grass.

home

i have to know down

to ever know up

i have to be empty

to ever fill up

i have to be lost

to ever be found

i have to know the best place that i've

ever been is in my shoes right now

i am so far from home

with every step i take i feel more alone.

my friends i hope we meet again someday

laugh and crying

birth and dying

goods and bads

love and fighting

smile and tears

we are here

we are home.

i have to know hate

to ever know love

i have to know  the person standing next to me and what their heart is made of

i got to know the inside of every out

i have to know the best place that i have ever been is where i am right now.

i am so far from home

with every step i take i feel more alone.

my friends i hope we meet again someday

laugh and crying

birth and dying

goods and bads

love and fighting

smile and tears

we are here

we are home

nowhere

i could lose anything

take everything away

if you are with me

my world would be okay

time keeps on ticking

life only takes me from you

the only that i needed

was the only thing i can't do

i want to go nowhere

where there is just you

and nothing else at all

we could be nowhere

still have something

we would have it all

another day another dollar

money never seems to pay.

tomorrow i'd be broken

if your eyes don't look the same.

the day after yesterday's not gone

tomorrow will never be today

ever step i take

only takes you away.

i want to go nowhere

where there is just you

and nothing else at all

we could be nowhere

still have something

we would have it all

you could take take my tomorrow

leaving me here today.

but you can't take that away

people like you

people like me

we weren't made for this world.

one day they'll tell stories of our glories

the life of the boy and the girl.

chorus.

all-star

sometimes you need an all-star

sometimes you need a rubber sole.

make sure you tie them

and double knot them.

In life, everybody falls

when i was seven i got my shoes

from a local Big K

they had blue light specials

and my mom liked to save.

we pack into a 77 green rivearia

we be in the back yelling

"mom are we there yet"

the seats were vinyl, plastic, and green

and in the summer burn your ass to the 3rd degree

back seat like a trampoline

you know what i mean

while the front was in ohio, the back's in new orleans.

chorus

mom would always threaten us

don't make me pull over

don't know how she got the job

of being my mom and a chafer

she got me shoes from the day she gave me birth

decided what to put between me and the planet earth

the choice was choosen, so i didn't have to chose

but in life you're only as tough

as the bottom of your shoes

i got to ask you what you got on your feet

do they the float like a feather

or sink like concrete.

sometimes the simplest questions

are still profound

like where are you going

and are your feet on the ground.

chuck taylors, reebok, my boys had nikes

puma, filas, adidas, british knights

roos, the ones with the zippers

flip flops or berks

which one was hipper

rockport, gbx, my boy had sketchers

in the winter time mom put bread bags in my sneakers

i got to ask you how you get around town

lace up you don't want to fall down.

chorus.

fingerprints

sometime somtimes last forever

other times forever becomes tonight

we can make love to the future

taste tomorrow if i tilt my head right.

i ask myself can i go further than far

a portrait of a riverbed thats veining the earth

the rain that floods

the rain that floods

to understand myself, so much that it hurts.

none of this is replaceable

days like fingerprints

time is my evidence

sometimes sometimes

the sky is falling on me

other times its better when i try

when i get through their will be stories to tell

did it ever have a chance, could it be a fairytale.

chorus.

none of this is replaceable

days like fingerprints

time is our evidence

none of this we'll see again

today is gone

today is gone.

lightyears

momentarily the drums go bang

and the bass goes boom

everybody feel this in the whole damn room

one short walk on a long driveway

to get you up out your house

each and every day

open your ears to hear what i say

you got to remember, realize

its in the music you play

not in the past because we live for today

got to get your shit together

before it slips away

put your head upon your shoulders

without delay, believe in god

he's right inside, you got to learn to pray

take you lightyears away.

shake your everything

my goggles saw the day the rain came

you should be ashamed and feel so damn lame

in your poverty stricken souped up domain

how do you remain with

shattered dreams you can't obtain

a sink with no drains

complains, retains a few carpet stains

and a dirty curtain

get up get out break free from all the chains

shake your everything

mirror mirror on the wall

the man keeps stepping

he's sure to fall

i am not a hater

cause i don't cater to the needs of the whole

got the James Brown soul

i do what i do

just play with the crew

i keep writing the funky rhymes

that i write for you

i use to get down like it was my calling

laying  down shit like Bootsy Collins

got to keep moving

cause i got no time

like the red chili peppers

just smell my slime

got that shit that got you all in check

whooohaaa

at the disco tech.

shake your everything

johnathan

johnathan, my feathered friend

lived for his life until its end

taught me something about living mine

taught me wrong and we taught me right.

