Don't hide the treasures you've found in a hole in the ground, how 'bout the tree back your house where the owls go, or in between the attic and the basement somewhere where it's not dark, dark, dark, dark. Attic in a basement with a knife serrated I'll protect you. Don't hide the pleasures you've found in your rolling around where all the leaves have been swept and the flowers grow. And don't go finding a replacement I promise I'll show heart heart heart heart. Finding a replacement with a heart sedated I'll forget you. And you won't make a sound or be nervous around piles of pictures so old that it feels like it is ending. It's not too late now to change your mind. The grass gets greener when you get to the finish line, An attic in a basement, An attic in a basement, An attic in a basement, An attic in a basement, An attic in a basement, An attic in a basement. And you won't make

I hear something in the basement ...ices speaking there in whispers ...But the dust out there was ...wer running out for the outside ...I told the doctor of my sympto... tired like a small bird ...I just lay there on the bedspread ...Listening to voices in the basement ...Or is that voices in my head? ...wer running out for the outside ...(I hear something in the basement)

Yo, this is the Fugees ...Into the dimensions of the Booka basement ...The basement, word ... yo, one two three! The crew is called Re-F... if you come fa tes the rap style ...Stop the violence and just b...I pay the toll fighting for m...Cause the bourgeois type of m...But I be baiting the rebel base to bass distort the EQ ...The devil's wishing the...re whyling so I ask the bad black ...ogie bandit, what's the damage, gimme the estimate then ...Pray tell me when's the revolution will beg...I'm like the phantom that's flying like the bird do ...rd plus I come from the suburbs ...hey was shooting on the boulevard ...(You got the vocab) I got the vocab ...(On the real got the vocab) You know we got the vocab ...(All my peeps got the vocab) Yeah, we got the vocab ...Hey yo Praz, grab the mic and show you got the gift of gab ...You see the skills I manifest i...I'm forming the cipher fly East to the Five Percenter ...Cast the first stone, if you...'re father, who art in heaven ...Forgive the foolish rapper for ..., 'nough respect to the ... that be selecting, the type of record ...Hey yo Clef grab the mic and show you got the gift of gab ...Back in Eighty-tree, no one...Kill the gimmick ...Back in the days I used to list...ol J came with Rock the Bells! ...See I'm the one for the crew, like a Jew is...Like Apollo got the moon, like the men who got the blue ...Like the Fu got the Manchu, Chaka got the Zulu ...Hawaii got the Honolulu ...I got the rap lieu, so skippe...You do the rock-rock from hip-...Hey yo peeps, grab the mic and show you got the gift of gab ...n] Aiyyo, bros grab the mic and show you got the gift of gab ...(DC got the vocab) Word, y'all got the vocab ...(Virginia got the vocab) hey, I know y'all got the vocab ...(Oakland got the vocab) Word, they got the vocab ...ey yo, sisters grab the mic and show you got the gift of gab

Yo, this is the Fugees ...Into the dimensions of the Booka basement ...The basement, word ... yo, one two three! The crew is called Re-F... if you come fa tes the rap style ...Stop the violence and just b...I pay the toll fighting for m...Cause the bourgeois type of m...But I be baiting the rebel base to bass distort the EQ ...The devil's wishing the...re whyling so I ask the bad black ...ogie bandit, what's the damage, gimme the estimate then ...Pray tell me when's the revolution will beg...I'm like the phantom that's flying like the bird do ...rd plus I come from the suburbs ...hey was shooting on the boulevard ...(You got the vocab) I got the vocab ...(On the real got the vocab) You know we got the vocab ...(All my peeps got the vocab) Yeah, we got the vocab ...Hey yo Praz, grab the mic and show you got the gift of gab ...You see the skills I manifest i...I'm forming the cipher fly East to the Five Percenter ...Cast the first stone, if you...'re father, who art in heaven ...Forgive the foolish rapper for ..., 'nough respect to the ... that be selecting, the type of record ...Hey yo Clef grab the mic and show you got the gift of gab ...Back in Eighty-tree, no one...Kill the gimmick ...Back in the days I used to list...ol J came with Rock the Bells! ...See I'm the one for the crew, like a Jew is...Like Apollo got the moon, like the men who got the blue ...Like the Fu got the Manchu, Chaka got the Zulu ...Hawaii got the Honolulu ...I got the rap lieu, so skippe...You do the rock-rock from hip-...Hey yo peeps, grab the mic and show you got the gift of gab ...n] Aiyyo, bros grab the mic and show you got the gift of gab ...(DC got the vocab) Word, y'all got the vocab ...(Virginia got the vocab) hey, I know y'all got the vocab ...(Oakland got the vocab) Word, they got the vocab ...ey yo, sisters grab the mic and show you got the gift of gab

