Strangers lyrics - 311

Now I don't know you you don't know me
But I can show you where's the beat [2x]
And you can do as you feel as long as you move
Two perfect strangers sharing a groove

Suckers step up and want to cause friction
But violence is for those who can't handle diction
Competion is waning circumnavigate the draining
Complaining about those who are steady maintaining the jam

Jump into the pit and just slam
Big respect goes out to those who can
Lose their shit once in a while
Act a fool just to mark time yo that's my style

And you can do as you feel as long as you move
Two perfect strangers sharing a groove

Borders lyrics - 311

There are days I wanna leave LA
I wanna break out the maze
Escape the dark haze these days
So many kids I know your feelin' crazed
Crave material thangs and makin' slave wages
Baggy pockets only got laundry fluff
Livin' where rich people always buyin' some stuff
So you try to act tough and hide whats inside
Hold your head high gettin' fucked up and throwin' dice
As bad as yours and bad enough I'm sure
My heart wants to love but must navigate through war
Cuz seein' that we're wired to short circuit
Must mean the meek who will inherit the earth already work it

There's a land by the sand grab the money
Plastic the life end of the century
People actin' fake can't see the omens
Wake up yourself cause change is comin'
There's a land by the sand grab the money
Hollywood is such a place fuelin' the frenzy
And everybody starts to peep around corners
Before they take their next step they know their borders

In this $19.98 plus shipping and handling type
Netherworld everytime merchandise dips in our coffers
We buy that image that cost of livin' uh huh
The fakest shit and act cool our friends are watchin'
Attention shoppers check the selection in our reflection
Don't you feel good does it enhance your fresh complexion
You gotta have it you got got to have it [2x]
As the world turns and all the money we burn
On the bullshit to make us happy sometimes we never learn
We're self centered we think were better
We look down as a people upon our elders

There's a land by the sand grab the money
Now let go of it cause it's dissolving
It created all your fears and kept you hustling
Made you sever all the ties to your family
There's a land by the sand grad the money
Plastic the life end of the century
People actin' fake can't see the omens
Wake up yourself cause change is comin'
There's a land by the sand grab the money
Hollywood is such a place fuelin' the frenzy
And everybody starts to peep around corners
Before they take their next step they know their borders

Stealing Happy Hours lyrics - 311

Massive laminate fortress
Hazy cannibus porches
Saying no to the bores
It's not mine or yours then I said
The wait sucks I don't mind waiting
Once you get here there's no more gates and I gotta say

Stealing happy hours [4x]

Don't wait one minute more to ask me
You make me feel like Hank Chinaski
In war all the time war (war) war all the time
We're snatching bits of time that
No one else can seem to find

Stealing happy hours [4x]
Stealing happy hours [4x]

album: "311" (1995)

Random lyrics - 311


Sound boy proceed to blast into the galaxy
Go back rocket man into the skyyou'll see
Hear it all the time, come back rewind
Aliens are watching up in thesky
Sound boy proceed to blast into the galaxy
Sound boy when you come round
Sound boy won't you stay
No one gonna harm you
They all want you to play I watchthe birds of prey
that hunt the canyon below my house
Looking for a meal like alizard or a mouse I wonder
if they appreciate the setting like me
To controlyour own direction choose to be free
And I reserve the right to be as trite as Iwant
And you can lick but don't bite I toss you here to Vermont I kick it lickety split
and hand it to the man in the tan van
And as for you and your crewI don't hate you peace is my priority 'cuz
Marley said for sure-ity
Just what doyou think I'm doin' I'm not just here for screwin yo
And if it's sore take careof it perhaps from too much stucking
But anytime your aware of it then keep onfucking
You know we cool
Hey hey isn't that random?
When we come boutpeople get ready
Hey hey isn't that random?
Gonna freak do it national
Sound boy gonna rock you
People rock steady
Hey hey isn't that random?
Tobe the one who has it all is not that hard
And I'll be that type of dude in afunky car I dream of a suit that will fit my rhyme
When I recognize my girl froma former life
I love it when the only sound that I hear Is your infectiouslaughter
I will hear you again in 800 years If I'm still lucky
Go north on
Outpost then take a left on Mullholland
To me that's where I like it and Macapa
Drive is callin' I get up to the sun and then I stretch out
Beginning to looklike summer
And i'm down with no doubt swing
You know we cool
Hey hey isn'tthat random?
When we come bout people get ready
Hey hey isn't that random?
Gonna freak do it national
Sound boy gonna rock you
People rock steady
Hey hey isn't that random?
I break a silly peace for offering rap weasel
ThenI'm boffering I'd give you an exclusive on my playlist
The thought and styles Ikick are from a random hat pick
That's why most radio will never play this
Tell'em again
Me a rude boy from Omaha, Nebraska
Sick as a porno flick yet gold asprecious laughter
Many don't agree but we can't care about that
'Cuz we're nevergonna wear the old hat.
Spoken

