Random Song Quotes

[Leo656]

I'm bored, so I figured we'd list some random song lyrics we like. I'll go first.

"Life is the crummiest book I ever read
There isn't a hook
Just a lotta cheap-shots,
Pictures to shock,
And characters an amateur would never dream up..."
--Bad Religion, "Stranger Than Fiction"

[Raven]

oh I like this.

my all time favorite
"you havent had peace till you've had suffering"
mushroomhead :D

[Reznorite420]

"How does it feel
To Treat me like you do?
When you laid your hands upon me
And told me who you are?
I thought I was mistaken
I thought I heard your words
How does it feel?
Tell me now how does it feel?"

- New Order/Orgy, "Blue Monday"

[Leo656]

"Well you se the disease, suffering and decay
And you whisper to yourself blissfully 'It's okay',
And you still refuse the possibility
That the dead are better off than we..."
--Bad Religion, "Pity the Dead"

[MTN889]

"Right about this time

Some shithead will be drawin a fat ****in line

Uver the title on the backsleeve

What an asshole!

So mr. DJ,

I hope you've already made your segue

or the FCC is gonna take a **** right on your head."

NOFX - Please Play This Song On The Radio[/b]

[Leo656]

"Jennifer lost the war today,
They'll find her burned and raped...
Through it all she must have wondered, 'What have I done?'
But nobody really cares today, the world's a busy place.
Guess she must have really sinned now... really sinned now...
I guess we're all just soldiers
But she was only six years old
Left to die by strangers
Her family waits
And if we're all just soldiers, is it so wrong to be afraid?
Jennifer Lost the War..."
--The Offspring, "Jennifer Lost the War"

[Mars-Chan]

"Don't look Don't look" The shadows breathe
Dream the crow black dream.....

Hey....what can I say? :wink:

[Voltron]

If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life
never make a pretty woman your wife
if you want my personal point of view
get another girl to marry you.

[Leo656]

"Ever get the feeling you can't go on
Just remember whose side it is that you're on
You've got friends with you till the end
If you're ever in a tough situation
We'll be there with no hesitation
Brotherhood's our rule that cannot bend...

When you're feeling too close to the bottom
You know who it is you can count on
Someone will pick you up again
We can conquer anything together
All of us are bonded forever
If you die, I die, that's the way it is..."
Pennywise, "Bro Hymn Tribute"

[Voltron]

Back when I was risin up
da suckaz used to play
actin like dez all dat
but nuttin knew da way

to ganon's castle!
level 9!
Link had da power
I had da mind!

Da NES advantage
was on my side
I knew I could win
I didn't have ta try

[Kid Icarus]

"hateshinaku tsudzuku
ashita wo mitsume nemuru"

Trigun's closing theme.

(Translation:
"Sleeping, gazing at
the never-ending future")

[Reznorite420]

Somtimes I really want to be alone
But that's one state I'm never
Because I know that I've got millions upon millions
Of tiny one-celled organisms living on my skin
I rub and scrub until my flesh is raw and bledding!
But they just come right back again
Can't see 'em but I know they're after something
Hey, don't touch that! You don't know where it's been!
They're all over me!
They're inside of me!
Can't get 'em off of me!
I'm covered with...
(Microscopic bacteria)
What do they want from me?
What dothey do to me?
There's no escape for me!
I'm crawling with...
(Microscopic Bateria)

- Weird Al Yankovic, "Germs"

[MTN889]

"shoot white people" - 50 Cent

[ThirdMarioBro]

Back when I was risin up
da suckaz used to play
actin like dez all dat
but nuttin knew da way

to ganon's castle!
level 9!
Link had da power
I had da mind!

Da NES advantage
was on my side
I knew I could win
I didn't have ta try

That song makes me laugh so hard. :lol: :lol: :lol:

[raphael90]

Reznorite...yes!! 'Germ' lyrics...that song reminds me alot of "Terrible Lie" and since I heard PHM, I've grown to appreciate Al's version of it. Used to never listen to that song at all...



Here's mine:

"Cranial vault, the mind's path...paved by heart
and soul's aim, transfer of DNA forms the cerebral
mainfraime, just like a computer, garbage in garbage
out, subdural detour shuns the embrace of logic and
reason, shrouded in doubt....Devine mental biopsy
reveals you need psycho surgery...the renewing of your
mind by cosmic mirror..."

