Walking through the city Looking oh so pretty I've just got to find my way See the ladies flashing All there legs and lashes I've just got to find my
I used to ride up on the hill And look down at the darkened Silhouettes of tall black windowsills And my heart jumped
could get that ring But i hear all the hottie hotties in the place sing (Keri Hilson) The tide is high but I'm holding on(the tide is high baby) I'm
got no love, fuck scrub She come to move the crew I'll take niggas oldschool back like some gucci suits I weigh 'em down like tide, so you can't see
and fortune Is the fortunate part Is there a guarantee To where we'll be As time pass on One of us passive progressive The other mad calm Combine a hundred rhymes Swollen Members Black
up like a cup of tide Let me know I got the heat when you think it's time to dry [Mekhi Phifer] What you think you talkin 'bout mistake me for some other
to swim or learn to sink Or stand with the ocean to your neck and sunken feet You're the mask on my face at the masquerade, painted black You can take
the doorbell Hello man in black He's gonna make you all well There's no goin' back But hey now you don't feel better As you drift off in the tide Maybe
ways into the mind But you?re lookin for the verbs and nouns Po? you, wat'cha wanna do, switch rooms? And walk around space with your black and blue
old Union Avenue And it breaks that southern lady's heart in two There's an old black man sittin' out front of a shotgun house And on the other side
Desire wore a special name, made to snatch Your soul away, yeah We sailed away on a crimson tide, Down the river, Left my heart on the other side All
There was light and atomic fission Swelling wind, rising ash, tide of black rain Cement seared shadow traces Reminiscent of their last commands Instantly
up Like a cup of Tide Let me know I got the heat When you think it's time to dry [Mekhi] Who you think you talkin' bout? Mistaking me for some other
you and make you Everything you've ever dreamed Make fast the guns tonight we sail When the high tide floods the bay Cut free the lines And square the yards Get the black
my dream scarlet Upsetting my soul from sleep And now I dream of myself Transformed and born again Free from the earthen death tides Entering dreams of others
painted my dream scarlet Upsetting my soul from sleep And now I dream of myself Transformed and born again Free from the earthen death tides Entering dreams of others
Throw yourself at the tide I'll see you on the other side In a loveless marriage when I was fourteen All brained knees and black knees Then you come
