311 Album

Groove as your soul sings
spinnin' all around as we dust a melody
groove as your soul sings
spinnin' all around

Welcome to this groove, you can move right
we gonna take you higher (higher)
not caught in the quagmire (mire)
I can't survive on a stupid nine to five
I'd rather be poor writing tunes livin' on a commune
kickin' it with my brothers (brothers)
and significant others (others)
life in pursuit of only money, we think it's funny
the only thing that money it could ever bring to me
would be some gifts for my friends
follow me now, trips for my family
the only thing I love is freedom (freedom)
the people around me I need them (I need them)
I'd like to build the world a spliff, but like I said I said
you could never get me interested in dreams of wealth
myself my birthday happens to land on April 12th, wack

A Coney Island of the mind it's mine
I swipe the sweets, strip the beats in the sunshine
loco holmes because I'm thinking
a tone poem alone is love medicine
then the demon, spring revolution in my spirit
here it is and I will kill with it

Traveling head spinnin' from the medicine
illusions fadin' out and comin' on again
unwind your mind then find entire minutes
abstract the tract of sight day breaking in it
doles out my share of the world, ocean and sun
rising with a whirling motion (aw, yeah)

I fought, kicked and screamed my way to getting born
now I feel warm and I say come on
the night won't save anyone
wont you roam we've grown so we can write
again our soul select its own way for the travellin'
we're here, we're breathing
and we wanna keep our blood running
so we're gonna keep gunning till the next homecoming
I like the boogie to the bang bang boogie say up
jump the boogie to the bang bang come on 

I'm in a good way on a bad day
thinking of a plan a way to stay
on top of it, nailin' in
I have a fit if I sit, sit doin' nothin' 
which is what I done so far but I carve a niche
with sits in my good things brain layin' the tracks
like a loco mo spark the Jay

Tabla Rosa is my brain
don't mean to bug or drive you insane
don't have to guess just what I'm sayin' 
if I had a point, I'd say it plain
dammit my brain is blank and that's lame
I would be a liar if I said I was inspired
nothin' to say but that's ok
nod your head to this

Messin' around, I'm not having it you bite the hand I put your head out
I come to know a travesty and so sad to see 
the scene dictated by frustrated former musicians
switchin the emphasis from art to money
but I demand autonomy what else
I tell you what's wrong to me
the industry's ability to manufacture stars
they churn them out like Iwo Jima makes cars
but the blame lies not with those suits for trying
it's the sheep that keep on buying that soulless crap
whatever they put in front of ya
the hysteria of America
nod your head to this

Well, stress is the enemy and not a friend to me
one thing I see is to be easy goin'
throwin' down sit back and watch my life flowin'
and knowing life is but a dream
you can ask my home team, let me tell you how I seem
my economy seems to be in words not action actually
ya see yes I'm a tempest and I rarely rest
but that's what you go to do if you want to be the best
so I'm on a threshold so don't tell me no
I just flow and know I can count on my bros

Tabla Rosa is my brain
don't mean to bug or drive you insane
don't have to guess just what I'm sayin'
if I had a point, I'd say it plain
dammit my brain is blank and that's lame
I would be a liar if I said I was inspired
nothin' to say but that's ok
nod your head to this, to this, to this

Don't you know that the Devil he's in me and God she is too
My Yin hates my Yang, but what the hell ya gonna do
I choose a rocky ass path but that's how I like it
life's a bowl of punch go ahead and spike it 

(Come, come on y'all, come on and rock this day
come on y'all, come on and rock this day
come on y'all, come on and rock this
jump to the beat then j-u-m-p!
come, come on y'all, come on and rock this day
come on y'all, come on and rock this day
come on y'all, come on and rock this day)

Let the games begin if you want to, f--- with me
you can't disturb the course of T & P & C & D and me
I'm on a mission to set straight
the vice, the curse, the gate, the date, relate to this
I insist B, it's weak to dis see
I'm runna up so sucker stick to your 40
how could I give a damn, give a damn
if you approve what it's about
I just freak out

(Get up, get up, get up and rock this beat
Get up, get up, get up and rock this beat
Get up, get up, get up, (???))
freak out
(Get up, get up, get up and rock this beat
Get up, get up, get up and rock this)

Just guess y'all c'mon come back
slipped outta wack as the master
laid out the music
death I just say f--- you (f--- you)
the void unknown we're thrown through
while lost in life's psychedelic trip we take
there's another more bizarre we have to make
world we have nowhere beyond
take out the earth, the bass is gone
at life's end we'll feel the calm
how strange we should be here at all

If you don't have someone to
do it with it's not worth doing
to all my friends it's not the end
the earth has not swallowed me yet

(Come, come on y'all, come on and rock this day
come on y'all, come on and rock this day
come on y'all, come on and rock this day)

Into whose womb were you woven (woven)
what kin of your skin dropped you then bodies cloven
light of daybreak blinded next exit
the wild darkness forming in side it
my day wasn't promised me each death it brings
reminding me we are rumbling in this
cursed universe where death is a birth
think not but what your manifest is worth
giving up a verse the curse occurs a thirst
to burst first breaking through the center of the universe
slamming down on the lingo flow so jam to
the bum rush single long ago has become now
when you find out there's no break in the rhythm
black anima makes my stamina stand alone
disown the cinema, farewell to posing decades dozing
coming up the steps of the new screen rising
scenes from the lost world shapes hard to tell
which is which as if drawn by a child, holmes

