This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
Mike:
One time / for my Machine Shop crew and then it's
Two times / S.O.B and L.P too and then it's
Three times / It's Mike and Sixx on the track and then
Four times / when we come in through the back
They're saying
Oh no / close the door
Shut the lights and start the show
Better let everybody know
Get on the mic and there they go
Armed and dangerous / bitch
Y'all can't really hang with us on this
Everybody's so afraid of us / shit
Makes me wanna hang it up and quit
Forget about all the things you heard before
'Bout time that we're kicking down your door
Everybody's gonna hit the fucking floor
Like “please Mike don't hurt me anymore” / I don't gotta have a
Secret lie or an alibi / everybody knows why I'm here
I'd just as soon crack a bottle
As crack you over the head with a bottle of beer
So just listen up there powder puff
Better believe that I'm not playing
You can love it you can hate
But don't mistake it everybody's saying
What you really wanna do is this
Just make believe that I don't exist
But you won't / cause everytime you go to spit
I talk over you just like this
It's annoying / just for you
You could scream all day 'till your face is blue
I'm getting' in your head and you know it too
And that's just me you don't know my crew
My man Sixx John / understand though
The way that he flows you can call him Rambo:
Never miss a shot / never run out of ammo
Come out with heat like a goddamn commando
And add in S.O.B
Ryu / Tak / Vin Skully / Cheapshot
Now you see
Fuck with me? / nah / Sixx
Sixx John:
Uh oh / whatever you yell when you see that door close
Imma bail through the back (fo' sho')
Straight to the bar so I can act (a fool)
I figure you guys would get a little surprised
Your eyes wide when it's me an' Mike Shinod
I'm just plain old Sixx John from the Nam-District
This is not supposed
I still talk with awkward speech
I'm like a dog that's off his leash
Step out with a Fort Minor patch on a black tee
Niggas scared to walk these streets
I ain't trippin' homie / talk is cheap
Acapellla or we can bark on a beat
And if that ain't enough action / I got
Seventeen pages in this little magazine I keep
Mike:
We got this place rockin' / beat knocking non stopping
If y'all are with it let me hear it now (yeah) yo
One time / for my Machine Shop crew and then it's
Two times / S.O.B and L.P too and then it's
Three times / It's Mike and Sixx on the track and then
Four times / we do it like that
One time / for my Machine Shop crew and then it's
Two times / S.O.B and L.P too and then it's
Three times / It's Mike and Sixx on the track and then
Four times / when we come in through the back
They're saying
Oh no / close the door
Shut the lights and start the show
Better let everybody know
Get on the mic and there they go
Armed and dangerous / bitch
Y'all can't really hang with us on this
Everybody's so afraid of us / shit
Makes me wanna hang it up and quit
Forget about all the things you heard before
'Bout time that we're kicking down your door
Everybody's gonna hit the fucking floor
Like “please Mike don't hurt me anymore” / I don't gotta have a
Secret lie or an alibi / everybody knows why I'm here
I'd just as soon crack a bottle
As crack you over the head with a bottle of beer
So just listen up there powder puff
Better believe that I'm not playing
You can love it you can hate
But don't mistake it everybody's saying
What you really wanna do is this
Just make believe that I don't exist
But you won't / cause everytime you go to spit
I talk over you just like this
It's annoying / just for you
You could scream all day 'till your face is blue
I'm getting' in your head and you know it too
And that's just me you don't know my crew
My man Sixx John / understand though
The way that he flows you can call him Rambo:
Never miss a shot / never run out of ammo
Come out with heat like a goddamn commando
And add in S.O.B
Ryu / Tak / Vin Skully / Cheapshot
Now you see
Fuck with me? / nah / Sixx
Sixx John:
Uh oh / whatever you yell when you see that door close
Imma bail through the back (fo' sho')
Straight to the bar so I can act (a fool)
I figure you guys would get a little surprised
Your eyes wide when it's me an' Mike Shinod
I'm just plain old Sixx John from the Nam-District
This is not supposed
I still talk with awkward speech
I'm like a dog that's off his leash
Step out with a Fort Minor patch on a black tee
Niggas scared to walk these streets
I ain't trippin' homie / talk is cheap
Acapellla or we can bark on a beat
And if that ain't enough action / I got
Seventeen pages in this little magazine I keep
Mike:
We got this place rockin' / beat knocking non stopping
If y'all are with it let me hear it now (yeah) yo
One time / for my Machine Shop crew and then it's
Two times / S.O.B and L.P too and then it's
Three times / It's Mike and Sixx on the track and then
Four times / we do it like that
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