Reggie Watts - We Live on an Island lyrics

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Reggie Watts - We Live on an Island lyrics

(Intro) We live on an island Island by the sea No-no-no-no-no-no-no-no Nobody knows Know an island like me Oh no I grew up in Banana I-mean-I grew up in Montana, yeah, so yeahhh (oh yeah) Surrounded by some water (an ISland) (scatting) (vocal ba** sounds) (scatting) Watch out for Cobra commander (yeah yeah) Watch out for Cobra commander Watch out for Cobra commander (scatting) Eat your-eat your-eat your vegetables (scatting) I'm gonna-I'm gonna cut up little pieces of fruit, yes To eat every day, to make you feel so good inside your tummay Tummay Tell me Tell me RIGHT NOW I, I been in love so many times before It's hard to count And when I fall in love again I won't know if it's really love 'Cus I can't remember what it was the first time that I fell in love 'Cus it's a construct of a memory It's a construct of a memory But it's a feeling nonetheless and I've got res-pect that in the process And everyone knows, everyone feels INside (vocalizations) And that's life I grew up on a thing that Looked like some other thing that Somebody could rec-og-nize As is a thing that exists in time Sometimes when I think of All the things that I need so bad Like a blueberry pie in the middle of the night But they're very difficult, VEry hard to find But this Neeew York And you're supposed to (noise) every thing you wannnnt-at any given time If you look hard enough That's not necessarily true-yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo And when I want to take a taxi When I want to take a taxi Sometimes I put hands in the air and say like I do really care 'Cus it's cold outside The taxi drives on by and i say "you're a racist" But then I under-then I understand that the taxi driver's black and that don't make no sense I don't know what the f** this island has become Come Come, yes Let me tell you It's 2am 2:30am-ish I wanna take a taxi to the Brooklyn The land of the Brook, yeah Taxi driver stops He rolls down the window partially But I know his trick and I get in any way And I say (vocalizations) I'm gonna make your night I wanna take a ride with you to the land of Brook Brooklyn, yeah yeah Taxi driver says (guttural noises) And then I'm like, what the f**'s your problem IIt's a fare, and a fare is a fare, and you can't get-you can't get- -you can't get upset about someone giving you business for the thing that you're supposed to be doing- What the f** is your problem, problem, problem, yeah I don't understand it I'll never understand iiiiit Well sometimes you can put yourself in-that-position-but-still-doesn't-make-no-sense (vocalizations) yeah, yeah yeah yeah Whoa yeaaah I wanna see the bridges Pretty brooklyn-williamsburg-manhattan bridges Don't want to take those tunnels they're so nasty in the dark Ohhh-and-I-know-you-feel-the-same even if you live above 14th You've got to admit It's cuter down below Ohhhh below Ohhhh below