1995

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

Sound boy proceed to blast into the galaxy go back rocket man into the sky, you'll see hear it all the time, come back rewind aliens are waiting up in the sky sound boy proceed to blast into the galaxy sound boy when you come round sound boy won't you stay no one gonna harm you they all want you to play

I watch the birds of prey that hunt the canyon below my house they're looking for a meal like a lizard or a mouse I wonder if they appreciate the setting like me to control your own direction choose to be free and I reserve the right to be as trite as I want and you can lick but don't bite I toss you here to Vermont I kick it lickety split and hand it to the man in the tan van and, and as for you and your crew, I don't hate you peace is my priority 'cuz Marley said for sureity just what do you think I'm doin' I'm not just here for screwin yo and if it's sore take care of it perhaps from too much stucking but anytime your aware of it then keep on f---ing

You know we cool (isn't that random?) when we come bout people get ready (hey isn't that random?) sound boy gonna rock you (hey isn't that random?) people rock steady (isn't that random?)

To be the one who has it all is not that hard and I'll be that type of dude in a funky car I dream of a suit that will fit my rhyme when I recognize my girl from a former life I love it when the only sound that I hear Is your infectious laughter I will hear you again in 800 years if I'm still lucky go north on Outpost then take a left on Mullholland to me that's where I like it and Macapa Drive is callin' I get up to the sun and then I stretch out it's beginning to look like summer and I'm down with no doubt swing

You know we cool (isn't that random?) when we come bout people get ready (isn't that random?) sound boy gonna rock you (isn't that random?) people rock steady (isn't that random?)

I break a silly peace for offering rap weasel then I'm boffering I'd give you an exclusive on my playlist the thought and styles I kick are from a random hat pick that's why most radio will never play this, tell 'em again me a rude boy from Omaha, Nebraska sick as a porno flick yet gold as precious laughter many don't agree but we can't care about that cuz we're never gonna wear the old hat, spoken

Well I beat a bad rap when I skip a soul trap just trippin' and laughin' at the crap dap is what I get the best skins that I hit you know we rock the f---in' joint and we split singin' an rhymin's what I'm better for when I describe I'm a scribe with a metaphor I use a simile lightly 'cuz that s---'s played the common way most rhymes are made, ya know I rock like this I flow like that but all those comparisons are just that kickin' different styles I'll be right here today, tomorrow, next week and next year I always say what I feel and that is a promise nothing in life is above being honest sauna is cool compared to being on stage but that's how it's gotta go in the stone age

The fame in my game I name rapture like a polished rock I'll make it shine for sure word is that I've traveled become unraveled I been around the world baby gimme an apple I'll be your boogie man rather than son-of-sam what I am is what I am though we don't have too long to love a day a night we only love those who love us right back, right

The kid is smart the kid is clever stompin' in jack-o-lantern's weather backpack strapped 'cuz the world is cold headphones pumpin' don't ya know the kid is smart the kid is clever stompin' in jack-o-latern's weather rocks his hood and plays it mellow while maple leaves change into yellow

and oh s--- damn homey at it again tryin' to beat my high score since the age of ten see my high score flashes on the back glass I was malcontented Doug in gifted class now here's the deal we came to heal we gonna rock it in Rio oh no it's not a joke it's how we feel put to test like a Sugar Ray scientist, come on I'm always dancin' in my Sunday best I'm betting on my bliss and my path is lit' see the microphone is live and I'm rockin' my body smooth like Reggie Miller in an airborne freeze frame funky like the kung-fu that can put you to shame

The kid is smart the kid is clever stompin' in jack-o-lantern's weather backpack strapped 'cuz the world is cold headphones pumpin' don't ya know the kid is smart the kid is clever stompin' in jack-o-latern's weather rocks his hood and plays it mellow while maple leaves change into yellow

I'm like hey (hey), wait a minute give a check one two then I'm ready to begin it with a boom boom bap coming outta your trunkies give a fat shout out to the Phunk Junkeez stricken like a cancer taken chances but I love to see the girl windin' like the belly dancer standin' up front with a tight stomach showin me on stage singin, flowin we just kickin' it live we just kickin' it live 'cuz if you can't kick it live you gonna die 'fraid so punk, so quit talkin' junk you need a live show like a ball player needs a dunk

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 f--- 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

