Lupe Fiasco ‘Food & Liquor 2: The Great American Rap Album Pt. 1’ Tracklist, Cover Art, Lyrics

TRACKLIST

1. Ayesha Says (Intro)

2. Strange Fruition (Feat. Casey Benjamin)

3. ITAL (Roses)

4. Around My Way (Freedom Ain t Free)

5. Audubon Ballroom

6. B*tch Bad

7. Lamborghini Angels

8. Put Em Up

9. Heart Donor (Feat. Poo Bear)

10. How Dare You (Feat. Bilal)

11. Battle Scars (with Guy Sebastian)

12. Brave Heart (Feat. Poo Bear)

13. Form Follows Function

14. Cold War (Feat. Jane $$$)

15. Unforgivable Youth (Feat. Jason Evigian)

16. Hood Now (Outro)

17. Things We Must Do For Others


LYRICS

AYESHA SAYS (INTRO) LYRICS - Lupe Fiasco

 [Intro/Chorus]

Hijabs, hoodies, afros, locks

Teddy bear, liquor bottle shrines, rocks

Tanks, prayer rugs, church pews, Mexican corn stands

Blood, sweat, and tears, police batons

Gas masks and bullets create graffiti on corners

Murals that salute freedom or death for liberty

Be it Inglewood or Egypt, Bedstuy or Baghdad

Syria or Liberia, the west bank or the west side of Chicago

Where food and liquor stores still occupy the block

While police and community watchmen justify why they shot

Emmit Till and Malice Green, Rekia Boyd and Trayvon Martin

Better not wear that hoodie while shopping for a carton

Or whatever they sellin in your food desert

Cause your soul is dessert and will be dissected and consumed

On the Fox evening news while we sing the blues

The new Jim Crow caged bird sings

Cause he's tired of occupying his misery and of our marching

He wanna fly to a higher consciousness

But his school on academic probation

They gave him medicine, diagnosed him with a felony and mental retardation

So he refuses to cease the firin, nobody's hirin

In Illinois, 67 is the new age when you retirin

Class lines have blurred, those who used to have, have not

Pensions bein snatched

Those who never have keep their hands stretched

Social services being cut

Sterilization clinics giving out pills to numb the womb

Young girls referring to their vaginas as tombs

Thinkin protests are temporary and trendy

Well rock a t-shirt and carry a poster

And two weeks later it's back to normal

But they say times are changin'

The revolution is becoming second nature, causes are combining

People carrying torches, hope burning from their hands

Attaching explosive devices cause they keep stealing their lands

In the name of freedom

[Chorus]

AROUND MY WAY (FREEDOM AIN'T FREE) LYRICS - Lupe Fiasco

 [Verse 1]

First off say peace to Pine Ridge

Shame at all the damage the white man wine did

Ghost dance, Trail of Tears, 5 million beers a year

And all that other crime did

More peace to the teachers of blind kids

To rebels in small cells keeping their mind big

Say everything's hostile

Suicide bombers and prosperity gospels, emaciated models

With cocaine and blood pouring out their nostrils, they got to

Just to stay awake on the catwalk of life where everybody watch you

Straight hair, high heels and a handbag

Crucifixes, racism and a land grab

Katrina, FEMA trailers, human body sandbags

A peace sign and a pants sag

A money toss cause a 9 stripper mad dash

A friend request following a hash tag

Now everybody want it like the last laugh

A Michael Jackson jacket or a daft mask

Purple Jordans or the mixed girl in your math class

Stable is when the Ba'ath had Baghdad

But corporate jets really had to have that gas bad

War and they hope they all fall from the ratatat

Cause that's just more dinosaur for the Cadillac

[Hook]

Live from the other side what you see

A bunch of nonsense on my TV

Heaven on Earth is what I need

But I feel I'm in hell every time I breathe

Reporting live from the other side what you hear

A bunch of nonsense all in my ear

Rich man, poor man, we all gotta pay

Cause freedom ain't free, especially 'round my way

[Verse 2]

