This Means War!

Album: Extinction Level Event (1998)
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  • Just make sure them, them drums is smackin'
    This, means, war!

    I work hard to take care of every one of my niggas
    Feel the love and appreciation from all of my niggas
    When I think meditate and contemplate for my soul
    Watch the truth manifest once the story unfold
    Disloyal motherfuckers I'ma banish you all
    And celebrate all in your accents once I get rid of y'all
    Sometimes I can't describe the wicked shit I feel in my heart
    Break my silence and sporadically tear you apart
    Strike with a serious vengeance and before you die
    Put you through the worst and make you take a look in my eye!
    So you could witness the extreme damage caused by betrayal
    Make you sorry for the fact that you attempted and failed!
    Make you eternally suffer, you was one of my men's
    Turn your back on me, and I'ma make sure you get it back times ten
    Stay true, now that's the one thing I religiously pledge
    If you ain't wit me I'ma throw you way over the edge
    This means war!

    Take a look inside
    You can run and you can hide
    If you cross my path
    I'll make sure you feel my wrath
    Give and you receive
    Cherish every breath you breathe
    Strangers on the wall
    Those who betray all must fall

    As I cherish every blessing and I greet you with hugs
    You my peoples when I see you I embrace you with love
    Yeah I be the one to come and get you out of the hole
    Yeah you be the one to run and leave me out in the cold
    So amazing how many times you plot and you scheme
    But what you don't realize, you'll never conquer my dream
    Though devilish karma can't penetrate the steel in my armor
    Time passed, my oppression got you living with drama!
    Paranoid of my retaliation, living in fear
    Disloyalty will have me kill my brother, shedding a tear
    Such a shame how you could easily get trapped in a zone
    And have to go to war with fake niggas standing alone
    Until I get with all my loyal niggas going the length
    Don't matter how hard you try you never weaken my strength!
    Now I'm with all of my loyal niggas, breaking the bread
    And if you diss the code of honor we taking your head
    This means war!

    Take a look inside
    You can run and you can hide
    If you cross my path
    I'll make sure you feel my wrath
    Give and you receive
    Cherish every breath you breathe
    Strangers on the wall
    Those who betray all must fall

    Nobody helps them
    Now he has his revenge

    What you gon' do? What you gonna do?
    Where you think you can run, or you can hide?
    Where you think you can run, or you can hide?
    Where you think you can run, or you can hide?
    Where you think you can run, or you can hide?

    I'ma be the best to show love let's co-operate
    Disloyalty is something that we won't tolerate
    Deal with these niggas, let's put them where they properly go
    On a island far away in a place where nobody know
    So long fighting the bullshit for so many years
    Watching the danger and niggaz double crossing they peers
    Yes I always fight for what is right and put my foot down
    Disrespect my love, I'ma be laying you down
    This means war!

    Take a look inside
    You can run and you can hide
    If you cross my path
    I'll make sure you feel my wrath
    Give and you receive
    Cherish every breath you breathe
    Strangers on the wall
    Those who betray all must fall Writer/s: Alasdair Ward, Mark Brabbs, Michael John Turner, Peter James Brabbs
    Publisher: Sentric Music, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, T.R.O. INC., Walt Disney Music Company
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Mike from Bristol, TnSir Mix-a-Lot did a rap version of "Iron Man" on his album "Swass" back in '88.
  • George from Hanover, Germany"This means War!" is also the title of a PC game, produced by Jeff "Johann" Johannigman in 1996 (Microprose) ;)
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