Twenty-five pounds of pure cane sugar She's got in each and every kiss You wouldn't know what I'm talking 'bout If you never had a love like this Well, I don't mean to be frank with you all It's a natural fact Good things come wrapped up in small, small packages now Well you can't argue with that Oh, oh, yeah Ninety-nine pounds of natural born goodness Ninety-nine pounds of soul, oh, oh Ninety-nine pounds of natural born goodness Ninety-nine pounds of soul Twenty-five pounds of tenderness She got in each and every touch Twenty-five pounds of understanding my woman 'Cause I was the one running 'round town worrying too much Twenty-four pounds of Sunday That I can't see, yeah And it all adds up to ninety-nine big pounds Oh, I'm talking about a feline friend Ninety-nine pounds of natural born goodness Ninety-nine pounds of soul Ninety-nine pounds of natural born goodness Ninety-nine pounds of soul Ninety-nine pounds of natural born goodness Ninety-nine pounds of soul Ninety-nine pounds of natural born goodness Ninety-nine pounds of soul Ninety-nine pounds of natural born goodness Ninety-nine pounds of soul Ninety-nine pounds of natural born goodness Ninety-nine pounds of soul
If you feel like a riot, then don't you deny it Put your good foot forward No need for heroics, I just want you to show it Now's the time to shine Your independence is a half-assed deliverance The train left the station The recognition of the same old condition Your symptoms showing through
Well, regardless of the truth You still act so aloof In the face of your judge and jury You got the nerve to say not guilty
Can you sting me, yeah Can you sting me, ooh Can you sting me Can you sting me right to my rotten bones Yeah, right down to
Well, the bell rings out for the crimes of the century Courtesy of your mother Well, the sign reads welcome to the valley of discovery Look at what money can buy Sons and daughters better open your eyes Tell me what you're seeing 'Cause this submission is a tired tradition It's everyone's sacrifice
Oh, believe you me I've got nothing up my sleeve 'Cept this heart and a chip on my shoulder You see, I'm young and I'm not getting older
Can you sting me Can you sting me, ooh yeah Can you sting me Can you sting me right to my rotten bones
Ooh, come on my sweet young thing What new things you wanna show me today I got one question, believe it's subjective What is a wasp without her sting?
I don't mean to sound bitter Yeah you touch me baby just like murder Living ain't so easy When all I want from you is to sting me
Can you sting me Can you sting me, oh yeah Can you sting me Can you sting me Can you sting me Can you sting me You wanna sting me
Baby, baby, why can't you sit still? Who killed that bird out on your window sill? Are you the reason that he broke his back? Tell me, did I see you laugh about that? If I come on like a dream? Will you let me show you what I mean? Will you let me come on inside? Will you let it glide?
Can I have some remedy? All I want is a remedy. Remedy for me please. Cause if I had some remedy I'd take enough to please me.
Baby, baby, why you dye your hair? Why you always keeping with your mother's dare? So, baby why who's who, who know you, too? Did the other children scold on you? If I come on like a dream? Will you let me show you what I mean? Will you let me come on inside? Will you let it slide?
Wake me when the day breaks Show me how the sun shines Tell me about your heartaches Who could be so unkind? Do you dream to touch me? And smile down deep inside Or could you just kill me? It's hard to make up your mind, sometimes.
My angels, my devils, my thorn in my pride. My angels, my devils, my thorn in my pride.
Are you wanting inspiration You spill your secrets on me Then you tell me with a whisper Of things that will never be. Do you hear me breathing? Does it make you want to scream? Did you ever like a bad dream? Sometimes life is obscene.
My angels, my devils, my thorn in my pride. My angels, my devils, my thorn in my pride. My angels, my devils, my thorn in my pride. My angels, my devils, my thorn in my pride.
Lover cover me with your sleep Let your love light shine, let it shine Lover cover me with a good dream Let your love light shine, let it shine
To lessen my troubles I stopped hanging out with vultures And empty saviors like you I wish I had a nickel for every miracle That you easily tricked me into
You can lead a horse to water But faith is another matter So don't you surrender Cause sometimes salvation In the eye of the storm
I've no time for accusations Or conversations on all the bad, bad things you do. Just a note from your jailor Drugs and the relations To all the people around you
You can lead a horse to water But faith is another matter So don't you surrender Cause sometimes salvation In the eye of the storm
I've kept secret your superstitions And all its twisted wisdom That I fell into
Oh good heavens, baby where's my medicine? I must have left it outside with my etiquette The undertaker's rule of thumb It's hard to talk with a novocain tongue
This room smells like hotel illness The scars I hide are now your business I can't seem to make hair nor hide of this No baby love is not a punishment.
