Outkast - Elevators (Me and You)

Outkast - Elevators (Me and You)

One for the money yes uh two for the show
A couple of years ago on Headland and Delowe
Was the start of something good
Where me and my nigga rodes the MARTA, through the hood
Just trying ta find that hookup
Now everyday we look up at the ceiling
Watching ceiling fans go around trying ta catch that feeling
Off instrumental, had my pencil, and plus my paper
We caught the 86 Lithonia headed to Decatur
Writing rhymes trying ta find our spot off in that light
Light off in that spot, known that we could rock
Doing the hole in the wall clubs, this shit here must stop
Like freeze, we making the crowd move but we not making no G's
And that's a nono

Yeah, uh, check it
Ah one two, ah one two doe, niggaz
In the Cadillac they call us went from Player's Ball to ballers
Putting the South up on the map was like Little Rock to banging
Niggaz say motherfuck that playing, they paying
We stay in layin vocals, locals done made it with them big boys
Up in this industry, Outkast yea dem niggaz they making big noise
Over a million sold to this day, niggaz they take it lightly
Ninety-six gon be that year that all y'all playa haters can bite me
...around this bitch

Me and you, your momma and your cousin too
Rollin down the strip on vogues
Coming up slamming Cadillac doors
Me and you, your momma and your cousin too
Rollin down the strip on vogues
Coming up slamming Cadillac doors

Back in the day when I was younger, hunger
Looking to fill me belly with that Rally's, bullshit, pull shit
Off like it was supposed to be pulled
Full as a tick I was, stoned like white boys
Smoking them white golds before them blunts got crunk, chunky asses
Passes getting thrown like Hail Mary's and they looking like Halle Berry
So so fine, intertwined, but we ain't sipping wine
We's just chilling, I'm the rabid villain, and I'm so high
Smoking freely, me Lil B, Greet, Mon and Shug
And my little brother James, thangs changed in the hood
Where I live at, them rats know, mama I want to sing but
Mama I want to trick, and mama I'm sucking dicks, now
We movin on up in da world like elevators
Me and the crew we pimps like eighty-two
Me and you like Tony Toni Tone
Like this Eastpointe and we gone

Me and you, your momma and your cousin too
Rollin down the strip on vogues
Coming up slamming Cadillac doors
Me and you, your momma and your cousin too
Rollin down the strip on vogues
Coming up slamming Cadillac doors

Got stopped at the mall the other day
Heard a call from the other way
That I just came from, some nigga was saying something
Talking bout "Hey man, you remember me from school?" smoke some
Naw not really but he kept smiling like a clown
Facial expression looking silly
And he kept asking me, what kind of car you drive, I know you paid
I know y'all got buku of hoes from all them songs that y'all done made
And I replied that I had been going through the same thing that he had
True I got more fans than the average man but not enough loot to last me
To the end of the week, I live by the beat like you live check to check
If you don't move yo' foot then I don't eat, so we like neck to neck
Yes we done come a long way like them slim ass cigarettes
from Virginia, this ain't gon' stop so we just gonna continue

Me and you, your momma and your cousin too
Rollin down the strip on vogues
Coming up slamming Cadillac doors
Me and you, your momma and your cousin too
Rollin down the strip on vogues
Coming up slamming Cadillac doors
Me and you, your momma and your cousin too
Rollin down the strip on vogues
Coming up slamming Cadillac doors
Me and you, your momma and your cousin too
Rollin down the strip on vogues
Coming up slamming Cadillac doors

Cut Copy - Lights and Music

Cut Copy - Lights and Music

This is why we won’t delay for your birthday
The secrets that we held that day will be kept straight
All your friends have gone away so let's celebrate
You're holding hope open for the one making you wait

This is what you hoped to say on your birthday
The secrets that we held that day will be kept straight
Everyone will be dismayed if your promise breaks
But you'll be back again to say who you want next

Lights and music
Are on my mind
Be my baby
One more time

Lights and music
Are on my mind
Be my baby
One more time

Fading with the colour you see in my face
Cold and crystal you cant hide as your tears race
I'll be waiting by in time but your dream's away
You're holding hope open for the one making you wait

Lights and music
Are on my mind
Be my baby
One more time

Lights and music
Are on my mind
Be my baby
One more time

Jawbreaker - Busy

photo by jill russell

Jawbreaker - Busy

When all the consoling places
Lose their charm and change their faces
The world becomes too cruel to bear
And something in you starts to tear
When nothing seems to be quite worth it
And sleep becomes the only sure thing
I'm here to help you out of it
Come and see me for a lift
We're all close to the end
Don't you need a friend?
Honor your allegiances
Everyone is drowning in sand
Couldn't you use a hand!
Please don't make a guess
When changes make the world a stranger
No one calls and your life's in danger
If the money's gone without a trace
And your longing for a familiar face
Cars collide and people die
You begin to shake 'til you start to cry
If disasters only start to multiply
My door is open drop on by
Sad again you're sad again
Hey you're breaking down
Your eyes betray your new smile
When keeping up is killing you
And you need a ruling without a clue
When cool means being dead
And your better thoughts are better left unsaid
If you're sad to see your gun's unloaded
Tried to drown but you only floated
If the world is only getting colder
I'd like to offer you a dry shoulder
Whoah!

Etta James - I'd Rather Go Blind

Etta James - I'd Rather Go Blind

Something told me it was over
When I saw you and her talkin'
Something deep down in my soul said, 'Cry, girl'
When I saw you and that girl walkin' around

Whoo, I would rather, I would rather go blind, boy
Then to see you walk away from me, child, no

Whoo, so you see, I love you so much
That I don't wanna watch you leave me, baby
Most of all, I just don't, I just don't wanna be free, no

Whoo, whoo, I was just, I was just, I was just
Sittin here thinkin', of your kiss and your warm embrace, yeah
When the reflection in the glass that I held to my lips now, baby
Revealed the tears that was on my face, yeah

Whoo and baby, baby, I'd rather, I'd rather be blind, boy
Then to see you walk away, see you walk away from me, yeah
Whoo, baby, baby, baby, I'd rather be blind...

