1.  Romper Stomper
2.  Tall Cans In The Air
3.  D.J. D.J.
4.  Diamonds And Guns
5.  Quick Death
6.  Sad But True
7.  Weigh On My Mind
8.  One Seventeen
9.  California Babylon
10.  We Trusted You
11.  D.R.E.A.M.
12.  Down In Oakland
 

Romper Stomper
Yeah.  Yeah.  1,2,3,4.
It's a knock down, drag out, one-on-one.
Think it's over when it's just begun.
Cause round here they'll fight for fun.
On my feet.  Don't think to run.
Two faced gets bust in both mouths.
Backstabbers get shanked out, no doubt.
Turn and walk, you lose all crowd.
Just want to know what you're about.
Ahhh.  Gonna lie de facto.  Lie de facto.
Don't cross the line man.  You fall through the cracks,
and nobody's neutral.  Nobody's neutral.
You stand alone in your fucking nightmare.
Don't turn your back cause... don't turn your back cause...
That leaves the front end an open target.
I got you back so... I got you back so...
know how to soothe your mind.
I wanna know... I wanna know... I wanna know...
Can I count on you when it's time?
If I got your back then you best have mine.
When it goes down lay it on the line.
Fatboy, you well... that's just fine.
Just let me know, don't waste my time.
Friends I have... one reason to die.
What we got we will get by.
No matter what stand side by side.
We'll come through with our heads held high.
I wanna know... I wanna know... I wanna know...
Can I count on you when it's time?
I wanna know... I wanna know... I wanna know...
Can I count on you when it's time?
I wanna know... I wanna know... I wanna know...
Can I count on you when it's time?
Ahhh.  Can I count on you when it's time?

Tall Cans In The Air
"Nobody move, nobody get hurt."
Take a look around baby.  Yeah my whole crews ugly,
but we still got the most game... the most money.
The most hoes... the most honeys.
It's so funny how you hate my fuckin' guts, but at the same time love me.
From the lincoln to the gold, to the lowrider bike.
I always catch you hatin', but you know that you like.
What you see is what you get.  Nothing more, nothing less.
I'm chillin', smokin' chronic while you're chokin' of stress.
Tall cans in the air... let me see 'em.  Fuck you.
Tall cans in the air... let me see 'em.  Fuck you.
I see you're mad at the fact that my pockets stay fat.
Is it the cash I made on whacks or the cocaine sacks?
To the crew I roll with or the one that you lack.
I wish you would come around, I'd lay you flat on your back.
You better hope you fuckin' miss me if you see me drinkin' whiskey.
You know, me and Diablo get way past tipsy.
Whether drunk, high, or sober... yeah we still get it over.
Can't you talk at 3 a.m.?  Head to toe, tread to joker.
Tall cans in the air... let me see 'em.  Fuck you.
Tall cans in the air... let me see 'em.  Fuck you.
I never sing, no, never.  I only shout.
We're coming clean forever, without a doubt.
Like a machine gun trigger, you'd better watch out.
Yeah, transplants don't give a fuck, that's where we're at... so,
here we come with our original style.
I said, "Who the fuck are you?  I been here for a while."
We got Distillers, AFI, LFB, and Crystal Sound.
Transplants are fearless and the most original.
Tall cans in the air... let me see 'em.  Fuck you.
Tall cans in the air... let me see 'em.  Fuck you.
"Nobody move, nobody get hurt."
Tall cans in the air... let me see 'em.  Fuck you.
Tall cans in the air... let me see 'em.  Fuck you.
You think I give a fuck?  Well you better think twice.
U.S. Thugs, Wolfpack, and I ain't nothing nice.
Check the date and time.  Lyrically committing hate crimes.
Noose from the cord of my mic, now it's hang time.
Blow minds with rhymes designed to break spikes.
Transplants comin' through and we're one of a kind.
With a chrome to your dome, make you flip like a flapjack.
Two tall cans and a packet of blackjack.
Tall cans in the air... let me see 'em.  Fuck you.
Tall cans in the air... let me see 'em.  Fuck you.

