If your havin girl problems i feel bad for you son
I got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one

I got the rap patrol on the gat patrol
Foes that wanna make sure my casket's closed
Rap critics that say he's "Money Cash Hoes"
He's from the hood stupid what type of facts are those
If you grew up with holes in your zapitos
You'd celebrate the minute you was havin doe
I'm like fuck critics you can kiss my whole asshole
If you don't like my lyrics you can press fast forward
Got beef with radio if I don't play they show
They don't play my hits well I don't give a shit SO
Rap mags try and use my black ass
So advertisers can give em more cash for ads...fuckers
I don't know what you take me as
or understand the intellegence that Jay-Z has
I'm from rags to ritches niggaz I ain't dumb
I got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one
Hit me

Everything you say to me
Takes me one step closer to the edge
And I'm about to break
Yo, I need a little room to breathe
Cause I'm one step closer to the edge
And I'm about to...

The year is '94 and in my trunk is raw
In my rear view mirror is the mother fuckin law
I got two choices yall pull over the car or
Bounce on the devil put the pedal to the floor
Now i ain't tryin to see no highway chase with jay
Plus i got a few dollars i can fight the case
So i...pull over to the side of the road
And i heard "Son do you know why i'm stoppin you for?"
Cause i'm young and i'm black and my hats real low
Do i look like a mind reader sir, i don't know
Am i under arrest or should i guess some mo?
"Well you was doin fifty five in a fifty four" (Uh-huh)
"Liscense and regestration and step out of the car"
"Are you carryin a weapon on you i know alot of you are"
I ain't steppin out of shit all my papers legit
"Do you mind if i look round the car a little bit?"
Well my glove compartment is locked so is the trunk and the back
And i know my rights so you gon' need a warrant for that
"Aren't you sharp as a tack are some type of lawyer or something?"
"Or somebody important or somethin?"
Nah i ain't pass the bar but i know a little bit
Enough that you won't illegally search my shit
"Well see how smart you are when the K-9's come"
I got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one
Hit me

Everything you say to me
Takes me one step closer to the edge(i got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one)
And I'm about to break
I need a little room to breathe
Cause I'm one step closer to the edge(i got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one)
And I'm about to break

Everything you say to me
Takes me one step closer to the edge(i got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one)
And I'm about to break
I need a little room to breathe
Cause I'm one step closer to the edge(i got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one)
And I'm about to(hit me)
BREAK

(jump)
shut up when I'm talking to you
shut up, shut up, shut up
shut up when I'm talking to you
shut up, shut up, shut up

I'm about to BREAK

Everything you say to me
Takes me one step closer to the edge(i got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one)
And I'm about to break
I need a little room to breathe
Cause I'm one step closer to the edge(i got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one)
And I'm about to
BREAK

Everything you say to me
Takes me one step closer to the edge(i got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one)
And I'm about to break
I need a little room to breathe
Cause I'm one step closer to the edge(i got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one)
And I'm about to...

Everything you say to me (If your havin girl problems i feel bad for you son)
Takes me one step closer to the edge (I got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one)
And I'm about to break
I need a little room to breathe
Cause I'm one step closer to the edge(i got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one)
And I'm about to(hit me)
BREAK

Everything you say to me (If your havin girl problems i feel bad for you son)
Takes me one step closer to the edge (I got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one)
And I'm about to break
I need a little room to breathe
Cause I'm one step closer to the edge(i got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one)
And I'm about to(hit me)
BREAK

PEACE!!!

Why does it feel like night today?
Something in here's not right today
Why am I so uptight today?
Paranoia's all I got left
I don't know what stressed me first
Or how the pressure was fed / but
but I know just what it feels like
To have a voice in the back of my head it’s like a face that I hold inside
face that awakes when I close my eyes
face that I watches every time I lie
face that laughs every time I fall
(and watches everything)
So I know that when it's time to sink or swim
That the face inside is hearing me / right underneath my skin
It's like I'm / paranoid lookin' over my back
It's like a / whirlwind inside of my head
It's like I / can't stop what I'm hearing within
It's like the face inside is right beneath my skin

hey yo
here we go again with the pain I feel that isn’t real. But in my mind
when I find myself in places with names but not faces
my memory races at speeds
hundred degrees
my soul it bleeds
devil must've planted the seed
now it feels like my backs against the wall, I'm takin the fall
whenever I call nobody's responding at all
but I don’t know who I can trust, they screaming my name
I need somebody to help me out of the flame

all I'm trying to do is just master me
all I wanna do is smoke a blasta beat
but something keeps talking to me consciously, responsibly
it keeps haunting me

from dusk til dawn everyday has something for ya
that voice inside of ya head has got you projecting paranoia.
Cold sweat, shining on your face exposing your purpose
and if I, ripped off your skin I'd probably find a, 'nother verse
There’s nothing thing worse than trying to bring yourself up back from the dead
so I advise you listen to that voice in the back of you head

