Catch 22

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Lyrics to No Love For The Roadie :
Hmmm C22 These punk motherfuckers now a hip hop crew? Naw, we just having some fun. A little somethin' we wanna get done. Anyone say a word, better shut your mouth biotch. We'll kick your punk ass to the curb Sit your stupid ass on the couch And nod your head to something new Feel it? Na? Fuck you, we do We're on a mission, to beef with anyone who fucks with our ambition So check it and give a listen and let me explain Yo E-rock bring back that instrumental refrain.

[Chorus:]
Seven different members, meaning seven different names, meaning seven different mouths speaking seven different ways All common goals reamin Still pigeon-holed status quo sucks cuz I haven't changed.

No love for the roadie?
Yo man, you're the roadie, you don't... seven members, seven members, that's it. That's all you got.
Eight! Eight!

Lick a shot-shot. Boom 5 4 3 2 1 wanna make you jump up, it's like a clean cut Slicing through the track with a machete Ready set go A Derringer cover Cover me, cover you I'll take it slow and easy, indiscreetly, I'm completely numb Come come Surburban ragamuffin with a dancehall twist, I'm saying I'm saying I'm saying nothing This Shot a licka say it again kick it and come back for one I'm running I'm running I'm running I'm running It takes some time It's like a dream come true I'm in heaven again We're right here jumping with you Once again again, once once again again

[Chorus]

Yo man, I work.
Dude, you don't work.
I work.

Yo, so let me come in real slow. Like 1, 2, I bet you thought you knew about the style we present, so intense cutting through with precision never watered down but you're bound to drizound coming around your town rocking a crowd with the sweetest sound you ever heard fool there aren't no other You wanna talk shit I have your running for your mother Coming in quick you little bitch Throwing a brick up in your window to get your affection So pay attention, learn your lesson on this whole next session When I grip the mic I spit my shit like a veteran Wait stop the beat a second Now bring it back again Catch 22 has come to bump your party and get you jumping and keep it bumping Nah forget about the bump, I'm gonna go and blaze it up

[Chorus]

YoI'm saying that's not right.
Step back punk you ain't got no place here...

I'm the one they call Perm so listen learn Gonna make you twist and turn with this beat that I kick it South River, Trax East Fuck with me you'll be deceased 6 foot underground is where you'll be to say the least East Coast Pride until I decide I come in strong gonna bust you in the eye My piece of pie is all I'm looking for Gotta get the door I came to let you know All I rock is eckou Yo what up Bean (Yo what up bro) So let me finish this up quick cuz shit be getting thick So let me go out nice and slick Perm signing off so hand me my sticks I'm not down with this motherfucking microphone shit.

Yo dude, uh, you gonna sing the chorus?
No dude I don't like singing the chorus.
Just sing the hook.
No, no, dude.
Try that.
No, I really don't... check it. Peace.
[Chorus]

You'd better recognize man, that ain't right.
Yo bump that man and get behind that table and sell that t-shirt.
It's eight, I said eight, yo.
Na, I don't think so. It's seven.
Whatever, dude.

It's the P-a-t-r-i-c-k with the t-h-c m d-m- a So listen while I wreck it Then listen to the record Check it wait another second this won't take all day I'm the dank natty dread deep banana head Making a six string sing is hard done than said Cuz saying it and doing it just ain't the same They're like fire and rain It's like night and day But at night or day in the AM or the PM You know I'm hitting TM I call 'em like I see 'em So rewind the rhyme stick it in your eye and let the old school open your mind one time
[Chorus]

Yo I ?? represent.
No you ain't busting no rhymes, man. The only thing thing busting is your ass if you don't sell those records & tapes, kid.
I do my work.