First up it's the nuts up, what's up ...to the niggas from the projects ...Prospect Park in Brooklyn, I'm looki...Committed by the brothers on this rh...Just freestylin in a cipher, I take the life of MCs ... you're wack we got the right to seize ...amar show and prove the rules I kick ... motherfuckers with the rhymes that I struc...In my third eye, know ...ou could sound like the GODs from the town ...of the Rule, you ain't got the urge, bust it down ...now I smoke it like the flame to the tip of that bud, we...that funky, that's the only way we know ho...ve you spinnin like the washin machine befo...On the late night, blunted in the basement with Sadat ...sure as the sun's gonna rise, send me the drum ...kin off a shot from the mental insight ...pum pum, push up on the one ...r.Intellect-And-Sex in the flesh ...I'm rougher than the hair on your girl's...ne verse, time come in ...Step correct to the brother with the dark complexion ...When the corrupt stuff in my mind starts to e...Even the hard niggas will be...Rearrange em up, in other words I chang...e a nigga fall like the season ...'s what happened to the last kid ...In the rap profession, I'm not the one for testin ...I'm the first to let'cha kn...So bring all the flunkies you roll w...our ass sneakin out the backdoor ...ant to get your ass in ... come out'cha mouth in the wrong fashion ...Feel the wind blow through y...e and your mom work the double shift ...Peace to the squad, One-Eighth, ...I'm the type of nigga that'll walk down the street ...Hear me on the wop tape BAM!! HIT ...Hear me with the rhythm, yo you bett...., Teepee wheelnose in ...Satan, the early bird, aiyo th...My man Joon with the 'erb to the moon ...d I'm straight from the Rule

h.. senorita.. when the evening sun go down... reportin live from the streets ...You know we still in the hood dog, in front of the store ...With the work across the street and the gun in the stall ...ggaz want to run to the law ...You know the code of the streets, never run to the law ... down bottom with a bird and a glock ...On the block makin money w... digits, niggaz bet the house or the car ...can catch me hittin the spliff, sick in the pit ...On the fiend like I'm miss...me hittin your lady in my Mercedes ...Bird on your baby, fuck ...L.O.X. hold the hammers ...Comin live from the streets where some ...iddo, always played the middle ...Threw flacks in the crack game, getchu ...ince a buck, played the highway, dodgin the troop boys ...Jumpin in and out of Coupes, ...ke my name, global, in all four corners ...hilly baller, gamin in all four quarters ...I'm the best thing that lin...ttin further - fill in the details ... high up, seem like the sky ducked, high wh...u've got game? Call the name, just spell the name right ...Brett, one of the best rappers ever t... joints, I'm beyond the norm, why'all just ...why'all the type to hit three h...Come live from the streets, from Harle...ntroducin, finally, the legendary cool G. ...am' camouflaged out in the grass waitin ... and bash your face in ...top bodies and half in the basement ...e staff there's gas in the tank and ...Hold fort, hold the blow torch, leave y...with no remorse, the state of New York, ...en niggaz hawk, let the fifth talk ...So tell me who's the next man to flip? ...I stop the beef shit, with rub...The hammers hit, anything in our range we disman...for hurtin why'all, the previous has been b