And we marvel at the state of Ottoman

Then turn around and treat Ghana like a garbage can

America's a big motherfuckin' garbageman

If you ain't know, you're part and parcel of the problem

You say no you ain't, and I say yes you is

Soon as you find out what planned obsolescence is

You say no they didn't, and I say yes they did

The definition of unnecessary-ness

Manifested

Say that we should protest just to get arrested

That goes against all my hustling ethics

A bunch of jail niggas say its highly ineffective

Depart from Martin, connect on Malcolm X tip

Insert Baldwin to similar the separate

To me, the truth is more fulfilling than a meth hit

Or finding really fast internet to have some sex with

It's all one song short of a set list

Couple croissants shy of a continental breakfast

Or blowing out your birthday candles just to make a death wish

So absurd word to Chief Bone Necklace

Down at the Lakota Sioux Casino

A whole culture boiled down to giving you paquino

I go as left as a heart in the chest

Cause the Horn of Africa is now starving to death

[Hook]

[Verse 3]

An all white Los Angeles, the dream of Mr. Chandler

Hope and pray they take Columbus day up off the calendar

South Central an example of God's gifts

So shout to all the mothers raising babies in spa 6

The projects of Oakland city, Detroit ghost towns

Monopolies on poverty where D-boy coke bound

It's parts of Manilla like the video for Thriller

But the US Embassy is reminiscent of a villa

If poverty is chocolate and privilege vanilla

Then what's the flavor of the Sunday preacher's pedophilia

Cash rules everything around these niggas

As classrooms everywhere around me wither

Hither you can be Mr. Burns or Mr. Smithers

The tyrant or the slave but nowhere in the middle

Of the extremes of America's dream

Freud fighting Neo, Freddy Krueger refereeing, naaa…

[Hook]

STRANGE FRUITION LYRICS - Lupe Fiasco

 [Lupe Fiasco]

Now I can't pledge allegiance to your flag

Cause I can't find no reconciliation with your past

When there was nothing equal for my people in your math

You forced us in the ghetto and then you took our dads

The belly of the beast, these streets are demons' abs

I'm telling you that setup in them sit-ups is so sad

The system is a slab

Corruption is the swinger sittin high ridin dirty, drag racin into danger

And it's so clean, pine trees smellin good

With work off in the trunk and niggas in the hood

So I can't shed blood on any battlefield of yours

I pray the ugly truth comes and shatters your decor

And as it all falls down and tatters on the floor

I shed tears, I don't know what really matters anymore

Cause I don't know what really matters anymore

[Chorus: Casey Benjamin]

Many things, strangest things you ever seen

Oh, look at how they swing, would you look at how they swing?

Embedded they go, no eyelids gone low

Or gone by sundown, they're dodging 5-0

[Lupe Fiasco]

Now as I wander through the city goin mad

I see the fruits of planting evidence instead of grass

A swindled generation with no patience, full of swag

Man, they so impatient with the stations that they have

As long as they look good when they be doin bad

Then the separation from the truth is gettin vast, fast

Be a slave at first or free at last

Double-edged choices make a nigga wanna pass

Double-headed voices from the eagle on the staff

The pyramid where eyes will split the spirited in half

Divided over money

Delighted by the dummyin down of the importance of crowns we'll never have

That's why my sounds and sermons are so full of wrath

Baptize your mind, let your brain take a bath

Swim inside the river get delivered from the craft

Of the witches in this business that be livin off your sad

Hatin on your happiness you hit 'em off with laughs

Smile 'til they surrender, then you kill 'em off with glad

Hello evil, I'm back

[Chorus]

ITAL (ROSES) LYRICS - Lupe Fiasco

 [Lupe Fiasco]

Black Panther, Black Panther, what do you see?