D.J. D.J.
D.J.  D.J.
"Nobody move, nobody get hurt.", they said.
Make one wrong move, man, you wake up dead.
I exercise my lyrical stylings.
And all the while you're dead and gone, and forgotten.
I said, oh, are they gonna come back for you?
Nah, ah the story's sorry but true.
Lord, did you really want them to go?
Nah, oh you're so goddamn cold.
We're gonna make it on our own.  We don't need anyone.  Lord knows we don't need you.  Yeah.
We're gonna make it on our own.  We don't need anyone.  Lord knows we don't need you.  Watch me now.
You got your ear to the street, then this bud's for you.
You got my name in your mouth, then this slug's for you.
Shotgun, fast lane, on the highway to hell.
Sherm sticks, tall cans, and the powder that sells.
Just tryin' to have somethin' and you sit back and laugh.
I'm a grab something, I'm a gettin' that half.
We came too far now.  No way we can flop.
Wanna drop me... gotta kill me, only way I'm a stop.
We got 808 subwoofers in the trunk.
Around the world with the rancid punx.
This is for the misfits, the freaks, and the runts.
Fuck the motherfuckin', back-stabbin' cunts.
Ride's gettin' rough, so I know I better buckle.
P-U-N-X tattooed on my knuckles.
Hey man, you keep the shackles, cause I am free.
We're gonna make it on our own.  We don't need anyone.  Lord knows we don't need you.  Yeah.
We're gonna make it on our own.  We don't need anyone.  Lord knows we don't need you.  Watch me now.
We're gonna make it on our own.  We don't need anyone.  Lord knows we don't need you.  Yeah.
We're gonna make it on our own.  We don't need anyone.  Lord knows we don't need you.
I heard you're losing your mind.  Shit, I been lost mine,
but I still stay focused through good and bad times.
Compare your worst fuckin' day to my best fuckin' night.
I bet my last red cent that you couldn't stand the sight.
From loss of loved ones to life of drug funds.
They counted me out, from what?  I'm not done.
Give me a chance to shine and I'm a blind the world.
Take a stand and be the voice of those who cannot be heard.
We're gonna make it on our own.  We don't need anyone.  Lord knows we don't need you.  Yeah.
We're gonna make it on our own.  We don't need anyone.  Lord knows we don't need you.  Watch me now.

Diamonds And Guns
Go Ahead.
Woo woo.  Woo woo.  Woo woo.  Woo woo.
Bombs going off in Sierra Leone.
Taken more shots than Karl Malone.
Battle looms, your doom, injustice entombed.
Who got the diamonds?  Who gonna find them?
Who gonna mine them, when the time comes?
Diamonds and guns.  Diamonds and guns.
It's a wicked world that we live in.  It's cruel and unforgiving.
It's a wicked world that we live in.  It's cruel and unforgiving.
Woo woo.  Woo woo.  Woo woo.  Woo woo.
Knock, knock, knock.  Who's that?  It's mamasan.
Lookin' for the bitch who took the money and run.
Now the daylight's gone and there's no more fun.
And who's the fuckin' bitch who stole all the heroin?
Heroin, heroin... it's all gone.
Smoked it all up, and now you got none.
And now you look around and that's not the plan.
This is not what you had in mind.
I shot in heaven, now I cry.
No one lives forever, in fact we all die.
From those who bust shots to those who stuff cops.
To those who serve rocks on all the hot blocks.
Every last soul must pay the last toll.
In the dice game of life, who gets the last roll?
Is it the one with the suit?  The one with the sack?
The one who hides behind his fuckin' gun and his badge?
Negative outlook?  Well that's how I'm livin'.
And like he said, "It's a wicked world we live in... it's a wicked world we live in."
Woo woo.  Woo woo.  Woo woo.  Woo woo.
I'm wiggin out, flippin' out.
Hearts is what I'm rippin' out.
I'm slippin' out, I'm dippin' out.
Killin's what I'm livin' out.
Pick 'em, let me pick 'em out.
Spin and let me whip it out.
Gat to your face with the fuckin' bullets stickin' out.
Missin' out, dissin' bout.
Blood's what you're pissin' out.
84... I'm crazy whore.
Shootin' up, I'm illin' out.
Rippin' out, I'm trippin' out.
Different now, I'm pimpin' out.
Any color at my belt and ouch while they're clippin out.
Criminal I'm hittin' out.
In L.A. no gettin' out.
213, pack your p.  Fly wicked style.
Listen now, I'm sinnin' out.
A 6-pack I'm sippin' out.  Ha, ha, ha, ha.
It's a wicked world that we live in.  It's cruel and unforgiving.
It's a wicked world that we live in.  It's cruel and unforgiving.
Woo woo.  Woo woo.  Woo woo.  Woo woo.
Yo, representin O-town.  2002 baby.  Transplants.  What.  Ha, ha, ha.
Woo woo.  Woo woo.  Woo woo.  Woo woo. Woo woo.  Woo woo.

