The Runaway: Lupe’s Revenge

[Intro: Lupe Fiasco]
Lupe! Fiasco...U-N-K-L-E...L-U-P-E...diamonds..

[Verse #1: Lupe Fiasco]
Physically here, mentally I’m up there somewhere
And I been thinking 'bout maybe coming down and hang around on the ground some year
But this aint the one (no)
Having too much fun way up here on the Sun yo
They should really sell my CD's at the gun show
A two-disc set is like Russian Roulette
Afghanistan Kino
If you wanna win then come in my casino
Pull up in a Porsche
Pull off in a Dino
Convention on the chinching I’m delivering the keynote
Rise...and shine, too
Kiwi I can see me in reflections from my fine shoes
I write with the same techniques they use to find jewels
Mine my own mind, until I find something that rhymes cool
Then hit James on line two tell him to send a track for me to rhyme to
A setting to attach all of the shine to
A diamond mine/mind, I can never Swarovski or rhine you, POW!!!

[Chorus: Elle J]
Wanna know, wanna know, why you’re breaking even?
Wanna know, wanna know, why you’re breaking down?
(x4)

[Verse #2: Lupe Fiasco]
Perfect, Big Bang flow
Spitting out uni(verses) my old metaphors went off and joined the circus
They currently on tour on the planet of the Word-smiths
You can rally round me like I'm Sturgis
But when you go back to where you came from don't tell nobody that you ever heard this
Or I might bless you with my curses (thinner)
You should change your attitude or Hannibal is having you for dinner
Cannibalistic urges eating up this nonsense regurgitating purpose (inner/in a)
World done perfect (in my)
Mind so spotless like they Spic and Span’d and mopped it
It’s just clear it don't mean that they washed it
Put it together like bolts, swing nuts and washers
We beefin’ like Big Macs and Whoppers
At each other’s throats like butterfly collars
Or Siamese twins joined at the Medulla Oblongata
In a tuxedo
Going to the opera
Diamond mine mind only C-Z about me though is my initials
Zulu - Chaka, POW!!!

[Chorus: Elle J]
Wanna know, wanna know, why you’re breaking even?
Wanna know, wanna know, why you’re breaking down?
(x4)

[Verse #3: Lupe Fiasco]
You protect it, you cherish and caress it
Your precious little ethic-less method
Been tryna take me off of my perspective
But I respect it
But I still give you F's for effort
And the A's for me
Extra credit
How I deflected, all praises be
To the most higher I admire
Never will I abide by ya
Cause you're liar and you’re not my sire
Can't buy me I just ride by ya
And I won't bye-bye ya
I'll buy your lighter and set it on FIRE!

Lupe Fiasco - Oh Yeah! (Verse)

[Intro: Lupe Fiasco]
Diggy what's good mane? It's your big brother, Lupe, ha. Long time coming, it's like the future meets the future of the future. Ya heard? This is some of that laid back, light up that nag-champa, let it marinate! You know? Some of that make you wonder, make you ponder. What's here, much like what's beyond. It's a beautiful thing! (uh!)

[Verse #1: Lupe Fiasco]
This gon be a fine ride, see it in my mind's eye
Black man in a white man's world, blindside
Sweeter than key lime pies, look how fast the time flies
Where you going to be when the party's over and wine dries?
Yea we got nine lives, but they got nine knives
We gon get one chance, and they get nine tries
Tell you that dime's fly, baby girl's a fine prize
All I see is money when I look inside this dime's eyes!
Life's a bitch, I'll be rich if I make her cry
Tears soak tissue turns to money, if you let it dry
Increase my worth if she get hurt, I'll make a fortune if she dies
Take her off of that machine, I'll benefit from her demise!
Damn, that's how we are
Take a life, then buy out the bar!
So let's celebrate, let's make a toast!
To succeed in life, just make a ghost.

Go To Sleep

[Intro: Lupe Fiasco]
*yaawn* - Thanks,
Feels good wakin' up,
Get back... on my J.O.
ooohh,
And you will be going, cause I gotta go to work
It's coo...