Hypnotize by your rotten behavior This week's fashion is last year's flavor I got a head full of sermons and a mouth full of spiders The politics of the world's greatest liar
So tell me baby is it true all those things that they say about you...
Sleeping eyes sleep awhile And let me get to know your language If I believe all I see I would hate to be around for the dawn Sleeping eyes stay awhile And give me some cause to rejoice A parody of the scene Where my three wishes were granted to me
What you got buried? In your backyard What secret do you sleep with when the black moon come
Sleeping eyes please come clean I'm not giving you the third degree When you live with no man's time Ain't it hard to find some peace of mind Sleeping eyes don't you cry And don't pretend this is not an ending Your history yes it seems Has been swept out with the leaves
Dizzy found me last night Saw some kind of new light I woke up in a whirlwind Just you watch my head spin The spectacle that made you cry It's a thrill a minute plane ride It's over time at ring side, no lie
March me down to the seven seas Bury me with a ruby ring Kiss me baby on an Easter Sunday day Make my haze blow away
I hide I seek and I find Truth in a fable faith in a rhyme So why you want to bad talk me Are you surprised by what we see? Like the tables and the tides turn On my bed the emperor worn Is that enough for me, could be
If music got to free your mind Just let it go cause you never know, you never know If your rhythm ever falls out of time You can bring it to me and I will make it alright And if your soul is let go Oh you never know, no you never know And if your heart is beating free For the very first time it'll be alright
JAH would never give the power to a baldhead Run come crucify the dread
Time alone, oh! time will tell Think you're in heaven but you're living in hell Think you're in heaven but you're living in hell Think you're in heaven but you're living in hell Time alone, oh! time will tell Think you're in heaven but you're living in hell
Back them up, oh not the brothers But the ones, who set them up
Time alone, oh! time will tell Think you're in heaven but you're living in hell Think you're in heaven but you're living in hell Think you're in heaven but you're living in hell Time alone, oh! time will tell Think you're in heaven but you're living in hell
Oh children weep no more Oh my sycamore tree, saw the freedom tree Saw you settle the score Oh children weep no more Weep no more, children weep no more
JAH would never give the power to a baldhead Run come crucify the dread
Time alone, oh! time will tell Think you're in heaven but you're living in hell Think you're in heaven but you're living in hell Think you're in heaven but you're living in hell Time alone, oh! time will tell Think you're in heaven but you're living in hell
If you feel like a riot, then don't you deny it Put your good foot forward No need for heroics, I just want you to show it Now's the time to shine Your independence is a half-assed deliverance The train left the station The recognition of the same old condition Your symptoms showing through
Well, regardless of the truth You still act so aloof In the face of your judge and jury You got the nerve to say not guilty
Can you sting me, yeah Can you sting me, ooh Can you sting me Can you sting me right to my rotten bones Yeah, right down to
Well, the bell rings out for the crimes of the century Courtesy of your mother Well, the sign reads welcome to the valley of discovery Look at what money can buy Sons and daughters better open your eyes Tell me what you're seeing 'Cause this submission is a tired tradition It's everyone's sacrifice
Oh, believe you me I've got nothing up my sleeve 'Cept this heart and a chip on my shoulder You see, I'm young and I'm not getting older
Can you sting me Can you sting me, ooh yeah Can you sting me Can you sting me right to my rotten bones
Ooh, come on my sweet young thing What new things you wanna show me today I got one question, believe it's subjective What is a wasp without her sting?
