Matangi

M.I.A. Matangi Lyrics
1.Karmageddon

*Om*
Things do move like sound
Waves do move like round
It done go up and down
It spreads circle bound

Running like a hound Ha!
Look at what I found!
Where they threw me down
Where they threw me down
On ten were on

It's an open ceremony and we all start the same
Cells grow to cellphone, some form stars
Some get put in cells, sex fucking sells
Know you know the drill so hear me sound the bell
You use new keys to type old deeds
Set up by old needs what world peace
What was in ya read? Yeh what was in ya feed?
Who do you get to with your internet lead?
Things do change and change can have range
System shouldn't operate by sticking me in a cage

Ain't Dalai Lama
Ain't Sai Baba
My words are my armour and you're about to meet your karma


2.Matangi

It's so simple get to the floor (x10)

Immina immina thana thana
Ingana ingana giiina giiina
MATHANGII

Somalia Bosnia
Cuba Colombia
Equador Mexico
Butane Morocco
Botswana Ghana
India Serbia
Libya Lebanon
Gambia Namibia
Bali Mali
Chile Malawi
Bequai St Vincent
Trinidad and Norway
China Canada
U.S.A. U.K
Nepal Nigeria
Ethiopia North KMayamar Panama
Philippines Nicaragua
Palestine and Greece
Peru and France

IT'S SO SIMPLE DO THE DANCE
OI OI OI OI OI OI OI
IANO INNA IANO INA

PRETTY RAW
Get to the floor
Came up listening to war war
Weekend trips to Singapore
Preach like a priest
I sing like a whore
Do you want more?
Do you want more?
Do you know what I got in store?
Do you want more?
Do you want more?
It's so simple get to the floor


It's so simple get to the floor
Do you want more?
Do you want more?
Do you know what I got in store?
Immina immina thana thana
Ingana ingana giiina giiina

I'm ice cream
And you're so bait
They got guns but it points the wrong way
Yeah I'm on it they cirque de soleil
They make big sounds with nothing to say
School of fakeness
I'm school of hard knocks
You're here to fool us
I'm here to take shots
Look-alike, copycat
Doppleganger, fraud
They ain't got nothing on me
Now I'm getting bored
If your gonna be me you need a manifesto
If you ain't got one you better get one presto
Yeah you got money we sell bootlegs only
When the shit counts our numbers way plenty
We started at the bottom but Drake gets all the credit
Paper route or life route yeah we be ready

IT'S SO SIMPLE DO THE DANCE
OI OI OI OI OI OI OI
IANO INNA IANO INABUG SPRAY BUG SPRAY BUG SPRAY


3.Only 1 U


Just cause the game is up
Doesn't mean I didn't win
I got three aces and a king
I begun love of finacial things
That's when my instincts kicks in
Doesn't matter if you win
It's based on what you bring
I still feel it and I chase it with the drink
Your telephone rings
But you ain't listenin'
So motherfucker now I'm steppin' in

2x

Lara Croft is soft
When it comes to my stuff
She's made up. I'm real!
I'm a Lady of Rage, with an Afro puff
Who else can say the things they feel?
More Jiggy than Will
From a mil to a trill
There's no beat I cannot kill, kill, kill.
S-s-still chill upon a hill
Like I'm poppin' a pill
There's no other things I wanna feel


There's trillions of cash
And there's billions of us
And there's millions of things that can happen with this stuff
And there's thousands that will crash
And there's hundreds that will smash
There's only 1 U and I'mma drink to that

2x

Come on, let go, let me go take off
Tonight's the one
Cause' tomorrow may never come
Fucking all day
Every night is gonna be mine
Making money is fine
But your life is one of a kind.


4.Warriors

OM
I tick tick tick I collected my ticks
Top dog even though I didn't speak no english
Guess I got Grit coz I suffer for my shit
Guess I came from the sticks and moved to the bricks
You can't fix this coz I'm in the same mix
Guess I'm in the air you can smell me like Vick'ss
This chicks bringing back this
It's my last wish
One snare one kick oh look at this

I freak in minds like
Giddy up Giddy up Giddy up
Come take a ride
Light the city up city up city up
You've got me fired up
Sound boy got me back up
I keep my head downbeat it up beat it up beat it up

M.I.A
Warriors in the dance
Warriors in the dance
GANGSTERS BANGERS WERE PUTTIN 'EM IN A TRANCE
Put them in a trance

OM

We're putting em in a trance
Warriors in a dance
W-W-W-Warriors in a dance
W-W-W-Warriors in a dance
Warriors in a dance
W-W-W-Warriors in a dance
W-W-W-Warriors in a dance
I tick tick tick I collected my ticks


OM


OM

M.I.A. mudra middle finger
Fuck 'em other bitches that try to be my ringer
This time I come as singer
Next time ill come as pain
I ain't talking money
But I can make it rain
Bitches try to get me with
Their witches on cocaine
Snitches turn to dust
And I wash em down the drain
Vitamins for your brain
Protein for your weight gain
Warriors in the dance
This is how we train!