Jackolantern's Weather lyrics - 311

Well I beat a bad rap when I skip a soul trap
Just trippin' and laughin' atthe crap
Dap is what I get the best skins that I hit
You know we rock thefuckin' joint and we split
Singin' an ryhmin's what I'm better for
When Idescribe I'm a scribe with a metaphor I use a simile lightly
'cuz that shitsplayed
The common way most ryhmes are made, ya know I rock like this I flow likethat
But all those comparisons are just that
Kickin' different styles I'll beright here
Today, tomorrow, next week and next year I always say
what I feel andthat is a promise
Nothing in life is above being honest
Sauna is cool comparedto being on stage
But that's how it's gotta go in the stone age
The fame in mygame I name rapture
Like a polished rock I'll make it shine for sure
Word isthat I've travelled become unravelled
I been around the world baby gimme anapple
I'll be your boogie man rather than son-of-sam
What I am is what I am
Though we don't have too long to love a day a night
We only love those who, loveus right back
The kid is smart the kid is clever
Stompin' in jack-o-lantern'sweather
Backpack strapped 'cuz the world is cold
Headphones pumpin' don't yaknow
The kid is smart the kid is clever
Stompin' in jack-o-latern's weather
Rocks his hood and playes it mellow
While maple leaves change into yellow
And ohshit damn honey at it again
Tryin' to beat my high score since the age of ten
See my high score flash on the back glass I was malcontented
Doug in giftedclass
Now here's the deal we came to heal we gonna rock in Rio
Oh no it's not ajoke it's how we feel
Put to test like a Sugar Ray scientist I'm always dancingin my
Sunday best I'm betting on my bliss and my path is lit' see
The microphoneis live and I'm rockin' my body
Smooth like Reggie Miller in an airborne freezeframe
Funky like the kung-fu that can put you to shame
The kid is smart the kidis clever
Stompin' in jack-o-lantern's weather
Backpack strapped 'cuz the worldis cold
Headphones pumpin' don't ya know
The kid is smart the kid is clever
Stompin' in jack-o-latern's weather
Rocks his hood and playes it mellow
Whilemaple leaves change into yellow I'm like hey wait a minute
Give a check on twothen I'm ready to begin it
With a boom boom bap coming outta your trunkies
Givea fat shout out to the Phunk Junkeez
Striken like a cancer taken chances
But Ilove to see the girl windin' like the belly dancer
Standin' up front with atight stomach showin
Me on stage singin, flowin
We just kickin' it live we justkickin' it live
'Cuz if you can't kick it live you gonna die
'Fraid so punk soquit talkin' junk
You need a live show like a ball player needs a dunk

All Mixed Up lyrics - 311

You've got to trust your instinct
And let go of regret
You've got to bet onyourself now star
'Cause that's your best bet
Watch me now with a wicked andwild and I said
We come with the funky style that gets us known for the show
Andwe'll mix the hip hop reggae if we say it is so
And fuck the naysayers causethey don't mean a thing
Cause this is what style we bring
Now it's morning butlast night's on my mind
There's something I need to get off my chest
And nomatter what may come to shine
The dream will always be mine
All mixed up, youdon't know what to do
Next thing you turn around and find the person is you
Thought a freak might be the thing
But the first could be the last, so just getoff of your ass
All mixed up, you don't know what to do
Next thing you turnaround and find the person is you
Thought a freak might be the thing
But youknow this will pass, so just get off of your ass
You've got to trust yourinstinct
And let go of regret
You've got to bet on yourself now star
`Causethat's your best bet
Watch me now with a wicked and wild and I said
Sick sickbit got to have it
Like bustin' in on a session but you got to call it quits
Sick sick bit just can't quit
Fact that you don't even know makes it fully legit
Now it's morning but last night's on my mind
There's something I need to get offmy chest
And no matter may come to shine
The dream will always be mine
You keepme coming,
That is a gal that'll kill dem stunning
You keep me coming,
That is agal that'll kill dem stunning
You keep me coming,
That is a gal that'll kill demstunning
You keep me coming,
That is a gal that'll kill dem stunning
You make menervous, throat dry
My brain is empty, don't know why
But I saw you doingsomething
Which is really truly nothing
But you could bust me out all day
Manymoons since first I saw you
Many moons since first we did the do
Many moonssince first I saw you
Many moons since first we did the do
And why did I trywhen I knew it was no and
Why did I try when I say it was so
But save it forlate we should just let it skate
'Cause the waiting feel is fine

Hive lyrics - 311

Coming like a nightmare word like I'm gonna go for it
Fuckin' around what yagot to show for it?
Let it be know that I'm in the zone
And whatever I need Ijust pick up the phone
'Cuz I'm true with it and you're new with it I just swingthe thing
and then I'm through with it I don't need friends to act like foes
'Cuz I'm Nick Hexum the one who knows about things
'Cuz it takes two and weswings better than you
Then it's time for the dub so we roll out the club
And you know just what I do I'm hitting in the freak mode
Puttin' on a load sippin'on a guinny
Then lo and behold una vision from bottom to top
And I just can'tstop 311 show them the air is rarified
But you don't give a damn 'cuz the grooveis hellafied
Grew up punk, listening to funk I'm a hyper type of fella that doesnot touch junk
You're the back of the pack and the bottom of the stack
That'swaht you get when you're steady talkin' shit
Not goin' for self that shit is onthe shelf
It's 95 and we go for the hive
Listen up this you're gonna bump tothis
And if I'm feelin' mean I'm gonna clutch my fist
Now when I say mean, Imean I'm gonna rock it
You're gonna find out kid I'm bout to shock it
When I'mon I'm gone I hear the beat that spawns
The way we freak it and we kick up astorm
The day we turn to pop the show will stop
So feel the beat and get lostnow
Back to part 2 the hard way we play
Sublime on time to all the fans I'm
SAAnd if you don't know I say check the show
Do what you got to on the dance floor
Some say the style is wack but I say fuck that
Get the hell back and watch usrock the set
We cast the mold bust it cold explode
Megatrendsetters known aroundthe globe
Friends takin' you where you never been
We done what we wantedcraftin' poems
You can rock there is a glow around you
Lose control holmes justlike we do
Hard to obtain brotha' what's my name
Mad to find unlike ya mamma andyour masquerade I drive a mach-
1 no dashboard Jesus I hear voices say that's Doug Martinez
You're all up in my mix like fuckin' Betty Crocker
You thinkyou're playing me but actually you're a jocker
You bad mouth me bitch man yougivin me juice
It aint nothin' but a party everybody get loose
Notice what Idon't do when stress steps to me
Whatever your complaint so sue me I say fuckthe naysayers and keep goin
Gotta do what I gotta do to get the people glowin'
So let everybody gather the more the better I represent the traveler him
he's ashredder
At ease with yourself and don't try to please me
I'm just here todaythen quickly I'm out
On the town one light I'm a glow worm
For several hourswiggle jiggle like I'm a huge sperm
Can't appreciate a brothers love of funkymusic
You think I'm a silly rabbit 'cuz my style has tricks
Of the way I feelnow I just got to rock
The music be poppin through me like electric shocks Ithink
and blink and I wink but that shits not tiny
'Cuz in a blink of an eyelashyou will not find me
You're the back of the pack and the bottom of the stack
That's what you get when you're steady talkin' shit
Not goin' for self that shitis on the shelf
'Cuz it's 95 and we go for the hive

