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Down By The River
03:02
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The Professor
Yeah back like we never left but it feel right
Misdirection, the darkest of lights fill my night
Time sight with more than enough of the contrast
For me to talk all my shit with the bombast
Staying on task, takin off fast
Moving too much, I been tryna make it last
No more time to wait, I took my fate up outta class
Tryna make my way but now my lane got a crash
Slow motion, it's caution for all the road work
Flares out cuz the flows make they toes hurt
Close the curtains and let's start a dance army
Turn a bedroom into a no pants party
I on't dance hardly, old as iCarly
Three little birds told me and Bob Marley
That we'd need to head to the creek with Chris Farley
Down by the river where my people like to party
Aye, it's like I on't dance hardly
Yeah, I said old as iCarly
Three little birds told me and Bob Marley
That we'd need to head to the creek with Chris Farley
Yeah, I said down by the river where my people like to party
Yeah, I said down by the river
Ayo I like to party too, I know it's hardly news
But I can hardly move, the carpet's cool
Yeah stuck, aye I got caught up on the groove
I had to cut a rug and let it do what it do
What's cool, yeah when my system's overheatin
Feel it in the air, they ain't gon be no defeatin
What's a beatin, when you don't really feel the pain
That shit might make you mad but it don't feel the same
What's a little rain when you soakin wet
And what's a little chain when you bout to cash a check
What's a breath when you don't protect your neck
And what's a dance with death when you don't care what's next
Yo I on't dance hardly, old as iCarly
Three little birds told me and Bob Marley
That we'd need to head to the creek with Chris Farley
Down by the river where my people like to party
Aye, yo I on't dance hardly
Yeah, aye old as iCarly
Three little birds told me and Bob Marley
That we'd need to head to the creek with Chris Farley
Yo beats, lyrics, turn up the vibe
Givin thanks right now for everyone that's alive
And everyone that died and everyone that passed
We gon live it up for y'all cuz time moves fast
Life is too short and everybody dies
The world's so cruel and everywhere are lies
What's the point pops? Yo the point is this
They ain't gon stop shootin down so your shots can't miss
Ain't gon change shit if you don't aim when you shoot
Problem is it's fake when you claim that it's true
Ain't gon change shit if you don't aim when you shoot
Problem is it's fake when you claim that it's true
I on't dance hardly, old as iCarly
Three little birds told me and Bob Marley
That we'd need to head to the creek with Chris Farley
Down by the river where my people like to party
Yeah, it's like I on't dance hardly
Yo, I said old as iCarly
Three little birds told me and Bob Marley
That we'd need to head to the creek with Chris Farley
Yeah, down by the river
Where my people like to party
Yeah, I said down by the river
The Professor
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Arboretum
03:18
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Yeah
What's the first thing that your mind think of
When you wake up, now what's your life made of
Blink up and look, yeah we came from the vertical
But they put you in the ground when they murder you
They don't want you really yelling from the precipice
Pointing out all these wide open entrances
Nah, they'd rather charge you for your entry
Guarding the garden and at the far end there's a sentry
Pardon the fiend, my thumb's staying green
Hands staying clean, I'm a one man team
What's it mean, when you really don't cling
Except to your dream because that's your one thing
Yeah now what's a ring if it don't ring true
Aye it's all a circle from a certain point of view
Yeah what to do when there's so much to be done
Lost in the numbers when it's all about the one
They wanna charge us for the arboretum, yeah
They putting nature in a mausoleum, aye
Hermetically sealed, sliding in the DM
Fresh breath from the AM to the PM
Direct messages, what the essence is
Get in touch with the roots for some emphasis
I just profess to find what the lesson is
Yeah to find out what the lesson is
Around the clock they just tryna keep us ticked off
Talk shit, you can tell that they switch soft
Even flipped on you can see they ain't strong
Crush they catalog with just like one song, yo
What's your focal point with no distractions
They want half my slice of the pie with no fractions
I want the whole thing, I let my soul sing
I just came to ball out like a bowl ring
Yeah, commemoration of your whole team
Yeah dropping new styles on your old scene
Aye, I know it seam like they all about things
It's lots of fraudulence out here chasing dreams
Doubt stings the worst cuz you really know you dope
But if you don't believe then nobody gonna know
A seed in the soil that's potential that's been sewn
But it need some shine and some water to be grown
They wanna charge us for the arboretum, yo
They putting nature in a mausoleum, aye
Hermetically sealed, sliding in the DM
Fresh breath from the AM to the PM
Direct messages, what the essence is
Get in touch with the roots for some emphasis
I just profess to find what the lesson is
To find out what the lesson is
What's the now if it don't tap forever
What's the how if it don't bring us together
What's allowed when they do things they'd never
Yeah what's the Tao it's the way that we enter
Yeah, all I, all I wanna find
A little bit of space and a little bit of time
Yeah, all we do is miss the signs
So I got my head up just to taste the shine, yeah
They wanna charge us for the arboretum, aye
They putting nature in a mausoleum, yeah
Hermetically sealed, sliding in the DM
Fresh breath from the AM to the PM
Direct messages, what the essence is
Get in touch with the roots for some emphasis
I just profess to find what the lesson is
Yeah to find out what the lesson is
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