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01. Whitey
02. Black Jesus
03. I Can't Move
04. Black Coffee
05. Babylon Feeling
06. Deadly Assassins
07. Children's Story
08. Love For Real
09. One And The Same
10. We're All Gonna Die
11. Mercy On My Soul
12. One, Two
13. Graves To Dig
14. Put Your Lights On [(Carlos) Santana featuring Everlast]



Whitey [I Marc 4 cover with all new lyrics]

(Whitey)

Bismillah
Punk rock to ska, disco to blues
Yo, my blue suede shoes got stepped on
Slept on, the style that I hustle
You wanna flex then punk make a muscle
I'm (Whitey)
Yeah, that's right
Some of y'all kiddies wanna act uptight
Comin' to the party tryin' to spark up fights
I'm puttin' out lights, boy, 'cause I'm (Whitey)
I'm whiter than crack, I'm harder than drugs
I'm smarter than thugs, I'm hotter than slugs
I'm faster than sound, I came to get down, boy, don't fuck around
You'll catch a beat down it's comin' from

(Whitey)

What?
You thought I stopped rhymin' 'cause I started singin'
Pickin' on a six-string, wrist bling blingin'
Name's bell ringin' from coast to coast
You're rollin' with the one that rocks the most
I'm (Whitey)
Official like referees, fuck with me put your egos in jeopardy
Threats to the right, amigos to the left of me
Part of me's hellish, part of me's heavenly (Whitey)
Boy, that's my name
I don't do it for the wealth, I don't do it for the fame
I do it for the health and I do it for the spirit
Don't speak the lyric, if you can't hear it (Whitey)
If it ain't from the heart than it can't be art
If you ain't got proof than it can't be truth
If it ain't got legs than it can not run
If it ain't never started then it can't be done
I'm (Whitey)



Black Jesus

They call me
White devil, black Jesus
Heaven closes, hell freezes
Ego's trippin'
Scripts keep flippin'
Bloods keep bloodin'
Crips keep crippin'
Time keeps slippin'
And I keep fallin'
And I can't see but I hear them callin'
Ballers ballin'
Players playin'
Haters fightin'
Righteous praying
Dawn breaking
Manhattan keeps making
Brooklyn keeps takin'
Shook ones keeps shakin'
No time for fakin'
Y' know w' I mean
I ain't choppin' no pies
Just risin' like cream
If you're digging the scene
If you feelin' the vibes
Throw your hands in the air
Scream out you're alive
Singin' na na nana na na (repeat)

They call me
Black Jesus, white Moses
Heaven freezes, hell closes
B-Boy poses, punk rock chicks
The kids are all right but I need my fix
If you're diggin' the mix
If you're feelin' the drugs
If you're keepin' it real
If you're livin' like thugs
I spit kisses and hugs like .45 slugs
Come back on the one and kiss my love gun
Got a look that will kill
A voice that will carry
Half a dozen women that I think I wanna marry
Trouble on my mind, I'm refusin' to lose
Still I've gotta find me someone to abuse
So won't you run spread the news
Help say the word
And jump the fuck back and jus' act like you heard

[hook]
They call me
White devil, black Jesus
Heaven closes, hell freezes
Black Jesus, white Moses
Heaven freezes, hell closes
Sing na na nana na na
Singin' na na nana na na (repeat)

Singin' (Wah, wah wah wah wah,
Shoo be doo wah, wah wah wah wah)

They call me
White sinner
Black martyr
Live wire
Fire starter
Jungle brother
Redneck cracker
Freak of nature
New world slacker
Sex junkie lookin' for a dealer
You can play the leper girl and I can play the healer
Shit is only getting realer baby haven't you heard that the
Bird, bird, bird, yes the bird is the word

They go one for the trouble
Two for the time
Three for my homies
And four for the dimes
Singin' lemons to the lime
Till the break of dawn
Excuse me ("Six minutes")
Everlast you're on
And they go on and on
Like a rolling stone
Baby anywhere I lay my hat is my home

[hook]



I Can't Move

Watching the sun shine
Peeking over the sky line
Thinking I gotta get mine
Gotta try at least one time
Wanna get near it
Close enough to fear it
Close enough to hear it
Close enough to say
That I looked it in the eye
Then I turned away