Coming like a nightmare word like I'm gonna go for it f---in' around and what ya got to show for it? let it be known that I'm in the zone and whatever I need I just pick up the phone 'cuz I'm true with it and you're new with it I just swing the thing and then I'm through with it I don't need friends to act like foes 'cuz I'm Nick Hexum, the one who knows about things 'cuz it takes two and we swings better than you then it's time for the dub so we roll out the club and you know just what I do I'm hitting in the freak mode puttin' on a load, sippin' on a guinny then lo and behold una vision girl from bottom to top and I just can't stop 311 show them the air is rarified but you don't give a damn 'cuz your groove is hellafied grew up punk, listening to funk I'm a hyper type of fella that does not touch junk you're the back of the pack and the bottom of the stack that's what you get when you're steady talkin' s--- not goin' for self, that s--- is on the shelf It's '95 and we go for the hive

Listen up this you're gonna bump to this and if I'm feelin' mean I'm gonna clutch my fist now when I say mean, I mean I'm gonna rock it you're gonna find out kid I'm bout to shock it when I'm on I'm gone I hear the beat that spawns the way we freak it and we kick up a storm the day we turn to pop the show will stop so feel the beat and get lost, now back to part 2 the hard way we play Sublime on time to all the fans I'm SA and if you don't know I say check the show do what you got to on the dance floor some say the style is wack but I say f--- that get the hell back and watch us rock the set we cast the mold bust it cold explode megatrendsetters known around the globe friends takin' you where you never been we done what we wanted craftin' poems you can rock there is a glow around you lose control holmes just like we do hard to obtain brotha' what's my name mad to find unlike ya mamma and your masquerade I drive a mach-1 no dashboard Jesus I hear voices say that's Doug Martinez

You're all up in my mix like f---in' Betty Crocker you think you're playing me but actually you're a jocker you bad mouth me bitch man you givin me juice it aint nothin' but a party everybody get loose notice what I don't do when stress steps to me whatever your complaint so sue me I say f--- the naysayers and keep goin gotta do what I gotta do to get the people glowin' so let everybody gather, the more the better I represent the traveler, him he's a shredder

At ease with yourself and don't try to please me I'm just here today then quickly I'm out on the town one light I'm a glow worm for several hours wiggle jiggle like I'm a huge sperm can't appreciate a brothers love of funky music you think I'm a silly rabbit 'cuz my style has tricks of the way I feel now I just got to rock it the music be poppin through me like electric shocks it I think and blink and I wink but that shits not tiny 'cuz in a blink of an eyelash you will not find me

You're the back of the pack and the bottom of the stack that's what you get when you're steady talkin' s--- not goin' for self that s--- is on the shelf 'cuz it's '95 and we go for the hive

Here comes the thunder down under we're natural wonders night falls when we leave all you feel is the hunger sunrises of people all shapes and sizes dig on the decade and realize it's funky no matter this rude boy stll got that swagger my ears have heard all these crews but we're badder interracial, special, positive beings I am I be a cool awakwening it's getting hectic the metrics the body electric everybody in worn out blue jeans or tacky dresses this is the city we've reached we've come to go unrecognized on the corner or make moves all the lights are red all the poets are dead a familiar nightmare appears in my head times are a changin' myself I'm rearrangin' dream eight-thousand-five-twelve all blazin'

Born to act out, paranoid with a gat born to act out, think you know where it's at born to act out, but you're lookin' like a sissie born to act out, guns are for pussies born to act out, paranoid with a gat born to act out, think you know where it's at born to act out, but you're lookin' like a sissie born to act out, guns are for pussies

I'm not from Philly but some say I'm a blunt that's just the way I am and no I'm not going to front and yes I took a trip to find out about the ways of big citys seedy bars and drugs that make you feel s---ty pretty older women in skirts, conversation frisky stinking cigarettes and plenty of bourbon whisky sad classical music on the jukebox of doom Hollywood Blvd. barfly frolic room tomb of lost souls some beyond salvage some just having fun opening the steam valvage I was one becoming the other hellbent to discover had to pull up the reigns or else smother take it brother all the way and then you're scared don't want to be unprepared you're getting paranoid, and then guns are shared you guys think you're hard but you're in fear of getting harmed I fear no manand I am unarmed

Born to act out, paranoid with a gat born to act out, think you know where it's at born to act out, but you're lookin' like a sissie born to act out, guns are for pussies born to act out, paranoid with a gat born to act out, think you know where it's at born to act out, but you're lookin' like a sissie born to act out, guns are for pussies come on

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 s--- 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 f---in break and maybe take out the source of your despairing what do I mean, kick the f---in' 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)

I believe in you purpose baby coming up to the surface and maybe I'll never see you again then again, who knows make me quiver hands will shiver still got all the things that I would of give her yeah, yeah but it's slow going something's showing yeah, yeah

They say love is a stream that will find it's own course making due is a thing, a thing I will do no more

Whenever you come back, I'll be waiting trifling the slack, no head gating this is all pure fiction, you know that's right it's just pure fiction that's all right

