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 

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

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 

Now I'm not the type to just act like I know
puttin on an angle putting on a show
speaking on nothing makes you a stunt
I'll tell you right here yo I won't front
I cross the t's and skip nonlegitimacies, or else please
I cannot handle all the negative vibe merchants
is that all you have in you per chance
so much angst and pain it's so wack
you should take a tip from the one Frank Black
play some pachinko play some Parcheesi
cause all the angst shit is just cheesy

It's a 311 bliss too smooth for pissed
lyrics talkin loud again, yeah we are the party men
cosmetics that you fretted we sport the high aesthetic
here go rap kickin the dazzled crazy mathematic (come on)
I am what I am mix some old school jams
on to tape cuz the party's in the crates I scan
step into the realm, what you gonna do
give the party people something funky to listen to

Misdirected hostility, that's what you got see
misdirected hostility, that's what you got see
misdirected hostility, that's what you got see
misdirected hostility, that's what you got

Bodyrock pop and lock here's an example
boulevard chrome beats always ampin' your temple
punks get got in the age of hip hop
it's just begun like stolen bikes on the blacktop
born to sing a lyric immaculately concepted
no strain in your game if your game is respected
come as you are radio star
drown out the hatred with a rhyme, an electric guitar
dispatched when rap shattered the glass of radio access
may we turn some soul on their rhythmless dances
you know the time and they'll know the scoop
they'll say it was a rhyme and a beat of a rap group

Your rhymes have been outmoded
your rhymes have been outmoded
your rhymes have been outmoded
your rhymes have been outmoded

Your rhymes have been outmoded
so just quit your bellyachin'
you're saying that your tortured
give me a fuckin break and
maybe take out the source of your despairing
what do I mean, kick the fuckin' heroin
I speak from experience because I didn't see clearly once
acting like a dunce, in 1989 I was cocaine and Jim Beam
but now it's '95 and I'm ginseng

Misdirected hostility, that's what you got see
misdirected hostility, that's what you got see
misdirected hostility, that's what you got see
misdirected hostility, that's what you got

(Boom boom bap, boom boom boom boom bap
boom bap, boom boom boom boom bap
boom bap, boom boom boom boom bap
boom bap, boom boom boom boom boom bap)

(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

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)

Nod your head to this as a lot of apprentice
some of this were standing on the shoulder of giants
some tyrants some benevolent
to the followers it's relevant
the rest get bent on lending opinions
I'm sending to a brand new level I revel in completion
I like to see the deletion of a parasite
to make the low flight
fools know rules but the rest keep bouncing back
with the lack of further adieu see
as one can deduce we kick out the jams
slamin' shit out hard and long
cuz we got more song, dig, check it

Something you might like now
all-star bound yeah your so sound
cool as the blue water all around
from a force field flashing somebody is sending
black evolutions of love you are hearing
the dark supernatural is the world we call
our own home lightning in the mind comes out in song
but we're wild they say never trust us we're shady
in lieu of the crew your into we are baby 
cuz music will be coming out the words we speak
we erect break beats shatter wax still on the platter 
our shit is badder we come fly then we scatter 
cuz we deep and we solid yeah we hear ya holler

(?Electricity running through it always) feels good
sometime the only thing that really ever could
feed that hunger I crave it I love it I gave it
I shoved it in a battery and saved it for later
a waiter in the Dorothy C. Pavilion in '89 
I met some weirdoes and had myself a real good time
downtown L.A. is a soul graveyard
where you got to be hard or get jacked
it lacked a certain sense of something something basic
no karma in the least I broke east
you know I had to face it I guess I flaked
but it was no mistake because 311's got the boom y'all

my mic check is giving me electric company
I can't see the high wide sky or stars above me
are you a flower or more like a high rise tower
If so the soul of sweet delight on you will shower
there's a place for us they say is somewhere
not a dream but a place and you will be there
your slippin' but content because your spirit
and hills are alive with the sound of music

People never see the whole trip of life man
Grab knowledge and all you do is sigh

