If you got worry on your mind
Pain that’s piling up inside your heart
Take it off

If the piece that you’ve been tryin’ to find
Is held down by a load of lies and scars
Take it off
Take it off

There’s a place that we all try to hide
Covered up with guilty pride we want
Take it off

Just leave your crooked past behind
Look straight into my lovin’ eyes and let’s talk
Take it off

Now baby I ain’t talking
About sexuality
Just close your eyes and lie your naked heart
Down next to me
Let’s wrap ourselves in truth and honesty
Take it off

Baby I ain’t talking
About sexuality
Just close your eyes and lie your naked heart
Down next to me
Let’s wrap ourselves in truth and honesty

If the pressure’s building in on you
I’ll be there to help you through, I’ll try
To take it off

Heard it from a friend who
Heard it from a friend who
Heard it from another you been messin’ around
They say you got a boy friend
You’re up there every weekend
They’re talkin’ about you and it’s bringin’ me down

But I know the neighborhood
And talk is cheap when the story is good
And the tales grow taller on down the line
But I’m telling you, babe
That I don’t think it’s true, babe
And even if it is keep this in mind

{Refrain}
You take it on the run baby
If that’s the way you want it baby
Then I don’t want you around
I don’t believe it, Not for a minute
You’re under the gun so you take it on the run

You’re thinking up your white lies
You’re putting on your bedroom eyes
You say you’re coming home but you won’t say when
But I can feel it coming
If you leave tonight keep running
And you need never look back again

{Refrain x 3}

Heard it from a friend who
Heard it from a friend who
Heard it from another you been messin’ around

You can turn off and on more times
than a flashin’ neon sign.
When you want you’re bad
but you can be so kind

Just take it or leave it
Don’t tell your friend
just what you’re gonna do now
You take it or leave it, it’s just my life

There’ve been times when you tried
makin’ eyes at all my so called friends
Then you go, now you’re back
but you can be so kind

Just take it or leave it
Don’t tell your friend
just what you’re gonna do now
You take it or leave it, it’s just my life

Oh, la la la ta ta ta ta la la la la
Oh, la la la ta ta ta ta la la
Oh, la la la ta ta ta ta la la la la
Oh, la la la ta ta ta ta la la

I’m sick and tired of the smile that you give
when you don’t come home at night
You said you’d call, that’s a lie
but you could be so kind

Just take it or leave it
Don’t tell your friend
just what you’re gonna do now
You take it or leave it, it’s just my life

Oh, la la la ta ta ta ta la la la la
Oh, la la la ta ta ta ta la la
Oh, la la la ta ta ta ta la la la la
Oh, la la la ta ta ta ta la la

Oh, la la la ta ta ta ta la la la la
Oh, la la la ta ta ta ta la la

Verse One:
I’m {easy} easy easy like Sunday morning
I can kick a stupid nervous joint when I’m yawning
Ahhh Common’s comin with that old oh excuse me
Elizabeth this is a big one I mean a dewe dewe
Doogie Howser cause see I’m like Bowser
Kickin it with the sha na na na the t shirt and the
trousers how’s the Family Ties?
I’m left with the gift open it up SUPRISE!
Big bat filet o fish quarter pounder french fries
Icy Coke, milkshake, sundaies and apple pies
And a cup? Nah, that’s enough of that
I’m like an indian giver, yo, give me that back
Comin again hip-pop-pop-pop bring it back selector
We be the thoroughbred, so use your head, play the Trifecta
Common infector, smug MC, heads up!
Ya better duck cause muck-a-luck, it’s me
[Now what’s your name] Common
Come in again… Common
[How would you do it] Common
[Now how was she] Common, check it out!
Common is coming soon to a theater near you
To the U-A-C crew, nuff respect due
Do I do, where I do, when I do
I do do do, yo I do it on the ease
Verse Two:

Take off your shoes
Make you dance in your socks
For blocks
Nigga be dippin a million.
What, hot!
Better pause and take a look.
There’s a whole lot of whores.
Run up in a storm.
Bitch a try to take you for yours for sure.

Word up yo!
And just get what you can.
Catch it, so just play it on a record
And take it off until you ass naked.