Guns (Are For Pussies) lyrics - 311


Here comes the thunder down under, we're natural wonders
Night falls when weleave all you feel is the hunger
Sunrises of people all shapes and sizes
Dig onthe decade and realize it's funky
No matter this rude boy stll got that swagger
My ears have heard all these crews but we're badder Interracial, special,
positive beings I am I be a cool awakwening
It's getting hectic the metrics thebody electric
Everybody in worn out blue jeans or tacky dresses
This is the citywe've reached we've come to
Go unrecognized on the corner or make moves
All thelights are red all the poets are dead
A familiar nightmare appears in my head
Times are a changin' myself I'm rearrangin'
Dream eight-thousand-five-twelve allblazin'
Born to act out,
Paranoid with a gat
Born to act out,
Think you knowwhere it's at
Born to act out,
But you're lookin' like a sissie
Born to act out,
Guns are for pussies I'm not from Philly but some say I'm a blunt
That's justthe way I am and no I'm not going to front
And yes I took a trip to find outabout the ways of big
City seedy bars and drugs that make you feel shitty
Prettyolder women in skirts conversation frisky
Stinking cigarettes and plenty ofbourbon whisky
Sad classical music on the jukebox of doom Hollywood Blvd.
Barflyfrolic room
Tomb of lost souls some beyond salvage
Some just having fun openingsteam valvage I was one becoming
the other hellbent to discover
Had to pull upthe reigns or else smother
Take it brother all the way and then you're scared
Don't want to be unprepared
You're getting paranoid,
And then guns are shared
You guys think you're hard,
But you're in fear of getting harmed
I fear no manand
I am unarmed

Misdirected Hostility lyrics - 311

Not I'm not the type to just act like I know
Puttin on an angle putting on ashow
Speaking on nothing makes you a stunt
I'll tell you right here yo I don't front I cross the t's and skip nonlegitimacies
Or else please I cannont handleall the negative vibe merchants
Is that all you have in you per chance
So muchangst and pain it's so wack
You should take a tip from the one Frank
Black Playsome pachinko play some parcheesi
Cause all the angst shit is just cheesy
It's the 311 bliss too smooth for pissed
Lyrics talkin loud again
Yeah we are theparty men
Cosmetics that you fretted
We sport the high asthetic H
ere go rapkickin the dazzled crazy mathematic
I am what I am mix some old school jams ontotape cuz the
Party's in the crates I scan step into the realm
What you gonna do
Give the party people something funky to listen to
Misdirected hostility,that's what you got see
Misdirected hostility, that's what you got see
Misdirected hostility, that's what you got see
Misdirected hostility, that'swhat you got
Bodyrock pop and lock here's an example
Boulevard chrome beatsalways ampin' your temple
Punks get got in the age of hip hop
It's just begunlike stolen bikes on the blacktop
Born to sing a lyric immaculately concepted
Nostrain in your game if your game is respected
Come as you are radio star
Drownout the hatred with a rhyme
An electric guitar
Dispatched when rap shattered theglass of radio access
May we turn some soul on their rythmless dances
You knowthe time and they'l know the scoop
They'l say it was a rhyme and a beat of a rapgroup
Your rhymes have been outmoded
Your rhymes have been outmoded
Your rhymeshave been outmoded
Your rhymes have been outmoded
Your rhymes have beenoutmoded
So just quityourbellyachin'
You're saying that your tortured
Give me afuckin break and
Maybe take out the source
Of your disparing what do I mean
Kickthe fuckin' heroin I speak from experience
Because I didn't see clearly once
Acting like I dunce In 1989 I was cocaine and Jim Beam
But now it's 95 and I'mginseng
Misdirected hostility, that's what you got see
Misdirected hostility,that's what you got see
Misdirected hostility, that's what you got see
Misdirected hostility, that's what you got

Purpose lyrics - 311

I believe in your purpose baby
Coming up to the surface and maybe
I'll neversee you again then again who knows
Make me quiver hands will shiver
Still gotall the things that I woulda give her
Yeah, yeah but it's slow going
Something's showing yeah, yeah
Love is a stream that will find it's own course
Making dueis a thing a thing I will do no more
Whenever you come back I'll be waiting
Trifling the slack no head gating
This is all pure fiction you know that's right
Just pure fiction
That's all right I believe in your purpose baby
Coming up tothe surface and maybe
I'll never see you again then again who knows
Make mequiver hands will shiver
Still got all the things that I woulda give her, yeah
But it's slow going something's showing
Yeah, yeah

Loco lyrics - 311

Hey you got to step outside to see what's going on
Hey you can't run andhide when the 'psybin trip is on
Not like this have you seen such green
A spotlike this becomes serene I'm glad your here i have no fear
We trip the 'shroomsfantastic
And shit gets drastic elbow pull and kick
We trip the 'shroomsfantastic
And shit gets drastic, check it out
Right now my brain is fragile
But you seem so agile we'll make it in tea
And we'll see what there is to see
We trip the 'shrooms fantastic
And shit gets drastic elbow pull and kick
We tripthe 'shrooms fantastic
And shit gets drastic, check it out
Make an instrumentaladd a little vocal
Take to the stage and make the people go loco
Make aninstrumental add a little vocal
Take to the stage and make the people go loco
Boom boom you got the spinning of the room
Quite right you got the breaking ofthe light
Boom boom you got the spinning of the room
Quite right you got thebreaking of the light
And the sun and the moon and the spinning of the room
It does to my sight what the prism does to light
You're quicker than me ridiculoussee
You come follow me get lobotomy
You're quicker than me ridiculous see
Youcome follow me get lobotomy
We trip the 'shrooms fantastic
And shit gets drasticelbow pull and kick
We trip the 'shrooms fantastic
And shit gets drastic, checkit out
Make an instrumental add a little vocal
Take to the stage and make thepeople go loco
Make an instrumental add a little vocal
Take to the stage andmake the people go loco