[Verse #1: Lupe Fiasco]
I wipe the cool from my eye
Stationed in Antarctica, coldest nigga alive
Flow is Armageddon might smite crows/Cruise from the Sky
Before you drive you have to wipe locusts off your rides
But I'm warming up, oceans is on the rise
I be Ocean with 11 associates on my side
Colder than Chris Martin guitarin' - would you look at all these Spies?
But they can't see me, I took out their eyes
Replaced them with some me's, so all they see is he's
But I will never run, not even if they cry
See I can never fall, not even down their cheek
But I will always ball/bawl, let's see who the first to blink
And I don't need no passwords cause I don't need to cheat
But you can say your last words then you can rest in peace
I'm the hook after your last verse, I'm also like the beat
But I will turn it down so you can go to sleep

[Chorus: Lupe Fiasco]
You can go to sleep
Yes you can go to sleep

Said you can go to sleep (x2)
Good night, good night (x2)
(Real niggas up again)
(Phony niggas tuckin' in)
Now you can go to sleep
Yes you can go to sleep

Now you can go to sleep (x2)
Good night, good night (x2)
Official niggas on they job and you know we gonna ball
Real niggas poppin off, phony niggas not at all

[Verse 2: Lupe Fiasco]
Insomniac since way back, see that's what I been like
Bacon, eggs and pancakes, eating that at midnight
Getting up and going hard, I don't need no Enzyte
Come across as very calm, mental state is Zen like
Always had a lot of heart, never been the tin type
Never will I drop a dime, never been the ten type
My girlfriend is very fine, yeah she is a ten, right?
Mink is draggin'/dragon on the flow/floor, fire in my windpipe
You should come and clean up after riots that I incite
Things got off the handle, left behind a landfill
Traffic at a standstill, stadium is fan-filled
Fill this bitch up with fans, you still won't blow my candle...out
My can do spirit's in the house, and it's possessing your possessions,

did you hear it by the couch?
Boogeyman under your bed but not in your closet, cause I'm not a...

Won't drill no door hole, I won't make a peep, so...

[Chorus: Lupe Fiasco]
You can go to sleep
Yes you can go to sleep

Now you can go to sleep

Said you can go to sleep
Good night, good night (x2)
(Real niggas up again)
(Phony niggas tuckin' in)
Now you can go to sleep
Yes you can go to sleep

Now you can go to sleep (x2)
Good night, good night (x2)
Official niggas on they job and you know we gonna ball
Real niggas poppin off, phony niggas not at all

[Verse 3: Lupe Fiasco]
I wipe the cold/coal from my eye, then put it in my stove and hope that my dough rise
And that my clothes dry, but I am so high, I'm sitting on the storm that I got soaked by
Now you can come close so, you can get warm
But you get no pie, but you can sell 'em for him so, here's your bow tie
Now get ready to fall, 'cause humans don't fly, the boy in the balloon
See I didn't go high/hide, and I'm coming back to float/flow again
Closed out all that opium, but I had to O-P-EN
They said they need a hero in (heroin) it, so I'm back to dope again
Pull up in that old school Flintstone drop on rolling pins
Time is all behind me, this make me feel old again
Grandma's all around me, I can feel her soul within'
Hold my daddy over him
I woke the rooster's, woke the hen's
Everything's cashmere, count the sheep that make 'em..

[Chorus: Lupe Fiasco]
(You can) go to sleep

Yes you can go to sleep
Now you can go to sleep

Yes you can go to sleep
(Go to sleep, it's okay!)
Good night, good night (x2)
(Real niggas up again)
(Phony niggas tuckin' in)

Yes you can go to sleep (x2)

Now you can go to sleep

Yes you can go to sleep

Good night, good night (x2)
Official niggas on they job and you know we gonna ball
Real niggas poppin off, phony niggas not at all
(Fades)

You Are Here

[Intro: Wasalu Muhammad Jaco]
(Where are you now?) (x3)

[Chorus: Wasalu Muhammad Jaco]
You are here!
Let me in your super-future,
Up up and away,
Super-duper!
Tell me right now where you moved the,
Where are you now?
(x2)

[Verse #1: Wasalu Muhammad Jaco]
Mind state,
Critical,
Metaphysical weight,
Of the world,
Or your soul is at stake,
Break under the pressure,
Tethered to your mistakes,
Safe under the feathers,
Falling off of the face,
Planet,
Landing,
Yeah right on top of your fate,
Look at it in the eyes,
Tell it goodbye straight?
Yell it into the sky,
Tell em' your irate,
You're not irie,
Nothing is ok,
Mushroom cloud,
Blow everything away,
It's much too loud,
All that sound you play,
Champion lightning coming down today,
Your synthesized living your giving is too late,
On time,
Authenticity's online,
Put everything that I have up on mine,
Don't look right in the light,
You'll go blind,
You don't look right in the night,
You don’t shine!

