Fishbone

Skankin' to the beat is an alright feelin'
Skankin' to the beat got my toe jams peelin'
Skankin' to the beat got the rude girls squeelin'
I'm just skankin' to the beat

Dancin', I'm dancin' to the Rastafarian up beat
Hangin' with my rude ska brothers in the street
Our brother over here say, "Turn up the box a"
Dancin' and dance could rock us all the day long

It'll knock your sock off
Sayin' there's no brother Fishbone
So, get up off your seats and let's skank to beat
Said Fishbone brothers, let's skank to the beat

Skankin' to the beat is an alright feelin'
Skankin' to the beat got my toe jams peelin'
Skankin' to the beat got the rude girls squeelin'
I'm just skankin' to the beat

Skankin' through hard times, slim with the good
I said all this kickin' doesn't make it feel real good
I don't know what's up, now grindin' like it should
All they wanna do is turn on that reggae beat
All they wanna do is skank to the beat, skankin'
All they wanna do is skank on the street

Skankin' to the beat is an alright feelin'
Skankin' to the beat got my toe jams peelin'
Skankin' to the beat got the rude girls squeelin'
I'm just skankin' to the beat

Let's slow down the pace for the human race
Said let's low down the pace for heaven's sake
Let's slow down the music to drum 'n' bass
Let's slow down the pace and make it alright

Now, it's my time to say what I got to say
Now, it's my time to just skank my way
I said you skankin' to the east, you skankin' the west
I'm skankin' with my rude girl with the big breast

Oh, east or west, I love to skank
Oh, east or west, said I love to skank
Oh, [Incomprehensible] and I love to skank
Oh, [Incomprehensible] said I love to skank

Skankin' to the beat is an alright feelin'
Skankin' to the beat got my toe jams peelin'
Skankin' to the beat got the rude girls squeelin'
I'm just skankin' to the beat

Skankin' to the beat is an alright feelin'
Skankin' to the beat got my toe jams peelin'
Skankin' to the beat got the rude girls squeelin'
I'm just skankin' to the beat

There is no mystery
For what I try to be
...a reason for the things I do
I try to tell you what
Is really false or real But
You act as if you have no clue

You act this way when problems arise
You act this way when problems arise

You close your eyes and hide
Behind a storybook
When I have something new to tell
If you could put aside
Your stubborn foolish pride
You'd find an exit from this spell

You act this way when problems arise
You act this way when problems arise

What you are I don't know what
What you are Pain in the butt
What you are no one seems to care
Why do you always do that?
Why do you always do that?
Why do you always do that?
Why do you always do that!?!

You act this way when problems arise
You act this way when problems arise

You go out to the bar after you get paid
You see the little surfer girl with eyes of jade
Then you see a foxy lady standin' by her side
Pick up the blond to have some fun you do decide

You go out to the parking lot you find your keys
You get in your auto and you aim to please
But the lover of your choosin' is a chilly shade
A trick, a tick, a silly duck
But, you have made

A SELECTION
A SEL-E-E-E-E-CTION
A SELECTION
A SEL-E-E-E-E-CTION

You get on the commercial for the t.v. tube
Bob Barker asks you which vehicle you would choose
You want the Cadillac or BMW
And you say O-O-O-O-O-O-OKAY!!

You go out on a date with your fiancee
The pretty little lady with the eyes of gray
You go to the bathroom to brush your teeth
WHAT! NO TOOTHPASTE?!?

(Repeat chorus)

You have to go to New york on a business trip
On train, a plane, a car, or ocean ship
Or you become a rock star and your mind will flip
A choice of psychedelic drugs or groovy chicks
You buy a pack of bubblegum from the store
With two, or three, or four, or five pieces or more
You take out the last piece to put in your mouth
But you select the first piece
Yes, you have made a selection

(Repeat chorus)

CHOLLY Woman with the big thighs
CHOLLY Lady with the hazel eyes
CHOLLY Cholly make me feel good
CHOLLY Like you know a ho should

I love you Cholly when you're chickling my wally
I love it baby when you shake your fat derriere
Cholly make me feel good Cholly

CHOLLY We can watch the sun rise
CHOLLY Let me touch your thig pies
GOLLY Really really big thighs
CHOLLY Cholly hit me in the eye-eye-a-eye-eye-a-a-eye-a-eye
OUCH!!!
Cholly make me feel good Cholly
Cholly make me feel good Cholly

I love ya Cholly with your big fat body
Oh oh golly Cholly you're just chubbly wubbly wobbly
You make me happy when you shake-ling your tub of taffy
You wiggly jiggly do the Fatso Fatty do the
Ripple, Cholly