Elliott Smith - The Biggest Lie

photo by julie barros

Elliott Smith - The Biggest Lie

I'm waiting for the train
Subway that only goes one way
The stupid thing that'll come to pull us apart
And make everybody late

You spent everything you had
Wanted everything to stop that bad
Now I'm a crashed credit card registered to Smith -
Not the name that you called me with

You turned white like a saint
I'm tired of dancing on a pot of gold-flaked paint
Oh we're so very precious, you and I
And everything that you do makes me want to die
Oh I just told the biggest lie
I just told the biggest lie
The biggest lie

Fiona Apple - Tymps (The Sick in the Head Song)

Fiona Apple - Tymps (The Sick in the Head Song)

Those boon times went bust
My feet of clay, they dried to dust
The red isn’t the red we painted its just rust
And the signature thing
That used to bring a following
I have trouble now even remembering

So why did I kiss him so hard
Late last Friday night
And keep on letting him change all my plans
I'm either so sick in the head
I need to be bled dry to quit
Or I just really used to love him
I sure hope that’s it

I knew that to keep in touch
Would do me deep in Dutch
Cuz it isn’t the rush of remembering
Its just mush
And that signature thing
Is only growing harrowing
I should have no trouble now
To keep from following

So why did I kiss him so hard
Late last Friday night
And keep on letting him change all my plans
I'm either so sick in the head
I need to be bled dry to quit
Or I just really used to love him
I sure hope that’s it

Those boon times went bust
My feet of clay, they dried to dust
The red isn’t the red we painted its just rust
And the signature thing
That used to bring a following
I have trouble now
Even remembering

So why did I kiss him so hard
Late last Friday night
And keep on letting him change all my plans
I'm either so sick in the head
I need to be bled dry, to quit
Or I just really used to love him
Or I just really used to love him
Or I just really used to love him
I sure hope that’s it

John Prine - Please Don't Bury Me

John Prine - Please Don't Bury Me

Woke up this morning
Put on my slippers
Walked in the kitchen and died
And oh what a feeling!
When my soul
Went through the ceiling
And on up into heaven I did ride
When I got there they did say
John, it happened this way
You slipped upon the floor
And hit your head
And all the angels say
Just before you passed away
These were the very last words
That you said

Please don't bury me
Down in that cold cold ground
No, I'd rather have 'em cut me up
And pass me all around
Throw my brain in a hurricane
And the blind can have my eyes
And the deaf can take both of my ears
If they don't mind the size

Give my stomach to Milwaukee
If they run out of beer
Put my socks in a cedar box
Just get "em" out of here
Venus de Milo can have my arms
Look out! I've got your nose
Sell my heart to the junkman
And give my love to Rose

Please don't bury me
Down in that cold cold ground
No, I'd rather have 'em cut me up
And pass me all around
Throw my brain in a hurricane
And the blind can have my eyes
And the deaf can take both of my ears
If they don't mind the size

Give my feet to the footloose
Careless, fancy free
Give my knees to the needy
Don't pull that stuff on me
Hand me down my walking cane
It's a sin to tell a lie
Send my mouth way down south
And kiss my ass goodbye

Please don't bury me
Down in that cold cold ground
No, I'd rather have 'em cut me up
And pass me all around
Throw my brain in a hurricane
And the blind can have my eyes
And the deaf can take both of my ears
If they don't mind the size

Charles Mingus - Better Get It in Yo' Soul

Charles Mingus - Better Get It in Yo' Soul

Captain Beefheart - Frownland

Captain Beefheart - Frownland

My smile is stuck
I cannot go back t' yer Frownland
My spirit's made up of the ocean
And the sky 'n the sun 'n the moon
'n all my eye can see
I cannot go back to yer land of gloom
Where black jagged shadows
Remind me of the comin' of yer doom
I want my own land
Take my hand 'n come with me
It's not too late for you

It's not too late for me
To find my homeland
Where uh man can stand by another man
Without an ego flyin'
With no man lyin'
And no one dyin' by an earthly hand
Let the devils burn 'n the beggar learn
And the little girls that live in those old worlds
Take my kind hand
My smile is stuck
I cannot go back t' yer Frownland
I cannot go back t' yer Frownland

Bonde Do Role - Solta O Frango

Bonde Do Role - Solta O Frango

A gente somos linda
A gente somos inteligente
A gente somos o trio mais foda
A gente somos delinqüente
Alegria da moçada, da perua favelada
Nosso som é fantasia pra mamãe mamãe titia

Rolê, rolê, rolê
Solta o frango e vem com a gente
Rolê, rolê, rolê
Solta o frango e vem com a gente

Nóis é tipo bem jesus,
Todo mundo a gente ama,
Inda mais se for gatinha,
Rola até levar pra cama,

A gente topa tudo
Sapatão a bigodudo
Na hora do piriri
Cai ni min ô travesti

Rolê, rolê, rolê
Solta o frango e vem com a gente
Rolê, rolê, rolê
Solta o frango e vem com a gente

A gente somos linda
A gente somos inteligente
Antes de dar o edi
Eu jurava que era crente
Alegria da moçada, da perua favelada
Nosso som é fantasia pra mamãe mamãe titia

Rolê, rolê, rolê
Solta o frango e vem com a gente
Rolê, rolê, rolê
Solta o frango e vem com a gente
Rolê, rolê, rolê
Solta o frango e vem com a gente
Rolê, rolê, rolê
Solta o frango e vem com a gente