It's like I'm / paranoid lookin' over my back
It's like a / whirlwind inside of my head
It's like I / can't stop what I'm hearing within
It's like the face inside is right beneath my skin
It's like I'm / paranoid lookin' over my back
It's like a / whirlwind inside of my head
It's like I / can't stop what I'm hearing within
It's like the face inside is right beneath my skin
(the face inside is right beneath your skin x4)

the sun goes down
I feel the light betray me
the sun goes down

its like I'm paranoid
I feel the light betray me
the sun
(It's like I'm paranoid lookin' over my back
It's like a whirlwind inside of my head
It's like I can't stop what I'm hearing within
It's like the face inside is right beneath my skin)

It's like I'm / paranoid lookin' over my back
It's like a / whirlwind inside of my head
It's like I / can't stop what I'm hearing within
It's like the face inside is right beneath

It's like I'm / paranoid lookin' over my back
It's like a / whirlwind inside of my head
It's like I / can't stop what I'm hearing within
It's like the face inside is right beneath my skin

(Jay Gordon Re-mix)

Yo…yo
Forfeit the game before somebody else
Takes you out of the frame and puts your name to shame
Cover up your face you can’t run the race
The pace is too fast you just won't last

You love the way I look at you
While taking pleasure in the awful things you put me through
You take away if I give in
My life, my pride is broken

You like to think you’re never wrong
(You like to think you’re never wrong)
You have to act like you’re someone
(You have to act like you’re someone)
You want someone to hurt like you
(You want someone to hurt like you)
You want to share what you’ve been through
You live what you learn

You love the things I say I'll do
The way I’ll hurt myself again just to get back at you
You take away when I give in
My life, my pride is broken

You like to think you’re never wrong
(You like to think you’re never wrong)
You have to act like you’re someone
(You have to act like you’re someone)
You want someone to hurt like you
(You want someone to hurt like you)
You want to share what you’ve been through
(You live what you learn)

Yo..yo
Forfeit the game before somebody else
Takes you out of the frame and puts your name to shame
Cover up your face you can’t run the race
The pace is too fast you just won’t last

Forfeit the game before somebody else
Takes you out of the frame and puts your name to shame
Cover up your face you can’t run the race
The pace is too fast you just won’t last

You have to act like you’re someone
(You have to act like you’re someone)
You want someone to hurt like you
(You want someone to hurt like you)
You want to share what you’ve been through

You like to think you’re never wrong
(You like to think you’re never wrong)
You have to act like you’re someone
(You have to act like you’re someone)
You want someone to hurt like you
(You want someone to hurt like you)
You want to share what you’ve been through
(You live what you learn)

I've lied to you
The same way that I always do
This is the last smile
That I'll fake for the sake of being with you

(Everything falls apart even the people who never frown eventually break down)
The sacrifice of hiding in a lie
(Everything has to end you'll soon find we're out of time left to watch it all unwind)
The sacrifice is never knowing

Why I never walked away
Why I played myself this way
Now I see your testing me pushes me away
Why I never walked away
Why I played myself this way
Now I see your testing me pushes me away

I've tried like you
To do everything you wanted to
This is the last time
I'll take the blame for the sake of being with you

(Everything falls apart even the people who never frown eventually break down)
The sacrifice of hiding in a lie
(Everything has to end you'll soon find we're out of time left to watch it all unwind)
The sacrifice is never knowing

Why I never walked away
Why I played myself this way
Now I see your testing me pushes me away
Why I never walked away
Why I played myself this way
Now I see your testing me pushes me away

(We're all outta time, this is how we find how it all unwinds)
The sacrifice of hiding in a lie
(We're all outta time, this is how we find how it all unwinds)
The sacrifice is never knowing

Why I never walked away
Why I played myself this way
Now I see your testing me pushes me away
Why I never walked away
Why I played myself this way
Now I see your testing me pushes me away
Pushes me away

I didn't think that I had a debt to pay
'Til they came to take what I had left away
You said you won't put me to the test today
But I remember you saying that yesterday
There was a time when your mind wasn't out of control
Every memory and confession born out of your soul
Like a pill you couldn't swallow so it swallowed you whole
Another lie hard to follow, it followed you home
And like that

Broken down
A victim of your crime

This lie is so out of control
Every memory and confession born out of your soul
And like that

