311 Album

Groove as your soul sings
spinnin' all around as we dust a melody
groove as your soul sings
spinnin' all around

Welcome to this groove, you can move right
we gonna take you higher (higher)
not caught in the quagmire (mire)
I can't survive on a stupid nine to five
I'd rather be poor writing tunes livin' on a commune
kickin' it with my brothers (brothers)
and significant others (others)
life in pursuit of only money, we think it's funny
the only thing that money it could ever bring to me
would be some gifts for my friends
follow me now, trips for my family
the only thing I love is freedom (freedom)
the people around me I need them (I need them)
I'd like to build the world a spliff, but like I said I said
you could never get me interested in dreams of wealth
myself my birthday happens to land on April 12th, wack

A Coney Island of the mind it's mine
I swipe the sweets, strip the beats in the sunshine
loco holmes because I'm thinking
a tone poem alone is love medicine
then the demon, spring revolution in my spirit
here it is and I will kill with it

Traveling head spinnin' from the medicine
illusions fadin' out and comin' on again
unwind your mind then find entire minutes
abstract the tract of sight day breaking in it
doles out my share of the world, ocean and sun
rising with a whirling motion (aw, yeah)

I fought, kicked and screamed my way to getting born
now I feel warm and I say come on
the night won't save anyone
wont you roam we've grown so we can write
again our soul select its own way for the travellin'
we're here, we're breathing
and we wanna keep our blood running
so we're gonna keep gunning till the next homecoming
I like the boogie to the bang bang boogie say up
jump the boogie to the bang bang come on 

(Come, come on y'all, come on and rock this day
come on y'all, come on and rock this day
come on y'all, come on and rock this
jump to the beat then j-u-m-p!
come, come on y'all, come on and rock this day
come on y'all, come on and rock this day
come on y'all, come on and rock this day)

Let the games begin if you want to, f--- with me
you can't disturb the course of T & P & C & D and me
I'm on a mission to set straight
the vice, the curse, the gate, the date, relate to this
I insist B, it's weak to dis see
I'm runna up so sucker stick to your 40
how could I give a damn, give a damn
if you approve what it's about
I just freak out

(Get up, get up, get up and rock this beat
Get up, get up, get up and rock this beat
Get up, get up, get up, (???))
freak out
(Get up, get up, get up and rock this beat
Get up, get up, get up and rock this)

Just guess y'all c'mon come back
slipped outta wack as the master
laid out the music
death I just say f--- you (f--- you)
the void unknown we're thrown through
while lost in life's psychedelic trip we take
there's another more bizarre we have to make
world we have nowhere beyond
take out the earth, the bass is gone
at life's end we'll feel the calm
how strange we should be here at all

If you don't have someone to
do it with it's not worth doing
to all my friends it's not the end
the earth has not swallowed me yet

(Come, come on y'all, come on and rock this day
come on y'all, come on and rock this day
come on y'all, come on and rock this day)

Into whose womb were you woven (woven)
what kin of your skin dropped you then bodies cloven
light of daybreak blinded next exit
the wild darkness forming in side it
my day wasn't promised me each death it brings
reminding me we are rumbling in this
cursed universe where death is a birth
think not but what your manifest is worth
giving up a verse the curse occurs a thirst
to burst first breaking through the center of the universe
slamming down on the lingo flow so jam to
the bum rush single long ago has become now
when you find out there's no break in the rhythm
black anima makes my stamina stand alone
disown the cinema, farewell to posing decades dozing
coming up the steps of the new screen rising
scenes from the lost world shapes hard to tell
which is which as if drawn by a child, holmes

If you don't have someone to
do it with it's not worth doing
to all my friends it's not the end
the earth has not swallowed me yet

If you don't have someone to
do it with it's not worth doing

This is the heat to flush your face, brother
this is the heat to flush your face, come on
this is the heat to flush your face, brother
this is the heat to flush your face, come on
freak out