First up it's the nuts up, what's up ...to the niggas from the projects ...Prospect Park in Brooklyn, I'm looki...Committed by the brothers on this rh...Just freestylin in a cipher, I take the life of MCs ... you're wack we got the right to seize ...amar show and prove the rules I kick ... motherfuckers with the rhymes that I struc...In my third eye, know ...ou could sound like the GODs from the town ...of the Rule, you ain't got the urge, bust it down ...now I smoke it like the flame to the tip of that bud, we...that funky, that's the only way we know ho...ve you spinnin like the washin machine befo...On the late night, blunted in the basement with Sadat ...sure as the sun's gonna rise, send me the drum ...kin off a shot from the mental insight ...pum pum, push up on the one ...r.Intellect-And-Sex in the flesh ...I'm rougher than the hair on your girl's...ne verse, time come in ...Step correct to the brother with the dark complexion ...When the corrupt stuff in my mind starts to e...Even the hard niggas will be...Rearrange em up, in other words I chang...e a nigga fall like the season ...'s what happened to the last kid ...In the rap profession, I'm not the one for testin ...I'm the first to let'cha kn...So bring all the flunkies you roll w...our ass sneakin out the backdoor ...ant to get your ass in ... come out'cha mouth in the wrong fashion ...Feel the wind blow through y...e and your mom work the double shift ...Peace to the squad, One-Eighth, ...I'm the type of nigga that'll walk down the street ...Hear me on the wop tape BAM!! HIT ...Hear me with the rhythm, yo you bett...., Teepee wheelnose in ...Satan, the early bird, aiyo th...My man Joon with the 'erb to the moon ...d I'm straight from the Rule

h.. senorita.. when the evening sun go down... reportin live from the streets...You know we still in the hood dog, in front of the store...With the work across the street and the gun in the stall...ggaz want to run to the law...You know the code of the streets, never run to the law... down bottom with a bird and a glock...On the block makin money w... digits, niggaz bet the house or the car...can catch me hittin the spliff, sick in the pit...On the fiend like I'm miss...me hittin your lady in my Mercedes...Bird on your baby, fuck ...L.O.X. hold the hammers...Comin live from the streets where some ...iddo, always played the middle...Threw flacks in the crack game, getchu ...ince a buck, played the highway, dodgin the troop boys...Jumpin in and out of Coupes, ...ke my name, global, in all four corners...hilly baller, gamin in all four quarters...I'm the best thing that lin...ttin further - fill in the details... high up, seem like the sky ducked, high wh...u've got game? Call the name, just spell the name right...Brett, one of the best rappers ever t... joints, I'm beyond the norm, why'all just ...why'all the type to hit three h...Come live from the streets, from Harle...ntroducin, finally, the legendary cool G....am' camouflaged out in the grass waitin... and bash your face in...top bodies and half in the basement...e staff there's gas in the tank and...Hold fort, hold the blow torch, leave y...with no remorse, the state of New York, ...en niggaz hawk, let the fifth talk...So tell me who's the next man to flip?...I stop the beef shit, with rub...The hammers hit, anything in our range we disman...for hurtin why'all, the previous has been b

