M.I.A. Album

Roadrunner, roadrunner
Going 100 mph
Roadrunner, roadrunner
Going 100 mph
With your radio on
With your radio on
Roadrunner, roadrunner
Going 100 mph
With your radio on

Somalia Angola Ghana Ghana Ghana Ghana
India Sri Lanka Burma Bamboo Banga
It's a Bamboo Banga, I said Bamboo Banga

This a Bamboo Banga, I said Bamboo Banga
And we hitting our rackets like a tennis player
And the drummer do this shit like he makarena

This a jungle banger, I said cold jammer (3x)
I'm bored of banana want gwanabana
I gon warm my buns this summer summer
Coz I'm sitting down chillin on gun powder
Strike match light fire, who's that girl called Maya
M.I.A. coming back with power power
I said M.I.A. is coming back with power power
I said M.I.A. is coming back with power power!!

I'm knocking on the doors of ya hummer hummer (4x)
Yeah we hungry like the wolves huntin dinner dinner
And we moving with the packs like hyena yena
Barbarella looks like she my dead ringer
When I'm dogging on the bonner of ya red Honda
I'm a road runner a world runner
I'm a road runner a world runner

I'm a big timer it's a Bamboo Banga
I' m a big timer it's a Bamboo Banga

BIG BRANCH

BIG BAD WOLF
CAME OVER TO MY RANCH
TOOK ALL MY LAND
LEFT ME WITH A BRANCH
THAT'S HOW I FELT ABOUT THE
LOVING THAT I HAD
THAT I KNOW ABOUT THE GIRLS HE HAD

BRING HER TO MY DOOR NOW
BRING ME THAT HO
PUT HER ON THE TABLE
AND PUT HER IN MY CLAW
I'LL PUT HER DOWN MY JAW
TO MY BELLY TO MY TOE
ILL SHIT ON THAT HO
AND DROP HER TO THE FLOOR

BIG BRANCH

MEN ARE LIKE PEARLS
THEY LOOK GOOD WITH MY CURLS
I STRING EM TO GET THE BEST NECKLACE IN THE WORLD
IN THE STATES OF THE WORLD
ALL WOMEN WANNA LAY
BUT IT'S MANS WORLD SO KEEP HIM AT BAY
YOU CAN FUCKA MAN MACKA MAN
TELL EM THAT YOUR GAY
TELL HIM REAL LOVE AIN'T ON BET
SEX IS SO CHEAP
I GET IT AT KFC
WHEN IT'S MEANINGLESS WHY THEY DO R+B

BRING HER TO MY DOOR NOW
BRING ME THAT HO
PUT HER ON THE TABLE
AND PUT HER IN MY CLAW
I'LL PUT HER DOWN MY JAW
TO MY BELLY TO MY TOE
I'LL SHIT ON THAT HO
AND DROP HER TO THE FLOOR

BIG BRANCH

I ATE MY CHIPS AND I WASHED MY PLATE
THOUGHT ABOUT WOMEN THAT TAKE THAT BAIT
MEN WITH STAMINA OR MONEY ON THE PLATE
CAN GET A WOMAN THINKING HER PERIOD IS LATE
THANK TO JESUS , I GOT MY OWN ESTATE
IF I LET YOU IN WILL YOU RUN OFF WITH MY MAID
ALL MEN ARE JUST SO FICKLE THESE DAYS
TO FIND A REALLY GOOD ONE
I KEEP ON GETTING LAID

BRING HER TO MY DOOR NOW
BRING ME THAT HO
PUT HER ON THE TABLE
AND PUT HER IN MY CLAW
I'LL PUT HER DOWN MY JAW
TO MY BELLY TO MY TOE
I'LL SHIT ON THAT HO
AND DROP HER TO THE FLOOR

BIG on the underground
What's the point of knocking me down?
Everybody knows
I'm already good on the ground

Most of us stay strong
Shit don't really bound us
Then I go on my own
Making bombs with rubber bands

I have my hard down
So I need a man for romance
Streets are making em hard
So they selfish little roamers
Jumpin' girl to girl
Make us meat like burgers
When I get fat
I'll pop me out some leaders

A protocol to be a Rocawear model?
It didn't really drop that way
My legs hit the hurdle

A protocol to be a rocker on a label?
It didn't really drop that way
Our beats were too evil

But I put away paper for later so I'm stable
A better something better come
So I could get cable
Ghetto pops, food drops
I store them in my stable
I cook em up , pop em down
Eat me it off ya a table

The village got on the phone
Said the street is comin' to town
They wanna check my papers
See what I carry around
Credentials are boring
I burnt them at the burial ground
Don't order me about
I'm an outlaw from the badland

Put away shots for later
So I'm stable
Live in trees chew on feet
Watch lost on cable
Bird flu gonna get you
Made it in my stable
From the crap you drop
On my crop when they pay you.

