Both as a standalone and as part of the DSOTS album, you can take this lyric as read. As a matter of public record, Jourgensen's drug intake was legendary even in the 1980s. By the late 90s, in his own words, he was grappling with massive addiction issues and had lost almost everything: friends, spouse, money and had nearly died more than once. "Dark Side of the Spoon" is a both funny & sad title for an album made by a musical genius who was losing the plot; and this song is a message to his fans & friends saying he knows it. It's painful to listen to so I'm glad the "Keith Richards of industrial metals" wised up and cleaned up. Well done sir.
Fresh dressed 'cause I shop at Models
Deep in Brooklyn I rode the Ls
Used to ride the D to beat the morning bell
At Edward R. Morrow out on Avenue L
Now, we be grillin' cheese and flippin' flapjacks
With the diamond stylus, yo, we cutting wax
We're the super elastic bubble plastic
Got ethereal material that's straight up classic
You try to vex, reject but you should respect
Or we'll have JC send you out a FedEx
So don't start to flex up in the discotheque
Or we'll make you extinct Tyrannosaurus Rex
We're gonna rock this motherfucker like three the hard way
We're gonna rock this motherfucker like three the hard way
We're gonna rock this motherfucker like three the hard way
Three the hard way, three the hard way
Your rhyme technique, it is antique
To all my heads, "qu'est-ce-que tu fabriques?"
Que cosa fai? Come sta e?
Ho fato molte telefonate
I said oops, gotcha, clutch like Piazza
Sneak between the sheets so hide the matzoh
Holler back challah bread
Next, we are the crew that put the crew in Cruex
I can see that Def Jam doesn't recognize me
I'm Mike D, the one who put the satin in your panties
Time to count MC's in this place to be
Not five, not four, not two, just three
We're gonna rock this motherfucker like three the hard way
We're gonna rock this motherfucker like three the hard way
We're gonna rock this motherfucker like three the hard way
Three the hard way, three the hard way
Round-house kick the mic out your hand
Drunken mantis, my name brand
If you're slick with the tricks and the sleight of hand
I'm hip to the shit that you're trying to scam
Gnip, Gnop I got zits to pop
I'm an exceptional professional that just don't stop, so
Pack up your bag and your mic and don't wait
E.T. phone home now get the funk out my face
You know we shake'em bake'em then we take'em
Treat MCs like leaves, go out and rake'em
Sell our CDs on Canal before we make'em
Serve you on a platter like steak and bacon
We're gonna rock this motherfucker like three the hard way
We're gonna rock this motherfucker like three the hard way
We're gonna rock this motherfucker like three the hard way
Three the hard way, three the hard way
Deep in Brooklyn I rode the Ls
Used to ride the D to beat the morning bell
At Edward R. Morrow out on Avenue L
Now, we be grillin' cheese and flippin' flapjacks
With the diamond stylus, yo, we cutting wax
We're the super elastic bubble plastic
Got ethereal material that's straight up classic
You try to vex, reject but you should respect
Or we'll have JC send you out a FedEx
So don't start to flex up in the discotheque
Or we'll make you extinct Tyrannosaurus Rex
We're gonna rock this motherfucker like three the hard way
We're gonna rock this motherfucker like three the hard way
We're gonna rock this motherfucker like three the hard way
Three the hard way, three the hard way
Your rhyme technique, it is antique
To all my heads, "qu'est-ce-que tu fabriques?"
Que cosa fai? Come sta e?
Ho fato molte telefonate
I said oops, gotcha, clutch like Piazza
Sneak between the sheets so hide the matzoh
Holler back challah bread
Next, we are the crew that put the crew in Cruex
I can see that Def Jam doesn't recognize me
I'm Mike D, the one who put the satin in your panties
Time to count MC's in this place to be
Not five, not four, not two, just three
We're gonna rock this motherfucker like three the hard way
We're gonna rock this motherfucker like three the hard way
We're gonna rock this motherfucker like three the hard way
Three the hard way, three the hard way
Round-house kick the mic out your hand
Drunken mantis, my name brand
If you're slick with the tricks and the sleight of hand
I'm hip to the shit that you're trying to scam
Gnip, Gnop I got zits to pop
I'm an exceptional professional that just don't stop, so
Pack up your bag and your mic and don't wait
E.T. phone home now get the funk out my face
You know we shake'em bake'em then we take'em
Treat MCs like leaves, go out and rake'em
Sell our CDs on Canal before we make'em
Serve you on a platter like steak and bacon
We're gonna rock this motherfucker like three the hard way
We're gonna rock this motherfucker like three the hard way
We're gonna rock this motherfucker like three the hard way
Three the hard way, three the hard way
Lyrics submitted by maggotbrain
3 the Hard Way Lyrics as written by Adam Nathaniel Yauch Adam Horovitz
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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