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Verse One: (Anagram)
Good times, good vibes, good company
Good food, good drinks to accompany
Good conversation, good chemistry
Good lord so many good memories
Good friends that make for a good year
Good moves strategizing for the next years
A good place yeah were doing good here
If you don't know by now you should were doing good
Chorus:
And that's alright everybody's feeling alright
Good Company is alright
Everybody's feeling alright
Good company is al-right (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
al-right (yeah, yeah) all right here (yeah, yeah)
Back in the building good is how we feeling
Get up, stand up
Finally good company's back
It don't matter where you from
Matter where you been
It's only where you at
And that's alright everybody's feeling alright
Good Company is alright
Everybody's feeling alright
Good company is al-right (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
al-right (yeah, yeah) all right here (yeah, yeah)
Back in the building good is how we feeling
Get up, stand up
Verse Two: (Anagram)
G-o-o-d-c-o est. 1-9-8-0
An 80's baby with a 70's soul
That was raised in the golden age of the flow
So, let me know when you get here
A good place & all it took to get here
& we still knock on wood
Because if you don't know by now you should were doing good
Chorus: (Repeat)
Verse Three: (Dave Gutter)
Still rep the OV flow by the oz
In fact by the lb. ain't shit you can tell me
All my kid's healthy my niggas is the same
We don't stress comp. it's like pissing in the rain
Washed before you can even step on it
& we still hungry with a full stomach
& you got love it
Flow so fresh you can cop it at Public's
Oh so funky that you got flush it twice
What I'm trying to say is that I'm really fucking nice
If I don't get you now then I'm a get you by tonight
So you speak the best, man you better get it right
So let's have a toast in the game
I'm getting close to my dreams
& you can't see me I'm a just a ghost in the machine
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Chorus:
The good (yeah, yeah)
The bad (yeah, yeah)
The good (yeah, yeah)
The bad (yeah, yeah)
The ugly (cot damn that's one ugly motherfucker)
The ugly (that motherfucker is ugly as hell)
Verse One: (Anagram)
It's sad when the good go bad
When someone you thought you could trust
Turns around & stabs you in your back
The snakes are slithering, the snakes are slithering in the grass
& bad news travels fast
Waking up skeletons withering in the past
(& they all trying to knock you off track)
To a place that you said you never go back
Good co. attracts bad co.
I guess opposites attract
When the good goes bad
When the good goes bad
It's ugly (cot damn that's one ugly motherfucker)
It's ugly (that motherfucker is ugly as hell)
Chorus: (Repeat)
Verse Two: (TheMicSmith)
See the best at being bad
Be the best at seeming good
& the bad that act bad don't understand they don't act like they should
The bad will pull you in
But the good bad will cash you out
You never know who those wolves are
You let they ass in your house
I started watching ahead
Know my foes so I'm watching my friends
You never when they turn
& it shows & it goes just like "The Walking Dead"
See the bad turn to good bad
That's how it infects
If you don't see it action it's kind of hard to detect
Sleight of hand & distraction
A demand a reaction
& why you caught in that web
I just observe it in passing
Chorus: (Repeat)
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3. |
Anagram - Roll The Dice
02:10
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Chorus:
A real life it ain't no after school special (special)
You got to learn to play with the essentials (the essentials)
Because every steps another shake & roll of the dice (roll the dice, roll the dice)
A real life yeah that's the only life I'm living (living)
You got to learn to play with what your given (what your given)
Because every steps another shake & roll of the dice (roll the dice, roll the dice)
Verse One:
Yeah
I roll the dice
I live my life
Sometimes wish that I could live it twice
Sometimes wish that I could end it now
G-g-get caught up in those who's, what's, when's, where's why's & how's
Just try try to live my life but others want to tell me how
But who's there when I need someone to hold me down?
& where's the love, what's the reason that you come around?