ThaNANNANANANANANANNANANANNNANA (4x)
BOYS THERE HOW MANY BOYZ THERE?
How many?

How many tequilas in the place
How many beers are in the case?

Boys there?
How many?
Boys there?
How many?

How many dutty wine swing it away
How many shots without the case?

Boys there?
How many?
Boys there?
How many?

How many mash up and in a haze
How many wacky dip fall the head

Boys there?
How many?
Boys there?
How many?

How many no money boys are crazy (2x)
How many boyz are raw
How many no money boyz are rowdy
How many start a war

Hey now
Let me go, hey now
Can we go ridin up a dirty track up in Laventille
Will you, show me before I make it back somewhere I can chill?

Hey now
Let me go, hey now
Can we go riding up a motor bike up to sugar hill
Cooking chicken on the wall with the system up on full

What we do now (4x)
Duppa bounce
Dem der duppa bounce

Oooo gosh its the new warlord

ThaNANNANANANANANANNANANANNNANA (2x)
BOYS THERE HOW MANY BOYZ THERE?
How many?

How many no money boys are crazy (2x)
How many boyz are raw
How many no money boyz are rowdy
How many start a war

Oooo gosh its the new warlord

Jimmy, Jimmy
Come back Jimmy

When you go Rwanda Congo
Take me on ya genocide tour
Take me on a truck to Darfur
Take me where you would go

Got static on ya satellite phone
Got to get you safe at home
Got to get you some where warm
So you get me all alone

Jimmy Aaja
Jimmy Aaja
Jimmy Aaja

Time and time and time and time again
You keep pushing that button but I don't know what your sayin
You hit me on AIM tryin' flip me on some game
Are you coming are you going are you leaving are you staying

You told me that your busy
Your loving makes me crazy
I know that you hear me
Start acting like you want me

You told me that your busy
Your loving makes me crazy
I know you can hear me
Start acting like you want me

Jimmy Aaja
Jimmy Aaja
Jimmy Aaja

Time and time and time and time again
You keep pushing me, what you sayin
You hit me on AIM, flip me on some game
But I still don't know what you're sayin'

You told me that your busy
Your loving makes me crazy
I know that you hear me
Start acting like you want me

You told me that your busy
Your loving makes me crazy
I know you can hear me
Start acting like you want me

Jimmy Aaja
Jimmy Aaja
Jimmy Aaja

(featuring Afrikan Boy)

We do it cheap hide our money in a heap
Send it home and make em study
Fixing teeth, I got family, a friend in need
A hand to throw the gasoline
A mobile phone hooked up to the scene
Hello my frind yes it's me
Dont be scared there's somethin going on
Im gettin money since I grown
Could be dash go out and hussel em
But I hate money coz it makes me numb

Hussel hussel hussel
Grind grind grind
Why has everyone got hussel on their mind?

Hussel hussel hussel
Grind grind grind
Why has everyone got hussel on their mind?

(AFRIKAN BOY)
You think its tough now,
Come to africa,
Out there we are grinding like pepper,
You can catch me on the motorway,
Selling sugar water and pepper,
I rep Africa not Miami,
Hustle hustle with m.i.a,
I'm broke I've got indefinite stay,
You can't touch me like leprosy,
I hustle tough from here to sri lanka,
My mum told me to be an accountant,
Bun that I wanna work in a corner shop,
Contact sugu he's got the contacts mayne,
I'm illegal I don't pay tax tax,
EMA yes I'm claiming that that,
Police I try to avoid them,
They catch me hustling they say deport them,

Hussel hussel hussel (2x)
Grind grind grind
Why has everyone got hussel on their mind?

Hello my friend, hello my friend
Yes it's me
4 by 3 ,3 buy 3 , buy 1 song get 1 free
Maybe me, a bootleg cd colour tv or dvd
We got barrels in the sea
Its big enough to take a whole family
We drum on it
Jun cha cha gegujun cha
Jun cha cha gegujun cha

Come sit by me, let me tell u we
Don't do bling but we do white tee
Up some jungle up some tree
One second , my phones ringing
Its my friend habibi
He then went drop called me
Cheap moroccan got no credit than me
Ya'll got less credit than me
I keep that tab at a shop like a gee
Coz without me there'll be no chocolate hershey

Hussel hussel hussel (6x)
Grind grind grind
Why has everyone got hussel on their mind?

