Ego - A Tribe Called Quest.mp3

[00:00.00] 作词 : LOKMAN, MOHD HAKIM BIN
[00:31.96]Ego, ego
[00:33.30]Skip it, trippin in my mind
[00:34.74]Ego, ego
[00:36.21]Skip it, trippin in my mind
[00:37.56]Ego, ego
[00:38.58]Trippy, trippy, trippy, trippy, trippy
[00:40.21]Ego
[00:41.61]Ego
[00:42.76]I got one, you got one, and now we equal
[00:45.22]Sometimes it makes you trip out on your people
[00:48.15]Sometimes it has connotations of evil
[00:50.88]Sometimes niggas call on it when they need to
[00:53.62]It's called the ego
[01:02.90]Ay, it's hard to really make the subject positively stated
[01:07.06]Some may hate it and some might overrate it
[01:10.06]It's a top story and you really see a trend
[01:12.55]So all you psychoanalysts, pull out your pad and pen, it's called the ego
[01:15.88]Come up with an idea, and no one seems to get it
[01:17.86]Then every time you mention it, they stare like you're two-headed
[01:20.58]But one day in your cubicle your idea really comes to view
[01:23.36]Your boss is walking by, he sees it too and he takes it from you
[01:26.01]She put you on the aces of all the stripper places
[01:28.70]That has the kinda clientele where niggas trickle very well
[01:31.45]You beg her and you plead her and you tuck away your ego
[01:34.32]She knows you need the ****ing and she knows you need the people
[01:36.89]They call you fat and lazy, your commentary crazy
[01:39.32]They photoshop your face on a box of McCormick gravy
[01:42.17]And now that inner voice, the ego, making you get wavy
[01:44.70]Change your diet, hit the gym and say "What were you saying to me?"
[01:47.41]The ego makes you do it, it makes you face the music
[01:50.31]Or run away from life so fast that you'll outsprint Carl Lewis
[01:52.94]That has you thinkin' deceptive ways of being untrue
[01:55.53]Had the prettiest brown eyes but you changing it for simple blue ones
[01:57.95]It's the ego
[02:04.29]Ooo, Jack White
[02:06.28]Ooo, Jack White
[02:09.02]A celebrated genius, my d**k game's the meanest
[02:11.77]I'll take the girl that's augmented, new me is invented
[02:14.53]I'll take the biggest house in Calabassas
[02:17.23]Anyone for Michael Phelps swimming classes?
[02:20.09]You need it when you're balling, equally when you're falling
[02:22.55]Or when those kids in school on your locker they get to scrawling
[02:25.12]Epithets is racist are stupid and mean in nature
[02:27.66]Something that can make you feel stronger when people hate ya
[02:30.46]Ego make you violent, or govern like a tyrant
[02:33.41]Or switch ya dictionary's word from vibrant to vivrant
[02:36.08]Fool the thirsty people, selling tap water in bottles
[02:38.93]Fool a girl with NYU scholarship, now she models
[02:41.40]Ego has no ending, has people pretending
[02:44.07]Religious zealots get jealous 'cause guys want their defending
[02:46.68]This is the last Tribe and our ego hopes that you felt us
[02:49.43]And closing for our ego, we know only God can help us
[02:52.31]Ego, ego
[02:53.83]Spit the truth right in my mind
[02:55.15]Ego, ego
[02:56.11]Spit the truth right in my mind
[02:57.85]Ego, ego
[02:58.94]Spit the truth right in my mind
[03:00.44]Ego, ego
[03:01.75]Spit the truth right in my mind
[03:03.16]Ego, ego
[03:04.26]Spit the truth right in my mind
[03:05.81]Ego, ego
[03:06.88]Spit the truth right in my mind
[03:08.35]Ego, ego
[03:09.69]Spit the truth right in my mind
[03:11.07]Ego, ego
[03:12.34]Spit the truth right in my mind