Ya'll ready for 311?
I'd like to stay here just like this
It’s just a momentary bliss
That’s all we can hope for
That’s a reason to cope for
This life
This life, and no more
You will be immortal man
One in the hand
You will know exactly then
What you had
You found the cure
And Morse code's for rapture
Get with your rhythm
Get with your nature
The moment’s running down the mountain
It can be captured from a fountain
Sometimes all that it can be
Absence of agony
Pleasure from the lack of the pain
You will be mortal man
One in the hand
You will know exactly then
What you had
You found the cure
And morse code's for rapture
Get with your rhythm
Get with your nature
Serendipitous my travels throughout time
I grab a moment like a thief and then I make it mine
Nothing will compare to your realization
When you come to find out your new object of fixation
I Try to freeze time
Try to freeze time for your mind
Pefect snapshot to always rewind
Golden butter jam
Golden butter jam for your slam
Remember it in your synapse diagram
Sweetness is your bein' zen human walkin'
Steppin’ out from shadows flowin’ like a breeze soft and
When dawn unveils the morning stars risen
Feel the light, feel the love, you’re christened
With this life, not ours, not for long
But for the taking, take it, the birth light breakin' it
Between the light and darkness is a seem that is caving in
And mutating rearranging your soul
Changing form again
You are immortal man
One in the hand
Know exactly then
What you had
You got the cure
And Morse codes for rapture
Get with your rhythm
Get with your nature
Serendipitous my travels through our time
I grab a moment like a thief and then I make it mine
Nothing will compare to your realization
When you come to find out your new object of fixation
Try to freeze time
Try to freeze time for your mind
Pefect snapshot to always rewind
Golden butter jam
Golden butter jam for your slam
Remember it in your synapse diagram
You are immortal man
One in the hand
Know exactly then
What you had
You got the cure
And Morse code's for rapture
Get with your rhythm
Get with your nature
You got to
You got to
You got to come original you got to come original
All entertainers come original
You got to come original you got to come original
All entertainers
Hear why
To come original it ain’t nothin' strange
You got to represent you got come full range
Full range of emotion full range of styles
When you come to town you'll have them comin' fof miles
And come original you got to come original
All entertainers come original
You got to come original you got to come original
All entertainers
Hear why
Black Eyed Peas they comin' full range and
NOFX they comin' full range and
Roni Size he comin' full range
The one Mr. Vegas you know it ain’t easy
A warning to the crews out there who think they’re hot
If you’re not original rockers you will get shot
Down by the kids neglectin’ your art, the stuff you did
Eventually it get so bad puts you to bed
Cuz when the lightning flashes sweet electricity
All the world then stands revealed with the clarity
Of raw voltage, briefly we see and the hope is
You’ll be able to tell just what dope is
Come original you got to come original
All entertainers come original
You got to come original you got to come original
All entertainers
Hear why
Funk slap bass mixed with the dancehall and
Hip-hop beats and punk guitar and
Deadly on the mic is the one SA
The name is 311 and you know it ain’t easy
This is not a test there’s no time to mope
How you gonna cope with radioactive isotope
And boss dj illness upon you now quickly
Infecting you fast upon the airwaves
This message brought to you by the so large system
Activate and attune yourself with meditation
And green plants they’ve got mad life they’re sentient
They’re beautiful as you and they like to dance
1, 2, 3, 4
Everything we do we gotta come original
Put your hand up in the air and prepare for battle
Sit upon the rhythm like a tire upon a rim
We do it non-stop and then we do it again
Some of them whine and some of them bitch
They can not do it never switch
Comin' up from the heart and
Delivered with a wild pitch
Sit up on top the rhythm like a wild stallion
This is the ruling system
Come original you got to come original
All entertainers come original
You got to come original you got to come original
All entertainers come original
You got to come original you got to come original
All entertainers come original
You got to come original you got to come original
All entertainers
Come original
Check it out – got clout and you know that
Large in the margin
My drama unfolds behind closed doors
Told on the down-low
I believe that I’m sold but really
I don’t know
Maybe it’s better, but I can’t think so
Maybe its better to fight
One never ever knows
Believe the rumors that grow like tumors
More fun than the truth
That we know
Trying...
Too hard to reach a higher plane
We’ll fuck you up
When you least expect it
You think you’re movin’ close
When suddenly you wrecked it
But all the same, pain gains wisdom
As if you ain’t had enough then you’re in some
Prison of your own creation
Mental dilation
Look at what your facin’ placin’
Blame in every direction
But in the end it’s your own infection
There’s no way to avoid listening
Always end up listening
He’s hoping the voices aren’t too unkind
He’s hoping the voices are benign
It’s easier when you hear it
There’s no reason to fear it
It’s you, you...
