People are strange when your a stranger
Faces look ugly when your alone
Women seem wicked when your unwanted
Streets are uneven when your down

Ride the snake, to the lake

Ya see, I gotta go out in this car with these people an.......

beep beep - beep beep

his horn went beep beep beep

I'm me
Me be
Goddamn
I am
I can
Sing and
Hear me
Know me
If you want to destroy my sweater
Hold this thread as I walk away

Oh no
It go
It gone
Bye-Bye
Who I
I think
I sink
and I die
If you want to destroy my sweater
Hold this thread as I walk away
Watch me unravel I'll soon be naked
Lying on the floor, I've come undone

If you want to destroy my sweater
(I don't want to destroy your tank-top)
Hold this thread as I walk away
(Let's be friends and just walk away)
Watch me unravel I'll soon be naked
(Hate to see you lyin' there in your Superman skivvies)
Lying on the floor, I've come undone
(Lying on the floor, I've come undone)

I'm driving
Your girlfriend home
And she's saying
How she never chose you
"Turn left", she says
I turn left
And she says
"So how did I end up
so deeply involved in
the very existence
I planned on avoiding ?"
And I can't answer

I'm driving
Your girlfriend home
And she's laughing
To stop herself crying
"Drive on", she says
I drive on
And she says
"So how did I end up
attached to this person
When his sense of humour
gets gradually worser ?"
And I can't tell her


I'm parking
Outside her home
And we're shaking hands
Goodnight, so politely

Sometimes I think it's a sin
When I feel like I'm winning when I'm losing again

One for the day - today
 

Happy birthday
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday
Happy birthday to you

Well, it's time to celebrate your birthday, it happens every year
We'll eat a lot of broccoli and drink a lot of beer
You should be good and happy that there's something you can eat
A million people every day are starving in the street

Your daddy's in the gutter with the wretched and the poor
Your mama's in the kitchen with a can of Cycle Four
There's garbage in the water
There's poison in the sky
I guess it won't be long before we're all gonna die

Happy birthday
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday
Happy birthday to you

Well, what's the matter little friend, you think this party is the pits
Enjoy it while you can, we'll soon be blown to bits
The monkeys in the pentagon are gonna cook our goose
Their finger's on the button, all they need it an excuse

It doesn't take a military genius to see
We'll all be crispy critters after World War III
There's nowhere you can run to, nowhere you can hide
When they drop the big one, we all get fried

(Come on boys and girls, sing along, ok?)

Happy birthday
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday
Happy birthday to you
wow!

Well there's a punk in the alley and he's looking for a fight
There's an Arab on the corner buying everything in sight
There's a mother in the ghetto with another mouth to feed
Seems that everywhere you look today there's misery and greed

I guess you know the Earth is gonna crash into the sun
But that's no reason why we shouldn't have a little fun
So if you think it's scary, if it's more than you can take
Just blow out the candles and have a piece of cake

Happy birthday
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday
Happy birthday to you
wow!

Happy birthday
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday
Happy birthday to you

(Happy Birthday!)

And a pinch to grow an inch!

Jesus died for somebodys sins
But not mine

I don't care what the world may need,
but a V-8 engine's a good start for me.
Think I'll drive and find a place to be surly.

I was in a contest to rock the world, 1st prize was a virgin young girl, for 4 days I was upon the mike,

all the sucker MC's were on the bite

Biting on my rhymes stealing my style, biting on the Ice like a crocidile, you know I rocked so hard it wasn't true, won the virgin girl and her Momma too.

SEX!

(Ice T)

i'm the instigator of the me generation
the official seminator of the female population
and i scoff at my rivals cause they ain't cool
and i rewrote the bible and made my own rules
i'm captain hightop the love commander
the ego star forever after
captain hightop the love commander
hide your mom control your sister
i'm the hip hop surgeon of the mindless eye
take me down sister in between your thights
and the stories of my image have gone too far
i slid the beast to farah saying baby, baby, baby
baby, baby i'm a star
i'm captain hightop the love commander
ego star forever after
i'm a captain hightop the love commander
hide your mom control your sister

(Captain Hi Top - Mother Love Bone)

I ****ed your girlfriend last night.
While you snored and drooled, I ****ed your love.
She called me daddy. and I called her baby when i
Smacked her ass. I called her sugar when I ate
Her alive till daylight. and I slept with her all
Over me, from forehead to ribcage I dripper her ass.
Sometimes I thought you might be spying, living out some
Brash fantasy, but no. you were knocked out. but we were
All knocked out you know. in a way
I serve too many masters.
We didnt know youd break the bottle that the magic
Came in to use those jagged shards to slit our wrists
And neck. and youd do it too, youre that kind of dude.
But you wouldnt know what you were doing because
I didnt, your girlfriend could have been a burn
Victim, an amputee, a dead body. but God damn I wanted
To ****.
Im serving too many ****ing masters.
[i told you. I told you mother****er]

(Good Friends and a Bottle of Pills - Pantera)

Jesus built my car
Its a love affair
Mainly jesus and my hot rod.

yeah **** it

OK I have to ask. I don't get rap or hip hop and probably never will. I have read these lyrics several times - and they make no sense to me. They are badly written, are not lyrical or particularly evocative or interesting. They contain no discernable social or political message. The overwhelming impression is dark and mindless. Like verbal vomit. Or is THAT the point?

Could someone please explain to me what I am missing?

Well, you have 3 different groups there.
Only Ice-T could be in the rap category.
Mother Love Bone is considered "grunge" by some and Pantera is hard and loud...metal, even.


Here we come, reach for your gun
And you better listen my friend, you see
It's been slow down below,
Aimed at you, we're the cowboys from hell
Deed is done again, we've won
Ain't talking no tall tales friend
'Cause high noon, your doom
Comin' for you, we're the cowboys from hell

Surprise! you're dead!
Ha ha! open your eyes
See the world as it used to be when you used to be in it
When you were alive and when you were in love

There's some that do and some that don't and some you just can't tell.
There's some that will and some that won't and some it's just as well.

What you are looking at is prime example of pop music from the 80's-90's.

Frankly, I hope you don't look to music for social commentary or a political message.

That fad died in the 60's. ;)

rjp