Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
Yeah that's funky (funky)
Yeah that's funky (funky)
Yeah that's funky (funky)
[Chorus]
If it smells like funk it must be us
Funk funk out chickies dank your stuff
If it smells like funk it must be us
Funk funk out chickies dank your stuff
If it smells like funk it must be us
Funk funk out chickies dank your stuff
If it smells like funk it must be us
Cause nobody's funky as us
Cause we keep it stinky, (stinky)
We keep it stinky ( stinky)
We keep it stinky (stinky) stinky stinky stinky
The funk phenomenon
We funk you on and on
There's no need to hold your nose
Cause this funk stink like a rose
Big booty funk toe jam funk underarm funk
Like you headlockin' a skunk
Reakin' like disease, athletes feet
The stench didn't come 'til after this beat
Smellin' like draw's, no reason no cause
Put your hands up on the speaker
And get smelly like ours
You knew we was coming
Before we entered the door
Cause you was smellin' rhyme
When we walkin' down the hall
We bring the funk worse than we dog
Stinkin' like that ladies shittin' out
We drop enough shit to keep the toilets clogged
To keep the people jumpin'
Like them in full force
The first one who smelt it, is the one who dealt it
The Black Eyed Peas keep the scent fly like Delta
Funky like onions, you cryin'
(You always cryin') girl you ain't
[Chorus]
Yo, you funkin' with the funk family
The non-fabricated factual faculty
We formulatin' up in a factory
Focusin' on a the energy, the fluid flow free
We flawless, everything is flaw free
We flourish and we flaunt our flavor freshly
Can you believe we flipped the frequency
And freakin c's they all leave frantically
But our intentions are to be friendly
But they frighten when we start the free stylin' frenzy
I funk up your flat 'til your girlfriend leave
Fillin' all anatomy
Bringin' me flat
Should be diggin' these rhymes fatty beats like cellulite
Lyrics all flappy
We bring the funk to your festivities
If you think something stink, it must be the Peas
[Chorus]
Cellulite overweight stinkin' MC's
Stench smell so strong its unsanitary
Cause you sense me a mile away
So junky the funk sound from Serengeti
Meaty fat nasty like Miss Fat Booty
Stripes getting dirty like mud fights and dirt bikes
Turning these draw's black that's used to be white
And shittin' on these tracks that you gonna need to wipe
The odours so contagious that it shows up in your dreams
Man you can pick me out like food in between
Your two front teeth 'cause you be like in the streets
We got beefy ass beats that we bumpin' in the street
We salty not sweet like stink box of feet
Sour underarm funky, we ain't washed in a week
Now man we be reakin' every damn weekend
We can all bounce to the funk and the season
[Bridge]
Bounce, bounce, bounce
Yeah that's funky
Yeah that's funky
If you smellin' somethin' funky
Then you know it got to be
Nobody other than Apl
Well, let's say funk
Cause you know that if you
Smell funk, then it must be us
If you smellin' fat funk then it must be us
If you smellin' somethin' funky
Then you know it got to be
Nobody other than Apl
Well, let's say funk
Cause you know that if
It smells like funk
Smellin' elephants, than it must be us
If you smellin' somethin' funky
Then you know it got to be
Nobody other than Apl
Well, let's say funk
Cause you know that if
It smells like funk
Elephant shit, it must be us
Elephant, it's what you want
Cellulite, it's all right
Elephant, it's what you want
Cellulite, it's all right
Some thing's that are fat you should not get rid of
But there is some fat you should burn...
Yeah that's funky (funky)
Yeah that's funky (funky)
[Chorus]
If it smells like funk it must be us
Funk funk out chickies dank your stuff
If it smells like funk it must be us
Funk funk out chickies dank your stuff
If it smells like funk it must be us
Funk funk out chickies dank your stuff
If it smells like funk it must be us
Cause nobody's funky as us
Cause we keep it stinky, (stinky)
We keep it stinky ( stinky)
We keep it stinky (stinky) stinky stinky stinky
The funk phenomenon
We funk you on and on
There's no need to hold your nose
Cause this funk stink like a rose
Big booty funk toe jam funk underarm funk
Like you headlockin' a skunk
Reakin' like disease, athletes feet
The stench didn't come 'til after this beat
Smellin' like draw's, no reason no cause
Put your hands up on the speaker
And get smelly like ours
You knew we was coming
Before we entered the door
Cause you was smellin' rhyme
When we walkin' down the hall
We bring the funk worse than we dog
Stinkin' like that ladies shittin' out
We drop enough shit to keep the toilets clogged
To keep the people jumpin'
Like them in full force
The first one who smelt it, is the one who dealt it
The Black Eyed Peas keep the scent fly like Delta
Funky like onions, you cryin'
(You always cryin') girl you ain't
[Chorus]
Yo, you funkin' with the funk family
The non-fabricated factual faculty
We formulatin' up in a factory
Focusin' on a the energy, the fluid flow free
We flawless, everything is flaw free
We flourish and we flaunt our flavor freshly
Can you believe we flipped the frequency
And freakin c's they all leave frantically
But our intentions are to be friendly
But they frighten when we start the free stylin' frenzy
I funk up your flat 'til your girlfriend leave
Fillin' all anatomy
Bringin' me flat
Should be diggin' these rhymes fatty beats like cellulite
Lyrics all flappy
We bring the funk to your festivities
If you think something stink, it must be the Peas
[Chorus]
Cellulite overweight stinkin' MC's
Stench smell so strong its unsanitary
Cause you sense me a mile away
So junky the funk sound from Serengeti
Meaty fat nasty like Miss Fat Booty
Stripes getting dirty like mud fights and dirt bikes
Turning these draw's black that's used to be white
And shittin' on these tracks that you gonna need to wipe
The odours so contagious that it shows up in your dreams
Man you can pick me out like food in between
Your two front teeth 'cause you be like in the streets
We got beefy ass beats that we bumpin' in the street
We salty not sweet like stink box of feet
Sour underarm funky, we ain't washed in a week
Now man we be reakin' every damn weekend
We can all bounce to the funk and the season
[Bridge]
Bounce, bounce, bounce
Yeah that's funky
Yeah that's funky
If you smellin' somethin' funky
Then you know it got to be
Nobody other than Apl
Well, let's say funk
Cause you know that if you
Smell funk, then it must be us
If you smellin' fat funk then it must be us
If you smellin' somethin' funky
Then you know it got to be
Nobody other than Apl
Well, let's say funk
Cause you know that if
It smells like funk
Smellin' elephants, than it must be us
If you smellin' somethin' funky
Then you know it got to be
Nobody other than Apl
Well, let's say funk
Cause you know that if
It smells like funk
Elephant shit, it must be us
Elephant, it's what you want
Cellulite, it's all right
Elephant, it's what you want
Cellulite, it's all right
Some thing's that are fat you should not get rid of
But there is some fat you should burn...
Lyrics submitted by Major Music Man
Smells Like Funk Lyrics as written by Will Adams Allan Pineda
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Reservoir Media Management, Inc.
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