(with The Wilcannia Mob)

First of all I wanna say I don't even know why you act that way
My name is maya and people always say
I act kinda strange like a dooba weh
I like fish and mango pickle
When I climb trees
Them feet them tickle
I'm broke this month didn't pay rent
I had to jump town and my money's all spent 2x

Rode the bmx we walked through the bush
The boys fight to ride it, but I just let em push
Keith stole an egg from a lil kookoo
Kept it safe in his mouth, while he danced the jookoo jookoo

There's only one ocean that got fish left
One day we'll have to be a really good chef
And I don't mean us in the bush making meth
Boys if you catch meth you catch your death
When I said that Keith sneezed and had a chick
Broke the little egg in his mouth in little bits

When it's hot we go down the river and swim
When we go fishing we 're catching a brim
When the rivers high we jump off the bridge
And then we go home and play some didge

War war war
Talking bout ya'll 's such a bore
Id rather talk bout moi

Do you know that cost of a.ks
Up in africa
20 dollars aint shit to you
But thats how much they r
Of couse they gonna use it to kill a little da

Is girls, diamonds
Helpin ya?
Dont you like my bandana
My stains hang low
On my shirts like ay yai ay
Monkey brains and banana
Ill hit you with my antana
I put soap in my eye
Make it red so I look raa

Ra ra
So I woke up with my holy quran and found out I like cadillac
So we shooting till the song is up
Little boys are acting up
Baby mothers are going crazy
And the leaders all round cracking up
We goat rich we fry
Price of living in a shanty town jus seem to be high
We still look fly
We still like t.i
Dancing as we shooting up
And lootin jus to get by.

With your feet in the air and your head on the ground
Try this trick and spin it, yeah
Your head 'll collapse if there's nothing in it
And you'll ask yourself
“where is my mind?”

War war war
Who made me like this
Was it me and god in co production
My devils on speed dial
Everytime I take the wrong direction

All I want is one thing and that is what you got
Sometimes I go lose my mind then I feel numb

Theres 24 hours in a day
I used to spilt it 8, 8, 8
8 work
8 sleep
8 for play
Now I give it all it takes

People on the internet
A new life for the intellect
People judge me so hard
Coz I dont floss my titty set
I was born out of dirt like im porn in a skirt
I was a little girl who made good with all that I blurt
I put people on the map that never seen a map
I show em somin they aint never seen
And hope they make it back!!!!

Hands up
Guns out
Represent the world town

Sick of all the shit that's keeping me down
Dead from the waist down
It's easy staying down
I never thought about it twice
But you do pay the price
It aint your weekly cash that feeds my mum the rice

Yo don't be calling me desperate
When I'm knocking on the door
Every wall you build I'll knock it down to the floor
See me see me bubbling quietly
See me see me acting like you ain't met me
See me see me bubbling quietly
See me see me acting like you ain't met me

Hands up
Guns out
Represent the world town

Look at what you did, you done it before
Every little dollar just keeps me down more
I never had you on my side bubbling on my side
Why they tell me different
When they make me explodified

Yo dont be calling me desperate
When i'm knocking on the door
Every wall you build i'll knock it down to the floor
See me see me bubbling quietly
See me see me acting like you ain't met me
See me see me bubbling quietly
See me see me acting like you ain't met me

Hands up
Guns out
Represent the world town

I don't read I just guess
As the world turns
Dont bother me with your mess

Im tryin to do my best
Get my head up out the stress
When the money turns the world
Your lovin turns to less

I learn by mistakes
Most of it is yours and
I done live my life as a criminal

I thought i'd die young just to please the old
Now I teach the young im victriol

Nanannananananannanannananananana

I'd rather go on,
Go up and down
Turn myself all around
Then to stay down

I'd rather go on,
Go up and down
Turn myself all around
Then to stay down

The war in me makes warrior
Like a pitbull gettin with a terrior
I'm better off in north korea
Droppin from a barrel of a carrier

Coz I got enough to be more
Its hard enough to get more
I shut the door on everything
Just to let my head go

Coz I got enough to be more
Its hard enough to get more
I shut the door on everything
Just to let my head blow

Nanananannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnannanananna

I'd rather go on,
Go up and down
Turn myself all around
Then to stay down

I'd rather go on,
Go up and down
Turn myself all around
Then to stay down

Picture this a dull grey
Street in the rain
Neon signs still shines though
Shorty you gone shine though
Come up on ya treasure trove
Like the sun explode
Check up in the paper
In the mirror for ya horoscope

Walking on a tight rope
Go for something I dont even know where to get it from
Sending out a signal
Smoke from a gun blow
As I knock off knock off
Things that I dont want.