He wouldn't say he cared at all if you asked him
you're heading for a fall, brother, it goes right past him
in another world (world)
he's in another place (place)
you know the need for speed is just another form of greed
but when your Jones'n (Jones'n)
your brain is frozen (frozen)
you're not thinkin' about the choices your makin'
you're just rollin' on and on, it's anybody's guess
cause no one's at the wheel at the front of that mess, yes
the sun's goin' down for me, it's goin down for me
and he and she are what I need, yes they're what I need
but I'm gonna buy a ticket, I'm not gonna even pick it
I heard it, he said it, I heard it
but it went, but it went something like

Visit
I wanna visit the world
so now I visit the world
with my time on this world

Because living when you're hungry is a dog in an alley
now I mind my business cause I'm rhymin down in Cali
I ain't playin' when sayin' kings of the ghetto
feel they losing ground
Vato's going loco because everyone's brought down
this is a visit to then we dead fade to dust strickin'
I'm wearing my Doc Martens cause
I'm always down for kickin'
this, my friend the city pity everywhere the enemy
ready or not homey stompin' everyone in front of me

Jump up and down cause that's the 311 style
cruise on by the frowners float follow me now with a smile
looking at the ocean, I say there's plenty
looking at the river, I say there's plenty so

Visit
I wanna visit the world
so now I visit the world
with my time on this world

Jump up and down cause that's the 311 style
cruise on by the frowners float follow me now with a smile
I've got a golden ticket, I'm not gonna even pick it
I heard it he said it I heard it
but it went, but it went something like

Visit
I wanna visit the world
so now I visit the world
with my time on this world
visit
I wanna visit the world
so now I visit the world
with my time on this world 

Everything you do it comes back to you whatever it may be
if it isn't one thing rest assured that something
will come back and pay you for your deed
a shortcut's a self defeating means (self defeating means)
if you cannot do it clean you'll never reach your reward
(never reach your reward)
and when the day is done, what you receive is the sum
of what you took out, from what you put in

Times deep in a dream seem a veiled realm
shadows what I think and feel is real
times in our tribe feel the vibe when we thrive
we have no fear of death and no fear of life

I can't forget you and our version of paradise
I can't forget you and our version of paradise

Everything you do it comes back to you whatever it may be
what you did as a devil, or what you did as an angel
the favor returns itself somehow
if you take my money I'll buy you a drink and you'll see
that no one rides for free, (no one) no one
afraid of what I said then your mind is stricken
I'm wearing my heart sleeveless
and I'm always up for kickin'
this is my favorite city pity everywhere the enemy

From the beginning serious history
nothing's ever given, no one rides for free
from the beginning's radiant energy I know,
music is what I need to keep my sanity

I say we fear no evolution stand up musical co-revolution
follow me now when I say we can never stop
in we never give cuz this is how we breathe and live
and some of them whine and some of them bitch
they cannot do it we never switch
we do it for ourselves and we do it for you
if you don't like it well I hope you do

I've got to be honest (I've got to be honest)
I've got to be honest (I've got to be honest)

I can't forget you and our version of paradise
I can't forget you and our version of paradise
I can't forget you and our version of paradise
I can't forget you and our version of paradise 

Even if I cared to try I, I couldn't please them
their petty complaints, stupid restraints ain't gonna work
it's all to cheese and regret, don't fret, just push it away and say
I'm like the wind relentless and irritating
a position that I think worth stating
swing I'm doin' my thing groove I'm showin' and provin'
that maverick deal that makes you feel ill
it runs in my family
fussin' and cussin' and bitchin' and kickin' 
if you ask me I think that you're just chicken to try
don't pretend you're my friend
remember I said it one day you'll regret it
oh God I can't believe it
you have asked and so you shall receive it
in the ear victory draws near
but no fear my dear I'll be here another year, that's right

