[Jay Z] Uh huh
[$hort] That’s right
[Jay Z] Uh huh uh it was all good just a week ago
[$hort] Last week I had everything
[Jay Z] Uh uh huh uh had this all good just a week ago
[$hort] I had the money.. had the cars the bitches
[Jay Z] Uh huh yeah it was all good just a week ago
[$hort] and the jewelry..
and then my motherfuckin niggaz started snitchin
[Jay Z] Uh huh uh uh, yo
[$hort] Beyotch!

Verse One: Jay-Z

Growin up in the hood just my dog and me
We used to hustle in the hood for, all to see
Problems, I called on him, he called on me
We wasn’t quite partners, I hit him off my P
Met him unlocked doors, off my keys
Yeah we spoke, much more than cordially
Man he broke bread with me, my business spreads with me
The Feds came to get me, we both fled quickly
Wasn’t quick enough to jump over the hedges with me
Got caught, and that’s when our relationship strayed
Used to call me from the joint til he ran out of change
And when he called collect and I heard his name
I quickly accepted, but when I reached the phone
he’s talkin reckless, I can sense deceit in his tone
I said, “Damn dawg, what, nine weeks and you’re home?”
He said, “Main man, you think shit’s sweet cause you’re home.”
I just sat, spat no more speech in the phone
The crackers up there bleachin your dome, you’re reachin
I said, “The world don’t stop I’ve got to keep keep on.”
From there I sensed the beef was on
I ran to the spot, store to add some more features to my phone
To see if I had bugs and leeches on my phone
Can’t be too safe cause niggaz is two-faced
And they show the other side when they catch a new case
It’s on

Chorus: Too $hort, Jay-Z

It was cool when you had hella weed to smoke
And you bought a new home where you could keep the folks
I don’t see how this side of you could be provoked
(Uh-huh, uh-huh, it was all good just a week ago)

Funny what, seven days can change
A stand up nigga, now you sit down to aim
Used to have a firm grip now you droppin names
Uh-huh, uh-huh (It was all good just a week ago)

Verse Two: Jay-Z

Like I put the toast to your head and made you sell
We both came in this game, blind as hell
I did a little better, had more clientele
Told you put away some cheddar now you cryin for bail
Seventeen and I’m holdin on to around a mill
I could bail out and blow trial and come around on the pill
Had niggaz thinkin I was from Uptown for real
I had so much hustle plus I was down to ill
Like a Brooklyn nigga, straight out of Brownsville
Down and dirty, down to fight the round thirty
Freezin on them corners still holdin my crack
Lookin up and down the block, the fuck is the dough at?
Came from flat broke to lettin the dough stack
You tell them feds I said I’m never goin back
I’m from Marcy, and Marcy don’t raise no rats
You know the consequences of your acts, you can’t be serious

Chorus

Verse Three: Jay-Z

The lawyer I retained you said you leakin some things
All this after a week in the bang
I’m mad at myself cause I didn’t spot the weak and lame
I woulda bet the house you wouldn’t speak a thang
Nigga this was the oath, to the top of broke
Even pricked our finger, anything that got between us
we sposed to cock the ninas, what happened to that?
Instead you copped out to a misdemeanor
Fuck it, the same thing make you laugh make you cry
That’s right, the same game that make you mad could make you die
It’s a dice game, and sometimes you crap
Who woulda thought you’d get popped one time and rap?
Now you know that’s bad when your sister is mad
and your son gotta grow up like, “This is my dad?”
The labelling of a snitch is a lifetime scar
You’ll always be in jail nigga, just minus the bars

Ch

(Phil Barnhart/Sam Hogin/Jim McBride)

His name was Travis, hers was Vanessa
Two Texas kids from west of Odessa
Young love and lust defy rational thinkin’
They were hotter than an oil field on fire
When you’re that young everything’s crucial
You don’t wait around for parental approval
So he asked the question and she answered yes
They jumped in his truck and tore out for Juarez

They had an informal wedding south of the border
Got a room with a view for three bucks and a quarter
On a mexican night you don’t care what might lie ahead
They had a wonderful week in Juarez

Now, when the bottom fell out of his chosen vocation
They were too broke to move to a greener location
Bills you can’t pay put a strain on devotion
They decided to just call it quits
Well, it might have been luck or divine intervention
But on the way to the lawyer divorce wasn’t mentioned
He said I still love you, she looked at him
And said I know a great way to start over again

They had an informal wedding south of the border
Got a room with a view for three bucks and a quarter
On a mexican night you don’t care what might lie ahead
They had a wonderful week in Juarez

His name was Travis, hers was Vanessa
Two Texas kids from west of Odessa

SHOUT!

Heavy! You want it heavy!
Welcome to my world, either way you pick you’re winding down
Heavy! I want it heavy!
Welcome to my world, either way you pick you’re winding down again

Gather your pathetic masses and bring them to me
To a world devoid of lie
To another time, to another place
And then they pick a man, (?) tastes my misery
Rip away her disguise and brothel the lies that ya find
The truth is sickening!
We don’t need to change it, really
I kind of like it ugly!

