If you want more beats for you buck there's no luck
If you want more beats for you buck there's no luck
If you want more beats for you buck there's no luck
If you want more beats for you buck there's no luck
Then there's no luck
Then again if you came for drama then I can't understand a
Music critics
Music critics
Not afraid of a guy who'll tell you he's never been in a mix
Been in a mix
Been in a mix
We're from the grassroots so big up to our friends
Every crew, every clique, and every posse
Big up to all the heads not of hypocrisy

You're a transistor
Lightning resistor
Conducting to the mother star
That's what you are

Renegade sound system 311
Renegade sound system 311
Renegade sound system 311
Renegade sound system 311
311
Brothers from another planet and here once again
Automatic
Automatic
Quantam saints of the universe in a holographic
Cosmic remix
Cosmic remix
From the mysterious blue planet
We can breathe anywhere
Under water, out in space, and in LA
Your polluted air's no problem for these homeys

You're a transistor
Lightning resistor
Lightning resistor
Conducting to the mother star
That's what you are


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    If no one has ever noticed, this song is the foreshadowing of the entire album, and the main theme- transistor. The electricity that flows through all of us- makes us all the same, one. We are of the universe, we are one with the universe. This is a conceptual album about us belonging to the universe, and all astrophysical phenomena. From Galaxy to the Inner Light Spectrum, Electricity, Jupiter, Light Years, Starshines, and finishing the album with the sound of our universe. 311 is the most underrated band of all-time.

    Youdamanon February 25, 2006   Link

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