When I'm doing good but never when the chips are down
I'm good in the hood & on the other side of town
But really I'm just trying to keep my two feet on the ground
Because it's my life, my life, my life, my life
whether or not the not the sun come out
Yeah
Chorus: (Repeat)
Verse Two:
Yeah
The up's & down's , the in's & out's
The regrets & the karma that comes back around
These are the making of a real life
The only thing I'm living every day & every night
stay focused & try not to lose my sight
But feel hopeless when nothing seems to go right
The good, the bad, the ugly that's the story of my life
& if you don't include it all your not telling the story right
Because I've seen sunny days & stormy nights
But still had to live my life no matter what the weather's like
Because it's my life, my life , my life , my life
whether or not the sun comes out
A yeah
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4. |
Anagram - Just A Dream
03:30
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Chorus:
Catch me riding in the tightest whip
Always with the finest bitch
Really I'm just doing me
Catch me running everything on the block
Pockets always filled up with knots
Really it's all just a dream
Catch me head to toe in the latest fashion
On my waist got a pistol packed in
Really I'm just doing me
Catch me in a mansion
Sailing on a yacht
Everybody want's to get what I got
Thing's aren't always what they seem
Verse One:
N-n-n-n-now everything ain't always what it seems (what it seems)
Everybody just looking for chance to live out they dream, dream, dreams
But circumstance always seems to find away to come in between, tween tween
Right back to reality
Where I'm just doing me
& it seems hard to see
From all this debris
That's falling from the sky
From all these broken dreams
I been broke & had to scheme
& been rich like several members of my team
Who always had to have a dream
Go for broke & give it everything
Because you only live once, going twice
Don't say anything
(You got to get up, get out & get more & see what these dreams may come like Whitmore, you got it get & keep on getting it & tell those dream killers they got to catch you)
Chorus: (Repeat)
Verse Two:
N-n-n-n-now everything ain't always what it seems (what it seems)
All the kid's kid's nowadays chase after rappers dream, dreams
But real life always seems to find a way to come in between, tween, tween
Right back to formality
Where don't shit come free
& it seems hard to see
From all this debris
That's falling from the sky
From all these broken dreams
You went & got your G.E.D.
Oh & you got new job at Mickey D's
You gave up on your dreams
To get em back you'd give up everything
Because you only live once, going twice
Don't say anything
(It's fucked when you live in a society, where you strive to get to the middle just to get fucked by the top & the bottom, how can you not dream when being average will never be enough, dream on)
Chorus: (Repeat)
Verse Three:
N-n-n-n-now everything ain't always what it seems (what it seems)
Up & out early on the grind stacking that green, green, green, green
But the streets always seem to find a way to come in between, tween, tween
Now your just a casualty
Hope you R.I.P.
& it seems hard to see
From all this debris
That's falling from the sky
From all these broken dreams
It's all about that C.R.E.A.M.
Because cash rules everything around me
Or better yet M.O.E.
That's money over everything
Because you only live once, going twice
Don't say anything
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5. |
Anagram - A Friend
02:55
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Chorus:
All I really need is a friend
Someone I can count on
It's all about the company you keep
& you never had a friend that's quite like me
All I really need is a friend
Someone I can count on
When your up I'm up & when your down I'm down
That's something you can always count on
Verse One:
Yeah
& I need more hands to count on
To add up all the times I've been down since day one
Never a yes man but the best man
To tell you what you need to hear to play your best hand
So get it off your chest fam
I'll never judge ya or throw you under buses through life's traffic jam's
& I don't pillow talk with bitches man
& I'd rather die then spread business on a witness stand
So when your up I'm up & when ya & when ya down I'm down
I'm the one you can trust when it all comes back around
Chorus: (Repeat)
Verse Two:
Yeah
& I need more friends to count on
To pick me up the times I've been down with no one
Never can find friends to invest in
No loyalty, no trust no choice but to second guess them
I need a friend that knows me better then I know myself
Someone who's always there when I need some help
Always willing to put me up in front of themselves
Always thinking what I'm thinking when I'm thinking what I'm thinking
So when your up I'm up & when ya & when ya down I'm down
I'm the one you can trust when it all comes back around
Chorus: (Repeat)
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6. |
Anagram - Achickwitbeatz
01:40
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Verse: (Achickwitbeatz)
I declare my allegiance to you where I stand this day
You'll always have my love I promise agape
When times are rough and it's tough that's all you've got to say
You can have my car keys, straight valet
If I got it and you need it you should know it's yours
Can't you see the loyalty seep right out my pores?
