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,
Breaking away from the pack
(Coming from the bottom and I gotta make it to the top)
Making my way from the back
(Up in here, think its plenty clear I ain't gonna stop)
They hating to see where I'm at
(Cuz I have everything that they lack)
Breaking away from the pack
(Facts)
Breaking away from the pack
(Coming from the bottom and I gotta take it to the top)
Making my way from the back
(Up in here, think its plenty clear I ain't gonna stop)
They hating to see where I'm at
(Cuz I have everything that they lack)
Breaking away from the pack
(Facts)
Once upon a time I was no one
Everyone around me thought I wouldn't be shit
High school principal told me I should quit
Went back to the crib and I took another hit like, fuck school
Imma get high and sell drugs
Wasn't even thinking what a cell was
Uncle and my momma tried to keep me off the block
Made me get a job tried to keep me on the clock
I ain't listen to em tho cuz I was heavy in the street
Steady banging out wit a deadly enemy
They wanna see me fall and my head begin to bleed
And I heard they made the call but I've yet to get the heat
I was slanging wit a forty in the glove box
Forty five in my pocket always thinking imma get cream
One mindset that was fuck cops
And I was a junkie by the time I was sixteen
Comin up, I won't doin nothing but fuckin up
Put in work, wit some cats, I thought that was tough enough
Told me they was homies and some certified hustlas
But they turned bitch when the police started cuffin us
Next time I seen em in the court room
Talkin bout the commonwealth's star witnesses
Pointing fingers in my face, so that they could catch a break, when the judge started handing out sentences
Breaking away from the pack
(Coming from the bottom and I gotta make it to the top)
Making my way from the back
(Up in here, think its plenty clear I ain't gonna stop)
They hating to see where I'm at
(Cuz I have everything that they lack)
Breaking away from the pack
(Facts)
Breaking away from the pack
(Coming from the bottom and I gotta take it to the top)
Making my way from the back
(Up in here, think its plenty clear I ain't gonna stop)
They hating to see where I'm at
(Cuz I have everything that they lack)
Breaking away from the pack
(Facts)
Had to go to jail, no bond, no bail
Am I gonna make it? Only time will tell
Only lookin forward to some pictures in the mail
And a little bit of money put some food up in the cell
Cops came and tried to shake me down cause my codefendants told em that I tried to get em licked up
Told em I was gang bangin, stayed hangin wit Dubs
But we never told em we was clicked up
So they didn't have no proof and investigators ended up dropping the case
Later on Dubs ran up on em in the kitchen block, Kyle Caples got rocked in his face
Yep dropped in his place
Takin shots till the cops came and stopped the display and they locked him away
And the funny part is, Kyle pressed charges, took my dude to court he only got thirty days
After 18 months in the city jail waiting
Finally got sent to the state pen
That's when I met a dude put me on to the game changed my mind frame wit a statement
You got some good rhymes and some hard ass punch lines but it ain't enough to have a mean ass flow
You got the right shit, but you gotta write hits and remember this, don't have dreams have goals
Breaking away from the pack
(Coming from the bottom and I gotta make it to the top)
Making my way from the back
(Up in here, think its plenty clear I ain't gonna stop)
They hating to see where I'm at
(Cuz I have everything that they lack)
Breaking away from the pack
(Facts)
Breaking away from the pack
(Coming from the bottom and I gotta take it to the top)
Making my way from the back
(Up in here, think its plenty clear I ain't gonna stop)
They hating to see where I'm at
(Cuz I have everything that they lack)
Breaking away from the pack
(Facts)
Breaking away from the pack
Spent fifteen years straight working on the flow
Breaking away from the pack
Studying the business and I'm certain imma blow
Breaking away from the pack
My homie bought a Benz, tryna get me one of those
And a caddy for the wife with a chromed out nose and a steady kush aroma all up on my clothes
Breaking away from the pack
(Facts)
Making my way from the back
(Facts)
They hating to see where I'm at
(Facts)
Breaking away from the pack
(Facts)