What's it all about I scan a new plan for the next year
in nineties try these you wanna just bust out
I cool out and I'm done bein' mad
to just know hate well that's so sad what a life, strife
backfire and your face know your place come on like
word they come like a herd but they said
we'd drop like a lead zeppelin in your face
but that's nothin' home team I ain't got to my ace in the hole
yet, bet that I will get my fill, get my thrill we'll
be back one day and we'll try not to spite
but until then you stay out of my sight
oh, God, I can't believe it this groove's so dope
I'm about to have a fit and here's a flash
I freaked so hard I got whiplash
and when it comes to writing stay away from our stash
come on

Swing I'm doin' my thing groove I'm showin' and provin'
that maverick deal that makes you feel ill
it runs in our family stoppin' and goin' and lyin' and trying'
my brain is on fire it feels like I'm flying through space
yes doing my best but it'll get better this much I confess
oh God I can't believe it but when this era's through
I'll say that's it
edification will take place
pull up the reigns and get out of the race
my bros are down for the Unity,
311 is down for the Unity
unanimity of the Unity, that's right

Mother nature supreme step back and dream 
the hydroponic scene (scene)
found around knocked out of bounds wound
into the mind of my stone cloud
taste the thinnest of oxygen (oxygen)
rising higher a stoner cuz I can groove something
wrecking nothing to prove see that's in my nature
so fresh the vital bud of the chronic tastes of something thicker

Everything I eat is from the earth, right?
I am what I eat, straight up earth, right?
nothing but a walking sack of earth, nice to meet you
how do you do, guess what, yeah your one too
my skin holds me in, my brain moves me then boom
I jump straight off the speaker in a form, a celebration
that were moving, freely disconnected I'm truly grateful
I'm going back to the earth, I'm not going to waste life
being hateful

Kingdom comin' through ya
kingdom comin' through ya

Jumpin' out my skin (jumpin' out my skin)
the skin I'm in (the skin I'm in)
and the hydroponic's on

Did it because we wanna
toke up until its gone an
abstract notion
here to connect me to the ocean
cause I'm water, and carbon, and not much else, I felt compunction
conjunction junction, what's your function
I'll be hookin' up verbs and nouns and phrases
clauses as to the causes of misery quizzically
I look to my own book hooked
on trying to fathom the solar systems
an atom in a larger molecule
called a galaxy, cool
the Milky Way is where I stray

Astronomy steppin' stompin' a pow wow (wow)
I rock the mike and shake up the ground
and I'm a bust out like wild dandelions in fat bloom (bloom)
I'm shooting through the cosmos because I loom
you know I'm higher, I'm shining brighter, yes, yes
like where water comes together with other water foamin'
now I'm homin' like a bird soarin' right to the moon
I'm a wildflower busting out I go boom (boom)

Kingdom comin' through ya
kingdom comin' through ya

Jumpin' out my skin (jumin' out my skin)
the skin i'm in (the skin i'm in)
and the hydroponic's on

Jumpin' out my skin (jumin' out my skin)
the skin i'm in (the skin i'm in)
and the hydroponic's on

(Unh, unh)
The fish who keeps on swimming
is the first to chill upstream
I want your fish right by me
that's how it has to be
the songs I sing they don't mean a thing
if you're not there to hear it but then
soon is the time, you'll be by my side
it's copasetic if you let it so set up
and keep the down stream down and the up stream up
uh-huh

Girlfriend boots & all you're looking fresh again
move toward me so I can smell the sweetness of your flesh
damn cool down your fine self 
when I find my way to the wetness of your sweet mouth
sweetly in every way that you treat me
a fish story but you know it's picture perfect
our morning glory every time that we wake
the morning ride is the longest ride take it

Nick: Like this take it like that take a yin and a yang
S.A.: It's time to find the kind, titillate the flow 
Nick: like my man jack sprat go down forever it's wetter
S.A.: swimmin' and hummin' with a body and a soul
Nick: yo, damn, whatever
S.A.: it's time to find the kind, titillate the flow
Nick: it's better, can't say it any better
S.A.: swimmin' and hummin', can't say it any better