Well I wish I had a date
So I wear my suit and tie
Well I wish I had a date
With a pretty girl in mind
Well I'll take her out to dinner
And I'll treat her real good
I'll spend all my money on expensive food
Show her off to all the rest of my friends
I'm not good lookin' but at least she's a 10
I won't pay attention while my buddies scam
I'll be in love with a bitchin' bim
You know I am but at least she'll pretend

Well I wish I had a date
And a body for brawls and fights
Well if I didn't have a chicken face
I could mack 'em down the chicks at night
Well we'll go out at night and she'll ignore me
Just a little but not a lot
And she'll go flirt with the tough guys
And they'll fool around with her twat
And for the moment that I have my back turned
She's making out in the parking lot

Well I wish I had a date
With a lot of trust and devotion
Well I wish I didn't have a chump
Who liked to spread her legs like the ocean
But if you know I had a date
And she wouldn't play on me
Cowwa-cowwa bunga
Yeah, man, real peachy

Well I wish I had a date
Well I wish I had a date
Well I wish I had a date
Well I wish I had a date

There's a path for you and I to follow
For our goals aren't always in our sight
But now you've come to dread and fear tomorrow
Were your dreams killed in your sleep last night ?

Fight for what is right...
Pray for a movement in the light

Some are slaves to Rhyme, Wit and Reason
Some are slave to all of what they hear
To sing a different song is outright treason
Is the price of freedom what they fear ?

This cannot be right...
Pray for the movement in the light

Hey... Hey... There's a light to guide the way
Hey... Hey... The light has brought another day

For you and I should ever come together
Turn away the hatred in your heart
For we should find a peace to last forever
Find the peace no man can tear apart

May all the world unite
Pray for the movement in the light

Are you getting tired of all the ravages of war?
Aren't you even sure what the hell you're fighting for?
All the broken dreams of men just break me down to pray
For peace and understanding
We just can't go on this way

ALL-TOGETHER-FREE
ALL-TOGETHER-FREE-UNITED
ALL-HUMANITY
ALL-TOGETHER-FREE-UNITED

GIVE IT UP!!
GIVE IT UP!!
GIVE IT UP!!
GIVE IT UP!!

All the lies are broken all the truth is still the same
All the love and hatred in a world that lives in pain
Will we see the Winds of Time erode this curse away
We just got to stop this madness
We just can't go on this way

(Repeat chorus)

We live for Mother Country
We live for Mother Need
We're looking for the other side
But we're here to burn and bleed
We all know the Righteous
The truth shall lead the way
But we all know the Darkness so believe me when I say...

(Repeat chorus)

It's not the liars that can set your free
It's not the riches that you can't foresee
No, it's not the monkey or the LSD
It's not the powers that be

It's always in the air
It's always in the air
And it always will be there
It's always in the air

It's not decisions made in city halls
It's not amusement parks or shopping malls
No, it's not the preachers when the tower falls
It's not the manipulated laws

(Repeat chorus)

It's in the answer no one ever knows....
It's in the orphan children no one chose....

Say everyone where's the love of yesteryear?
Say everyone ebbing waves of death and fear
Alleviate morality and kill our every dream of hope
Visualize with hallucinogens
And now who see must also grope

The Grapes of Wrath the prime vintage of our future
World leaders necromancers and masochists all
Contemplate our destinies
But they all will soon fall
With our greatest dance
At the Thermonuclear Ball

Yet with all of this
Another wave just takes its place
Search for freedom
And the world just slaps your face
Yet what we do from day to day
All we ever do and say
Is take a look around
And Turn the Other Way....

You all feel large down there
You all feel large but you're looking small down there
You all feel large but you're looking small down there

It's hot so take your clothes off
And get in your drawers

PUT YOUR HAMMER TO THE WALLS LET'S KNOCK IT!!
PUT YOUR HAMMUR TO THE WALLS LET'S KNOCK IT!!
PUT YOUR HAMMRE TO THE WALLS LET'S KNOCK IT!!
PUT YOUR HAMBER TO THE WALLS LET'S KNOCK IT!!
PUT YOUR HAAMER TO THE WALLS LET'S KNOCK IT!!
PUT YOUR HAMMRA TO THE WALLS LET'S KNOCK IT!!

For all you fellas that's knockin' your dong
Don't let the girls go knockin' ya wrong
For all you fellas that's slappin' your prong
Don't let the girls go slappin' ya wrong

Because it's hot so take your clothes off
And get in your drawers

PUT YOUR HAMMER TO THE WALLS LET'S KNOCK IT!!
PUT YOUR HAMMUR TO THE WALLS LET'S KNOCK IT!!
PUT YOUR HAMMRE TO THE WALLS LET'S KNOCK IT!!

