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Along the way to close my eyes
I lost where i was going
The more it will spin the more that i try
To stop my mind flowing
Away away
To all that i despise
Along the way to close my eyes

You can't be let down if you don't expect the world
Expect to lay awake there by your sleeping girl
If somebody cares then there is no way you can tell
Cursed consciousness it's your private hell

Along the way to close my eyes
I lost where i was going
The more it will spin the more that i try
To stop my mind flowing
Away away
To all that i despise
Along the way to close my eyes

Tick tick tick the clock bludgeons your mind
Endlessly replaying times that were unkind
Go away sun i'm not prepared for you today
It seems you are it seems you are

Along the way to close my eyes
I lost where i was going
The more it will spin the more that i try
To stop my mind flowing
Away away
To all that i despise
Along the way to close my eyes

Are 'yall ready for 311? x2
I'd like to stay here just like this
Its just a momentary bliss
That's all we can hope for
That's a reason to cope for
This life, this life and no more

You will be immortal man
One in the hand
You will know exactly then
When you have
You found the cure
And morse codes for rapture
Get with your rhythm
Get with your nature

The moment's running down a mountian
It can be captured from a fountain
Sometimes all that it can be
Absence of agony
Presure from the lack of pain

You will be immortal man
One in the hand
You will know exactly then
When you have
You found the cure
And morse codes for rapture
Get with your rhythm
Get with your nature

Serendipitous my travels throughout time
I grab a moment like a thief and then
I make it mine
Nothing will comare to your realization
When you com to find out
Your new object of fixation

I try to freeze time try to freeze time for your mind
Perfect snapshot to always rewind
Golden buttered jam golden buttered jam for your slam
Remember it in your synapse diagram

Sweetness is your bein'
Zen human walkin'
Steppin' out from shadows
Flowin' like a breeze soft and
When dawn unveils the mornin' star risen
Feel the light feel the love you're christened
With this life not ours not for long
But for the taking take it

The birth light breaking break it
Between the light and dard is a seem
This is caving in
Mutating rearanging your soul
Changing form again

You will be immortal man
One in the hand
You will know exactly then
When you have
You found the cure
And morse codes for rapture
Get with your rhythm
Get with your nature

Serendipitous my travels throughout time
I grab a moment like a thief and then
I make it mine
Nothing will comare to your realization
When you com to find out
Your new object of fixation

I try to freeze time try to freeze time for your mind
Perfect snapshot to always rewind
Golden buttered jam golden buttered jam for your slam
Remember it in your synapse diagram

You will be immortal man
One in the hand
You will know exactly then
When you have
You found the cure
And morse codes for rapture
Get with your rhythm
Get with your nature

You got to
You got to

Come original you got to come original
All entertainers come original
You got to come original you got to come original
All entertainers
Hear why
To come original it ain't nothin' strange
You got to represent you got come full range

Full range of emotion full range of styles
When you come to town you'll have them
Comin' for miles

Come original you got to come original
All entertainers come original
You got to come original you got to come original
All entertainers
Hear why

Black eyed peas they comin' full range and
Nofx they comin' full range and
Roni size he comin' full range
The one mr. vegas you know it ain't easy

A warning to the crews out there who think they're hot
If you're not original rockers you will get shot
Down by the kids neglectin' your art, the stuff you did
Eventually it get so bad puts you to bed
Cuz when the lightning flashes sweet electricity
All the world then stands revealed with the clarity
Of raw voltage, briefly we see and the hope is
You'll be able to tell just what dope is

Come original you got to come original
All entertainers come original
You got to come original you got to come original
All entertainers
Hear why

Funk slap bass mixed with the dancehall and
Hip-hop beats and punk guitar and
Deadly on the mic is the one sa
The name is 311 and you know it ain't easy

This is not a test there's no time to mope
How you gonna cope with radioactive isotope
And boss dj illness upon you now quickly
Infecting you fast upon the airwaves
This message brought to you by the so large system
Activate and attune yourself with meditation
And green plants they've got mad life they're sentient
They're beautiful as you and they like to dance

Everything we do we gotta come original
Put your hand up in the air and prepare for battle
Sit upon the rhythm like a tire upon a rim
We do it non-stop and then we do it again
Some a them whine and some a them bitch
They can not do it never switch
Comin' up from the heart and
Delivered with a wild pitch
Sit up on top the rhythm like a wild stallion
This is the ruling system

Come original you got to come original
All entertainers come original
You got to come original you got to come original
All entertainers come original
You got to come original you got to come original
All entertainers come original
You got to come original you got to come original
All entertainers

