Against The Seventies
I asked him if he knew what time he had
He said he wasn't sure maybe a quarter past
The kids of today should defend themselves against the seventies
I peered in his eyes as we stood in line just to have a look
But the pages I found looked like an unbound coloring book
The kids of today should defend themselves against the seventies  (2x)
It's not reality, just someone else's sentimentality...
It won't work for you...

Baby boomers selling you rumors of their history
Forcing youth away from the truth of what's real today
The kids of today should defend themselves against the seventies
Stadium minds with stadium lies gotta make you laugh
Garbage vendors 'gainst true defenders of the craft

The kids of today should defend themselves against the seventies  (2x)
It's not reality, just someone else's sentimentality...
Look what it did to us...

Speakin' as a child of the seventies...

The kids against the seventies 
Kids against the seventies
The kids of today should defend themselves against the seventies  (12x)

Break On Through
Day destroys the night...night divides the day...
Tried to run, tried to hide...
Break on through to the other side...  (3x)
Yeah...

We chased our troubles there, dug our treasures there...
Can you still recall the time we cried?
Break on through to the other side...  (2x)
Yeah...

Dead cat, a dead rat
Did you see where they were at?
Dead cat, doll path
Did you see where they were at?
Everybody loves my baby...everybody does my baby...
She gets...  (4x)
Hot...ahh, yeah...

Found an island in your arms...country in your eyes...
Arms that train us, arms that lie...
Break on through to the other side...  (2x)
Break on...yeah...

Wait to see...week to week...day to day...hour to hour...
Pain is great, deep and wide...
Break on through to the other side...  (2x)
Break on through...  (4x)
Yeah...  (9x)

Catholic Boy
I was born in a pool
Left in my mother's stand
I spat at that surgeon and his tremblin' hand
When I felt for life, I was the nursery boy
I stole the doctors scalpel and I slit the cord...

I was a Catholic boy...
I was redeemed through pain, not through joy...

I was two months early, they put me under glass
I screamed and cursed at children when the nurses passed
Was convicted of theft as I slid from the womb
They led me straight from my stroller to a cell in the tombs...

I was a Catholic boy...
Redeemed through pain, not through joy...

They starved me for weeks, they thought they'd teach me fear
I fed on cell-mates trees, it gave me flyin' ideas
When they cut me loose, the time it served you well
I made allies in Heaven, comrades in Hell

I was a Catholic child...
With the grand red...the grand wild...

I make angels dance and drop to their knees
When I enter a church the feet of statue bleed
I understand the faith of all my enemies
With that Christ and the God, it's never me...

I'm a Catholic boy...
I was redeemed through pain and not through joy...

I watched His sweetest psalms stolen by the choir
I dreamed of all his bones hangin' from a wire
I take the contribution, I get absolution
I make the resolution to verify my soul...

I'm a Catholic boy...
Redeemed through pain, not through joy...

And they can't touch me now, I got every size of the...
They got Baptism, I got Penance
I got Communion, I got extreme...
Man...I got Confirmation...

I was a Catholic boy...
Redeemed through pain and not through joy...
And now, I'm a Catholic man...
I put my tongue to the rail whenever I can...

The Face Of Love
Jeena kaisa Pyar bina      [What is life without love           ]  } 
Is Duniya Mein Aaye ho to  [Now that you have come to this world]  }  (2x)
Ek Duje se pyar karo       [Love each other, one another        ]  }

Look in the eyes
Of the face of love
Look in her eyes
Oh, there is peace
No nothing dies
Within pure light

Only one hour 
Of this pure love
To last a life
Of thirty years
Only one hour
So come and go
 
Jeena kaisa Pyar bina      [What is life without love           ]  }
Is Duniya Mein Aaye ho to  [Now that you have come to this world]  }  (2x)
Ek Duje se pyar karo       [Love each other, one another        ]  }

Look in the eyes
The face of love
Look in her eyes
Oh, there is peace
No nothing dies
Within pure light

Only one hour 
Of this pure love
To last a life
Of thirty years
Only one hour
So come and go

Light My Fire
You know that I won't be untrue
You know that I won't be a liar
If I were to say to you, girl we couldn't get much higher...
Come on, baby, light my fire...  (2x)
Try to set the night on fire...

The time to hesitate is through
No time to wallow in th mire
Try now, we could only lose
And our love become a funeral pyre
Come on, baby, light my fire...  (2x)
Try to set the night on fire...

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah...  (4x)
Yeah...