(Coming from the bottom and I gotta make it to the top)
Making my way from the back
(Up in here, think its plenty clear I ain't gonna stop)
They hating to see where I'm at
(Cuz I have everything that they lack)
Breaking away from the pack
(Facts)
Breaking away from the pack
(Coming from the bottom and I gotta take it to the top)
Making my way from the back
(Up in here, think its plenty clear I ain't gonna stop)
They hating to see where I'm at
(Cuz I have everything that they lack)
Breaking away from the pack
(Facts)
Once upon a time I was no one
Everyone around me thought I wouldn't be shit
High school principal told me I should quit
Went back to the crib and I took another hit like, fuck school
Imma get high and sell drugs
Wasn't even thinking what a cell was
Uncle and my momma tried to keep me off the block
Made me get a job tried to keep me on the clock
I ain't listen to em tho cuz I was heavy in the street
Steady banging out wit a deadly enemy
They wanna see me fall and my head begin to bleed
And I heard they made the call but I've yet to get the heat
I was slanging wit a forty in the glove box
Forty five in my pocket always thinking imma get cream
One mindset that was fuck cops
And I was a junkie by the time I was sixteen
Comin up, I won't doin nothing but fuckin up
Put in work, wit some cats, I thought that was tough enough
Told me they was homies and some certified hustlas
But they turned bitch when the police started cuffin us
Next time I seen em in the court room
Talkin bout the commonwealth's star witnesses
Pointing fingers in my face, so that they could catch a break, when the judge started handing out sentences
Breaking away from the pack
(Coming from the bottom and I gotta make it to the top)
Making my way from the back
(Up in here, think its plenty clear I ain't gonna stop)
They hating to see where I'm at
(Cuz I have everything that they lack)
Breaking away from the pack
(Facts)
Breaking away from the pack
(Coming from the bottom and I gotta take it to the top)
Making my way from the back
(Up in here, think its plenty clear I ain't gonna stop)
They hating to see where I'm at
(Cuz I have everything that they lack)
Breaking away from the pack
(Facts)
Had to go to jail, no bond, no bail
Am I gonna make it? Only time will tell
Only lookin forward to some pictures in the mail
And a little bit of money put some food up in the cell
Cops came and tried to shake me down cause my codefendants told em that I tried to get em licked up
Told em I was gang bangin, stayed hangin wit Dubs
But we never told em we was clicked up
So they didn't have no proof and investigators ended up dropping the case
Later on Dubs ran up on em in the kitchen block, Kyle Caples got rocked in his face
Yep dropped in his place
Takin shots till the cops came and stopped the display and they locked him away
And the funny part is, Kyle pressed charges, took my dude to court he only got thirty days
After 18 months in the city jail waiting
Finally got sent to the state pen
That's when I met a dude put me on to the game changed my mind frame wit a statement
You got some good rhymes and some hard ass punch lines but it ain't enough to have a mean ass flow
You got the right shit, but you gotta write hits and remember this, don't have dreams have goals
Breaking away from the pack
(Coming from the bottom and I gotta make it to the top)
Making my way from the back
(Up in here, think its plenty clear I ain't gonna stop)
They hating to see where I'm at
(Cuz I have everything that they lack)
Breaking away from the pack
(Facts)
Breaking away from the pack
(Coming from the bottom and I gotta take it to the top)
Making my way from the back
(Up in here, think its plenty clear I ain't gonna stop)
They hating to see where I'm at
(Cuz I have everything that they lack)
Breaking away from the pack
(Facts)
Breaking away from the pack
Spent fifteen years straight working on the flow
Breaking away from the pack
Studying the business and I'm certain imma blow
Breaking away from the pack
My homie bought a Benz, tryna get me one of those
And a caddy for the wife with a chromed out nose and a steady kush aroma all up on my clothes
Breaking away from the pack
(Facts)
Making my way from the back
(Facts)
They hating to see where I'm at
(Facts)
Breaking away from the pack
(Facts)
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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