You think they’ll probably find you
Well then you’re probably right
Cause they’ll come back to remind you – for eternity
When you gave up the fight, yeah
Somehow they always will find you
The voices in the night – and every night
Keep comin’ back to remind you – for eternity
Of when you gave up the fight
There’s no way to avoid listening
Always end up listening
He’s hoping the voices aren’t too unkind
He’s hoping the voices are benign
It’s easier when you hear it
There’s no reason to fear it
It’s you, you...
Along the way to close my eyes
I lost where I was going
The more it will spin
The more that I try
To stop my mind flowing away, away...
To all that I despise
Along the way to close my eyes
You can’t be let down if you don’t expect the world
Expect to lay awake there by your sleeping girl
If somebody cares then there is no way you can tell
Cursed consciousness is your private hell
Along the way to close my eyes
I lost where I was going
The more it will spin
The more that I try
To stop my mind flowing away, away...
To all that I despise
Along the way to close my eyes
Tick, tick, tick the clock bludgeons your mind
Endlessly replaying times that were unkind
Go away sun I’m not prepared
For you today
It seems you are
It seems you are...huh
Along the way to close my eyes
I lost where I was going
The more it will spin
The more that I try
To stop my mind flowing away, away...
To all that I despise
Along the way to close my eyes
I am a
Cool and mellow man
Always got a plan
Copin' out problems every time I can
I'd like to be known as a great communicator
If you got beff don't save it for later
I battle evil weekly monthly yearly
But every step I take the devil stays near me
Otherwise maintain on the globe
Just another space trippin' vato
Massive yang and yin on this earth we spin
Sometimes I gotta center find out who I am
I chill out let in the wind
I gotta feel the pulse of the planet on my skin
I got nesws for ya it ain't nothin nice
We all got demons we all gotta a vice
The struggle never ends
To keep it in check
But I never stop tryin to make the trek, whadup
Which one is it who ya gonna believe
Undevided in my material being
Undivided life
You can't fade me
Desperate the cling I make to positivity
Stay gettin' it on til the doubt is gone
If you could be dissuaded you were dead all along
Like what's up now you can't fade me
Still in the same old trade of positivity
A day like today is for you
To let your mind unwind, like you ought to
Feel the earth turn round when your heart rate slows
Contemplating the thing, only your heart knows
That life's not a race
So hard to beleive part of me will fade in the mystery
In a future world, long ago, part feels for your love
And lives to tell you so
The world whirls around your mind in a golden spiral
The natural way that things organize
You can't stop entropy so why even try
Observe the concious flowand don't mystify
Life's not a race
So hard to beleive part of me will fade in a mystery
In a future world, long ago, part feels for your love
And lives to tell you so
Slipping into a trance a chance encounter
In the autumn, what do I see
An opportunity and then, I got' em
Sought a chill-out mix to carve some space
To make you want to listen
It's a bubbling spring and double in kings of this soundsystem
So hard to beleive part of me will fade in a mystery
In a future world, long ago, part feels for your love
And lives to tell you so
Do you see world without end the rising sun my friend
Imagine cloud like, you will form again
In the spacey boredom, in the autumn of late afternoon
You are calm, just like a sleepy room
Feel the bass knives past your flesh enter your bone
Solitude in your dance floor rhythm zone
Let your body go, just don’t follow the letter
Do what you feel, the more absurd the better
Don't be afraid, whatever you got, show
Flaunt your personality let 'em know you stylo
You can make a mean hand out of what you been dealt
311 on wax, wax on felt
Feeling real great ‘cause the weather's mild
So you re-evaluate your personal style
What makes you laugh, stand apart
What makes you feel good, what's in your heart
Feeling real great ‘cause the weather's mild
So you check us out on tour cause your liking the style
Drums, the bass, the master plan,
Nice guitars, the mics in our hand
Strong all along, strong all along
Come to find out the arm of the truth is long
I'll break it down for you like this for the hard of listening
You think you're taking the cake, but what's left icing –jump
To every foundation and every crew
We've got the medium, here's what we're gonna do
Sending out props straight from us to you
To every foundation and every crew
From the Malibu shores to the Brooklyn Zoo
We've got the medium, here's what we're gonna do
You wanna touch us, we wanna touch you too
Givin’ respect, to those who keeping it true
If you are real or a replica
If your steez be like Akira
The wild-ass Sioux or the Chippewa
Your tribes Pawnee or the Omaha
You could touch me with your fresh aura
Cause your energy be phenomena
Now move, the people and then oila
Take on the love and the good karma
Strong all along, strong all along
Come to find out the arm of the truth is long
I'll break it down for you like this for the hard of listening
You think you're taking the cake, but what's left icing –jump
Feeling real great ‘cause the weather's mild