5.Come Walk With Me(Explicit)

There's a thousand ways to meet you now
There's a thousand ways to track you down
While whatever you said and done
There's a thousand ways to make you count
There's nothing that can touch me now
You can't even break me down
Every time you play this song
It's already been getting down
Can I be your best friend
Can I make it to the end
Can you give me summer when you went and gave them
Come walk with me
You ain't got to shake it, just be with me
You ain't gotta be nice with me
Cause tonight we ain't acting loud we don't care
It's cool, it takes two
Something you still thought could use
It's cool, it takes two
Something you still thought could use


6.Atention

Hey, hey, hey

Hey, hey, hey


The fullest attempt in my intent is to let you know what is
important
My existence is militant cause my content bangs like it's potent
Distant to the pollutant, never hesitant, always consistent
I back it up, yeah I'm very blatant
Don't try to copy this cause I patent
Runnin on the streets causing tentsions
Running through, running through, running through
Runnin on the streets causing tentsions


Hey, hey, hey atTENTion!!!!
Hey, hey, hey atTENTion!!!!


Got to see my life from a distance
For instance, my friends say I act tense
I'm a refugee from a yellow brick tent
Past TENT present TENT and future TENT Our ?? is a long walk
like a sentence And its intent breaches its instinct We go the
distance to presidents
Throw atTENTion about my tent


Things fall on my head like we're mutant
So don't drop that ball on that
We're aliens but we're not mutant
We tent after tent a camp tent
There's 36 chambers in my Wu tent
We slang tent in
While you dancing in your LoubouTENT
We be makin tent, out ya curTENT


7.Exodus

Come on a sexodus
Come on a sexodus
Come on a sexodus
Come on a sexodus

Do you want to come on a sexodus?
If you got swag, fuck with us
And do you wanna ride like a crusader?
You ain't gotta Christian Dior
My blood type is no negative
But I'm positive that I'm too deep
You're such a lion when we hit the sheets
Truly what I see is all I keep
I see you stacked chicks their views are blocked in
When I help 'em you say you broke in
I see you locked in you say I don't let you in
How come all this drama still trending

Baby you can have it all
Tell me what for
Baby you can have it all
Tell me what for

New frontier I got news from there
Let's sell it to a new frequency
I left the graveyard selling full of fancy
Bring your homie with transparency
My blood type is no negative
But I'm positive the dark ain't deep
You're such a lion when we hit the sheets
Truly what I see is all I keep
My sights are set in higher times
And my eyes can see in 3D
Make it bright and I see 360
I can get you, but you can't get me


Yeah you keep on telling me you wanna have it all
Tell me what for
Yeah you keep on telling me you wanna have it all
Tell me what for

Cash and Kashmir, gold in Zier
I got a new one from over there
You can drink a mint tea by the Red Sea
As you're living out whose fantasy
Yeah the sun the moon are both
Hitting the hood and the heat's too hot to be cool
Yeah I'm sailing my bed to a better man school
And it's two in the afternoon
We already bullet-proof, we got a big crew
And we're running on a force that's true
We don't fear you, wear up-to-date shoes
Or fall for the point of view


What d'you want it all for?
What d'you want it all for?


8.Bad Girls

Live fast, die young
Bad girls do it well
Live fast, die young
Bad girls do it well

My chain hits my chest
When I'm banging on the dashboard
My chain hits my chest
When I'm banging on the radio

Get back, get down
Pull me closer if you think you can hang
Hands up, hands tied
Don't go screaming if I blow you with a bang

Suki Zuki
I'm coming in the Cherokee gasoline
There's steam on the window screen
Take it, take it
Wheels bouncing like a trampoline
When I get to where I'm going, gonna have you trembling

Live fast, die young
Bad girls do it well
Live fast, die young
Bad girls do it well

My chain hits my chest
When I'm banging on the dashboard
My chain hits my chest
When I'm banging on the radio

Yeah back it, back it
Yeah pull up to the bumper game
Yeah with a signal
Cover me, cause I'm changing lanes

Had a handle on it
My life, I broke it
When I get to where I'm going, gonna have you saying it

Live fast, die young
Bad girls do it well
Live fast, die young
Bad girls do it well

My chain hits my chest
When I'm banging on the dashboard
My chain hits my chest
When I'm banging on the radio

Going out for beer child seat for a million
Accelerating fast I could do this in a second
Looking in the rear view swagger going swell
Leave them boys behind kisses
Leave em just to kill
Shift gear automatic damned if I do
Who's gonna stop me when I'm coming through
What we got left is just me and you
Boy if I get a bed
Baby can I take you?