Brodels lyrics - 311

Ooh you know we pepper you
With a sonic assault side step a you I cannotthink of a better way
That we could celebrate freedom
Than make up a set ofgoals and cold beat 'em
See dumb verbal tags like audio spaghetti
Give a shoutto the one they call
Yeti I bet he put the cabash on any foes whatsoever
Likeoriginal brodel Trevor
Positive vibe merchant grandson of Lord Buckley
Scottish Ralston shows up if you're lucky
Ad Raspler the sweed a friend in deed
He'skeeping an eye on the other guy's greed
These are 311 characters I dubbedeveryone
The story ain't over but my rhyme is done
It was the year that I firsttouched ground
So I grabbed the microphone and I got down
Just like James Browngather round of our sight and sound
Pound for pound we throw down ratherprofound
I'll put you in another world I can't hear you
Like having phone sexwith a deaf girl
No doubt we got the jams that'll smack ya I penned three booksof lyrics
2 for action 1 for backup
'Cuz I'm a cold rockin' brother gottransistor tunes
And it feels real good to get close to you
The brodels is thenazz and the nazz knows where it's at
The brodels is the nazz who knows a catwho can feed a cat
The goal is to be a poet and a carpenter
To be one who lovesto be one who works
The nazz not something that can be given
The brodel isinside you it comes from within
When I feel into the sea
When the world came andkissed me
Transformed my shit told the shark I was a dolphin
Swam quick funnythough
Pirranahs chilled and laughed at
The way that I took off my polka dots ontop of that
The whales know I'm quick watch out
And I get funky fresh as for thefishes
I'm lit luminous I'm not nouveau techno I glow like a glacial
In skinthat swims faster than speed I am I be dropped out of nothing
I will return tonothing
Rotate my style my rhyme my way magician of a rhythm
Lover of animalsdamn I wanna hear 'em
Aquatic my way I got soul shape
Well I'm 6 foot 3 andlike Mohammed Ali I float like a butterfly
but sting like poison ivy
Drive a 69lincoln suicide doors
Around the town I'm slinking fat subs of course
We're thegreatest show on earth
You know we turn it out daily
In and out of town like Barnum and Bailey I know that is a simile
but I couldn't resist
From Solomon Roadie for the PJ's I don't think he'll be pissed I eat a cobb salad,
smokedfish, duck, or clam chowder
Chill with indica and
Guinness Steer clear of whitepowder I run into my brother give him a pound
and a yodel
They know my word isbond talkin' bout the brodels
The brodels is the nazz and the nazz knows whereit's at
The brodels is the nazz who knows a cat who can feed a cat
The goal isto be a poet and a carpenter
To be one who loves to be one who works
The nazznot something that can be given
The brodel is inside you it comes from within
And we're fresh dude just check my man P
He said I will not muddle my mind withimpertinency
Lost a lot in Vegas plays a lot of Sega
Saw a phrase that he likesand put it on his leg
And we're fresh dude just check my man D he said
Comin'in ruff and tuff all systems are tweakin'
People all over the world they must bethinkin'
All the shit that we kickin' our shoes must be stinkin'

Don't Stay Home lyrics - 311

Life could slip away in absent minded numbness
I'm only sayin this 'cuz Iwish for the best
When you always stay in self-incarceration I think it's such ashame
Don't stay home this time now don't stay home
If he don't have to hedon't want to
Don't stay home this time no don't say no
Oh how I'd like todiffuse your time bomb anger
It's screaming danger danger this kind of world
Don't care if you're home so you better get some
Don't stay home this time nowdon't stay home
If he don't have to he don't want to
Don't stay home this timeno don't say no
Everything I'm sayin' you can dismiss
Because I sat alone onthis past Christmas I deserved to be alone
But I guess I should have gone home
Hey don't break the mold kid just eat around it
Yeah that's what I did I'll berunnin around the block
For no apparent reason
Somethin' you'll catch me doin'in any given season
Gotta break a sweat man gotta go bust out Buddy bye bye byebye
Good-bye to the drought - yea
Don't stay home this time now don't stayhome
If he don't have to he don't want to
Don't stay home this time no don't say no
Don't stay home this time now don't stay home
If he don't have to he don'twant to

Dont Let Me Down lyrics - 311

Don't Let Me Down
Don't Let Me Down Again
Don't Let Me Down
Don't Let Me Down Again
Don't Let Me Down
Don't Let Me Down
Swelled up eye's oh my the girl got beat
And the stupid mother fucker who madeyou so
That punk is a coward let that be told I hear voices in the night thatare electric
He kicks the shit out of her because he's heartless
She won't leaveshe has low self esteem
He's got gravitational pull
Sucks her body till herheart and her limbs grow cold
Hang in there use your head
How can I love youafter you're dead
Hang in there keep trying
How can I love you after dying
Here's what you got to tell him I'm thinking of a picture that's keeping me institch
You're causing me a mental glitch
'Cause jealousy is such a bitch Ihereby emancipate myself from that
You can consider yourself free to flirt andchat
With whoever you want It should have always been that way
The way that youwant the way that you play
My mind is blank slate I'm pretending you're erased
You cannot let me down when I cannot see your face
Hang in there use your head
How can I love you after you're dead
Hang in there keep trying
How can I loveyou after dying
Ode to a beat up girl, I know you're out there
Stronger thanyou think, stand up if you care
Get up off the ground, don't let me down
Get upoff the ground, don't let me down
Hang in there use your head
How can I loveyou after you're dead
Hang in there keep trying
How can I love you after dying
And you, I'm a let you pass without kicking you're ass
Because I'm above it youhurt someone I love
It takes two to make a thing go right and that's trite
But one just to sneak and weasel through the night
If you hurt her again I'll fuckyou up
If you hurt her again I'll fuck you up, fuck you up
If you hurt her again I'll fuck you up
If you hurt her again I'll fuck you up, fuck you up

