01. Wake
Pas de paroles


02. Given Up

Wake in a sweat again
Another day's been laid to waste
In my disgrace
Stuck in my head again
Feels like i'll never leave this place
There's no escape
I'm my own worst enemy

I've given up
I'm stick of living
Is there nothing you can say
Take this all away
I'm suffocating
Tell me what the fuck is wrong with me

I don't know what to take
Thought i was focused but i'm scared
I'm not prepared
I hyperventilate
Looking for help somehow somewhere
And you don't care

Put me out of my misery

03. Leave Out All the Rest

I dreamed i was missing
You were so scared
But no one would listen
Cause no one else cared
After my dreaming
I woke with this fear
What am i leaving
When i'm done here
So if you're asking me i want you to know

When my times comes
Forget the wrong that i've done
Help me leave behind some
Reasons to be missed
Don't resent me
And when you're feeling empty
Keep me in you memory
Leave out all the rest
Leave out all the rest

Don't be afraid
I've taken my beating
I've shared what i made
I'm strong on the surface
Not all the way through
I've never been perfect
But neither have you
So if you're asking me i want you to know

Forgetting/all the hurt inside you learned to hide so well
Pretending/someone else can come and save me from myself
I can't be who you are

04. Bleed It Out

Here we go for the hundredth time
Hands grenade pins in every line
Throw' em up and let something shine
Going out of my fuckin mind
Filthy mouth / no excuse
Find a new place to hang this noose
String me up from atop these roofs
Knot it tight so i won't get loose
Truth is / you can stop and stare
Bled myself out and no one cares
Dug the trench out / laid down there
With a shovel up out of reach somewhere
Yeah / someone pour it in
Make it a dirt dance floor again
Say your prayers and stomp it out
When they bring that chorus in

I bleed it out
Digging deeper just to throw it away
Just to throw it away
I bleed it out

I bleed it out / go / stop the show
Choppy words and a sloppy flow
Shotgun opera / lock and load
Cock it back and then watch it go
Mama help me / i've been cursed
Death is rolling in every verse
Candy paint on his brand new hearse
Can't contain him / he knws he works Fuck this hurt / i won't lie / doesn't matte how hard i try
Half the words don't mean a thing and i know i won't be satisfied
So why try ignoring him
Make it a dirt dance floor again
Say your prayers and stomp it out
When they bring that chorus in

I open up these scars
I'll make you face this
I pull myself apart
I'll make you face this
I open up these scars
I'll make you face this now

05. Shadow Of The Day

I close both locks below the window
I close both blinds and turn away
Sometimes solutions aren't so simple
Sometimes goodbye's the only way

And the sun will set for you
The sun will set for you
And the shadow of the day
Will embrace the world in grey
And the sun will set for you

In cards and flowers on your window
Your friends all plead for you to stay
Sometimes beginnings aren't so simple
Sometimes goodbye's the only way

And the shadow after day
Will embrace the world in grey
And the sun will set for you

06. What I've Done

In this farewell
There's no blood
There's no alibi
Cause I've drawn regret
From the truth
Of a thousand lies

So let mercy come
And wash away

What I've done
I'll face myself
To cross out what I've become
Erase myself
And let go of what I've done

Put to rest
what you thought of me
While I've cleaned this slate
With the hands
Of uncertainty

For what I've done
I start again
And whatever pain may come
Today this ends
I'm forgiving what I've done

07. Hands Held High

Turn my mic up louder, I got to say something
Lightweights steppin' aside when we come in
Feel it in your chest, the syllables get pumping
People on the street then panic and start running
Words on loose leaf sheet, complete coming
I jump in my mind, I summon the rhyme I'm dumping
Healing the blind, I promise to let the sun in
Sick of the dark ways we march to the drumming
Jump when they tell us that they wanna see jumping
Fuck that, I wanna see some fists pumping
List something, take back what's yours
Say something that you know they might attack you for
'Cause I'm sick of being treated like I had before
Like it's stupid standing for what I'm standing for
Like this war's really just a different brand of war
Like it doesn't cater to rich and abandon poor
Like they understand you, in the back of their jet
When you can't put gas in your tank, these fuckers
Are laughing their way to the bank, and cashing their check
Asking you to have the passion and have some respect
For a leader so nervous in an obvious way
Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay
And the rest of the world watching at the end of the day
In the living room, laughing like, "What did he say?"

Amen
Amen
Amen
Amen
Amen

In my living room watching it, I am not laughing
'Cause when it gets tense, I know what might happen
The world is cold, the bold men take action
Have to react or get blown into fractions
At 10 years old, it's something to see
Another kid my age drugged under a Jeep
Taken and bound and found later under a tree
I wonder if he had thought the next one could be me
Do you see the soldiers that are out today?
They brush the dust from bulletproof vests away
It's ironic, at times like this you'd pray
But a bomb blew the mosque up yesterday
There's bombs on the buses, bikes, roads
Inside your market, your shops, and your clothes
My dad, he's got a lot of fear, I know
But enough pride inside not to let that show
My brother had a book he would hold with pride
A little red cover with a broken spine on the back
He hand-wrote a quote inside,
"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die"
Meanwhile, the leader just talks away
Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay
The rest of the world watching at the end of the day
Both scared and angry, like "What did he say?"

Amen
Amen
Amen
Amen
Amen

With hands held high into the skies above
The ocean opens up to swallow you

08. No More Sorrow

Are you lost in your lies ?
Do you tell yourself I don't realize
Your crusade's a disguise ?
Replaced with freedom with fear
You trade money for lives
I'm aware of what you've done

No, no more sorrow
I've paid for your mistakes
Your time is borrowed
Your time has come to be released

I see pain, I see need
I see liars and fiends
Abuse power with greed
I had hope, I believed
But I'm beginning to think that I've been decieved
You will pay for what you've done

No, no more sorrow
I've paid for your mistakes
Your time is borrowed
Your time has come to be released

Face it, hypocrite !
Face it, hypocrite !
Face it, hypocrite !