I see a dream ITAL watching over me

Back nigga

Yeah, hey, can we get a little break

From the cocaine and the kilos

Aiight nigga, we know

Aiight nigga, we know

Can we get a break from the strippers on the pill

Aiight nigga, we know

Okay nigga, we know

[Lupe Fiasco]

Hey shawty, ain't no future in no gang-bang

And ain't no manhood in no bang-bang

Ain't no honor cleanin interstates inside a chain-gang

Know some rap niggas put that shit inside your mainframe

Pills make you stupid and liquor do the same thing

'Raris too expensive and they way too hard to maintain

Get yourself a Camry, "nigga said a Camry?"

Watch that ho depreciate and then you'll understand me

It's called being fiscally responsible

Don't let these lying images up in hip-hop here conquer you

The TV's not your father fool, that video's not your momma

Try your best to be a man and your worst to be a monster

[Chorus]

May we have some roses for the ladies

A little appreciation for the gentlemen

And here's some kisses for the babies

Some peacenality for the whole wide-wide-wide world

More patience to the youth, sympathy for the poor

Empathy for the old, more justice for the down and pressed

Treat no liar ITAL, AY-YAH!

[Lupe Fiasco]

I know you're sayin', "Lupe rappin 'bout the same shit"

Well, that's 'cause ain't shit changed, bitch

And please don't excuse my language

Cause I would hate for you to misrepresent

The true expression of my anguish

And by this far I ain't shocked, upset, or appalled

I'm ashamed, bitch

I can't listen if you ain't sayin shit

And recognize all this emptiness is dangerous

Ain't buildin up they confidence, we teachin 'em that they ain't shit

If they ain't got the latest that they saw on someone famous

Mercy of the Lord on this double-edged sword

Instead of askin where the hoes is

Maybe maybe we could ask for roses

[Chorus - repeat 2X]

[Lupe Fiasco]

Called the President a terrorist

Corporate sponsors like, how the fuck you gon' embarrass us?

Ain't my fault, I was just repeatin this

Professor emeritus from America

But my tone was like an Afghani kid without a home

Blew that bitch up with a drone

An Iraqi with no daddy, Palestinian throwing stones

The fuck you think they call him, I'mma leave that all alone

Cause this, the focus on this new shit is that hopeless

Place that I was born into systematic brokeness

Took that downpression and developed it to dopeness

It's that great American rap-rap ferocious

[Chorus]

BITCH BAD LYRICS - Lupe Fiasco

 [Intro]

Yeah

I say bitch bad, woman good, lady better

Hey, hey, hey, hey

[Verse 1]

Now imagine there’s a shawty, maybe five maybe four

Ridin’ ’round with his mama listening to the radio

And a song comes on and a not far off from being born

Doesn’t know the difference between right and wrong

Now I ain’t trying to make it too complex

But let’s just say shawty has an undeveloped context

About the perception of women these days

His mama sings along and this what she says

“Niggas I’m a bad bitch, and I’m bad bitch

far above average”

And maybe other rhyming words like cabbage and savage

And baby carriage and other things that match it

Couple of things that are happenin’ here

First he’s relatin’ the word “bitch” with his mama, comma

And because she’s relatin’ to herself, his most important source of help, And mental health, he may skew respect for dishonor

[Hook]

Bitch bad, woman good

Lady better, they misunderstood

(I’m killin’ these bitches)

Uh, tell ‘em

Bitch bad, woman good

Lady better, they misunderstood

They misunderstood

(I’m killin’ these bitches)

[Verse 2]

Yeah, now imagine a group of little girls nine through twelve

On the internet watchin’ videos listenin’ to songs by themselves

It doesn’t really matter if they have parental clearance

They understand the internet better than their parents

Now being the interent, the content’s probably uncensored

They’re young, so they’re maleable and probably unmentored

A complicated combination, maybe with no relevance

Until that intelligence meets their favorite singer’s preference

“Bad bitches, bad bitches, bad bitches

That’s all I want and all I like in life is bad bitches, bad bitches”

Now let’s say that they less concerned with him

And more with the video girl acquiescent to his whims

Ah, the plot thickens

High heels, long hair, fat booty, slim

Reality check, I’m not trippin’

