Pumpkinhead, Talib Kweli - Opposite Day lyrics
[Pumpkinhead, Talib Kweli - Opposite Day lyrics]
It’s like black to white or day to night
It’s the lies that you read
From left to right it’s the good, the bad
And the yin and the yang
Just keep it in balance as you do your thing
I’m the opposite of royal players and pimps
The opposite of gangsters with
Jheri curls and crimps
Hence, the opposite of me is wack
And the opposite of wack is this track
Like white to black, fiction to fact
This world without opposites
Would probably collapse
Heaven with no Hell would be too flawless
Hell with no Heaven means
We’d all burn regardless
No matter if you’re a white
Drug kingpin or black priest
You’ll get the opposite of peace
With hate the reason Dr king and
Malcolm X cease to exist
The opposite of the person that split's
The opposite of blood is crip
The opposite of weak is a strong black fist
Me and Kweli do it just like this
(Like this, y’all)
Which is the opposite of that
(Like that y’all)
The opposite of hip hop is rap
"Opposites Attract" like Paula Abdul
And Skat Kat
I’m the alternative reality to
Which you relate
A new world where jakes confiscate mixtapes
If I brought up my own shit
Is it fake witness?
My fate evaporating snakes talking
Slick like wet
Oil reserves in Kuwait yo, no time for hating
Killing niggas with love come at me
Crooked and I’ll set you straight
Yo, wait the statements from my mouth
They tend to aggravate
But, if I never say it
Who the hell will take the weight?
They imitate this level of greatness
They couldn’t make this
So they take this and my lover
Is a victim of the rapist
The reason I say this: I roll
With God and you’s a sadist
My everyday flavors to you is
The fad that’s the latest
Biting like Florida Gators
Poverty keeps you forever paid
My success crashes markets like
Jets inside The Everglades one day
You’ll meet your ton day hope
It comes back someday
Our business collide like Mack Trucks through
A street that’s one way
My runway for takeoff is your path to Hell
My dream will rise like cream
Look how fast you fell
It’s like black to white or day to night
It’s the lies that you read
From left to right it’s the good, the bad
And the yin and the yang
Just to keep it in balance
As you do your thing
It’s like black to white or days to night
Lies that you read from left to right
It’s the good, the bad
And the yin and the yang
Just to keep it in balance
As you do your thing
This is the end (End like Jim Morrison)
So this justifies the means
I could kick it to chickens but
I’d rather have a queen
I could rock silk pants but
I’d rather rock some jeans
I could eat caviar but I like collard greens
I could sing R&B but I’m a hip hop fiend
I could get on some "Rah rah!"
But I’m calm and serene
As I lean on the scales of yin and yang
I dream to be in a world that
Wasn’t all about the cream ‘Cause right now
We revolve around governmental schemes
And it seems around me, you’re
Quiet, but, on stage, you scream
(It’s PH hello, PH)
Hotheads always have cold hearts
This world will have to end
To make a brand-new start
As you stick to the lowest to get
On the top of the charts
You bought the whole thing but don’t
Want to give a part
Materialism you preach and try to call it art
I’ll pick up something sweet that
Winds up tasting tart
Got flows forever so my
Throat is never parched
From the bottom to the top is
How I had to start
Your time of pain is my time of glory
Your fairytale is my horror story
My best English is derogatory
Language inflammatory
My family values your homewrecker
Your peace protector was predatory
Heading for me my celebratory dance got you
In a spiteful trance
Technological advancements
Biochips in my hands
Watch them ghost in my face i
Got your tracks to trace
Your smile crack in your lips
Crack in your whipping
My vision’s mountain is your ditch
My African queen your bitch
When I’m calm in your face
You got a nervous twitch
See, look we dropping shit that’s opposite
Like stringy dog hair to dreadlocks
You can’t escape the paradox no matter
(What?) what type of thoughts
That you concoct quality of life: cops crack
Down on weed spots
And my domestic violence is
Your protective silence
My Hell becomes your Zion
My ignorance is your science
You lying, that is my truth trust me
I got the proof
My advance from living is your loot recouped
It’s really ill when broke niggas walk
Down the street like pimps (You seen ‘em)
Oxymoronic like black serial killers
And jumbo shrimp
Just don’t happen to fit together so
Let’s discuss this
Military intelligence with criminal justice
Individuals love this federals bug
This and hunt me
I’m chilling like the livid air
In a free country
It’s like black to white or day to night
It’s the lies that you read
From left to right it’s the good, the bad
And the yin and the yang
Just to keep it in balance
As you do your thing
It’s like black to white or days to night
Lies that you read from left to right
It’s the good, the bad
And the yin and the yang
Just to keep it in balance
As you do your thing
Keep it in balance as you do your thing
Keep it in balance as you do your thing
You got to keep it in balance
As you do your thing
Keep it in balance as you do your thing
Ta da!
