Well We Walked Around
All Through That Day
And We Couldnt Find Anything
(Anything)
Baby You Found It
What You Wanted to Hear
(Yeah)
Baby Baby Baby
Babies
And Im Sorry About All That Stuff I Said
You Think I Said
But We Know, We Know That Its True
Baby Baby, What About You?
(Yeah)
And We Walked Around All Through the Day
The Hidden Ways of Past Gone Days
And We Never Knew What to Say
Baby Baby
Well it happened years ago when you lived on Stanhope Road. We
listened to your sister when she came home from school ‘cos she was
two years older and she had boys in her room. We listened outside and
heard her. Alright. Well that was alright for a while but soon I wanted
more. I want to see as well as hear and so I hid inside her wardrobe.
And she came round four and she was with some kid called David from
the garage up the road I listened outside I heard her. Alright. Oh I want
to take you home. I want to give you children. You might be my
girlfriend, yeah. When I saw you next day I really couldn’t tell ‘cos you
might go and tell your mother. And so you went with Neve and Neve
was coming on and I thought I heard you laughing when his Mum and
Dad were gone. I listened outside, I heard you. Alright. Oh I want to
take you home…etc. Well I guess it couldn’t last too long. I came home
one day and all her things were gone, I fell asleep inside. I never heard
her come. And then she opened up her wardrobe and I had to get it on.
Oh, listen we were on the bed when you came home, I heard you stop
outside the door. I know you won’t believe it’s true, I only went with
her ‘cos she looks like you. Oh I want to take you home…etc.
Well it happened years ago when you lived on Stanhope Road.
We listened to your sister when she came home from school
‘cos she was two years older and she had boys in her room.
We listened outside and heard her.
Alright. Well that was alright for a while but soon I wanted more.
I want to see as well as hear and so I hid inside her wardrobe.
And she came round four and she was with some kid called David from the garage up the road
I listened outside I heard her.
Alright. Oh I want to take you home.
I want to give you children. You might be my girlfriend, yeah.
When I saw you next day I really couldn’t tell ‘cos you might go and tell your mother.
And so you went with Neve and Neve was coming on
And I thought I heard you laughing when his Mum and Dad were gone.
I listened outside, I heard you. Alright. Oh I want to take you home…etc.
Well I guess it couldn’t last too long.
I came home one day and all her things were gone, I fell asleep inside.
I never heard her come. And then she opened up her wardrobe and I had to get it on.
Oh, listen we were on the bed when you came home, I heard you stop outside the door.
I know you won’t believe it’s true, I only went with her ‘cos she looks like you.
Oh I want to take you home…etc.
[intro/chorus: madame d]
Light is shinin.. beauty sunshine
Here comes one-time.. the ball was so fine
Heat is blazin.. the kids were playin
His partner was shady.. tryin to slave the babies
[ghostface killah]
Aiyyo they didn’t know the cop was crooked, he had blow out in brooklyn
All this while he let the fiends cook it
The baseheads stirred it up, plus they got to blow it up
Dropped it off in the pj’s and they bigged it up
Then one day, shit jumped off real crazy
The middle of a bathroom they find an old lady
No clothes, half of her tongue, ear missin
The killer had to be mad smart, he wore mittens
Even though her leg was bitten
Crackheads point the finger at detective slick morris gittins
Paleface cop who done popped the desk
And got the chop on his neck from when he knocked celeste
It was a slug, drug, he pressured everybody on the block
Some niggaz know him as the godson of gotti
And his black partner, he was scared to speak
He saw how they planted weapons on these kids in the street
He saw like over fifty bodies in like fifty-two weeks
He saw his colleague pick up money before leavin his beat
They call him desk duty, robocop
Younger dudes call him freddy krugs from the way he walk on the block
[chorus]
[raekwon the chef]
Heard the disturbance out the window, oh shit they got my son
Pulled over his tempo, brenda dropped the endo
Had her little nephew with her yo she didn’t care
They always harassed her, until she blew the captain with a razor
His partner turned red in his waist, mase done smacked her
With the walkie, yoked her then slammed her on her face
He bugged on her like she was drugged, plugged one in her
The fifth relaxed her like a big thug pistol whipped her
Heard she was dusted, musta been the way they threw the cuffs on her
She broke the shits, went and rushed the kid
Wavin her hands, she had a half an axe, all in her tracks
He grabbed her by the air, she broke his jaw it cracked
More cops arrived, they both bloodied down by the five
Wildest niggaz just smilin cause it look live
They gave her forty years in new orleans, callin me (?)
Shorty was young, by three days had a great bid
[chorus]
[gza]
You’re just worms in the worst part of the apple that’s rotten
You squirm and you turn from the right, still plottin
All slimy cause you stay grimy, petty crimey cat
You sometime me, don’t need to remind me about
Livin in the core, with the scramblers in front of the store
The bum holdin the door, the mugging no one saw
We played ball in the alley where dope was shot raw
And the school they kept flawed, plus the lowest test scores
Small percentage determined to strengthen they position
Transformation from critical to, stable condition
But it still be obstacles on niggaz that’s optical
Watchin you like salt-water sharks that’s tropical
The money was the root and it’s the instinct to make it
With they pockets and fridge naked, many aim to take it
Whether – hold up, set up, stabbin or a wet up
Just to know it was the kid next door fizzucked your head up
Once he fell short, frequently visit the courts
And for some, another way out, is music and sports
That’s why i, keep the rhyme just as fly as a shot
That won the championship, with just oh on the clock
[chorus – repeat 2x]
Babies being born every day
In a world where there’s so much to discover
All the babies crying out from the womb
Not much room, can i come out mother?
Mama, can you hear me call?
Don’t drop me now
‘cos it’s a long way to fall
Mama, i can hear all the sounds
Outside it’s like a battleground
And i’m afraid to fall down
Into the great big nowhere
Papa’s had a skin full of beer
Mama, don’t let him into here
Baby, baby
Babies being born
Different hormones and genes
There’s so many of us out there
How was i conceived
Was it love, was i meant
Or was i just an accident
Mama, what i sense from outside
It’s a world full of fear
And there’s nowhere to hide
Mama, i feel safe between these walls
And i’m so scared of heights
And it’s a long way to fall
Into the great big nowhere
Maybe papa’s getting pressure from his peers
Are you straight, are you queer
So he made me, baby
Babies being born, some are rich, some are poor
But they’re innocent and unprepared
Little girls and boys, didn’t ask to be born
But they’re always popping out there
Falling into the great big nowhere
Mama, i know that once upon a time
You and papa were rich
When you were both in your prime
Mama, now you got the pains
And i know it’s nearly time
But i don’t want to join the crowd
I see standing in line
Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby
Babies being induced, no excuse, what’s the use
So they’re always popping out there
Babies didn’t wanna be born
Ill equipped, running loose
But they’re innocent and unprepared
Mama, now you are showing all the signs
But is your world upside-down
On its head just like mine
Mama, now your ambition is mine
Don’t make me over
Achieve too much in my time
Oh mama, please don’t make me climb
Mama