They don’t see a paid actress, just what makes a bad bitch

[Hook]

[Verse 3]

Disclaimer: This rhymer, Lupe’s not usin’ bitch as a lesson

But as a psychological weapon

To set in your mind and really mess with your conceptions

Discretions, reflections, it’s clever misdirection

Cause, while I was rappin’ they was growin’ up fast

Nobody stepped in to ever slow ‘em up, gasp

Sure enough, in this little world

The little boy meets one of those little girls

And he thinks she a bad bitch and she thinks she a bad bitch

He thinks disrespectfully, she thinks of that sexually

She got the wrong idea, he don’t wanna fuck her

He thinks she’s bad at being a bitch like his mother

Momma never dress like that, come out the house, hot mess like that

Ass, titties, dress like that

All out to impress like that

Just like that, you see the fruit of the confusion

He caught in a reality, she caught in an illusion

Bad mean good to her, she really nice and smart

But bad mean bad to him, bitch don’t play your part

But bitch still bad to her if you say it the wrong way

But she think she a bitch, what a double entendre

[Hook]

[Outro]

Bitch bad, woman good

Lady better, they misunderstood

You’re misunderstood

Bitch bad, woman good

Lady better, greatest motherhood

(I’m killin’ these bitches)

LAMBORGHINI ANGELS LYRICS - Lupe Fiasco

 [Intro]

It's a mad world out here, I tell you

The world's gone stark, raving mad

Everyone in the world is mad

It's a mad crazy world

[Hook]

I see diamond-flooded demons

Lamborghini angels

Lamborghini angels

Lamborghini angels

Halos down with the doors flapping when they came through

Halos down with the doors flapping when they came through

[Verse 1]

With a circle on the floor he compels them to be pure

Pulls the beast out of his heart then impales it on a sword

Writes a prayer on some paper and then he nails it to the door

Just the good of you may enter by the mercy of the lord

Listen not to what he speaks, that's been the cursing of his cause

A seduction of his senses by the devils he adores

The unholy has him hostage and his soul is now at war

Follow not his secret knowledge it will bring you no reward

Shun him while in public disallow him from your stores

Have no part in his affairs 'less his pestilence be yours

Make scoundrels of the righteous and virgins into whores

But we must still pray that his color will be cured

[Hook (x2)]

[Verse 2]

With her eyes to the ceiling and a needle in her brain

He looks back into the crowd, wipes the blood and then explains

How she slipped from this existence to the realm of the deranged

Her becoming must be halted to reverse what she became

From the looseness of her tongue, to the pollution of her aims

To do nothing is barbaric, the solution is humane

You must destroy the mind and hopefully retrain

You torture out the wildness, then replace it with the tame

Blank slate when she recovers, she won't even know her name

Perfect wife and perfect lover, no resistance, no complaints

May God bless the scientific cure for the insane

Knew she couldn't go to school, but she thought that that should change

[Hook (x2)]

[Verse 3]

With his crucifix inside his pocket said his mission is divine

Put his Bible on the bed and then he touched on his behind

Told him take off all his clothes and put your penis next to mine

Now the little boy think it's normal because they do this all the time

With no life inside his body now he finally think he's safe

But they cut off all his fingers while they piss all in his face

He take pictures with his killers then they sneak back to the states

Now he sit next to the picture of his wife when she was raped

With the teleprompter rolling he looks right into the lens

Doesn't mention his redemption but absolves him of his sins

He forgives them in advance says that he will do again

[John F. Kennedy]

My fellow Americans...