-TOURNIQUET "Psycho Surgery"

[Ashangelo]

People make jokes cause they don't understand me
They just don't see my real side....
I act sh*t don't phase me inside it drives me crazy
My insecurities could eat me alive

*Eminem Hailie's Song*

[Blaze DTGG]

Leo>> you like Bad Religion? *squeals with excitment* I LOVE them... ahh.. just one more reason we get along.. we like the same kinds of music.. mostly


"Do you think you're better than me
Do you want to kill me? Or befriend me?"

Insanity -Oingo Boingo



you will see me here alot.. my life moves around music.. i always have something playing at all times

[Kid Icarus]

"hahahahahahaha
hehehehehehehe
hohohohohohoho
hahahahahahaha"

Flipper - Ha Ha Ha

[The Defibrillator]

and the story goes like this: everything went numb for the money and the guns
and everytime he'd think it out: "there's nothing to worry about
get in the van, don't deviate from the plan
if everything goes smooth then you'll walk away a rich man"
so it begins, everybody walks in
could this be the day or the way that the underdog wins?
i think not, so i bet on the feds because the black hat men never win in the end

ski mask (check)
sawed off (check)
guilty conscience, fear of death (check check check)
everything went numb when he stumbled upon what he thought
was going to be another means to the end
the silence
the sirens
it all went down like his nightmare the night before
i don't want to hear
i don't want to be near
i do what i got to do just to keep my nose clean

Streetlight Manifesto- Everything Went Numb

[Blaze DTGG]

"I am the virus, are you the cure?
I am morally, I'm morally impure
I am a disease and I am unclean
I am not part of God's well oiled machine
Christian nation, assimilate me
Take me in your arms and set me free
I am part of a degenerate elite
Dragging our society into the streeet
Into the abyss and to the sewer don't you see
The man just told me, he told me on TV "

Insanity Oingo Boingo

[The Defibrillator]

Haha, Blaze, I just heard about Oingo Boingo for the first time today from a friend of mine.

[Blaze DTGG]

they r0xx0r my b0xx0rs.

I can do it in a church
I can do it any time or place
I can do it like an angel
To quiet down your rage

Johnny, Angry Johnny, this is Jezebel in Hell
Johnny, Angry Johnny, this is Jezebel in Hell


I can do it in the water
I can do on dry land
I can do it with instruments
I can do it with my own bare hands

But either way
Either way, you know where it stands
I wanna kill you
I wanna blow you...
Away

angry johnny- poe

[raphael_is_cool]

Wow didn't know there were some cool Offspring and Nofx fans here (btw Leo656 that 1st offspring album is great isn't it?)

'If you feel this way, each and everyday there's gotta be something more
You want your life to change something's got to change so live for something more'

Something More by MxPx

[Anarky]

one of my faves (we sang it yesterday at the big demonstration)

"F**k Authority
Silent Majority
Slave to the system
now it's time to rise against them
sick of your treason
sick of your lies
F**k no, we won't listen
we're gonna open your eyes
Frustration
Domination fear (or feel) the rage of the new generation...."

F**k authority . Pennywise

[MTN889]

one of my faves (we sang it yesterday at the big demonstration)

"F**k Authority
Silent Majority
Slave to the system
now it's time to rise against them
sick of your treason
sick of your lies
F**k no, we won't listen
we're gonna open your eyes
Frustration
Domination fear (or feel) the rage of the new generation...."

F**k authority . Pennywise

Dude thats my favorite song... anyone remeber my old sig?

[MTN889]

"shoot whiteys" - 50 Cent

Oh yeah i just wanna state im glad there are some rock fans left and this world isnt being swarmed by rap

[Edit: Please don't double post. --Krang]

[Dinogrrl]

Time for something slightly more amusing:

"walking down the street, something caught my eye
a growing epidemic, that really ain't fly
a middle aged lady, i gotta be blunt
her spandex biker shorts were creepin up the front

I could see her uterus, her pants were too tight
She must'nt own panties, there were none in sight
She walked right by, the poor woman didn't know
She had a frontal wedgie, a Camel Toe

um hmm, that's right, uh huh, oh no
fix yourself girl, you got a Camel Toe
um hmm, that's right, uh huh, oh no
fix yourself girl, you got a Camel Toe

girl thats gotta hurt, take some time and adjust
can't you see people staring, and making a fuss
could not believe my eyes, had to take a second glance
is your crotch hungry girl, cause its eating your pants

do you enjoy the commotion and attention it brings
the only lips i wanna see are the ones that sing
in public putting on, an x rated show
grossin people out with your Camel Toe"