I believe in you purpose baby coming up to the surface and maybe I'll never see you again then again, who knows make me quiver hands will shiver still got all the things that I would of give her yeah, yeah but it's slow going something's showing yeah, yeah

Hey you got to step outside to see what's going on hey you can't run and hide when the 'psybin trip is on not like this have you seen such green a spot like this becomes serene I'm glad your here, I have no fear, ohh we trip the 'shrooms fantastic and s--- gets drastic elbow pull and kick we trip the 'shrooms fantastic and s--- gets drastic check it out

Right now my brain is fragile but then you seem so agile, we'll make it in tea and we'll see what there is to see, ohh we trip the 'shrooms fantastic and s--- gets drastic elbow pull and kick we trip the 'shrooms fantastic and s--- gets drastic check it out

Make an instrumental, add a little vocal take it to the stage and make the people go loco make an instrumental, add a little vocal take it to the stage and make the people go loco

Boom boom you got the spinning of the room quite right you got the breaking of the light boom boom you got the spinning of the room quite right you got the breaking of the light and the sun and the moon and the spinning of the room it does to my sight what the prizm does to light you're quicker than me ridiculous see you come follow me get lobotomy you're quicker than me ridiculous see you come follow me get lobotomy we trip the 'shrooms fantastic and s--- gets drastic elbow pull and kick we trip the 'shrooms fantastic and s--- gets drastic check it out

Make an instrumental, add a little vocal take it to the stage and make the people go loco make an instrumental, add a little vocal take it to the stage and make the people go loco make an instrumental, add a little vocal take it to the stage and make the people go loco make an instrumental, add a little vocal take it to the stage and make the people go loco

Ooh you know we pepper you with a sonic assault a side step a you I cannot think of a better way that we could celebrate freedom than make up a set of goals and cold beat 'em see dumb verbal tags like audio spaghetti give a shout out to the one they call Yeti I bet he put the cabash on any foes whatsoever like original brodel Trevor positive vibe merchant grandson of Lord Buckley Scotch Ralston shows up if you're lucky Ad Raspler the sweed, a friend in deed he's keeping an eye on the other guy's greed these are 311 characters I dubbed everyone the story ain't over but my rhyme is done

Dig it, it was the year that I first touched ground so I grabbed the microphone and I got down just like James Brown gather round of our sight and sound pound for pound we throw down rather profound i'll put you in another world I can't hear you like having phone sex with a deaf girl no doubt we got the jams that'll smack ya I penned three books of lyrics 2 for action 1 for backup 'cuz I'm a cold rockin' brother got transistor tunes and it feels real good to get close to you

The brodels is the nazz and the nazz knows where it's at the brodels is the nazz who knows a cat who can feed a cat the goal is to be a poet and a carpenter to be one who loves to be one who works the nazz not something that can be given the brodel is inside you it comes from within

When I feel into the sea when the world came and kissed me transformed my s--- told the shark I was a dolphin swam quick funny though pirranahs chilled and laughed at the way that I took off my polka dots on top of that the whales know I'm quick watch out and I get funky fresh as for the fishes I'm lit luminous I'm not nouveau techno I glow like a glacial in skin that swims faster than speed I am I be dropped out of nothing I will return to nothing rotate my style my rhyme my way magician of a rhythm lover of animals damn I wanna hear 'em aquatic my way I got soul shape

Well I'm 6 foot 3 and like Mohammed Ali I float like a butterfly but sting like poison ivy drive a '69 Lincoln suicide doors around the town I'm slinking fat subs of course we're the greatest show on earth you know we turn it out daily in and out of town like Barnum and Bailey I know that is a simile but I couldn't resist from Solomon Roadie for the PJ's I don't think he'll be pissed I eat a cobb salad, smoked fish, duck, or clam chowder chill with indica and Guinness steer clear of white powder I run into my brother give him a pound and a yodel they know my word is bond talkin' bout the brodels

The brodels is the nazz and the nazz knows where it's at the brodels is the nazz who knows a cat who can feed a cat the goal is to be a poet and a carpenter to be one who loves to be one who works the nazz is not something that can be given the brodel is inside you it comes from within

And we're fresh dude just check my man P he said I will not muddle my mind with impertinency lost a lot in Vegas plays a lot of Sega saw a phrase that he likes and put it on his leg and we're fresh dude just check my man D he said comin'in ruff and tuff all systems are tweakin' people all over the world they must be thinkin' all the s--- that we kickin' our shoes must be stinkin'

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

Don't let me down, don't let me down again don't let me down, don't let me down again don't let me down, don't let me down again don't let me down, don't let me down again