[hook]
And I'm not scared
But I can't move
I'm not scared
But I can't move

Hangin' out on a weeknight
Looking out for the street light
Getting into some fistfight
Trying to cling to my birthright
Wanna get near her
Close enough to smell her
Close enough to tell her
All the things that I want to say
Then I looked her in the eye
Made her run away

[hook]

Laying up in the Soho
Looking out of my window
Pulling back on some indo
Watch the breeze as the wind blows
Wanna get near it
Close enough to hear it
Close enough to fear it
Close enough to say
That I looked it in the eye
Then it turned away

[hook]



Black Coffee featuring Merry Clayton

[hook]
She smelled like flowers
She tastes like toffee
She kissed me slowly
She held me softly
Got too close and she backed up off me
And left me stone cold sober just like black coffee
Just like black coffee

She told me that she'd always be thinkin' of me
She said she wanted me to know that she really did love me
She said she never put no one else above me
Except her monkey
She's like a junkie
Just like a junkie
Just like a junkie

It was April 25th, it's up around 80
Found a spot out in the park where the grass is shady
She said her mom's from Jamaica
Said her father's from Haiti
Such a pretty lady
She's such a lady

[hook]

Just like black coffee
Just like black coffee



Babylon Feeling

My heart is broke, my will is gone
Fell in love with a woman named Babylon
She hooked me to the gills
With all of her forbidden thrills
I call her baby for short then I ramble on
She'll forget about me
My soul is high, my mind is free
Met a shorty with some back call her destiny
She showed me all my fates
My stream of conscious navigates
I orbit around the sun at high velocity
Don't forget about me

Don't forget about sweet thing
Won't you save my soul
Pretty lady, won't you take me home
Sweet thing
Won't you save my soul
Pretty lady, won't you take me home... tonight

My arms are heavy, my body's tense
Got the hots for this honey named confidence
She points out all of my flaws
Breaking all of her favorite laws
Never speaks a word in my defense
Just forget about me
My spirit's weak, my lust will thrive
Got a thing for this bitch
Said her name is Alive
She controls me with her fear
My prayers fall on her cold deaf ear
She says have a good time and take your dive
Just forget about me
Just forget about

Sweet thing, won't you save my soul (Yeah)
Pretty lady, won't you take me home
Sweet thing won't you save my soul (Yeah)
Pretty lady won't you take me home... tonight
I've got a Babylon feelin'
I've got a Babylon feelin'
I've got a Babylon feelin'
I'm feelin' Babylon

My heart is broke, my will is gone
Fell in love with a woman named Babylon
She hook me to the gills
All of her forbidden thrills
I call her baby for short, then I ramble on
And I ramble on

I've got a Babylon feelin'
I've got a Babylon feelin'
I've got a Babylon
Feelin', Feelin', Feelin', yeah
I've got a Babylon
Feelin', Feelin', Feelin', yeah
I've got a Babylon
Feelin', Feelin', Feelin', yeah
I've got a Babylon
Feelin', Feelin', Feelin', yeah



Deadly Assassins featuring B-Real

[Everlast]
What? You think it can't happen?
Soul Assassins 2000!
Word! Goes somethin' like this

On a vision quest fresh best error terror
Krush Groovy like a low budget movie
I'm Wild Style like Lee Quinones
Stop ridin' on my cajones
I talk with a speak that's much unique
While you desperately seek for that Susie freak
Yo, word to Rob One. He used to like the big ladies
My name's Everlast, I started back in the 80s
Like (whoosh sound) all up your nostril
Actin' hostile, 13th apostle
Goin' postal, Holy Ghost know
Why you walkin' on the hostrow, actin' bicoastal
Bitch! Try to play the middle,
Snitch and wind up in the hospital
Cat on a hot tin roof with no fiddle
Put your money in the middle, get broke like coal

[B-Real] Two deadly assassins makin' 'em fall
I'm Real
[Everlast] I'm Everlast, and I'm takin' 'em all
[B-Real] Just when you thought it was safe to make a tape
[Beide] Two deadly assassins sealin' your fate

