Lisa 'left Eye' Lopes - Cradle Rock lyrics

[Intro: Method Man] All the children come into the light... [Sample of "Bright Tomorrow"] There will be... [Refrain: Left Eye and Method Man] Rock-a-bye baby from the rooftop When the guns blow, your cradle gets rocked When the Earth quakes and the sky starts to fall Down will come MCs, fake sh** and all [Verse 1: Method Man] Off top it be the sure shot, the bomb drops Aftershock blow your bumba claat to smithereens Time stop, flying guillotines coming for your slot What you mean you spilled the beans, ock Blacked out and thought I seen Pac, laser beam Glock What's a bird to a brother with a flock, what? They got some nerve to even try to sh** a turd On John J, slap a n***a gay with the wordplay Hot Nix shoot you with the gift, it's your birthday God hating ugly in the worst way, f** 'em like the Earth say From first day I survey the ha**le, d**h knocking at your door In the Big Apple, Meth rotten to the core Shackle in the sound castle The dungeon with vermin in the form of MCs determined To step foot on God's soil, not knowing that These eggheads come hard boiled and heavy handed The aliens they just landed and you in the way Overthrow these n***as' planet, Independence Day Felons, get split melons, homicide Bug n***as get the bug repellent, insecticide Johnny 5 take it worldwide, as long as I Pledge allegiance to the Dark Side, I'll never die Who you know with a flow like this? Bring 'em in What Clan you know blow like this? Bring 'em in Take that n***a [Refrain: Method Man (Left Eye)] The sound of gun burst put the foul in the dirt (Foul in this dirt) You can't think clearly from the mind control theory (Mind control theory) Murder in the first bring 'em back down to Earth (Back down to Earth) Y'all n***as don't hear me prepare for the worst (Prepare for the worst) [Verse 2: Method Man] Times gon' change, nothing will remain the same Million dollar broke n***as still f**ed up in the game Make me wanna choke n***as sh**ting on my name Tuck your chain when I approach n***a, go against the grain now n***as stand in rain now, die hard fan Call me John John McClain now, Snake vs. the Crane Style d**h to the enemy, Wu brother Number One The Centipede, troublesome, send 'em all to Kingdom Come Sun still shine one, time for your crooked mind Drunk off a cheap wine, son I'm into street crime Every word, every line, got juice very fine Turn me loose on mankind, detonate the landmine Focus my goal now, never sell, never sold Live by the code now, never tell, never told Darts I throw like Clyde with the finger roll Clutch shots and what not, this is where the buck stops Still can't eat and y'all still can't sleep I elect myself as Presidential MC Wu-Tang k**a Bee, the beehive facility In love with the blunt smoke even though it's k**ing me Bad vibes filling me with thoughts of conspiracy White Water scandals with Bill Clinton/Hillary Too hot to handle, too well put together to dismantle f**er, you heard me [Refrain 2: Method Man] Excuse me as I kiss the sky Catch me when I fall son, I'm too young to die Me and Lefty, that be the Eye come test me If you don't know, you never know me Booster, burn me [Interlude: Booster] [Hook] [Outro: Left Eye] I got 360 degrees of self That's mind, body and spirit A hundred twenty degrees a piece We gon' break it down into simple terms That's nine n***a nine, highest level of change It's too many n***as sitting on their a** Waiting for sh** to just happen sh** don't just happen, gonna f** around a miss a buck If you take away the negative, make room for the positive That's adding and subtracting on the real n***as better learn their math Cause if my calculations serve me correct I'ma f** around and have all this sh** I'm on your a** n***a