No, no more sorrow
I've paid for your mistakes
Your time is borrowed
Your time has come to be released

No more sorrow
I've paid for your mistakes
Your time is borrowed
Your time has come to be released

Your time has come to be released
Your time has come to be erased

09. Valentine's Day

My insides all turn to ash, so slow
And the waves inside collide, so cold
A black winter blew away, from sight
And how the darkness over days, that night

And the clouds above moved closer
Looking so dissatisfied
But the heartless wind kept blowing, blowing

I used to be my own protection, but not now
'Cause my path has lost direction, somehow
A black winter blew away, from sight
And how the darkness over day, that night

And the clouds above moved closer
Looking so dissatisfied
And the ground below grew colder
As they put you down inside
But the heartless wind kept blowing, blowing

So now you're gone
And I was wrong
I never knew what it was like
To be alone....

On a Valentine's Day...On a Valentine's Day
On a Valentine's Day...On a Valentine's Day

On a Valentine's Day...On a Valentine's Day
[I used to be my own protection, but not now]
On a Valentine's Day...On a Valentine's Day
['Cause my mind has lost direction, somehow]
On a Valentine's Day...On a Valentine's Day
[I used to be my own protection, but not now]
On a Valentine's Day...On a Valentine's Day
['Cause my mind has lost direction, somehow]

10. In Between

Let me apologize to begin with
Let me apologize for what I'm about to say
But trying to be genuine was harder than it seemed
And somehow I got caught up in between

Let me apologize to begin with
Let me apologize for what I'm about to say
But trying to be someone else was harder than it seemed
And somehow I got caught up in between
Between my pride, and my promise
Between my lies, and how the truth gets in the way
The things I want to say to you get lost before they come
The only thing that's worse than one is none

Let me apologize to begin with
Let me apologize for what I'm about to say
But trying to regain your trust was harder than it seemed
And somehow I got caught up in between
Between my pride, and my promise
Between my lies, and how the truth gets in the way
The things I want to say to you get lost before they come
The only thing that's worse than one is none
The only thing that's worse than one is none...

And I can not explain to you in anything I say or do or plan
Fear is not afraid of you, guilt's a language you can understand
I can not explain to you in anything I say or do
But I hope that actions speak the words they can

For my pride and my promise
For my lies, and how the truth gets in the way
The things I want to say to you get lost before they come
The only thing that's worse than one is
Pride, and my promise
Between my lies and how the truth gets in the way
The things I want to say to you get lost before they come
The only thing that's worse than one is none
The only thing that's worse than one is none
The only thing that's worse than one is none

11. In Pieces

Telling me to go, but hands beg me to stay
Your lips say that you love, your eyes say that you hate

There's truth in your lies, doubt in your faith
What you build, you lay to waste
There's truth in your lies, doubt in your faith
All I've gots what you didn't take

So I...
I won't be the one
Be the one to leave this, in pieces
And you...
You will be alone...
Alone with all your secrets, and regrets
Don't lie

You promised me the sky, then tossed me like a stone
You wrapped me in your arms, And chill me to the bone

There's truth in your lies, doubt in your faith
All I've gots what you didn't take

So I...
I won't be the one
Be the one to leave this, in pieces
And you...
You will be alone... Alone with all your secrets, and regrets
Don't lie

So I...
I won't be the one
Be the one to leave this, in pieces
And you...
You will be alone... Alone with all your secrets, and regrets
Don't lie

12. The Little Things Give You Away

Water came through the windows, up the stairs
Chilling there, like an ocean everywhere

Don't want to reach for me, do you?
I mean nothing to you, the little things give you away
And now there will be no mistaking
The levees are breaking

All you've ever wanted...
Was someone to truly look up to you
And six feet under water, I do...

Hope decays, generations disappear
Washed away, as a nation simply stares

Don't want to reach for me, do you?
I mean nothing to you, the little things give you away
But now there will be no mistaking
The levees are breaking

All you've ever wanted...
Was someone to truly look up to you
And six feet under water, I do...
All you've ever wanted...
Was someone to truly look up to you
And six feet underground, now I...
Now I do...

Oh... Oh...
The little things give you away... the little things give you away
All you've ever wanted was someone to truly look up to you
All you've ever wanted was someone to truly look up to you

01. Dirt Off Your Shoulder/Lying From You

I ordered a frappucino. Where's my fucking frappucino? Alright, let's do this.

When I pretend everything is what I want it to be,
I look exactly like what you had always wanted to see,
When I pretend, I can forget about the criminal I am,
Stealin’ second after second just ‘cause I know I can,
But I can’t pretend this is the way it’ll stay,
I’m just trying to bend the truth,
I can’t pretend I’m who you want me to be,
So I’m lying my way from..

If you feelin' like a pimp *****, go and brush your shoulders off,
Ladies is pimps too, go and brush your shoulders off,
Niggas is crazy baby, don't forget that boy told you,
Get, that, dirt off your shoulder.

I probably owe it to y'all, proud to be locked by the force,
Tryin' to hustle some things, that go with the Porsche,
Feelin' no remorse, feelin' like my hand was forced,
Middle finger to the law, *****, grippin' my balls,
All the ladies they love me, from the bleachers they screamin',
All the ballers is bouncin' they like the way I be leanin',
All the rappers be hatin', off the track that I'm makin',
But all the hustlers they love it just to see one of us make it,
Came from the bottom the bottom, to the top of the pops,
***** London, Japan and I'm straight off the block,
Like a running back, get it man, I'm straight off the block,
I can run it back, *****, cause I'm straight with the Roc.

