Alicia Keys Album

Father, I stretch my hands to thee
Cryin' Lord
Remember me

Weren't you the one that said, that you don't want me anymore.
And how you need your space, and give the keys back to your door.
And how I cried and tried and tried to make you stay with me.
But still you said that love was gone, and that I had to leave.
Now you, talkin bout a family
Now you, sayin I complete your dream
Now you, sayin I'm your everything
You confusin me
What you say to me
Don't play with me
Don't play with me.
Cause what goes around, comes around.
What goes up, must come down.
Now who's cryin, desirin to come back to me
What goes around, comes around.
What goes up, must come down.
Now who's cryin, desirin to come back
I remember when
I was sittin home alone
Waitin for you
Til 3 o'clock in the morn
And when you came home, you'd always have some sorry excuse.
And explainin to me, like I'm just some kinda fool
I sacrifice the things I want to and do things for you
But when it's time to do for me, you never come through
Now you, wanna be a bond of me (eyyy)
Now you, have so much to say to me (heyy)
Now you, wanna make time for me
What you do to me.
You confusin me
Don't play with me
Don't play with me.
Cause what goes around, comes around.
What goes up, must come down.
Now who's cryin, desirin to come back to me
What goes around, comes around.
What goes up, must come down.
Now who's cryin, desirin to come back
I remember when
I was sittin home alone
Waitin for you
Til 3 o'clock in the morn
Night after night
Knowin sumthing goin on
Wasn't home befo me
You was,you was gone
Lord knows it wasn't easy, but believe me.
Never thought you'd be the one that would deceived me.
And never do wha u was supposed to do
No need to hose me fool, cause I'm ova you
Cause what goes around, comes around.
What goes up, must come down.
Now who's cryin, desirin to come back to me
What goes around, comes around.
What goes up, must come down.
Gotta stop tryin, to come back to me
What goes around, comes around.
What goes up, must come down.
It's called Karma baby.
And it goes around.
What goes around, comes around,
What goes up, must comes down,

Uh, oh oh , ….
Come on
A. Keys. Let's go
Lemme
Lemme, Lemme, Lemme
Lemme tell you something
Tell ya how I feel
When he comes around
I gettin to feelin ill
It's a aching feelin
Inside my chest
It's like I'm goin in-to cardiac arrest
Adrenaline rushin in my body, Over my power I just can't fight it.
Doesn't matter how,I keep on tryin
I can't deny I've got this heartburn
Burnin in my soul (heart burn)
Call the fire department (ooh ,heartburn)
It's out of control (heartburn) ohhh
You got me trippin,slippin
Gettin beside myself
I tried some medication
But don't nothin help
So I said, Doctor doctor, tell me will I die
And he said “count to five Alicia”
And I'm gone be alright
Lets go, 1, 2, 3, 4
Adrenaline rushin in my body, Over my power I just can't fight it.
Doesn't matter how,I keep on tryin
I can't deny I've got this heartburn
Burnin in my soul (heart burn)
Call the fire department (ooh ,heartburn)
It's out of control (heartburn) ohhh
Taste so good, I can't resist
Gettin harder to digest
Can't take no mo, Gotta shake it off
Now break it down, and take it to the ground with me now
Everybody say oh.
Ohh, uh oh oh,
Don't you know I got this (heartburn)
Burnin in my soul (heartburn)
Call the fire department (heartburn)
It's out of control (heartburn)
What you trynna do (heart burn)
Burin in my soul (heartburn)
Call the fire department (heartburn)
It's out of control (heartburn) ohh, uh
Shake it, Shake it, Shake it, Shake it off (go head girl)
Shake it, Shake it, Shake it, Shake it off (ohhhooohhh)
Shake it, Shake it, Shake it, Shake it off (go head girl)

You could buy me diamonds
You could buy me pearls
Take me on a cruise around the world
Baby you know I'm worth it
Dinner lit by candles
Run my bubble bath
Make love tenderly to last, to last
Cause baby you know I'm worth it

