The Happy Album (Album)

Whip Them Down

Who cares about your nation

Your bloody flag is hung to dry

You call it human nature

But were we really born to fight

Who needs the separation

The body count becomes too high

We're running out of patience

Watch out the eagle's gonna fly

 

Gonna whip them down

 

Who wants to face this situation?

I have to do it every day

I see no signs of changes

Maybe the pressure's here to stay

Who cares if there's no integration

Suspicion rules everyones lives

If I am not of your persuasion

I'm never welcome in your tribe

 

Gonna whip them down

 

You wear the butcher's apron

Too much colour makes you blind

I don't believe in human nature

Watch out the eagle's gonna fly

 

Gonna whip them down

 

Sweet and Dandy

Etty in a room a cry

Mama say she must wipe her eye

Papa say he no fi foolish

Like she never been to school at all

It is no wonder

It's a perfect pander

While they were dancing in that barroom last night

 

Johnson in a room a fret

Uncles say he must hold up him head

Aunty say he no fi foolish like him no time for him wedding day

It is no wonder, it's a perfect pander

While they were dancing in that bar room last night

 

They were sweet and dandy

 

One more time for the wedding cake

Plenty bottle of cola wine

All the people them a dress up in a white

Fi go eat off Johnson's wedding cake

It is no wonder

It's a perfect pander

While they were dancing in that bar room last night

 

They were sweet and dandy

 

Neurotica

I'm like a fish outta water

I don't like it

I don't like it too

A lamb to the slaughter

I can't fight it

I can't fight it too

I got chips on me shoulders

I can't hide it

I can't hide it too

And then me eyes start to smoulder

I need some water

Pour water on you

 

Neurotica, neurotica

 

I got a new kind of powder

Full of badness

Full of madness too

When it gets in me structure

I get excited

I get excited too

But when I bust out of Eenya

Dem nah go catch me

Dem nah go catch me too

I'm gonna slip through their fingers

I'm gonna dazzle them

I'm gonna dazzle them too

 

Whoi yoi yoi

Whoi yoi yoi

 

Neurotica, neurotica

 

I'm cool pon your corner

Nah badder watch me

Nah badder watch me too

Got chips pon me shoulders

I can't hide it

I can't hide it too

I got a new kind of powder

Full of badness

Full of madness too

And when it gets in me structure

I get excited

I get excited too

Neurotica, neurotica

 

California Screaming

Once upon a time a king had a dream

Then three L.A. cops made another king scream

The Crips and the Boods said enough is enough

Where's the peace and love when the going gets tough

 

California screaming

While America's dreaming

California screaming

While America's screaming california screaming

While America's screaming

 

The haves have it all, the have nots have not

Did you hear about the teen queen stopped by a shot

Lying on the sidewalk dressed up in blood

A quiet L.A. evening in the summer of love

 

California screaming

While America's dreaming

California screaming

While America's screaming california screaming

While America's screaming

 

The boy in the hood says he's only thirteen

Chained up in gold but he thinks that he's free

The price of his future is measured in grammes

Weighing him down in the city of the damned

 

California screaming

While America's dreaming

California screaming

While America's screaming california screaming

While America's screaming

 

I Want Justice

I have been so blind to all the heartache and crying

All alone in my room

I never knew that you could be so cruel

'tho your cheatings gonna be your doom

 

I want justice

 

If I had tomorrow I would beg steal and borrow

Enough to make you the fool

I never knew that you could be so cruel

'tho your cheatings gonna be your doom

 

I want justice

 

Trout

I've climbed over fences

I've seen through all your defences

It's so senseless

If you want I'll send you flowers

I will mark out all of the hours

It's my business

 

Won't you tell me

What should I do now

 

I gave in to all of your wishes

But you want to swim with the fishes

Don't want no kisses

fool around with good intentions

Make the world your own invention

It's so senseless

 

Won't you tell me

What should I do now

 

A kiss us just a kiss

There's nothing left to miss

We watch the world go by

Just remember this

There's got to be a twist

Someone's got to cry

 

Copasetic

It was not copasetic, it was not right

Those weapons that were formed for thee

None of them shall prosper

It is the time when man shall be free

Seven seals hit disaster

 

It was a state of emergency

Government call in the military

They say all bad man shall fall

With the method operation withdrawal

 

It was not copasetic, it was not right

 

Young men of my noble race

Must you cause such a big disgrace

Free up your soldiers outta the way

Let us all live in peace again

 

It was not copasetic

 

Mother knows best

Mummy's little monsters ruled the world from camden town to bethnal green

Two into one hand on the gun sharing the same dream for her boys

She'd lay down and die to hide the devil in you

Unconditional love cracked the egg, away her small birds flew

 

Mother knows best you know she loves you

 

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world or were you misconceived

If you dry the lake at victoria park tell me what would you see

Stronger than steel the ties that bind the family's apron strings

Born to be violent on this earth you made the sixties swing

 

Mother knows best you know she loves you

 

Ladders

When I wake up in the night

I can't open my eyes

I reach down to the floor

I laugh until I cry

It's just the way it is

I start to realise

Why can't I be sure of things

I feel inside

 

Beware of tigers and bad dogs

Making monkeys of you

I'm walking barefoot on cut glass

Now that all my ladders have gone

 

I don't really have the heart

To run a million miles

To where my ladders start

Everyone hurts sometimes

 

Beware of tigers and bad dogs

Making monkeys of you

 

 

Beware of tigers and bad dogs

Making monkeys of you