[Chorus: Wasalu Muhammad Jaco]
Let me in your super-future,
Up up and away,
Super-duper!
Tell me right now where you moved the,
Where are you now?
(x2)

[Verse #2: Wasalu Muhammad Jaco]
Resonate,
Resilience,
Never break,
Detonate,
Fragility,
Devastate,
Aww, look at now it’s all broke,
Look at it!!!
All of the shit that you called dope!!!
You’re picking up all of the pieces of it off of the floor,
Dirty,
Ewwww,
Look it,
It’s so gross,
So close,
Like Glen or next to him,
I'm sorry but no smoke,
Also i don't pose
But i threaten your status quo
(Guitar solo)

[Chorus: Wasalu Muhammad Jaco]
You are here!
Let me in your super-future,
Up up and away,
Super-duper!
Tell me right now where you moved the,
Where are you now?
(x2)

Firing Squad

[Chorus #1: Wasalu Muhammad Jaco]
When they put you in line!
You better run, (x3)
When they put you in line!
You better run, (x3)
Or you'll run out of time!
And then you’re done, (x3)
When they put on your blinds!
Here come the guns (x3)

[Verse #1: Wasalu Muhammad Jaco]
There’s no feeling today,
There's no ceiling or shade,
A slow, tender decay,
There's no simpler way,
I won’t live in the grey,
I won’t enter the fray,
The old chilling display,
Explodes in your face,
You throw children away,
You lead millions astray,
Below minimum wage,
I won't sit and behave,
We don’t fit in your cage,
We're not fit to enslave,
I'm not digging my grave,
So end's your day…

[Chorus #2: Wasalu Muhammad Jaco]
When they put you in line!
You better run, (x3)
When they put you in line!
You better run, (x3)
Or you'll run out of time!
And then you’re done, (x3)
When they put on your blinds!
Here come the guns (x3)

[Verse #2: Wasalu Muhammad Jaco]
No there’s no quiet reply,
There’s no silent deny,
There’s no private divide,
Leave no tyrant alive,
There’s no island to hide,
There’s no triumph of pride,
There’s no pirated prize,
Shed your disguise,
Won’t tighten your vice,
You won’t lighten my rights,
I won’t mind your advice,
To not fight in the fights,
Won’t heighten your plights,
There’s no lying tonight,
That’s why I’m shining a light
Right in your eyes...

[Chorus #3: Wasalu Muhammad Jaco]
When they put you in line!
You better run, (x3)
When they put you in line!
You better run, (x3)
Or you'll run out of time!
And then you’re done (x3)
When they put on your blinds!
Here come the guns (x3)

[Verse #3: Wasalu Muhammad Jaco]
Yes!
And the mission is set,
And there’s a credible threat,
And there’s a rebel unrest,
That needs incredible jets,
To bring unscheduled death,
With that impeccable depth,
Light up your last cigarette,
Goodnight god bless…

[Chorus #4: Wasalu Muhammad Jaco]
When they put you in line!
You better run, (x3)
When they put you in line!
You better run, (x3)
Or you'll run out of time!
And then you’re done (x3)
When they put on your blinds!
Here come the guns (x3)

Crowd Participation

[Verse #1: Wasalu Muhammad Jaco]
I'm on the outskirt.
The rim of fittin' in,
I'm blending out, I'm giving out.
I'm radioactive, radioactive..
Sociopathic,
Oh the old tactics..to keep us down,
To keep us down.

[Chorus #1: Wasalu Muhammad Jaco]
Critical Mass,
Critical Mass,
Critical Mass,

[Verse #2: Wasalu Muhammad Jaco]
On the outskirts,
The top of being down,
I did without, I did without..
I'm radioactive, radioactive..
Sociopathic,
Oh the old tactics.that keep us down,
Underground.

[Chorus #2: Wasalu Muhammad Jaco]
Critical Mass,
Critical Mass,
Critical Mass,

[Bridge #1: Wasalu Muhammad Jaco]
By design.
By the law.
By the way, buy some more.
By design.
By the law.
By the way, buy some more.
By design.
By the law.
By the way, buy some more.
By design.
By the law.
By the way.

