In The Mood For Life

Wax Tailor In The Mood For Life Lyrics
1.City Vapors

(Instrumental)


2.Dragon Chasers

It has been a while
Since I've seen you smile
I'm even wondering
If I ever knew you at all

You've been chasing time
You say that you are fine
But I guess what's inside
Is darker than you are

Dragon chasers
Will make the headlines
Dragon chasers
Will make the headlines

You're not to blame
It's this world we're living in
Where presidents do cocaine
And sad men seek the dragon

You're not so strong
Empowered by the dragon
Just a lost lost soul
Into oblivion

Dragon chasers
Will make the headlines
Dragon chasers
Will make the headlines


3.Already Begun

(Instrumental)


4.B-Boy On Wax

When the big dogs gather and snap their jaws
With big boss matters this cat is lost
Left with low batteries acting soft
For a starter I have a beef with some vegetables
I go gazpacho on them like a tap dancer
Suckers caught running put them in ambulances
Advancing elephants leaving big tracks
Ain't clearing them Linus leave 'em on wax
While Label rats crying in their coco puffs
Untouchable like Alfred Nobel grub
Making hits screaming 'hold them up!'
And go gold rushing for Chernobyl stuff
On girls lips like lip gloss always
Shining like the LEDs on my SP all day
Game is sick,need of rescue and first aid
Our shit spinning your hat and your jersey

Suckers trying to step to the up most elevated
Boogie B dope shit I medicate it
Take two of these and stop calling
I only rock mics when my tummy starts growling
Wrarr! Wrarr! I hit 'em in the eye socket
Rappers so played out like a game of croquet
I hit the crates for the boom shit
And can't really care if label dudes approve it
On a quest to destroy rap
They say yall is the future but chere are the droids at?
C3-P0 see me be yo
Boogie B you get freaky flows
Loops I choose to get III on
Wax Tailor hold me down with the real strong
Grooves with the soul intact, you feel the boom the bap
'Cause we sampled that!

If we see a cigarette butt we picking it up
Now you wanting my money man you tripping and stuff
Looking for the breaks and digging them up
It's the life that we know and we living it up
If we see a cigarette butt we picking it up
Now you wanting my money man you tripping and stuff
Looking for the breaks and digging them up
It's the life that we know and we living it up!


5.Street Scent

This way
Are you satisfied Mister Tailor ?

There's no pity
In the naked city


6.No Pity

Hmm there's no pity
Hmm there's no pity
Hmm there's no pity
Hmm there's no pity
Knowledge, knowledge, knowledge
Ask for a helping, helping
Knowledge, knowledge, knowledge
Take it from me
Knowledge, knowledge, knowledge
Ask for a helping, helping
Knowledge, knowledge, knowledge
Take it from me

When you're ah ah ah ahahahhaha
Oh the powers
Wahhh ahahah
Oh the powers
No no no in the naked city

Hmm there's no pity
Hmm there's no pity
Knowledge, knowledge, knowledge
Hmm there's no pity
Knowledge, knowledge, knowledge
Hmm there's no pity

I came here for justice (justice, justice, justice, justice)
And I'm going to get it (I'm going to get it I'm going to get it
I'm going to get it)
I don't want a freed man's idea of justice (of justice of
justice of justice)
I want a little of the system's idea of justice (justice
justice)
From the bottom looking up, not not not from the top looking
down (down)

I'm also a man of heart and blood and soul
Heart and blood and soul
Heart and blood and soul
And I'm not gonna do it (do it)
Heart, heart and blood and soul (soul)
Heart and blood and soul (soul)
Heart, heart and blood and soul (soul)
I've got principles

Well he's got a soul of his own
Just, little piece of a big soul (big soul big soul)
(Do you believe in liberty, liberty, liberty?)
Little piece of a big soul (big soul big soul)
Do you know it's being strangled? (strangled?)
One big soul that belongs to everybody
No no, in the naked city

Hmm there's no pity
Hmm there's no pity
Hmm there's no pity
Hmm there's no pity
Hmm there's no pity


7.Dry Your Eyes

I would describe myself as the landscape I buried
My mother's face, as she carried me,
how her water raged and emptied.

Dry your eyes, those tears are all you're given.
It's no surprise now, your heaven's what you're living in.

I would describe myself as the colourfield I married
my New York pages, how they prepared
my sheets and the dirges caged and cared for me.

Dry your eyes, those tears are all you're given.

It's no surprise now, your heaven's what you're living in.

