311 Album

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
so 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
you played a track from your record collection
it's your mix, congratulations

We've changed a lot and then some - some
you know that we have always been down - down
and if I ever didn't thank you - you
then just let me do it now

(Jump back in) I bet you light up when we start the show
follow me now very closely 'cuz I told you so
you know we glow cuz we throw sun-rays
now we be freaky and we wanna stay (unh)

We've changed a lot and then some - some
you know that we have always been down - down
and if I ever didn't thank you - you
then just let me do it now

Lightning strikes yo we be in that violent force of light
guaranteed to turn it out as bad as dolemite
because we're dope kid change like a chameleon
and the channel whenever that wack show real world is on
you know we dazzle like ghetto box boomin' battles
rattle inside your head feel redeemed like cola bottles
fall in love with your teachers on the wax
we are self made, check the technique, 311 in LA

We've changed a lot and then some - some
you know that we have always been down - down
and if I ever didn't thank you - you
then just let me do it now

Keep my feet on the ground
keep my head in the clouds
electrified by the sound
comes from the down, and

We've changed a lot and then some - some
you know that we have always been down - down
and if I ever didn't thank you - you
then just let me do it now 

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 and 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

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 of 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 of 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 illegit
now it's morning but last night's on my mind
there's something I need to get off my chest
and no matter may come to shine
the dream will always be mine

You keep me coming, that is a gal that'll kill dem stunning
you keep me coming, that is a gal that'll kill dem stunning
you keep me coming, that is a gal that'll kill dem stunning
you keep me coming, that is a gal that'll 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 cuz we should just let it skate
'cause the waiting feel is fine

Brainstorm
take me away from the norm
I got to tell you something
this phenomenon
I had to put it in a song
and it goes like

Whoa, amber is the color of your energy
whoa, shades of gold displayed naturally
you ought to know what brings me here
you glide through my head blind to fear
and I know why
whoa, amber is the color of your energy
whoa, shades of gold displayed naturally

Whoa, amber is the color of your energy
whoa, shades of gold displayed naturally

You live too far away
your voice rings like a bell anyway
don't give up your independence
unless it feels so right
nothing good comes easily
sometimes you gotta fight

Whoa, amber is the color of your energy
whoa, shades of gold displayed naturally
launched a thousand ships in my heart, so easy
still it's fine from afar, and you know that
whoa, brainstorm take me away from the norm
whoa, I got to tell you something

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 an'
full range of emotion full range of styles
when you come to town you'll have them comin' for 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
cause 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, ha

(Come on, come on)
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 hands 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

Today seems like a good day
to burn a bridge or two
the one with my old wood creaking
that would burn away right on cue
I try to be not like that
'cuz 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 s---
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 it'd make a good song
there's nothing to see shows over
people just move along

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 

My name is volatile
I've been this way a long while
I'd surely like to rest
But the energy gets the best of me
It's been a wild ride
I wouldn't change a minute
I can't slow down inside
Guess that's why I live it

The years of mischief
Followed by weeks of thrift
I land on earth's hard face
No legs could keep that pace
And through the rest I sift

Is there ever a time
When the state of sleeping willingly leaves my mind

Highly frustrated wanna feel elated
Come monday morn you feel checkmated
You can be uncool and become the rule
Exceptions were made to drown

I'm not used to it, you'd think I'd be by now
The ins the outs the ups and the downs

I wanna make a mess
I wanna blow off stress
I wanna stoke the fire
Just creatures for a while
I wanna make a mess
I wanna blow off stress
I wanna stoke the fire
Just creatures, Just creatures
It comes and goes and comes and goes

Sometimes I go a little crazy
Sometimes I go a little crazy just like you I do

I know what you we're gonna say
But were afraid to cause dismay
You're lyrics switched around
The mixture watered down
And now a pointless display

It's something one won't understand
Unless there in it with me hand and hand

Don't buy the fear don't buy that my dear
The things you love you must keep near and
Carry on and you won't feel withdrawn
Even if you're coming down

Sometimes it's wearable sometimes is bearable
I careen towards balance til' the glass is full

I wanna make a mess
I wanna blow off stress
I wanna stoke the fire
Just creatures for a while
I wanna make a mess
I wanna blow off stress
I wanna stoke the fire
Just creatures, just creatures

It comes and goes and comes and goes
Sometimes
Sometimes I get a little out there
Sometimes I go off
Sometimes just like you