[Verse #3: Wasalu Muhammad Jaco]
In the outrage,
The lies that are on your page and in your mouth, and in your mouth,
I'm radioactive, radioactive..
Sociopathic,
Oh the old tactics..to keep us out.

[Chorus #3: Wasalu Muhammad Jaco]
Critical Mass,
Critical Mass,
(Break)

[Verse #4: Wasalu Muhammad Jaco]
I'm on the outskirt,
The edge of being lead,
I'm giving out, I'm blending out,
I'm radioactive, radioactive,
We're radioactive, radioactive,
We're radioactive, radioactive.

Beijing

[Verse #1: Wasalu Muhammad Jaco]
She was a morphine fling with four finger rings, she had fourteen drinks and fourteen dreams in one night.
She was a Thompson sub-machine, the mob scene queen, the most obscene thing that you've ever seen in your life.

[Chorus #1: Wasalu Muhammad Jaco]
She was amazing, blazing, Beijing laser beam, Alright!
She was amazing, blazing, Beijing laser beam, Alright!

[Verse #2: Wasalu Muhammad Jaco]
She crucified posh on a Kalashnikov cross, she beautified loss and gave you all types of insight.
She had emerald eyes, told Orson Welles lies, she shed Shakespeare tears, fought the battle of Algiers on both sides.
A high-heeled thriller, the ideal killer, she keep her finger on a trigger, sends six-foot shivers down your spine.
She had celestial fire from a Zippo lighter, just a mad dynamiter, she'll send you out of your mind.
(Your mind.)

[Chorus #2: Wasalu Muhammad Jaco]
She was amazing, blazing, Beijing laser beam, Alright!
She was amazing, blazing, Beijing laser beam, Alright! Alright! Alright!

[Bridge #1: Chris Gelbuda]
(Bitchin' guitar solo!)

[Verse #3: Wasalu Muhammad Jaco]
She's all gritty, Kowloon Walled City and she's waltzing with the devil on your grave in the pale moonlight.
Now aint that a sight?
She's just a star-crossed lover from a magazine cover, she's a rolling stone mother, when the powers of darkness unite...
Then she'll take flight! That's Right!

[Chorus #3: Wasalu Muhammad Jaco]
She's the amazing, blazing, Beijing laser beam,
She's the amazing, Beijing, laser beam, laser beam,
She's the amazing. blazing, Beijing laser beam,
She's the amazing, blazing, Beijing laser beam, Alright!

Heirplanes

[Verse #1: Wasalu Muhammad Jaco]
We are phantoms of the future,
Ordinaries from the super,
But we are high.
Sing your anthems to your rulers,
Disconnect from their medullas,
And be alive.
We are transients from the sewers
But please treat us like we're friends when we arrive.
You can kill or just destroy them,
Here's your pistol and your poison,
Please Decide.
Please Decide.

[Chorus #1: Wasalu Muhammad Jaco]
Because heirplanes flying under the ground,
Fireworks that don't make a sound...
But oh what a light!
Oh what a light.

[Verse #2: Wasalu Muhammad Jaco]
With the SUD as my accomplice,
Oh dear God please be my compass,
Be my guide.
I've got my dowry for Medusa hopefully she'll take my ring and be my bride.
We will gather information,
Secret meeting in my basement,
We are spies.
You can kill or just destroy them,
Here's your pistol and your poison,
Please Decide.
Please Decide.
Please Decide.

[Chorus #2: Wasalu Muhammad Jaco]
Because heirplanes flying under the ground,
Fireworks that don't make a sound.
Because heirplanes flying under the ground,
Fireworks that don't make a sound,
But Oh what a light.
Oh me, oh my. Oh what a light.
No kings, no queens, no butterflies.
No kings, no queens, no butterflies.
No kings, no queens.

[Verse #3: Wasalu Muhammad Jaco]
Canaries in your cavern,
While you sleep in your apartments,
We must hide.
Take the veils off of your killer,
Take your place inside the searchlight and be described.
Let's see your eyes.
Cause we are phantoms from the future,
Ordinaries from the super,
But we are high.
Just your transients from the sewers,
Please don't treat us like we're friends when we arrive.
When we arrive.
(When we arrive)

[Chorus #3: Wasalu Muhammad Jaco]
Because heirplanes flying under the ground,
Fireworks that don't make a sound,
But oh what a light.
Oh me, oh my. Oh what a light.
No queens, no kings, no butterflies.
No kings, no queens, no butterflies.
Butterflies.
Butterflies.
Butterflies.
Butterflies.
Butterflies.
Butterflies.