Wanna please wanna keep wanna treat your woman right
Not just dough but to show that you know she is worth your time
You will lose if you chose to refuse to put her first
She will if she can find a man who knows her worth

Mmm
Cause a real man, knows a real woman when he sees her
And a real woman knows a real man ain't afraid to please her
And a real woman knows a real man always comes first
And a real man just can't deny a womans worth

Mm Hmm Mm Hmmm
Mm Hmm Mm Hmmm
Mm Hmm Mm Hmmm
Mm

If you treat me fairy
I'll give you all my goods
Treat you like a real woman should
Baby I know you're worth it
If you never play me
Promise not to bluff
I'll hold you down when shit gets rough
Cause baby I know you're worth it

She walks the mile makes you smile all the while being true
Don't take for granted the passions that she has for you
You will lose if you chose to refuse to put her first
She will if she can find a man who knows her worth

Oh
Cause a real man knows a real woman when he sees her
And a real woman knows a real man ain't afraid to please her
And a real woman knows a real man always comes first
And a real man just can't deny a woman's worth

No need to read between the lines spelled out for you (spelled out for you)
Just hear this song cause you can't go wrong when you value (better value)
A woman's (woman's)
Woman's (woman's)
WORTH!

Cause a real man knows a real woman when he sees her
And a real woman knows a real man ain't afraid to please her
And a real woman knows a real man always comes first
And a real man just can't deny a woman's worth

[Repeat until end]

Clap ya hands everybody, Uh clap ya hands
C'mon, keep it goin...Clap ya hands everybody, clap ya hands everybody
Clap ya..., Let's do it, you ready? C'MON!

We could fight like Ike and Tina or get back like Bill and Camelle
Be rich like Oprah, and Stedman or instead struggle like Flow and James Evens

cuz HE! aint no different from you and SHE! aint no different from me
so WE! got to live out our dreams
like the people on TV we gotta stay tuned cuz there's more to see
UNBREAKABLE!
Through the technical difficulties
UNBREAKABLE!
We might just go take a break
But ya'll know we'll be back next week
I'm say'n this loves unbreakable...(oooh yeaa, yeaa)

yea, clap ya hands everybody, clap ya hands everybody
Let's do it like this C'mon

See we could act out like Will and Jada (Will N Jada)
Or like Kimora N Russell make'n paper (oh yea)
ALL IN THE FAMILY! Like the Jacksons (Like the Jacksons)
And have enough kids to make a band like Joe and Catherine (yeeaa)

SHE! aint no different from me N HE! aint no different from you
so WE! got to live out our dreams
like the people on TV we gotta stay tuned cuz there's more to see
UNBREAKABLE!
Through the technical difficulties
UNBREAKABLE!
We Might just go take a break
But ya'll know we'll be back next week
I'm say'n this love is unbreakable (We liven our dreams)

We liven our dreams! we liven our dreams,
we liven our dreeeeaaams (oooooooh)

we liven our dreams (we liven our dreams)
we liven our dreams (WE'RE LIVEN OUR DREAMS!)
we're liven our dreeeeaams (WHOOAAA OOH! YEA YEA!)

N we gotta stay tuned cuz there's more to see
UNBREAKABLE!
Through the technical difficulties (uh)
UNBREAKABLE!
We Might have to take a break
But ya'll know we'll be back next week
I'm singin this love is unbreakable sing it one more time NOW!
YA'LL KNOW WE'LL BE BREAKIN' UP!
But we might just be back next week (haha)
This love is unbreakable (yea yea oh!)

Break it down Break it down, like this...
(YEA!) No thing, No money, No sin, No temptation I'm talkin' bout loving
No thing, No money, No sin, No temptation I'm talkin' bout nothing
No thing, No money, No sin, No temptation I'm talkin' bout nothing
No thing, No money, No sin, No temptation I'm talkin' bout loving (YEEEEAAAAA!)
UNBREAKABLE!
YEA YEA YEA! (YEA YEA YEA)
YEA YEA YEA!
UNBREAKABLE!
WE JUST MIGHT BE BREAKIN UP
BUT YA'LL KNOW WE'LL BE BACK NEXT WEEK

But all I wanna know baby is
If what we had was good...