'Camel Toe' by Fanny Pack

Add to this the fact that the word 'fanny' does not mean buttocks in Australia/Britain like it does here in the States, it's slang for female genitals, and it's even funnier. :evilgrin:

[Raven]

confuse the way we all live life
In acts of rage we throw the game but still play

Arise from your failures traitors all await your final fall
the curtain call
Despised imitators plagiarized dictators claims are false
all is lost
Arise!

mushroomhead- our own way

[Meira-Bates]

I'm not much of a music person but I can definately pic out some random lyrics ^.^ this should be my only post cause I'm diggin through all my American stuff and I'm not gonna bother with the video games and forien music


"Back again to my tragic past
Beloved far and majestic Kherd
Wait for me, I'm back to conquer my land
Crystal sounds to my frozen ears
Lonely cries of a human wind
For a moonlight dark icy symphony

Cold raging wind freeze the people's sin
Lord of the winter snow
Spread your wings on all"
-'Lord of the Winter snow', Luca Turilli


"Be a hero
Kill your ego
It doesn't matter it's all just a pack of lies"
-'Year Zero', 30 Seconds to Mars


"(No!) I won't calm down
(No!) I won't put my fire arm down
(Hell no!) We're either leaving here or fightin'
Or we're writin' some new rules and I'm doing the writin'
Who are you to govern me, how could you govern
If you got no f***in' love for me
I see the love but I don't see it's brotherly
Ya love to rape me, hate me, smother me"
-'Battlecry', Crazytown


"I read bad poetry
Into your machine.
I save your messages
Just to hear your voice.
You always listen carefully
To awkward rhymes.
You always say your name,
Like I wouldn't know it's you,"
-'At My Most Beautiful', REM


"And all I really want is some patience
A way to calm the angry voice
And all I really want is deliverance
Do I wear you out
You must wonder why I'm so relentless and all strung out
I'm consumed by the chill of solitary"
-'All I Really want', Alanis Morissette


"You owe me nothing for giving the love that I give
You owe me nothing for caring the way that I have
I give you thanks for receiving it's my privilege
And you owe me nothing in return"
-'You Owe Me Nothing', Alanis Morissette


"I know that you've been damaged
Your soul has suffered such abuse
But I am not your savior
I am just as f***ed as you
I am just as f***ed as you
I can not save you
I can't even save myself
So just save yourself

Please don't take pity on me

My life has been a nightmare
My soul is fractured to the bone
And if I must be lonely, I think I'd rather be alone
I think I'd rather be alone "
-'Save Yourself', Stabing Westward (And thank you to the Tekken movie for introducing me to this song ^.^)


"Maybe life is like a ride on a freeway
Dodging bullets while you're trying to find your way
Everyone's around, but no one does a damn thing
It brings me down, but I won't let them
....
When I ran I didn't feel like a runaway
When I escaped I didn't feel like I got away
There's more to living than only surviving
Maybe I'm not there, but I'm still trying"
-'Staring at the Sun', Offspring

"Sometimes I feel just like the devil's gunie pig
He's watching me just to see how deep I can dig"
-'Change', Crazytown

[Blaze DTGG]

"I know that my world is coming down,
yeah I know I'm the one who brought it down"

World coming down- Type O negative

[raphael_is_cool]

Add to this the fact that the word 'fanny' does not mean buttocks in Australia/Britain like it does here in the States, it's slang for female genitals, and it's even funnier. :evilgrin:

In Britain we know perfectly well it's rude connotations

[Anarky]

Dude thats my favorite song... anyone remeber my old sig?

you should have been there yesterday. imagine 500 punks and some members of the "schwarzer Block" (the most radical punk sin switzerland) walking around in a city (popultaion: 160.000) and singing this song. IT WAS UNBELIEVABLE

[The Defibrillator]

-'Change', Crazytown

Crazytown is muy beuno.

You think I'm square
Don't like the clothes I wear
The way I comb my hair
The way I sit and stare at you
It's just a game to take the spot-
Light off of me
I'm just afraid of what you might think.

The Hippos - Paulina

[Meira-Bates]

-'Change', Crazytown
Crazytown is muy beuno.