So you re-evaluate your personal style
What makes you laugh, stand apart
What makes you feel good, what's in your heart
To every foundation and every crew
We've got the medium, here's what we're gonna do
Sending out props straight from us to you
To every foundation and every crew
Strong all along, strong all along
Come to find out the arm of the truth is long
I'll break it down for you like this for the hard of listening
You think you're taking the cake, but what's left icing –jump
Just sever that leash
And release
Your freedom of speech
You just have
To believe
Your deed will be received
Somehow, somewhere
You won’t be repaid
With a blank stare
Let me know
If you dare
There’s no one that cure you
Like she does, she does
No one would leave you so alone
Here I go my vibe is holy, my eyes close
Either I'm asleep or what I'm thinkin' is deep
Eventually I sigh though I kick the sheets
And try to piece together why I’m here
Nothing except my own damn eyes and ears
And then I sever so I listen to my heart always-and-ever
If it’s not good it might get better
If it’s not good it might just sever
I tell you money there’s other honey
You always show it but you don’t know it
Staring at the door thinking about the mess you’re in
In your couch sinking deep over the girl that's gone
So sever that leash
And release
Your freedom of speech
You just have
To believe
Your deed will be received
Somehow, somewhere
It won’t be repaid
With a blank stare
Let me know
If you dare
Now all ya think about her, drink about her
In vain
What all else feels like you’re
Betraying
We're wakin' it up face up and shakin' it up
We know of an extended field
This is the deal
We're letting and getting the vibes that we want
Open up your heart
And proceed to feel
Now you’re inching upbr>
To the summit never plummet
Boot your system up
And then bail with the middle
Finger up why are you so abrupt?
Baby don’t be corrupt
Standin’ in the club playin’ the wall
That they're not her is all
You think and that is true
But what else can you do?
Tryin’ to turn back time
Or just tow the line
Cause the space you’re in
Is not place like home...
Got a wishing well within
That’s ready to begin
See how we roll
See how we roll
Tryin’ to compromise
Because with me there are no lies
See how we run
It’s already begun
Now that I'm back to a pushing pen
That weighs 200 tons
I’d like to drop it on you
Watch it all fall through
Nobody knows just what
Battling inside you can hide
Nobody knows just why
Most everyone will lie
If they need to
The ones who aggravate you most
Happen to be ever close
Seem to be the ones lurchin’
For same things that you are searchin’
The ones who make you feel ill
And you think that nature should have killed
Those you curse when you’re alone
Seem to be so close to home
Not an even filed to be on
Feels like standing still
For eons and eons
Stare it dead in the eye
What now?
All we can do is try
To shut it down
Shut it down
Not an even filed to be on
Feels like standing still
For eons and eons
Stare it dead in the eye
What now
All we can do is try
To shut it down
Shut it down...
My computer is future shockin’
Download this and you’ll start talkin’
Upgraded you’re now walking
Compatible with all that is rockin’
Comin’ up fast
It’s getting’ digital
It’s so huge like a spiritual
Rippin' out to every individual
This is life, it is a miracle
Evolution has exponential timing
It’ll be half as long
Till the next next breakthrough that blows our mind
Its up to the people to brave on with experimentation
Move forth the species
By using your imagination
But can we handle it?
Could we dismantle it?
Or should we fear the void
And just be para-paranoid?
If it’s understood
It could be used for good, and would
If you will believe in
All we can conceive
On the periodic table they got it all wrong
Let me lay it down for ya in this song
People want PT, they want AU
But lemme tell ya what ya really ought to do
Figure out ways to master silicon
Fiber-optic connectors, whatever’s beyond
So many people don’t even attempt to understand
The limitless possibilities of man
Evolution has exponential timing
It’ll be half as long
Till the next next breakthrough that blows our mind
Its up to the people to brave on with experimentation
Move forth the species
By using your imagination
But can we handle it?
Could we dismantle it?
Or should we fear the void
And just be para-paranoid?
If it’s understood
It could be used for good, and would
If you will believe in
All we can conceive
I feel trapped
I gotta adapt
Before I got zapped
My computer is a rebel actin’ all fine and
Just like that payin’ me no mind
What’s up? Is it's program overcome by a glitch
Is it becoming conscious
If so, ain't that a bitch?
I paid too much for this piece
I'll be damned if it tries any funny business
It'll be the one that pays the price
Evolution has exponential timing
It’ll be half as long
Till the next next breakthrough that blows our mind
Its up to the people to brave on with experimentation
Move forth the species
By using your imagination
But can we handle it?
Could we dismantle it?
Or should we fear the void
And just be para-paranoid?
If it’s understood
It could be used for good, and would
If you will believe in
All we can conceive
Yes we handle it
We could dismantle it
We should not fear the void
And just be para-paranoid?