HAMMER TO THE WALLS
HAMMER TO THE WALLS
HAMMRA TO THE WALLS LET'S KNOCK IT!!!

For all you fellas just stretching it long
Don't let the girls go knockin' ya wrong
For all you fellas just kinging your kong
Don't let the girls go knockin' ya wrong

BECAUSE IT'S HOT!!

PUT YOUR HAMMER TO THE WALLS BABY
AND KNOCK YOUR GONG

IT'S A LITTLE OF THAT OLD DOODLELEEDO
A LITTLE OF THAT OLD DOODLELEEDOO
A LITTLE OF THAT OLD DOODLELEEDOO
SKADITDITDITDITSKIDALEEDOTNDEEDOT

Those lights could be shinin' bright for us and the rest of the boys
We'll own the root of all evil if we don't make any noise

If you're good like all the rest
Kingpin shows you all the best

SIMON SAYS THE KINGPIN
SIMON SAYS THE KINGPIN
YIPPIDY YIPPIDY
SIMON SAYS THE KINGPIN

Keep your eyes your mind shut and your mouth open wide
You'll be singing the blues because of them
While the anger builds up inside
Shinin' your shoes so I can be on top
But I just wanna flip you off
Cuz if you let me show expression
You'll be makin' a confession

FOINDIDIHOINDIDIFOINDIDIHOINDIDIHOINDIDI

You can reap the riches and be on your rockin' way
But if you wanna show what's in your heart
The big shot will put you in your grave
But if you wanna be good like all the rest
Kingpin shows you all the best

(Repeat chorus)

Hey, yeah, hey, hey
Love, love, love, love, love
Yeah, yeah !

Say Freddie's dead, huh !
That's what I said

Let the ??? said he'd send him home
But his hope was a rope but he should have known

It's hard to understand
There was love in this man
I'm sure all would agree
That his misery was his woman and things

Freddie's dead, huh !
That's what I said

Everybody's misused him
Ripped him off and abused him
Another junkie plan
Pushing dope for the man
A terrible blow but that's how it goes
Freddie's on the corner now

And if you want to be a junkie, wow !
Just remember
Freddie's dead

We're all built up with progress
But sometimes I must confess
You can deal with rockets and dreams
But reality, what does it mean ?

Ain't no damned thing said
'Cause Freddie's dead

Hey, yeah, hey, hey
Love, love, love, love, love
Yeah, yeah !

Hey, yeah, hey, hey
Love, love, love, love, love
Yeah, yeah !

All I want is some peace of mind
With a little love I'm tryin' to find
This could be such a beautiful world
With a wonderful girl
I need a woman, child

Why can't we brothers protect one another ?
No one's serious and it make furious

Freddie's dead
Don't be misled, just think of Fred
Don't be misled, just think of Fred

Everybody's misused him
Ripped him off and abused him
Another junkie plan
Pushing dope for the man

Freddie's on the corner now
And if you want to be a junkie, wow !

Freddie's dead
Freddy, Freddy, Freddy, Freddy !
Freddie's dead, huh !

There once was a Ma that wanted her
There once was a Pa that wanted her

I know she's confused, she's my blood sister
She told me the blues as she start to shiver
Only a child in the middle of a war
She's a problem child now because of a divorce

Hey Ma and Pa
What the hell is wrong with ya'll
Hey Ma and Pa
What the hell is wrong with ya'll

Well there's a lot of money
For all the attorneys

It's just not a fight for child custody
'Cause Ma and Pa's revenge
Is making little sister bleed
Fussin' and fightin' through a family life
Make her wanna take drugs and be out of line

Hey Ma and Pa
What the hell is wrong with ya'll
Hey Ma and Pa
What the hell is wrong with ya'll

Fighting for love on an angel's feather
Why don't ya'll get your shit together

Well it's three the hard way
Doin' it the wrong way
Ma hates Pa, Pa hates Ma
Little sister say
"What the hey!"

Well there's an evil streak there
With a righteous leak I fear

That's why a child goes astray
To live a life another day
Mom and Pop in a family fury
Brother tried to say "Little sister, don't worry."

Hey Ma and Pa
What the hell's wrong with ya'll
Hey Ma and Pa
What the hell's wrong with ya'll
Hey Ma and Pa
Why'd the family rise and fall
Hey Ma and Pa

Well it's three the hard way
Doin' it the wrong way
Ma hates Pa, Pa hates Ma
Little sister say
"What the hey!"