I go a little crazy
Sometimes I go a little crazy just like you I do
Sometimes I go a little crazy

Passin' the kind buds, kickin' back in the sand in the sun
to be alive is lovin', where the shore meets the sea,
man I'm hummin', I'm hummin
i'm free (free) as I stare at the sea (sea)
and I'm not comin' down (down)
the world is yours once you have found (found)
the good is to share, which is elsewhere
the beauty of green is where light is now broken
by what it touches
remembering what you once had told me hit home
and hasn't it always been so
i'm free (free) as I stare at the sea (sea)
and I'm not comin' down (down)
the world is yours once you have found (found)
the good is to share, which is elsewhere

Like I said before I'll say it once more
knew you would make me feel so good
wanna do you right
can't get enough, this is the stuff
life's about and it trips me out
gonna do you right, (I will do you right)

Bright mornings, days when I want so much
I want nothing, just this life and no more
I'll come within this world there's only one for me
she's waiting, I'll soon come
i'm free (free) as I stare at the sea (sea)
and I'm not comin' down (down)
the world is yours once you have found (found)
the good is to share, which is elsewhere

Like I said before I'll say it once more
knew you would make me feel so good
wanna do you right
can't get enough, this is the stuff
life's about and it trips me out
gonna do you, do you, do you, do you, do you

Free from the burn, the burnin' of spite and
free from the burn, the burning of the light
no buzz hack, no buzz hack, no buzz hack, no buzz hack
swing to the thing you bring, check it out
how could you be so good to me,
how could you be so good to me
I want to be worth, want to be worth
buzz hack, hack hack, buzz, yeah
swing to the thing you bring, check it out.

Like I said before I'll say it once more
knew you would make me feel so good
wanna do you right
can't get enough, this is the stuff
life's about and it trips me out
gonna do you right (I will do you right) 

I'll be here a while, ain't going nowhere
I'll be here a while, ain't going nowhere
I'll be here a while, ain't going nowhere
I'll be here a while

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 a while, ain't going nowhere
I'll be here a while, ain't going nowhere
I'll be here a while, ain't going nowhere
I'll be here a while

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 a while, ain't going nowhere
I'll be here a while, ain't going nowhere
I'll be here a while, ain't going nowhere
I'll be here a while

But the dawn has come into the endless night
and everything's going to be alright
but at thirty years of age
through frolic and in rage
all regressed and healed in time

I'll be here a while, ain't going nowhere
Said I, said I, said I, I will survive

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 your 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 persons ebb and flow
and faces keep on changing
while there 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

woahohohohohohohooh yeah
woahohohohohohohooh 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
sleeve, sleeve

If you want more beats for you buck there's no luck
if you want more beats for you buck there's no luck
if you want more beats for you buck there's no luck
if you want more beats for you buck there's no luck
then there's no luck
then again if you came for drama then I can't understand
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 our friends
every crew, every click and every posse
big up to all the heads not of hypocrisy

You're a transistor
lightning resistor
conducting to the mother star
that's what you are

Renegade sound system three eleven
renegade sound system three eleven
renegade sound system three eleven
renegade sound system three eleven, three eleven
brothers from another planet and here once again
automatic, automatic
quantum saints of the universe in a holographic
cosmic remix, cosmic remix
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

You're a transistor
lightning resistor
conducting to the mother star
that's what you are

You're a transistor
lightning resistor
conducting to the mother star
that's what you are 

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 think it's such a shame

Don't stay home this time, no don't stay home, oh
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, oh
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 runnin around the block for no apparent reason
somethin' you'll catch me doin' in any given season
gotta break a sweat man gotta go bust out
buddy bye bye bye bye, good-bye to the drought - yea

Don't stay home this time, no don't stay home, oh
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, oh
if he don't have to he don't want to
don't stay home this time no don't stay home

Now I know fools get their own when they chit chat
haven't heard yet but you can bet I'm not with that
with that talk with the digi walk
I struck a bird you heard absurd word to the fact
I'm a cat, nippin' sippin' on the flask
passin' it talkin' shit but only if you ass
in front of me cause you could run from me but
in the end revenge send ends to the defendant
I cant get caught in the spiral
cause every bit of energy it goes to my survival
out my way, I'm a flicka flacka blotter
ya try to find a weakness but the s--t keeps gettin' harder

Fourth of July
with Lucy in sky
I remember pine trees and the coat of many colors
I was nineteen
I'd do anything
s--t like that now scares me but I'd like to do it again
It was Independence day
I've seen the other side and I say
oh, I've been insane
and I wont ever be the same