If it’s understood
It could be used for good, and would
If you will believe in
All we can conceive
Well I said...oh
I'm leaving this Babylon
Said I'm leaving this Babylon
I'm leaving this Babylon
It will not be too long now
It will not be too long
I say my people are starvin
But your moneys runnin'
I say my people are starvin'
But your moneys runnin'
I say your dollar, dollar drop down real low
And you ain't got no gold to show
We're gonna step right through that door
We're not gonna come back no more
Cuz the politicians lyin'
My mommas just a cryin'
And nothin' ever gonna change
My father just a sighin'
My sisters just a lyin'
And I ain't got nothing to blame...no
Well I say
Well I say
Natty dread go away
Natty dread leave today...yeah yeah
Are you missin’ us
Maybe wantin’ to be kissin’ us
And if you must, when please don’t be dismissin’ us
And when we’re gone, bailin' on the bus
Are we immersed in a sea of replicants?
Hard exteriors and fake gold fronts
Loosing yourself in the flavor of the month
Gotta be a better reason to colonize a star
Gotta be a better reason man’s come so far
Is that you?
In the mama ocean people sea
Is that you?
In this dream I see wavin’ me
Closer with one hand
While the other shields your eyes
As if surprised to see the universe began
Being up on the Mind Spin
Are you still glad that it has been
Six years and seven months
This is want you want – don’t front!
I’m feelin’ it right now
In this, the gold hour
Part clock and part man
Reconciling my life span
Keeps things whole
We move out into space
Where air flows when all of a sudden
Here we are, and here we go
The evolutionary mind
Turns twists backflips
In space-time the continuum
Real life planetarium?
It’s a natural fact
Time is speeding up there isn’t much left
Heart rate increasin’
Bustin' through your chest compressed
Is your life in the physical
But out of memory
Comes a vision which is a miracle
Yeah, that
Normally we just can’t see
It’s not natural or typical
Of our same old thing
Livin' too fast unable to grasp the past
Or the future when at last we ripple
After our big splash
Being up on the Mind Spin
Are you still glad that it has been
Six years and seven months
This is want you want – don’t front!
I’m feelin’ it right now
In this, the gold hour
Part clock and part man
Reconciling my life span
You remain
And refrain
From the pain
Of wasted time
Last thing on my mind is...
Running high
Fuel supply
Reason why
We just don’t quit
Can you get with
A melding of two minds
Whats the worst thing you could find
Paper trail
That prevails
In demystification
People
Want to believe
In mysteries
Is the truth so bad...?
Fire, is my method for destruction
Leavin' charred wreckage from my latest eruption
Unpredictable, my erratic demeanor
Bobbing and weaving as my mind gets leaner
Though I'm tripping on legs that stumble but I don’t fall down
You know I’m singing out things you mumble from a lack of resound
Pissed off mist lifts to honesty
Now come down motherfucker with your philosophy
I’m at ease when I feel there's a breeze give me a little please
Aristotle I'm not, but you think of Socrates
Are you ready for your lesson blood?
Democratic, non erratic, Socratic method
We'll take away the pain
We'll pacify that bullshit built up in your brain
In times of change or the same old things
As you maintain, or rearrange
Can’t nobody do it like 311
Fuckin' up competition cause there really is none
Stepping on your game from the first floor up, tore up
Electricity, we store it up
Can't nobody do it like 311
Break it down what it is, dedication
Sending out gratitude like we laid it out on Down, throw down
Fuck the bullshit, we're still the sound
Wild and lost speed mad a long way from sad
Lookin' good like you should, you’re bad
An itinerate dimension mystic is your spirit, see
Like color absolute, bodiless indeed
Cause kindred spirit past
All the obstacles you’re dealing with at last
The Nasdaq, two puppies, baby needs new shoes
Car alarms, your rent, your wedding bells, the blues
The Tragic-fucking-comedy that was last night
Unfolds to my inner devils sheer delight
A pointless fucking banter in an endless bout
With whiskey soaked frolic room I grew tobacco mouth
Then a sickening trip to what I call the elitist, cesspool
Beckoning all the sycophants and defeated, yes-fools
Hung-over, broke, and a round of apologies
Now come to Martinez with your modern mythology
Can’t nobody do it like 311
Fuckin' up competition cause there really is none
Stepping on your game from the first floor up, tore up
Electricity, we store it up
Can't nobody do it like 311
Break it down what it is, dedication
Sending out gratitude like we laid it out on Down, throw down
Fuck the bullshit, we're still the sound
Can’t nobody do it like 311
Fuckin’ up competition 'cause there really is none
Stepping on your game from the first floor, tore up
Electricity, we store it up