'whenever auntie moves around her dress makes a curious sound
they trail behindher up the floor and trundle after through the
door.' (auntie's skirts-R.L.Stevenson)

Dry your eyes, those tears are all you're given.
It's no surprise now, your heaven's what you're living in.
Dry your eyes, those tears are all you're given.
It's no surprise now, your heaven's what you're living in.


8.Masquerade Theme

(Instrumental)


9.Until Heaven Stops The Rain

Until Heaven stop the rain
Until Heaven come up and stop the rain

Optimism in my heart
A child of God
A couple of years ago my life was falling apart
Job that I was working didn't want me no more
Four months later some nigga's kick down my door
Denied unemployment pay, bills everyday
In a separate room with myself is where I laid
In the mist of foreclosure my people a cloud hovered
And rained on my head non stop is how I suffered
Had two daughters
Biological was outstanding
My stepdaughter she hated me misunderstandings
The fire fanning, should have been with her dad
Half a year later my marriage was really bad
All I had was this music everything else I'm losing it
Hoping when these doors close shut, some others open up
It's just the same old song, without the singing
So I pull my hood over my mind for stormy evenings

Until Heaven stop the rain
Until Heaven come up and stop the rain

I asked God if he could take the rain away today
But he ain't answer so I said OK
The function of the sky was grey and needed colouring
Other then a peep in the night so now my brother men
Keep twisting, attitude shifting and bending
Hell I am pretending? for levels lacking the sending of a
challenge just to change your life
Stories to memories, more knowledge to read at night, become
your history
For years and years
Crystal ball is clear
Watching my life inside of it I have no fear to tell ya
Man it's more to life than your idea
Wisdom man it grows like buildings holding careers
We either talk to the next man or the Reverend
How we doing wrong not right starts at eleven
Talk to my daughter about life mainly the seven given birth
On Earth as it is in Heaven

Until Heaven stop the rain
Until Heaven come up and stop the rain


10.More Songs


11.Leave It

Just 'cause you're hot you can't believe it
Leave it
Just 'cause you're hot you can't believe it

Just 'cause you're hot you can't believe it
Leave it
Just 'cause you're hot you can't believe it

Oh that's right I'll leave it
Leave it
Gonna leave it
That's right I'll leave it

Loved your kiss
When it came with a gift
That was so hard to win
I put in the time
Until I made you mine
Was that so much of a sin

Could have had a devil in your bed
You could have had an angel in your head
Could have had a debate with wit and charm
Could have had a goddess on your arm

But I won't be your doormat
I won't be moulded like that
I won't be here to the bitter end
'Cause I won't be your girlfriend

Just 'cause you're hot you can't believe it
Leave it
Just 'cause you're hot you can't believe it

Just 'cause you're hot you can't believe it
Leave it
Just 'cause you're hot you can't believe it

Oh that's right I'll leave it
Leave it
Gonna leave it
That's right I'll leave it

I put in the time
Until I made you mine
Was that love with a kiss
When it came with a gift

Could have had a devil in your bed
You could have had an angel in your head
Could have had a debate with wit and charm
Could have had a goddess on your arm

But I won't be your doormat
I won't be moulded like that
I won't be here to the bitter end
'Cause I won't be your girlfriend

Just 'cause you're hot you can't believe it
Leave it
Just 'cause you're hot you can't believe it...


12.Escape Theme

(Instrumental)


13.Go Without Me

I am trapped in a chair
A lump in my throat
There's a tear on my eyelid
Waiting to tumble

Leave me to me
And leave not a trace
You've the eye of a dog
Caught in the headlights

Leave me behind
A burst of sadness
I'll go to the bathroom
To clean up my mess

Just go without me
Don't wait around for me
Don't wait around for me
Just go without me
Don't wait around for me
Don't wait around for me

Just go without me
Don't wait around for me
Don't wait around for me
Just go without me
Don't wait around for me
Don't wait around, around, around

I am trapped in a chair
I cannot move at all
Filled up with desires
Of remote places

I want to go somewhere
I want to cross seas
But what can I reach
In this placeless race

I want to go elsewhere
To live and to change
Let's call this off
I'm not cut out for this stuff

Just go without me
Don't wait around for me
Don't wait around for me...