I keep your picture beside my bed (mmm)
And I still remember everything you said (mmm)
I always thought our love was so right I guess I was wrong
Always thought you'd be by my side papa now you're gone
(And I'm not tryin' hear that sh*t)

What I wanna know baby
If what we had was good
How come you don't call me anymore

Still light the fire on the rainy night
Still like it better when your holding me tight
Everybody say
Everybody say that we should never part (mmm)
Tell me baby baby baby why
Why you wanna go and break my heart


All I wanna know baby
If what we had was good
How come you don't call me anymore

Sometimes it feels like I'm gonna die
If you don't call me Papa
Oh you gotta try

I'll get down on my knees
Hoping you please please please
Oooh won't you call me sometime Papa

Why on earth
Can't you just pick up the phone
You know I don't like to be alone

How come you don't call me
(why must you torture me)
How come you don't call me


[thanks to Polomona4901@aol.com for correcting these lyrics]

(Talking) Hey Yo, Mo B, Drop it on me.
Yeah, yeah let's do it like this

If I was your woman
And you were my man
You'd have no other woman
You'd be weak as a lamb.
If you had the strength.
To walk out my door.
My love would overrule my sins.
And I'd call you back for more.
If I was your woman
If I was your woman
And you were my man, yeahhh
She tears you down darling
Says you're nothing at all
But I'll pick you up darling
When she lets you fall
Cause, You're like a diamond
But she treats you like glass
Yet you begged her to love you
For me you won't ask
If I was your woman
If I was your woman
If I was your woman
Here's what I'd do
I'd never, never, no, no, stop lovin you.
Yeahhhhhhh, Yeah, mmm hmm
Life is so crazy
And love is unkind
Because she was first darling
Will she hang on your mind?
You're part of me
But you don't even know it
I'm what you need
But I'm too afraid to show it
If I was your woman
If I was your woman
If I was your woman
Here's what I'd do
I'd never, never, no, no, stop lovin you
If I was your woman
Here's what I'd do
I'd never, never, never stop lovin you.
Uh,yeah, yeah,yea,yea,yea,yeah
(background)
If I was your woman (echo)
If I was your woman (echo)
If I was your woman (echo)
If I was your woman (echo)

Some people live for the fortune
Some people live just for the fame
Some people live for the power yeah
Some people live just to play the game
Some people think that the physical things
Define what's within
I've been there before
But that life's a bore
So full of the superficial

Some people want it all
But I don't want nothing at all
If it ain't you baby
If I ain't got you baby
Some people want diamond rings
Some just want everything
But everything means nothing
If I ain't got you

Some people search for a fountain
Promises forever young
Some people need three dozen roses
And that's the only way to prove you love them

And in a world on a silver platter
And wondering what it means
No one to share, no one who truly cares for me

Some people want it all
But I don't want nothing at all
If it ain't you baby
If I ain't got you baby
Some people want diamond rings
Some just want everything
But everything means nothing
If I ain't got you

Some people want it all
But I don't want nothing at all
If it ain't you baby
If I ain't got you baby
Some people want diamond rings
Some just want everything
But everything means nothing
If I ain't got you

If I ain't got you with me baby
Nothing in this whole wide world don't mean a thing
If I ain't got you with me baby

Every little bit hurts,
Every little bit hurts..

Every night I cry,
every night I sigh,
every night I wonder why
you treat me cold,
yet you won't let me go.

every little hurt counts,
every little hurt counts,
you say you're coming home,
yet you never phone,
leave me all alone,
my love is strong for you,
I'd do wrong for you.
I can't take this loneliness you've given me.
I can't go on giving m life away.

Oh, come back to me,
darling you'll see,
I can give you all the things you wanted before,
if you will stay with me.

Every little bit hurts,
every little bit hurts

To you I'm a toy and you're the boy,
who has to say when i should play.
yet you hurt me, desert me.
Why ya hurt me baby?
why ya hurt me baby?

Oh, come back to me,
darling you'll see,
I can give you all the things that you wanted before.
if you will stay with me.