If you don't have someone to
do it with it's not worth doing
to all my friends it's not the end
the earth has not swallowed me yet

If you don't have someone to
do it with it's not worth doing

This is the heat to flush your face, brother
this is the heat to flush your face, come on
this is the heat to flush your face, brother
this is the heat to flush your face, come on
freak out

All through the scandal
of the small town scene
I always handle
you like to think my spirit is weak
I thought you knew I thought you knew,
it was gonna be this way
I guess I thought that
cuz I told you nearly every day
I know you're tryin' to suck my soul

Oh
well I'm sick of the chicks and I'm sick of the bars
I'm sick of the scene, it blows (??)
I'm sad yea its getting me madder
hah, I'm tired of you pulling on me
it makes you look foolish and why can't you see
that its weak just stand on your feet
get your arms off my shoulders
and get a little older you
wait life's a creep it's a good life with me so take me
but you cannot, cannot suck my soul, no
check it out

well, the soulsuckers must be circumnavigated
the soulsuckers must be circumnavigated
the soulsuckers must be circumnavigated
the soulsuckers must be circumnavigated

But I promise you, I promise you
I will do what I want to anyway
you're out of luck
cuz the souls that you suck
you're nothin so I say
make peace with me cuz
I'm sure that you'll see that its
no big deal to me
I wish you the best
move on and test without me
Or someone like me
cuz you cannot suck my soul

Oh
well you know the time
you always are tryin'
to flip your wings
and make you not lyin
its lame its always the same
it's human instinct, (??)
it's takes mental dexterity too keep open eyes
it's true it happened to you
it's sad to be talkin
while others do the walkin to the promised land
the way that you creep
makes you look like a leech. so tell me
but you cannot, cannot suck my soul no, no

Cuz the soulsuckers must be circumnavigated
the soulsuckers must be circumnavigated
the soulsuckers must be circumnavigated
the soulsuckers must be circumnavigated
check it out
the soulsuckers must be circumnavigated

Story time sways away the haze
they spent contemplating, formulating
theory siring above me swimming
pay tribute to the few we look up to
come again you my soul fool
who will know us but our brothers
those who down with us are thinking
new school, tip top, pound the feeble
walking and talking low down and evil
follow me now yo Vato the nix hex is on

Would everybody just look at the hook
I took it strait from my brain
reminds me of the time I was insane
and so I wrote it when I was loaded
and voted the least likely to turn out like us
I'm singing it for your mind and no
I'm singing it for your ears
jump up and down and leave the ground
and know that's why your here and they say
down diggey down down, down diggey diggey down
stronger, longer line up your ways of know
what I'm thinking say it again
and now I'm with my home team back with a good seat
I gladwick like chadwick to tell you what I mean
were laying back on it just like good sex
smooth your psychedelic its called the nix hex-um

The monologue of a sing-a-long
las banderas de san juan piden pa (??)
go tell it on a mountain, then again bring a friend
you'll maybe get dizzy with a sense of vertigo
uplifted soul from the view that
I'm on nothin' but love, but love
but love in my blood sonic in the vortex
this is the hip thing called the nix hex, dig it

(Come see me now, come see me now babe
come see me now, come see me now ah
come see me now, come see me now baby
come see me now, come see me now
(??), I need the punani
come in on break so let's get
(??), I need the punani
come in on break so lets's get down
singing if I want to make the music in this country
and the rhythm imaginary with the melody
wait a minute, just a minute, yes, yes
time to ryhme and shine now rip it, rip!

Jump up and down cuz that's the 311 style
cruise on by the frowners
float, follow me now with a smile
I've got golden ticket, not gonna even pick it
I heard it, he said it, I heard it
but it went, but it went something like
the rhythm will make you want to move your body
I had it once and never ever forgot it)

Here I sit in idle envy
T.V. show still holds me in
thin steel creases my (??)
begging to begin

And then it hits me
and then I see, then I see
today my love, we shall let the world slide
for we, will never be
younger again

Well, I'm tired of the ladies and the stupid excuses
sitting on my ass makes me feel useless
earth accelerate, hurry up and turn that's right
I'm starting to burn

Well I get kinda mad like a (??) crawdad
it's time to throw down, too bad so sad
don't step to me when things don't go as you planned
no, I don't give a damn

And then it hits me
and then I see, then I see
today my love, we shall let the world slide
for we, will never be
younger again, younger again
younger again, younger again

It's easier to hurt than heal
hypocrites they make me ill
young men yearn to turn the tables
that too is a sin

And then it hits me
and then I see, then I see
today my love, we shall let the world slide
for we, will never be
younger again

We all look to the end of a certain social stress
i'm down for that day, but don't forget the progress
of wakening things up the passion understanding
here's to the youth who aren't afraid to put a hand in

And then it hits me
and then I see, then I see
today my love, we shall let the world slide
for we, will never be
younger again, younger again
younger again, younger again