311

Down


Chill. light on my sight as my ego becomes
A funky child with some words on my tongue
Be like intake of breath and my mouth gets loose
While i scatter my spit i dream of juice
Have you ever made out in dark hallways
Displayed a kiss that made your day or say
Play a track from your record collection
It's your mix, congratulations


We've changed a lot and then some some
Know that we have always been down down
And if i ever didn't thank you you
Then just let me do it now


I bet you light up when we start the show follow
me now
Very closely because i told you so you know
We glow because we throw sun rays
We be freaky and we wanna stay


CHORUS


Lightning strikes yo we be in that violent force
of light
Guaranteed to turn it out as bad as dolemite
'Cuz we're dope kidchange like a chameleon
And the channel whenever that
wack show real world is on
You know we dazzle likeghetto box boomin' battles
Rattle inside your head feel redeemed like cola
bottles
Fall in love with you teachers on the wax
We are self made check the technique 311 in LA


CHORUS


Keep my feet on the ground
Keep my head in the clouds
Electrified by the sound
Comes from the down
And


CHORUS


come original


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' for miles


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


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 a them whine and some a 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


All Mixed up


You've got to trust your instinct
And let go of regret
You've got to bet on yourself now star
'Cause that's your best bet


Watch me now with a wicked and wild and I said
We come with the funky style
That gets us known for the show
And we'll mix the hip hop reggae if we say it is so
And fuck the naysayers cause they don't mean a
thing
'Cause this is what style we bring


Now it's morning but last night's on my mind
There's something I need to get off my chest
And no matter what may come to shine
The dream will always be mine


All mixed up you don't know what to do
Next thing you turn around and find the person is
you
Thought a freak might be the thing
But the first could be the last so just get off
your ass
All mixed up you don't know what to do
Next thing you turn around and find the person is
you
Thought a freak might be the thing
But you know this will pass so just get off your
ass


You've got to trust your instinct and let go of
regret
You've got to bet on yourself now star
'Cause that's your best bet


Watch me now with a wicked and wild and I said
Sick sick bit got to have it
Like bustin' in on a session but you got to call
it quits
Sick sick bit just can't quit
Fact that you don't even know makes it fully
legit


Now it's morning but last night's on my mind
There's something I need to get off my chest
And no matter what will come to shine
The dream will always be mine


You keep me coming,
That is a gal that'l kill 'dem stunning,
Keep me coming,
That is a gal that'l kill 'dem stunning,
Keep me coming,
That is a gal that'l kill 'dem stunning,
Keep me coming,
That is a gal that'l kill 'dem stunning,


You make me nervous throat dry
My brain is empty don't know why
But I saw you doing something
Which is really truly nothing
But you could bust me out all day


Many moons since first I saw you
Many moons since first we did the do
Many moons since first I saw you
Many moons since first we did the do


And why did I try when I knew it was no and
Why did I try when I saw it was so
But save it for late we should just let it skate
Cause the waiting feel is fine


Don't Stay Home


Life could slip away in absent minded numbness
I'm only sayin this 'cuz I wish for the best
When you always stay in self-incarceration
I thinks it's such a shame


Don't stay home this time no don't stay home
If he don't have to he don't want to
Don't stay home this time no don't say no


Oh how I'd like to diffuse your time bomb anger
It's screaming danger danger this kind of world
Don't care if you're home so you better get some


Don't stay home this time no don't stay home
If he don't have to he don't want to
Don't stay home this time no don't say no


Everything I'm sayin' you can dismiss
Because I sat alone on this past Christmas
I deserved to be alone
But I guess I should have gone home


Hey don't break the mold kid just eat around it
Yeah that's what I did
I'll be running around the block
For no apparent reason
Somethin' you'll catch me doin' in any season
Gotta break a sweat man gotta go bust out
Biddy by by by by
Good-bye to the drout, yea


Don't stay home this time no don't stay home
If he don't have to he don't want to
Don't stay home this time no don't say no


Don't stay home this time no don't stay home
If he don't have to he don't want to
Don't stay home this time no don't stay home


Beautiful Disaster


Today seems like a good day to burn a bridge or two
The one with old wood creaking that would burn
right away on cue
I try to be not like that but some people really
suck
Some people need to get the axing chalk it up to
bad luck


I know a drugstore cowgirl so afraid of getting
bored
She's always running from something so many things
ignored
I might do that stuff if it didn't make me feel
like shit
I'm on some old reality tip so many trips in it


Beautiful Disaster
Flyin down the street again
i tried to keep up
You wore me out and left me ate up
Now i wish you all the luck
You're a butterfly in the wind without a care
A pretty train crash to me and i can't care
I do, I don't, whatever


