I could be like you
I could be alone and jaded
Wondering what to do until they say
I could be like you
Angry and intoxicated
Wondering what to do to make them say
And will i find a way
Can i make them see
And make them all believe you’re wrong
Your ill intentions don’t belong
I hear you talk the talk
But i don’t see you walk the walk
And i still don’t believe a thing you say
Yeah
This right here
For all them niggas that like to talk
Talk the talk
You better walk the walk
Knowmsayin?
Cause one of these days
When i see you in the dark
[ verse 1 ]
I wage war on stage or street
I battle defeat
Relentless
You get shot like tetanus
Feel the wetness
Gush
I’m in a rush
No time to sigh
Now die
Shit is so fly that i gotta get clearance
In case i enter air space interference
Mach 1
When i rock, son
Cause i take off
While you make fake soft
Little jingles
Sell a few singles
But that ain’t shit
Cause a hit ain’t a hit without the lyricalist
And at 22
I’m takin any crew
At any time
Cause many rhyme
But a lemon ain’t a lime
And i don’t falsify to get by
You must be more than herbally high
To verbally comply
To my vocal range
I get strange when i change
Into the syllable killer
So beware
Cause i’ll be there
Lurkin, workin
Till your head hurtin
[ chorus ]
(hey yo ed) what? (niggas wanna talk!)
(now let’s see if they walk the walk!) (3x)
[ verse 2 ]
I break and bruise the backs
Of musical acts
Cause i slam harder than a steel door
I’m real raw, so nigga, what you feel for?
I’m straight to the point, like a line
Me and this mic of mine
Stay tight, whether i write or freestyle
You see style
You never thought existed
I’m unlisted
You can look, but you’ll never locate
Where i rotate
Cause i never stop or rest, and i ain’t
You get wet like paint
You feel faint, you wanna faint
You can’t stand me, the man with the stuff
Come with bullshit and get snuffed, cream puff
You are pastry
Cause you be tasty
When i’m eatin em
Beatin em into men’s meat
I never been sweet
You don’t wanna come on my street
In the heat
Son, gashes
Hot flashes
Sun first
I come gun first
Feet second
I keep wreckin
So you can keep on checkin
[ chorus ]
[ verse 3 ]
I’m nice like a old lady
Similak, baby
Pure, nourrishing
Rhymes flourishing
I know you’re starvin, come and get a taste
Bring the beef and i’ll discard the waste
Shit ain’t the same
Things done changed
Now i got your whole life re-arranged
Till i say so
Now you’re livin every day slow
Cause everybody nervous
But this is professional mic service
Dummy, now give me the money
Before i put one in your honey
Cause sonny don’t cher
Hands in the air
I drug it so rugged, those panty hose tear
I give you a run for yours
I won wars
I burn niggas like sauce
Don’t ever underestimate the power of the force
Mark spark the chalk
And turn the lights off dark
Seance, no response
You can’t believe you can’t breathe
Cause when you’re from the ave you never leave
[ chorus ]
My mother spent 10 years sitting by a window
Scared if she spoke she would die of a heart attack
She listened as her dreams silently screamed
They drowned like little dolphins caught in a fishnet
Dear world i’m pleased to meet you
Hey everybody when you walk the walk
You gotta back it all up you gotta talk the talk
Hey everybody when I hear the knock
Don’t wanna measure out my life to the tick of a clock
Hey everybody when my daddy died
He had a sad sad story written in his eyes
Hey everybody when you walk the walk
You cannot measure out your life to the tick of a clock
I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum
I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum
Hey everybody
Can you walk the walk you gotta back it all up
But can you talk the talk
Hey everybody
can you walk the walk?
I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum
(Say what?)
I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum
(Say what?)
I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum
I wanna live to the beat of my own drum
I wanna take to the beat of my own drum
I wanna hang ten, high, say pleased to meet you
Give to the beat of my own drum
I wanna sing to the beat of my own drum
I wanna fly, cry, win, lose, live, die, take five
Pleased to meet you
My daddy spent 10 years living on the outside looking in
He thought that he would never get back
Watched his dream walk across a silver screen
And he was standing there when the theatre went pitch black
Dear world I’m pleased to meet you
Hey everybody when I walk the walk
I gotta back it all up I vgotta talk the talk
Hey everybody when I hear the knock
Don’t wanna measure out my life to the tick of a clock
Hey everybody–can you walk the walk?
I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum
(Say what?)
I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum
(Say what?)
I wanna live to the beat of my own drum
I wanna laugh to the beat of my own drum
I wanna play to the beat of my own drum
I wanna hang ten, high, say pleased to meet you
I wanna screw up to the beat of my own drum
I wanna take it out of town and do it to my drum
Scream shout
Wipe out
Make love to my baby
Father: It’s a wonderful idea, but it doesn’t work.
My own drum my own beat
Hey did you ever get the feeling that it’s really a joke
You think you’ve got it figured out and then you find that you don’t
So you say goodbye to the world and now you’re floating in space
You got no sense of nothing not even a time or a place
Then suddenly you hear it it’s the beat of your heart
And for the first time in your life you know your life is about to start
I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum
Daughter:
There’s someone knocking in the wall, was it an echo? ba da pa pa
