Natural Ingredients

City Song

(Cunniff/Glaser)

I'm taking the side streets
Crusing down the alleyways
Feeling the cool breeze
Across my face
I'm losing to find
And I'm breaking to fix
Cause I'm not fit
To go on like this
Music in my head
The rhythm keeps me fed
These sounds surround me
In high frequencies
There's no place like home
There's no place like home
Stone alone
In the city of bastard roots

When I'm about to go crazy
Cause I'm still living here
I just get my friends together
And we dance,dance,dance
Cause this is the state of the world
This city tells me what it's like to live

Hey bike messenger
What's your name?
Have you got the time
To talk to me?
Tell you what
We'll sit on this here stoop
And talk all about you
We'll just keep sitting here
Til you roll on through

Serico he's still around
Screwed up police ya might get found
City crime's for city cops
You've got to know
The streets you rock
The subway tells the story here
This is the place to disappear

I live in my open mind
And I'll die in my open mind

Deep Shag

Cunniff/Glaser

I feel small when i am next to you
I feel big when i forget you
Why do you make me feel so small?

I'm draggin in your deep shag
What I become,What i become
I'm in your deep shag
Stuck in rags
What I become,what I become

Believe me I am teething when my eyes are full of feeling
I forget my personality
My hellraising days
They seem so sweet
And I'm always telling you
Lies to hide the truth inside
The poems I become
The minute I succumb to your embrace

Angel

Cunniff/Glaser

Your brother was a friend of mine
Nobody but a live wire
Can I sing it out
Can I say it loud
Still looking for that old fire
Tracing the fall of my angel

Catch it in the wind
It's still smoking
Burning up cause your sister is torn
And I'm living in another dimension
What I see is my own invention
Tracing the fall of my angel

At home with my own mutation
Cigarette burns in the subway station
Sometimes i forget they're down there in the walls
Tracing the fall
Of my angel
Catch it in the wind
It's still smoking
Burning up cause
Bour sister is tokin
And i'm living in
Another dimension
What i see is my own invention
Tracing the fall of my angel

Tracing the fall of my angel
Tracing the fall of my angel
Can i find the fire
In me to fight

Strongman

Cunniff/Glaser

When a man can take a stand
And wash his hands
Of his scams
And watch his woman stand unafraid
Aid her in her fight to get paid
Help her get her
Medicines made
Let her step on out
Of the shade

And i will call him
Super solid
And i will call him
Super solid

It takes a strongman
 To stand by a strong woman
It takes a strongman
Yes it does
It takes a strongman
To stand by a strong woman
It takes a strongman
Yes it does

If love sex
Is the soul vexed
Is the earth next
We need respect

Can we love outside 
Of the clan
Where's the sister
In brotherman
Back to back
Divided we stand
Can we put some love
In the land?
I will call him supersolid
I will call him supersolid

It takes a strongman
To stand by a strong woman
It takes a strong man
Yes it does
It takes a strongman
To stand by a strong woman
It takes a strongman
Yes it does

Conquering, stealing
Wheeling and dealing
Tell me is this planet
Healing?
Conquering, stealing
Wheeling and dealing
Tell me is this planet
Healing?
When a man knows
Where he came from
He can't tell me
I am shameful
And i will call him
Supersolid
I will call him
Supersolid

It takes a strongman
To stand by a strong woman
It takes a strongman
To stand by a strong woman
It takes a strongman
It takes a strongman

He can stop trying
To get even
He will know he's
Here for a reason
To stand beside
His woman in peace
She's got the way
To release him

ENERGY SUCKER

(Cunniff/Glaser)

I'm stone free
Soulless one
I wash myself
 Down to the dust
I might be a mess
But i try to stay pure
You're taking away
My soul my soul

Hey energy sucker
I'm a goddess
Not your mother
Hey you're soulless

You got the pull
Of a riptide
Too tight man soon
You're gonna suck me in
I better stay tough or
You're gonna get me
Well now i wish that you
Never even met me
You're a type who
Acts nice
Just to get things
Can't relax cause
You're standing
In your own wings
You pretend you're
Grown up and satisfied
That's another lie
What can you give me
You're soulless
You're soulless

Hey energy sucker
I'm a goddess,
Not your mother
Hey you're soulless
I got a way to get out quick
In a second i'll be through
With you old tricks
Kinda funny how you try
To play innocent
I gave it up
Now i don't know
Where it went
Suckin up to the fool
Who gets near you
Now we're through
And i know just what
To do
I'm cutting you off
Yeah you, it's true
I'm cutting you off
Yeah you

I'm stone free
I'm stone free
I gotta get out
I gotta get out quick
I gotta gotta get out quick

HERE

Cunniff/Glaser

Please die for me
Yeah yeah
Please die for me
Yeah yeah
Yeah yeah ow
Hold this for me
Hown here
Here i come
You can't stop me now
I will be the one
Who keeps you around
Yeah yeah ow
Peace and loving everywhere