Lay it mean! It binding! Seathing! Blinding! Screaming!

Gather your psychotic masses and bring them to me
To a world devoid of sanity
Another time, & another place
And then the violence creates calamity
Rip away her disguise and brothel the lies that ya find
The truth is sickening!
We don’t need to change it, really
I kind of like it ugly!

The race of the Mother Culture is thickening!
The rape of the Mother Culture is nearing!
The face of the Mother Culture is sickening!
The rape of a Mother is the loving I need
Bleeding now – 1! 2! 3! 4!

There’s a tomcat in the alley scarin’ up a fight
There’s a mother softly kissing her little one goodnight
There’s peace and then there’s chaos, reality and dreams
We’re all trying to strike a balance between a whisper and a scream

Sometimes I need atttention when you need left alone
Sometimes you feel like clinging when I feel like being gone
But love me soft and tender and we’ll make the rafters ring
As long as we meet somewhere between a whisper and a scream

Well, I know you’ll be listening
And you know I’ll be there
Between a whisper and a scream we’ll find a prayer
Well I used to blow up easy and put my fist right through a wall

You were shut down like a holiday not feeling much at all
But we met there at the crossroad goin’ to extremes
Thank God we found each other between a whisper and a scream
Somehow we found each other between a whisper and a scream

Did you ever notice when the sun goes down
Out of nowhere comes a strange and pretty sound
It’s a whistling tune for walking in the night
If you listen you can hear it in the breeze
Specially when the breeze is drifting through the trees

It’s a whistling tune for walking in the night
And the murmuring waters sing the song
The echoing mountains hum along
The whispering valleys fill the air
With a whistling tune our hearts can share

It’s so wonderful to walk beneath the moon
Listening to old mother nature’s favorite tune
It’s a whistling tune for walking in the night

A white sport coat and a pink carnation
I’m all dressed up for the dance.
A white sport coat and a pink carnation,
I’m all alone in romance.

(BRIDGE)

Once you told me long ago, to the prom with me
you’d go, now you’ve changed your mind,
it seems someone else will hold my dreams.
A white sport coat and a pink carnation, I’m in a blue, blue mood.

(BACK TO BRIDGE)

We skipped the light fandango
Turned cartwheels cross the floor
I was feeling kind of seasick
The crowd called out for more
The room was humming harder
As the ceiling flew away
When we called out for another drink
But the waiter brought a tray
*And so it was later
As the miller told his tale
That her face at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale
You said there is no reason
And the truth is plain to see
But I wander through my playing cards
And would not let it be
I’m one of the sixteen virgins
Who are leaving for the coast
And although my eyes were open
They might just as well been closed
(*Repeat)
A whiter shade of pale
Turned a whiter shade of pale
A whiter shade of pale

We skipped the light Fandango
Turned cartwheels ‘cross the floor
I was feeling kind of seasick
But the crowd called out for more
The room was humming harder
As the ceiling flew away
When we called out for another drink
The waiter brought a tray

And so it was that later
As the Miller told his tale
That her face, at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale


She said there is no reason
And the truth is plain to see
But I wandered through my playing cards
And I would not let her be
One of the sixteen vestal virgins
Who were leaving for the coast
And although my eyes were open
They might just as well’ve been closed


And so it was that later
As the Miller told his tale
That her face, at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale

We skipped the light fandango
And turned cartwheels across the floor
I was feeling kind of seasick
The crowd called out for more
The room was humming harder
As the ceiling flew away
Whe we called out for another drink
The waiter brought a tray

And so it was that later
As the miller told his tale
That her face at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale

She said there is no reason
And the truth is plain to see
But I wandered through my playing cards
Would not let her be
One of sixteen vestal virgins
Who were leaving for the coast
At the moment my eyes were open
They might just as well have been closed

And so it was that later
As the miller told his tale
That her face at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale

I can show you the world
Shining, shimmering, splendid
Tell me, princess, now when did
You last let your heart decide?

I can open your eyes
Take you wonder by wonder
Over, sideways and under
On a magic carpet ride

A whole new world
A new fantastic point of view
No one to tell us no
Or where to go
Or say we’re only dreaming

A whole new world
A dazzling place I never knew
But when I’m way up here
It’s crystal clear
That now I’m in a whole new world with you
Now I’m in a whole new world with you

Unbelievable sights
Indescribable feeling
Soaring, tumbling, freewheeling
Through an endless diamond sky

A whole new world
Don’t you dare close your eyes
A hundred thousand things to see
Hold your breath – it gets better
I’m like a shooting star
I’ve come so far
I can’t go back to where I used to be

A whole new world
Every turn a surprise
With new horizons to pursue
Every moment red-letter
I’ll chase them anywhere
There’s time to spare
Let me share this whole new world with you

A whole new world
That’s where we’ll be
A thrilling chase
A wondrous place
For you and me