[Hook (x2)]

PUT EM UP LYRICS - Lupe Fiasco

 [Lupe Fiasco]

Put one in the air like the king's son

For the heir to the kingdom

That means I'mma be the king once the king done

If he don't wanna leave then I might have to guillotine him

I sing some but I rap a lot like the king's son

Microphone checker all across the board you should king him

(Diamond) mine my mind make princesses like (King) (Come)

Every second worth of thinking

Is enough to fill three rings like Ringling's

That's how I kept it on the air is like a re-run

And kept the kings comin in obscene sums

You see for me it's life or death like a king thumb

Mean something

That's why I don't play when I relay like a team run

And treat every single day like a scene one

Outlook on life like I ain't never seen none

[Chorus]

I keep my back to the past tell it bye (bye)

Face to the future tell it hi (hi)

Everything is super so is fly (fly)

Come and stick the fans up

Go on and get your hands up high

High

High

High

[Lupe Fiasco]

Post coast to coast gotta dose of every lingo

The latest famous 80's baby like the dingo

Who evaded pushing daisies, dodge bullets like Remo

Remember like Ginkgo when we used to play bingo

Used to be in awe with the pushers and the pimps oh

Now I flip cars like the ribs on the Flintstones

Haters got mad and as sensitive as shinbones

Had a Goodyear and my intention is to blimp on

Even if I'm injured I'm gonna limp into the end zone

From game one to the super like Karrine dome

That mean I went to Disney World and you just went home

It's Lupe and I ain't from there

But they root for the away

Yeah they stunned there

Beautifully I play

Gatorade the coach and tubas need to play now

Usually I stay, put em on the roof with more truth for me to say

[Chorus]

[Lupe Fiasco]

The laboratory happy for me cause I'm back with my belongings

Ferrari 'bout as red as when Carrie was the prom queen

Think outside the box like Larry Merchant, Don King

The glacier in Jamaica or a penguin out in Palm Springs

Yeah, keep em in the air like a swan wing

And Im'a keep it magic as a Harry Potter wand swing

And my little shop with my terracotta pot

You be talkin bout your kush, you should come and here my 'larm sing

So put them up like a robbery

A Derrick Rose lob to me

And watch and see I alley-oop it properly

Football or volley-b, hock-el-y, or sock-el-y

You just get the rock to me

Try and put me down like Gaddafi over Lockerbie

I'll lock you in a locker b

Like Bruce Leeroy, like Johnny in a locker see

Shock is the only thing that Tupac is toppin me

Hot as rocket bottoms or kill 'em where your lava be

[Chorus]

BATTLE SCARS LYRICS - Lupe Fiasco

The wound heals but it never does

That’s cause you’re at war with love

You're at war with love, yeah

These battle scars, don’t look like they’re fading

Don’t look like they’re ever going away

They ain't never gonna change

These battle

Never let a wound ruin me

But I feel like ruin's wooing me

Arrow holes that never close from cupid on a shooting spree

Feeling stupid cause I know it ain't no you and me

But when you're trying to beat the odds up

Been trying to keep your nods up and you know that you should know

And let her go but the fear of the unknown

Holding another lover strong sends you back into the zone

With no Tom Hanks to bring you home

A lover not a fighter on the frontline with a poem

Trying to write yourself a rifle

Maybe sharpen up a song

To fight the tanks and drones of you being alone

I wish I never looked, I wish I never touched

I wish that I could stop loving you so much

Cause I’m the only one that's trying to keep us together

When all of the signs say that I should forget her

I wish you weren’t the best, the best I ever had

I wish that the good outweighed the bad

Cause it’ll never be over, until you tell me it's over

These battle scars, don’t look like they’re fading

Don’t look like they’re ever going away

They ain't never gonna change

These battle

(And just leave then)

You shouldn't have but you said it

(And I hope you never come back)