All Sabotage!!! (STSO)

[Chorus #1: Wasalu Muhammad Jaco]
Suck the shine out...
Suck the shine out!!!
Blow the mind out...
Roll the rhyme out!
(Roll the rhyme out!)

[Verse #1: Wasalu Muhammad Jaco]
Now my heads all fuzzy and my bodies all numb and my wills all busted and my minds all dumb and I cant think straight with your rifle in my face and suspicion in the air that oppressions at the gate (ding!), bow to the whim of the directors of the
state - kowtow to the wisdom of suppressors of your fate, die for your possessions even though they all fake, your blind now hope you find out - suck the shine out!

[Chorus #2: Wasalu Muhammad Jaco]
Blow the mind out...
Roll the rhyme out!

[Verse #2: Wasalu Muhammad Jaco]
Your Babylon's burning, your Babylon's burning, empire's on fire and your Sodom is a furnace, the power needs opponents and the struggle needs to learn that the truth crystallizes and the future's undetermined, the media's a joke but a mind fulla hope makes it easier to cope so that you don't feel the rope as it sneaks around your throat then they throw you from the oak hold on time out time out climb out suck the shine out!

[Chorus #3: Wasalu Muhammad Jaco]
Blow the mind out...
Suck the shine out...
Suck the shine out!!!
(Suck the shine out!)
Blow the mind out...

[Bridge #1: Unknown]
(Hey baby just lay back and relax, I'm in control, close your eyes, this wont hurt a bit...)

[Verse #3: Japanese Cartoon]
No shackle! No sugar! All Sabotage!!! All sabotage!!!
No shackle! No sugar! All Sabotage!!! All sabotage!!!
Suck the shine out!!!
No shackle! No sugar! All Sabotage!!! All sabotage!!!
No shackle! No sugar! All Sabotage!!! All sabotage!!!
Blow the mind out!!!

JAWS

[Verse #1: Wasalu Muhammad Jaco]
The dark, the night, the flee, the see, the sights, the fear that lives inside you!
(You’re in the Jaws)
The love, the hate, the blood, the taste that makes the hounds of hell come out to find you!
(You’re in the Jaws)
Tonight's the night, the light is right to rise just like the running sun that blinds you!
Live to defy your citizen side, survive, the lightning gave them life, it's beautiful,
(You’re in the Jaws)
The smoke, the haze. the fire, the phase, the peace, the praise, the deeds, the dazed, the right to!
(You’re in the Jaws)
The shimmer, the blur, the him or the her, the winner, the worst, the temper, the thirst that guides you!
(You’re in the Jaws)
The sire, the slave, the cradle, the grave, disable the cage, rewire the ways that bind you!
Live to defy your citizen side, survive, the lightning gave them life, it's beautiful,
(You’re in the Jaws)
The youth, the young, the noose, the gun, the rules are dumb they're using them to sike you!
(You’re in the Jaws)
The panic, the pure, the Xanax, the cure, the phantom, the war, the man at the door will hide you!
(You’re in the Jaws)
The color, the code, the mother, the load, the flowers, they're losing their power, the downward spiral!
Live to defy your citizen side, survive, the lightning gave them life, it's beautiful,
(You’re in the Jaws)
The fury, the filth, the buried, the built, the jury, the guilt, the spilling the milk you cry to!
(You’re in the Jaws)
The clash, the sound, the class, the clown, the crashing down then passed around the cycle!
(You’re in the Jaws)
The end, the sin, the men, the jinn, the cleanse, the spin again, the friend, the rival!
Live to defy your citizen side, survive, the lightning gave them life, it's beautiful,
(You’re in the Jaws)
The skulls, the bones, don't use the phones, they use the television set to spy too!
(You’re in the Jaws)
Untap attack, react, feedback, adapt, unstrap you from the tracks you're tied to!
(You’re in the Jaws)
Arrive, collide, get pissed, resist the script, admit that this is it, the final!
Live to defy your citizen side, survive, the lightning gave them life, it's beautiful. (x4)
(You’re in the Jaws)
(Yeah motherfuckers, you in the jaws of the Lords of Death..Japanese
Cartooooooooooooooooooooooon!!!!)