Every little bit hurts,
every little bit hurts,
every little bit hurts,

(Feat. Nas & Rakim)

[Nas] (Alicia Keys)
Nasty, yeah, yeah (New York, New York)
Hey yo black it's time again, yeah, yeah
(New York, New York)
Come here, yeah, yeah
(New York, New York)
Hey yo black it's time

[Nas]
If you knew my streets
You would know all everybody talk about is who got beef
Who snitchin, who told police
Who came home, who still gone, who restin in peace
Now they killin over music money, not drugs, rap replaced it
Cause thugs with no brains got no patience
New jacks I pistol whip 'em with the funky rhythm I be kickin
Musician and flatten composition
A pain, I'm like Saddam Hussein
Still alive lookin at his dead children's burnt remains
I burnt the game, learnt you lames a new lesson
Your crew's soft man, ya'll need some new weapons
The P's breathe Warriorz and skullies and Timmies
Around mixed, spics, niggaz and giddies
From my ghetto kings in deep thought we don't blink
But don't think we wastin our time
It's a New York State of Mind

[Chorus #1 - Alicia Keys]
New York, New York, New York
New York City, whoa oh
New York, New York, New York
New York City, baby

[Alicia Keys]
It's like a jungle, out here
So much struggle, out here
And my dream's still unphased
Greed still the cousin of death
Always feels like always somethin farther time
In the Streets of New York
(New York state of mind, New York State of mind)

[Alicia Keys]
All I see is street homes
And who it's holdin, our people
Only comforts the brain
It's like I'm going insane
The revolution has to start, don't waste no time
In the Streets of New York
(New York state of mind, New York state of mind)
C'mon

[Chorus #2 - Alicia Keys]
New York, New York, New York, New York oh
State of mind (New York City)
New York, New York, New York, New York oh
State of crime (New York City)
New York, New York, New York, New York oh
Big dreams (New York City)
New York, New York, New York, New York oh
Big schemes

[Alicia Keys]
Oh, break the game
Just ain't the same
Baby loves and girls with no shame
Can't get away (get away), epidemic plague
Every hood in every state
Don't have no reasons cause relieve is hard to find

[Break - Alicia Keys]
In the streets of New York (New York state of mind) - 4X
(*"New York state of mind" is also repeated in background*)

[Rakim]
I'm from the home of a million legends and trend settin
A lot of footsteps to follow, I've been steppin
Mind stressin tryin to find a record crime shreddin
Time precious, I ain't have rest since nine eleven
I live fast, hustle like today is my last
I get cash, the struggle's like a day on the Ave.
Crack bein raw, gats squeezin off
Manhattan squeezin off, from cats who tease with war
The eve of the Apocalypse, evil keep movin politics
Every block is at risk, the metropolitan metropolis
The opposite of Liza Minelli and Frank Sinatra
Alicia Keys, Nas and Ra the gangsta's opera
So New York City walk with me, talk gritty
It's up to us New York it's our city
Here the man come with the anthem, hands up
It's time the thrill is back New York, let's stand up

[Chorus] - w/ ad libs

[Rakim - talking behind Chorus]
Oh yeah, crucial Keys
Your God Rakim Allah
New York City, Nasty Nas
A. Keys, yeah, c'mon

(Feat. Adam Levine)

Childhood living is easy to do
The things you wanted I bought them for you
Graceless lady you know who I am
You know I can't let you slide through my hands

Wild horses couldn't drag me away
Wild, wild horses, couldn't drag me away

I watched you suffer a dull aching pain
Now you decided to show me the same
No sweeping exits or offstage lines
Could make me feel bitter or treat you unkind

Wild horses couldn't drag me away
Wild, wild horses, couldn't drag me away

I know I dreamed you a sin and a lie
I have my freedom but I don't have much time
Faith has been broken, tears must be cried
Let's do some living after we die

Wild horses couldn't drag me away
Wild, wild horses, we'll ride them some day

Wild horses couldn't drag me away

(feat. Tony! Toni! Toné!)