h.. senorita.. when the evening sun go down... reportin live from the streets...You know we still in the hood dog, in front of the store...With the work across the street and the gun in the stall...ggaz want to run to the law...You know the code of the streets, never run to the law... down bottom with a bird and a glock...On the block makin money w... digits, niggaz bet the house or the car...can catch me hittin the spliff, sick in the pit...On the fiend like I'm miss...me hittin your lady in my Mercedes...Bird on your baby, fuck ...L.O.X. hold the hammers...Comin live from the streets where some ...iddo, always played the middle...Threw flacks in the crack game, getchu ...ince a buck, played the highway, dodgin the troop boys...Jumpin in and out of Coupes, ...ke my name, global, in all four corners...hilly baller, gamin in all four quarters...I'm the best thing that lin...ttin further - fill in the details... high up, seem like the sky ducked, high wh...u've got game? Call the name, just spell the name right...Brett, one of the best rappers ever t... joints, I'm beyond the norm, why'all just ...why'all the type to hit three h...Come live from the streets, from Harle...ntroducin, finally, the legendary cool G....am' camouflaged out in the grass waitin... and bash your face in...top bodies and half in the basement...e staff there's gas in the tank and...Hold fort, hold the blow torch, leave y...with no remorse, the state of New York, ...en niggaz hawk, let the fifth talk...So tell me who's the next man to flip?...I stop the beef shit, with rub...The hammers hit, anything in our range we disman...for hurtin why'all, the previous has been b

The wings are wide, the wings are wide ...Wild card in sight, wild card in sight ...Ooh, I'll be the one who'll break my...I'll be the one to hope come ...Ooh, I'll be the one who'll break my...I'll be the one to hope come ... know I want to win the war ...your weight against the door ...Kick-drum on the basement floor ...Stranded in the thought of woods ...Looking like the winter bird ...On my head the water pours ...Cops stream through the open door ...Fly away the one who want to mak...The wings are wide, the wings are wide ...Wild card in sight, wild card in sight ...Ooh, I'll be the one who'll break my...I'll be the one who'll break my...I'll be the one who'll break my...The truth lies ...The truth lies

I bring the ruckus for you brot...The roughneck, green-ey...od swing my shit to the basement ...The grand imperial, wit... God, I rock toward the right ...en I Set it Off, on the left just for spite...The E Double bring the brofunkadelcreeptic...or blade dressed up in a black tuxedo ...o Reggie Noble, and the Shaq ...oming straight from the sluggish part, of N...anosaurus Rex blows the discotheque ...I pose the threat, like an Ara... HAH, nigga look up in the sky ... bird, fuck, I took the frame, that's my wo...I put the Crypt Keeper in a sleeper, eureka here's the feature ...ot amnesia that I'm the ultimate funk ...Pop the trunk, ALLRIGHTY TH...My friend, bust the maneveur ...I'm comin down with the funk ...n, six million ways in to die ...The world is mine, all ...ck to treat between the line even Ray Charl...will smash him with the alley apple ...Shaq, is back in effect, so how's th

s your back against the wall? ...Or just across the line ...e you been standing in the rain ...Try spending the night sometime ...All alone in a frozen room ...Your Saddle in the rain ...Down in my basement ...Like a bird in a foreign sky ...Or come and share the pain ...My Saddle's in the rain ...And hadn't hit the bottom yet ...I had him up to the house one time ...His Saddle in the rain ...In a laundromat not to...From the Alamo ...Heaven knows the load she pulled ...Couldn't take the strain ...A Saddle in the rain

Leave the basement life...And not the landlord's wife....Celebrate the first flight window...Bird's eye view....I'll try to play the guitar....Pass by the morning...Let the silence settle in our bones....To light the room....Take it all in stride...I'll try to play the guitar....Pass by the morning...Let the silence settle in our bones....To light the room....I can see you happy in the shadows I despise....I'll try to play the guitar....I'll try to play the guitar....I'll try to play the guitar....I'll try to play the guitar.

The wings are wide, the wings are wide...Wild card in sight, wild card in sight...Ooh, I'll be the one who'll break my...I'll be the one to hold a gun...Ooh, I'll be the one who'll break my...I'll be the one to hold a gun... know I want to win the war...your weight against the door...Kick-drum on the basement floor...Stranded in the thought of woods...Looking like the winter bird...On my head the water pours...Cops stream through the open door...Fly away the one who want to mak...The wings are wide, the wings are wide...Wild card in sight, wild card in sight...Ooh, I'll be the one who'll break my...I'll be the one who'll break my...I'll be the one who'll break my...The truth lies...The truth lies