It shouldn't have happened but you let it

Now you're down on the ground screaming medic

The only thing that comes is the post-traumatic stresses

Shields, body armors and vests

Don't properly work, that's why you're in a locker full of hurt

The enemy within and all the fires from your friends

The best medicine is to probably just let her win

I wish I couldn't feel, I wish I couldn't love

I wish that I could stop cause it hurts so much

And I’m the only one that's trying to keep us together

When all of the signs say that I should forget her

I wish you weren’t the best, the best I ever had

I wish that the good outweighed the bad

Cause it’ll never be over, until you tell me it's over

These battle scars, don’t look like they’re fading

Don’t look like they’re ever going away

They ain't never gonna change

These battle

I wish I couldn't feel, I wish I couldn't love

I wish that I could stop cause it hurts so much

And I’m the only one that's trying to keep us together

When all of the signs say that I should forget her

I wish you weren’t the best, the best I ever had

I wish that the good outweighed the bad

Cause it’ll never be over, until you tell me it's over

Cause you've set me on fire

I’ve never felt so alive, yeah

Hoping wounds heal, but it never does

That's because you're at war with love

And I’m at the point of breaking

And it’s impossible to shake it

See, you hoped the wound heals, but it never does

That's cause you're at war with love

Hope it heals, but it never does

That's cause you're at war with love!

These battle scars, don’t look like they’re fading

Don’t look like they’re ever going away

They ain't never gonna change

These battle

These battle scars, don’t look like they’re fading

Don’t look like they’re ever going away

They ain't never gonna change

These battle

UNFORGIVABLE YOUTH LYRICS - Lupe Fiasco

 [Chorus]

This world, my heart, my soul.

Things that I don't know.

The icicles they grow.

They never let me go.

Scars are left as proof.

But tears they soak on through.

Things I've done.

My young.

My unforgivable youth.

[Verse 1]

We land on the horizon. The passion in their eyes then.

What they think of islands and much more in their size.

Bountiful and plentiful and resource to provide them.

Supplies slim. Morale when so heavily inside them.

Now steadily declining.

Return is not an option as necessity denies them.

With this they choose to dive in.

Now along the shore and so aware of their arriving.

Other children of this land prepare to share in their surviving.

A pigeontry of feathers stands his majesty with treasure.

Now the material things that kings that could never last forever.

But secrets of the spirit world and how to live in harmony together.

Unbenounced to him his head would be the first that they would sever.

And stuck up on a pike up along the beach.

Kept up as a warning to the rest to turn away from their beliefs.

And so began it here. And for 500 years.

Torture, Terror, Fear til they nearly disappear.

[Chorus]

This world, my heart, my soul.

Things that I don't know.

The icicles they grow.

They never let me go.

Scars are left as proof.

But tears they soak on through.

Things I've done.

My young.

My unforgivable youth.

[Verse 2]

Ways and means from mistreated human beings.

A slave labor force provides wealth to the machine.

And helps the new regime establish and expand.

Using manifest destiny to siphon off the land.

From native caretakers who can barely understand.

"How can land be owned by another man. Warns one can not steal what was given as a gift. Is the sky owned by birds and the rivers owned by fish."

But the lesson when the heated, for the sake of what's not needed.

You kill but do not eat it.

The excessive and elitists don't repair it when they leave it.

The forests's were cleared, the factories were built.

And your mistakes will be repeated by your future generation doomed to pay for your mistreatments.

Foolishness and flaws, greed and needs and disagreement.

And you rushed to have the most, from the day you left your boats.

You'll starve but never die. In a world of hungry ghosts.

[Chorus]

This world, my heart, my soul.

Things that I don't know.

The icicles they grow.

They never let me go.

Scars are left as proof.

But tears they soak on through.

Things I've done.

My young.

My unforgivable youth.

[Verse 3]

As archaeologists dig in the deserts of the east.

Appeared 100 meters wide and 100 meters deep.

They discover ancient cars on even older streets.

And a city well preserved and most likely at it's peak.

A culture so advanced, and by condition of the teeth.

They can tell that they was civil, not barbaric in the least.

A society at peace. With liberty and justice for all.

Neatly carved in what seems to be a wall.

They would doubt that there was any starvation at all.

That they pretty much had the poverty problem all solved.

From the sheer amount of paper, most likely used for trade.

Everything's so organized. They had to be well behaved.

Assumed they had clean energy, but took to no enemies.

Very honest leaders with overwhelming sympathies.

Religions kinda complex. Kinda hard to figure out.

And this must be the temple.

This White. House

[Chorus]

This world, my heart, my soul.

Things that I don't know.

The icicles they grow.

