Cats & Dogs

Evidence Cats & Dogs Lyrics
1.The Liner Notes feat. Aloe Blacc


2.Strangers

If it's one thing I've learned that I've written down on paper
It's never leave some weed on the table with a stranger
Shit, I can barely even trust my friends
Maybe with my lady, not trees of the mends
I mean really why even should I try and test it socially
Catch them in the act and end up having to approach them
Entertain the story while it's testing on my patience
Why the fuck you think I spent this money on surveillance
While I'm on the other side of Earth without assistance
Pitchin' in the night singin' 'Evy goes the distance'
At home the same shit is goin' on, I don't miss it
It's a nice place to live, but I wouldn't wanna visit
Never steppin' out the car or on the stage without a purpose
Ghost-ride the whip like I'm ghost writing verses
Afraid to come and go so I take fame in little doses
Director of these photos so the aim remains focused
Hold still right there, hold still

I ain't holier than now or tryna even act superior
Half the shit I rap about I'm speaking from experience
I'm livin' at the beach, about as west as the Earth goes
People get deceived, seein' gangsters dressed in surf clothes
From earth where they birthin' those flows to set the world off
On a wet park bench drinkin' OJ and Smirnoff
I seen it through my own three and speak it how I heard it

Never tell it how it wasn't, I only pin that harder
I been tourin' constantly, so there's wear and tear value
That merits all the lows to terrace highs and travel
Document this madness till the day I come unraveled
And retreat to the Matterhorn, baskin' in the castle
On some Dennis Leary Asshole, fuck you pay me shit
I've come too far to get jacked and and give away the vics
So right about now I think it's 'bout that time
That I'ma let Rev kill while I chill on the rhyme
What the fuck

I ain't speakin' on my businesses in public when concerning
deals
Steppin' on stage like it's light-bulbs or turning wheels
In spite a couple nights of a thousand that I didn't kill
I still kept it peelin' out and steppin' up for Reverend Real
Messages across the board are still remaining pinned up
The opposite of dilated eyes that I begin with
Nothin' is original
Even under cloudy days sun is still shining
Just rerouted and out of phase
Lately when I walk I've been trying to hold my posture straight
Hold my chin up then feel the love from across the way
California love from Diego to across the bay
All across the map to every single solitary state
All across the baggage claim, all across the gate
Some callin' it freight how I'm carrying weight
Some callin' it fate while some others remain torn
Some callin' it rain cause that's when I brainstorm


3.The Red Carpet feat. Raekwon & Ras Kass


4.It Wasn't Me

Uh, about to tell you who I are
Came a long way and I still got so far to go
Tee off with this trademark flow
And after tonight
I'ma let the whole world know
My name is Evidence

You ain't got no
Evidence, evidence, evidence, evidence

This is crime scene cinema
All the weed shops closed
Is it back to charging motherf*ckers 4 for an O?
I don't know
I keep a rotary phone
So I remember all the numbers of my homies who gone
Proof is in the pudding
I'm pressed up and labeled 'evidence'
But never chasing fame, dragons, chicks, or dead presidents
Dreams, but never snatch chains of any measurements
Because of my name, for every f*ckin' crime they find the
relevance
Choices in my life that I wanna correct
I got voices in my head that I wanna forget
Uh and I don't live with regret
But I've been living with a chick while other chicks try to text
It wasn't me

You ain't got no
Evidence (There's no proof without the)
Evidence (What's truth without the)
Evidence, evidence

Yeah, my first album only had underground appearances
So what's the outcome?
I'm still an underground lyricist
And fame don't even capture what my interest is
I'm halfway to famous, halfway away from infamous

My naked eyes are like my memory chips
Everything digested comes up when I spit
I say so be it
Without a whistle, call it how I see it (yeah)
Whether in my boundaries or in another region
I be speeding on the highway with my girl shotty
Keep a plant in my car, like Good Friday
Keep my world Godly
I stay grounded like my lobby
Tag a bucket on the wall but never tatted on my body
My music and my graf are livin' separate lives
One gets me paid, the other's payin' the price
Either way they'll say I'm spraying at night
But how the f*ck, when I'm touring overseas on a flight
It wasn't me

You ain't got no
Evidence (There's no proof without the)
Evidence (What's truth without the)
Evidence, evidence

The flow's connected like I knew people
Director of photography, I shoot people
Named by will.i.am
Maybe made a milli, maybe I don't give a damn (true)
I thought of evident
I mispronounced it, Evidence
Fast forward, here we are, standing in the present tense
Think of that, I never thought about fame
I just thought about if KRS would know my name
But since then it's like so much has changed
Body baggin' the shows, they say I'm killing the stage
It wasn't me

You ain't got no
Evidence (There's no proof without the)
Evidence (What's truth without the)
Evidence, evidence


5.I Don't Need Love

D-O-N-T N-E-E-D-L-O-V-E

Michael Connelly reminded me with Echo Park
Of days of hoppin' on the metro, when they let those spark
Back when I collected retro art
And since then many a dearly departed God bless they heart
God bless they hearts
Harder living in Kane
Where the sun and the rain became one in the same
I took it as a lesson I was still learnin'
I'm still the will of the '84 torch burnin'
I been through heartbreaks to breakups to makeups to broke again
Not back again, my soul on the rope again
Took the jacket off and saw blood on my sleeves
When you wear your heart there, this the puddle it leaves (I
don't need love)
It's the rebuttal of thieves
And chicks with crooks like you, so what'll it be?
She steal your heart, now she runnin' the streets
Don't need the pain, man, troublin' me

I don't need love
I don't
I don't need love
Need love, need love
I don't need love
I don't need love
I don't need love
Need love