This is the first time I've heard from anyone else who even knows who Crazytown is ^.^ hehe That's my favorite song of thier's too.

[MTN889]

Dude thats my favorite song... anyone remeber my old sig?

you should have been there yesterday. imagine 500 punks and some members of the "schwarzer Block" (the most radical punk sin switzerland) walking around in a city (popultaion: 160.000) and singing this song. IT WAS UNBELIEVABLE

Man thats awesome... im gonna move to switzerland... here all they listen to is rap

[Leo656]

"Jennifer lost the war today
They'll find her burned and raped
Through it all she must have wondered, 'What have I done?'
But nobody really cares today
The world's a busy place
Guess she must have really sinned now...
Really sinned now

I guess we're all just soldiers
But she was only six years old
Left to die by strangers
Her family waits
And if we're all just soldiers
Is it so wrong to be afraid?
Jennifer Lost the War...."

--The Offspring, "Jennifer Lost the War"

[That Matt Guy]

"See the features of my rage
begin to shoot the fiend without a face, my face.
The fever rots, the brain goes numb inside,
I feel a blackout comming, a boiled blister pops inside,
my ears still bleed with razor sharp precision,
mouth to mouth the sweetness dangle by the breath upon my chest."

Misfits - Fiend without a face

:wink:

[XERO]

I will never know
Myself until I do this on my own
And I will never feel
Anything else until my wounds are healed
I will never be
Anything till I break away from me
And I will break away
I'll find myself today

Linkin Park, Somewhere I Belong

[Voltron]

I will find you in a crowded room
I will knock you off your feet
I will burn you just like teenage love
I will eat you just like meat
I will break you into pieces
hold you up for all the world to see
yeah, what makes you think
you are better than me?

[Leo656]

"When the truth walks away
Everybody stays
Cuz the truth about the world is that Crime DOES pay
So if you walked away
Who is gonna stay?
I'd like to think the world is a better place..."

--The Offspring, "Have You Ever"

[XERO]

God gave Rock n' Roll to you
Gave Rock n' Roll to you
Put it in the soul of everyone

Kiss

[Voltron]

I whooped Batman's ass

[Leo656]

"Have you visited the Quagmire
Have you swam in the sh*t?
The party convention and the Realpolitik
The faces always different,
The rhetoric the same
But we swallow it all and we see nothing change
Nothing has changed

This is just a Punk Rock Song
Written for the people who can see something's wrong
Like workers in a factory we do our share
But there's so many other f*cking robots out there
And this is just a Punk Rock Song..."

--Bad Religion, "Punk Rock Song"

[XERO]

Pizza Power!

Makes our Turtle Bells start ringin'

Pizza Power!

Pizza Power!

It's the reason we are singin'

Pizza Power!

Eat it anytime of day!

Pizza Power!

When it comes to food, that's what we say!

Pizza Power!

Pizza Power!

Always better the next day!

Pizza Power!

Pizza Power makes us feel alright!
Pizza Power makes us FEEEEEEEEEEEL Alri-eee-iiii-eeee-iiiiiight!

TMNT, Pizza Power

[Leo656]

"Once you said
You'd stick til the end
I guess you lied
They call it suicide
Now you're gone
What was so wrong
That you couldn't find a way to carry on

Second guess
Did I do my best?
There was a friend I had...

'Johnny was a weirdo,
So what did you expect?'
I aint no f*ckin' hero, I'm just
Trying to survive myself

I should have known
You went through it alone
I wonder why.
Did you even try?
You could have come to me
I would have helped you see
You could have found a way to carry on

Second guess
Did I do my best?
There was this friend I had...

'Johnny was a weirdo,
So what did you expect?'
I aint no f*ckin' hero, I'm just
Trying to survive myself
'Johnny's strange behavior was a tip-off' they say
I aint no f*cking savior, I'm just
Living day by day..."

--The Offspring, "No Hero"

[raphael90]

"My uncle has a country place which no one knows about...he says it used
to be a farm before the motor law...and on Sundays I elude the eyes and
hop the turbine freight to fall outside the wire where my white-haired uncle
waits...jump to the ground as the turbine slows across the border-line...run
like the wind as excitement shivers up and down my spine...down in his barn my uncle preserved for me an old machine for fifty odd years...to keep it as new has been his dearest dream..."