Sweet lyrics - 311

Take a chance on something star you gotta
All the live long day
If I had toname one thing you think data
Be hard pressed to say
You can't say I'm gushy,
Atleast you know what I think I know that I'm lucky, I know you're on the brink
You got it good good good,
You got it good so good
You make up ridiculous words which mean exactly nothing
I know just what you mean and that's the funny thingIt's understood,
It's understood
Buddy buddy buddy I know why you wander
Through the sweetness on the ground
The sweetness of the flowers
You make yourway on a cloudy day
You've got to move
The world you prove is too sweet, yeah
We parted much too soon I know but that's how it goes
There's someone better outthere for you and me
Can't wait to get on the road and feel the shows
And belike phenomenon number 1 and 2 and 3
I don't mean to brag, I don't mean to boast
But I am the guy that could give you the most
It's good good good, It'sunderstood
Buddy buddy buddy I know why you wander
Through the sweetness on theground
The sweetness of the flowers
You make your way on a cloudy day
You've gotto move
The world you prove is too sweet, yeah

T & P Combo lyrics - 311

People sing about the coming of spring
But what is comin' down around it's snow or it's rain
It's insane and I'm still in the same gang
The way the weatheract's it's a shame ok
Badder behavior in our shit is flavor
Grandiose endeavorsyes the quest is greater
Make no mistake I know the time and I wake I slip onlywhen
P-Nut gets me baked from that shake
Yeah you can't fuck with this
You're Walter Middy don't take it as a dis
But the fantasy has got to end this minute I had a fucking dream
and yo now I'm in it I've been at many function
but I knowI'm about the function
If someone brings you down keep punching
We bunched in alittle house where conditions got squalid
But where we at now - solid I concurtime it slurs and it blurs
The vision like a drug and yo it's the word
Howabsurd deliver us from nerds
And funky 40 oz. glass littered curbs
Soon thechurch pitted bell will clang
Boys on the corner mack with slang play a dicegame
When I walk by it some bag lady goes sha-na-na-na
Your street time islimited 'cuz this band rocks it
Take your whole crew put 'em all in your pocketIf your feelin' sick rub it on
with vicks 'N take 2 to 6 of our sweet super mix
Your street time is limited 'cuz this band rocks it
Take your whole crew put 'emall in your pocket
If your feelin' sick we got the elixir
Rub it on down withthe sweet super mixer
Late night radio players late night airwave invaders
Yeahwe got the force late night radio
Zooma zooma zooma yeah we got the boom
Blowin' up the spot so so give us room
We prowl sometimes we howl hysterical
When we take the stage see a miracle I realize today nothing is more vestigial
Than the young space walkin' individual
For years and years bubbling up withsoul power
To detonate this planet or reach another
Yeah we take it up a notch
We diggin' the shit so deep like
Ralston digs scotch
Botch this and I'll regretit no that's not what I'm saying
Remember this instead I'm staying
We played ina little house where conditions got squalid
But where we at now - solid
Wehauled a van with a RV that was a bad call It all went up in flames
but Ihaven't seen it all
Homey steps to me and say hey where ya goin'
Oh just headin'back to where I done my growin'
If you must go somewhere over the rainbow
Theadventures of a cosmic hero
From planet to planet my tags a crater
If you're notin the future you're not here either
Labeled psychedelic we can play disco
Whenthe going gets weird you know the weird turn pro
Your street time is limited'cuz this band rocks it
Take your whole crew put 'em all in your pocket
If yourfeelin' sick rub it on with Vicks 'N take 2 to 6 of our sweet super mix
Yourstreet time is limited 'cuz this band rocks it
Take your whole crew put 'em allin your pocket
If your feelin' sick we got the elixir
Rub it on down with thesweet super mixer
Late night radio players late night airwave invaders
Yeah wegot the force late night radio

album: "Grassroots" (1994)

Homebrew lyrics - 311

Now I know fools get their own when they chit chat
Haven't heard yet, but you can bet I'm not with that
With that talk, with the digi walk
I struck a bird, you heard, absurd, word to the fact
I'm a cat, nippin', sippin' on the flask
Passin' it, talkin' shit, but only if you're an ass
In front of me 'cuz you could run from me but
In the end, revenge send ends to the defendant
I can't get caught in the spiral
'Cuz every bit of energy, it goes to my survival
Out my way, I'm a flicka flacka blotter
Ya try to find a weakness, but the shit keeps gettin' harder

Fourth of July
With Lucy in sky
I remember pine trees and the coat of many colors
I was nineteen
I'd do anything
Shit like that now scares me, but I'd like to do it again
It was independence day
I've seen the other side and I say
Oh, I've been insane
And I won't ever be the same

'Cuz we flow we must be fly
First to flow, Nick, oh my brother, so wise
And then I rise (???)
Here's an ill kid pimpin' cuz he is so slick
Steps from darkness, his body electric
A drone buzzes the air, a cracklin' tone
Then boomin' like thunder in a cosmic jungle
Death defyin' like Evil Knievel
Words that will wobble awkward and evil
'Cuz he flow and rock the hardest of the crowds
A marvel pow, how you like me now
I've returned the kiss of death the last Damien
From the abyss, a fresh eternal alien
Now famished from pathless ways, I'ma do damage
To the whack MCs, I know you can't stand this
Right about now, get down, I'm the annihilator
Rockin' with the rhythm of my rhyme detonator

Fourth of July
With Lucy in sky
I remember pine trees and the coat of many colors
I was nineteen
I'd do anything
Shit like that now scares me, but I'd like to do it again
It was independence day
I've seen the other side and I say
Oh, I've been insane
And I won't ever be the same

Lucky lyrics - 311

I'm taking it to the bridge and there's a different country
I'm bringing with me the people I know
Deep down are funky
Oh yeah, we dap, we got the juice it's on tap
Never take the time to rewind all the weak crap
Here, take it, it's yours, the gift is calling
The sunshine be falling our way first every morning
I'm a magician, you see I'm christened with condition
Held over from a future world, I've come to you so listen
There's a place out in deep space
Where all the brothers chant and dance and rant
And shave their heads like Buddha, I'm a flyguy
You know I'm smoother
Of course no remorse is left for all you loser crews