The time to hesitate is through
No time to wallow in the mire
Try now we could only lose
And our love become a funeral parlor
Come on, baby, light my fire...  (2x)
Try to set the night on fire...yeah...
You know that I would be untrue
You know that I would be a liar
If I were to say to you, girl we couldn't get much higher...yeah...
Come on, baby, light my fire...  (2x)
Try to set the night on fire...  (4x)

Masters Of War
Come you masters of war, you that build all the guns
You that build the death place, you that build all the guns
You that hide behind walls, you that hide behind desks
I just want you to know, I can see through your masks

You that never done nothing, but to build and destroy
You play with my world, like its your little toy
You put a gun in my hand, then you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farher as the fast bullets fly

Like Judas of old, you lie and deceive
A world war can be won, and you want me to believe
But I see through your eyes, and I see through your brain
Like I see through the water that runs down my drain

You that fasten all the triggers, for the others to fire
Then you sit back and watch, while the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion, while young people's blood
Flows out their bodies and is buried in the mud

You've thrown the worst fear, that could ever be hurled
The fear to bring children, into this world
For threatenin' my baby, unborn and unnamed
You ain't worth the blood that runs in your veins

How much do I know, to talk out of turn?
You might say that I'm young, you might say I'm unlearned
But there's one thing I know, though I'm younger than you
Even Jesus would never forgive what you do

Let me ask you one question, is your money that good?
Will it buy you forgiveness?  Do you think that it could?
Oh, I think you will find, when your death takes its toll
All the money you made will never buy back your soul

And I hope that you die, and your death will come soon
I'll follow your casket, in the pale afternoon
And I'll watch as your lowered, into your deathbed
And I'll stand on your grave till I'm sure that your dead

Real Thing
It's time, I came to get mine
Runnin' through the hoods with a hand on the nine
Why do the pigs come?
Bring your ass on cross the line so I can get the blast on
Oh shit, I'm empty, but I got a shank on the side so don't even tempt me
Runnin' the program, Cypress Hill on the real
With the Pearl Jam and I'm packin' the steel 
Don't come my way, 'cause it only takes one minute to reach for the AK
Then POW!, whatcha' gonna do now
Nowhere to run when my dog's on the prow
Prowlin', howlin', give it up punk, you might want to throw the towel in
I like doin' the ill thing, 'cause ain't nothin' like the real thing

It ain't nothin' like the real thing
It ain't nothin' like the real
Ain't nothin' but the real thing
Ain't nothin' but the Hill
Ain't nothin' but the real thing
Ain't nothin' but the real
Ain't nothin' but the real thing
Ain't nothin' but the Hill

Keep me a tazer up in the blazer
And the black nine by the waistline
Never know when someone'll test ya'
Let you know I got mine by my body, yes y'all
I'm the victim that became the attacker
Have my little friend waitin' for the carjacker
That'll do anything for the looper
When I leave the Hill I strack when I swoop

Clack, clack, bang, bang, 'cause it ain't no thang
When I hang with Stone and I kick that funky slang
I got the funk when I got ta' do the ill thing
'Cause ain't nothin' like the real thing
Ain't nothin' like the real thing  } (2x) 
Ain't nothin but the real          }

Ain't nothin' like the real thing  } (2x)
Ain't nothin' but the Hill         }

Roadhouse Blues
Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel  (2x)
I'm goin' to the roadhouse, gonna have a real...good time...yeah...

Back of the roadhouse we got the bungalows
Whoa, back of the roadhouse we got a little bungalow
Just for the people who like to go down slow

So let's roll, baby roll...
Let's roll, baby roll...  (2x)
Let's roll...all night long...

Roll, roll, roll, gotta feel my soul, alright...
Gotta roll, roll, roll, gotta feel my soul...
Hey now...

Passion lady...passion lady...
Give up your vow...give up your vow...
Save our city...save this city, right now...hey...
I woke up this morning, and got myself a beer...  (4x)
Yeah, said roll...the end is always near...

Yeah, I said roll, baby roll...
Roll, baby roll...let it roll, baby roll...
Let it roll...all night long...yeah...

Watch It Die
I was born on planet earth
the rotating ball where man comes first
it´s been around for a long, long time
but now it´s time to watch it die

I saw a man on my big blue screen
he ruled the world economy
he said the rich would never concede
but some day soon he´ll be put to sleep

I´ve seen the life of the forest green
and adaptations of the deep blue seas
and who knows who is the fittest
they will all soon be put to rest


On a plunging flight and we´re sitting
in the pilots seat in the midst of life
people on a dark horizon praying
somebody will save their lives

I was born on planet earth
at a drastic time full of plastic mirth
and everyday I´ve seen increasing signs
and you would too if you´d opened your eyes
you had a chance you did not try
so now it´s time to watch it die


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