Quick Death
"And I ask you, my brothers and sisters, who is the true animal?"
Looks so violent.
Death is silent.
Beating me with your words (I was bleeding death).

It hadn't eaten.
It was about to howl.
Devils surround me.
Eager to stop me.
Tearing about my soul (beneath my guts).

Burning within and I seem to have lost control.
"And now, my brothers and sisters, the inversion begins."
Forever in night light.
Loosing in hindsight.
Ownership changes hands (you'll never know).
Ownership through me (proceeding slowly).
Welcome the human howl.
I've got you a new fight.
Back in a street light.
Leaving this place behind (your final sign).
Back in the true peace (longing for release).
For lessons I'll take your life.
I'll have you, I'll have you wishing for...
I'll have you, I'll have you wishing for...
I'll have you, I'll have you wishing for...
I'll have you, I'll have you...
I'll have you, I'll have you wishing for...
I'll have you, I'll have you wishing for...
I'll have you, I'll have you wishing for...
I'll have you, I'll have you wishing for...
A quick death...
A quick death...
A quick death...
A quick death...
A quick death...
A quick death...
A quick death...
A quick death...
A quick death...
A quick death.
I'll have you, I'll have you wishing for...
I'll have you, I'll have you wishing for...
I'll have you, I'll have you wishing for...
I'll have you, I'll have you...
I'll have you, I'll have you wishing for...
I'll have you, I'll have you wishing for...
I'll have you, I'll have you wishing for...
I'll have you, I'll have you wishing for...
Wishing for...

Sad But True
When the fog comes through the golden gate and the moon shines on the bay.
And everything has changed now that you have gone away.
Things are getting darker and its harder for me to see.
And now you're an angel lookin' over me.
Back up, back up.  It's what you get.
Beat up, keyed up.  This rocky road.
Back up, back up.  It's what you get.
Beat up, keyed up.  This rocky road.
Sad but true, but the list is too long.
If I had to name you all it wouldn't fit in this song.
This magnums got me thinkin' and its making me pissed.
Your lives were took too early, you will always be missed.
All the mothers who cry and the fathers who mourn.
For every life thats taken there's another child born.
That doesn't make it better and it doesn't make it right.
I'm just thankful everyday that you came in my life.
Back up, back up.  It's what you get.
Beat up, keyed up.  This rocky road.
Back up, back up.  It's what you get.
Beat up, keyed up.  This rocky road.
In a dream you take a trip down Shattuck to Durant.
Up the hill, to the steps.  Sproul Plaza and Telegraph.
You pass Channing.  You pass Derby.
You go to Ashby.  Down to Adeline.
Take MLK to Fifty-fourth and go down to Genoa.
Yeah, and follow the bart tracks to Harmon street...
ahhh, Harmon street...
Harmon street...
Harmon street.
Yeah, it's reoccurring.
It's like a dream I live a thousand times.
Yeah, and it's always like the very first time.
As time goes on I can never forget,
all the times we had.  Memories I protect.
Seems like yesterday when I last saw your face.
You're no longer here and no one can replace,
all the times we had.  Wish they could happen again.
I'll hold you in my heart... in my heart till the end.
If I could make a change, it'd be me not you.
So hard to sit and cope.  So sad but true.
Back up, back up.  It's what you get.
Beat up, keyed up.  This rocky road.
Back up, back up.  It's what you get.
Beat up, keyed up.  This rocky road.

