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Artist: Dilated Peoples
Album:  Directors of Photography
Song:   Trouble
Typed by: kirenamloh@msn.com (w/ help from liner notes)

("Just to, be like this
 Y'know, to look for trouble, if that's what you wanna call it...")

{DJ Babu cuts and scratches}
"I don't look for trouble, I'm already trouble" <- Method Man

[Rakaa Iriscience]
Vampires feed on fresh blood, money runs the show
Fuck how they feel about it, seen the waves come and go
But watch your step when it's warm and critics sound their horn
They'll throw flowers at your feet, the roses with the thorns
Marathon tours, learned to maintain my pace
Generations sacrificed for the paper chase
And I ain't talking age but they will respect my space
Old cats put in a home, young cats put in their place

("And you just might feel-")

[Evidence]
We get high this my sworn in statement
Hand on the Good Book is more than makeshift
I never lie on any people are places
Bagging a chick or rocking on these stages
There's no such thing as halfway aces
Inside or outside the box, it's placement
Didn't grow up in the hood, adjacent
But close enough to hear the ghetto bird awaken

("And you just might feel trouble")

[Chorus]
(Go! Go! Go! Go!)
Three of the one of a kind, that means trouble
(Go! Go! Go! Go!)
You don't have to look for it to find you're in trouble
(Go! Go! Go! Go!)
Don't start none, there won't be no trouble
(Go! Go! Go! Go!)
{"I don't look for trouble, I'm already trouble" <- Method Man}

[Evidence]
I'm already on the double, trouble's nothing new
About to burst out this bubble I'm accustomed to
Straight out the W, do unto others
Do NOT stay in a box, not until the day they cover you
I'm covered plenty here, movement of the shutter slow
A blurry image at the finish when I cut a rope
And I ain't cutting dope, but I'm known for something great
Some known for treble up, some known for pumping bass

[Rakaa Iriscience]
Heavy hands, knock the image out with steady cams
Rakaa chanting "Z's up!" Amateurs just freeze up
Mad crazed like Harmanov, kids can get their problem solved
Rhythm so Kalashnikov, spill it so Molotov
Kasparov slash Pavlov to these lap dogs
Yapping under tables or staring hoping that scraps fall
Checkmate savage, war chest in the cabinet
I'm so adjective that I verb nouns, imagine it

("Just keep getting up in the morning
 And you just might feel like I do sometimes -- trouble")

[Chorus]