Cuz we flow we must be fly
first to flow, Nickel my brother so wise
and then I rise
here's an ill kid pimpin' cuz he is so slick
steps from darkness, his body electric
a drone buzzes the air a cracklin' tone
then boomin' like thunder in a cosmic jungle
death defyin' like Knievel he weeble
words that will wobble awkwards and evil
cuz he flow and rock the hardest of the crowds
a marvel pow how you like me now
I've returned the kiss of death the last Damien
from the abyss fresh eternal alien
now famished from pathless ways I'ma do damage
to the wack MC's I know you cant stand this
right about now get down, I'm the annihilator
rockin' with the rhythm of my rhyme detonator

Fourth of July
with Lucy in sky
I remember pine trees and the coat of many colors
I was nineteen
I'd do anything
shit like that now scares me but I'd like to do it again
It was Independence day
I've seen the other side and I say
oh, I've been insane
and I wont ever be the same

It is a gift I know
A moment of bliss that we hold
A firecracker flash of light then on
To the next plane soul remain
Come along if you dare
It's gonna be that you're scared
Lovely life I thank you
For the reason to see the pain through

Light a candle for the dead
The wick is burning returning what we have
It's who we are
We'll reach you if you're beyond the furthest star

Don't give up the fight to stay alive and even if
you have to
Find the reason of another's pain if they lose you
If not for your self then those around who care
like I do
One day you'll see the clear blue

Beyond the Gray Sky
Light a candle...
The wick...
It's who we are...

One day youill see the clear blue
Beyond the Gray Sky

I can't believe you didnit call
What made you want to end it all
Wasn't there something I should have tried

Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am home again
Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am whole again
Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am young again
Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am fun again
However far away
I will always love you
However long I stay
I will always love you
Whatever words I say
I will always love you
I will always love you
Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am free again
Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am clean again
However far away
I will always love you
However long I stay
I will always love you
Whatever words I say
I will always love you
I will always love you

I'm all right I feel real light
I don't live a life that's uptight
Where there's fight there's struggling
I can't walk through the world
Without offering questions
What's my direction
Breakin' the grip of depression
There comes a day when you let it go
There comes a time to a rock show

You know the time that you feel
When nothing else really matters
You're on the spot in the world
That you belong
That's where I am when the lights going down
I'll find a way to make some fun
I know that there is a link of energy
To someone

How do you feel?
Cuz I couldn't ask for
A single thing more
How do you feel?
The moment you know
Just what you are for

I'm on a quest with a vision
I've got love and tradition
I wear a mask that grins and laughs
I remember what I've done
I'm a vibe under the sun
I penetrate all dimensions
I've come again
Rejuvenate within
I'm future animation

I feel the fuel rushing through my veins
It's a burning flame
You could take on the world
It's all in your brain

How do you feel?
Cuz I couldn't ask for
A single thing more
How do you feel?
The moment you know
Just what you are for

(bridge)

How do you feel?
Cuz I couldn't ask for
A single thing more
How do you feel?
The moment you know
Just what you are for

How do you feel?
Cuz I couldn't ask for
A single thing more
How do you feel?
The moment you know
Just what you are for

Oh a whole new way of looking at things
The way you react to phone rings
The way it feels when you let it flow

Sometimes I wonder just how it could be
To take care of it before we see
It off the rails
I think that you should know

You never cease to amaze me
You keep me from going crazy
And that’s one thing I know for sure

Sometimes I see just how it all will be
To take care of it it’s so easy
The first straw
And this I know for sure

The first straw so small it seemed impossible
The next straw vanished like shooting stars that fall
The last straw there’s no reason for getting there at all

No reason to take it there at all
Yea

The last straw can land in your mix
Your best day could be apocalypse
Nobody pay attention to the first straw
It seems the last one is all we ever saw

The first straws a metaphor I pick up myself
It tells me something by showing me something else

I think that you should know
The first straw so small it seemed impossible
The next straw vanished like shooting stars that fall
The last straw there’s no reason for getting there at all

Everyone reacts when it gets to the weight of breaking the back
I won’t let that be us cuz the loss I’d never get past
Yea

The first straw so small it seemed impossible
The next straw vanished like shooting stars that fall
The last straw there’s no reason for getting there at all

The first straw so small it seemed impossible
The next straw vanished like shooting stars that fall
The last straw there’s no reason for getting there at all