[B-Real]
I'll spit out the fighting, you won't know what hit
Watch me place you out quicker than the joint gets lit
I got years in this shit, what do you got? A couple?
If you gotta hustle, what d'you want, trouble?
Lookin' at the two who go back like Chuck's (Everlast: way back)
With the hand on the pump by the big black trucks (Everlast: fools)
You can't trust a soul in the City of Angels
The strange ho's want a piece, look at these lame ho's
I stain those, with hot blood and chain flows
And main foes who want to rock this ain't closed
They use the same clothes these unoriginal niggas
Ah, my son, if any one of them wanna run (Everlast: Come on, motherfucker)
I'll ? chastized and baptized in blood
Where the gat lies don't matter, you're scattered in mud
You ungrateful, most hateful, leech niggas
Wallow in your misery, I'm outta reach, niggas

[B-Real] Two deadly assassins makin' 'em fall
I'm Real
[Everlast] I'm Everlast, and I'm ready to brawl
[B-Real] Just when you thought it was safe to make a tape
[Beide] Two deadly assassins sealin' your fate
[B-Real] Two deadly assassins makin' 'em fall
I'm Real
[Everlast] I'm Everlast, and I'm takin' 'em all
[B-Real] Just when you thought it was safe to make a tape
[Beide] Two deadly assassins sealin' your fate

(Everlasting) (The round one)



Children's Story featuring Rahzel [Slick Rick cover]

[Rahzel as child #1] Uncle Whitey! Uncle Whitey, could you tell us a bedtime story?
[Rahzel as child #2] Dat's 'at! We wanna hear a bedtime story
[Rahzel as child #1] Please! Could you tell us a bedtime story?
[Rahzel as child #2] With fingers in the mouth tidgy poo na na

[Everlast (with Rahzel fills/double rhymes)]
Once upon a time not long ago,
When people wore pajamas and lived life slow
When laws were stern and justice stood,
And people were behavin' like they ought to: good
There was a little boy who was misled by another lil' boy
And this is what he said
"Me and you, Guy, we gonna make some cash,
Robbin' old folks and makin' the dash"
They did the job, money came with ease,
But one couldn't stop, it's like he had a disease
He robbed another and another and a sister and her brother
Tried to rob a man who was a D.T. undercover,
The cop grabbed his arm, he started acting erratic,
He said, "keep still, boy, no need for static",
Punched him in his belly and he gave him a slap
But little did he know the lil' boy was strapped,
The kid pulled out a gun
He said, "Why'd you hit me?",
The barrel headed straight for the cop's kidney
The cop got scared, the kid, he starts to figure,
"I'll do years if I pull this trigger"
So he cold dashed and ran around the block,
Cop radios in to another lady cop
He ran by a tree, there he saw this sister,
A shot for the head, he shot back but he missed her
Looked 'round good in expectations,
So he decided he'd head for the subway stations
But she was coming so he made a left,
He was runnin' top speed till he was outta breath
Knocked an old man down and swore he killed him,
Then he made his move to an abandoned building
Ran up the stairs up to the top floor,
Opened up the door there, guess who he saw
Dad, the dope fiend shootin' dope,
Who don't know the meaning of water nor soap,
He said, "I need bullets, hurry up, run",
The dope fiend brought back a spanking shotgun
He went outside but there was cops all over,
So he get into a car, it was a stolen Nova
Raced up the block doing 83, crashed into a tree near university,
Escaped alive though the car was battered,
He rat-a-tat-tatted and all the cops scattered
Ran out of bullets but still had static,
Grabbed a pregnant lady and pulled out the automatic
Pointed at her head and he said the gun was full of lead
He told the cops, "back off or honey here's dead",
Deep in his heart he knew he was wrong
So he let the lady go and he starts to move on,
Sirens sounded, he seemed astounded
Before long the lil' boy got surrounded,
He dropped tjis gun, so went the glory
And this is the way I got to end this story,
He was only nineteen, in a madman's dream
I saw the cops shoot the kid, I still hear him scream,
This ain't funny so don't you dare laugh
Just another case 'bout the wrong path,
Straight and narrow or your soul gets cast

[Everlast and Rahzel]
G'night

[Rahzel]
Knock 'em out the box (repeated)