If you feelin' like a pimp *****, go and brush your shoulders off,
Ladies is pimps too, go and brush your shoulders off,
Niggaz is crazy baby, don't forget that boy told you,
Get, that, dirt off your shoulder

You gotta get, that, dirt off your shoulder,
You gotta get, that, dirt off your shoulder,
You gotta get, that, dirt off your shoulder,
You gotta get, that, dirt off your shoulder.

Your homie Hov' in position, in the kitchen with soda
I just whipped up a watch, tryin' to get me a Rover
Tryin' to stretch out the coca, like a wrestler, yessir,
Keep the Heckler close, you know them smokers'll test ya,
But like, fifty-two cards when I'm, I'm through dealin,
Now, fifty-two bars come out, now you feel 'em,
Now, fifty-two cars roll out, remove ceiling,
In case fifty-two broads come out, now you chillin',
With a boss bitch of course S.C. on the sleeve,
At the 40/40 club, ESPN on the screen,
I paid a grip for the jeans, plus the slippers is clean,
No chrome on the wheels, I'm a grown-up for real.

Yeah, I remember what they taught to me,
Remember condescending talk of who I outta be,
Remember listenin’ to all of that and this again,
So I pretended up a person who was fittin’ in,
And now you think this person really is me,
And I’m trying to bend the truth,
But, the more I push, the more I’m pullin’ away,
‘Cause I’m lying my way from you.

(No turning back now),
I wanna be pushed aside,
So let me go,
(No, no turning back now),
Lemme take back my life,
I’d rather be all alone,
(No turning back now),
Anywhere on my own,
‘Cause I can see,
(No, no turning back now),
The very worst part of you,
The very worst part of you,
Is me.

This isn’t what I wanted to be,
I never thought that what I said,
Would have you running from me,
Like this,
This isn’t what I wanted to be,
I never thought that what I said,
Would have you runnin’ from me,
Like this (like this),
This isn’t what I wanted to be,
I never thought that what I said,
Would have you running from me,
Like this (like this),
This isn’t what I wanted to be,
I never thought that what I said,
Would have you running from me,
Like this.

You..

(No turning back now),
I wanna be pushed aside,
So let me go,
(No, no turning back now),
Lemme take back my life,
I’d rather be all alone,
(No turning back now),
Anywhere on my own,
‘Cause I can see,
(No, no turning back now),
The very worst part of you,
The very worst part of you,
Is me.

Biatch!

02. Big Pimpin'/Papercut

Hahaha
You're wasting your talent, randy

It's like I'm paranoid, looking over my back
It's like a whirlwind inside of my head
It's like I can't stop what I'm hearing within
It's like the face inside is right...

Why does it look like night today?
Something in here's not right today
Why am I so uptight today?
Paranoia's all I got left
I don't know what stressed me first
Or how the pressure was fed
But, I know just what it feels like
To have a voice in the back of my head
It's like a face that I hold inside
A face that awakes when I close my eyes
A face that watches every time I lie
A face that laughs every time I fall
(And watches everything)
So I know that, when it's time to sink or swim
That the face inside is hearing me
Right underneath my skin

It's like I'm paranoid, looking over my back
It's like a whirlwind inside of my head
It's like I can't stop what I'm hearing within
It's like the face inside is right beneath my skin

You know I thug 'em, fuck 'em, love 'em, leave 'em
Cause I dont fucking need em
Take 'em out the 'hood, keep 'em lookin good
But I dont fucking feed 'em
First time they fuss I'm breezing, talking about: "What's the reason?"
I'm a pimp in every sense of the word bitch
Better trust and believe him
In the cut where I keep 'em
Til I need a nut, til I need to beat the guts
Then it's, beep beep and I'm pickin em up
Let em play with the dick in the truck
Many chicks wanna put Jigga fist in cuffs
Divorce him and split his bucks
Just because you got good head, I'ma break bread
So you can be livin it up? Shit I..
Parts with nothin, y'all be frontin
Me give my heart to a woman?
Not for nothin, never happen
I'll be forever mackin
Heart cold as assassins, I got no passion
I got no patience
And I hate waitin..
Hoe get yo' ass in
And let's RI-I-I-I-I-IDE.. check em out now
RI-I-I-I-I-IDE, yeah
And let's RI-I-I-I-I-IDE.. check em out now
RI-I-I-I-I-IDE, yeah

We doin.. big pimpin, we spendin G's
Check em out now
Big pimpin, on B.L.A.D.'s
We doin.. big pimpin up in N.Y.C.
It's just that Jigga Man, Pimp C, and B-U-N B
Yo yo yo.. big pimpin, spendin G's
We doin - big pimpin, on B.L.A.D.'s
We doin.. big pimpin up in N.Y.C.
It's just that Jigga Man, Pimp C, and B-U-N B

03. Jigga What/Faint

jigga what? jigga who?
jigga what? jigga who?
jigga what? jigga who?

you gonna lead the vocal in, right?

