Tinseltown To The Boogiedown (Radio Edit)-Scritti Politti

[00:06.81]Time time keeps slipping [00:08.11] [00:14.60]Time time keeps slipping [00:15.96] [00:22.56]Time time keeps slipping [00:25.76]Yo the only thing Major don't waste is time in bed [00:28.83]My time is rare take time time to prepare [00:31.40]Oh time for fear how many times I said it this year [00:34.13]At what time ya going to realize that time is near [00:36.74]You know that time waits for no man in time you'll see [00:39.48]That you're wasting all you time while you're watching TV [00:41.96]And you Scritti I'm on it like walls to graffiti [00:44.86]From night sticks to plungers to NYPD [00:47.56]From Lucille BB King you've seen me rhyme [00:50.25]You stay away from drama if it's wasting your time [00:52.62]The time tables keep turning from Tinseltown [00:55.22]You've got the both ends burning up to the Boogiedown [00:58.10](Time time keeps slipping) [00:59.30]They play for time and work for spaces [01:03.17]The time tables keep turning and clocks are wound [01:05.80]You've got the both ends burning up and worked around [01:08.70](Time time keeps slipping) [01:09.94]And in their prime they change their faces [01:13.24]Yeah from Boogiedown to the Tinseltown [01:15.24]I had em' all getting down [01:16.50]My baggage claim's got exotic names I get around [01:19.27] How I'm living now well that's a whole lot different now [01:21.83]From where I'm sitting now got a whole clearer vision now [01:24.46]I played the tables hard wild cards I was flipping now [01:27.32]My partners hitting pounds somewhere up in prison now [01:29.71]I'm flipping high things switch and change so suddenly [01:32.39]The way you act today is tomorrow's where you wanna be [01:35.17]You company shifts when you start living comfortably [01:37.66]Spotlights switch and then you dip right from under me [01:40.24] Don't front for me I want to be perfectly clear [01:42.68]Time is here I'm keeping yesterday in the rear [01:45.39]A current affair Mos' Def and Lee Majors appear [01:47.98]Bout to write this little ditty with the Scritti you hear [01:50.50]And it's about that time so if you could be then would you [01:53.58]Sit back and look at who time's being good to [01:56.14]The time tables keep turning from Tinseltown [01:58.44]You've got the both ends burning up to the Boogiedown [02:01.27](Time time keeps slipping) [02:02.67]They play for time and work for spaces [02:06.44]The time tables keep turning and clocks are wound [02:09.02]You've got the both ends burning up and worked around [02:11.88](Time time keeps slipping) [02:13.11]And in their prime they change their faces [02:16.89]At one time I thought I had it all mass of broads [02:19.54]Flash awards cash cards time's a double-edged sword [02:22.31]One day you hear applause next day when you leave [02:24.88]You catch a L in the C like Christopher Reeves [02:27.50]Do you all believe that these cats threw dirt on my name [02:30.20]Give them time they couldn't win if I gave them point game [02:32.85]At times I used to swerve now I'm learning my lane [02:35.42]Trapped in time what a shame with nobody to blame [02:38.12]I waits for no one and fat and slow ones the rich no funs [02:40.93]The Samurai's and Shoguns the first stringer no runs [02:43.56]Ayyo gun you'd better hope to it or you blow son [02:46.15]This time keeps slipping make no difference if you don't come [02:48.83]It's being well recorded how we advise we [02:51.56]Get on our game and spend these moments wisely [02:54.13]It's time to make chase give pace no time to waste [02:56.62]First you on then you gone so long you been replaced [02:59.25]The time tables keep turning from Tinseltown [03:01.75]You've got the both ends burning up to the Boogiedown [03:04.60](Time time keeps slipping) [03:05.84]They play for time and work for spaces [03:09.70]The time tables keep turning and clocks are wound [03:12.31]You've got the both ends burning up and worked around [03:15.22](Time time keeps slipping) [03:16.41]And in their prime they change their faces [03:20.34]The time tables keep turning from Cali High [03:22.91]You've got the both ends burning up to the do or die [03:25.82](Time time keeps slipping) [03:26.93]They set their hearts and fix their courses [03:30.81]The time tables keep turning and dreams of dreams [03:33.42]You've got the both ends burning up of how it seems [03:36.17](Time time keeps slipping) [03:37.44]They steel themselves they are resources [03:41.40]The time tables keep turning from Tinseltown [03:44.06]You've got the both ends burning up to the Boogiedown [03:46.88]And all the lies you've been learning [03:48.99]To keep the future on hold [03:51.96]The time tables keep turning [03:54.60]You've got the both ends burning up