Word to mother.
Shorty stack like a horse.
Pushin a force.
Lookin to floss.
Diana Ross.

Flow better.
One of the biggest seller.
Tell me what ever.
Wether a nigga stack mozzarella

I’m a get ya.
I ain’t comin with ya.
Hit ya,
with another scripture
That will really split ya.
Make sure the fact you wack.
And we don’t need none of that.
Keepin it movin.
Now tell me, where my nigga’s is at?

Yo, from here to Brook.
Nigga’s is shook, look.
I make you sing the hawk
Shake your ass.
Wiggle your foot.
I make you

CHORUS:

TAKE IT OFF.
Shit so hot we make you.
TAKE IT OFF.
Give me what you got nigga.
TAKE IT OFF.
And we hit the right spot baby.
TAKE IT OFF.
And everybody if you with me just
TAKE IT OFF.
Shit so hot we make you
TAKE IT OFF.
Give me what you got nigga
TAKE IT OFF.
And when I hit the right spot baby
TAKE IT OFF
And if you with me everybody just
TAKE IT OFF.

Wiggle and bounce baby.
More to the ounce baby
That’s what I be about baby.
Give me a shout baby.
All up in your body.
Whipping the mazorati
Through the city
With one of my hottie.
I’m on my way to the party.
Meet with my nigga Marty
And little and Colie Scotti.
Sippin Baccardi.
‘Till you know we whylin up everybody.
Whip about to cause.
All in the jam
Nigga’s whylin out at the bar.
(OHH)
We keep it movin
(OHH)
Every time yo. (ooh)
Shit that make your DJ
Spin it back 4 times yo.
Let it rain and let it drizzles
Heat in the club be makin you sizzle
All of the bitches right in the middle.
(WORD UP)
I make yall nigga’s smooth.
Making you sweat.
Making you get busy.
Got yall nigga’s loosin your breath.
So I started working this way.
Pass the sting rays.
See me Kunta Kintai.
Check the way me ringai.

Hey Mister DJ
Hit with a replay
Check it
Hey why you all in my face.
Give me some leeway.
Got you doin’ what we say.
Other nigga’s racin
And whylin all on a freeway
Rushin to get in a club
And get all up in the place
Get inside and see FLIPMODE in your face
(ooh)
Now let me take you nigga’s straight to the point.
Now get the party.
Radio be still bangin my joint.
Turn it up a little while I make you.

CHORUS

I bet ya never thought
That it would never turn out like this
Mama’s little girl
Daddy’s little princess

But somewhere in your fairy tale
Everything went wrong
Now the sun don’t shine
The words don’t ryhme
You’re out of time

You’ve been beaten down
Kicked around on the ground
But you took it like a woman
Victimized, terrorized, paralyzed
But you took it like a woman
Pushed too far pulled too hard
Deeply scared
I know you must have felt the pain
But you took it like a woman

Ya thought you had your Mr. Right
But he was really Mr. Hyde
Ya gave him your most precious gift
You were his bleeding bride
He tied you up pulled your hair
He slapped your innocent face
Yeah, you were black and blue
He laughed at you
So what’d you do?

Aw you’ve been beaten down
Kicked around on the ground
But you took it like a woman
Victimized, terrorized, paralyzed
But you took it like a woman
Pushed too far pulled too hard
Deeply scared
I know you must have felt the pain
But you took it like a woman

And so its over
Your fantasy life is finally at an end
And the world above is still a brutal place
And the story will start again

You been beaten down
Kicked around on the ground
But you took it like a woman
Victimized, terrorized, paralyzed
But you took it like a woman
Pushed too far pulled too hard
Deeply scared
I know you must have felt the pain

Felt the pain
I know you must have felt the pain
But you took it like a woman
You took it like a woman
I know you must have felt the pain
You took it like a woman
I know you must have felt the pain
You took it like a woman
I know you must have felt the pain
You took it like a woman