I don't mean to sound bitter Yeah you touch me baby just like murder Living ain't so easy When all I want from you is to sting me
Can you sting me Can you sting me, oh yeah Can you sting me Can you sting me Can you sting me Can you sting me You wanna sting me
JAH would never give the power to a baldhead Run come crucify the dread
Time alone, oh! time will tell Think you're in heaven but you're living in hell Think you're in heaven but you're living in hell Think you're in heaven but you're living in hell Time alone, oh! time will tell Think you're in heaven but you're living in hell
Back them up, oh not the brothers But the ones, who set them up
Time alone, oh! time will tell Think you're in heaven but you're living in hell Think you're in heaven but you're living in hell Think you're in heaven but you're living in hell Time alone, oh! time will tell Think you're in heaven but you're living in hell
Oh children weep no more Oh my sycamore tree, saw the freedom tree Saw you settle the score Oh children weep no more Weep no more, children weep no more
JAH would never give the power to a baldhead Run come crucify the dread
Time alone, oh! time will tell Think you're in heaven but you're living in hell Think you're in heaven but you're living in hell Think you're in heaven but you're living in hell Time alone, oh! time will tell Think you're in heaven but you're living in hell
Save me From this season's dead air Take me Blind naked scared Want you to burn me, burn me baby Cover your eyes with my ashes C'mon why don't you pray for me Sit back and watch my divine spark flash
Chorus: Gone Good riddance I'm gone Gone in a wasted way Wasted my way I'm gone Push and pull on me baby With your fingernails full of fur I want you to stab me Do it, do it, 'cause you know it don't hurt Chorus Jinx me, jinx me baby Beautiful like a fool C'mon and remove me Dilated and burned Chorus
Did you ever hear The one about last year It was all a lie Ain't it funny how the time flies What we gonna do baby What is left for us to prove I've never stolen nothing, not a thing Tried to stay away form this year's Big thing Ain't as easy as it seems To find a mutual dream Can you tell me wrong from right Do you know when to freeze or take flight Can you tell me more or less I got to know-confess Chorus: Don't neglect me Come be my conspiracy Don't neglect me Come be my conspiracy Now you got a question about your answer Say try your Adam's apple You talk it try it bite it right So now you want to fight? ok Let's step outside I got tradition in addition My definition it don't hold me back Well what you think about that What you don't understand This is a very old land Can you tell me wrong from right Do you know when to freeze or take flight Can you tell me more or less I got to know-confess Chorus
Sometimes I have a ghetto in my mind Other times sunshine high head fine In between I get cold, old mean Intertwined with country pride open and kind This draws a line Sorry to coin a phrase On either side is wisdom and rage So keeping track of time Racing with my age Sleeping with the snakes Forget that you showed up late It ain't worth it baby Chorus: A charmed life it is At least they tell yo so I got a good idea It ain't like they say is so And if it is then let me go Let me go Any day there might be hell to pay But in other ways It makes it seem ok I'll tell you what I mean It's not a plot nor a scheme It's just peace in my mind Again can I use the word kind I ain't sorry about it baby Chorus
I lose myself I forget myself Sometimes I fault myself I might fight myself But then I make amends I freeze myself Rain on myself OK, so I stone myself And I might even find myself But then again what happens if I do So unzip my pride Open me up wide So I can show this to you Chorus: I want to shine for you I want to sparkle too Just like a diamond cursed Well you know it don't get worse You know that I'll save you time Your trouble now is mine Hold me baby Hold me girl And I will laugh with you If you want me to Roll me in your splendor I'll envy your surrender And show you victory I hate myself Doesn't everybody hate themselves I scare myself Then I tell myself it's all in my mind So I let the poison go 'Cause I always know It will be there for me Chorus
I don't know my telephone number But you kiss good and I'd like to See you tomorrow And I don't beg, I pay, I don't barter And if we had a child I'd like a son, Not a daughter 'Cause she'd be just like you You know that would not do I'm no builder, I'm no gardener I sing some songs, have a friend Who's a photographer There ain't no other language I know how to speak Some like their water shallow And I like mine deep Tied to the bottom With a noose around my feet Chorus: The clouds conspire Above my head I overheard them Say I wish he was dead Today the sunset Burned my eyes And in the next room I hear someone cry I like to dress up like the jury To eat like a king, to poke fun at clergy To talk like dirt To love yo like tar But never fall in too fast With my north star While you pull your hair out I buy the drinks at the bar Chorus
I've been lost in the headlights All night long Said I've felt taller, yes I heard The dealer's song Say babe don't mark me absent I only missed out by a fraction Be the sun that bursts through my clouds It's hard enough just living on this ground Chorus: Say don't pretend to me I beg and I plead, your sunflower I need Thought nothing would surprise me I was wrong now I see Come on baby and just do me if you please This made me reminiscing About the honey we made I feel warm in your blizzard And your flood I crave I won't abuse my anger I promise you no lecture Come be the sun bursting through my clouds It's hard enough just living on the ground Chorus
I am a cobweb In the corner of the room I tell you I built myself a beat baby So c'mon and cry me a monsoon
Get busy on it And make it deep
Chorus: Imagine how surprised all the kids will be Empty bottles, saviors they crawl That has always been and will always be There's a hornet's nest in my head, Come and save me
If I don't say nothing You say now tell us what to do So I tell ya'll this is just how I live Someone else calls it the news But that's yesterday Yesterday's news