It’s the lies that you read
From left to right it’s the good, the bad
And the yin and the yang
Just keep it in balance as you do your thing
I’m the opposite of royal players and pimps
The opposite of gangsters with
Jheri curls and crimps
Hence, the opposite of me is wack
And the opposite of wack is this track
Like white to black, fiction to fact
This world without opposites
Would probably collapse
Heaven with no Hell would be too flawless
Hell with no Heaven means
We’d all burn regardless
No matter if you’re a white
Drug kingpin or black priest
You’ll get the opposite of peace
With hate the reason Dr king and
Malcolm X cease to exist
The opposite of the person that split's
The opposite of blood is crip
The opposite of weak is a strong black fist
Me and Kweli do it just like this
(Like this, y’all)
Which is the opposite of that
(Like that y’all)
The opposite of hip hop is rap
"Opposites Attract" like Paula Abdul
And Skat Kat
I’m the alternative reality to
Which you relate
A new world where jakes confiscate mixtapes
If I brought up my own shit
Is it fake witness?
My fate evaporating snakes talking
Slick like wet
Oil reserves in Kuwait yo, no time for hating
Killing niggas with love come at me
Crooked and I’ll set you straight
Yo, wait the statements from my mouth
They tend to aggravate
But, if I never say it
Who the hell will take the weight?
They imitate this level of greatness
They couldn’t make this
So they take this and my lover
Is a victim of the rapist
The reason I say this: I roll
With God and you’s a sadist
My everyday flavors to you is
The fad that’s the latest
Biting like Florida Gators
Poverty keeps you forever paid
My success crashes markets like
Jets inside The Everglades one day
You’ll meet your ton day hope
It comes back someday
Our business collide like Mack Trucks through
A street that’s one way
My runway for takeoff is your path to Hell
My dream will rise like cream
Look how fast you fell
It’s like black to white or day to night
It’s the lies that you read
From left to right it’s the good, the bad
And the yin and the yang
Just to keep it in balance
As you do your thing
It’s like black to white or days to night
Lies that you read from left to right
It’s the good, the bad
And the yin and the yang
Just to keep it in balance
As you do your thing
This is the end (End like Jim Morrison)
So this justifies the means
I could kick it to chickens but
I’d rather have a queen
I could rock silk pants but
I’d rather rock some jeans
I could eat caviar but I like collard greens
I could sing R&B but I’m a hip hop fiend
I could get on some "Rah rah!"
But I’m calm and serene
As I lean on the scales of yin and yang
I dream to be in a world that
Wasn’t all about the cream ‘Cause right now
We revolve around governmental schemes
And it seems around me, you’re
Quiet, but, on stage, you scream
(It’s PH hello, PH)
Hotheads always have cold hearts
This world will have to end
To make a brand-new start
As you stick to the lowest to get
On the top of the charts
You bought the whole thing but don’t
Want to give a part
Materialism you preach and try to call it art
I’ll pick up something sweet that
Winds up tasting tart
Got flows forever so my
Throat is never parched
From the bottom to the top is
How I had to start
Your time of pain is my time of glory
Your fairytale is my horror story
My best English is derogatory
Language inflammatory
My family values your homewrecker
Your peace protector was predatory
Heading for me my celebratory dance got you
In a spiteful trance
Technological advancements
Biochips in my hands
Watch them ghost in my face i
Got your tracks to trace
Your smile crack in your lips
Crack in your whipping
My vision’s mountain is your ditch
My African queen your bitch
When I’m calm in your face
You got a nervous twitch
See, look we dropping shit that’s opposite
Like stringy dog hair to dreadlocks
You can’t escape the paradox no matter
(What?) what type of thoughts
That you concoct quality of life: cops crack
Down on weed spots
And my domestic violence is
Your protective silence
My Hell becomes your Zion
My ignorance is your science
You lying, that is my truth trust me
I got the proof
My advance from living is your loot recouped
It’s really ill when broke niggas walk
Down the street like pimps (You seen ‘em)
Oxymoronic like black serial killers
And jumbo shrimp
Just don’t happen to fit together so
Let’s discuss this
Military intelligence with criminal justice
Individuals love this federals bug
This and hunt me
I’m chilling like the livid air
In a free country
It’s like black to white or day to night
It’s the lies that you read
From left to right it’s the good, the bad
And the yin and the yang
Just to keep it in balance
As you do your thing
It’s like black to white or days to night
Lies that you read from left to right
It’s the good, the bad
And the yin and the yang
Just to keep it in balance
As you do your thing
Keep it in balance as you do your thing
Keep it in balance as you do your thing
You got to keep it in balance
As you do your thing
Keep it in balance as you do your thing
Ta da!