We Trying To Stay Alive
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Wyclef Jean, John Forté, Pras
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(car engine roaring)
- Say baby, don't get in no trouble
- Nah, we're just trying to
win this dance competition
- Win it 500
- [Male Speaker] Alright baby
(upbeat dance music starts)
♪ We got the Refugee Allstars
rub-a-dubbing in the club ♪
♪ Wyclef Jean, John Forté, Praswell ♪
(group chatting)
♪ Know what I mean, the streets
are getting a little crazy ♪
♪
Looka-looka-looka-looka-looka-looka-looka
here ♪
♪ looka, shorty got back ♪
♪ Should I ask her for a dance? ♪
♪ Hold on, there's too
many in the wolf pack ♪
♪ And besides, Dirty Cash talking to her ♪
♪ Buying her fake furs and
taking her to The Fever ♪
♪ Quiet as it's kept,
that ain't even his Benz ♪
♪ She spends his Franklins at
the malls with her friends ♪
♪ Material girl living
in a material world ♪
♪ But it's all right 'cause
it's Saturday night ♪
♪ So Mr. Funkmaster, pump the Bee Gees ♪
♪ And all you college
students, play your Ouija's ♪
♪ Check the spelling, R-E-F-U-G-E-E ♪
♪ Get the CD from Sam Goody, hee-hee ♪
♪ You ain't even close with
the rhymes that you wrote ♪
♪ Don't be mad 'cause you broke ♪
♪ Let me clear my throat, uh-huh, uh-huh ♪
♪ John Forté, grab the
mic, let's sway this way ♪
♪ I'm more than just a rhymer,
you still a small-timer ♪
♪ Hoping that the game treat
that ass a little kinder ♪
♪ Every step tango'd, your
beef don't concern me ♪
♪ I'm eating mangoes in Trinidad
with attorneys, oh yeah ♪
♪ My crew's slang flow
worldwide like a current ♪
♪ Went the every spot where
nobody got insurance ♪
♪ Brother, do the math, you
ain't half near exotic ♪
♪ My mans claim true
you, forget about it ♪
♪ Po-po just a nuisance
like my influence ♪
♪ Well-recognized, you
a lie trying do it ♪
♪ Got juice, told your lady,
"Oops, we nuts, baby" ♪
♪ Smooth and charismatic,
automatic, you gon' save me ♪
♪ God bless the dead as my son survive ♪
♪ We strive to teach the
youth, baby, and stay alive ♪
♪ Refugee camp next, baby ♪
♪ John Forté, yeah, watch your lady ♪
♪ Watch your lady, yeah, all right ♪
♪ 'Specially around baby Pras, yo ♪
♪ If you got more than a dollar
in your pocket right now ♪
♪ Put your hands up, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ Well, you can tell by
the way I roll, shorty, ♪
♪ That I'm a ladies man, a business man ♪
♪ Condos down the shore,
multi-million pension plan, uh-huh ♪
♪ But it ain't in my plan ♪
♪ To make moves without
the fam, no can do ♪
♪ I keep it intact, yo,
'Clef, do the track ♪
♪ John, play the mack
while I pay the tax ♪
♪ Business as usual ♪
♪ Watching suspects steal my
assets, get cut with Gillettes ♪
♪ We built this concept,
connect like NYNEX, all right ♪
♪ Drinks at the bar, my American Express ♪
- No you didn't just kiss my girl
- Shit man, just relax
- You wanna disrespect
me? Let's go outside
♪ Yo, I cook up, cook up ♪
♪ The copper pull up, pull up ♪
♪ Them I cuff up, cuff up ♪
♪ You who's calling bluff ♪
♪ Now you shook up, shook up ♪
♪ 'Cause you lock up, lock up ♪
♪ When I love up, love up ♪
♪ You who's calling bluff ♪
♪ Ayo, John is chilling,
Dirty Cash dealing ♪
♪ What more can I say? We living ♪
♪ That's what we got, we got it good ♪
♪ And since you understood, we be ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Huh, uh, uh, uh ♪
♪
Looka-looka-looka-looka-looka-looka-looka-Looka
♪
♪ Leave the knives and
the guns alone, uh huh ♪
♪ Refugees on the microphone, come on ♪
♪ Leave the knives and
the guns alone, uh huh ♪
♪ Refugees on the microphone, say what ♪
♪ You can't stop the
shine, they rock steady ♪
♪ You can't stop the shining, come on ♪
♪ You can't stop romancing elite force ♪
♪ You can't stop the dancing,
where the ladies at ♪
♪ And for the ladies, we won't play you ♪
♪ If you're fat, shake
what your momma gave you ♪
♪ Whether you fat, slim
or bubble your ting ♪
♪ Fellas if you need help, use ginseng ♪
♪ Look it here, you can't
stop the shining, uh huh ♪
♪ Look it here, you can't
stop the romancing ♪
♪ Just staying alive,
baby, you know the flavor ♪
♪ Of the refugees, here we go, come on ♪
♪ Looka-looka-looka-looka-looka ♪
♪ Staying alive ♪
♪ Live at the carnival,
'97 'til infinity, ha ♪
♪ Refugee allstars ♪
(police sirens)
♪ Can't stop the shining,
can't stop the shining ♪
♪ Can't stop the shining,
can't stop the shining ♪
♪ You wanna stop the shining?
You wanna stop the shining? ♪
♪ You wanna stop the shining,
can't stop the shining ♪
(music fades)