I'd love to give you the world from shore to shore
If your earth is dry, I want to help you restore
Do what I must to support your proclamations
Do whatever I can for your edification
I'd give you my last without hesitation
All off the top with no proration
Be real with me, to front is time wasted
I'll motivate you when you're grounded, give you aviation
Never leave your side no matter what the case is
I'm here for you through whatever you're facing
Chorus:
If ever you need me
If ever you want me
You gotta believe me, I will be there
(x2)
(You're in Good Company)
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7. |
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Chorus:
Picking up scattered pieces from a broken heart
To put it back together is a work of art
Because every little piece plays an intricate part
That all leads to a beating heart
H-Heartache don't come knocking, don't come knocking
(That's what they keep on telling me)
You've never been my friend
(Nope)
Heartache don't come knocking, don't come knocking
(Nope)
Heartbreak you've never been my friend
Verse One:
Use to be my best friend yeah my confidant
Someone I could trust shit we been through a lot
Since the public school era where our names rang in the halls
You had my back when my back was against the wall
I wish I could have done more to try & break your fall
My heart broke when you did hit the bottom
But you would lie & justify & get high on your own supply
Oh my
Yeah
Born in the 80's the era of crack
Chris Rock "New Jack City" we a never do that
Claiming that your Nino Brown & that your getting that cash
But you've been broke then a bitch & more then a decade has passed
It's hard to reflect on the past without my heart aching
Time to face the cold facts of your poor decision making
Because you'll never get back what the drugs already taken
& that's heartbreaking
Chorus: (Repeat)
She use to be my lover my everything
Yeah
Someone I could trust with anything
The only one I ever thought that I would give a ring
& I would be the King & you would be my Queen
Yup
So picture perfect
But reality shook it like a Polaroid
So many traps that I can't avoid
Can't go back so I'm stuck trying to fill a void
& lately it's hard to feel the joy
I feel pain & that's something that I don't enjoy
You feel the same so why not take the risk
& stop blaming me for your unhappiness
In my next lifetime baby I'll be waiting
But for now it's time to move on & start facing
The truth
& I know it's heartbreaking
Chorus: (Repeat)
Verse Three:
He'd been my rap partner since we were kid's
Freestyling cutting hair in the basement at my Mama's crib
Always dreamed of getting signed to a contract
But when we did get it your heart wasn't in it
& you flushed away a lot of hard work in a Michigan minute
& gave up so close to the finish
All my dreams & morale man they went down with it
Because it will never be the same no matter how I try & spin it
So I guess it's safe to say that I moved on
Pick the pieces up with every song
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8. |
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Chorus:
And when the lights go down
I'm hoping that the glow still lingers
My life is moving at the speed of sound
& the world has always given me the finger
So fuck the world
I wake up screaming fuck the world
Yeah
Fuck the world
Life's a bitch & I'm gon fuck it
Verse One:
What up bitch?
What you like?
Just this morning I woke up screaming fuck your life
Two steps forward baby two steps back
Just to end up right back where I'm at
We are as sick as our secrets
Yup
& sick secrets make us sick
Get your skeletons out the closet
Yup
Learn to live with regrets
Bridge:
Now would you rather be a King amongst losers?
Or a peasant amongst Kings?
Now ask yourself the question
Aren't they really just the same thing?
So fuck the world
Don't ask me for shit
It's hard enough on my own
Yeah
Life's a bitch but she's always there when I get home
Chorus: (Repeat)
Verse Two:
Same shit different toilet
Go ahead & flush
& tell the world how you really just don't give a fuck
When times are hard
Yeah
Of course I feel like giving up
Long as I'm breathing I'm a always try & live it up, up
Because when the lights go down, down
It doesn't always come back around
& now I got 3 seeds to hold down
So I stay on my grind
You gon stop me
How?
Bridge: (Repeat)
Chorus: (Repeat) (x2)
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9. |
Anagram - Intermission
00:53
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10. |
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Verse One: (TheMicSmith)
Where did the night go?
Man I've been having the time of my life (life)
Everything's right though even a few had to catch them a flight (flight)
Drink's in our hand, smile on our face
You know the music is loud (loud)
When we pack em in no matter the place
You know we move as a crowd (crowd)
Nobody drop out (out)
For fear of a memory easily missed (missed)
So we up this (this)
Til the sun is back out & we calling it quits (quits)
I'm calling in sick (sick)
Cause there ain't no way I'm a make it to work (work)
We said our goodbyes & I'm pretty sure that I heard
Chorus:
Where did the night go?
Where did the night go?
I feel the morning trying to slip on in
Where did the night go?
Where did the night go?