Weigh On My Mind
I got so many problems (I got so many problems).
And they weigh on my mind (And they weigh on my mind, now).
I don't solve 'em, no, I just cause them (I don't solve 'em, I just cause 'em).
And they weigh on my mind (And they weigh on my mind now).
Tell me, where do you go when your money's all gone?
When your friends are all gone?  When your love is all gone?
No right turns, always seem to be wrong.
All goes bad, it's so hard to be strong.
It's an uphill battle I don't think I can win.
I try to do right, but I'm surrounded by sin.
Say, he's a better man, don't compare me to him.
I've climbed the highest tree, now I'm stuck on a limb.
I got so many problems (I got so many problems).
And they weigh on my mind (And they weigh on my mind, now).
I don't solve 'em, no, I just cause them (I don't solve 'em, I just cause 'em).
And they weigh on my mind (And they weigh on my mind now).
I look for guiding light, but the bulbs they all burned out.
Got up to the door and the lights, they all turned out.
Said they couldn't teach me so I guess I'm all learned out.
Saw my soul die, didn't fly, it just squirmed out.
In the blink of an eye I turned my home to a house.
I know what to say, but no words will come out.
My time's almost up, I don't have any doubt.
I said my time's almost up and I don't have any doubt.
I'm gonna hold on as long as I can here.
And my American dream... I have some doubt there.
I'm gonna hold on as long as I can here.
And my American dream... I have some doubt there.
And I don't wanna fight here.
I got so many problems (I got so many problems).
And they weigh on my mind (And they weigh on my mind, now).
I don't solve 'em, no, I just cause them (I don't solve 'em, I just cause 'em).
And they weigh on my mind (And they weigh on my mind now).
Yeah.  I got so many problems (I got so many problems).
And they weigh on my mind (And they weigh on my mind, now).
I don't solve 'em, no, I just cause them (I don't solve 'em, I just cause 'em).
And they weigh on my mind (And they weigh on my mind now).
Weigh on my mind...
Weigh on my mind...
Weigh on my mind.

One Seventeen
I'm not taken no chance tonight.
I'm gonna pack me a gat tonight.
Uh, I'm gonna sell me some sacks tonight.
And if it all goes well and I'm stacked tonight...
We can all kick back and we can laugh tonight.
Your off track tonight.  And if you snooze you lose.
You slept, we crept.  Your being broke and bruised.
That's the life I choose... guns, drugs, and booze.
And we can get down right here in the street.
You choose to live on your knees, I'd rather die on my feet.
Yeah, Shelia is a mess.  Uh,
She comes from Modesto.
And you confessed.  Uh,
I don't wanna let go.
She will do her best though.
Death to confession.
Everythings ok...
If she goes and says so.
She's gonna load 'em up.
Tie it up, now boot it up.
Shoot 'em up... shoot 'em up.
Cigarette, now smoke it up.
I got my coder up
Cigarette, now smoke it up.
She not my sister.
I love to watch her tear it up.
And we can get down right here in the street.
You choose to live on your knees, I'd rather die on my feet.
And we can get down right here in the street.
You choose to live on your knees, I'd rather die on my feet.