When you won’t go along
Some will feel like you can’t find your way
Heaven knows
Heaven knows I’ve seen it all before
Now don’t get me wrong
I’ve seen many a life gone astray
When someone goes
All your bows won’t make it any better so let it go
CHORUS
Shut up and take it like a man
You need us to get a life
For your own good we’ll take you by the hand
‘Cause you need a little more
Maybe no one will say it
Maybe no one’s aware it goes on
All I know
All I know it’s like going off the deep end
Could you make a decision?
Could you think for yourself and go on?
Everyone knows
Everyone knows you’ve got to fit into the mainstream so save your woes
CHORUS
Close your eyes
Look away now
Make believe while you can
So you’d best go along
Don’t let on if you can’t find your way
Many more
Many more do it for you
Because heaven knows
Heaven knows it’s like playing with fire
Your life’s a throw
CHORUS

“I made it like that, I bought it like that, I’m livin like that” (repeat 2X)
Kool Keith from the Ultramagnetic MC’s ‘Ease Back’

[Nas]
Yo; I never brag, how real I keep it, cause it’s the best secret
I rock a vest, prestigious, Cuban link flooded Jesus
in a Lex watchin Kathie Lee and Regis
My actions are one with the seasons
A tec squeezin – executioner, winter time I rock a fur
Mega popular, center of attraction
Climaxin, my bitches they be laughin
They high from sniffin coke off a twenty-cent Andrew Jackson
City lights spark a New York night
Rossi and Martini sippin, Sergio Tachinni flippin mad pies
low price, I blow dice and throw em
Forty-five by my scrotum, manifest the “Do or Die” slogan
My niggaz roll in ten M3’s
Twenty Gods poppin wheelies on Kawasaki’s
Hip-Hop’s got me on some ol’, sprayin shots like a drumroll
Blankin out and never miscount the shells my gun hold
I don’t stunt, I regulate
Henny and Sprite, I seperate, watchin crab niggaz marinate
I’m all about tecs and good jooks and sex
Israelite books, holdin government names from Ness
MC’s are crawlin out, every hole in the slum
You be aight like blood money in a pimp’s cum

“I made it like that, I bought it like that, I’m livin like that”
“I made it like that, I bought it like that, I’m livin like that..
.. for, you wack MC’s”

[Nas]
Currency is made in trust of the Messiah
I’m spending it to get higher
Earth, Wind, and Fire singing reasons why I’m
up early, trustworthy is a nine that bust early
Sunshine on my grill, I spill
Remi on imaginary graves, put my hat on my waves
Latter Day Saints say religious praise
I dolo, challenge any team or solo
You must be buggin out, new to my shit, home on a furlough
Ask around, who’s laid up, sharp and straight up
Mafioso, gettin niggaz wigs sprayed up
Skies are misty, my life’s predicted by a gypsy
I’ll one day walk into shots drunk off champange from Sicily
This be the drama, I’ma pause like a comma
in a sentence, paragraph’s indented
Bloodshot red eyes, high, yellow envelopes of lye
Openin cigars, let tobacco fly
Condos are tuneproof, we’re looking out the sky’s moonroof
Shittin like gin and prune juice
Yo the system wants the coon’s noose, hang em high
Courtrooms filled up, it’s off the hook while I
just wrote a statement, like I’m facing twenty years
in the basement – chilling on the via with Mumia
for wearin chrome – I told the judge snakes slither
like Sharon Stone, but like Capone I’m thrown (yo)

“I made it like that, I bought it like that, I’m livin like that”
“I made it like that, I bought it like that, I’m livin like that..
.. for, you wack MC’s”
“I made it like that, I bought it like that, I’m livin like that”
“I made it like that, I bought it like that, I’m livin like that..
.. for, you wack MC’s”

[Nas]
Lyrical, ly-lyrical mission..
Lyrical..
Yo the time is wastin, I use the mind elevation
Dime sack lacin, court pen pacin
Individual, lyrical math abrasion
Psychic evaluation, the foulest nation
We livin in, dangerous lives, mad leak and battered wives
A lifestyle where bad streets is patternized
Wise men build and destroy
While the real McCoy dopefiend, named Detroit is still dealin boy
Coke suppliers actin biased
Cause rumors say that niggaz wear wires and we liars
But every night the gat’s fired, and every day a rat’s hired
I still remain the mack flyest in the phat Kani, it’s —
— just the killer in me, slash drug dealer MC
Ex-slug filler, semi mug peeler
Demi, bottles of Mo’, yo simply follow me flow
Put poetry inside a crack pot and blow
rough holes for cracked out pussies and buttholes
Bring the G’s and the D’s roll, they can’t touch those
Why shoot the breeze about i