Get back, get down
Pull me closer if you think you can hang
Hands up, hands tied
Don't go screaming if I blow you with a bang

Live fast, die young
Bad girls do it well
Live fast, die young
Bad girls do it well

My chain hits my chest
When I'm banging on the dashboard
My chain hits my chest
When I'm banging on the radio


9.Boom Skit


Brown gal, brown gal
Turn your shit down
You know America don't wanna hear your sound
Boom boom jungle music
Go back to India
With your crazy shit, you're bumming up the area
Looking through your Instagram
Looking for a pentagram
All I see is poor people, they should be on ghetto-gram
You don't get our underground
Yeah you try to stick around
Let you into superbowl you tried to steal Madonna's crown
What the fuck you on about?
Eat, pray, love
Spend time in the Ashram
Or I'll drone you
Kony 2012 you
Now scram!
(Boom shaka laka boom) x12


10.Double Bubble Trouble

Oh oh
Oh oh
Oh oh

You're in trouble
I step up in the game and I bust that bubble.
Oh oh, you're in trouble
I step up in the game and I bust that bubble.
Oh oh, you're in trouble
I step up in the game and I bust that bubble.
Oh oh, you're in trouble
I step up in the game and I bust that bubble.
Oh oh

Oh oh

Caught up in baby in the fin nah nah
.. making the boy nah nah
Bossin the best nothing but ass
It's just a story that I never ,..
Caught up in baby in the fin nah nah
.. making the boy nah nah
Bossin the best nothing but ass
It's just a story that I never ,..

Oh oh
'


Bip
Bip bip bip bip
Oh oh


11.Y. A. L. A.

Y.A.L.A
Y.A.L.A

Go low, go slow
Run like a polo
A banana pole
Like you're goin up a yo-yo

Yea, yea, Y.O.L.O
Yea, yea, Y.O.L.O
Guns go off when I enter the building

Y.A.L.A

I drink some control
Keep it in my poncho
Light up like Castro
Blow up and get go
Pro when I set, go
Grow like an afro
Play like Ronaldo
Hard like I'm Death Row
Weight in kilo
Light as a pillow
Don't tie my tip-toe
Like I tae-box though

Come come come
When we come with some some
Yeah a glass of rum
Yea I got me some pom pom
For fun fun fun
Let's get 'em undone
With a hit on the bong
It's been so long since we hung


Yeah! Empty wowo
And I am understood
I get the lo-lo
Searching for me unfold
Bankin' offshore
Take a trip to Singapore
I need to earn like
I'm Julianne Moore
For the oracle
Don't wanna igno
That's why I say shit
So they can explore
My baby, I am more
My mommy I adore
I tried to stay poor
Can't take it anymore


Y.A.L.A. Y.A.L.A
I'm flying solo (Y.A.L.A.)
You can take a photo
I'mma keep it wowo (Y.A.L.A.)


Y.O.L.O.?
I don't even know anymore
What that even mean though
If you only live once why we keep doing the same shit?
Back home where I come from we keep being born again and again
and then again and again
That's why they invented Karma


12.Bring The Noize(Extended Version)

I'm so tangy, people call me Mathangi
Goddess of word, bitches, I'm a keep it banging
Truth is like a rotten tooth, you gotta spit it out
Let the bottom two, let my wisdom work it out
Big on the underground, can't knock me down
Vicki Leekx bitches, better buy it on demand
I think by my ten and I stand by two
I can say lots with little words or few like
I done had 'em, yeah, me the madame
I'll introduce you do the zundum zudums
Come let me go, do you like my perfume?
Made it at home with some gasoline and shrooms
Oil and water are two extremes
We like fucking carpets, you like fucking brooms
Why is your tattoo some ugly looking thing?
I got many designs they're adding on Bing
My cousins got his DCS he's decorating
He's handy you might need him when I'm finishing what I'm saying
Let's be frank, you must damn understand
I don't care what you smell what you fucking drank
A lot to be pissed, their mates we were yanks
'Cause it's not me and you, it's the fucking banks

Bring the noise when we run upon them
Bring the noise when we run upon them
Bring the noise when we run upon them
Bring the noise when we run upon them

