Both as a standalone and as part of the DSOTS album, you can take this lyric as read. As a matter of public record, Jourgensen's drug intake was legendary even in the 1980s. By the late 90s, in his own words, he was grappling with massive addiction issues and had lost almost everything: friends, spouse, money and had nearly died more than once. "Dark Side of the Spoon" is a both funny & sad title for an album made by a musical genius who was losing the plot; and this song is a message to his fans & friends saying he knows it. It's painful to listen to so I'm glad the "Keith Richards of industrial metals" wised up and cleaned up. Well done sir.
Migos
Ay, ay, ay, nigga
Look at this nigga right here, man
Roll the window down, roll the window down
Bap-bap-bap, yeah
I made sure I hit his bitch-ass
Fuck nigga (see)
Ooh, ha
Takeoff, nigga
Fuck wrong with these niggas? Man
You know I'm talking 'bout
Real diamonds
Nigga, I'm riding 'round the city
Mac shaking shit, nigga
Young rich nigga riding 'round the city with the Mac
Take a chopper, and a chicken, now watch the leakin' (ba-bow)
Whipping and breaking it, making it, taking it
Nigga, they mistake me, think I'm selling that midget (nah, for real)
What the fuck a nigga really wanna talk about? (Shit)
You a bitch, we ain't got nothing to talk about
Shaking like a stripper, put that mac chicken up in his mouth
Skippa Da Flippa, he told me weigh it up and bust it down
Migo Jerz, whipping that lambo, now watch it swerve (Jerz)
Tray 1 got PT's and sold that reserved
I'm a hot boy, so you know I gotta stay low (hot)
Quavo told me, "Trap on the block and bang 'em like OJ Mayo"
You niggas are rookie but young Takeoff, I'm a vet (vet)
'Set told me trapping and dabbing gon' get that pussy wet (set)
No Crocodile Dundee, Stingray vet
Whatever I wanna do, I do it, Nike check (do it)
I'm a young nigga with the rich nigga ambitions
At the Migo show, a nigga autographing titties
There's levels to this shit like Meek said
And you embarrassed to admit it, I don't want to kick it
After my show, the gangster-ist nigga, he looking suspicious
(Fuck wrong with this nigga, man?)
Walk right up on him, I'm pressing my nigga
And all he wanted was a picture (ha)
I used to smoke Swishers like a regular nigga
Now I'm a Backwoods type of nigga
A nigga, he ran up, tried to rob, I shot him
White people, they still treat me like I'm a victim (no)
Now people they screaming out, "Free Actavis"
They talking 'bout that Actavis be discontinued
Check my cup of muddy trouble, got packs in the attic
Catch me riding with packs in my rental
Trap, trap dab when I'm on the revenue (trap, trap dab)
Cooking a brick and remix it with the dog food
Diamond brick come with a note on it, nigga, you Blues Clues
24 karat my chain, Mr. T pity the fool
Master P, No Limit money, bando jumping like a bungee
Kevin Hart, your money is too short, you too funny
Call me Takeoff Hugh Hefner, I got playboy bunnies
Fuck it, I beat it, she sucking me 'til a nigga be cumming
Cross the country (woo, go)
Cross the country (woo, go)
You may never been there, catch me cross the country (woo, uh-oh)
Cross the country (uh, oh)
Cross the country (whoa, country)
Coca leaves and palm trees, we cross the country (coca, woo)
Cross the country (uh, ooh)
Cross the country (woo, ooh)
She don't understand English but she want me (Inglés)
Cross the country (where?)
Cross the country
I had to get a Visa 'cause I'm in and out the country (woo)
Offset (in and out, woo, go)
When you in the streets, you know you gotta make a name
I stole a Mustang, drop top, no brain (skrrt)
Police had a nigga 'cause they know I'm in a gang (had)
Taking pictures of a nigga like a groupie, like a fan (flash)
On my first lick, only got a little bit of change (huh?)