In a minute everything you have can all be straight gone
In a minute things you thought were tied
can come straight undone
how about some knocks on wood some so far it's so good
any day what you think is solid earth can jump up
and spread out to the north and to the south
that's what plates are about
nature has no conscience, no kindness or ill will
but the dreams they had make me sad because
of the vibes of them when one girl dreamt a fire in hers
and then it happened to me and my family
my bro's and I were driving the RV
bleeding flames us leaping through fire surviving
zoned with no home there was fire all on it
umm let me have my life I want it
I'm gonna let you know that I said
we're comin' in kill we're comin' in chill
we're comin' in how we will
want to tell the whole world what's the deal
and I say know no critical border cause we do what we want
got more funky styles than my laser jet got font
not one to get over sounding like the norm
friendly to the radio, all that shit is corn
all we coming with is a little bit of swing
and we go on like it ain't no thing, and I say

Omaha stylee did not think there was one
where you know the radios weak and the shows are more fun
but you know we fuck up the dance hall since 1988
many did not think when they hear we come from this state
still we're down like that, still we're down like that
still we're down like that, kickin' the funk that smells of skunk
Omaha stylee did not think there was one
where you know the radios weak and the shows are more fun
but you know we fuck up the dance hall since 1988
many did not think when they hear we come from this state

The dance hall that we come from has a pool table basement
the the rent was low-key and the records were Jamaican
such occasions occur back in the day
it begins you're a raw kid all the way
son of a gun but then you drifted
all are endowed but few are gifted
at the break of dawn, behavin' like a spy
lampin' in the light the cold world awakens
deeper is the light to open up the sky
look into my eyes and see the dialating
Omaha Stylee is the shit we come with man
embedded in our souls it breaths out from this band
we always knew that we could
thank you if you too thought we would

Not one to get over sounding like the norm
friendly to the radio, all that shit is corn
all we coming with is a little bit of swing
and we go on like it ain't no thing and I say

Omaha stylee did not think there was one
where you know the radios weak and the shows are more fun
but you know we fuck up the dance hall since 1988
many did not think when they hear we come from this state
still we're down like that, still we're down like that
still we're down like that, kickin' the funk that smells of skunk

We will arise explore these worlds and find the grassroots
how to crew to do the grinding of the grounds to brew
my dude on the one to come off like Teflon
rock your shit and you will rise on
If you're a farmer outstanding in your field say uhh
do as you will do as you wish follow your bliss say uhh
we travel around the country giving it our best
we like to see the people dancing
and the bouncing and the rest
the hammer and the chisel and the rule it compass
we forge a sword the chariots of war a battle axe
there's much power in anger, but loves a bigger banger
complete props to my crew cause this is how we do
Omaha Stylee 

This one is dedicated to the excitable ones
not the possums playing dead messing with my head
"X" amount of action, "X" amount of game
for years again I tell you the same, ooh ooh ooo

Gone already
to the bored of it all type lingo that I'm seein'
every single night I'm out
bustin' head for it
but yours gets busted right back, lip split and
I messed up
but I got back tryin, don't bother lyin bout
constant disappointment
but the fun is in the hunt
so quit actin on a front, yeah
you're unmotivated, you're sorta faded
but the remedy is not so get on with what you got

Remember "Lady of Guadeloupe"
the times mother made mole and
after mass we would get home
the girls running to the phone
and in my bedroom, the 45 on my record player was
"we're in this love together"
at the time I never realized how songs
haunted the ones that I heard, I played because I wanted
drawing on my wall from time to time coolin'
making creatures come alive with no schoolin'

When I'm on the microphone
the method that I make is much patience
the method that I make is much patience
I wait for the beat and then I make sense
in comin' in hot forgot, you definently got no clue
in comin' in hot you got, you definently got so rude
boy actin coy but you got nuts like almond joy
I tell ya, this is a tribute

No one looks as foolish as the excitable ones
but then again there's no one who has as much fun
"X" amount of action, "X" amount of game
for years again I tell you the same, ooh ooh ooo

Once I met a man who made nearly no mistakes
he would never bet on a longshot
and he'd never bet on a break and
he's condescending and talks gossip galore
but the dude was definently such a bore, hear me now
I messed up
but I got back tryin, dont bother lyin bout
constant disappointment
but the fun is in the hunt
so quit actin on a front, yeah
you're unmotivated, you're sorta faded
but the real man is not the one hiding behind the gunshot, boom!