I know a drugstore cowgirl so afraid of getting
bored
She's always running from something so many things
ignored
I try to be not like this, but i thought i'd make
a good song
There's nothing to see shows over people just move
along


Transistor


If you want more beats for you buck there's no
luck (x4)
Then there's no luck
Then again if you came for drama then I can't
understand a
Music critics, music critics
Not afraid of a guy who'll tell you he's never
been in a mix
Been in a mix, been in a mix
We're from the grassroots so big up to out friends
Every crew, every click and every posse
Big up to all the heads not of hypocracy


You're a transistor
Lightning resistor
Conducting to the mother Star
That's what you are


Renegade sound system three eleven (x4)
Three eleven (x2)
Brothers from another planet and
Here once again
Automatic (x2)
Quantum saints of the universe
In a holographic
Cosmic Remix (x2)
From the mysterious blue planet
We can breathe anywhere
Underwater, out in space, and in L.A.
Your polluted air's no problem for these homeys


Prisoner


Whoa oh prisoner
My pretty oh oh prisoner


A black ocean is the sky above
Tiny lights bob what star you from


Trapped in material plane
She wants to fly and they think she's insane
But she knows what she know
Give that girl wings and that's all she wrote


Twilight zone twilight zone I'm
Floating in the dark alone and
Is there any love out here let me know


A laser lights the top of my dome
Then through my body
As if Scotty's
Beaming up a wayward soul


Mutant races in an ancient universe
Dark shadows humans rhymin' in a reggae verse


It's gone if you blink
I can see it as soon as you think it


Dancehalls crystal balls
On sidewalk malls
Psychic people outdoors reading palms


I believe that you know more
To survive the dimension is four


oh oh prisoner
my pretty oh oh prisoner


Look at the way she's searching
Trapped in a world that's hurting
So bad it makes her cry
But i won't let her say goddbye


Flowing


(Chorus)
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 it’s your private hell


(Chorus)


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

(Chorus)


You Wouldn't Believe


He was a king 'til she laid waste
Now he can not fill up the space
And I just see him drifting
while he’s drifting
On bourbon alley
feeling low
Just because she let
him go
I don’t think he
even knows
He’ll ever be fine
And he’s got
a head full of ideas
Let me tell ya
That you wouldn’t believe
And he’s got
a heart made of pure gold
And something else
Many tricks up his sleeve
You might think he’s a jester
because he’ll
make you laugh til’ you cry
And what else
You better come with your best
if you test him
Unless you’re ready to die
Wonder woman got rid of
wonder man
that man’s not part of
her wonder plan
Letter to the so called
better bet on my man
Believe it you will
find out baby
Damn
Head full of ideas
Let me tell ya
That you wouldn’t believe
And he’s got
a heart made of pure gold
And something else
So many tricks up his sleeve
You might think he’s a jester,
because he’ll
make you laugh til’ you cry
And what else
You better come with your best
if you test him
Unless you’re ready to die
A million people come and go
Through a person's ebb and flow
And faces keep on changing
While they're changing
A certain few will
stay in tact
When they’re not they'll don an act
I know this important fact
Don’t get confused like
And he’s got
a head full of ideas
Let me tell ya
That you wouldn’t believe
And he’s got
a heart made of pure gold
And something else
So many tricks up his sleeve
You might think he’s a jester
because he’ll
make you laugh til’ you cry
And what else
You better come with your best
if you test him
Unless you’re ready to die
First you love him
then your loving him not
All the while he just
smiles giving all that
he’s got
Do you find it in your
heart to say he’s not
what you sought
Do you want me to
continue with this
or what
Whoa yeah, whoa yeah
Head full of ideas
Let me tell ya
That you wouldn’t believe
And he’s got
a heart made of pure gold
And something else
so many tricks up his sleeve


I'll Be Here A While


I’ll be here awhile ain’t going nowhere
I’ll be here awhile ain’t going nowhere
I’ll be here awhile ain’t going nowhere
I’ll be here awhile


Far is solace in the maddening pace
Sad state written on my face


Not a tight rope walk but dance
Uncertain game of chance
But I’ll see it through in time


I’ll be here awhile ain’t going nowhere
I’ll be here awhile ain’t going nowhere
I’ll be here awhile ain’t going nowhere
I’ll be here awhile


And if a person place or thing can deliver
I will quiver with delight
Tempted by the hand that could
Blind my vision and sight


But at twenty years of age
In frolic and in rage
I will see it through in time


I’ll be here awhile ain’t going nowhere
I’ll be here awhile ain’t going nowhere
I’ll be here awhile ain’t going nowhere
I’ll be here awhile


But the dawn has come into the endless night
And everything’s going to be all right


But at thirty years of age
Through frolic and in rage
All regressed and healed in time


I’ll be here awhile ain’t going nowhere
Said I, said I, said I
I will survive

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