what you have is

you don't need what you have

what you need is love between you and me

what you have is you  don't need what you have

what you need is peace between you and me

the more you give, the more you get

sing this song, sing it to yourself

help it lift your heart up off the shelf

you got to live for your things

live for your life

give every thing you own away

for one day you'll die, that's no lie

what you have is

you don't need what you have

what you need is love between you and me

what you have is you  don't need what you have

what you need is peace between you and me

the more you give, the more you get

keep it in your pocket till you don't need it

johnathan, my feathered friend

lived for his dreams, so can we my friends

we can fly so much higher and fast

live for the future

and remember your past

what you have is

you don't need what you have

what you need is love between you and me

what you have is you  don't need what you have

what you need is peace between you and me

the more you give, the more you get

keep it in your pocket till you don't need it

keep doing

don't let anybody ever hold you down

a midget standing tall

and a gaint about to fall down

a clown wipes the paint off his face

a man steps out of line cause he feels out of place.

a house wife steppin out of her shoes

a drunk no longer finds any love in his booze

people around the world begin to awake

every politician and the mistakes that they've made

keep doing what you're doing

i know that you'll get through

just point into the light

and step into it

a man with fat stacks and cadillacs

gives em away

a man upon the street works on his faith

a man that knows something

knows that he knows nothing at all

a man that knows nothing,

can never be proven wrong.

one is at the top

another can not stop

and everybody wishes they could beat down a cop

patience can learn to wait

lovers can learn to hate

and slaves can emancipate.

a journey of a million miles

starts with one step

but i don't even have my shoes on yet.

i gonna lace up all my moon boots

and i am going to get my hussle on

cause while i am rappin, nothings happen,

so i got to move along.

listen to your momma

i know she told you right

look for the sunshine

you will always see the light

schools not the only education

so can i get an amen in the congregation.

chorus.

grass

the grass outside its way too high

i think i will cut it down

the tree outside i've watched it grow

but if i am bare and have no home

i will cut it down

in the water in which you'd swim

if i am thirsty

i will drink you down.

please forgive me for i have sinned

so many times that the word is worn thin

you should worry only if you've seen

the things that i do

cause i might cut you down.

in my boat across the sea

i believe its land i see

i can see it now

beautiful things upon that shore

but once i am there, there will be no more.

i will cut them down.

out a man comes to greet me

he sees things much different than me

so i cut him down.

will he forgive me for i have sinned

so many times that the word is worn thin

he should've worry for he had seen

the things that i did

and it made him differently

are you afraid of me

like i am afraid of you

i am afraid one of us must go

there is not enough room for both me and you.

please forgive me for i have sinned

so many times that the word is worn thin

you only worry  if you've seen

too many things that make you differently

i will be better now that you are gone

i will be standing here i will be all alone

and once you are gone, time will pass

and on your shallow grave will grow more grass.

i will cut it down.

black and white

sacred

when i grow up

when i grow up

i want to be a fireman

so that i might save the day

i want to be a preacherman

maybe help a soul pass away.

when i grow up

i want to be a policeman

so that i could jail the bad.

i'd paint my face red and white

call me a clown

i could laugh away the sad.

you know we all want to be

flashing signs with twinkle lights

screaming i was alive.

i want to be an army man

so that i could win a war

i want to be a doctor man

make the sick die no more

you know we all want to be

flashing signs with twinkle lights

screaming i was alive.

i want to be an astronaut

find me up in outter space.

i want to be a president

make the world a better place.

you know we all want to be

flashing signs with twinkle lights

screaming i was alive.

you were alive

we were alive

say something and you never die

i was alive

when i grow up

ordinary

when the world is over.

and my days are through.

will the sun be shinning

in the bright sky of blue.

will the moon be fuller

will the birds all sing

will all the leaves change color,

even if its spring?

or just an ordinary day.

you will be holding my hand

when my eyes blink no more

or standing waiting on the other side of the door

thats all i need.

when your world is over

your numbers through.

will the stars shine brighter

brighter than they use to

will everyone be talking

about how they miss you insane

will everything be different

or is it always just the same

like an ordinary day.

i will be holding your hand

when yours eyes they blink no more

or standing on the other side of the door.

thats all i need.

no parties

parades

no time

no tears

no solar system shifts

no lines

no tears.

love wont let us be alone

we can not be alone

when this world is over.

you will be holding my hand

when my heart it beats no more

you will be standing there...my love

and thats all i need.

pancapes

sing along a simple song

across the world.

mr.stevie wonder

yo dog with your superstition,

lacked his eyes but never lacked intuition

no television but strong intervision

that man had a mission

mr. sly stone

stand up and sing along

tell these people that we got to get along

cause love supreme could never be wrong

spread that shit from new york city to hong

come on and get along.

sing along a simple song across the world

mr. john lennon

we got some work to do

you died for cause nobodies listen to.

people cryin and dyin

we got to pacify them

stand listen to what the beatles were crying

mr gracia

back from the dead

woke up and started spilling his head

speaking the truth

lived a life so devine

that when god came to take him

he said thank you.

sing along a simple song across the world.

mr marley

get up ,hands up, stand up

throw your hands up

rip your dreads out

tell them that your fed up

cause we gone spread some love

across the nation

so if you out there hating

pay attention

one love to give

one life to live

start out positive.

sing along a simple song across the world.