Time travelin through my memories
there's a younger Doug gazin' at the galaxy
space trippin' vato of the stars
searchin' for UFO's from Neptune and Mars
ode to an alien, I know you're out there
cosmic lonely heart, tell me if you care
I'm listening for your sound, here on the ground
I'm listening for your sound, here on the ground

When I'm on the microphone
the method that I make is much patience
the method that I make is much patience
I wait for the beat and then I make sense
in comin' in hot forgot, you definently got no clue
in comin' in hot you got, you definently got so rude
boy actin coy but you got nuts like almond joy
I tell ya, this is a tribute

I'm vexing many mofos but i'm wishing you the best
I keep bout half my lyrics and I throw out the rest
cause fly on by, you can if you want to
the method that makes sense is patience 

Between Mars and Jupiter there's a gap for another planet
now way back yeah maybe a mad man
just blew the shit out of it
now were tryin' to get back in alignment
explains why we go through cycles always tryin' to find it
closin' into the age of Aquarius crazy weather floods
tornadoes low jet streams not gettin' better
enterin' a twilight zone activities grown
and every single day more people spottin' UFO's

Let's come together with this new coast shit
we got the mother fuckin' kids now lets freak this shit
it's messed up if you're feeling (feeling)
everything is wrong, we'll take over the pentagon

It's fucked up in this paradigm cuz
I'm burning fossil fuels I don't even need to
free energy has been harnessed 
we don't use it why cuz the techniques been suppressed
the hour glass has passed through granules that's cool
we gotta break it bust all these rules and
switch change up the pitch
rearrange our views and this dumb shit we'll ditch

Let's come together with this new coast shit
we got the mother fuckin' kids now lets freak this shit
it's messed up if you're feeling (feeling)
everything is wrong, we'll fumigate the chevrons

I found a bootleg of the cosmic conscious then erased it
visualized the breath technique slowly became it
now something is watchin' me since I have found the keys
to free this energy my high speed light body
cuz the galaxy is crazy it doesn't amaze me
that we're livin' out of phase and quickly decaying
6 protons, 6 neutrons, 6 electrons
is encoded in this planet we live on 

You're a thousand light years running' through my brain
reminding me that no one's sane not all the time, yes

You're a thousand light years running though my brain
reminding me that no one's sane not all the time, yes
I still remember you in a way that you'd want me to
I man a man you know see who will do right for you

Never let your regret make you wish we had not met
I cannot think that way yeah I drove you crazy
I see that plainly you waited on pins for me
but needles never ever love what did you think of 

Mother nature supreme step back and dream 
the hydroponic scene (scene)
found around knocked out of bounds wound
into the mind of my stone cloud
taste the thinnest of oxygen (oxygen)
rising higher a stoner cuz I can groove something
wrecking nothing to prove see that's in my nature
so fresh the vital bud of the chronic tastes of something thicker

Everything I eat is from the earth, right?
I am what I eat, straight up earth, right?
nothing but a walking sack of earth, nice to meet you
how do you do, guess what, yeah your one too
my skin holds me in, my brain moves me then boom
I jump straight off the speaker in a form, a celebration
that were moving, freely disconnected I'm truly grateful
I'm going back to the earth, I'm not going to waste life
being hateful

Kingdom comin' through ya
kingdom comin' through ya

Jumpin' out my skin (jumpin' out my skin)
the skin I'm in (the skin I'm in)
and the hydroponic's on

Did it because we wanna
toke up until its gone an
abstract notion
here to connect me to the ocean
cause I'm water, and carbon, and not much else, I felt compunction
conjunction junction, what's your function
I'll be hookin' up verbs and nouns and phrases
clauses as to the causes of misery quizzically
I look to my own book hooked
on trying to fathom the solar systems
an atom in a larger molecule
called a galaxy, cool
the Milky Way is where I stray

Astronomy steppin' stompin' a pow wow (wow)
I rock the mike and shake up the ground
and I'm a bust out like wild dandelions in fat bloom (bloom)
I'm shooting through the cosmos because I loom
you know I'm higher, I'm shining brighter, yes, yes
like where water comes together with other water foamin'
now I'm homin' like a bird soarin' right to the moon
I'm a wildflower busting out I go boom (boom)

Kingdom comin' through ya
kingdom comin' through ya

Jumpin' out my skin (jumin' out my skin)
the skin i'm in (the skin i'm in)
and the hydroponic's on

