This song seemingly tackles the methods of deception those who manipulate others use to get victims to follow their demands, as well as diverting attention away from important issues. They'll also use it as a means to convince people to hate or kill others by pretending acts of terrorism were committed by the enemy when the acts themselves were done by the masters of control to promote discrimination and hate. It also reinforces the idea that these manipulative forces operate in various locations, infiltrating everyday life without detection, and propagate any and everywhere.
In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control and gain power, depicting a cautionary tale against falling into their traps. It encourages us to question the narratives presented to us and remain vigilant against manipulation in various parts of society.
Krayzie Bone
They don’t wanna see me shine! Don’t wanna see me shine! Don’t wanna see me fly! Don’t wanna see me ride! [X2]
Krayzie Bone (- Chorus -)
Why they gotta hate? (hate!) Steady hatin’ mine! (mine!) Smilin’ in my face, (face!) fakin’ on the side. They don’t wanna see me shine. [X2]
[Jay Rush: ‘Cause they don’t wanna, they don’t wanna, they don’t wanna see me shine! [X2]]
Layzie Bone
As long as I’m alive, no hater gonna never stop my drive! I did it and make it multiply. Anything else is suicide. Enemy of the world – that’s I. Energy of an eagle. I see no evil and I hear no lie! Niggas don’t wanna see me fly higher than a rocket ship. Life is not rocket science. Every day is documented. All of my time is occupied. I’m gonna grind & I’m gonna shine! Ballin’ ‘til the end of time. Hate on me and it’s all fine! You just ain’t no friend of mine.
Flesh-n-Bone
I’m tryin’ to focus on bigger and better things. With so many odds against me, I had to step up my game! Imagine problems with crooked coppers. Why they wanna go there? Try to pop me, lock me, but couldn’t knock me off my square. I’m not surprised, you haters wanted to see Flesh stretched out without one thug, while I'm steady stressin’ out But we doin’ our own thing – the wrong thing. You suckas fail everytime tryin’ to stop my shine!
- Chorus -
Krayzie Bone
Stay away, fade away, playa hater! Stay away, fade away, playa hater! (I need you to…) Stay away, fade away, playa hater! Stay away, fade away, playa hater! Twenty-four seven grindin’! Tryin’ to get my shine on. That don’t give ‘em a reason to hate me, hate me, hate me! But I know my mind’s strong. None of you suckas can break me! (Ha!) Nothin’ can save ya now! They caught the Krayzie vapors! Stay away, fade away, playa hater! There’s really no need to be crowdin’ me, ‘cause I can’t deal with you haters surroundin’ me, houndin’ me! Tryin’ to get my paper, hard to keep my faith up. It’s time for me to raise up, and do this sucker shake up. True… T-H-U-G’s and we come to kill you, kill you, kill you! I think they might be scared (might be scared) to let me shine ‘cause I’m a righteous playa! (I’m a righteous, righteous, righteous playa!)
- Chorus -
Wish Bone
See Me! Stack your paper, they hate my grind. Catch me! Push that’s why I got my swagga down. Could never slip in the clip in. I know they want my life. Any weakness, not here, you know that Wish gonna ride! (ride) Hit the streets with that, better love! Watch out if you kiss and tell. You know not to show ‘em love. It’s just that they talk too much. You just never know who to trust. And just when you get enough, a target – you will become. That’s just the (…?...)
Bizzy Bone
It’s the devil’s perpetuation! Tryin’ to make my innocence. It’s my retaliation, I don’t need no ignorance. I’m standing against this army with Bone Thugs-n-harmony, harmony. Danger is just a part of me, like it’s stuck in my arteries. These poor playa-haters are the motivators. But I get my paper, paper. The same rappers that hated us bought the verses, so we can take from them. Critics – we can’t escape from them. Don’t you drink too much Hennessey. Ain’t no time for to be slippin’, we the world’s worst enemy!
- Chorus -
[Jay Rush: I just got to know! They don’t wanna see me shine! They don’t wanna see me shine![X2]]
Krayzie Bone
They don’t wanna see me shine! They don’t wanna see me shine!
Jay Rush
So many people said we wouldn’t take it, so many people said we couldn’t make it! So I made up my mind!
[Krayzie Bone: So I made up in my mind I had to take it. So I made up my mind I can take it.] So I made up my mind. I just gotta know, I just need to know. I just gotta know. I just gotta know. Why they wanna hate on me? Why they wanna steal my shine? Why they wanna hate on me? Why they wanna steal my shine? I just gotta know! I just gotta know! I just gotta know! I just gotta know! See me shine! See me shine! Oh see me shine! Oh see me shine! Yeah!
Krayzie Bone
They don’t wanna see me shine! They don’t wanna see me shine!
They don’t wanna see me shine! Don’t wanna see me shine! Don’t wanna see me fly! Don’t wanna see me ride! [X2]
Krayzie Bone (- Chorus -)
Why they gotta hate? (hate!) Steady hatin’ mine! (mine!) Smilin’ in my face, (face!) fakin’ on the side. They don’t wanna see me shine. [X2]
[Jay Rush: ‘Cause they don’t wanna, they don’t wanna, they don’t wanna see me shine! [X2]]
Layzie Bone
As long as I’m alive, no hater gonna never stop my drive! I did it and make it multiply. Anything else is suicide. Enemy of the world – that’s I. Energy of an eagle. I see no evil and I hear no lie! Niggas don’t wanna see me fly higher than a rocket ship. Life is not rocket science. Every day is documented. All of my time is occupied. I’m gonna grind & I’m gonna shine! Ballin’ ‘til the end of time. Hate on me and it’s all fine! You just ain’t no friend of mine.