Motherfukkers wanna act loco, hit em wit, numerous
shots with the fo'-fo'
Faggots runnin to the Po-Po's, smoke em like cocoa
Fuck rap, coke by the boatload
Fuck dat, on the run-by, gun high, one eye closed
Left holes through some guy clothes
Stop your bullshittin, glock with the full clip
Motherfukkers better duck when the fool spit
One shot could make a ***** do a full flip
See the ***** layin shocked when the bullet hit
I hate my high youth, no niggaz wanna buy you
But see me I wanna fuck for free
Now I gotta let her take this ride, make you feel it
inside your belly, if it's tight get the K-Y Jelly
All night get you wide up inside the telly
Side to side, til you say Jay-Z you're too much for me

I am a little bit of loneliness, a little bit of disregard
Handful of complaints but I can't help the fact that everyone can see these scars
I am what I want you to want, what I want you to feel
But it's like no matter what I do, I can't convince you to just believe this is real
So I let go watching you turn your back like you always do
Face away and pretend that I'm not, but I'll be here 'cause you're all that I got

Got a condo with nothin but condoms in it
The same place where the rhymes is invented
So all I do is rap and sex, imagine how I stroke
See how I was flowin on my last cassette?
Rapid-fire like I'm blastin a Tec, never jam though
Never get high, never run out of ammo
Niggaz hatin and shit cause I slayed your bitch
You know your favorite, I know it made you sick
And now you're, actin raw but you never had war
Don't know how to carry your hoe, wanna marry your hoe
Now she's mad at me, causer Your Majesty, just happened to be a pimp
What a tragedy
She wanted, us to end, cause I fucked with friends
She gave me one more chance and I fucked her again
I seen her tears as she busted in, I said, "Shit..
there's a draft, shut the door bitch and come on in!"

I am a little bit insecure, a little unconfident
Cause you don't understand, I do what I can but sometimes I don't make sense
I am what you never wanna say, but I've never had a doubt
It's like no matter what I do, I can't convince you for once just to hear me out
So I let go watching you turn your back like you always do
Face away and pretend that I'm not, but I'll be here 'cause you're all that I got

I can't feel
The way I did before
Don't turn your back on me
I won't be ignored
Time won't heal
This damage anymore
Don't turn your back on me
I won't be ignored

No
Hear me out now
You're gonna listen to me
Like it or not
Right now
Hear me out now
You're gonna listen to me
Like it or not
Right now

I can't feel
The way I did before
Don't turn your back on me
I won't be ignored

I can't feel
The way I did before
Don't turn your back on me
I won't be ignored
Time won't heal
This damage anymore
Don't turn your back on me
I won't be ignored

I can't feel
Don't turn your back on me
I won't be ignored
Time won't heal
Don't turn your back on me
I won't be ignored

04. Numb/Encore

Yeah
Thank you, thank you, thank you
You’re far too kind
Haha
Uh, yeah
Ready?
Let’s go

Can I get a encore? Do you want more?
Cookin’ raw with the Brooklyn boy
So, for one last time, I need y’all to roar
Now, what the hell are you waiting for?
After me, there shall be no more
So, for one last time, nigga, make some noise

Get ‘em, Jay

Who you know fresher than Hov? Riddle me that
The rest of y’all know where I’m lyrically at
Can’t none of y’all mirror me back
Yeah, hearin’ me rap is like hearin’ G. Rap in his prime
I’m young H.O.: Rap’s Grateful Dead
Back to take over the globe—now break bread
I’m in Boeing jets, Global Express
Out the country but the blueberry still connect
On the low but the yacht got a triple deck
But when you young what the fuck you expect? (yep, yep)
Grand openin’—grand closin’
God damn, your man Hov cracked the can open again
Who you gon’ find doper than him with no pen?
Just draw off inspiration
Soon you gon’ see you can’t replace him (him)
With cheap imitations for these generations

Can I get a encore? Do you want more?
Cookin’ raw with the Brooklyn boy
So, for one last time, I need y’all to roar
Now, what the hell are you waiting for?
After me, there shall be no more
So, for one last time, nigga, make some noise
What the hell are you waiting for

Look what you made me do, look what I made for you
Knew if I paid my dues how will they pay you?
When you first come in the game they try to play you
Then you drop a couple of hits—look how they wave to you
From Marcy to Madison Square
To the only thing that matters in just a matter of years (yeah)
As fate would have it Jay’s status appears
To be at an all-time high—perfect time to say goodbye
When I come back like Jordan wearin’ the four-five
It ain’t to play games with you
It’s to aim at you—probably maim you
If I owe you I’ll blow you to smithereens
Cocksucka’, take one for your team
And I need you to remember one thing (one thing)
I came, I saw, I conquered
From record sales to sold-out concerts
So mo’fucka’, if you want this encore
I need you to scream ‘til your lungs get sore

I’m tired of being what you want me to be
Feeling so faithless
Lost under the surface
Don’t know what you’re expecting of me
Put under the pressure
Of walking in your shoes
Caught in the undertow
We’re just caught in the undertow
Every step that I take is another mistake to you
Caught in the undertow
We’re just caught in the undertow
And every second I waste is more than I can take

I’ve become so numb
I can’t feel you there
Become so tired
So much more aware
I’m becoming this
All I want to do
Is be more like me
And be less like you

I’ve become so numb
Can I get a encore? Do you want more? (more)
I’ve become so numb
So, for one last time, I need y’all to roar
One last time, I need y’all to roar

05. Izzo/In The End

This is fun

Ladies and gentlemen, put our hands together for the
astonishing...
H to the izz-O...V to the izz-A...

Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the 8th wonder of the world
The flow o' the century...always timeless...HOV!
(That's awesome)
Thank you for coming out tonight
You coulda been anywhere in the world, but you're here with us
We appreciate that

Uhh, H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A
Fo' shizzle my nizzle used to dribble down in VA
Was herbin' em in the home of the Terrapins
Got it dirt cheap for them
Plus if they was short wit' cheese I would work wit' them
Boy and we...got rid of that dirt for them
Wasn't born hustlers I was burpin' em
H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A
Fo' sheezy my neezy keep my arms so freezy
Can't leave rap alone the game needs me
Haters want me clapped and chromed it ain't easy
Cops wanna knock me, D.A. wanna box me in
But somehow, I beat them charges like Rocky
H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A
Not guilty, he who does not feel me is not real to me
Therefore he doesn't exist
So poof...vamoose son of a bitch

H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A
Fo' shizzle my nizzle used to dribble down in V.A.
H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A
That's the anthem get'cha damn hands up
H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A
Not guilty ya'll got-ta feel me
H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A
(check it out, yo)

(It starts with)
One thing, I don't know why
It doesn't even matter how hard you try
Keep that in mind, I designed this rhyme
To explain in due time
(All I know)
Time is a valuable thing
Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings
Watch it count down to the end of the day
The clock ticks life away
(It's so unreal)
Didn't look out below
Watched the time go right out the window
Tried to hold on, but didn't even know
I wasted it all just to
(Watch you go)
I kept everything inside
And, even though I tried, it all fell apart
What it meant to me will eventually be
A memory of a time when I tried so...

it starts with... h-to-the-izz-O, v-to-the-izz-A, LP, jay-z, help me out
(aw, they having a good 'ol time out there)
it starts with... h-to-the-izz-O, v-to-the-izz-A, LP, jay-z, help me out
(aw, they having a good 'ol time out there)
it starts with... h-to-the-izz-O, v-to-the-izz-A, LP, jay-z, help me out
(yes, indeed, ladies and gentlemen)

06. Points Of Authority/99 Problems/One Step Closer

If you havin’ girl problems I feel bad for you, son
I got ninety-nine problems but a bitch ain’t one
Hit me

You got it, Mike?

He’s got the rap patrol on the gat patrol
Foes that wanna make sure his casket’s closed
Rap critics who say he’s “Money, Cash, Hoes”
He’s from the hood, stupid, what type of facts are those?
If you grew up with holes in your sapitos
You’d be celebratin’ the minute you was havin’ dough
So fuck critics: You can kiss our whole asshole
If you don’t like the lyrics you can press fast-forward
Got beef with radio if we don’t play the show
They don’t play our hits—we don’t give a shit, so
All these mags tryin’ to use our ass
So advertisers can give ‘em more cash for ads
Fuckers, I don’t know what you take us as
Or understand the intelligence that Jay-Z has
From rags to riches, we ain’t dumb
We got ninety-nine problems but a bitch ain’t one
Hit me

Ninety-nine problems but a bitch ain’t one
If you havin’ girl problems I feel bad for you, son
I got ninety-nine problems but a bitch ain’t one
Hit me

The year is ninety-four and my trunk is raw
In the rear-view mirror is the mo’fuckin’ law
I got two choices, y’all: Pull over the car or
Bounce on the double, put the pedal to the floor
Now I ain’t tryin’ to see no highway chase with Jake
Plus I got a few dollars—I can fight the case
So I pull over to the side of the road
And I heard: “Son, do you know what I’m stoppin’ you for?”
‘Cause I’m young and I’m black and my hat’s too low?
Do I look like a mind-reader, sir? I don’t know
Am I under arrest or should I guess some more?
“You was doin’ fifty-five in a fifty four
License and registration and step out of the car
Are you carryin’ a weapon on you? I know a lot of you are”
I ain’t steppin’ out of shit
All my paper’s legit
“Well, do you mind if I look around the car a little bit?”
Well, my glove compartment is locked—so’s the trunk in the back
And I know my rights so you gon’ need a warrant for that
“Now aren’t you sharp as a tack? You some type-a lawyer or somethin’?
Somebody important or somethin’?”
Haha, I ain’t passed the bar but I know a little bit
Enough that you won’t illegally search my shit
“We’ll see how smart you are when the K9’s come”
I got ninety-nine problems but a bitch ain’t one
Hit me

Ninety-nine problems but a bitch ain’t one
If you havin’ girl problems I feel bad for you, son
I got ninety-nine problems but a bitch ain’t one
Hit me

Ninety-nine problems but a bitch ain’t one
If you havin’ girl problems I feel bad for you, son
I got ninety-nine problems but a bitch ain’t one
Hit me

Ninety-nine problems but a bitch ain’t one
If you havin’ girl problems I feel bad for you, son
I got ninety-nine problems but a bitch ain’t one

Now, once upon a time not too long ago
A nigga like myself had to strong-arm a ho
This is not a ho in the sense of havin’ pussy
But a pussy havin’ no God damn sense tryin’ to push me
I tried to ignore him and talk to the Lord
Pray for him ‘cause some fools just love to perform
You know the type: Loud as a motorbike
But wouldn’t bust a grape in a fruit fight
The only thing that’s gonna happen is I’m-a get to clappin’
And he and his boys gon’ be yappin’ to the captain
And there I go, trapped in the kit-kat again
Back through the system with the riff-raff again
Fiends on the floor scratchin’ again
Paparazzis with they cameras, snappin’ them
DA tried to give the nigga shaft again
Half a mil for bail ‘cause I’m African
All because this fool was harassin’ them
Tryin’ to play the boy like he’s saccharine
But ain’t nothin’ sweet—‘bout I hold my gun
I got ninety-nine problems—bein’ a bitch ain’t one
Hit me

Ninety-nine problems but a bitch ain’t one
If you havin’ girl problems I feel bad for you, son
I got ninety-nine problems but a bitch ain’t one
Hit me

Ninety-nine problems but a bitch ain’t one
If you havin’ girl problems I feel bad for you, son
I got ninety-nine problems but a bitch ain’t one
Hit me

Shut up when I’m talkin’ to you
Shut up
Shut up
Shut up
Shut up when I’m talkin’ to you
Shut up
Shut up
Shut up
Shut up
I’m about to break