Hey Ma and Pa
What the hell's wrong with ya'll
Hey Ma and Pa
What the hell's wrong with ya'll
Hey Ma and Pa
What the hell's wrong with ya'll
Fighting for love on an angel's feather
Why don't ya'll get your shit together

I saw the god spread his arms, across the imperfect sky
The clouds rolled across the full moon, tattooed in the sky

For the eye tattooed in the sky judged the planets plea
And I was just a humble man and feared God in his sight
The Light

A question - rose from my soul
A question - I began to hold
A pitchfork - pinned to my chest
Will I, I not pass the test
Will I, I not pass the test

A disease of clouds formed over the sea
The Angel was cruisin' down so that I could see
The roses in his eyes
He would give me, Lord

The New Age not the winter
The Ice Age was the last page
You must present a P.M.A. (Positive Mental Attitude)
For we all dance for freedom sake
Sake, sake, sake...

To tie the shoelace of life in place
To change the mind from a negative state, Yeh!

A question - rose from my soul
A question - I began to hold
A pitchfork - pinned to my chest
Will I, I not pass the test
Will I, I not pass the test

The Angel began to say to me
As the roses set me free, set me free
You must recite this throughout the land or else
you will be snuffed and canned, snuffed and canned

You musn't wrong the write
Yoo musn't dark the Light
Yu must dove the vulture
U must do or die

Wow I was shakin'
A question shake shake shake
Wow I was shakin'
A question shake shake shake

Alright !

The sun will shine on brighter
And the wind will always blow
Some think life's a breeze
Others feel love is sin

I've found beauty in dancing stars
To you, your dreams may be a farce
And you think that you can't feel pain?
And you think we can't feel at all

Can you sing out in the pouring rain
Can you sing out, can you sing out

He had one foot in the gutter
Another on dry land
His ship sailed without him
Across life's burning sands
He cried out in the distance
And no one, no one heard a word
For a prophet's not respected in his own world

Can you sing out in the pouring rain
Can you sing out, can you sing out

And all the things I've said
And all these things
And all the things I've said
That you doubt and disbelieve
Are shoved back in your face
By the spite of mankind's greed

You choose to close you eyes
And the rest of the world will bleed
You choose to close your eyes
And the rest of the world will bleed

Can you sing out in the pouring rain
Can you sing

Shoobidooshoobidoo shoodoo

Rich Ass
High Klass

Don't bother me and I won't realize your crime

Two faced
You're out of place

You can't rock out because you ain't the kind

Well if you were on the other side of the fence
well maybe you'd understand
I may freak you out with my raw look
'Cause I just got the feelin' Man !

Brain Washed
You're Lost

Your blindness can't be helped anyway

Your Cash
My Clash

It makes me able to say
It makes me able to say

You got the prestige status
You've got the majority mass
Plus you've got a blender by General Motors
And a Tonka Toy dump truck up your ass

You'll never look the way I feel
You'll never feel the look in my eyes
Cause I've got the feelin' swimming in my bones
And it's takin over Deep Inside

It's takin' over Deep Inside (repeat)

Said I'm shakin' in my shoes sometimes
And all alone I get the blues sometimes
And I'm far away from home, it seems so far, so far away
Many moons and many days

You know many things are on my mind
I search and search for answers I can't find
Then my people I will seek
They listen when I speak

Believe me when I say
Me and my friends go a mighty long way

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah !!!

There's nothing that can make this bond to break
And if it comes along it must be strong
Believe me when I say
Me and my friends go a mighty long way

Well I look into the cloudy sky
And cleanse my soul as the heavens cry
My life like a rolling stone
Up and down the hills
It breaks my ass like a window sill
And if I had to do it all by myself
There be a threat to my mental health
But there's no need to run and hide
When folks are by my side

Believe me when I say
Me and my friends go a mighty long way

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah !!!

There's nothing that could make this bond to break
And don't even try unless you're ready to die
Believe me when I say
Me and my friends go a mighty long way

Believe my when I say
We go a mighty long way

Got this feeling...
Got this feeling...
Got this feeling...

Oh ! I've got that feeling from the ocean yeah ! It's alright, yeah !

Got this feeling...
I got this feeling...
Got this feeling...

Oh ! I've got that feeling from the ocean yeah ! It's alright, yeah !

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah !!!
You got me, you got me bonin'

Got me bonin'...
I got me bonin'...
Got me bonin'...

Oh ! Got me bonin' in the Boneyard yeah ! It's alright, yeah !

Got me bonin'... Huh ! Huh !
I got me bonin'...
Got me bonin'...

Oh ! Got me bonin' in the Boneyard yeah ! It's alright, yeah !

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah !!!
You got me, you got me bonin'

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah !!!
You got me, you got me bonin'