I don't want this to ever end
Verse Two: (Anagram)
Good morning, goodnight
There one in the same
After all this work I deserve time to play
When your waking up I'm just ending my day
Catch a few Z's then I'm back on my A
Back on my A I'm back on my game
So many goodnight's I lose track of the days
Always somehow end up back in the maze
With the same clothes I wore yesterday
The sun is down the moon is out
We hit the town without a doubt
You moving with us, well we moving it out
We got too much to do & can not do without
So when the sun comes slipping in
I wishing the night would never end
But all good thing's must come to an end
So we just gon turn round & do it again
Chorus: (Repeat)
Bridge:
I watched the sun go down
I watched the sun come up
& when we hit the town you know were going to live it up
The night is young
Until the night is gone
& as long as the moon is out , as long as the moon is out
Chorus: (Repeat)
Verse Three: (L-Cid)
The moon (the moon)
Disappeared into the night & I'm feeling like it's too soon
Wondering what everybody's really wanting to do
When friend's depend on energy
Nothing can ever be better then selling me
Yelling the melody
Telling me
Mellow me
Settle me, settle me down
It's so long
Late into the night until the early morn
& I can't wait until we see the sun
The night is gone
Into seconds, minutes to hours
Chorus: (Repeat)
Bridge: (Repeat)
Chorus: (Repeat)
Verse One:
I'm back with a dish that's best served cold
(Revenge)
Where the hate & anger have taken a hold
(No end)
No end in sight until justice serves
& I wouldn't give my worst enemy half of what you deserve
There's a whole in the world like a great black pit
& the snakes of the world inhabit it
& it goes by the name of (and it goes by the name of, goes by the name of)
Verse Two:
Break out the cage way off the leash
A beast
Hunting for a feast
Mouthpiece filled with extra sharp teeth
Biting any hand trying to take my piece
Killer instinct because my Family got to eat
It's gon be a nightmare on your street
Sharp teeth at your table when you eat
Red eyes at your window when you sleep
Raw
Verse Three:
Yeah it goes by the name of justice trust it's served out in these streets
Where the good die young & the pimp's & dealers prey over the weak
Now some of y'all love to tell lies in the streets
While other's comply with police
So some of y'all really need to watch what you say any time that you speak
You need to think before you leap
Because there's really no place for the weak
& only the strong survive
(The city never sleeps)
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Chorus:
The man in the mirror's not feeling to good today
Good today
Good today
Good today
Today
Verse:
The man in the mirror's not feeling to good today
Took another one way down that alley way of shame
I need to wash my clothes
Take a toothbrush to my J's
Haven't seen a flash of light
In two whole days
There's no light's in the alleyways of this life
Just trying to get right
Spread my wings & get flight (get flight)
But I always seem to lose sight
Voices in my head telling me that tonight's the night
Underneath them city lights
Another shake & roll of the dice
You'd never believe
That something can be
So wrong, but feel so right (feel so right)
Somebody lead so I can follow......
Back to the light
Chorus: (Repeat)
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12. |
Anagram - Nowhere4Me2Go
03:25
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Verse One:
They smile in your face
Then kick you in your back
Try to put you in your place
But don't even know where you're at
Their the snakes in the grass
The monkeys on my back
Matter of fact
Their the inspiration for this track
Their the fair weather & I should have prepared better
When it's stormy knowing they not gon do nothing for me
But when the dough comes rolling right back in
They yes, yes man & want to be your best friend
Bridge:
So some they come they go
But some water is thick as blood
& ain't no reason, for me to be leaving
My life in the hands of those
That'll leave me all alone
& won't take me for who I am
So I say fuck em
Because I don't need em
I'll do it on my own
Chorus:
Is it me against the world?
(Is it me against the world now)
Or is it just me against myself?
Because there's nowhere for me to go
(Nowhere for me to go)
Yeah there's nowhere for me to go
(Nowhere for me to go)
Is it me against the world?
(Is it me against the world now)
Or is it just me against myself?