Get on the floor
Let's dance some more

When they tell me
That i got that homeless look
Yeah yeah
I think of warm air you bring

Here i come you can't stop
Me now
I will be the one
Who keeps you around
Yeah yeah ow
Asphyxiation driven

Get on the floor
Let's dance some more
Get on the floor yeah

Here i come you can't stop
Me now

hold this for me down here
yeah yeah ow peace and loving
everywhere
here i come you can't stop
me now i will be the one
who keeps you around
yeah yeah ow

get on the floor
let's dance some more
get on the floor

FIND YOUR MIND

(Cunniff/Glaser)

all her cash running
out of green glass
pocketful of money
going down, down, down
wagon's full of honey
and she's gonna get some
everybody knows the
fun is for the brave ones
every night she leaves
with someone
dirty man playing with
his kickstand yeah
we can see he's nothing
but she wants him
cause she's empty
and he's got a pretty face
and big hands to play with

you've got to find your mind
you've got to find your mind

He said to get down
on her knees
he's gotta get what he needs
she's got a frayed
mess of a dress
the kind that is about
wearing you out
she comes from people
with ready minds
cigarette child of
the times
her body is
more than her years
she hears a lunatic in her ears
funny how it always is
when your mind
is in the way of his
in what he wants
he will succeed
without a fight
she will concede
and we know she
can't fix her soul
by filling up
empty holes

you've got to find your mind
you've got to find your mind

i'm the girl
with no innocence
i'm your friendly
neighborhood psychopath
i'm the fear that
makes you try anything
i'm the one you don't
know you're running from
i'm the cold reminder
of defeat
i'll be there the next time
you get in heat
i'll be there when you
wake up next week
i'll be there when you
freak the next freak

you've got to find your mind
you've got to find your mind

PELE MERENGUE

(Cunniff/Glaser,arranged by Luscious Jackson)

pele merengue
i need some lovin
that's what i need

ROCK FREAK

(Cunniff/Glaser)

it's just a rainy day
aint got no games to play
so come on over baby
we'll bug out anyway
we'll watch the rain come down
and listen to the sound
we're going round and round
just buggin out
forget the things i'm told
don't care if i get old
when the world gets too cold
just buggin out

its just a rainy day
aint got no games to play
so come on over baby
we'll bug out anyway
we'll watch the rain come down
and listen to the sound
we're going round and round
just buggin out
uno, dos, tres, cuatro

                               ROLLIN' 

can you find a rolling stone
that rolls alone
can you find a bus
that won't stop running
can you get a good carburetor
in the front of the candy store
i keep looking
i travel light, i travel low
because i got no place to go

you're outside, i walk by
thinking of you
why do i spend my time
thinking of you

yeah i'm gonna fade away
to black today
yeah i'm gonna fade
and keep on fading
everybody got a cadillac
coming everybody gotta
keep on running

you're outside, i walk by
thinking of you
why do i spend my time
thinking of you

he likes to come around
coming around and rollin
on through. he likes
to get down, gettin on
down to get away from you

can you find a roll
and roll and roll and
roll and roll and rollin

you're outside, i walk by
thinking of you
why do i spend my time
thinking of you

SURPRISE

(Cunniff,arranged by Luscious Jackson)

big surprise, surprise
look into your mother's eyes
i go where no man goes
one particular roll in the hay
it only takes one
to get it done

surprise!

afraid of the sheer volume
i'm concentrated all
you can swallow me
or shoot me on the wall
afraid of failure
i come as i please
one drop is the name
of my disease

surprise!

i might be criminal minded
but i don't wear no colors
i got my time behind me
i need a place to
rest my eyes

surprise!

wunderkind of mine
tiny piece of a line
we come together
like roses on a vine
beat a few friends
or get beaten
aint no harmony
in the seed of men

surprise!

LP RETREAT

(Cunniff/Glaser)

you see me spinning records
it makes me high (get high)
i've got 33's and 45's
i've got 33's and 45's
you see me spinning records
let's play mr dj
lets play oh yeah
lets play
lets play oh yeah
it makes me high yeah
you see me spinning records
it makes me high yeah
you see me spinning records
it makes me high
i've got 33's and 45's

i'm escaping to vinyl shores
because i said so
i'll be far gone
complete
be far gone
lp
be far gone
retreat
i'll be far gone

forget how the culture
we come from divide us
forget how the culture
we come from divide us
this is the culture of
dusty old vinyl
this is the tribal
record of love

i'm escaping to vinyl shores
because i said so
i'll be far gone
complete
be far gone
lp
be far gone
retreat
i'll be far gone
i'll be far gone
be far gone
be far gone
i'll be far gone

put the needle
on the record

i'm escaping to vinyl shores
because i said so
i'll be far gone
complete
be far gone
lp
be far gone
retreat
i'll be far gone
i'll be far gone
be far gone
be far gone
i'll be far gone

put the needle
on the record mr dj
you can't kill the culture
on the subway