My stoney baby
my stoney baby

And now I'm here with my friend Ruskie 
in their house but they're not home
if they find out what's been on
they'll kick us out and we'll be gone
no pool and that's not too cool
the songs I sing they don't mean a thing
if you're not there to hear it but then
soon is the time, you'll be by my side
it's copasetic if you let it so set up
and keep the down stream down and the up stream up
uh-huh

My stoney, my baby, swings with the groovin'
funk the groovin' thang whistlin'
as I rip my rhymes time and time again struttin'
and in the summertime
so screw it, strip down and be generic
strip down and be a passenger strip down
and be a messenger
in askin' why I'm born, I come up blank in the winter
in askin' why I'm born, I come up on when I'm on her
Nick: My summer, his summer
S.A.: It's time to find the kind, titillate the flow
Nick: it could be one to go down
S.A.: swimmin' and hummin' with a body and a soul
Nick: to go down, forever
S.A.: it's time to find the kind, titillate the flow
Nick: together , and then I kiss
S.A.: swimmin' and hummin', and then I kiss

My stoney baby
my stoney baby (my stoney)
my stoney baby (my stoney, my baby, my stoney)
my stoney baby

Story time sways away the haze
they spent contemplating, formulating
theory siring above me swimming
pay tribute to the few we look up to
come again you my soul fool
who will know us but our brothers
those who down with us are thinking
new school, tip top, pound the feeble
walking and talking low down and evil
follow me now yo Vato the nix hex is on

Would everybody just look at the hook
I took it strait from my brain
reminds me of the time I was insane
and so I wrote it when I was loaded
and voted the least likely to turn out like us
I'm singing it for your mind and no
I'm singing it for your ears
jump up and down and leave the ground
and know that's why your here and they say
down diggey down down, down diggey diggey down
stronger, longer line up your ways of know
what I'm thinking say it again
and now I'm with my home team back with a good seat
I gladwick like chadwick to tell you what I mean
were laying back on it just like good sex
smooth your psychedelic its called the nix hex-um

The monologue of a sing-a-long
las banderas de san juan piden pa (??)
go tell it on a mountain, then again bring a friend
you'll maybe get dizzy with a sense of vertigo
uplifted soul from the view that
I'm on nothin' but love, but love
but love in my blood sonic in the vortex
this is the hip thing called the nix hex, dig it

(Come see me now, come see me now babe
come see me now, come see me now ah
come see me now, come see me now baby
come see me now, come see me now
(??), I need the punani
come in on break so let's get
(??), I need the punani
come in on break so lets's get down
singing if I want to make the music in this country
and the rhythm imaginary with the melody
wait a minute, just a minute, yes, yes
time to ryhme and shine now rip it, rip!

Jump up and down cuz that's the 311 style
cruise on by the frowners
float, follow me now with a smile
I've got golden ticket, not gonna even pick it
I heard it, he said it, I heard it
but it went, but it went something like
the rhythm will make you want to move your body
I had it once and never ever forgot it)

I'm in a good way on a bad day
thinking of a plan a way to stay
on top of it, nailin' in
I have a fit if I sit, sit doin' nothin' 
which is what I done so far but I carve a niche
with sits in my good things brain layin' the tracks
like a loco mo spark the Jay

Tabla Rosa is my brain
don't mean to bug or drive you insane
don't have to guess just what I'm sayin' 
if I had a point, I'd say it plain
dammit my brain is blank and that's lame
I would be a liar if I said I was inspired
nothin' to say but that's ok
nod your head to this

Messin' around, I'm not having it you bite the hand I put your head out
I come to know a travesty and so sad to see 
the scene dictated by frustrated former musicians
switchin the emphasis from art to money
but I demand autonomy what else
I tell you what's wrong to me
the industry's ability to manufacture stars
they churn them out like Iwo Jima makes cars
but the blame lies not with those suits for trying
it's the sheep that keep on buying that soulless crap
whatever they put in front of ya
the hysteria of America
nod your head to this