I do not care what you do, I always screw up
But when I do, it's nothing like you, I wish you grew up
You're saying anything, like promise to get clean
Won't kick, half-dead, you're fucked up in the head
Just get him out of here, get him out of here
Get him out of here, uh, yeah, he's making me sick
We push a sucker out, with much force and much clout
Didn't want to do it, that's not what we're about
But you gotta have a limit, how low can you get it
Seems about time to change the subject and sing about
The wise-eyed girl that makes me feel good
And never do I leave misunderstood

Aw, yeah, can you feel it
I know you feel good too
You got a choice of what you're gonna do
It's like this, that
Herb is where it's at
Mix a melody with some backchat
Tell 'em again, can you feel it
I know you feel good too
You got a choice of what you're gonna do
It's like this, that
Herb is where it's at
Mix a melody with some backchat

I'm rollin' slow, no particular place to go
So nothing's changed, the more things stay the same
The more it doesn't matter to a latter day St. Bernard
Acting hard, but I throw down like a crazy retard
But what could make a man wanna walk around the schoolyard with his tool hard
And what could make the switch to call a girl a bitch
It probably happened when you first started rappin'
And when you know that you were stuck with Beavis
Now leave us on a note of positivity
I'm saying this for levity, but if I leave it brief, I call it brevity
I said I see the people rocking, which means there's no stopping the flow
And you can just tell 'em that you know

Come on, every night, yeah, we turnin' up
And comin' off live like a final 311 battle breaking idols
On the one you never heard before
You know the hard-core rockin' pumpin' the dance floor
Leave ya feet sore looking for your Micatin
You know the mic is deadly in the mood we into
Certified, not fakin', cool like a Jamaican
Every time the enemy hear us, they will be shakin'

Damn
I know you feel good too
You got a choice of what you're gonna do
It's like this, that
Herb is where it's at
Mix a melody with some backchat
Tell 'em again, damn
I know you feel good too
You got a choice of what you're gonna do
It's like this, that
Herb is where it's at
Mix a melody with some backchat

Nutsymptom lyrics - 311

The coda funk has you sunk, feel the mids pump
Blessed are those who erupt when we turn up
Right now we corrupt cons the shades
We don in the neon night
We're gonna feed on the mic and blast through a pipe
I got a cool capability to toast and ill
Yo my daddy told me, "Hey son you must act chill"
Alien rough my galaxy is tough here comes the bang
Of a hip-hop thang that we brang and swang
Men from Mars ain't ever gonna hang
With dope Buddhas we come to the stage, we are attackin'
Space assassin naked live and never slackin'
Come a day on the way enter one S.A.
Amplified from another world far away
I got the pang of a gang and I come from the Southside
Here's the thang that I brang and I promise to come live

While the masses passes upon their fucking asses
And if you don't see, get glasses
That is a shout out to the words of Curt Grubb
The motherfucker is no scrub, I said the man is the kind
With the one that I call Brine Shrimp
We never ever do skimp, I limp on stage in a huff
Like magic dragon on puff, on the stuff of a Humbot cone
Then I'm stoned, watch out
Smoke the weed that come from Northern California
Not do no cocaine that come from Colombia
That the thing that mash up your nature
Mash up your body and mash up your culture
Take a tip from the flipped script of Daddy Freddy
I give complete props to the one that rocks steady
With dexterity that goes on and on and on
And turn out the dope shit like the one they call
Pawn Shop Press yes, it's on, what's up
P-Nut change it up, one time from your mind, watch out

8:16 A.M. lyrics - 311

Stranger flowers yet
There will never come a day that I will ever regret
The hours, days, years and the minutes
The joy, the pain, the sunshine and rain in it
The drives on the coast to nowhere
Nothing to say, just sit and stare
There's nothing like the comfort of a silence that's comfortable
Not talking small, just skip the bull
Then I find myself in servility
Didn't think that was my ability
I go a yard and a mile to make you smile
But then I'm happy to see
I got so many ways to make your gaze elliptical
Got a ways to go, the future's so cryptical and I'm glad
Just another many things we've had

It's 8:16 A.M., will you wake up to me
The first thing that you see
My eyes open, I'm just hopin' you feel the same as me
The day starts carefully
On the sidewalk with the dog
You're right last night I was a hog
Come on, I'm sorry
It's 73 degrees
January easily glides
Oh, easily glides

Stranger flowers still
If you're gonna wanna go another day I will
Like this, make it a deal, sealed with a kiss
Sealed with the feel of impermanent bliss
Today my love, we shall let the world slide
Turn off the ringer and just glide
For we will never be younger again then
What do you see

It's 8:16 A.M. will you wake up to me
The first thing that you see
My eyes open, I'm just hopin' you feel the same as me
The day starts carefully
On the sidewalk with the dog
You're right last night I was a hog
Come on, I'm sorry
Holiday on the radio
Billie knows that is the way to go
The way to go

A place where we both can spend our saved time
Not collecting interest
Maybe the same reason we always find ourselves homebound
I've got to do some homework
The leave response, we want to leave Wisconsin
For a new life, a new trailer with an antenna and a porch
Of course we'll bring the dog

Omaha Stylee lyrics - 311

W-w-ww-w-w-w-wake the town and tell the people
311
311
311 is
The people, what's up, the people, what's up
311
311
311 is
The people, what's up, the people, what's up

In a minute, everything you have can all be straight gone
In a minute, things you thought were tied
Can come straight undone
How about some knocks on wood, some so far, it's so good
Any day, what you think is solid earth can jump up
And spread out to the north and south
That's what plates are about
Nature has no conscience, no kindness or ill will but

The dreams they had make me sad
Because of the vibes of them
When one girl dreamt a fire in hers
And then it happened to me and my family
My bro's and I were driving
The RV bleeding flames
Us leaping through fire surviving
Zoned with no home, there was fire all on it
Umm let me have my life, I want it

I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna
I'm gonna tell you and then I said
We're comin' in kill, we're comin' in chill
We're comin' in how we will
Want to tell the whole world what's the deal
And I say know no critical border 'cause we do what we want
Got more funky styles than my laser jet got font

