13th Floor/Growing Old-Outkast

[ti:13th Floor/Growing Old] [ar:Outkast] [al:Original Album Classics] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]13th Floor/Growing Old - Outkast [00:10.19]Conceive true deception multiplied a million fold [00:11.56]Visualize the yin and yang in a battle so intense [00:15.18]That we get em confused [00:16.18]The resident evil specialize in misconstruing [00:18.49]We wanna be at a presidential level -- what are we doing [00:22.92]Foolin ourself clowning ourself playing ourself [00:26.17]By not being ourself [00:27.97]We can't babble no more than we can bob our head offbeat [00:31.22]Nimrod by the time we forty cause we can't get our meat [00:35.28]While we ask no reason for the misplacement of the season [00:38.21]Look at the picture that's painted [00:40.14]Tainted as the mind who's blinded to the point [00:42.58]Where Sodomites get all the rights [00:43.95]We fall for fights with fisticuffs [00:45.88]Get pissed enough to miss the bus [00:48.25]It disgusts me to see my folks run up on [00:50.63]I say stand up on deception of time all of Revelations [00:53.62]And recognize this mind on the reality of horror [00:56.55]Known as mankind [00:57.68]Jesus and his twelve disciples make thirteen [01:00.18]A righteous number of righteous men [01:02.54]Even Judas the Betrayer came true in the end [01:05.23]The Devil say the end is the beginning [01:07.60]They teach that we were the product of incest [01:10.16]Invest no level of self into their system of Paganomics [01:12.66]Stand with us and don't look back upon it [01:15.83]Just face this mindstate [01:17.02]Otherwise Babylon [01:17.53](My memories of yesterday ) [01:26.76][cut and scratched:] "Ninety-six gonna be that year " [01:34.87][Verse One: Andre] [01:36.62]I bet you never heard of a player with no game [01:55.97]Told the truth to get what I want but shot it with no shame [01:58.59]Take this music dead serious while others entertain [02:00.21]I see they making they paper so I guess I can't complain or can I [02:05.01]I feel they disrespecting the whole thang [02:06.83]Them hooks like selling d**e to black folks [02:08.82]And I choke when the food they serve ain't tasting right [02:11.69]My stomach can't digest it even when I bless it [02:14.00]I'm confessing one mo' lesson from the South we in the house tonight [02:16.62]Now hootie who wants to oppose Suppose [02:18.80]We rolls through Headland and Delowe [02:21.18]Where me and my niggas surpassed the flow [02:22.92]And got down for ours like hind catchers [02:24.67]My mind catches flashbacks to the black past [02:26.36]While my close niggas laugh at [02:27.98]The Southern slang figure ways and mojo chicken wangs [02:29.97]I grew up on booty shake we did not know no better thang [02:33.28]So go 'head and diss it while real hop-hippers listen [02:35.97]Started by Afrikan Bambaata so you and your potnah [02:39.09]Gather your thoughts [02:39.96][Musical Interlude: Debra Killings] [02:42.52]Something's gotta change [02:43.70]Sounds of laughter and happiness turns my teardrops to rain [02:48.13]Been bearing this burden for too many of my days [02:53.37]Looks like breezes of autumn done finally move my way [02:58.74]Like memories of yesterday [03:02.23][Verse Two: Big Boi] [03:04.96]Uhh born Antwan Patton but my partners they call me Big Boi [03:06.65]It's the ni**a the B-I-G be speaking the truth not talking that sh*t boy [03:09.52]I'm thinkin of checking my traps and bustin my raps and throwing them craps [03:12.82]Seven-eleven is no convenience you pumping your gas they're watching yo' back [03:14.70]For the robbin crew thinkin they robbin you you must be cautious [03:17.32]To stand up on yo' game and pimping these crows you must be flawless [03:18.88]Like Mortal Kombat but f**king these wombats got you dizzy [03:21.93]My ni**a you know of I wanna be playing but running up on me like you miss me [03:27.55]You catchin the wrong vibe packing yo' sh*t and rolling yo' eyes back [03:29.17]Flexing up on the corner tossing your dice and rolling your Cadillac [03:29.61]But man it seems I'm reaching out and touching the wrong ni**a [03:32.10]Don't expect me to be pimping get your index off the trigger [03:34.79]As we bust us we leaving em in the dust [03:38.03]So keep that clean up out of your nose I said my piece and then I hush [03:41.09]As the candidate keeps flippin niggas dippin [03:43.09][Musical Interlude] [03:44.15][Verse Three: Andre Big Boi] [03:49.95]I really be love it we are gathered to life [04:10.41]So pissed to lather we come clean [04:11.72]Some issues need to be addressed like envelopes I mean [04:13.41]Oh like Liberty Bells yes them bullets keep on rangin [04:16.22]On fire like the Georgia mass choir we keep on singing [04:18.84]Bringing our folks closer together cause they severed us from the get green [04:22.14]Light and we ain't gonna stop until we hit the big screen [04:25.20]Psych because no one is free when others are oppressed [04:27.38]So we hit the stage and then we fly back to our nest [04:30.82]Growing old [04:31.38]Like some eagles people don't understand [04:33.19]Just like their parents don't be carin [04:34.44]I'm speaking about you playing with that phony stuff you sharing [04:36.68]In your raps Mercedes Benz and all your riches [04:38.99]Thinkin you got it but get it get it but you ain't pimping no b**ches [04:42.48]Cause you flaw in falling like leaves into driveways [04:44.67]Isn't it lovely smocking good and sloppy head on highways [04:47.23]Friday's are tight but Saturday just makes it old [04:50.47]When tonight's are hot warm enough to feed your soul [04:53.03]Growing old [04:53.97][Musical Interlude 2X] [04:55.46]("96 gonna be that year ") [04:56.78](Like memories of yesterday ) [05:02.76][voice of Andre fades in] [05:05.26]See all them leaves must fall down growing old [06:12.33]Fat titties turn to teardrops as fat a** turns to flab [06:15.02]Sores that was open wounds eventually turn to scab [06:17.39]Trees bright and green turn yellow brown [06:19.44]Autumn caught em see all them leaves must fall down growing old [06:23.07][repeat 3X]