Flesh-n-Bone
I’m tryin’ to focus on bigger and better things. With so many odds against me, I had to step up my game! Imagine problems with crooked coppers. Why they wanna go there? Try to pop me, lock me, but couldn’t knock me off my square. I’m not surprised, you haters wanted to see Flesh stretched out without one thug, while I'm steady stressin’ out But we doin’ our own thing – the wrong thing. You suckas fail everytime tryin’ to stop my shine!
- Chorus -
Krayzie Bone
Stay away, fade away, playa hater! Stay away, fade away, playa hater! (I need you to…) Stay away, fade away, playa hater! Stay away, fade away, playa hater! Twenty-four seven grindin’! Tryin’ to get my shine on. That don’t give ‘em a reason to hate me, hate me, hate me! But I know my mind’s strong. None of you suckas can break me! (Ha!) Nothin’ can save ya now! They caught the Krayzie vapors! Stay away, fade away, playa hater! There’s really no need to be crowdin’ me, ‘cause I can’t deal with you haters surroundin’ me, houndin’ me! Tryin’ to get my paper, hard to keep my faith up. It’s time for me to raise up, and do this sucker shake up. True… T-H-U-G’s and we come to kill you, kill you, kill you! I think they might be scared (might be scared) to let me shine ‘cause I’m a righteous playa! (I’m a righteous, righteous, righteous playa!)
- Chorus -
Wish Bone
See Me! Stack your paper, they hate my grind. Catch me! Push that’s why I got my swagga down. Could never slip in the clip in. I know they want my life. Any weakness, not here, you know that Wish gonna ride! (ride) Hit the streets with that, better love! Watch out if you kiss and tell. You know not to show ‘em love. It’s just that they talk too much. You just never know who to trust. And just when you get enough, a target – you will become. That’s just the (…?...)
Bizzy Bone
It’s the devil’s perpetuation! Tryin’ to make my innocence. It’s my retaliation, I don’t need no ignorance. I’m standing against this army with Bone Thugs-n-harmony, harmony. Danger is just a part of me, like it’s stuck in my arteries. These poor playa-haters are the motivators. But I get my paper, paper. The same rappers that hated us bought the verses, so we can take from them. Critics – we can’t escape from them. Don’t you drink too much Hennessey. Ain’t no time for to be slippin’, we the world’s worst enemy!
- Chorus -
[Jay Rush: I just got to know! They don’t wanna see me shine! They don’t wanna see me shine![X2]]
Krayzie Bone
They don’t wanna see me shine! They don’t wanna see me shine!
Jay Rush
So many people said we wouldn’t take it, so many people said we couldn’t make it! So I made up my mind!
[Krayzie Bone: So I made up in my mind I had to take it. So I made up my mind I can take it.] So I made up my mind. I just gotta know, I just need to know. I just gotta know. I just gotta know. Why they wanna hate on me? Why they wanna steal my shine? Why they wanna hate on me? Why they wanna steal my shine? I just gotta know! I just gotta know! I just gotta know! I just gotta know! See me shine! See me shine! Oh see me shine! Oh see me shine! Yeah!
Krayzie Bone
They don’t wanna see me shine! They don’t wanna see me shine!
Lyrics submitted by CodeLoc
Add your thoughts
Log in now to tell us what you think this song means.
Don’t have an account? Create an account with SongMeanings to post comments, submit lyrics, and more. It’s super easy, we promise!
More Featured Meanings
Son Şansın - Şarkı Sözleri
Hayalperest
Hayalperest
Gentle Hour
Yo La Tengo
Yo La Tengo
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,
No Surprises
Radiohead
Radiohead
Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"--being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. But he's so complacent with it. This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. But there is seemingly no way out but death. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.
Blue
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
“Blue” is a song about a love that is persisting in the discomfort of the person experiencing the emotion. Ed Sheeran reflects on love lost, and although he wishes his former partner find happiness, he cannot but admit his feelings are still very much there. He expresses the realization that he might never find another on this stringed instrumental by Aaron Dessner.
Plastic Bag
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
“Plastic Bag” is a song about searching for an escape from personal problems and hoping to find it in the lively atmosphere of a Saturday night party. Ed Sheeran tells the story of his friend and the myriad of troubles he is going through. Unable to find any solutions, this friend seeks a last resort in a party and the vanity that comes with it.
“I overthink and have trouble sleepin’ / All purpose gone and don’t have a reason / And there’s no doctor to stop this bleedin’ / So I left home and jumped in the deep end,” Ed Sheeran sings in verse one. He continues by adding that this person is feeling the weight of having disappointed his father and doesn’t have any friends to rely on in this difficult moment. In the second verse, Ed sings about the role of grief in his friend’s plight and his dwindling faith in prayer. “Saturday night is givin’ me a reason to rely on the strobe lights / The lifeline of a promise in a shot glass, and I’ll take that / If you’re givin’ out love from a plastic bag,” Ed sings on the chorus, as his friend turns to new vices in hopes of feeling better.