Swelled up eye's oh my the girl got beat and the stupid mother f---er who made you so that punk is a coward let that be told I hear voices in the night that are electric he kicks the s--- out of her because he's heartless she won't leave she has low self esteem he's got gravitational pull sucks her body till her heart and her limbs grow cold

Hang in there use your head how can I love you after you're dead hang in there, keep trying how can I love you after

Here's what you got to tell him I'm thinking of a picture that's keeping me in stitch you're causing me a mental glitch 'cause jealousy is such a b---- I hereby emancipate myself from that you can consider yourself free to flirt and chat with who ever you want it should have always been that way the way that you want, the way that you play my mind is blank slate I'm pretending you're erased you cannot let me down when I cannot see your face

Hang in there use your head how can I love you after you're dead hang on in there, keep trying wow can I love you after dying

Ode to a beat up girl, I know you're out there stronger than you think, stand up if you care get up off the ground, don't let me down get up off the ground, don't let me down

Hang in there use your head how can I love you after you're dead hang in there, keep trying how can I love you after

And you, and you I'm a let you pass without kicking you're ass because I'm above it you hurt someone I love it takes two to make a thing go right and that's trite but one just to sneak and weasel through the night If you hurt her again I'll f---you up if you hurt her again I'll f--- you up, f--- you up if you hurt her again I'll f--- you up if you hurt her again I'll f--- you up, f--- you up

Take a chance on something star you gotta all the live long day if I had to name one thing you think data be hard pressed to say you can't say that I'm gushy at least you know what I think I know that I'm lucky, I know you're on the brink you got it good good good you got it good so good you make up ridiculous words which mean exactly nothing I know just what you mean and that's the funny thing it's understood, it's understood

Buddy buddy buddy, I know why you wander through the sweetness on the ground the sweetness of the flowers you make your way on a cloudy day you've got to move, the world you prove is too sweet, yeah

We parted much too soon I know but that's how it goes there's someone better out there for you and me can't wait to get on the road and feel the shows and be like phenomenon number 1 and 2 and 3 I don't mean to brag, and I don't mean to boast but I am the guy could that give you the most it's good good good, it's understood

Buddy buddy buddy, I know why you wander through the sweetness on the ground the sweetness of the flowers you make your way on a cloudy day you've got to move, the world you prove is too sweet, yeah

People sing about the coming of spring but what is comin' down around it's snow or it's rain it's insane and I'm still in the same gang the way the weather act's it's a shame ok badder behavior in our s--- is flavor grandiose endeavors yes the quest is greater make no mistake I know the time and I wake I slip only when P-Nut gets me baked from that shake

Yeah you can't f--- with this you're Walter Middy don't take it as a dis but the fantasy has got to end this minute I had a f---ing dream and yo now I'm in it I've been at many junction but I know about the function if someone brings you down keep punching we bunched in a little house where conditions got squalid but where we at now - solid

I concur time it slurs and it blurs the vision like a drug and yo it's the word how absurd deliver us from nerds and funky 40 oz. glass littered curbs soon the church pitted bell will clang boys on the corner mack with slang playin' a dice game when I walk by it some bag lady goes sha-na-na-na

Your street time is limited 'cuz this bad rocks it take your whole crew put 'em all in your pocket if your feelin' sick rub it on with Vicks 'n take 2 to 6 of our sweet super mix your street time is limited 'cuz this band rocks it take your whole crew put 'em all in your pocket if your feelin' sick we got the elixir rub it on down with the sweet super mixer late night radio players late night airwave invaders yeah we got the force late night radio

Zooma zooma zooma yeah we got the boom blowin' up the spot so so give us room we prowl sometimes we howl hysterical when we take the stage see a miracle I realize today nothing is more vestigial than the young space walkin' individual for years and years bubbling up with soul power to detonate this planet or reach another

Yeah we take it up a notch we diggin' the s--- so deep like Ralston digs scotch botch this and I'll regret it no that's not what I'm saying remember this instead I'm staying we played in a little house where conditions got squalid but where we at now - solid we hauled a van with a RV that was a bad call it all went up in flames but I haven't seen it all

Homey steps to me and say hey where ya goin' oh just headin' back to where I done my growin' if you must know go somewhere over the rainbow the adventures of a cosmic hero from planet to planet my tags a crater if you're not in the future you're not here either labeled psychedelic we can play disco when the going gets weird you know the weird turn pro

Your street time is limited 'cuz this band rocks it take your whole crew put 'em all in your pocket if your feelin' sick rub it on with Vicks 'n take 2 to 6 of our sweet super mix your street time is limited 'cuz this band rocks it take your whole crew put 'em all in your pocket if your feelin' sick we got the elixir rub it on down with the sweet super mixer late night radio players late night airwave invaders yeah we got the force late night radio