Thinking like Obama, something gotta change (change)
Did a lot of dirt, I had to sit up in the chains (locked up)
When I got outta jail, did the same thing (same thing)
I spent that money, money, coming back like boomerang (come back)
Cocaine in her nose like a septum ring
My niggas be trapping the gas, propane (gas)
Hit the nigga with a chopper, nigga bang bang (grrah, grrah)
I was getting money, way before the rap game (way back)
As a young nigga, used to wear the fake chain (fake)
They say that I'm ignorant, fifty thousand on a chain (whoa)
You know it ain't come from Johnny Dang (nah)
Fake watch busta can't bust me, no lie (nah)
Won't catch me with the fake jewelery, I got too much pride (pride)
They killed my nigga Pistol P for a three-five (uh-oh)
I pay the ticket, one day you gon' die (bap)
When I'm in the kitchen, I be cooking crack pies (crack)
I got chickens in the trunk, you think I work at Popeyes (chicken)
The streets is the jungle, my nigga, you better survive ('vive)
Getting married to the money, nigga, that my bride (woo)
My diamonds gon' shine, might poke you in the eye (shine)
You selling by the ounce, my nigga, you just getting by (whoa)
Put the birds in my hands, knows when's it gon' fly
Grrah, grrah, grrah, in that bushes like a spy (bah)
Nigga talking stupid, we don't let that shit fly (nah)
Talking crazy to the Migos, boy, you know we keep the fire (baow)
I got a chopper, flip a nigga like a domino (flip 'em)
Young rich nigga, never made the honor roll (never)
Hit his ass with the .44, make him fold (ah)
Chattahoochee River where that nigga body float (oh)
On the nation, my nigga we throwing up the forks (did it)
She on a mission, trying to fuck me, better get your ho (get her)
Big bank take little bank (woo)
Yellow diamonds on my rella like a moon cake (ah)
Two Glocks on my hip like Tomb Raider (baow, baow)
Arnold Schwarzenegger turn into the Terminator (argh)
Cross the country (woo, go)
Cross the country (woo, go)
You may never been there, catch me cross the country (woo, uh-oh)
Cross the country (uh, oh)
Cross the country (whoa, country)
Coca leaves and palm trees, we cross the country (coca, woo)
Cross the country (uh, ooh)
Cross the country (woo, ooh)
She don't understand English but she want me (Inglés)
Cross the country (where?)
Cross the country
I had to get a Visa 'cause I'm in and out the country
Yeah, yeah, uh (in and out, woo, go)
Cross the country, my plug he in Wyoming (woo, what?)
And the only time I pull up on you, if a nigga owe me (skrrt)
And the whole word know that a young nigga rap
But a pussy nigga better not provoke me (nah)
Came in the game with the formula, sold it
Now I gotta switch it up on you phonies (oh)
Pocket full of macaroni, Mac-11, run up on it (Mac)
All you can eat in my trap like it's Shoney's
Rich Nigga Timeline, that's my motherfucking testimony (uh)
Out in the desert, got bricks in the donkey (woo)
Rich nigga with a pot of gold like a leprechaun (go)
And I'm thinking 'bout moving to Babylon (Babylon)
My niggas collecting extortion funds (extortion)
We built an empire like Megatron (empire, uh)
Qc the label (QC the label)
Migo the gang (gang, gang)
Already told you, I want the M&Ms, fuck the fame (told you, uh)
No shame in the game, I'm a bull with the nine
Like Luol Deng, finna bang with the thing (bang)
Walking through the crowd, ain't gotta tuck the chain (nah)
Get juuged, get capped, that's a part of the game, squad shit (game)
Oh no, I done rolled around the block and I don't see him (skrrt)
I paid a J two hundred just to hit me when he see him (hit me when you see him)
If I was you right now, I wouldn't wanna be him (no)
Caught him two weeks later in the club with his mamacita (go, woo, brrat)
He had some jewelry on him, worth a hundred so I took it from him (give it)
Took the first PJ across the country, got too hot for a moment (hey)
They say he got work, now I own it (I own it)
Now my squad, they going up, no Makonnen
In the players pad at the Caesar's Palace
Out in Las Vegas, like I'm Roman (whoa)
All types of Euros and Yen (tax)
I got money in Berlin (Berlin)
I told the Lord forgive me for my sins (oh)
'Cause I don't wanna do it again (go, go)
Cross the country (woo, go)
Cross the country (woo, go)
You may never been there, catch me cross the country (woo, uh-oh)
Cross the country (uh, oh)
Cross the country (whoa, country)
Coca leaves and palm trees, we cross the country (coca, woo)
Cross the country (uh, ooh)
Cross the country (woo, ooh)
She don't understand English but she want me (Inglés)
Cross the country (where?)