Jumpin' out my skin (jumin' out my skin)
the skin i'm in (the skin i'm in)
and the hydroponic's on

2 for 1, 5 for 4, half ounces
Quarter pounds, LB's and kilos
What are we looking for?
Sinsemilla
What are we hoping for?
What are we hoping for?
Sinsemilla

Who's got the herb? is what the young boys ask me
Who's got the herb? and then elders tell me
Who's got the herb? is what the young girls ask me
Who's got the herb? not the dread-locks

Skunk, bud, indica
Sativa, my reefer, la arriba
Skunk, bud, indica
Sativa, my reefer, la arriba
When we roll a big one
it feels so right
When we smoke it in our bong
it feels so nice

Who's got the herb? is what the young boys ask me
Who's got the herb? and then the elders tell me
Who's got the herb? is what the young girls ask me
Who's got the herb? not the dread-locks

Who's got the herb?
Who's got the herb?
Who's got the herb?
Who's got the herb? What I'm talkin' 'bout
Cramacaca cayaca die shocka fryaca
From a coppa, yes I'm tellin' you
Cramacaca cayaca, die shocka fryaca
From a coppa

What are we looking for?
Sinsemilla
What are we hoping for?
Sinsemilla
Here we go!
Skunk, bud, indica
Sativa, my reefer, my reefer
Who's got it? Who's got the herb?
Who's got it? Who's got the herb?
311, whoa, whoa, whoa
Who's got the herb?

311's got the herb and you can't avoid that
and ya do want your hands with a fat blunt sack
chill with indica and guiness, steer clear of white powder
kick it you sing it in a space, go out to play it louder

Plague my brain with no cocaine
I don't wanna, I don't wanna go insane

Roll up the bones if you can affix a word to smoke it
except for you're doomed in the morning if you bake the hills
Oh and I get up to the sun and then I smoke out
It's beginning to smell like Mota and I'm high with no doubt, sing

Plague my brain with no cocaine
I don't wanna, I don't wanna go insane

If you want to harm the
world then you can stop the
herb and you can use the
serve and use the warrant.

Well everybody got opinion that's loud and unbending
I spend my time healing and mending together 
It's a question of whether live positive
well I give P-Nut joins our back, he must be arthritic
Tim is from the '70s and so we live it
SA has the wisdom of a Noble Laureate
I'm down for our days of glory and
It's easy to do when you're up with Sexton
a rythmatic genius churnin' out the next one
but you know bro, I flow in this circumstance
you'll get your chance
because now payback's our motherfuckin' mission
to the sharp ass rocks slippin' on us but we rock
It comes to writing on us derision
sendin' you a voice, now sendin' you a vision
and those who fought me say they taught me
everything I know, I go aww, when I hear that
that chit and that chat, bullshit!

In your face, that's right
and it feels so good
in your face, yeah, it feels so good
take it to 'em bro, throw down, now say

Settin' forth a course I'm really wiggin' out
In my dome I roam, no time to doubt
fucked up you right there while I was rhymin'
now you're sulking in the corner, a baby crying
hittin' up now we feelin' to rock Mars
fuckin' up the shit, now their heads bob
we ain't new to jack swing, the groove and that
we got crazy factiffs and we all that
I don't often rock and I'm a laureate
I don't pull the punch you know I'm throwin' it
freestyles my style on the mic and flex
you're stalkin' the mind of a punk that's next

I get retarted now that I started you know
a condition which I keep close together
like the kind buds you know my scene
my team thinks I sing supreme
but you, the weasel
try to bring us down but in reality
it make you look like a clown
too bad cause we'll be sittin' in the sun
and choose a rocky ass fast ball

In your face, that's right
and it feels so good, choose a lock y'all
In your face, yeah, it feels so good
yo P-Nut, beat that thing

Won't you warm the mic Nicholas
can't get this my stream of consciousness is a sea
much like Bukowski with a rage
speaking to the page, beasts in the cage
jumping off the stage, stage diving
thriving, striving, for a better day or say
beat back by flesh shattered doors
braggin' fists to the sky you're feelin' high
yes to live and die

Just take a moment to have a fit once in a while
you know, you know I do it daily
and like it but that's my style, yeah, here I go

In your face, and down your throat,
and it feels so good, fraid so fuck it up y'all
in your face, and down your throat
and it feels so good, that's all