MF DOOM - Lively Hood lyrics

[Hook: Ghostface] Bad as in good, good as in hood Evil lurks in the shadow, I wish a n***a would [Verse 1: Ghostface] Ayo, New York, New York, big city of dreams But some dreams get flushed out and turned to the fiends By all means it's 24 hours of work Some n***as got that Sour D and some got dirt Some is out to bust they heat and some just squirt Some b**hes can shake they a**es, some can't twerk You got Times Square square times, they got lame rhymes This is Ghost sh**, I f** rats and dimes These signs are so vivid, the street lights are blaring You got filthy rich and greedy n***as you ain't sharing Five boroughs, b**hes of all flavors Crooked cops locking my peoples behind cages Wrecking agents, The Diamond District Body bags are all stacked up as another statistic Dirty water dogs or Morton's Steakhouse fillets Staten Island, New York, I love my Shaolin ways [Hook: Ghostface] Evil thoughts can lead to some positive energy New York, New York, the baddest place of the century Bad as in good, good as in hood Evil lurks in the shadow, I wish a n***a would Positive thoughts can lead to some negative energy New York, New York, the baddest place of the century [Verse 2: MF DOOM] Salute! Most of the livest dudes is dead Some folks being polite, some rude instead The melting pot is overflowing with lead In the winter is brick, the summertime is like a sweltering hotbed Manhattan keeps on making, shaking fake tits and bacon bits Put it on a ritz for shaking glitz in the snake pit Bootleg bags off Can*l is bogus cow skin You might just see the Riker's Island bus go past every now and then Thousands of skeletons found under ground zero Hundreds of years old remains of the brown negro Built on the backs of immigrants in search of a better life But all they get is credit as stress and debt as strife Or read your rights, dead wrong or dead right Every night, zombie staring, deer stuck in the headlights Up in Harlem, got that work Come and get De Nada Pinata and get jerked [Hook: Ghostface] Bad as in good, good as in hood Evil lurks in the shadow, I wish a n***a would