You ladies better run for cover, cuz I'm the lyrical lover I stimulate and penetrate you like no other I'm a hip-hop transformer, a sexual performer Best get out of my way Cuz I'm turning the corner So let me start with my present I'm the phat Illmont resident, getting more play than our current president Ladies start the bump Let's get the bass to thump I'm Ian and I'm calling out the motherfucking chumps Cuz I'm badder than Darth Vader I'm called the Terminator Lyrically you all know that I'm the dominator You're not ready for me and all that I bring cuz I float like a butterfly and sting like a bee So now you all know it's true that the C22 crew is coming for you with a beat that's brand new That's right cuz I'm the big smooth and you be feeling my groove Yeah I'm the motherfucker showing Jordan his moves.
[Chorus]

Yo I'm not saying it again, I want props
Yo you best step away from the mic before I get Ike Turner on your ass.

Aw fuck You wanna get jumped chump punk? Come press your luck by our whole crew we all stone you, own you, for a while you just wasn't looking But what you gonna do? (Whoo, is that Mingus over there?) Yeah you hear me talking Spitting out the candy for your ears Move your rears to this Ghetto booty shaking Taking it all and yo raking the dough in ho And me and my boys in 22 you just don't know we be pimping in the clubs with my man Jeff singing reggae dub with Perm, TM, Ian, and KG, Kirk E. Fresh, me I'm Mingus and our boy J-E.

Merch guys and roadies around the world this is your time so grab your girl It's time to show you what we do We're not your little tools TDE is down for me as I kick it old school. East coast Jersey represent don't fuck with me cuz you can't repent What you say will come back to you If you doubt me just test my crew Don't break my trust cuz I'm no fool and you starting rumors doesn't make you cool Just a punk ass bitch with too much time and until you talked shit everything was fine But now it's too late what's said is said, You're getting fucked up this is the end. Biotch.

[Chorus]
Eight different members, eight different names, eight different mouths speaking eight different ways All common goals remain, still pigeon-hole status quo sucks cuz we haven't changed

Lyrics to Chin Up :
Close your eyes real tight underneath the city lights. You can't hear the noise below your room. Take a real deep breath and get those feelings off your chest. We'll work it out and wake up in each others' arms. Underneath it's never over. Looking back over my shoulder. We always said that we would meet again when we were ten years older. I hadn't thought about her in a while until she showed uo in a dream I had lying listless in a bed with a string of broken hearts hanging from her finger. I said, "Let's take a drive with a pack of camel lights into the middle of nowhere and talk about our lives." Hear me say listen up. Silence. Can't let it go. Got to get it out. You can't it back? That's bullshit. I took it and crushed it and painted it black. I swallowed the match. It's burning at my insides. Chin up until it touches the moon, sad and foresaken one. It's you I'm talking to

Lyrics to Motown Cinderella :
She wanted me to tell you to leave. She wanted me to let you know that you don't understand her. She needs some time to breathe. She couldn't have told him better herself because she was in love with somebody else. I don't know why I had to be the messanger boy. I guess that 'somebody' was me. She wanted me to tell her my fears. She wanted me to let it all go. I don't know why I said it. I just can't trust anyone. I knew she was true. I never liked the sound of being along much. Just one touch to help with the coldness. Persuasion was a trait the she held in her hand. She took mine and I understood then. Don't know what you got till it's gone. Don't know what you did so wrong and I did you wrong. You said I was just like him but that's where you're wrong. He never wrote you a love song. It seemed like no sooner than I got my feet on the ground the words slipped away. Baby, I hear you. I know what you're saying and I feel it too. You've got something I've never had. The kind of love I can sing about and you're hearing me now. Hear me now

Lyrics to Wine Stained Lips :
All for the taste of some win stained lips. Two hundred miles. Just to get my fix. This shouldn't be. You're bringing me down and I need to get some sleep. You said you would always be there for me. You said you would always be in my life. Now you're chasing dragons instead. They told me I was chasing the moon. I should have listened up. I'm a fool. A fool tangled up in your web. Tell me old friend. Did you find what you were looking for? I would like to tell you I'm so happy without you I could die. It seems that I can't count all the roads that I've been down. I seems that I can't count all the towns that I've drown in and burned to the ground. Oh what a find when I found this place. Ao full of style and second hand love so incredibly cheap. I stayed for nine months and I stayed for nine weeks. Nine miles to happiness. I know because I've been there before. Nine miles to happiness I got something to live for