Not one to get over sounding like the norm
Friendly to the radio, all that shit is corn
All we coming with is a little bit of swing
And we go on like it ain't no thing, and I say

Omaha stylee did not think there was one
Where you know the radio's weak and the shows are more fun
But you know we fucked up the dance hall since 1988
Many did not think when they hear we come from this state
Still we're down like that, still we're down like that
Still we're down like that, kickin' the funk that smells of skunk

Omaha stylee did not think there was one
Where you know the radios weak and the shows are more fun
But you know we fucked up the dance hall since 1988
Many did not think when they hear we come from this state

The dance hall that we come from was a pool table basement
The bud was low-key and the records were Jamaican, but uh

Such occasions occur back in the day
It begins you're a raw kid all the way
Son of a gun, but then you drifted
All are endowed, but few are gifted
At the break of dawn, behavin' like a spy
Lampin' in the light, the cold world awakens
Deeper is the light to open up the sky
Look into my eyes and see the dialating

Omaha Stylee is the shit we come with man
Embedded in our souls it breaths out from this band
We always knew that we could
Thank you if you too thought we would

Not one to get over sounding like the norm
Friendly to the radio, all that shit is corn
All we coming with is a little bit of swing
And we go on like it ain't no thing and I say

Omaha stylee did not think there was one
Where you know the radios weak and the shows are more fun
But you know we fucked up the dance hall since 1988
Many did not think when they hear we come from this state
Still we're down like that, still we're down like that
Still we're down like that, kickin' the funk that smells of skunk

We will arise, explore these worlds and find the grassroots
How to crew to do the grinding of the grounds to brew
My dude on the one to come off like Teflon
Rock your shit and you will rise on

If you're a farmer out standing in your field, say uhh
Do as you will, do as you wish, follow your bliss, say uhh
We travel around the country giving it our best
We like to see the people dancing
And bouncing and the rest

The hammer and the chisel and the rule it compass
We forge a sword, the chariots of war, a battle axe

There's much power in anger, but loves a bigger banger
Complete props to my crew 'cause this is how we do
Omaha Stylee

Applied Science lyrics - 311

Nod your head to this as a lot of apprentice
Some of this were standing on the shoulder of giants
Some tryants some benevolent
To the followers it's relevant
The rest get bent on lending opinions
I'm sending to a brand new level
I revel in completion I'd like to see deletion of parasites
Getting served like Smuckers Jam
Fool know rules but the rest keep bouncing back
With the lack of further adieu see
As one can deduce we
Slam the shit out hard and long
Cuz we got more song

Something you might like now
All-star bound
Yeah your so sound
Cool as the blue water all around
From a force field flashing
Aliens are sending
Black evolutions of love you are hearing
The dark supernatural is the world we call
Our own home lightning in the mind comes out in song
But we're wild they say never trust us we're shady
In lieu of the crew your into we are baby
Cuz music will be coming out the words we speak
We erect breakbeats shatter wax still on the platter
Our shit is badder we come fly then we scatter
Cuz we deep and we solid yeah we hear ya holler

Electricity running through the soul it feels good
Some time the only thing that really ever could
Feed that hunger I crave it I love it I gave it
I shove it in a battery and save it for later
A waiter in the Dorothy Pavilion in '89
I met some wierdos and had myself a real good time
Downtown L.A. is a soul graveyard
Where you got to be hard or get jacked
It lacked a certain sense of something
Something basic no karm int he least I broke east
You know I had to face it

I guess I flaked but it was no mistake because
311's got the boom

My mic check is giving me
Electric company
I can't see the high wide sky
Or stars above me
Are you a flower
Or more like a high rise tower
If so the soul of sweet delight
On you will shower
There's a place for us they say is somewhere
Not a dream but a place and you will be there
Your slippin' but content because your spirit
And hills are alive with the sound of music

"People never seem to get over the wise breath, but all is said and all you do is sigh..."

Taiyed lyrics - 311

Returning from the water cold alive and shining
Rock a mic in the afterlife while your moon is rising
Heatin' up forcing steam whirling to be seen
The dark held stars are the frost of my breathing
Swimming through the darkness I'm a ghostly shark
Developing like a photograph slowly in the dark
The hearafter the action the main attraction
One love in all of this that I'm going after

Now there's fire inside but black space surrounds you
You think "Where oh where am I"
but even your light continues
See through us see a soul we have not yet
Learned to harness see the next world inside it
We are the people of skin who left water
Inside the dark womb inside of our mother
Prone to the beat and vibe of our tribe
We catch the drift and ride moving tides
Out from a love that will keep on burning
Now see yourself to the next world returning
This life an old place we face to live again
What is it to understand the heareafter

Silver lyrics - 311

Don't fear mere words cuz if it takes a word ruin ya
You should have already hard you're finished through and soon ya
See that stifling sentences is so much more suspicious
Much worse could come of that so much more delicious
To the dastardly basturdly plans of little mice and men
Ugly rears its head and speaks from now and then
People love to disagree so avoid the endless bout make no attempt
To try and suss the stupid out
But of the racist institutions simple minds belong
Not happy just being human, no wish to get along
Little people need exclusions sucker groups to throng
It makes them feel special it makes them feel strong
Now I got a click but it's more like a family
Not an ethnic trip more like an ethic see
I write the rhyme today tell it to you later
Whether were coming in wack or what it's a waste to be a hater

Graffiti bombs-from the palms-love is so strong
Can't be stopped too long
For the night it will come
Shaped in the form of Mars that stone afar
Ghetto cool Oh well
Now you feel the spell
The color rocks the bell
The king of swing rise to the top
The thythm possessed in ya and it don't stop
The mise is broken The demon locin'
Dropping the bomb and all that is left is the smokin'
Cloakin' chokin; the lyrics are spoken
Infrared vision scopin' condition
Now breakin' 'em all to pieces like a sly rap bandit
Witha fly Lu-Kang kick in Mortal Combat and I land it
So get your own back when I jam it cold and
Hearing about you rhyme style been outmoded
The dopest flow upon the planet
Dope is the word the bro throw up on the down low goddammit

You juice your fucking friends like Dracula
But when we kick you out you're just brokula
You left a big surprise from Pacific Bell
Called all your relatives and your friends in Hell
Now let me tell you something you fucking piece of shit
You'll never have no money, now tell me was it worth it?
You leave a trail of lies that's why you keep moving
We won't come after you we'd only end up provin
In the end revenge send ends to the defendant
I know that statement's true I wear it like a pendant
I know you'll hear this song so I think it's funny
The name is theif or trust and money.

