In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
Aw shit, here come the man again
You know if you can't with the style that's goin' on right now
Then you need to be sittin' down
If MC's can't get with the style that's goin" on
Then you need to sit down
Do your thing Mack, do it to 'em nigga! Ah whassup?
What you don't know, what you don't know, kick 'em in'the grill
"But anyway, I'd like to take this, anyway, I'd
Anyway, I'd like to this time out to bother you"
Oh no no no no
No I don't think you can get liver than me G
So sit back, relax, Mack's about to attack
And turn your flav into Similac cause it's like that
I kick funk out the frame, make it insane
With all local stops set to crumble like a doo train
My thickest format, my format's thicker all that
No comp for combat with bwoy like Supercat
Show you where my head's at I crack you with a bat
Where the funk? Hear the trunk a bit and fat knit
Rearrange the skit make it fit so you can't sit
Now ain't that some shh I rip it
I snap a jaw, I stabba jab a dinosaur
Live from Creedmore under the floor
It's like the roughest of ruffnecks, wicked and wick checked
Check the nine sector MC and his project
All you brothers need to know doe
There's no more best MC 'cause that is now me
See, G, I am king MC
Once said from me can't another brother disagree
Got the funk bleedin' all out your trunk
And there's all there is to it (that's all there is)
If you can't funk with the style that's goin' on
Then you need to be sittin' down
If you can't funk with the style that's goin' on
Then you need to be sittin' down
If you can't funk with the style that's goin' on
Then you need to be sittin' down
If you can't funk with the style that's goin' on
Then you need to be sittin' down
You must got no brains in ya head
I kill ya dead on the spot with the hits I got
Trust my flavor G, I make ya want to pee-pee
I got what you can't see, somethin' like a leprosy
I slow it down, somethin' like this
When it's time for me to stun 'em
Mc's I warned them
I'll put 'em on the moon without funk to listen to
Then again, my vibration
May give the sensation they're on vacation
Y'all brothers need a jig changer
Real rugged alligator MC hater from the fader
You little tic-tac, tryin' to act like a lumberjack
Sit back and watch how the earth crack
You funk around, you lay around, that's how it goes
And I suppose MC's still want to try me
King of the mountain is a hard rock
Do you understand, smile and I'll take you out like the mob
Check it black, after the Mack there's no recoup
Not even soup, get out shake the hula hoop
Comin' out the ground
Gettin' down
If you can't funk with the style that's goin' on
Then you need to be sittin' down
If you can't funk with the style that's goin' on
Then you need to be sittin' down
If you can't funk with the style that's goin' on
Then you need to be sittin' down
If you can't funk with the style that's goin' on
Then you need to be sittin' down
Sometimes alone I be writin'
Must be frightenin', to hear I'm on the air
But I don't care, I say I sick one 'til I'll see you sick
Son, grandson, no tellin' when I'm done (no tellin' baby)
I'm about do you and you on some new
Who has a date and thank you for waitin'
There my bad, I thought you took a beatin' in the brain
Then you learned from rap that rap's a mistake
You won't get a break
Big as a cake for me to make, and you bake
So, bonsai here comes the flyest guy
That you ever heard in your lifetime (yup yup yup)
I do a behind
And rewind, I want to kick some more shit
Down your faucet, I pours it
Mighta lost it, but then I retrieve it
Believe it, I got this fat okey-dokey style for a while
Peace from the king
Peace from the king G, here it go
One time for your motherfunkin' mind
If you can't funk with the style that's goin' on
Then you need to be sittin' down
If you can't funk with the style that's goin' on
Then you need to be sittin' down
If you can't funk with the style that's goin' on
Then you need to be sittin' down
If you can't funk with the style that's goin' on
Then you need to be sittin' down
Sittin' down, bwoy
"Anyway I'd like to take this time out"
"No more music by the suckers"
You know if you can't with the style that's goin' on right now
Then you need to be sittin' down
If MC's can't get with the style that's goin" on
Then you need to sit down
Do your thing Mack, do it to 'em nigga! Ah whassup?
What you don't know, what you don't know, kick 'em in'the grill
"But anyway, I'd like to take this, anyway, I'd
Anyway, I'd like to this time out to bother you"
Oh no no no no
No I don't think you can get liver than me G
So sit back, relax, Mack's about to attack
And turn your flav into Similac cause it's like that
I kick funk out the frame, make it insane
With all local stops set to crumble like a doo train
My thickest format, my format's thicker all that
No comp for combat with bwoy like Supercat
Show you where my head's at I crack you with a bat
Where the funk? Hear the trunk a bit and fat knit
Rearrange the skit make it fit so you can't sit
Now ain't that some shh I rip it
I snap a jaw, I stabba jab a dinosaur
Live from Creedmore under the floor
It's like the roughest of ruffnecks, wicked and wick checked
Check the nine sector MC and his project
All you brothers need to know doe
There's no more best MC 'cause that is now me
See, G, I am king MC
Once said from me can't another brother disagree
Got the funk bleedin' all out your trunk
And there's all there is to it (that's all there is)
If you can't funk with the style that's goin' on
Then you need to be sittin' down
If you can't funk with the style that's goin' on
Then you need to be sittin' down
If you can't funk with the style that's goin' on
Then you need to be sittin' down
If you can't funk with the style that's goin' on
Then you need to be sittin' down
You must got no brains in ya head
I kill ya dead on the spot with the hits I got
Trust my flavor G, I make ya want to pee-pee
I got what you can't see, somethin' like a leprosy
I slow it down, somethin' like this
When it's time for me to stun 'em
Mc's I warned them
I'll put 'em on the moon without funk to listen to
Then again, my vibration
May give the sensation they're on vacation
Y'all brothers need a jig changer
Real rugged alligator MC hater from the fader
You little tic-tac, tryin' to act like a lumberjack
Sit back and watch how the earth crack
You funk around, you lay around, that's how it goes
And I suppose MC's still want to try me
King of the mountain is a hard rock
Do you understand, smile and I'll take you out like the mob
Check it black, after the Mack there's no recoup
Not even soup, get out shake the hula hoop
Comin' out the ground
Gettin' down
If you can't funk with the style that's goin' on
Then you need to be sittin' down
If you can't funk with the style that's goin' on
Then you need to be sittin' down
If you can't funk with the style that's goin' on
Then you need to be sittin' down
If you can't funk with the style that's goin' on
Then you need to be sittin' down
Sometimes alone I be writin'
Must be frightenin', to hear I'm on the air
But I don't care, I say I sick one 'til I'll see you sick
Son, grandson, no tellin' when I'm done (no tellin' baby)
I'm about do you and you on some new
Who has a date and thank you for waitin'
There my bad, I thought you took a beatin' in the brain
Then you learned from rap that rap's a mistake
You won't get a break
Big as a cake for me to make, and you bake
So, bonsai here comes the flyest guy
That you ever heard in your lifetime (yup yup yup)
I do a behind
And rewind, I want to kick some more shit
Down your faucet, I pours it
Mighta lost it, but then I retrieve it
Believe it, I got this fat okey-dokey style for a while
Peace from the king
Peace from the king G, here it go
One time for your motherfunkin' mind
If you can't funk with the style that's goin' on
Then you need to be sittin' down
If you can't funk with the style that's goin' on
Then you need to be sittin' down
If you can't funk with the style that's goin' on
Then you need to be sittin' down
If you can't funk with the style that's goin' on
Then you need to be sittin' down
Sittin' down, bwoy
"Anyway I'd like to take this time out"
"No more music by the suckers"
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