Lyrics to Beguile The Time :
If I could stay mad enough maybe I'd leave but you have to understand this runs twenty-two years deep. Everyone wants it all. Everyone needs a place. You can destroy or you can create. All I know is all that I know and I know we all just beguile the time. But it all catches up and it's all so fucked up. Only time will tell. Common ground can't be found from atop a hill looking down. Look around. Take me to sleep. Put me to weep. Can't you see that you've given your souls up for keeps? We send in poor people to fight other poor people. We send in our brothers and sisters and daughters and sons. There is no difference. We send in to kill while we sit on our asses and watch green screens infotain all day long. It hits like a ton of feathers. Oh, how it echoes. Oh, when it echoes

Lyrics to Rocky :
Please go away.
won't you leave me alone?
i'm just so drunk and miserable.
you started with me,
you started with me.
[2x]

what's it gonna be?
what are ya gonna say
to set it all off?
it doesn't take much
these days, my dear.
you started with me,
you started with me.

it started with you,
you started with me.
it started with you.
it started with you,
it ends with me.
wait and see.

hey, look!
what's that sound?
everybody look what's goin' down.
it started with you,
it started with you.
you're so quick to forget
all the things that was said.
over and over again in my head.
it started with you,
it started with you.

it started with you,
you started with me.
it started with you.
it started with you,
it ends with me.
wait, and see.

things could've been easier
if it was all so much slower.
don't you think?
you think too much,
and you know too much.
i'm gonna have to kill you now.
take all your letters and postcards and pictures
and burn 'em and flush it,
forget it, i've forgotten.
i'll see you in hell!

beat in a rating (??)
the blatantly obvious.
throw me a curve,
be spontanious.
[2x]

i don't wanna play this game,
go home.
[4x]

Lyrics to Epilogue :
(Two, Three, Four)
Why would a man who believed in no god
Sacrifice all he had
To kill or be killed in pursuit of a cause
Was the fate that called to him

And you can say he might be crazy
And some can't understand
That a life spent doing less than all you can would be a waste

There's only one way to truly succeed
And it's not through intervention
To influence the minds of the rest of mankind
Will best serve your intentions

And you can say he might be crazy
And some can't understand
That a life spent doing less than all you can would be a waste

If you just can't make the world what you want
At least you can make yourself
An example for others to learn from and see
The future for themselves...

And you can say he might be crazy
And some can't understand
That a life spent doing less than all you can would be a waste

Lyrics to Opportunity :
Hardships faced. We've been disgraced.
Our plans for the land are degraded by menacing hands.
But history's compelling us, telling us to do it all again.
As far as I can see, everything that we had believed
is more true now than ever before.
If the truth be known, we would do it all again.

We got low, down in Mexico.
It seems so far after having been so close.
We got low, down in Mexico.
We lost everything except the things that matter most.

Bureaucracy and hypocrisy are contagious and make us all victims eventually.
You can take my life from me, but we will do it all again.
The seeds of truth will grow.
The people will know of the visions that we have endeavored to show.
And like the river we will flow.
We Will do it all again.

Faceless men who represent no idea or purpose intend
to prevent revolution though revolution,
but we could do it all again.
Even when I die, I hope you won't cry,
for my life has been happily spent in the struggle...
and I love you so I would do it all again.

Lyrics to The Purge :
push me as far as you can, far away from yourselves.
but keep these words of mine in mind when it's your time.
i'm not the first and i won't be the last i assure you.
it won't be long before they're knocking at your door.

you're fighting a war now, a war over nothing.
a war that you're fighting with yourselves.
and you know it's a war that you can't win.

you have been feeding the monsters
without even knowing that our futures
are the price that we would pay.
now they are breeding the next generation of killers
without heart, without soul and without mind.

you're fighting a war now, a war over nothing.
a war that you're fighting with yourselves.
and you know it's a war that you can't win.