California Babylon
Watch me.
Waitress out dressed like nurses in bondage.
Brought me the check, said, "I want you to sign this."
Union boy standing next to the rastas.
There's gonna be a strike and you ain't gonna stop us.
Three men standing and they love what they do.
You won't see it coming, cause they wanna surprise you.
Consider it done.  They're gonna stand right by you.
American punks don't care about you.
Hollywood what you gonna do?
Hollywood what you gonna do?
Don't say that you don't understand.
Don't say that you can't comprehend.
Don't say that you don't understand.
This is California Babylon, my man.
Don't say that you don't understand.
Don't say that you can't comprehend.
Don't say that you can't understand.
This is California Babylon, my man.
Don't say that you don't understand.
Don't say that you can't comprehend.
Don't say that you don't understand.
This is California Babylon, my man.
You can take away the nights, the sights with bright lights.
Six still ride, engage in street fights.
Two to the head, pull around, he's dead.
Suspect fled, caught up with bloodshed.
No sign of hope, we fight and sling dope.
Junkies shooting up.  No fix, they can't cope.
Violence won't cease, hand me the crow piece.
No peace or sleep, we fight with police.
This is the city that'll make all your dreams come true... so pay attention (Woo woo).
Don't say that you don't understand (Woo woo).
Don't say that you can't comprehend (Woo woo).
Don't say that you don't understand (Woo woo).
This is California Babylon, my man (Woo woo).
Don't say that you don't understand (Woo woo).
Don't say that you can't comprehend (Woo woo).
Don't say that you don't understand (Woo woo).
This is California Babylon, my man.
At last she arrived, returned and exhausted.
Cocaine in her pocket.  She can get busted.
Once again she passes... now she's gone.
Now she's with her friend... her beautiful young.
She showed up on the scene,
she was 17.
Now she's 21.
She does some more coke.
She does some more coke
She drinks some whiskey and she smokes some dope.
She thinks she's a star.
She thinks she's a star.
She thinks she's a star.
She thinks she's a star.
Do you know who you are?
Do you know who you are?
Do you know who you are?
Do you know who you are?
Don't say that you don't understand.
Don't say that you can't comprehend.
Don't say that you don't understand.
This is California Babylon, my man.
Don't say that you don't understand.
Don't say that you can't comprehend.
Don't say that you don't understand.
This is California Babylon, my man.
Don't say that you don't understand.
Don't say that you can't comprehend.
Don't say that you don't understand.
This is California Babylon, my man (Woo woo).
Don't say that you don't understand (Woo woo).
Don't say that you can't comprehend (Woo woo).
Don't say that you don't understand (Woo woo).
This is California Babylon, my man (Woo woo).
Don't say that you don't understand (Woo woo).
Don't say that you can't comprehend (Woo woo).
Don't say that you don't understand (Woo woo).
This is California Babylon, my man (Woo woo).
Woo woo...
Woo woo...
Woo woo...
Woo woo...
Woo woo...
Woo woo...
Woo woo...

We Trusted You
We trusted you, we put out a helping hand
Only in return, we get a stabbing in the back

I paid a visit to a man who was pretty crazy
Cooled off in the shade, we were feelin' lazy
Trouble starts coming , nothing can phase me
When tomorrow looks very hazy
Took us for granted, let's start here
Friendship over, so very clear
Then what is fair is gonna be fair
Fuck you...you're over

It's time to weed out the weak, do away with their lives
I see it so clear now, through my open eyes
Stood by your side, you put a knife in my back
Never ever thought it'd be you who would do me like that
But we live and we learn, or so it's said
One thing about you, I can't wait till you're dead
The mistakes I've made won't happen again
Keep my enemies closer than I keep my friends

It's got me fucked up, I just can't let it go
Will we ever be the same? Well my answer is no
Think about your death every goddamn day
Wanna know what I think? This is what I must say
I say we line 'em all up, then we gun 'em all down
Then we all celebrate when they all hit the ground
Don't wake up now, it's gonna be too late
Don't give me that shit about cleaning the slate
You've been at it too long, all your life that I've checked
Now your time's almost up with a noose on your neck
Smile in my face, better watch your back
Two-faced motherfucker gets both jaws cracked