God damn



Love For Real featuring N'Dea Davenport

[Everlast]
Her skin was salty sweet
She wore sandals on her feet
Side by side we fell asleep
In her mother's bed
She stepped inside of me
Said don't ever lie to me
This heart of mine can be yours
Yeah that's what she said
But I just played the role
Broke the heart I stole
'Cause I was young and dumb and
Fucked up in the head

[hook: N'Dea Davenport (Everlast)]
Do you want to be loved for real
Do you want to be loved for real
Do you want to be... loved
(Yes, I wanna be loved for real)
For real
(Do you want to be in love for real)
(Yes, I want to be in love for real)

[Everlast]
Now, I'm down by the river
Taking off my shoes
Jumpin' in the water
Wash away these blues
And out into the ocean
The current takes hold

Words already been spoken
Tales already been told
Heart's already been broken
Wounds already been healed
Do you wanna be loved
Do you wanna
Do you wanna be loved for real

[hook: N'Dea Davenport (Everlast), x2]

[Everlast]
Her eyes were hazel brown
She laughed the sweetest sound
And I just loved the way she
Lit up when she spoke
She helped to ease my pain
She stayed through pouring rain
And I gave her all thit she
Could take, 'till she broke
She fit me like a glove
She taught me how to love
And for some ass I watched
It all go up in smoke

[hook: N'Dea Davenport (Everlast), x2]

[outro: N'Dea Davenport (Everlast)]
Do you want to be loved
(Do you wanna be, do you wanna be ... in love)
For real

Do you want to be in love
(Yes, I want to be in love for real)
(Do you want to be in love for real)
Yes, I wanna be
(In love for real)
In love for real



One And The Same featuring N'Dea Davenport

Wish I could see beyond the filthy blue horizon
See what lies ahead of me
Perhaps I'd see the path of my own destruction
And avoid my destiny,

[hook]
She said, "Heaven and hell are one and the same, boy"
She told me, "Heaven and hell, boy, are one and the same
We all meet somewhere in the middle"
She told me, "Heaven and hell, boy, are one and the same"
I said, "It can't be true"

Wish I could touch you in some totally new fashion
Prove to you girl I'm a man
Now I can't guarantee your complete satisfaction
So I'm goin' do you very best way I can

[hook]

Wish I could find some time to stop and smell the roses
But my land lord just won't let me be
My head is full of paranoia, neurosis, trying to consume my identity

[hook]

It just can't be true
Children grow and women produce, men go work and some go steal'n
Children grow and women produce, men go work and some go steal
(Heaven and hell, here on Earth) (x8)



We're All Gonna Die featuring Cee-Lo

We're all gonna die

When I was a very young boy, mamma told me we're all gonna die
Mamma said son love can't be trusted, it's just another weakness
We're all gonna die

[hook, x2]
Baby don't cry, praise the most high
Won't tell you no lie, we all gonna die

Now I'm grown, seen a lot livin', made a few friends
Gonna get high, hoping I don't take more than I'm given
Judgement day comin', we all gonna die
If my wings should fail me lord, meet me with another pair

[hook, x2]

Baby getting born, old man dyin'
Young lady laughin', old woman cryin'
Leaving like a lamb, comin' back like a lion
Babylon to Zion, we're all gonna die

Praise the most high, we're all gonna die

When I was a very young boy
Mama told me, we're all gonna die
Mama said, son, love can't be trusted
Its just another weakness, we're all gonna die
Praise the most high, we're all gonna die
If my wings should fail me lord, meet me with another pair

Baby don't cry, praise the most high
Won't tell you no lie, we all gonna die
(repeat the last two lines x4)



Mercy On My Soul

A trust betrayed a rusty blade
Standing the edge
I walked the line, paid my fine
Hope I know the ledge
Actual facts, unnatural acts
Sins they take their toll
The angel and the djinn and the beast within
The fight to take control

[hook]
Lord, have mercy on my soul
On my soul
On my soul
On my soul

Lord, I need ya like a junkie needs his drugs
Need ya like a baby boy needs his hugs
Need ya like the flowers, Lord, need the sun
I need you like DMC needs Run

[hook]

Lord, love you like a Eskimos love the cold
Love you like a miner man love his gold
Love you like a fisherman love the sea
Love you like the flowers love the worker bee

[hook]

Standing up tall on top of the wall
Hoping I can fly
Angel and the djinn and the beast within' say I'm gonna die

