Wu-Tang Clan, Rza, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah - Can It Be All So Simple / Intermission(1993)

[00:32.29] Hey you know everybody's talking about the "good old days"
[00:35.47] Everybody! The good old days
[00:38.59] Well, let's talk about the good old days
[00:43.34] Know what I'm saying?
[00:46.20] Take you on this lyrical high real quick
[00:50.51] 1993 exoticness, know what I'm saying?
[00:56.59] Let's get technical; where's your bone at?
[01:00.91] Get up on that shit, aight? Yo!
[01:03.42] Started off on the island, AKA Shaolin
[01:06.41] Niggas wilin', gun shots thrown, the phone dialin
[01:09.43] Back in the days of 8 now, making a tape now
[01:12.55] Rae gotta get a plate now
[01:14.50] Ignorant and mad young, wanted to be the one
[01:17.22] Till I got (Blaow! Blaow! Blaow!) felt one
[01:19.72] Yeah, my pops was a fiend since 16
[01:21.85] Shooting that "that's that shit!" in his blood stream
[01:24.42] That's the life of a grimey, real-life crimey
[01:27.46] And niggas know that habit's behind me
[01:30.00] Day one, yo, growing all up in the ghetto
[01:32.69] Now I'm a weed fiend, jetting the Palmetto
[01:34.85] In Medina, yo, no doubt the God got crazy clout
[01:38.38] Pushing the big joint from down South
[01:40.79] So if you're filthy stacked up
[01:42.55] Better watch your back and duck
[01:44.24] Cause these fiends, they got it cracked up
[01:46.14] Now my man from up north, now he got the law
[01:48.74] It's solid as a rock and crazy salt
[01:50.94] No jokes, I'm not playing, get his folks
[01:53.78] Desert Eagle his dick and put em in a yoke
[01:56.54] And to know for sure, I got reck and rip shop
[01:59.21] I pointed a gat at his mother's knot
[02:01.67] (Yo, Rae, don't do that shit, man! Don't do that shit!)
[02:03.92] Fuck that!
[02:07.42] Dedicated to the winners and the losers
[02:09.94] Dedicated to all Jeeps and Land Cruisers
[02:12.46] (Can it be that it was all so simple then?)
[02:13.68] Dedicated to the Y's, 850-I's
[02:14.89] Dedicated to niggas who do drive-bys
[02:17.18] (Can it be that it was all so simple then?)
[02:17.92] Dedicated to the Lexus and the Ac's
[02:20.02] Dedicated to MPV's: phat!
[02:25.29] Kicking the fly cliches
[02:29.28] Doing duets with Rae and A, happens to make my day
[02:32.61] Though I'm tired of busting off shots, having to rock knots
[02:35.50] Running up in spots and making shit hot
[02:38.26] I'd rather flip shows instead of those
[02:40.03] Hanging on my living room wall:
[02:41.76] My first joint - and it went gold!
[02:43.72] I want to lamp, I want to be in the shade
[02:45.55] Plus the spotlight, getting my dick rode all night
[02:48.55] I want to have me a phat yacht
[02:50.38] And enough land to go and plant my own sess crops
[02:54.17] But for now it's just a big dream
[02:55.86] Cause I find myself in the place where I'm last seen
[02:59.07] My thoughts must be relaxed, be able to maintain
[03:02.06] Cause times is changed and life is strange
[03:04.02] The glorious days is gone, and everybody's doing bad
[03:07.71] Yo, mad lives is up for grabs
[03:09.45] Brothers passing away, I gotta make wakes
[03:12.04] Receiving all types of calls from upstate
[03:14.88] Yo, I can't cope with the pressure
[03:16.75] Settling for lesser
[03:17.69] The God left lessons on my dresser
[03:20.02] So I can bloom and blossom, find a new way
[03:22.28] To continue to make more hits with Rae and A
[03:25.33] Sunshine plays a major part in the daytime
[03:27.88] Peace to mankind, Ghostface carry a black 9
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