Free them, free them, free them, free them
Freedom, freedom

Truth is like a rotten tooth, you gotta spit it out
Let the bottom two, let my wisdom work it out
The word is out, sending yours on the prow
Words unannounced, hope you heard 'em like cows
Have the canny body, worth a tally and a wrench
Bitch, my swag rich, can't touch this
So click, click, click, lose it off my dick
Just 'cause I'm numb it don't make me thick
Got my overweight, heavyweight, be my slave freak
If you need the cheese then my shit cost stake
I got a bug spray, bucket, stick
Tons of the fun stuff, '

Bring the noise when we run upon them
Bring the noise when we run upon them
Bring the noise when we run upon them
Bring the noise when we run upon them
Bring the noise when we run upon them
Bring the noise when we run upon them

Free them, free them, free them, free them
Freedom, freedom

Freedom's just another word
Nothing like the new
Freedom's just another word
Nothing like the new
Freedom's just another word
Nothing like the new
Freedom's just another word
Nothing like the new


13.Lights

We'll be Rockin'
We'll be rockin'
Rockin' in the car

These lights ya
These lights ya
Green color, looking nice ya!
Turn it up too loud or the lights will turn red
If you upstairs, you can here it in the bed!
? in my vision, moving to the rhythm
Electric shadows in my ears
Lovin' me all the time, put that on your timeline

Keep my distance even though I shine
For me to tell you things, you need to be the right kind
What the people don't get is that I keep them in line
It's good to take a minute and take it all in
It's so important sometimes that I blow off steam

Does it need some lights that I use to trick out?
I got them from a Chinese dude I went to check out
People need to get them, man, and put some in your pocket


Lights on me, cameras and pic, flash of lightening
Lo-love it when I sing

All I wanna
All I wanna
All I wanna do
Is roll through the city, star-chasing with you

Original nutter

I used to be a bad girl, now I'm even better!
I don't sell like a shotter
I don't often Twitter - they still see me as a threater!
I'm accounted to the counter, put your money at the counter
I'm standing at the counter, say 'Hi' to my hunter!
I eat at Benihana!
I can make 'em feel good, I'm runnin' youth centers!
I'm aiming for the center, sending light beams to Sendai


14.Know It Ain't Right

Let me take the time to tell you
I already know whats on your mind
I wanna stick around and make you
Understand I didn't commit crime
But you keep on thinking it's
In some other chick
Makes me feel I'm better off
Goin' on a trip
You keep on thinking it's
In some other bitch
That makes me wanna leave
And never call up 'til I'm rich
What you want come see me
I got bootleg love for free
I got Abdul in a taxi and
He'll drop you down for free
Natsumi and Tsunami
They make love like origami
They put a flower on the lover
Give it good licky licky what
Good licky licky, good licky licky
We know it ain't right but we do it anyway
I think I wanna get a little active
There's more to this than being your captive
New directions might need a little practice
I can make it little less destructive
You putting guards up
Outside my shop
Get me with your swat what
And it don't it stop
AY
AY
AY


15.Sexodus

Come on a sexodus
Come on a sexodus
Come on a sexodus
Come on a sexodus

Do you want to come on a sexodus?
If you got swag, fuck with us
And do you wanna ride like a crusader?
You ain't gotta Christian Dior
My blood type is no negative
But I'm positive that I'm too deep
Switch the light on when we hit the sheets
Truly what I see is all I keep
I see you stacked chicks their views are blocked in
When I help 'em you say you broke in
I see you locked in you say I don't let you in
How come all this drama still trending

Baby you can have it all
Tell me what for
Baby you can have it all
Tell me what for

New frontier I got news from there
Let's sell it to a new frequency
I left the graveyard selling full of fancy
Bring your homie with transparency
My blood type is no negative
But I'm positive the dark ain't deep
Just switch your light on when we hit the streets
Truly what I see is all I keep
My sights are set in higher times
And my eyes can see in 3D
Make it bright and I see 360
I can get you, but you can't get me


Yeah you keep on telling me you wanna have it all
Tell me what for
Yeah you keep on telling me you wanna have it all
Tell me what for

Cash and Kashmir, gold in Zier
I got a new one from over there
You can drink a mint tea by the Red Sea
As you're living out whose fantasy
Yeah the sun the moon are both
Hitting the hood and the heat's too hot to be cool
Yeah I'm sailing my bed to a better man school
And it's two in the afternoon
We already bullet-proof, we got a big crew
And we're running on a force that's true
We don't fear you, wear up-to-date shoes
Or fall for the point of view


What d'you want it all for?
What d'you want it all for?