14.This Train

Everybody has a price
Everybody has a price
But sometimes the price doesn't always mean money

Tell me who is running this game
Check the roles I wanna know who's riding this train
Tell me who is running this game
Check the roles I wanna know who's riding this train

It feels like each day crawls along
Can only see the wrong in a situation
As the picture's playing
No dedication or conviction in what I'm saying
Weight laying heavy on my soul
Invisible
Manage to keep it moving
But don't know who's in control
Life used to be so beautiful
Could appreciate
How the sun illuminates the smallest thing
And motivates the birds to sing at the crack of dawn
At the crack of dawn
Spread their wings
And take on a new flight before the night falls
Calls them back to sleep
So they retreat under the sheet of indigo
That glows from the harvest moon
I paint a picture with this tune
And connect with everyone in the room
Who wears a smile over their gloom
Trying to sweep it to the corner with a broom
And yet the melancholy looms
Secretly anticipating it's finale soon
It has to let up, before I give up

Tell me who is running this game
Check the roles I wanna know who's riding this train
Tell me who is running this game
Check the roles I wanna know who's riding this train

Tell me who is running this game
Check the roles I wanna know who's riding this train

We're supposed to be so strong
Instead of fragile creatures who admit their weakness
Reaching out for help when times are bleakest
We hold it in and pretend
It's the opposite of what we think it is
Instincts, inset for a reason
To avoid is treason
Involution's own means of prevention
Keeping you from tasting the poison
It's natural selection
Yet intelligence is testing boundaries
Why am I chasing 'happy' when I have companionship
Success and money
Aml the things I thought would fill the empty
But now it runs its course so deep inside of me
I silently scream in agony
While my friends and family watch on happily
They can't see the clouds above me
Overcast, blocking sunny
I laugh it off like it's funny
Who wants to be the lone wolf feeling crummy
Forget the front 'cause actually
You and me may not feel so differently

Tell me who is running this game
Check the roles I wanna know who's riding this train
Tell me who is running this game
Check the roles I wanna know who's riding this train


15.Sit & Listen

(instrumental)


16.Fireflies

When she's curled in his arms
Entangled and warm
She thinks, sometimes
That it cannot last
That it cannot last

In the window as the earth goes round
And the air gets thin in the lungs and the hearts of lonely men
Young to old pretend that they live forever
Jewels of the soul that turn into the worst terror
It ain't an error Lord they brighten the skies
Walking with the light in their eyes like fireflies
She hold her love like a statue pose
And he ain't even got a kiss from a rose
So will they let it glow

They never felt it
They never felt it
They never felt it before
Never, never

They'd never let it
They'd never let it
They'd never let it wither
Never, never

They'd never sever
They'd never sever
They'd never want to sever
Never never
We talk about fireflies, fireflies, fireflies, fireflies

One day he'll leave
Or she may go
Away
As long as they stay
Let it be so
Let it be so

He traveled many roads in this land to touch her hand
And experience the love of child woman and man
Together they stand connected talking about this plan
Feeling that the world can't hide, can it all survive
Ah moment in time becomes one in the mind
Ability to open her heart and let it all combine
The strangest life that a couple will find
With rain clouds that be floating around under the sunshine

They never felt it
They never felt it
They never felt it before
Never, never

They'd never let it
They'd never let it
They'd never let it wither
Never, never

They'd never sever
They'd never sever
They'd never want to sever
Never never
We talk about fireflies, fireflies, fireflies, fireflies
Inside of your eyes

As fleeting as a firefly
With the beat of a wing
It could die
The light ending
With its life
With its life

Truth they feeling never lie's ain't it special ya'll
Sitting by the room waiting for that one to call
Selling themselves for life change the aim
The love a color flame straight from the heaven man
How it hang coming together, but can't explain
Ah warm feeling out of control so maintain
And leave a legacy of further intertwine
Moving along with fluttery patterns of fireflies

They never felt it
They never felt it
They never felt it before
Never, never

They'd never let it
They'd never let it
They'd never let it wither
Never, never

They'd never sever
They'd never sever
They'd never want to sever
Never never
We talk about fireflies, fireflies, fireflies
Inside of your eyes


17.Say Yes

( Featuring ASM )

Come on, Wax Tailor
Wax Tailor on the beat once again
State of mind for the bland
Check it out, say yes, say yes, say yes!

Say Yes if you think that you should speak what you feel
Say Yes for the artists still keeping it real
Say Yes, and if you got the spirit stand tall and say
Yes Yes Y'all... Yes Yes Y'all!

Say No to the bloodsucking downpresser man
Say No if you're ready for some Buckshackalang
Say No if you're fed up and ready to brawl then say
No Way Y'all... No Way Y'all

This one is for the refugees and child soldiers
Carrying the weight of the world upon their shoulders
The homeless and few true microphonists
Not afraid to raise their fists and use the groove against
opponents
The horns are for the Haitians and rhyme for Rwanda
Kick it for the Congo on the one for Obama
And bring the drama like a suicide bomber
For the people of Tibet and the Dalai Lama
Ima pass it over 'cause I'm too vexed to keep on..
The kinda crap designed to make you clap yet we weep on
The trees gone, cut, all across the globe
Can't nobody see we've had a Holocaust before
So what's the cost of hope, and that of a democracy
Liberty, freedom and equality, you follow me
A call to peace now's pivotal, lyrical,
Spiritual cleansing of minds the strike's critical

Say Yes if you think that you should speak what you feel
Say Yes for the artists still keeping it real
Say Yes, and if you got the spirit stand tall and say
Yes Yes Y'all... Yes Yes Y'all!