Everything you say to me
I got ninety-nine problems but a bitch ain’t one
Hit
I need a little room to breathe
I got ninety-nine problems but a bitch ain’t one
Hit me
Everything you say to me
I got ninety-nine problems but a bitch ain’t one
Hit me
I need a little room to breathe
I got ninety-nine problems
And I’m about to break

01. Foreword
Pas de paroles

02. Don't Stay

Sometimes I need to remember just to breathe
Sometimes I need you to stay away from me
Sometimes I'm in disbelief, I didn't know
Somehow I need you to go
Don't stay
Forget our memories
Forget our possibilities
What you were changing me into
Just take myself back and
Don't stay
Forget our memories
Forget our possibilities
Take all your faithlessness with you
Just take myself back and
Don't stay

Sometimes I feel like I trusted you too well
Sometimes I just feel like strangling you myself
Sometimes I'm in disbelief, I didn't know
Somehow I need to be alone

Don't stay
Forget our memories
Forget our possibilities
What you were changing me into
Just take myself back and
Don't stay
Forget our memories
Forget our possibilities
Take all your faithlessness with you
Just take myself back and
Don't stay

I don?t need you anymore, don?t want to be ignored
I don?t need one more day, of you wasting me away
I don?t need you anymore, I don?t want to be ignored
I don?t need one more day, of you wasting me away
With no apologies

Don't stay
Forget our memories
Forget our possibilities
What you were changing me into
Just take myself back and
Don't stay
Forget our memories
Forget our possibilities
Take all your faithlessness with you
Just take myself back and
Don't stay

Don't stay

Don't stay

03. Somewhere I Belong

When this began
I had nothing to say
And I get lost in the nothingness inside of me
I was confused
And I let it all out to find
That I'm not the only person with these things in mind
Inside of me
But all that they can see the words revealed
Is the only real thing that I?ve got left to feel
(Nothing to lose)
Just stuck, hollow and alone
And the fault is my own, and the fault is my own

I wanna heal, I wanna feel what I thought was never real
I wanna let go of the pain I've felt so long
Erase all the pain till it's gone
I wanna heal, I wanna feel like I'm close to something real
I wanna find something I've wanted all along
Somewhere I belong

And I've got nothing to say
I can't believe I didn't fall right down on my face
I was confused
Looking everywhere only to find
That it's not the way I had imagined it all in my mind
So what am I
What do I have but negativity
Cause I can't justify the way, everyone is looking at me
Nothing to lose
Nothing to gain, hollow and alone
And the fault is my own, and the fault is my own

I wanna heal, I wanna feel what I thought was never real
I wanna let go of the pain I've felt so long
Erase all the pain till it's gone
I wanna heal, I wanna feel like I'm close to something real
I wanna find something I've wanted all along
Somewhere I belong

I will never know myself until I do this on my own
And I will never feel anything else until my wounds are healed
I will never be anything till I break away from me
I will break away, I'll find myself today

I wanna heal, I wanna feel what I thought was never real
I wanna let go of the pain I've felt so long
Erase all the pain till it's gone
I wanna heal, I wanna feel like I'm close to something real
I wanna find something I've wanted all along
Somewhere I belong

I wanna heal, I wanna feel like I'm somewhere I belong
I wanna heal, I wanna feel like I'm somewhere I belong
Somewhere I belong

04. Lying From You

When I pretend, everything is what I want it be,
I looked exactly like what you always wanted to see
When I pretend, I can't forget about the criminal I am
Stealing second after second just cause I know I can, but
I can't pretend that this is they way it will stay, I'm just
(Lying to defend the truth)
I can't pretend of who you want me to be so
(I'm lying my way from)

You
(Nah, no turning back now)
I wanna be close beside so let me go
(Nah, no turning back now)
Let me take me back my life
I'd rather be all alone
(No turning back now)
And anywhere on my own, cause I can see
(Nah, no turning back now)
'Cause everyone's lying from you
With me

I remember what they taught to me,
Remember condescending took for what I ought to be
Remember fussing and all of that and this again
so I could turned it up to the person who was feeling it
And now you think this person really is me and I
(Trying to defend the truth )
yo, the more I push I'm pulling away cause I?m
(Lying my way from)

You
(Nah, no turning back now)
I wanna be close beside so let me go
(Nah, no turning back now)
Let me take me back my life
I'd rather be all alone
(No turning back now)
And anywhere on my own, cause I can see
(Nah, no turning back now)
'Cause everyone's lying from you
With me

This isn't what I wanted to be, I never thought what I said would have you
running from me
Like this
This isn't what I wanted to be, I never thought what I said would have you
running from me
Like this
This isn't what I wanted to be, I never thought what I said would have you
running from me
Like this
This isn't what I wanted to be, I never thought what I said would have you
running from me
Like this

You
(Nah, no turning back now)
I wanna be close beside so let me go
(Nah, no turning back now)
Let me take me back my life
I'd rather be all alone
(No turning back now)
And anywhere on my own, cause I can see
(Nah, no turning back now)
'Cause everyone's lying from you
With me

05. Hit The Floor

There are just too many times when people try to put their trust in me
Wondering when I think of you well I protect you out of courtesy
Too many ti mes that I held on but when I didn't you push away
Afraid to say what is wrong and right, Afraid to say what I need to say
Too many things that you say about me when I'm not around
You think you have the upper hand and you got to put me down
Well I got so many sad thoughts of you it's about as much as I can stand
So I wait till the upper hand is mine

One minute you're up top
(You better not want to draw)
Making a rough start
(Just before you hit the floor)
One minute you're up top
(You better not miss a shot)
Making a rough start
(You think you won)
And then it's all gone