Well, stress is the enemy and not a friend to me
one thing I see is to be easy goin'
throwin' down sit back and watch my life flowin'
and knowing life is but a dream
you can ask my home team, let me tell you how I seem
my economy seems to be in words not action actually
ya see yes I'm a tempest and I rarely rest
but that's what you go to do if you want to be the best
so I'm on a threshold so don't tell me no
I just flow and know I can count on my bros

Tabla Rosa is my brain
don't mean to bug or drive you insane
don't have to guess just what I'm sayin'
if I had a point, I'd say it plain
dammit my brain is blank and that's lame
I would be a liar if I said I was inspired
nothin' to say but that's ok
nod your head to this, to this, to this

Don't you know that the Devil he's in me and God she is too
My Yin hates my Yang, but what the hell ya gonna do
I choose a rocky ass path but that's how I like it
life's a bowl of punch go ahead and spike it 

Well everybody got opinion that's loud and unbending
I spend my time healing and mending together 
It's a question of whether live positive
well I give P-Nut joins our back, he must be arthritic
Tim is from the '70s and so we live it
SA has the wisdom of a Noble Laureate
I'm down for our days of glory and
It's easy to do when you're up with Sexton
a rythmatic genius churnin' out the next one
but you know bro, I flow in this circumstance
you'll get your chance
because now payback's our motherfuckin' mission
to the sharp ass rocks slippin' on us but we rock
It comes to writing on us derision
sendin' you a voice, now sendin' you a vision
and those who fought me say they taught me
everything I know, I go aww, when I hear that
that chit and that chat, bullshit!

In your face, that's right
and it feels so good
in your face, yeah, it feels so good
take it to 'em bro, throw down, now say

Settin' forth a course I'm really wiggin' out
In my dome I roam, no time to doubt
fucked up you right there while I was rhymin'
now you're sulking in the corner, a baby crying
hittin' up now we feelin' to rock Mars
fuckin' up the shit, now their heads bob
we ain't new to jack swing, the groove and that
we got crazy factiffs and we all that
I don't often rock and I'm a laureate
I don't pull the punch you know I'm throwin' it
freestyles my style on the mic and flex
you're stalkin' the mind of a punk that's next

I get retarted now that I started you know
a condition which I keep close together
like the kind buds you know my scene
my team thinks I sing supreme
but you, the weasel
try to bring us down but in reality
it make you look like a clown
too bad cause we'll be sittin' in the sun
and choose a rocky ass fast ball

In your face, that's right
and it feels so good, choose a lock y'all
In your face, yeah, it feels so good
yo P-Nut, beat that thing

Won't you warm the mic Nicholas
can't get this my stream of consciousness is a sea
much like Bukowski with a rage
speaking to the page, beasts in the cage
jumping off the stage, stage diving
thriving, striving, for a better day or say
beat back by flesh shattered doors
braggin' fists to the sky you're feelin' high
yes to live and die

Just take a moment to have a fit once in a while
you know, you know I do it daily
and like it but that's my style, yeah, here I go

In your face, and down your throat,
and it feels so good, fraid so fuck it up y'all
in your face, and down your throat
and it feels so good, that's all

Passin' the kind buds, kickin' back in the sand in the sun
to be alive is lovin', where the shore meets the sea,
man I'm hummin', I'm hummin
i'm free (free) as I stare at the sea (sea)
and I'm not comin' down (down)
the world is yours once you have found (found)
the good is to share, which is elsewhere
the beauty of green is where light is now broken
by what it touches
remembering what you once had told me hit home
and hasn't it always been so
i'm free (free) as I stare at the sea (sea)
and I'm not comin' down (down)
the world is yours once you have found (found)
the good is to share, which is elsewhere

Like I said before I'll say it once more
knew you would make me feel so good
wanna do you right
can't get enough, this is the stuff
life's about and it trips me out
gonna do you right, (I will do you right)