Because there's nowhere for me to go
(Nowhere for me to go)
& it feels like I'm all alone
Verse Two:
Searching for light in the darkest of places
Where I'm surrounded by regrets & skeletons chasing
It seems like every single step leads to the same destination
Two steps forward two steps back to end up right back where I'm at
Plus this baggage on my back
Weighing heavy like an anvil
I try & move but the forces make me stand still
(Burr)
Cold enough enough to give a grown man chills
Me , myself & I out on my own
Do I have the will
Bridge: (Repeat)
Chorus: (Repeat) (x2)
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13. |
Anagram - Smoke Break
01:06
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14. |
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Chorus:
It's perfect weather for new beginnings
Say farewell to all bad endings
Now get your hand's up high (high, high, high, high)
For another day in paradise
Yeah (a yeah, yeah, yeah ,yeah)
& were living it yeah, yeah were living it
& were living it yeah, yeah were living it
Now everybody get your hand's up high (high, high, high, high)
For just another day, another day
Verse One: (Torben)
Once found paradise
In a pair of eyes
Deep as the ocean
(Uhh)
L-left them paralyzed
Grown now & damn, damn it appears that I
Make turbulence that murders the clearer skies
(Sigh)
No use being on beaches
If your heart is full of leaks
You must defeat your weakness
It's time to be courageous
Life we turning pages
It's a maze & I'm amazed every time I make it
(Uh-huh)
So follow me now back to the egg
The beginning paradise inside your head
You got show some (heart-heart )
Be sincere
They'll try & tear you (apart-part)
Through your fears &
Life's to short for that shit
So take the hate & match it
With passion like a match lit
In the end we only got today
So soak up the weather & stop playing these games
Chorus: (Repeat)
Verse Two: (Anagram)
Paradise is what you make it
Me I live in the moment
Life is just a game we play
& I've faced several different opponents
So suffice to say
Paradise is just a night away
When all the bills are paid
& no one's stressing me out or in my face
I
I know I'll get there
Yeah
I know I'll get there soon
Paradise is not dead
It's just become a stale cartoon
It's time to roll the dice
& find my own slice of paradise
Some of y'all thought you could fake it to make it
Some of y'all should have made it twice (made it twice)
It's hard to follow your own advice
Or get what you want without sacrifice
Or get what you need without paying a price
I get what I get when the getting's good
A-huh
Take that for granted better knock on wood
A yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (yeah, yeah)
Paradise
Paradise is what you make it
I'm just glad to have made it here
On a day when the skies are clear
Yeah, yeah (yeah, yeah)
Chorus: (Repeat)
Verse Three: (Hank Severe)
Another day, another day
And we just trying to make a way
Making sure all of this trouble stay away
Another day in paradise
I suit up for new beginnings
Two fuck's is given to bad ending's
It's true in living
I only do stupendous
Only crew who in this
A O.G. comb boldly through the trenches
It's been a game of inches
& I've been taking miles
I'm trying to run this clinic
I'm giving niggas gowns
They showing interest now
My grass is looking greener
Because of my demeanor
They respect it like a senior
The weather's looking good & the sun is shining bright
It's looking like it's gon be one of them kind of nights
Another day in the life
I'm cool, calm at ease
Although we love the trees
We flee from all the leaves
I can smell it in the air we getting ready to reign
Cuz what you used to, just isn't feeling the same
Chorus: (Repeat)
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15. |
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Chorus:
A wake up, a wake up (wake up, wake up)
Your just dreaming again
Reality is not your friend
But it's back again
Because one's trash
Is another's treasure
& every ten hater's equals one go-getter
He getting up & out
Guaranteed to get something
Fuck what you talking about
That boy is something special
Verse One:
Mama always told me that this life don't last forever
She said she'd pray that one day I would get it all together
So I had to get out on my grind
Because this life is just a race against time
& I'm living it
So hi friends & supporters of "Good Company"
The albums finished I hope it's everything that you thought it would be
Because it's been a long time coming
Chasing dreams that never stopped running
So much love to the one's that always believed
& picked me up when I wore my heart out on my sleeve
without you I would of never made it
So to you this verse is dedicated
Chorus: (Repeat)
Verse Two:
Papa always told me that this life don't last forever
She said she'd pray that one day I would get it all together
So I had to get out on my grind
Because this life is just a race against time
& I'm living it
So hi hater's reassuring to see you again
& dream killers too I want you both to meet my friend
Her names success & I've been chasing after her for years
Now that she's here
Here's a bucket for all your tears
Least I could do for the one's that always doubted me
Tried to crush my dreams & rip the soul right out of me
Without you I would have never made it
So to you this verse is dedicated
Chorus: (Repeat)
Verse Three:
Nana & Grandpa always told me that this life don't last forever
She said she'd pray that one day I would get it all together
So I had to get out on my grind
Because this life is just a race against time
& I'm living it
So hi Family it's so good to spend time with you again
& not out on the road every single weekend
They say that hard work pay's off
But the time away never equals the pay-off
So thanks for loving me unconditionally
You mean the world to me
You are my everything
Without you I would of never made it
So to you this albums dedicated
Chorus: (Repeat)
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