1. STOP

Save the complaints
For a party conversation
The world is loaded
It's lit to pop and nobody is gonna stop

No one
No one
No way
Gonna stop
Now go

Farm people
Book wavers, soul savers
Love preachers
Lit to pop and nobody is gonna stop

No one

One come a day, the water will run
No man will stand for things that he had done
Hurrah
And the water will run
One come a day, the water will run
No man will stand for things that he had done
Hurrah
And the water will run
Will Run
Will Run

Gimmie that
Gimmie that, your automobile
Turn off that smokestack
And that goddamn radio
Along with me
Along with the TV

No one's
Gonna
Stop


2. NO ONE’S LEAVING

I'm a white dread, I'm a white dread, so
I'm a got a ring and I hang it from my nose
Got a little game and I take it to the park
I don't care who plays
As long as the game is on

My sister and her boyfriend slept in the park
She had to leave home 'cause he was dark
Now they parade around in New York with a baby boy
He's gorgeous
Ain't nobody leaving

No one's leaving

Blacks call each other brother and sister
Count me in 'cause I been missed
I've seen color changed by a kiss
Ask my brother
And my sister

My sister and her boyfriend slept in the park
She had to leave home 'cause he was dark
Now they parade around in New York with a baby boy
He's gorgeous
Ain't nobody leaving

No one's leaving

Yeah, that's right
Yeah, that's so

Wish I knew everyone's nickname
All their slang and all their sayings
Every way to show affection
How to dress to fit the occasion

Wish we all waved
All waved
All waved
I wish we all
Wish we all
Wish we all waved


3. AINT NO RIGHT

I am skin and bones, I am pointy nose
But it motherfucking makes me try
Makes me try, and that ain't no wrong
I'll tell you why
There ain't no right

Ain't no wrong now, ain't no right
Ain't no wrong now, ain't no right
Only pleasure and pain

Motherfucking bad wind came, blew down my home
Now the green grass grows
Bad wind came, blew down my home
Goddamn goodness knows
Where green grass grows there can't be wrong
And goodness knows, there ain't no right

Ain't no wrong now, ain't no right
Ain't no wrong now, ain't no right
Only pleasure and pain

Bumped my head, I'm a battering ram
Goddamn took the pain.
Cut myself, said So what
Motherfucking took the pain
Said So what, I can't be wrong
I thought so but there ain't no right

Ain't no wrong now, ain't no right
Ain't no wrong now, ain't no right
Only pleasure and pain


4. OBVIOUS

Hey, you don't know me
You don't know me
But you just keep on looking at me down low
Oh no

Digging something up
Digging something up
Always digging something up
Oh no

Hey you! I don't know you
I don't even want to
But you just keep looking at me down low.
Oh no

Digging something up
Digging something up
Always digging something up
Oh no

And you make it so
Make it so obvious
Hey you! Fools don't fit in
The boots that I tread in
But you just keep on looking at me down low
Oh no

Digging something up
Digging something up
Always digging something up
Oh no

And you make it so
But do you get it
Make it so
You never get it
You got to owe me something
Before you know what is joke and what is up
I worked my fingers to the bone
And I won't let you stop me going up

Why do you have to make it
So-so-so-so-so obvious


5. BEEN CAUGHT STEALING

I've been caught stealing
Once when I was 5
I enjoy stealing
It's just as simple as that
Well, it's just a simple fact
When I want something
I don't want to pay for it

I walk right through the door
Walk right through the door
Hey all right
If I get by, it's mine
Mine all mine

My girl, she's one too
She'll go and get her a skirt
Stick it under her shirt
She grabbed a razor for me
And she did it just like that
When she wants something
She don't want to pay for it

She walk right through the door
Walk right through the door
Hey all right
If I get by, it's mine
Mine all mine

We sat around the pile
We sat and laughed
We sat and laughed and
Waved it into the air
And we did it just like that
When we want something
We don't want to pay for it

We walk right through the door
Walk right through the door
Hey, all right
If I get by, it's mine
Mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine


6. THREE DAYS

Three days was the morning
My focus three days old
My head, it landed
To the sounds of cricket bows

I am proud man anyway
Covered now by three days

Three ways was the morning
Three lovers, in three ways
We knew when she landed
Three days she'd stay

I am a proud man anyway
Covered now by three days

We saw shadows of the morning light
The shadows of the evening sun
Till the shadows and the light were one

Shadows of the morning light
The shadows of the evening sun
Till the shadows and the light were one

True hunting is over
No herds to follow
Without game, men prey on each other
The family weakens by the bite we swallow

True leaders gone
Of land and people
We choose no kin but adopted strangers
The family weakens by the length we travel

All of us with wings
All of us with wings
All of us with wings
All of us with wings
All of us with wings
All of us with wings

Erotic Jesus lays with his Marys
Loves his Marys
Bits of puzzle
Fitting each other

All now with wings

Oh my Marys
Never wonder
Night is shelter
For nudity's shiver

All now with wings


7. THE SHE DID

Now her paints are dry
And I looked outside
At the corner boys

Ah, where did you go
I don't know

I went to see your pictures
I spread them across the floor
So this is where they are shown
Now they're probably saying to you
If you keep it up you'll be born

But you won't ever listen
I'll bet

Burnt out, grass scorched by the sun
The buildings remain

We will beat them all to dust
I'll bet

Pulled from a headless shell
That blinked on and off, hotel
Now the nameless dwell

They hold your key and turn your knob
I'll bet

Will you say hello to my ma
Will you pay a visit to her
She was an artist, just as you were
I'd have introduced you to her

She would take me out on Sundays
We'd go laughing through the garbage
She repaired legs like a doctor
On the kitchen chairs we sat on

She was unhappy, just as you were
Unhappy, just as you were
Unhappy, just as you were
Unhappy, just as you were

8. OF COURSE

Of course this land is dangerous
All of the animals
Are capably murderous

When I was a boy
My big brother held on to my hands
Then he made me slap my own face
I looked up to him then, and still do
He was trying to teach me something
Now I know what it was
Now I know what he meant
Now I know how it is

One must eat the other
Who runs free before him
Put them right into his mouth
While fantasizing the beauty of his movements
A sensation not unlike
Slapping yourself in the face
Slapping yourself in the face
Slapping yourself in the face


9. CLASSIC GIRL

In my neighborhood
When shots go off
No one bothers
A POP, and a reply POP, and no reply

Dinosaurs on the quilt I wore
With a girl
Such a classic girl
Such a classic girl
Such a classic girl

Gives her man great ideas
Hears you tell your friends
Hey man, listen to my great idea
It's true I am a villain
When you fall ill
That's probably because

Men never can be
Not like a girl
A classic girl
Such a classic girl

They may say, Those were the days
But in a way
You know for us these are the days
Yes, for us these are the days

And you know you're my girl
Such a classic girl
Such a classic girl

For us these are the days