Red Barchetta - RUSH

[XERO]

Many men
Wish death upon me
Blood in my eye, dog
And I can't see
I'm tryin' to be what I'm destined to be
And N***as tryin' to take my life away

I put a hole in a n***a for f***in' with me
My back to the wall, now you gon' see
Better watch how you talk when you talk about me
Cuz I'll come and take yo life away

Many men
Many, many, many, many men

Wish death upon me
Lord, I don't cry no more
Don't look to the sky no more
Have mercy on me.

50 Cent, Many Men

[raphael_is_cool]

Sometimes I think I'm gonna drown coz everyone around's so hollow
Sometimes I think I'm going down when no one makes a sound they follow
And I'm alone

Amazed - Offspring (possibly my fave Offspring song)

[XERO]

I'm the King of Rock, there is none higher
Sucker MCs should call me "Sire"
To burn my Kingdom, you must use fire
I won't stop rockin' 'till I retire!

Run-DMC, Kings of Rock

[The Defibrillator]

it doesn't really matter if you lead or follow
everybody's laughing like there's no tomorrow and even if there was,
would you still go following your friends?
i don't care where we went wrong, we're still singing those same sad tunes
"it's my life, not your life, i'll end it when i want"

Streetlight Manifesto = Saddest Song

*can't wait til ska goes mainstream*

[raphael_is_cool]

Ska sort of has gone mainstream, well at least hybrid ska has..

[Relay]

"The vultures ate my dead ass up."

[Mars-Chan]

God gave Rock 'N' Roll to you
Gave Rock 'N' Roll to you
Put it in the soul of everyone

Kiss

DUDE! BEN, I LOVE THAT SONG!!! THAT'S MY PERSONAL THEME!!!! :evilgrin: :D

*hums the song*

[The Defibrillator]

Ska sort of has gone mainstream, well at least hybrid ska has..

Huh? When did this happen? Whaddaya mean by hybrid ska?

Less than Jake and Rancid don't count. They're like pop/ska.

[Blaze DTGG]

"Father Can you Hear me.
How have I let you down.
I curse the day that I was born
and all the Sorrow in this world."

Sorrow - Bad Religion

[raphael_is_cool]

Ska sort of has gone mainstream, well at least hybrid ska has..

Huh? When did this happen? Whaddaya mean by hybrid ska?

Less than Jake and Rancid don't count. They're like pop/ska.

That's what a hybrid is, a mixture. Like Reel Big Fish have punk/ska (sometimes nice all out ska/reggae) as well as Goldfinger, Bosstones and all...I quite like MU330 they're cool

[Leo656]

"Father Can you Hear me.
How have I let you down.
I curse the day that I was born
and all the Sorrow in this world."

Sorrow - Bad Religion

THAT song is a perfect example of the way I feel every single day.

[Leo656]

"It's not how you're thinking
Or as you've imagined
You've been living a trade-off
Believe your own version
They leave you in slavery and drain out your soul
What can I do when there's so many liars
That crawl through your veins
Like millions of spiders
That seek out their victims
And who is the wiser
Watch out
Gotcha

Oh my god
I can't deny this
I've been taught just to kill and fight this
To bury it deeper where nobody can find it
Like nobody wanted to know

So give it away
Like they're not gonna **** you
How much can you pay them
To come back and haunt you
To burn past your feelings
And cause you to suffer
You're starting to bleed
They don't discover
Before its too late
What will you offer
In ways of healing
I'm so confused
Abused
Misused

Oh my god
I can't deny this
I've been taught just to kill and fight this
To bury it deeper where nobody can find it
Like nobody wanted to know

Ooh, if it opens your eyes
This is better than a strong compromise
I was willing to be lost in the shuffle
If only you had let me know
Ooh, if it opens your eyes
This is better than the last compromise
I was willing to be lost in the shadows
If only you had let me know

And they wont give in
Cause they know what they're after
A kick in the face
Like its all that would matter

Oh my god
I can't deny this
I've been taught just to murder and fight this
To bury it deeper where no one can find it
Cuz nobody wanted to know

Ooh, if it opens your eyes
This is better than just a little compromise
I was willing to be lost in the shuffle
If only you had let me know

Ooh, well it's on with the show
Like the tides down on the ocean
The waves already set in motion
The only one in the game that's lost is you..."

--Guns N Roses, "Oh My God"
(that song is ALSO the way I feel every... single... day...)