While Kanye was chasing spaceships all over the nation
I was at the gravesite, face on the pavement
Left College Dropout, first flight racing
From Scranton, Pennsylvania on a prop plane praying
Heart 'bout to pop out my chest in Pittsburgh
Paranoid in first class, heard a voice, 'Whisper' (Real talk)
Just touched back in LAX
And my phone starts buzzin' to 1000 texts
Out the gate and runnin' like I'm motorless
I Still Love You explained if you don't know the rest
I would say that's when love became an issue
Anybody treated me good, that's when I diss you
A certain chick who caught the bad end of the stick
And through thin and thick I still miss you
I've trashed every girl I've had since
Warm heart, cold mind is absent
Imagine
I don't need love anymore
I need pressure
Pain, my veins feelin' so electric
Blue in the skin, choosin' my sin
'Til the same sins doin' me in
I don't need love

I don't need love
I don't
I don't need love
Need love, need love
I don't need love
I don't need love
I don't need love
Need love


6.You

You...

Yeah, microphone check 1, 2, yo
Who's the one that's been running the race? Me!
Who's the one that's been running in place? You
And who's the one you tried to find, so tough
But the whole time, was sitting right in front of your face.

I'm on another level, I mean another label
Players don't die, we try our luck at other tables
And when I lose, I learn, I'm still winning major
I jump forward and back, into the missing stages
A perfect day to make a perfect entrance
A perfect sentence? I can't perfect,
But I just keep pushing pencils, no fake trace stencils
And do it all by hand so they have respect.
I know the feeling when you're dealing with accomplishments
Wishing they would diss you, instead they give you compliments
That's what made you who you are, not what you became
Part of being a star is getting burned in flames
Kind of ill, the mind's a trip
20/20 when we broke, but blind when rich
I just see it as a sign, but kept rhyming instead
And keep lighting up these pads like Simon Says

What! Who's the one that's been running the race? Me
Who's the one that's been running in place? You
And who's the one you tried to find, so tough
But the whole time, was sitting right in front of your face

One's a lonely number, two's the first loser
So how the fuck can you win? Become a drug abuser
Slapping these beats, I'm no snoozer
6 million ways to die: go ahead and choose one
We from the same block, but all we getting is the same guap
I think one of us needs to shine
Only room for one, one of us needs to go

Sink a boat and only one'll survive
Caution at the wheel, Westside when I drive slow
First sign of tidal waves, when you see the tide low
Wanted for murder and theft, they said I'm liable
I shot the sheriff but didn't steal his rifle
I can't define what's real and what's imagination
Since I signed that deal before my graduation
I went from running track and feel the tracks
With feel the Grammy's with Ye before Late Registration

Who's the one that's been running the race? Me
Who's the one that's been running in place? You
And who's the one you tried to find, so tough
But the whole time, was sitting right in front of your face.

Fast-forward, no kids, one card, no Rollie
One crib, trips to Chile with Kush in the Philly
Every turn starts with one step: that's on me
One foot in front of the other like 'come on feet!'
One life, one love, bat a G for one glove
For Mike, rest in peace, shot a bullet from one slug
I keep it pushing as one does, you only get one shot
One glance, one chance at one buzz
One never knows of hopes and dreams
The farther we fly, the closer it seems
Back to the one square, all I need in this life is one snare
One mic direct, fly tonight, one Airs
One of a kind, still one to my grind
One time for your motherfuckin' mind
When I flow, let the rain soon comes
See you might win some, but you just lost, lost...

Who's the one that's been running the race? Me
Who's the one that's been running in place? You
And who's the one you tried to find, so tough
But the whole time, was sitting right in front of your face.


7.God Bless That Man


8.Fame feat. Roc Marciano & Prodigy


9.James Hendrix(StepBrothers)


10.Late For The Sky feat. Slug & Aesop Rock


11.Crash


12.Where You Come From ? feat. Rakaa, Lil Fame & Termanology


13....


14.To Be Continued...

Ten commandments, twenty-four hours
The thirteenth floor was missing in the towers
Hm, I thought I shouldn't be here
I stayed an extra day because they said it's Leap Year
Who's the wolf in sheep's clothing?
fuck it, the rabbit hit the drum and kept going
Each word is the church and minister
Approach, I coerce the listener so listen up
Kicking park bench rhythms up till I visual a flow
I stay at home sick and visit her
Radio, I visit station nights
It's kinda like their fucking visitation rights
This ain't the place for my face in lights
I'm tight driven living in the fucking shadowless life
I dilate like pay attention
Slow flow just to ?
I didn't die lately, I just slept on bed springs
Can't define people, I just see dead things
It ain't just rap, I body ladies in one line
Talking slick to three chicks on text at one time
My scene shattered words, they left broke in pieces
Lines undone, half uncompleted
To be continued dot dot dot
Cliff hanger, my life is like I'm scaling a rock
And it's on

I spit that oxygen fire, still the illest high
I spit that fly for now and feel it when it's live
Move the crowd, got tools for the reddest eyes
Getting cabbage my man until the letters dry
I'm fully up to the task to pull the wooly over my face
Into a masked location, don't even ask
It's like damn another day in the life
Like keep waking up from the previous night
Vacation, I don't take it often
I see parking lot stages and buses with bunks like coffins
Clear customs with weed in my Levis
The penalty was death but dodged Magnum PI
What up People, happy Fourth of July
On my street every year they fucking light up the sky
I get the beat nothing here, what they want me to write?
From the beach to the block, still banging at night


15.Falling Down


16.Well Runs Dry feat. Krondon


17.The Epilogue