Broken down
A victim of your lies
You hide behind
Lies
You don't know
why
You crossed the line
Wrapped up inside your
Lies
You hide behind
Lies
You're lost inside
That cold disguise
Behind your
Lies

I don't know what I thought I might say
Seems like we never would talk the right way
Every other minute I fought for my place
To drop what I made, thought you might say so
I'm guessing that you probably know
When your inside's hollow and you want to be cold
Like a pill hard to swallow so it swallowed you whole
Another lie hard to follow, it followed you home
And like that

Broken down
A victim of your
Lies
You hide behind
Lies
You don't know
why
You crossed the line
Wrapped up inside your
Lies
You hide behind
Lies
You're lost inside
That cold disguise
Behind your
Lies

You're faking, you're mistaken
If you think that you could climb out of your soul
Forsaken, what would take me?
Analyzing by the power of your soul
Broken down, a victim of your
Faking, you're mistaken
If you think that you could climb out of your soul
Broken down, a victim of your
Lies

You hide behind
Lies
You don't know
Why
You hide behind
Lies
You don't know
Why
You hide behind
Lies
You don't know
Why
You hide behind

Wrapped up inside your
Lies
You hide behind
Lies
You don't know
Why
You crossed the line
Wrapped up inside your
Lies
You hide behind lies
You're lost inside
That cold disguise
Behind your
Lies

From the top to the bottom
Bottom to top I stop
At the core of the rotten
Stop and just what I thought
The sun has escaped us
So I'm bright in the sky
And I'm far from awakeness
Thinking why I did try

From the top to the bottom
Bottom to top I stop
At the core of the rotten
Stop and just what I thought
The sun has escaped us
So I'm bright in the sky
And I'm far from awakeness
Thinking why I did try

From the thread to the needle, middle to end
When skies cock back and shock that which couldn't defend
The rain then sends dripping innocent
Then with the eyes tightly shut looking thought the rust and rotten dust
A spot of light floods the floor
And pours itself upon a world of pretend
Then the eyes ease open and its dark again

From the top to the bottom
Bottom to top I stop
At the core of the rotten
Stop and just what I thought
The sun has escaped us
So I'm bright in the sky
And I'm far from awakeness
Thinking why I did try

From the top to the bottom
Bottom to top I stop
At the core of the rotten
Stop and just what I thought
The sun has escaped us
So I'm bright in the sky
And I'm far from awakeness
Thinking why I did try

In a minute you'll find me
Eyes burn me up
You say you'll never forget me
But the lies have piled up

Moving all around
Screaming of the ups and downs
Pollution manifested in perpetual sound
And as the wheels go round the sunset creeps past the
Street lamps, cars, chain-links, and concrete
A wind open grows and captures the eye
Crys out yellow light as it passes it by
A small black figure sits in front of a box
Inside a box a rock with the needles on top

Nothing stops in this land of the chain
The brains lose not knowing they were part of the game
And the insides go but the box stays the same
And shame, shovel up the pieces to the pain
You could try to hide yourself in the world of pretend
When the paper's crumbled up it can't be perfect again

From the top to the bottom
Bottom to top I stop
At the core of the rotten
Stop and just what I thought
The sun has escaped us
So I'm bright in the sky
And I'm far from awakeness
Thinking why I did try

From the top to the bottom
Bottom to top I stop
At the core of the rotten
Stop and just what I thought
The sun has escaped us
So I'm bright in the sky
And I'm far from awakeness
Thinking why I did try

In a minute you'll find me
Eyes burn me up
You say you'll never forget me
But the lies have piled up

Yeah I got you got in the act
You better step back
Telling me that
I seein' right through you

Yeah I got you got in the act
You better step back
Telling me that
I seein' right through you

Yeah I got you got in the act
You better step back
Telling me that
I seein' right through you

Yeah I got you got in the act
You better step back
Telling me that
I seein' right through you

Yeah I got you got in the act
You better step back
Telling me that
I seein' right through you

Yeah I got you got in the act
You better step back
Telling me that
I seein' right through you

Yeah I got you got in the act
You better step back
Telling me that
I seein' right through you

Yeah I got you got in the act
You better step back
Telling me that
I seein' right through you

In a minute you'll find me
Eyes burn me up
You say you'll never forget me
But the lies have piled up

In a minute you'll find me
Eyes burn me up
You say you'll never forget me
But the lies have piled up

Gra-
Graffiti sky

I dont think y'all ready
Yo, I dont think y'all ready

Graffiti decorations
Under a sky of grey
This constant apprehension
Still giving me away
The lessons I've forgotten
In spite of all I've learned
Now, I find myself in question
Point, point the finger at me again
Guilty by association
Point, point the finger at me again