Lay your head on my pillow
Here you can be yourself
No one has to know what you are feeling
No one but me and you

I won't tell your secrets
Your secrets are safe with me
I will keep your secrets
Just think of me as the pages in your diary

I feel such a connection
Even when you're far away
Oooo baby if there's anything that you fear
Come forth and call 4894608 and I'll be here

I won't tell your secrets (shhh)
Your secrets are safe with me
I will keep your secrets (shhh)
Just think of me as the pages in your diary

You know what?
And only we know what talked about baby boy
Don't know how you can be driven me so crazy baby boy
Baby when your in town why don't you come around boy
I'll be the loyalty you need you can trust me boy

Ohhh ,I won't tell your secrets (I want, I want,I want)
Your secrets are safe with me (Safe with me)
I will keep (I will keep) your secrets (yoouurr)
Just think of me as the pages in your diary, eyyy
Everybody say Whoaaaa (whoaaa)
Everybody say Whoaaaa (whoaaa)
Everybody say Whoaaaa (whoaaa)
Everybody say Whoaaaa (whoaaa)
Lemme hear you say, I want tell (Iwant tell)
I want tell (I want tell)
I want tell, your secrets
Your secrets, break it down

Baby, baby, baby
from the day I saw you
I really, really wanted to catch your eye
there's something special 'bout you
I must really like you
'cause not alotta guys are worth my time
Oooh baby, baby, baby
It's gettin kinna crazy
'cause you are takin over my mind

And it feels like
OooOooooOOo...
U don't know my name
I swear
It feels like
OooOooooOOo...
U don't know my name
round and round and round we go
Will you ever know?

Oh! Baby, baby, baby
I see us on our first date
You doin everything that makes me smile
and when we had our first kiss
it happened on a Thursday
Oh, it set my soul on fire
Oh, baby, baby, baby
I can't wait for the first time
my imaginations runnin wild

And it feels like
OooOooooOOo...
U don't know my name
and I swear it, baby
It feels like
OooOooooOOo...
U don't know my name
round and round and round we go
Will you ever know?

Im sayin
He don't even know what he's doin to me
got me feelin all crazy inside
Im feelin like... OH!
Im doin nothn I've ever done
for anyones attention
take notice of whats infront of you
cause did i mention? (OH!)
you about to miss a good thing
and you'll never know how good it feels to have
all of my affection
and you'll never get a chance to experience
my lovin (OH!)
'Cause my lovin feels like...

OooOooooOOo...
U don't know my name
round and round and round we go (and I swear)
Will you ever know? (it feels like)
OooOooooOOo...
U don't know my name
round and round and round we go
Will you ever know?
Will you ever know it? No, no, no, no, no
Will you ever know it?

Spoken..
Well Imma have to just gon head and call this boy
Hello?
Can i speak to... to Michael? Oh, hey how you doin
I feel kinna silly doin this but uh, this is the waitress
at the coffer house on 39th and Lenox
U know that, one with the braids?
Yeah... well I see you on Wednesdays all the time
You come in every Wednesday on your lunch break, I think
And you always order the special, with the hot chocolate
My manager be trippin talkin about we gotta use water, but...
I always use some milk and cream for you, cause
I think you kinna sweet
Anyway... you always got on some
Fly Blue suit and your cufflings is shining all bright
So what you do?
Oh word?
Yeah that interestin...
Look man I don't wanna waste your time but
I know girls don't usually do this,
but I was wonderin if maybe we could get together
Outside the restaurant one day?
You know cause I do look...
a little different outside my work clothes
I mean we could just go across the street to the park right yeah...
Wait, hold up my... my cell phone
Breakin up, hold up,
Can you hear me now?
Yeah so what day did you say?
Oh yeah... Thursday perfect man

And it feels like
OooOooooOOo...
U don't know my name
round and round and round we go (baby, baby I swear)
Will you ever know? (it's like)
OooOooooOOo...
U don't know my name
round and round and round we go
Will you ever know?...

And it feels like
OooOooooOOo...
U don't know my name
round and round and round we go
Will you ever know?
It feels like
OooOooooOOo...
U don't know my name
round and round and round we go
Will you ever know?

