[Hook] Everlasting (Repeat 4X) [Verse 1: André 3000] Now sittin' in the bathtub listening to the Isley Brothers and others outside my door want to despise me Reminds me that everyone ain't cool, the world is jealous Never could understand when my mama use to tell us "Don't take your food outside around your friends Unless you got enough to feed the neighborhood" The play has just began, follow me now Act 1 Scene 2 the date 1/1/96 the time I don't know Mood disturbed, Dre goes on to say they trying to get over Like them n***as with the blinker on, I got my thinker on So I'm like 'Word, however you want to act is fine' That is real as fishing rods I might be kissing God but I'm still in the battle So if you got cattle you best be fasting For 7 days and 7 nights we everlasting 20 years young on a quest to get my cla** ring Just for them fhite wolks, I will if it's the last thing I do [Hook] Everlasting (Repeat 5X) [Interlude: Big Boi] Yeah, slick, knowhatI'msayin', I'm gonna tell you like this Just 'cause I live the apartment don't mean you can keep puttin' these notes under my windshield, I'm tellin' you Shorty gon' bust your a** about that sh** [Verse 2: Big Boi] Check it, hey y'all, hey y'all, hey y'all, hoes Back up in this b**h rippin' tracks like I'm supposed Tommy and Ralph Lauren don't like n***as to wear they clothes Where your proof at? Who's that? Talking sh** like those Keepin' the rumors up, I wish I lived in a f**in' cave I ride the streets in Lexus, all these hoes wanna be saved Go to college, get a job because all you want to do is shake I use to hit Club Nikki's but I gave that sh** a break Just like Maaco, Waco, burn it to the ground I bet you eatin' that pork when your partners ain't around Backdraft, scenes of Shaft splackin' these hoes just like he's supposed to Quote you: "Big Boi is the pimp a** n***a that formed you" Like pottery, sloppily, playin' hoes like lotteries OutKast did the dirt and now you swear your sh** is poppin' see You bit (beats), we makin' hits, so give me your flag back I'm living in the SWATS so you may call me Daddy Fatsacks Yeah, you know what I'm sayin'? Like this Everlasting [Hook] Everlasting (Repeat 8X) [Verse 3] [Big Boi] One in a million men pa**ing the J off in the culture Don't y'all smoke a couple of pounds and get tore up y'all And tear the devil headquarters down to the grizzound Is how we hit the house and puff a couple of good pounds Of good weed, PeeWee, my n***a Little Beewee We need a 50 box of Phillies and some bouncin' titties From the Magic, the Flame Nikki's too, and share in Sequel's Never payin' for no p**y You can shake it, you can keep it to yourself, hoe [André 3000] You left your morals at the door, when you steeped in, crept in Naked as babies at the beach, so Now you wonder why your n***a done bust you in the fore Head, ain't no respect there, so now you just a**ed out like breech Delivery, slivery got you swung on These types of things go on from here to Bowen Home To London, England, Wall Street to y'all street Sometime I get bewildered and it throws a n***a like me off beat But I'm back on it Because we lasting 'ever, sound good, don't it? Rattling your trunks like FAMU and the component Said that's it, man, f** that sh** On and on and on and I'm out [Hook] Everlasting (Repeat until fade)