Lyrics to Alma Ata :
A man came by this evening, dancing like a puppet on his strings.
He spoke of engineering. It's obvious he's never built a thing!
I finally shook my head and said,
"Men like you can't build your peace."

His personality, while charming, still betrayed an air of confidence
inconsistent with 'criminal' political dissent. I had to smile and think awhile.
I finally shook my head and said,
"Men like you can't fake your peace."

A man came by this evening, he spoke about my future in this place.
I had to smile and think awhile.
I finally shook my head and said,
"Men like you can't make your peace."

Lyrics to Bad Party :
So I submit you’ve failed us twice.
Once is for your brothers.
One is for your brothers and the second’s for your sons.

Isolation, mis-education; and for very clever there is looming liquidation.
You put the light of Socialism high up on a shelf
and in effect prevented it from spreading somewhere else.

What have you done? What do you say top those who’ve died along the way?
Should you tell them that they’ve died in vain?

Now is when we should all be moving forward, but instead you’re falling back.
Don’t stop now when we’re almost up the mountain, though the view here mighty seem nice.

Expatriate one hundred and then shoot a thousand more.
Expel the opposition to your centrist Thermidor!
The rudeness and disloyalty about which Lenin spoke (says wrote in song)
have now become the cords that are wrapped around your throats.

Lyrics to On The Black Sea :
Goodbye my friend and mentor, we'll never see a man quite like you again.
In an age of revolution, restitution we sought
You were the spark we were the fuel and we burned bright as the sun.
Those were the days we could have fought anyone anywhere on anything,
and after all these years how could we try, should we try to follow someone else?

I can see the shadows on the foothills east of here;
stormy clouds and thunder in my heart.
We're on this train to nowhere and I don't know if we'll make it back again
because the fire's burning low and the wind is blowing mighty cold.
We're on this train to nowhere and I don't know if we'll make it back again
because the fire's burning low and the wind is blowing mighty cold.

Push push push until we get just what we want, we always
push push push 'til we can get them what they need
We can take the lives of others so that all may truly live,
but the will to truly live.. is something I can't give to them.

I can see the shadows on the foothills east of here;
stormy clouds and thunder in my heart.
We're on this train to nowhere and I don't know if we'll make it back again
because the fire's burning low and the wind is blowing mighty cold.
We're on this train to nowhere and I don't know if we'll make it back again
because the fire's burning low and the wind is blowing mighty cold.

Staring at the pieces of my dim reflection as I look into this Black Sea of atrophy
I just got the message of your passing from the man who digs our-
They are digging graves for all our dreams and it seems that they are digging by the clock
I can feel the old corruption peering from the crack, and I don't know if we can fight it back again.

I can see the shadows on the foothills east of here;
stormy clouds and thunder in my heart.
We're on this train to nowhere and I don't know if we'll make it back again
because the fire's burning low and the wind is blowing mighty cold.
We're on this train to nowhere and I don't know if we'll make it back again
because the fire's burning low and the wind is blowing mighty cold.

Lyrics to A Minor Point :
Some may want to say that were killers
But we do what we must
And we feel we are just
Cutting off the head of the imperial serpent
Taking back the land for the hands
That have worked it.

Critics cry of bloody days
But people still die anyway
The ones who understand their roles
Can help us save the world

History has afforded us this opportune occasion
To form a new foundation
You must first tear down the walls

Some may want to say that were heartless
That were staking our claim for political gain.
But they don't see the power we've harnessed.
With the masses united
It's pointless to fight it.