Remembering the days when our love began
Thinkin of a million ways
To escape and be with you
But reality wasn't just you and i
It was long drawn out days and lonely nights

Dreamin' bout you
I keep dreamin' bout you
When I'm dreamin' bout when you would say

Chorus
Let me take you to another place
When nothing ever seems to matter
Its just you and me
We can take flight like a thief in the night
Stolen moments with you (o0ohhh o0o0oh)

Verse 2
Destiny didn't have such a simple plan (simple plan)
I was just a girl and you a young man
How could age define
Something so divine (so divine)
Can this even be real or just exist in my mind

Dreamin' bout you
I keep dreamin' bout you
When I'm dreamin' bout when you would say

Chorus

Piano breakdown

Dreamin' bout you
I keep dreamin' bout you
When I'm dreamin and praying for the day
When no one and nothing else takes up our time
Finally you're only mine

Each and everyday
I'd walk with you right by my side
But instead we have to hide
Sneak around and lie
Just to spend time alone
If lovin is a crime
I'd rather do the time
And leave the world behind

Chorus

Piano breakdown 2

Let's get away
Let's get away
Oooh ooh

We can get away
We can get away
Ohhh ohhh

Let's get away
Let's get away
Ohhh ohhh

We can get away
We can get away
Ohhh ohhh

[Verse 1]
I keep on fallin'
In and out of love
With you
Sometimes I love ya
Sometimes u make me blue
Sometimes I feel good
At times I feel used
Lovin you darlin'
Makes me so confused

I keep on
Fallin'
In and out of love with you
I never loved someone
The way that I love you

[Verse 2]
Oh, oh , I never felt this way
How do you give me so much pleasure
And cause me so much pain
Just when I think
Ive taken more than would a fool
I start fallin' back in love with you

I keep on
Fallin'
In and out of love with you
I never loved someone
The way that I love you

[Bridge]
Oh baby
I, I, I, I'm fallin'
I, I, I, I'm fallin'
Fall

I keep on
Fallin'
In and out of love with you
I never loved someone
The way that I love you

Im fallin'
In and out of love with you
I never loved someone
The way that I love you

Im fallin'
In and out of love with you
I never loved someone
The way that I love you

What?

(feat. Mos Def and Common)

[Alicia Keys:]
C'mon!

[music begins]

[Mos Def:]
Yes yes yes...
Uh, a yes yes y'all (freak freak y'all)
A-freak freak y'all!
Freak freak y'all - fifteen!
(Ohh!) A yes yes y'all
[Put them hands in the air, y'all!]
[Yo, now put them hands in the air y'all]
Waddup, Brook-LYYYYYYYYYYYYYN!!

[Common:]
And just clap your hands y'all
A freak freak y'all - and ya don't stop
A to the beat y'all - and ya don't stop
A freak freak y'all - and ya don't stop
A to the beat (y'alllllllllll!!!)

[Common:]
Yo, mad love for the culture
Since the days of Adidas and hip-hop posters
Now I host with Mos and just to boast to brag
a bit about it, 'cause I cain't live without it
Seen her on the streets when I was like ten
Especially's of a lagged and young black man
Do backspins in backyards cause we rap harder
People that lack [?], now we black stars
Gift from God - they said we must be crazy
Now they sayin Common, Nasir, and Jay-Z
Leaders of tomorrow, follow the steps of
Africans rap in the ghettos makin it spressed up
Yo we bring the light, we do it tonight
Alicia Keys and Mos Def bring it right
We come down and bam, and rock who I am
Com Sense, yo; I'm wit the fam, yo

[Chorus x2: sung in tune of Brand Nubian's "Love it or Leave It Alone"]
You gotta love it, or leave it alone
You gotta love it, or leave it alone
You gotta love it, or leave it alone
You gotta love it, or leave it alone

[Mos Def:]
(Mos Def) Yo, peep it out while I tell you like this
A fresh to the soil, be sure you don't miss
It's the, true for ya, true feature
I could go on for days about it screamin "Alicia!"
Walkin down the block with brother Com Sense
Comrade Com Sense, so what the heck so I -
show this fresh girl that you always sure
Before and then my heart should be adored and
cain't front, another ignore
It's Aquarius love and highly secure
Daje Mahal, and really gettin in
and fantasize of my life for a one or two winners
And my man Com Sense just stopped and said
"Yo stop frontin' and use your head!"
A-said "Yo stop frontin' and use your head!"
A-said "Yo stop frontin' and use your FUCKIN head.." (OHHHHH!!)