What I got

I was bored
I need a new drug
Everybody bitin shit
Gettin fucked up
Mia rollin wit blaqstarr
Anyone talkin shit
Im gonna blow em all up

Who's mad who's crazy whos fucked up
Its about time I rack em all up
Mo fire mo power mo wound up
Im the queen this shit
Dont bother steppin up

Dance dammit dance
I rule
Dance dammit dance
I rule

What I got you cant get from ya mama
What I got you cant get from your ho'

I got alien aphrodisiacs
I found visiting planets of the zodiac
Got a six pack so you don't get side track
Ill be in baltimore , tonite on the amtrack

Got a mac wit pcp for ya lap
Same effects as lsd and smack
Boom boom im bringin u the new crack
Like a club track made from iraq

What I got you cant get from ya mama
What I got you cant get from your ho'

Get to you in high tech pro tool
Woop woop chop screw in hotels
Club cars, in the street front of people
At home we can play some scruples
But tonite ill wait till the nite fall
Like a ninja glide over waterfalls
Get to you to give you lil rock n roll

Tap tap that bed to the wall
Tap tap that bed to the wall

Where were you in 92?

This is how we do in the xr2
The boyz look fine, stereo's alpine
20/20 , thunderbird at 12 0 9
Took a pill good time all the time

Brick lane massive
We were like grime
Labrynth, world dance
Bagleys time
High top fades
We aint never paid
Roll up jeans e 's lucozade
Versaci jeans shades and chains
We roll in there like we late
Dj mcs private raves
Keep it secret , light it mate.

Whistle, whistle
Blow, blow

Here we, here we
Go, go

Some of them drink heineken
And some of them drink bacardi
Some of them talk a lot of shit
And act rowdy
Some say people follow me
Some say people is the key
When the music's got a beat
Then that's what gets me

Some people think we r stupid but we r not

Xr2 808
Mp3 mc8
Xox the mc5
Mtv has add
Nbc n bet,
Bbc is oap
Rem klf
Iq up the icq,
Cb4 cpt
Bbd n atl
Pdd had big
Nyc had rnb
Opp yrb
Tlc swv
Jo. d. c
Xxx
I love u
S l 2

I'll fly like a paper get high like planes
Catch me at the border I got visas in my name
If you come around here i'll make em all day
I'll get one done in a second if you wait

Sometimes I think sitting on trains
Every step I get to i'm clocking that game
Everyone's a winner, we're making our fame
Bonafide hustler making my name

All I wanna do is…

And a

And take your money

Pirate skulls and bones
Sticks and stones and seeds and bombs
Running when we hit em
A leathal poison for the system

No one on the corner had swagger like us
Hit me on the bunner
Pre paid wireless
We pack and deliver like ups trucks
Already going hell
Just pumping that gas

All I wanna do is…

And a

And take your money

Some some some I murder
Some a some I let go

This is mia
A third world democracy
I got more records than the kgb

No funny business

(featuring Timbaland)

Run down
Check my coat in and I paid the dollar
Sidekick rings
What's up holla
Text the address
Ill see you later
Baby come down

Come down come down come down
Rundown rundown run down
Rundakarundaka run down
Rundededundederundown

In a far away land we got shit made
Rayban shades, war heads laid
Babies born in air raids
My girls roam the everglades
Indian men they gamble spades
Indian chicks they get men laid
Milk and honey
Smoke high grade
Girls in diamonds, gems and jade
We ride up on our tanks in vain
Blow up things to save our name
Reena , meena tina supina
Beena super indian babe
We black market
We black main
We hit shit out when it rains
Will you come down and catch my train
Will you come down and play this game

I got my mind on my money
But life can be way more fun
You can put your love in a gun
But thats what keeps us on the run
Don't need to blow my spot or put you on blast
To sell my one
Run run talk is done ,
Come down if you wanna get some
I give em a run run run
And make us dance on the dum dum dum
In a secret museum
We walk on the wild side come come come
Enter my stadium
See the primal queen of a new kingdom
I bust out on new systems
I mash up things to make us one!

Far far

Time got me feeling emotions
Why you always digging on my nerve
I feel weak when I say please you keep on
Does breaking me make you feel so strong

I go give show you how low I go
Playa boy go head and be that macho
Power up that blade on that chainsaw
Go cut me down and I ll still gon grow

Ahh ahhh ahh
Yeah he left me yeah
To go far far away

Coz yesterday I met a girl from warsaw
She walked like a turtle with a sore paw
Why dont they make some kinda new law
That stops making a religion out of war
Yeah happy you know lots of useless info
Keep ticking like a brain on a robot
But I do know some things you dont know
That people you hate come back for more

Ahh ahhh ahh
Yeah he left me yeah
To go far far away

A tug of war with me and he was called for
Like he was iced tea , I was alwayz pom more
But you broke me, when you act like you want war
Coz my strength makes you feel insecure

Now here we go we bouncing like a pin ball
I let him go so he and go paint time gold
Why dont we live for that love tho
Or does money still drive you a whole lot more?