[hook]



One, Two featuring Kurupt

[intro: Everlast]
Yeah, yeah, two thousand zero zero
The party just started, haha, haha
Everlast, Kurupt/Fred Wreck, Kurupt
Goes somethin' like this

[hook: Everlast]
I say one, two - one, two, one, two
The good Lord knows just what you've been through
I say one, two - one, two, one, two
Sometimes you're just doing what you've got to do
I say one, two - one, two, one, two
The good Lord knows just what you've been through
I say one, two - one, two, one, two
Sometimes you're just doing what you've got to do

[Everlast]
Sticker man tryin' to feed his baby
Drug dealer tryin' to raise his son
Every pimp gotta dress his lady
Come on now you ain't the only one

[hook: Everlast]

[Kurupt]
Now this is the combination of intervention
That just might open up a new dimension
I can tell, the well, just might run dry
Lost attentions and thoughts, mighty fine to simplify

[hook: Everlast and Kurupt]

[Kurupt]
I said life lasts present to the past
Saw a rapper the warpath (warpath)
Kurupt, Young Gotti
Incredibly clever, mack auther with Everlast it's true
Do what you want do
One, two

[Everlast]
Mary Jane wanna run smoke reefer
Little Ricky's out sniffin' rock
Cynthia, she's at the disco coked out
It doesn't matter what drugs you on

[hook: Everlast and Kurupt]

[Kurupt]
Gain, growth, life by oath
The gifted, different toast
Talent, the melodramatic
And the violent life in silence
But this here's mine, crystal clear it's mine

[hook: Everlast]



Graves To Dig

They go one for the Prophet, two for Islam
Three for the Khutba from the Imam
Four for the mother that birthed my frame
Five for the father 'cause he taught me game

Been 'round the world, songs are all the same
Sometimes when I'm asleep I still call your name
Back when I was young I used to dream of fame
Now they all point they fingers sayin' who's to blame
Mothers put their girls into pigtail curls
Fathers teach their sons how to shoot their guns
They say, "Boy don't never cry control your emotions
Just take it like a man, make your stand"
They say, "Sex and violence go hand in hand
For every man blessed there got to be ten damned"
Expand through the depths of space and time
Standin' three eyes blind on the firing line
Word to my man divine, come too far
Singin' "La ilaha il Allah" *
Twelve Raka'ahs short on my full day's prayer
Just hoping that the lord got some mercy to spare
They go one for the ummah, two for the deen
Three for the angels, four for the alamin
Somewhere between totally obscene
And perfectly clean, got a Babylon feelin'
Wounds that need healin', truth need revealin'
Hands need washin' from all the dirty dealin'
From the floor to the ceilin', from the stage to the door
From the kings and the queens and the slaves and the whores
For every lost cause where the martyrs are found
That funky little sound, that make you want to get down
Somebody told me once, love makes the world go round
Now kids they carry pistols out on the playground
That profound, gone too far
Praying to the light from a burned out star
Put your lights on, put down your crosses
It's time to tally up your wins and your losses
They go one for Scott La Rock
Two for Pac and B.I.G.
And three for all the mothers who got graves to dig
For all the mothers who got graves to dig (2x)

(* this is the Shahada, translated: There is no god but God)



Put Your Lights On [(Carlos) Santana featuring Everlast]

[intro]
Hey now, all you sinners
Put your lights on (repeat)

Hey now, all you lovers
Put your lights on (repeat)

Hey now, all you killers
Put your lights on (repeat)

[main verse]
Hey now, all you children
Leave your lights on
You better leave your lights on
'Cause there's a monster
Livin' under my bed
Whisperin' in my ear
'n there's an angel
With her hand on my head
She say I got nothing to fear

There's a darkness
Livin' deep in my soul
Still got a purpose to serve (on and on)
So let your light shine
Deep into my hole
'n God don't let me loose my nerves
Don't let me loose my nerves

Hey now (echo repeat)
U-oho, hey now
Hey now (echo repeat)

[intro, repeated]

[main verse, repeated]

She say:

[outro, 2x]
"La ilaha il Allah" *
You oughta shine like star (on and on)

Let me fade away...

(* this is the Shahada, translated: There is no god but God)