[Chorus x2: with ad-libs]

[Alicia Keys: interlude]
Right about now, I wanna thank everybody for comin out
and rockin with me tonight
I wanna give a big-up, to my man Mos Def
My man Common Sense, my man Krucial
My man Ills, the whole M.B.K. fam
The whole Krucial Keys fam, and MTV
And everybody out th-ere say "yeah!!" [crowd cheers]
Yeah!
Said everybody out th-ere say "yeah!!"
(YEEEEEAHHH)
C'mon, and alright
I need y'all to give it up, for Pablo on percussion
for Paul John on drums, Onree Gill on M.D.
Anaysha, Sara, Jermaine, AND, Denise on backgrounds
Steve on the bass, oh
Artie on the gee-tar (yaaaay), Jeff's on the horns (oh)
AYE-YAY-YAY, and the string quartets
Ray Chew and, the Crunks
Oh, oh (one-two), you know

[Chorus x2: with ad-libs and variations]

Uh, WE WOOOOOOOOON!!

(Feat. Damian Marley, Mos Def, Common & Friends)

[Intro]
Out in the streets, they call it murder!

[Verse 1]
Welcome to Jamrock, camp where the thugs dem camp at
Two pound ah weed inna van back
It inna your hand bag, your knapsack, it inna your back pack
The smell ah give your girlfriend contact
Some bwoy nuh know dis, dem only come around like tourist
On the beach with a few club sodas
Bedtime stories, and pose like dem name Chuck Norris
And don't know the real hardcore
Cause Sandals ah nuh Backtoo, the thugs dem will do whe dem got to
And won't think twice to shot yu
Don't make dem spot you, unless you carry guns a lot too
A bare tuff tings come at you

When Trenchtown man stop laugh and block-off traffic
Then dem wheel and pop off and dem start clap it
With the pin file dung an it ah beat rapid
Police come inna jeep and dem cant stop it
Some say them ah playboy ah playboy rabbit
Funny man ah get dropped like a bad habit
So nuh bodah pose tuff if you don't have it
Rastafari stands alone!

[Chorus]
Welcome to Jamrock, Welcome to Jamrock
Out in the streets, they call it murder!

[Verse 2]
Welcome to Jamdown, poor people ah dead at random
Political violence, can't done! Pure ghost and phantom, the youth
dem get blind by stardom
Now the Kings Of Kings ah call
Old man to Pickney, so wave unnuh hand if you with me
To see the sufferation sick me
Dem suit no fit me, to win election dem trick we
Then dem don't do nuttin at all

C'mon let's face it, a ghetto education's basic
And Most ah de youths them waste it
And when dem waste it, that's when dem take the guns replace it
Then dem don't stand a chance at all
And that's why ah nuff little youth have up some fat 'matic
With the extra magazine inna dem back pocket
And ah a bleach a night time inna some black jacket
All who nah lock glocks, ah dem a lock rocket
They will full you up ah current like ah shock socket
Dem a run ah roadback which part the cops block it
And from now till a mornin nuh stop clock it
If dem run outta rounds ah bruck back ratchet

[Chorus]
Welcome to Jamrock (Southside, Northside)
Welcome to Jamrock (East Coast, West Coast, huh, yo)
Welcome to Jamrock (Cornwall, Middlesex and Surrey, Yah) Hey!
Welcome to Jamrock
Out in the streets, they call it murder!!!

[Outro]
Jamaica Jamaica! Jamaica Jamaica! Now!
Jamaica Jamaica! Yo! Jamaica Jamaica!
Welcome to Jamrock, Welcome to Jamrock