yet You want to be color blind but you still want to see This is contradictive it’s so contradictive You want to dance but you can’t find the beat This is contradictive it’s so contradictive Save us

You know You know You know yeh yeh You know You know yeh yeh You know You know When I look at you You make me feel like The world is cold Unlovable like I wanna ram this thought down your throat today You're gonna get yours bitch On judgment day Remember when I rode my bike Searching all over Koreatown Then I heard the sound You were sniffling Crouched down in alley That's when I screamed You know who I am You know how I feel You know who I am You know how I deal Gonna hurt you baby Gonna mess you up Gonna make you feel The way you made me feel You say I'm angry kid But let me tell you something I'm gonna get the last blow Cuz I'm a scorpion Gonna wrap my tail around your head Gonna sting your ass until your dead You know who I am You know how I feel You know who I am You know how I deal I built you baby And I can pull you down Your shack is built on sand Not solid ground You know who I am You know how I feel You know who I am You know how I deal I'm gonna haunt you baby I'm gonna follow you around I'm gonna chew you up Without a sound I see chariots with eyes on their wheels And a king is running with a wounded heel I see 7 dragons with 7 heads with 7 hearts for eyes instead And a harlot woman drunk from wine that's red And 33 lizards slithering all in my bed And they're gathering up top of Mt. Meggido Gathering for the final war You know who I am You know how I feel You know who I am You know how I deal

I can't understand so I fall If we can't be just friends let's not be at all A yellow red black white man These are not men at all Just apparitions of our mentality and that's why we fall I feel a summer rain Beating down on my guilt and shame Let's wash our head and feet Let's douche for world peace Let's douche let's douche let's douche for world peace Let's douche let's douche let's douche for world peace Let's douche let's douche let's douche for world peace Let's douche let's douche let's douche for world peace Yesterday I had an epiphany that's a vision Of everything that our world could be it's our decision But you've gotta have a love for humanity that's god given No Playtex, Summer's Eve or Massengil can fuck with my volition I feel a summer rain Beating down on my guilt and shame Let's wash our head and feet Let's douche for world peace Let's douche let's douche let's douche for world peace Let's douche let's douche let's douche for world peace Let's douche let's douche let's douche for world peace Let's douche let's douche let's douche for world peace We don't need no Vaseline!

So you wrote your name on a subway train cuz you wanted fame without the pain so you robbed a rundown Iranian deli and now your name is known from Newark to the Serengeti If you can't get up then we can't get down what's the use of freakin' without a frown if you can't get up then we can't get down Been called punk since the age of 3 and since you got your new tits man you act so cunty got smuggled in a trunk all the way from Oaxaca now you're the queen of SaMo/High trickin' dentists and doctors If you can't get up then we can't get down what's the use of fuckin' without a frown if you can't get up then we can't get down When Billy got back from Afghanistan he tried out as a backup singer behind Chaka Khan (I feel for you) he didn't make the grade and now he's selling bananas in a wheelchair on the corner of 5th and Fontana If you can't get up then we can't get down what's the use of freakin' without a frown if you can't get up then we can't get down I want to go but you won't let I plan to do but you won't move You want to bleed but I see no need to continue in this pain without refrain

She used to rock an afro like Roberta Flack now she's Dark & Lovely bone straight and flat I used to always see her around Kingston Ave Mica's got a perm Mica's got a perm Her financial situation went from red to black I talked with her momma and she said she was never coming back she's shackin' up with some aristocrat Mica's got a perm Mica's got a perm Oh no she didn't! Oh no girl! Oh no she didn't! Oh no girl! Talked for hours about Corny West and Medgar Ev, bell hooks, Huey P. and Malcolm X she don't say she's black no more (mule) it's mulatta at best Mica's got a perm Mica's got a perm Oh no she didn't! Oh no girl! Oh no she didn't! Oh no girl! shakatakadoowa yaeeya Now I'm chillin' with polyethylene glycol COINTELPRO put crack in the ghetto bob sport an updo and yes it's true that Prop 8 has robbed me (of my civil rights of my civil rights) so at the end of the day it's just me and Cabernet and I think how long we've traveled to come such a short way that Tamika Alvarado had to press her pain away Mica's got a perm Mica's got a perm Oh no she didn't! Oh no girl! Oh no she didn't! Oh no girl!

You know I should have known the first night I drove you home that I would get absolutely nothing And when you told me you were sore then kissed me on the cheek and closed the door I knew that I would get absolutely nothing I should have known yeah I really should have known that you always take more than you ever give back and in return I get just nothing So fuck the Cabernet I want to get down with my man Jose......cuz he makes me happy I should have known yeah I really should have known that you always take more than you ever give back and in return I get just nothing I should have known Pisces sun Cancer motherfucker you're stuck in your fifth house And every time I try to keep you just so satisfied it always ends in drama And when we need to do the things that would keep us strong me and you bitch you never have a clue I should have known yeah I really should have known that you always take more than you ever give back and in return I get just nothing Drive my Cadillac on high beams and smash it up next to a Dairy Queen Cussing out everything that moves I'm on the rebound and I've got something to prove Better stay out of my way Cuz I'm back on my roller skates So erase the smirk cuz I know what you do when you supposed to be at work a job you aint never had but I've gotta give it to you you left your date book open and the month is full and August too I should have known yeah I really should have known that you always take more than you ever give back and in return I get just nothing I should have known yeah I really should have known that you always take more than you ever give back and in return I get just nothing I should have known yeah I really should have known that you always take more than you ever give back and in return I get just nothing (fade)

When I think about the sadness in my life it makes me turn to gladness as I strive to be the better man in this life for me and my baby And as we walk those streets uptown uh huh people looking at us up and down uh huh but what they don’t know is that I know that our true love can never be no-no And you’re everything I ever wished for in my heart passionate and patient it seemed like from the start In other words you’re just a cool ass motherfucker and this world may mistreat us but they’ll never delete us If you’re looking for a lover to treat you with respect you’re in good luck baby you’ve reached the right address We’ll both settle down buy a house do it right I’ll be your man and of course you’ll be my life Because I feel like we have won like the Earth has just begun I pray that this will never cease that our love will always increase This is so old fashioned yet newly monumental we’ve got earths to settle no end to our potential You make me wanna pop every time I see you drop that zipper so candidly on your gingerale jammies No matter what they say about this operation we’re changing minds and ideals without the use of confrontation And we die we’re flying express non-stop to heaven we conquered finite battles without the use of ammunition I feel like a we have won Nothing can be said or can be done We’ll neither break nor will we bend our love is true til the end