Places I've Been

(album: Electric Coolaid Acid Testing - 2002)

[*breathing*]
[?] just so y'all can hear some on the streets listen

I've seen 'Pac get murdered and B.I.G. the same
Pun lose his life y'all while Scott La Rock get slain
I'm saying the game of life is balanced by death
Make money with a few then I challenge the rest
Over in London with Westwood sipping absinthe
With Absolute Beginners in Germany getting blasted
Mastered [?] never [?]
Sober in Amsterdam (SYKE) spit a word
Get a word to the wise, my eyes done seen Big Ben
Just to come back home strong, ready to leave again
Believing and breathing, teaching y'all the world is small
The world is all but real shitt, now give a call
My dog [kin?] in Oslo, me and Swift's eyes grow
We sniff blow, no thanks nigga, pass the 'dro
Life's like a fashion show so walk strong 'cause they watching
Here's my passport, checkout where your blocks been

You ain't been all the places I've been
Eyes ain't seen all the things I've seen
Do these verses feel what I mean
Me and my rap life
So much drama that y'all don't see
I can't let it take over me
I'm just trying to live comfortably
Me and my rap life

Swedish girls are sweet
But can't compete with that hoodrat chick right down the street (You know)
You ever seen a cop with M16 walking the beat
Or a Nazi on TV just cocking his heat
What about Switzerland Red Lights where the heads tight
Or in [?] where the people are just scared right
Maybe you heard but I seen a nuclear reactor
Proof got the truth that you're really after
On the autobahn before Columbine, I thought of mine
Maybe I should jump across this fucking borderline
I seen Africans in Highland peddling dope
To answer your question, did I find a ghetto? Was no
I came to settle the sco', we ain't never seen gold
They living in the aftermath whether they rich or po'
Buildings bombed, troops out there with AK's
I started to feel sorry, came home to home to World Trade ayo

You ain't been all the places I've been
Eyes ain't seen all the things I've seen
Do these verses feel what I mean
Me and my rap life
So much drama that y'all don't see
I can't let it take over me
I'm just trying to live comfortably
Me and my rap life

There ain't a problem 'less you got a bomb so shot a Hussein, Sadam
Rock Bottom heavy, we're ready for war we taught 'em
Caught 'em colder than Autumn, Proof will never insult 'em rhyme by rhyme
I fought him, I'll tell 'em all
You hypocrites pointing fingers
Got the world thinking American's seeing in to Jerry Springer
I've been around the world and it's same all over (It's the same all over)
Kadafi, Sun Tzu, Reagan, Hitler
Joan of Arc, Napoleon, men like Hannibal
You know what I'm saying, it's the same cycle (It's the same all over)
Y'all just divide the people (Right, right)
(It's the same all over)

You ain't been all the places I've been
Eyes ain't seen all the things I've seen
Do these verses feel what I mean
Me and my rap life
So much drama that y'all don't see
I can't let it take over me
I'm just trying to live comfortably
Me and my rap life

It's the same all over
From the hood to Hollywood, to Hawaii, to Australia
Over to Japan, back over to the U.K
Over the Highland, back to the hood, the hood's everywhere
There's drug addicts everywhere, there's regular people everywhere
And it's crazy motherfuckers everywhere
No matter where you go, it's the same all over, hear me (Yeah)
I'm not saying grow up out of the motherfucking hood though
Jealous about that hood nigga, c'mon let's go
On the midnight train
We catching a motherfucking train to Japan right now nigga
Get yo' ass up, the plane the train is taking off NOW!
All aboard, let's go to Japan