If the river is high, I’ll be your shore
If it’s love you need, I’ll give you more
You can count on me, baby, that’s for sure
I belong to you
If you cross the line, I’ll cross it too
Anywhere you go, I’ll be with you
We’ll cry some tears, but we’ll make it through
As long as we’re together

Everything in my heart I’ll give you
Everything in my soul, it’s yours
Everything that I am and will ever be
Take it from me, take it from me
Take everything

I’ll give you all that you can take
I made a promise, it will never break
You’ve got my heart, make no mistake
Just take it from me

Everything in my heart I’ll give you
Everything in my soul, it’s yours
Everything that I am and will ever be
Take it from me

Everything in my heart I’ll give you
Everything in my soul, it’s yours
Everything that I am and will ever be
Won’t you take it from me

Everything in my heart I’ll give you
Everything in my soul, it’s yours
Everything that I am and will ever be
Take it from me, take it from me
Take everything

Won’t you take it from me, just take it from me
Won’t you take it from me, just take it from me
Won’t you take it from me, just take it from me
Won’t you take it from me

Some times
Some times the world gets hard
I?ll take it from here, girl
Don?t you worry


I wanna be a lake for you, babe
And any problems that you have I wanna wash ?em away
I wanna be your sky, so blue and high
And every time you think of me I wanna blow your mind


I wanna be your air, so sweet and fair
So when you feel that you can?t breathe, ma, I?ll be
there
I wanna be your answer of time
When you see how I put your life before mine with no
question


When all the love feels gone and you can?t carry on
Don?t worry, girl, I?mma take it from here
Just as sure as the sun will shine every mornin?,
every time
Don?t worry, girl, I?mma take it from here


I wanna hold your hands, review all your plans
I wanna make sure every one of your dreams?ll stand
I wanna be your Broadway show on review (Why)
So I could act how God was when he made you


I wanna be your lighthouse when you get lost
I?ll light a bright and shiny path to help you across
(Light the way for you, baby)
I wanna be your mother, see what I see
When you see that can?t nobody hold you like me ?cause
I love you


When all the love feels gone and you can?t carry on
Don?t worry, girl, I?mma take it from here (Take it
from here, baby)
Just as sure as the sun will shine every mornin?,
every time
Don?t worry, girl (No, no, no, no), I?mma take it from
here


And when there?s no one there at home and you realize
the world is cold
Don?t worry, girl, I?mma take it from here (That?s
what I?m gonna do)
Just as sure as the sun will shine every mornin?,
every time (Don?t you worry, baby, baby girl)
Don?t worry, girl (Baby girl), I?mma take it from here


Give me one reason why we should not be leavin?
This world is so deceivin?, the time is now
Let?s fly away speedin? through the Garden of Eden
Where all the sweet breathin? and love surrounds


When all the love feels gone and you can?t carry on
Don?t worry, girl, I?mma take it from here
Just as sure as the sun will shine every mornin?,
every time
Don?t worry, girl, I?mma take it from here


Give me one reason why we should not be leavin?
This world is so deceivin?, the time is now
Let?s fly away speedin? (Fly away) through the Garden
of Eden
Where all the sweet breathin? and love surrounds


When all the love feels gone and you can?t carry on
Don?t worry, girl, I?mma take it from here
Just as sure as the sun will shine every mornin?,
every time
Don?t worry, girl, I?mma take it from here


Got something I wanna tell you, baby
Now they always the way write books
See, there?s the good guys and also heartbreak crooks
Your heart?s the real one, just take a look inside
?Cause there?s a colorful illustrated guide


So there you go
To help you weather the storm
I?ll be there, mami
No matter what time, no matter what place
You could always count on me
I?ll take it from here