They never let me go.

Scars are left as proof.

But tears they soak on through.

Things I've done.

My young.

My unforgivable youth.

GO TO SLEEP LYRICS - Lupe Fiasco

 [Intro:]

[*yaawn*] - Thanks,

Feels good wakin' up,

Get back... on my J.O.

ooohh,

And you will be going, cause I gotta go to work

It's coo...

[Verse 1:]

I wipe the cold from my eye

Stationed in Antarctica, coldest nigga alive

Flow is Armageddon might smite crows from the Sky

Before you drive you have to wipe locusts off your rides

But I'm warming up, oceans is on the rise

I be Ocean with 11 associates on my side

Colder than Chris Martin guitarin' - would you look at all these Spies?

But they can't see me, I took out their eyes

Replaced them with some me's, so all they see is he's

But I will never run, not even if they cry

See I can never fall, not even down their cheek

But I will always ball, let's see who the first to blink

And I don't need no passwords cause I don't need to cheat

But you can say your last words then you can rest in peace

I'm the hook after your last verse, I'm also like the beat

But I will turn it down so you can go to sleep

[Chorus:]

You can go to sleep

Yes you can go to sleep

Said you can go to sleep [x2]

Good night, good night [x2]

(Real niggas up again)

(Phony niggas tuckin' in)

Now you can go to sleep

Yes you can go to sleep

Now you can go to sleep [x2]

Good night, good night [x2]

Official niggas on they job and you know we gonna ball

Real niggas poppin off, phony niggas not at all

[Verse 2:]

Insomniac since way back, see that's what I been like

Bacon, eggs and pancakes, eating that at midnight

Getting up and going hard, I don't need no Enzyte

Come across as very calm, mental state is Zen like

Always had a lot of heart, never been the tin type

Never will I drop a dime, never been the ten type

My girlfriend is very fine, yeah she is a ten, right?

Mink is dragon on the floor, fire in my windpipe

You should come and clean up after riots that I incite

Things got off the handle, left behind a landfill

Traffic at a standstill, stadium is fan-filled

Fill this bitch up with fans, you still won't blow my candle...out

My can do spirit's in the house, and it's possessing your possessions,

did you hear it by the couch?

Boogeyman under here but not in your closet, cause I'm not a...

Won't drill no door hole, I won't make a peep, so...

[Chorus:]

You can go to sleep

Yes you can go to sleep

Now you can go to sleep

Said you can go to sleep

Good night, good night [x2]

(Real niggas up again)

(Phony niggas tuckin' in)

Now you can go to sleep

Yes you can go to sleep

Now you can go to sleep [x2]

Good night, good night [x2]

Official niggas on they job and you know we gonna ball

Real niggas poppin off, phony niggas not at all

[Verse 3:]

I wipe the cold from my eye, then put it in my stove and hope that my dough rise

And that my clothes dry, but I am so high, I'm sitting on the storm that I got soaked by

Now you can come close so, you can get warm

But you get no pie, but you can sell 'em for him so, here's your bow tie

Now get ready to fall, 'cause humans don't fly, the boy in the balloon

See I didn't go high, and then I'm coming back to flow again

Closed out all that opium, but I had to O-P-EN

They said they need a hero-in it, so I'm back to dope again

Pull up in that old school Flintstone drop on rolling pins

Time is all behind me, this make me feel old again

Grandma's all around me, I can feel her soul within'

Hold my daddy over him

I woke the rooster's, woke the hen's

Everything's cashmere, count the sheep that make 'em..

[Chorus:]

(You can) go to sleep

Yes you can go to sleep

Now you can go to sleep

Yes you can go to sleep

(Go to sleep, it's okay!)

Good night, good night [x2]

(Real niggas up again)

(Phony niggas tuckin' in)

Yes you can go to sleep [x2]

Now you can go to sleep

Yes you can go to sleep

Good night, good night [x2]

Official niggas on they job and you know we gonna ball

Real niggas poppin off, phony niggas not at all

[Fades]