Critics cry of bloody days
But people still die anyway
The ones who understand their roles
Can help us save the world

History has afforded us this opportune occasion
To form a new foundation
You must first tear down the walls

Critics cry of bloody days
But people still die anyway
The ones who understand their roles
Can help us save the world

History has afforded us this opportune occasion
To form a new foundation
You must first tear down the walls

Lyrics to The Decembrists` Song :
Don't forget how we got here.
We've built this on the backs of the unrewarded.
The saved their sacrifice and died a fruitless death.
So with my dying breath I beseech you, soldiers.
Don't lose your nerve as you get older.
The battle that you fight today is the most important.

Though their numbers seemed so strong that winter afternoon,
before the end they all stood on their own.
Don't make the mistake of ideological compromises.
Consensus won't do you justice.
Your passion for your cause does all the talking.

Men without conscience will deceive your mind,
but not your heart-unless you let them.
The struggle will go on as long as you keep fighting.
Just don't forget how we got here.

The Decembrists' struggle of so many years ago
was a battle to convince themselves the cause they chose was worthy of their blood.
When faced with odds they didn't like they stood and paused in indecision.
Our hearts and dreams sank faster than the sun.

Lyrics to Party Song :
Today is the day for tomorrow and then some.
We could keep this party going for the rest of our lives.

Today is the day for tomorrow and then some.
We could keep this party going for the rest of our lives.

I can feel the world’s desire as its heart is set afire.
Let it burn as it beats and we’ll never be defeated.
If we say that it will happen and we know that it will happen,
it will happen just the same. And we’ll be here to lead it.

Today is the day for tomorrow and then some.
We could keep this party going for the rest of our lives.

Today is the day for tomorrow and then some.
We could keep this party going for the rest of our lives.

If the government can’t fight it they will only try to hide it;
But we’re looking in their eyes, through their moderate disguises.
Let the new will of the people overcome this evil.
The stage is set for battle as the curtain slowly rises.

Today is the day for tomorrow and then some.
We could keep this party going for the rest of our lives.

Today is the day for tomorrow and then some.
We could keep this party going for the rest of our lives.

Anyone can be another flower on the wall.
Stay true to principle and give your all for all!

Today is the day for tomorrow and then some.
We could keep this party going for the rest of our lives.

Today is the day for tomorrow and then some.
We could keep this party going...

Today is the day for tomorrow and then some.
We could keep this party going for the rest of our lives.

Lyrics to The Spark :
Before the dawn is when it seems most cold.
But as sure as the sun rises in the east, we know that
the stream of evolution is a constant flow,
and the current evolution says that I should really go.

Don't you know that every seed wants to grow?
We can't stay underground forever.
They can cut us off as soon as we begin to show.
What they don't know is that the roots still grow.

When the roots pop up... [repeat]

They can try with all of their might to push us down to the ground,
but I know we'll be all right (right?)
They mean to break my spirit through this exile,
but I can use this time to further refine and fortify my style.

The world that we're all living in is in need of a plan for the brotherhood of man.
So I'm off and running fast as I can, and the antidote I'm bringing is the pen in my hand.

We're finally doing all the things we were meant for!
We're finally saying all the things we should say!

Lyrics to Prologue :
A hero was born of a movement for the not so distant past,
He and others like him felt the world was changing fast,
So they embarked on a journey with their very best intentions,
And thought that what began with them would never find an end.

Ready set go it's easy you know,
It's easy to get wrapped up in the madness,
Ready or not it's all that they go,
and so it goes

So spin your disc, believe in revolution,
Their solutions were a way for them to change the world they lived in
The rich stay rich, the poor got even poorer
And the world engulfed in war only added to the horror

Unlike the more moderated movements that proceeded theirs,
They were absolutely unconcerned with splitting heads,
They fought for the rights and belief that they might even change the human race,
But global revolution never seemed to show its face

Ready set go it's easy you know,
It's easy to get wrapped up in the madness,
Ready or not it's all that they go,
and so it goes

So spin your disc, believe in revolution,
Their solutions were a way for them to change the world they lived in
The rich stay rich, the poor got even poorer
And the world engulfed in war only added to the horror