So many people like me that put so much trust in all the lies
So concerned with better things and just say what we feel inside
So many people like me walk on eggshells all day long
All of those and all they want is to feel like I've been stepped on
There are so many things you say that make me feel you cross the line
Wat ch this I will show you all I am counting down the time
Well I got so many sad thoughts of you it's about as much as I can stand
So I wait till the upper hand is mine

One minute you're up top
(You better not want to draw)
Making a rough start
(Just before you hit the floor)
One minute you're up top
(You better not miss a shot)
Making a rough start
(You think you won)
And then it's all gone

I know I can't trust or see the way you say
And now I realise you're byast but you're right anyway
And now your eyes have got you thinking up for what you saw
I know now something's got to fall

One minute you're up top
(You better not want to draw)
Making a rough start
(Just before you hit the floor)
One minute you're up top
(You better not miss a shot)
Making a rough start
(You think you won)
And then it's all gone

06. Easier To Run

It's easier to run
Replacing this pain with something long
It's so much easier to go
Then face all this pain here all alone

Something has been taken from deep inside of me
The secret I've kept locked away no can ever see
wounds so deep they never show, They never go away
Like moving pictures in my head
For years and years they play

If I could change I would
Take all the pain I would
Retrace every wrong move that I made I would
If I could stand up and take the blame I would
If I could take all the shame to the grave I would
If I could change I would
Take all the pain I would
Retrace every wrong move that I made I would
If I could stand up and take the blame I would
I would take all my shame to the grave

It's easier to run replacing this pain with something long
It's so much easier to go
Then face all this pain here all alone

Some things I remember the darkness of my past
Bringing back these memories I wish I didn't have
Sometimes I think I'm letting go and never looking back
I'm never moving forward so, there'd never be a past

If I could change I would
Take all the pain I would
Retrace every wrong move that I made I would
If I could stand up and take the blame I would
If I could take all the shame to the grave I would
If I could change I would
Take all the pain I would
Retrace every wrong move that I made I would
If I could stand up and take the blame I would
I would take all my shame to the grave.

Just watch it in the sun
All of the helplessness as I've
Pretending I don't feel misplaced
It's so much simpler to change

It's easier to run replacing this pain with something long
It's so much easier to run
Replace all this pain here all alone

It's easier to run

If I could change I would
Take all the pain I would
Retrace every wrong move that I made

It's easier to run

If I could change I would
Take all the pain I would
Retrace every wrong move that I made I would
If I could stand up and take the blame I would
I would take all the shame with me

07. Faint

I am a little bit of loneliness, a little bit of disregard
Handful of complaints, but I can help the fact, that everybody can see these scars
What I want you to want, what I want you to feel
But it's like no matter what I do, I can't convince you, to just believe this is real
So I let go, watching you, turn your back like you always do
Face away and pretend that I'm not
But I'll be here 'cause you want what I've got

I can't feel the way I did before
Don't turn your back on me
I won't be ignored
Time won't heal this damage anymore
Don't turn your back on me
I won't be ignored

I am a little bit insecure, a little unconfident
'Cause you don't understand, I do what I can, but sometimes I don't make sense
I say what you never wanna say, but I've never had a doubt
It's like no matter what I do, I can't convince you, for once just to hear me out
So I let go, watching you, turn your back like you always do
Face away and pretend that I'm not
But I'll be here 'cause you want what I've got

I can't feel the way I did before
Don't turn your back on me
I won't be ignored
Time won't heal this damage anymore
Don't turn your back on me
I won't be ignored

Now
Hear me out now
You're gonna listen to me, like it or not
Right now
Hear me out now
You're gonna listen to me, like it or not
Right now

I can't feel the way I did before
Don't turn your back on me
I won't be ignored

I can't feel the way I did before
Don't turn your back on me
I won't be ignored
Time won't heal this damage anymore
Don't turn your back on me
I won't be ignored

I can't feel
I won't be ignored
Time won't heal
Don't tur n your back on me
I won't be ignored

08. Figure.09

Nothin' ever stops all these thoughts n' the pain attached to them
Sometimes I wonder why this is happenin?
It's like nothin? I can do would distract me when
I think of how I shot myself in the back again
'Cuz from the infinite words I can say I
Put all pain you gave to me on display
But didn't realize instead of settin' it free I
Took what I hated and made it a part of me

It never goes away
It never goes away

And now
You've become a part of me
You'll always be right here
You've become a part of me
You'll always be my fear
I can't separate
Myself from what I've done
Giving up a part of me
I've let myself become you

Hearin' your name the memories come back again
I remember when it started happenin'
I see you n' every thought I had and then
The thoughts slowly found words attached to them
And I knew as they escaped away
I was committin' myself to em n' everyday
I regret sayin' those things 'cuz now I see that I
Took what I hated and made it a part of me

It never goes away
It never goes away

And now
You've become a part of me
You'll always be right here
You've become a part of me
You'll always be my fear
I can't separate
Myself from what I've done
Giving up a part of me
I've let myself become you

It never goes away
It never goes away
It never goes away
It never goes away

Get away from me!
Give me my space back you gotta just
Go!
Everything comes down the memories of
You!
I Kept it in without lettin' you
Know!
I Let you go so get away from
Me!
Give me my space back you gotta just
Go!
Everything comes down the memories of
You!
I Kept it in without lettin' you
Know!
I Let you go

And now
You've become a part of me
You'll always be right here
You've become a part of me
You'll always be my fear
I can't separate
Myself from what I've done
Giving up a part of me
I've let myself become you
I've let myself become you
I've let myself become lost inside these thoughts of you
Giving up a part of me
I've let myself become you

