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SAILIN' ON - You don't want me anymore / so I'll just walk right out the door / played a game right from the start / I trust you, you used me / and now my hearts all torn apart / Chorus: So I'm sailin', well I'm sailin' on / Well I'm movin', hey I'm movin' on / Sail on, sail on / Try to see if I'll give up / But there wasn't any luck / It's a fact, fact of life / That's the games, games of strife / Everything is all in stride / Chorus / There's too many years, with too many tears / and too many days with nothing to say / and how will we know / when there's nowhere to grow / and what's the facts for life to show.
DON'T NEED IT - Don't need no Ivory Liquid / Don't want no Afro Sheen / Don't need the latest fashions / Don't want my hair to smell clean / I've got my automotion / I've got that superpotion / and if you think I'm going crazy / Then pretty baby it might be you babe / Don't need no first class / Do need no second class / all of the best of all that can kiss my ass / I've got my claim to fame / I've got that positive flame and if you think I'm going crazy / then pretty baby it might be you babe.
ATTITUDE - Don't care what they may say we got that attitude / Don't care what they may do we got that attitude / Hey we got the P.M.A.* / Hey we got the P.M.A. / Hey we got the P.M.A. / Repeat. *(Positive Mental Attitude)
THE REGULATOR - You tell me what to say and when to say it / You tell me what to do and how to do it / And if I ask you why, you'll arrest me / And if I call you lie, you'll detest me / You control what I'll be, you control who I see / And if I let you, you'll control me / You're the man who owns all the keys to the stores / You're the man who always wants so much much more / You're the Regulator / You're the Regulator / You're the Regulator / You're the Regulator.
BANNED IN D.C. - Banned in D.C. with a thousand other places to go / Gonna swim across the Atlantic / cause that's the only place I can go / You, you can't hurt me / why I'm banned in D.C. D.C. / We, we got ourselves / gonna sing it / gonna love it / gonna work it out to any length / Don't worry, no worry, about what the people say / We got ourselves / We gonna make it anyway / You-you can't hurt me / Why I'm banned in D.C. D.C. / And if you ban us from your clubs / It's the right time / With the right mind. / And if you think we really care. / You won't find in my mind / Ooh ooh you can't afford / to close your doors / so soon no more.
JAH CALLING - a dub.
SUPERTOUCH - Some people look at me and talk about me like a clown / They just don't realize it's just my simple way to get down / I've got that supertouch / chances are I've got too much / I've come to let you see / that you also can be free / It seem like everytime we all try to go underground / The stinkin troopers them they think that we are foolin around / We have had about enough / Now we're gonna get real tough / It happens everyday thats why we got P.M.A...SHITFIT - People just pretending - thats a let down / undercover lover - that's my heart now / struggle just in livin - that's the realm of / Accept me as I'm not - and that's a shitfit / My best ain't good enough for you / My test is what you gonna do / ain't no any kind of way / Love was lost in yesterday / Now we've felt this, so you'll get yours now / Everybody's livin / and nobody's givin / and nobody gives a damn / You must understand me, the end is surely comin / prepare for the final plan / People just pretending - that's a let down / Undercover lover - that's my heart now / Struggle just in livin that's the realm of / accept me as I'm not and that's a shitfit.
LEAVING BABYLON - Say I'm leaving this Babylon / Repeat / It will not be too long / It will not be too long now / I said my people are starvin but your money's runnin / Repeat / Your dollar, dollar drop down real low / you ain't got no gold to show / We gonna step right through that door / not gonna come back no more.
F.V.K. (Fearless Vampire Killers) - The bourgeoisie had better watch out for me / All throughout this so called nation / we don't want your filthy money / we don't need your innocent bloodshed / We just wanna end your world / Well my minds made up / Yes - its time for you to pay / better watch out for me / I'm a member of the F.V.K.
I - Not as much but with such intensity / I'd like to be what they would not want me to be / I like to cram their chivalry inside their guts / I'd like to leave it all behind with the rest of the nuts / I, I / Not as much but with more feeling now / I'd like to forget about you and try to break it somehow / I'd like to push it aside until I can see some more / I'd like to leave you where I found you lyin on the floor / I, I / I guess its too bad, I guess its too bad. / I guess its too bad, I guess its too bad for you / Repeat / It seems the truth always prevails on your face / and in the end I see what's in its place / So in the future you just may see / that's what you'll receive is / what you gave me.
BIG TAKE OVER - No one dared to show for that shower / when nobody turned to be clean / was not even touched by the water / just another Nazi scheme / The Big Takeover. - Chorus: All throughout this so called nation / prepare yourself for the final quest / your world is doomed withour own integration / Just another Nazi test / Chorus / So understand me when I say / there's no hope for this U.S.A. / Your world is doomed with our own integration / Just another Nazi test.
PAY TO CUM - I make decisions with precision / lost inside this manned collision / Just to see that what to be is / perfectly my fantasy / I came to know with now dismay / that in this world we all must pay / pay to write / pay to play / pay to cum / pay to fight! / And all in time, with just our minds / We soon will find what's left behind / Not long ago when things were slow / we all got by with what we know / the end is near / hearts filled with fear / don't want to listen to what they hear / And so it's now we choose to fight / to stick up for our bloody right / the right to sing, the right to dance / the right is ours...we'll take the chance! / A PEACE TOGETHER / a piece apart / a piece of wisdom / from our hearts.
RIGHT BRIGADE - You can't disappear anymore / I see your face lurking outside the window / You say you're a trife, I'm a bore / You touch yourself put your face in the pillow / but the funny thing about you is / You remembered to leave it behind / and the funny thing about me is /I'm a member of the Right Brigade / Makes no difference to me what side you choose / What side will lose / All there is to perceive is what I want / And I know how to get it / But the funny thing about you is / You remember to leave it behind / and the funny thing about me is / I'm a member of the Right Brigade.
I LUV I JAH - Walking down Babylon Lane / Trying to live my life in peace / Two young men call me not their brother / try to make me feel ashamed / Chorus: But I luv I Jah yeah, he tell me not to be that way / I luv I Jah yeah, I gotta keep my P.M.A. / My lovely sister, judge me by my clothes, yeah / Only to learn to her mistake not everyone's alike / We're not all uptight / Ah no fuss no fight / Cool that way / Cool that way / Chorus / I luv I Jah / I luv I Jah.
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