Come original

We bust the sound
The kids all gather round

And what's comin' from their radios
They all turn down

The creativeness
We are scientists

Move 'em with soul
Move 'em with this

When the bass kicks
We get intimate

With the music and the people
Yeah they're into it

Takin' off crusin' through the air

The sound is aerodynamic
Let me take you there

I am a cool and mellow man

Always got a plan

Copin' out problems every time i can

I'd like to be known as a great communicator

If you got beef don't save it for later

I battle evil weekly monthly yearly
But every step i take, the devil stays near me

Otherwise maintain on the globe

Just another space trippin' vato

Massive yang and yin on this earth we spin

Sometimes i gotta center find out who i am

I chill out i let in the wind

I gotta feel the pulse fo the planet on my skin

I go tnews for ya it ain't nothin' nice
We all got demon we all gotta vice
The struggle never ends
To keep it in check
But i never stop trying
To make the trek whadup

Which one is it who ya gonna believe
Undivided in my material being
Undivided life you can't fade me
Desperate the cling i make to positiviery
Stay getting it on til the doubt is gone
If you could be dissuaded you were
Dead all along
Like what's up now you can't fade me
Still in that same old trade of positiviry

Are you missing us
Maybe wanting to be kissing us
If you must
When please don't be dismissing us

When we'regone ballin' on the bus
Are we immersed in a sea of replicants
Hard exteriors and fake gold fronts
Losing yourself in the flavor of the mouth
Gotta be a better reason to colonize a star
Gotta be a better reason man's come so far

Is that you in the mama-ocean-purple-sea
Is that you in this dream i see waving me
Closer with one hand
While the other shields your eyes as if surprised
To see the universe begin

Being up on the mindspin
Are you still glad that it has been
Six years and a seven months
This is what you want don't front
I'm feelin' it right now
In this, the goldhour
Part click and part man
Reconcilling my lifespan

Keeping things whole
We move out of the space where air flows
When all of a sudden here we are and here we go
The evolutionary mind turns twists backflips

In space-time
The continuum
Real life planetarium
It's a natural fact

Time is speeding up
There isn't much left
Heart rate increasing
Bustin' through your chest
Compressed
Is your life in the physical
But out of memory comes a vision
Which is a merical
Yeah that
Normally we just can't see
It's not natural or typical
Of our same old thing
Livin' to fast
Unable to grasp the past
Or the futre when at last we ripple
After our big splash

Being up on the mindspin
Are you still glad that it has been
Six years and a seven months
This is what you want don't front
I'm feelin' it right now
In this, the goldhour
Part click and part man
Reconcilling my lifespan

You reamain and refrain
From the pain of wasted time
The last thing on my mind is
Running high fuel supply
Reason why
We just don't quit
Can you get with
A mlding of two minds
What's the worst thing
You could find
A paper trail
That prevails
In dernystification
People want to beieve
In mysteries
People want to believe
In mysteries

Is the truth so bad? x4

Will i say?
Leaving this babylon

Say i'm leaving this babylon
Leaving this babylon
Will not be to long
Will not be to long
Say my people are starving
But your money's running

I said my people are starving
But your money's running

I say your dollar, dollar cut down real low
You ain't got nothin' to show
Gonna' step right through the door
Not gonna' come back no more
Cuz a polition lied
My mama just did cry
And nothing ever gonna' change
My father just desides
Her sisters just a line
And i ain't got nothing to claim
Oh...

Will i say?

Will i say
That, did it go away?
Now did you leave today?
Yeah...yeah...

Large in the margin
My drama unfolds behind closed doors
Told on the down low
I believe that i'm sold
But really i don't know
Maybe it's better but i can't think so
Maybe it's better to fight
One never ever know
Believe the rumors that grow like tumors
It's more fun than the truth that we know
Trying to hard to reach a highter plain

Will fuck you up
When you least expect it
You think you're moving closer
When suddenly you wrecked it
But all the same the pain gains wisdom
As if you ain't had enough
Then you're in some
Prison of your own creation mental dilation
Look at what you're facing
Placing blame in every direction
But in the end it's your own infection

There's no way to avoid listening
You'll always end up listeing
Here's hoping the voices aren't too unkind
Here's hoping the voices are benign
It's easier when you hear it
There's no reason to fear it
Its you
You

You think they'll probally find you
Well then, you're probally right
Cuz they'll come back to remind you for eternity
Of when you gave up the fight
Somehow they always will find you
The voices in the night, every night
Keep coming back to remind you for eternity
Of when you gave up the fight

There's no way to avoid listening
You'll always end up listeing
Here's hoping the voices aren't too unkind
Here's hoping the voices are benign
It's easier when you hear it
There's no reason to fear it
Its you
You