I wanna runaway (I wanna runaway)
I want to know the truth (I want to know the truth)
I want to know the answers (I want to know the answers)
I want to shut the door
And open up my mind (And open up my mind)
And open up my mind (And open up my mind)

Paperbags and angry voices
Under a sky of grey
This constant apprehension
Wont seem to go away
All my talk of starting over
These words were never true
Now I find myself in question
Point, point the finger at me again
Guilty by association
Point, point the finger at me again

I wanna runaway (I wanna runaway)
I want to know the truth (I want to know the truth)
I want to know the answers (I want to know the answers)
I want to shut the door
And open up my mind (And open up my mind)
And open up my mind

Gunna runaway
Gunna runaway (way)
Gunna runaway
Gunna runaway (way, way)
Gunna runaway

Uh, ya'll not ready
Hey, yo

I don’t think y’all ready for what I’m about to do
All you new-skool dudes ain’t even got no clue
How dare you forget about Bam and Zue Lue
Cool Herc and Jazzy Pha.
They paved the way
Let me spit it for y’all who said I wasn’t going to make it
Every time I blaze it, y’all the first to hate it
My team reigns supreme to stay strong
Got the true series, son
They scared to put us on
Can’t get with hybrids
Get off your hiatus
To many others dying for it
So, I got to blaze it
Still ripping BK, Brooklyn, B and on
Hell-fighting family, aliennation
Banging into in the backyard while LP’s on
I’m a little commune named
Phoenix Orion

I want to runaway (I want to runaway)
I want to know the truth (I want to know the truth)
I want to know the answers (I want to know the answers)
I want to shut the door
And open up my mind (and open up my mind)
And open up my mind

Graffiti decorations
Under a sky of dust
A constant wave of tension
On top of broken trust
The lessons that you taught me
I learned were never true

Now I find myself in question....
[They point the finger at me again]
Guilty by association....
[You point the finger at me again]

I wanna run away
Never say goodbye
I wanna know the truth
Instead of wondering why
I wanna know the answers
No more lies
I wanna shut the door
And open up my mind

Paper bags and angry voices
Under a sky of dust
Another wave of tension
Has more than filled me up
All my talk of taking action
These words were never true

Now I find myself in question....
[They point the finger at me again]
Guilty by association....
[You point the finger at me again]

I wanna run away
Never say goodbye
I wanna know the truth
Instead of wondering why
I wanna know the answers
No more lies
I wanna shut the door
And open up my mind

I'm gonna run away
and never say good bye...
[Gonna runaway, Gonna runaway, Gonna runaway, Gonna runaway]
I'm gonna run away
And never wonder why...
[Gonna runaway, Gonna runaway, Gonna runaway, Gonna runaway]
I'm gonna run away
And open up my mind...
[Gonna runaway, Gonna runaway]
Mind...
[Gonna runaway, Gonna runaway]
Mind...
[Gonna runaway, Gonna runaway]
Mind...

I wanna run away
Never say goodbye
I wanna know the truth
Instead of wondering why
I wanna know the answers
No more lies
I wanna shut the door
And open up my mind

I wanna runaway
And open up my mind...
I wanna runaway
And open up my mind...
I wanna runaway
And open up my mind...
I wanna runaway
And open up my mind

Let me tell you 'bout myself,
Some say I got a bad attitude,
Let me tell you 'bout myself,
Some say I got a lot to prove,

Let me tell you bout myself,
I'll do whatever you want,
I'll do what you ask me to,
I'll do what you tell me to do,
No!

Strange love,
Be gone,
Be gone,
Gone

Let me tell you 'bout myself,
Some say I got a long way to go,
Some say I’m going straight down,
Some say there’s no where to go,
And this is what I say...

Yeah,yeah
Strange love,
Be gone,
Be gone

Strange love,
Be gone,
Be gone

Sometimes things just seem to fall apart
When you least expect them to
Sometimes you want to pack up and leave behind
All of them and all their smiles

I don't know
What to think anymore
Maybe things will get better
Maybe things will look brighter
Maybe, Maybe, Maybe

Sometimes people surprise you
And people surprise me
But I guess that's the price we pay
For wanting so badly

I don't know
What to think anymore
Maybe things will get better
Maybe things will look brighter
Maybe, Maybe, Maybe

I don't know
What to think anymore
Maybe things will get better
Maybe things will look brighter
Maybe, Maybe, Maybe

I don't know
What to think anymore
Maybe things will get better
Maybe things will look brighter
Maybe, Maybe, Maybe

Sometimes...Sometimes...Sometimes