[chorus]

[instrumental]

If you don't stand for nothing I can't really stand behind you
Who knew you withdrew your point of view
I lost mine, you cry and whine all the time
And I cant stand aside or anywhere near you
I'd get in check, you're a wreck, no respect,
In effect you elect me to fuckin' hate you
I'll break you down on the ground, I've found
You're a clown, I'm around, you want war? I'll take you
Stand aside, take a ride, I won't try, you're a lie, my lyrical lesson will teach you
So take a stand if you can, my man, go where I stand, I'll hold my hand
But in the real world you get squashed and then stung
Get hit bitch, shit, aw then you get hung
in a fantasy all day long, it must be so fun being so fucking dumb

[chorus]

D.R.E.A.M.
Drugs rule everything around me,
fiend
get the powder,
drink another beer ya'll
[x4]

I keepin underground, it showed me NJ
like macro, cuttin like you can't breath
they call me Diablo let the gun smoke
like Rakim say, kid I ain't no joke
(?) city scapin this
If it's a law kid, we be breakin' it
2001 we makin hits
so one for the treble
two for the bass
three for the nights that puts a lump in your face
the (?) says i get mad with you
get the motherfucker bullets for the crew
I ride for my niggas
die for my niggas
get your body get high on my niggas
the bitch rap breaker rappin decapitated
diablo, eagles, MC, eliminator
what up playa? MC, Slayer
kill you in your dreams muffle your screams
put you in the earth, make you shake like a fiend
(?) with your TLS
spit fire and burn the hairs off your chest

Mr. hard to get along with
you wanna write a song with
any given time you can catch me with a bomb bitch
you think you catch me slippin?
I think you better stop
bitch(?) leave your motherfuckin wig split
step back before you get smacked, no runnin' from it
you too, I'll take you to school, you ain't above it
I stay rock, hardcore, have you screamin "no more"?
I'll bust you in the face, point and laugh while your blood pours

Mr. Bigshot, latino Gambino, rest in peace to my brother King Gino
you can catch me on the West Coast, with a fly-ass stripper tied to my bed-post
lookin' like Alicia Keys on her knees, lickin' the bag, just for a freeze
he knows me baby (?)
(?) happy and invisible
we thug-killers, Ice Grill-as, wildin' out like a pack of gorillas
you know man get the fam must be jokin'
must be the dust you be smokin'
(?) I wanna heavy metal smoke-ya
stomp your ass like a roach-a
player like a mom (?)
(?) coffin
trapped in a daze like Christopher Walken
now look who's talkin'
(?) smile (?) danny diablo's ok the devil's child

LA (rockin')
The Queens (keep rockin')
Transplants (rockin')
Diablo (keep rockin')
[x4]

Drugs rule everything around me,
fiend
get the powder,
drink another beer ya'll
[x8]

Down In Oakland
this song goes out to a good friend of mine
He lives life to the fullest, (yeah) every single day

Down in Oakland
I'm gonna find them
I'm gonna get them
I'll go rewind them
You can not hide them
I will go find them
Oh down in Oakland
It's such a sinner

With a hard boy drunken Ballentine
He's got 7 teeth left in his head, yea
He works at dark's in the day
At night he walks with the dead
And this lady come over to him
She want us take him for a ride
She said, "This dirty old town got no place a hide"

Time going away in town
And you got nowhere to go
Oh you can not move around
When your stuck in a blizzard snow
You wear your royals and eights
And you choose what's gonna be a sight
She said, "This dirty old town got no place a hide"

Down in Oakland
I'm gonna find them
I'm gonna get them
I'll go rewind them
You can not hide them
I will go find them
Oh down in Oakland
It's such a sinner

"Hey, where am I?"

Down in Oakland
I'm gonna find them
I'm gonna get them
I'll go rewind them
You can not hide them
I will go find them
Oh down in Oakland
It's such a sinner
 

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