Bright mornings, days when I want so much
I want nothing, just this life and no more
I'll come within this world there's only one for me
she's waiting, I'll soon come
i'm free (free) as I stare at the sea (sea)
and I'm not comin' down (down)
the world is yours once you have found (found)
the good is to share, which is elsewhere

Like I said before I'll say it once more
knew you would make me feel so good
wanna do you right
can't get enough, this is the stuff
life's about and it trips me out
gonna do you, do you, do you, do you, do you

Free from the burn, the burnin' of spite and
free from the burn, the burning of the light
no buzz hack, no buzz hack, no buzz hack, no buzz hack
swing to the thing you bring, check it out
how could you be so good to me,
how could you be so good to me
I want to be worth, want to be worth
buzz hack, hack hack, buzz, yeah
swing to the thing you bring, check it out.

Like I said before I'll say it once more
knew you would make me feel so good
wanna do you right
can't get enough, this is the stuff
life's about and it trips me out
gonna do you right (I will do you right) 

Na, na, na na na na, get up!
(mumbling)
Freak y'all, i'm gonna peak y'all
(mumbling)

I've seen the devil and the devil is cold
I'm not down like that cuz I ain't a fuckin joke
trip the shrooms fantastic, 'n shit gets drastic
I didn't believe I lived

Can you hear this, can you hear this, thaw
makin' music, soothin' you system
come on now, come on now
in the beats of speech I'm sure i'll tell you how

Freak y'all, i'm gonna peak y'all
(mumbling)
much love to my man, Stan Diamond
I'd like to say like what up, to our man, Eddie Offord
We'd like to, (mumbling)
and it goes like, and it goes like

Eddie Offord, Eddie Offord, come on
Eddie Offord, Eddie Offord, come on
Eddie Offord, Eddie Offord, come on
Eddie Offord, Eddie Offord, come on

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You know I'm ready, yes to rock steady
my name's not Betty or Teddy, but Nick 
and I'm what you might call a heretic
yes, and I am from Nebraska my girl is satisfied
you can ask her, you know I've never visited Alaska
huh, where the oil was spilt, that drunken captain should
be killed for polluting the sea, an atrocity
but he still walks free, well
this one goes to all the birds that drown

fuck the bullshit it's time to throw down
fuck the bullshit it's time to throw down
fuck the bullshit it's time to throw down 
fuck the bullshit it's time to throw down 

Hey Holmes, just fuck the bullshit it's time to throw down
and so I said it words of wisdom that will keep
you guessing cause I'm tired of laying and
I'm tired of messing around
With all those suckers yes, those stupid mother fuckers
who put down what we do, we stand alone with the group
that's new if I was a dwarf I'd surely be dopey
I'm a stone wheat thin you can not culture
kick in the teeth a condescending frown

fuck the bullshit it's time to throw down
fuck the bullshit it's time to throw down
fuck the bullshit it's time to throw down
fuck the bullshit it's time to throw down

Yeah, right about now I'd like to turn the mic
over to my man SA Martinez
I am sly in the mix I am the mix master
death and destructor, lyric conductor
rollin with the rhythm of rhyme I'm rollin
Tim's got the guitar he's got the jets
Now the b-boy's rocking breakin' loose on the floor
311's stepping out and you're yellin for more
I'm hoping, I'm poetry in motion, when I find I stay P-Nut
the bass drum is booming, and in your mouth the rhythm
is booming P to the N to the U to the T 

Just fuck the has been's and their stupid ass rambling
brothers say it's bullshit you can't come through it
do it in the basement no complacence
It's time to kick the fuck in, begin to win no sin and 
share it, declare it in the public domain refrain
perfectly sad if that's what you're about
It's sad so I thought I'd come out with a shot
super dumb lyrics make you think I'm a clown
I don't give a fuck it's time to throw down
fuck the bullshit it's time to throw down
fuck the bullshit it's time to throw down
fuck the bullshit it's time to throw down
fuck the bullshit it's time to throw down
that's right, knockin' them down nineties, all of that