09. Breaking The Habit

Memories consume
Like opening the wound
I'm picking me apart again
You all assume
I'm safe here in my room
Unless I try to start again
I don't want to be the one
The battles always choose
Cause inside I realize
That I'm the one confused

I don't know what's worth fighting for
Or why I have to scream
I don't know why I instigate
And say what I don't mean
I don't know how I got this way
I know it's not alright
So I'm
Breaking the habit
Breaking the habit
Tonight

Clutching my cure
I tightly lock the door
I try to catch my breath again
I hurt much more
Than anytime before
I had no options left again
I don't want to be the one
The battles always choose
Cause inside I realize
That I'm the one confused

I don't know what's worth fighting for
Or why I have to scream
I don't know why I instigate
And say what I don't mean
I don't know how I got this way
I'll never be alright
So I'm
Breaking the habit
Breaking the habit
Tonight

I'll paint it on the walls
Cause I'm the one at fault
I'll never fight again
And this is how it ends

I don't know what's worth fighting for
Or why I have to scream
But now I have some clarity
To show you what I mean
I don't know how I got this way
I'll never be alright
So I'm
Breaking the habit
Breaking the habit
Breaking the habit
Tonight

10. From The Inside

I don't know who to trust
No surprise
Everyone feels so far away from me
Heavy thoughts sift through dust
And the lies
Trying not to break
But I'm so tired of this deceit
Every time I try to make myself
Get back up on my feet
All I ever think about is this
All the tiring time between and how
Trying to put my trust in you
Just takes so much out of me

Take everything from the inside
And throw it all away
Cause I swear / for the last time
I won't trust myself with you

Tension is building inside
Steadily
Everyone feels so far away from me
Heavy thoughts forcing their way
Out of me
Trying not to break
But I'm so tired of this deceit
Every time I try to make myself
Get back up on my feet
All I ever think about is this
All the tiring time between and how
Trying to put my trust in you
Just takes so much out of me

Take everything from the inside
And throw it all away
Cause I swear / for the last time
I won't trust myself with you

I won't trust myself on You
You
You
Waste myself on You
You
You

I
Take everything from the inside
And throw it all away
Cause I swear / for the last time
I won't trust myself with you

11. No Body's Listening

Peep the style and the kids checking for it
The number one question is how could you ignore it
We drop right back in the cut
Over basement tracks
With raps that got you backing this up like
[rewind that]
We're just rolling with the rhythm
Rise from the ashes of stylistic division
With these non-stop lyrics of life living
Not to be forgotten
But still unforgiven
But in the meantime there are those who wanna
Talk this and that / so I suppose
That it gets to a that point feelings gotta get hurt
And get dirty with the people spreading the dirt
[it goes]

Try to give you warning
But everyone ignores me
[told you everything loud and clear]
But nobody's listening
Call to you so clearly
But you don't want to hear me
[told you everything loud and clear]
But nobody's listening

I got a heart full of pain / head full of stress
Handful of anger / held in my chest
And everything left is a waste of time
I hate my rhymes
[but hate everyone else's more]
I'm riding on the back of this pressure
Guessing that it's better
That I can't keep myself together
Because all of this stress
Gave me something to write on
The pain gave me something I could set my sights on
You never forget the blood sweat and tears
The uphill struggle over years
The fear and trash talking
And the people it was to
And the people that started it
Just like you

Try to give you warning
But everyone ignores me
[told you everything loud and clear]
But nobody's listening
Call to you so clearly
But you don't want to hear me
[told you everything loud and clear]
But nobody's listening

I got a heart full of pain / head full of stress
Handful of anger / held in my chest
Uphill struggle / blood sweat and tears
Nothing to gain / everything to fear

Heart full of pain / head full of stress
Handful of anger / held in my chest
Uphill struggle / blood sweat and tears
Nothing to gain / everything to fear

Heart full of pain
Heart full of pain
Heart full of pain
Heart full of pain

Try to give you warning
But everyone ignores me
[told you everything loud and clear]
But nobody's listening
Call to you so clearly
But you don't want to hear me
[told you everything loud and clear]
But nobody's listening

I got a heart full of pain / head full of stress
Nobody's listening
Handful of anger / held in my chest
Nobody's listening
Uphill struggle / blood sweat and tears
Nobody's listening
Nothing to gain / everything to fear
Nobody's listening

[coming at you]
[coming at you]
[coming at you]
[coming at you from every side]

12. Session
Pas de paroles


13. Numb

I'm tired of being what you want me to be
Feeling so faithless
Lost under the surface
I don't know what you're expecting of me
Put under the pressure
Of walking in your shoes
[caught in the undertow / just caught in the undertow]
Every step that I take is another mistake to you
[caught in the undertow / just caught in the undertow]

I've
Become so numb
I can't feel you there
Become so tired
So much more aware
I'm becoming this
All I want to do
Is be more like me
And be less like you

Can't you see that you're smothering me
Holding too tightly
Afraid to lose control
Cause everything that you thought I would be
Has fallen apart right in front of you
[caught in the undertow / just caught in the undertow]
Every step that I take is another mistake to you
[caught in the undertow / just caught in the undertow]
And every second I waste is more than I can take

I've
Become so numb
I can't feel you there
Become so tired
So much more aware
I'm becoming this
All I want to do
Is be more like me
And be less like you

And I know
I may end up failing too
But I know
You were just like me
With someone disappointed in you

I've
Become so numb
I can't feel you there
Become so tired
So much more aware
I'm becoming this
All I want to do
Is be more like me
And be less like you

I've
Become so numb
I can't feel you there
I'm tired of being what you want me to be

I've
Become so numb
I can't feel you there
I'm tired of being what you want me to be