Say No to the bloodsucking downpresser man
Say No if you're ready for some Buckshackalang
Say No if you're fed up and ready to brawl then say
No Way Y'all... No Way Y'all

One, two, three
Condition red. Repeat, condition red.
This is not an exercise
Repeat, this is not an exercise.

Too long have eyes been closed and blindfolded
A new dawn is rising now, the mind's old enough
To know the stuff going on behind our backs
Roll with us, and you might get to find the facts
Mind the gap and lift up your voices
Fists up, rejoice, it's a switch in the choices
We must make, bust fake trust great minds
For the sake of our sons and daughters yo let's ride!
Next up fire pon the wicked dem Kick a blend
One time for the parasites using bricks and pens
To follow whims and exploit fellow man
Stay cloudy, allow me to quote Yellowman with the
'Zunguzungzuguzunguzeng!'
Manipulating roosters , neglecting the hens
Step to the end of the deepest dark forest
Where hands are empty but the souls are victorious

Say Yes if you think that you should speak what you feel
Say Yes for the artists still keeping it real
Say Yes, and if you got the spirit stand tall and say
Yes Yes Y'all... Yes Yes Y'all!

Say No to the bloodsucking downpresser man
Say No if you're ready for some Buckshackalang
Say No if you're fed up and ready to brawl then say
No Way Y'all... No Way Y'all

Young soldiers at attention!
Dig a trench and oh, did we forget to mention..?
We got the Tailor on the tables, reinvention of guerrilla
warfare
Dodging silver bullets as we're leaping through the crosshairs
All clear, and ready for attack mode
About to bridge event horizon of the black hole
The last bowl of soup has been slurped
See we gotta come together to make this thing work!

Say Yes if you think that you should speak what you feel
Say Yes for the artists still keeping it real
Say Yes, and if you got the spirit stand tall and say
Yes Yes Y'all... Yes Yes Y'all!

Say No to the bloodsucking downpresser man
Say No if you're ready for some Buckshackalang
Say No if you're fed up and ready to brawl then say
No Way Y'all... No Way Y'all


18.I Own You

Yes! I'm your house
I got all the mod-cons that you wanted
Granted for the price of a job you hate
Too bad it's too late
To forget where you're at
You have to admit, I own you
Yeah that's true

Hee! Hee! I'm your TV
You pay good cash just to see me
Suck up your time with the lives of others
Mash up your brain to a frozen to a frozen dinner
From lap to lips subliminal clips
Engrave the words on your soul, I own you, I own you

Hey I own you
You know that's true
Oh I own you
And you know that's true

Ha! Ha! I'm your car
Where ever I go is where ever you are
I move at the touch of your toes
Your pride and joy and everyone knows
You're keeping up appearances
For you don't dare to let it show, I own you

Ho! Ho! I'm your phone
You push all my buttons we're never alone
It kills you to leave me at home
Or think of the drivel you'd miss
Without the tender kiss of my tones
That moan and moan and moan and moan...
I own you

Yes I own you
And you know that's true
And I own you
And you know that's true

He! He! I'm your PC
You're all upgraded second reality
Online, I realize I'm helping escape a life benign
Porn and pointless emails to faceless strangers
Now that's a sign, I own you

Hmm I own you
Yeah you know that's true
Oh I own you
And you know that's true, oh


19.Greenfields

Once there were green fields
kissed by the sun
Once there were valleys
where rivers used to run
Once there were blue skies
with white clouds high above
Once they were part of
an everlasting love

We were the lovers who strolled through green fields.

Green fields are gone now
parched by the sun
Gone from the valleys
where rivers used to run

Gone with the cold wind
that swept into my heart
Gone with the lovers
who let their dreams depart

Where are the green fields that we used to roam?

I'll never know what made you run away
How can I keep searching when dark clouds hide the day?
I only know there's nothing here for me
Nothing in this wide world left for me to see.

But I'll keep on waiting 'til you return
I'll keep on waiting until the day you learn
You can't be happy with your heart on the roam
You can't be happy until you bring it home

Home to the green fields and me once again.