[GK Punk]

Wow, so those are the lyrics...

And for the record, Ska was mainstream in the mid 90s for awhile.

[Mars-Chan]

"American Girls and American Guys
We'll always stand up and salute
We'll always recognize
When we see Old Glory Flying
There's a lot of men dead
So we can sleep in peace at night
When we lay down our head

My daddy served in the army
Where he lost his right eye
But he flew a flag out in our yard
Until the day that he died
He wanted my mother, my brother, my sister and me
To grow up and live happy
In the land of the free.

Now this nation that I love
Has fallen under attack
A mighty sucker punch came flyin' in
From somewhere in the back
Soon as we could see clearly
Through our big black eye
Man, we lit up your world
Like the 4th of July

Hey Uncle Sam
Put your name at the top of his list
And the Statue of Liberty
Started shakin' her fist
And the eagle will fly
Man, it's gonna be h***
When you hear Mother Freedom
Start ringin' her bell
And it feels like the whole wide world is raining down on you
Brought to you Courtesy of the Red White and Blue

Justice will be served
And the battle will rage
This big dog will fight
When you rattle his cage
And you'll be sorry that you messed with
The U.S. of A.
'Cause we'll put a boot in your a**
It's the American way

Hey Uncle Sam
Put your name at the top of his list
And the Statue of Liberty
Started shakin' her fist
And the eagle will fly
Man, it's gonna be h***
When you hear Mother Freedom
Start ringin' her bell
And it feels like the whole wide world is raining down on you
Brought to you Courtesy of the Red White and Blue"
Toby Keith "Courtesy of the Red White and Blue"

[That Matt Guy]

Hello darkness, my old friend. I've come to talk with you again.
Because a vision softly creeping left its seeds while I was sleeping
and the vision that was planted in my brain still remains within the sound of silence.

In restless dreams I walked alone, narrow streets of cobblestone
‘neath the halo of a street lamp, I turned my collar to the cold and damp
when my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
that split the night and touched the sound of silence.

And in the naked light I saw ten thousand people, maybe more.
People talking without speaking, people hearing without listening.
People writing songs that voices never shared, no one dared disturb the sound of silence.

"Fools," said I, "you do not know, silence like a cancer grows.
Hear my words that I might teach you, take my arms that I might reach you."
But my words like silent raindrops fell and echoed in the wells of silence.

And the people bowed and prayed to the neon god they made
and the sign flashed out its warning in the words that it was forming.
And the sign said "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
and tenement halls and whispered in the sound of silence."

[XERO]

It's close to midnight
And something evil's lurkin' in the dark
Under the moonlight
You see a sight that almost stops your heart

You try to scream
But terror takes the sound before you make it
You start to breathe
As horror looks you right between the eyes
You're paralyzed!

Michael Jackson, Thriller

[R-iZZy]

Look at how thin your pockets are.//
I could tell you never even had "100 Grand" unless it was a "chocolate bar"!
~ Fabolous, "Fall Back"

I'm talking wreckless now.//
Cuz I'm the reason that your girlfriends are your ex's now.//
~ Fabolous, "Make You Mine"

Yo, the whole world is upon you, the pressure is on.//
And you can probably sum your life up the best when you're gone.//
Upon the creation of all men, destiny's born.//
For us to reproduce, so you can keep the legacy goin'.//
I know you think I'm Superman, but I got weaknesses too.//
I keep a firm leash on things by believing in you .//
And after I'm gone I live on breathing through you .//
And anything I had in this life, I leave it to you.//

Aim for the sky and fly till you come back down.//
I had you the baton and you run, till you come back 'round.//
Let your heart tell your temper, "Put that gun back down!".//
Dry your tears up and turn that frown upside-down.//

It'd be plenty to cry for, think life, not death.//
You got much more to live for than to die for.//
But you got to stay humble.//
Cause just as hard as your work to get it, there's people working harder to take it from you.//

Cause life, something that people take for granted.//
As time passes, you're gonna want something back.//
But you won't get it cause history is made every second.//
So you crave every lesson and save every blessin'.//
No matter how you view the world yo, you never will get it.//
The world will be the world through the eyes of whoever is in it.//
But things ain't gonna always go right.//
Look at it like, yo this ain't your day, but this your life, and live.//
~ Royce da 5'9'', "Life"

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, sp*cs, n*ggaz 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.//
Nas, "Streets of New York"