Like Captain Picard we come hard in light years
Our star has long bust but now reappears
In your sky at night rising and immense
Yes you see ourselves in the shine of it
And so passing under the dome of the great sky
Beware we are the stars holmes that you ruled by
Where death reborn into the world is a gift
So the future with no voice of its own will uplift
All is gone
All is calm y'all

Set wrecked in L.A.
In the Wetlands of New York
Atlanta and Phoenix
Portland, Lincoln and N.O.

Grassroots lyrics - 311

I flip when I kick it trippin it
So I can check shit not in a daily style
But once in every while so I can
File check file check the files of my brain
Many of meaning manage to come from the insane
And the butcher the baker the fabulous drama maker
A cracker on a truck goin' breaker breaker
Listen to everyone then disregard it
The maningful shit comes back back to where it started
In your cranium surrounded by pot like a geranuim
A capital 2 burns in my mind give me some peace
I looked at her I looked at him and neither one did know
Where the wild thoughts grow check it out

I look to absolutes and there absolutely none
The truth is what you shoot for not one
Nothing brings it all together the journeys never done
I'd sing you Stormy Weather but it's been sung so
Let's have some fun
Three Eleven hass grass roots
Challenge comes and goes and there will be another
I say bring it on
The roots that grow underground are as big as the tree
That you see if not it will fall down
We waste so many moments standing on convention
The only survey is when our heart pays no attention

Move with persistence cover much distance
Knowing no perdition that's my game for instance
Three Eleven true to no tradition
And the Three Eleven crew not dow with convention
But a hundred different people already told what we about
So I make not attempt to try and suss the stupid out
I'd turned into a roughneck that was not my intention
It doesn't even really matter unless I fail to mention that
Peace to all crews that want some peace
First the Mid then the West then we slide through the East
A piece to any crew that want a peice
But peace to all crews that want peace
Check it out

Salsa lyrics - 311


We were born in the seventies
The rippin and rhyming and brethren see
We're filling taste great
In the old school I was eight
Fot the new school I was late
But in high school I was debate
I rate in the great state of California
I'm warning ya
Je vais a la plage parce que le guignol est chouette!
I kick nonsense in French tasty like Crepe Suzette
I bet you're feeling famished for a 311 sandwich
Not the wack DJ's that I'ma damage
I like a beat that's unique and I like my head zooming
And in my Continental you know that shit's booming
With the diamond int eh back suicide doors
You can look from here to eternity
And never receive your morsel.

Another tale of ordinary madness
The girl who gave you her sex I heard was homeless say
All I really wanna is to feel nirvana
Won't you take me tonight and we just might find
A bottle of wine and feel our nasty nature
Your toung lickin' up my tounge
Your radio pickin' up a smokey jazz love song
Madness becomes you even though your
Livin' life it's hard to exist when you're tempted
By flesh you wanna bust through
Beautiful legs in the bar there is poetry
She bends and suspends and her ass
Is a marvelous thing
A dance dancin' at a club the Hereafter
Who can't really dance but that doesn't really matter
And she won't hear applause
Cus your drunk and lost
All light is gone
Your arms spread like a cross
And you're dreaming that the world
Will soon fall apart
Topless firl in your gaze
Which is hazy
Takes your dollar
In the gutter without cigarettes
Or wine your hungover
I was warned of your normal
Behaviour and felt
My life was too short to
Consider your wack self
It's like this when you dip down
And you are boxin'
Reeling against the ropes and you
Face some young Mexican
Your scrappin' your kneck gets
Snapped back your eyes have bled
Your thinking' about a comeback
But your takin' it to the head
You little bastard
Better watch you back
Cuz we're after
Your punk ass by God we're gonna jack it
You're played out and small time
And your show is over
You're 'bout as lucky as a three leaf clover
And your older ho bag sceezer
In her droopy saggy skin
Who thoughtshe was a model
But in truth a never-has-been
I'll slap that witch as if I were her pimp
And my crew will attest to her fradulence

Lose lyrics - 311

I can see it now have to show you how
The funny thing is that we couldn't have it any other way
Still it kills me when we say
All we've been through
All the congs that I've sung for you
We both know I'm gonna lose you

I hate to be alone
There comes a time to reap what you've sewn
All we've been through
All the songs that I've sung for you
We both know I'm gonna lose you

Let's think of all the good times
Instead of wish we could times
So much better that way
This is what I ask for
This is what I deserve
Be careful what you ask for

Six lyrics - 311

You know patience pushing a dream brings my demons to life
Songs are vacations our soul salvation will you
Suspend your disbelief I'd like to be the, thief
That steals that jaded necklace that you're always wearing
I'd take that thing and with my knive I'd start pairing so
Chop chop piece piece and send it to the raiders of LA
There are so many this land of plenty
The things we lack straight square within our grasp
Ever you do ever you think
Whether you're brown or you're pink
I think not thinkings better bout it
When you stop to think
The jaded ones will wither
While the optimistic grow
I settle that a bet will let a large amount
So indulge me just for a minute imagine no one holdin out
All trying for peace my brothers down
Some others down it happens slow
think you should know the direction that the world go peace

They number six to make them feel like men
They one up us cuz we're much to much for them
OK the method to the mischeifs over there then
Sike shazam we strike with the lightnin
Through space we move and emit an ill tracer
We're set to light your world kid we're your maker
Check it our karma plus the avant garder
Style of out sect wise to ways comes to wreck
While the masses mill around curse in anguish
311 stompin' em down with the quickness
We see all the crews that be comin' around
Like a drive through Estes park you savor the sun
But when the clouds come make animals