Red Light Green Light

(album: Long Story Short - 2009)

[Jimmy Nice:]
Double S, One Dayers
Illy, Illy
Syd city in the house
Illy we looking fly as fuck
Man we joyriding
We joyriding on these toys
For now they call me Mr Nice
Still stuck in the pits
And I'm glad your magic boots gone
And y'all missed the flight for me
So on, so ready, no wrong
Tripping off your hater ray
Mixed with ice
I know exactly how the scene does
Between us I'm kinda glad
At how Sydney has cleaned up
No dissing my predecessors
I heed your lessons
But Sydney looked dead till
I put my team up
You could stumble from the sky
And in all your troubles
You could find I'm flyer
Spit it like a scene from the wire
Baby, I'm clean
Still your biggers should checked Mark Briar
Toy boys, time to jack the flow for ransom
If I get my hands on a slice
I'll come back with a loaf
That's food for the family
Red light greed light
Who do I want on my team
To heed lights

[Cisco Taraves:]
We don't stop, we don't stop
For no red light
Uh, uh, say this shit don't stop
We ride till the end of the line
Give me the green light
But to me, all I see
Is the gleam of the green in the light
That's the family
Red light Green light
Who do I want on my team
To heed lights

[Solo:]
It's been a minute
Since I picked up the pen
But Illy put the call out
So I'm about to buck the trend
And ball out
But I'm not talking bucks my friend
I'm not rich in what I got
But what I got to give
Sitting in gridlock city traffic
Mundane madness got us stuck in stasis
But Imma do a Tracy Chapman
Hop a fast car hit the gas
Never look backwards
See we've come pretty far
Since sixteen years
Way more than I could fit
In these sixteen bars
A couple deadlines later
We made a couple head lines
Got the haters up past their bed time
So from the inner west lines
To wherever these bars take me
We hit the brakes if we have to
But if not, we non stop
Suckers seeing red all I'm seeing is the green light

[Cisco Taraves:]
We don't stop, we don't stop
For no red light
Uh, uh, say this shit don't stop
We ride till the end of the line
Give me the green light
But to me, all I see
Is the gleam of the green in the light
That's the family
Red light Green light
Who do I want on my team
To heed lights

[Nick Lupi:]
As soon as the lights change
And with a baby
Everything in my range
Yeah I hit it, I'm crazy
Lupi: It's so good
It's so gravy
These rappers sure looking like they just seen Swayze
There ain't much more
Than a cinema screen
As I stare back
Eyes with a villainous gleam
So what you won't do, girl
Just give me the green
And imma do what I do
Yeah, get you to dream
Soon as I hit Melly
Hit Illy on the cell
And he got some five broads
At the telly and I wonder
If he only wanna fuck
Cos I'm in Spit Syndicate?
But, more importantly
Do I give a shit?
Ah no
Not even a little bit
I'm a boss
I'm interstate
Yeah
Any minute taking off
Never rich
Nick the dawn and the inner west
Get busy boys
And we getting it on
I'm gone

[Cisco Taraves:]
We don't stop, we don't stop
For no red light
Uh, uh say this shit don't stop
We ride till the end of the line
Give me the green light
But to me, all I see
Is the gleam of the green in the light
That's the family
Red light Green light
Who do I want on my team
To heed lights

[Illy:]
So I gotta match the attitude
Still much respect for those who blaze
The same avenues I use
But to come from the shadows
In the city of kings?
Can't give a shit what anyone thinks
So with that I say
Fuck waiting in the queues
Leapfrog them
Jog and I still run rings
No problem
Dig, no turbo, no tints
Fucker I don't rims
I could tram it
And have your girlfriend want dibs
And I don't drop pins
My city's best list
Reads Illy phrase books
So anybody else want to get their toes wet
Jump in
But take it as a warning
I won't hit the brakes
I hit the horn
So if you in my sights
Good night
And baby if they stopping
At the red light
Wave them good bye
Hooked up from my dub
To Frankston line
A young gun with an asterisk line
Allow me to remind them

[Cisco Taraves:]
We don't stop, we don't stop
For no red light
Uh, uh say this shit don't stop
We ride till the end of the line
Give me the green light
But to me, all I see
Is the gleam of the green in the light
That's the family
Red light Green light
Who do I want on my team
To heed lights