Cross the country
I had to get a Visa 'cause I'm in and out the country
(In and out, woo, go)
Ay, ay, ay, nigga
Look at this nigga right here, man
Roll the window down, roll the window down
Bap-bap-bap, yeah
I made sure I hit his bitch-ass
Fuck nigga (see)
Ooh, ha
Takeoff, nigga
Fuck wrong with these niggas? Man
You know I'm talking 'bout
Real diamonds
Nigga, I'm riding 'round the city
Mac shaking shit, nigga
Young rich nigga riding 'round the city with the Mac
Take a chopper, and a chicken, now watch the leakin' (ba-bow)
Whipping and breaking it, making it, taking it
Nigga, they mistake me, think I'm selling that midget (nah, for real)
What the fuck a nigga really wanna talk about? (Shit)
You a bitch, we ain't got nothing to talk about
Shaking like a stripper, put that mac chicken up in his mouth
Skippa Da Flippa, he told me weigh it up and bust it down
Migo Jerz, whipping that lambo, now watch it swerve (Jerz)
Tray 1 got PT's and sold that reserved
I'm a hot boy, so you know I gotta stay low (hot)
Quavo told me, "Trap on the block and bang 'em like OJ Mayo"
You niggas are rookie but young Takeoff, I'm a vet (vet)
'Set told me trapping and dabbing gon' get that pussy wet (set)
No Crocodile Dundee, Stingray vet
Whatever I wanna do, I do it, Nike check (do it)
I'm a young nigga with the rich nigga ambitions
At the Migo show, a nigga autographing titties
There's levels to this shit like Meek said
And you embarrassed to admit it, I don't want to kick it
After my show, the gangster-ist nigga, he looking suspicious
(Fuck wrong with this nigga, man?)
Walk right up on him, I'm pressing my nigga
And all he wanted was a picture (ha)
I used to smoke Swishers like a regular nigga
Now I'm a Backwoods type of nigga
A nigga, he ran up, tried to rob, I shot him
White people, they still treat me like I'm a victim (no)
Now people they screaming out, "Free Actavis"
They talking 'bout that Actavis be discontinued
Check my cup of muddy trouble, got packs in the attic
Catch me riding with packs in my rental
Trap, trap dab when I'm on the revenue (trap, trap dab)
Cooking a brick and remix it with the dog food
Diamond brick come with a note on it, nigga, you Blues Clues
24 karat my chain, Mr. T pity the fool
Master P, No Limit money, bando jumping like a bungee
Kevin Hart, your money is too short, you too funny
Call me Takeoff Hugh Hefner, I got playboy bunnies
Fuck it, I beat it, she sucking me 'til a nigga be cumming
Cross the country (woo, go)
Cross the country (woo, go)
You may never been there, catch me cross the country (woo, uh-oh)
Cross the country (uh, oh)
Cross the country (whoa, country)
Coca leaves and palm trees, we cross the country (coca, woo)
Cross the country (uh, ooh)
Cross the country (woo, ooh)
She don't understand English but she want me (Inglés)
Cross the country (where?)
Cross the country
I had to get a Visa 'cause I'm in and out the country (woo)
Offset (in and out, woo, go)
When you in the streets, you know you gotta make a name
I stole a Mustang, drop top, no brain (skrrt)
Police had a nigga 'cause they know I'm in a gang (had)
Taking pictures of a nigga like a groupie, like a fan (flash)
On my first lick, only got a little bit of change (huh?)
Thinking like Obama, something gotta change (change)
Did a lot of dirt, I had to sit up in the chains (locked up)
When I got outta jail, did the same thing (same thing)
I spent that money, money, coming back like boomerang (come back)
Cocaine in her nose like a septum ring
My niggas be trapping the gas, propane (gas)
Hit the nigga with a chopper, nigga bang bang (grrah, grrah)
I was getting money, way before the rap game (way back)
As a young nigga, used to wear the fake chain (fake)
They say that I'm ignorant, fifty thousand on a chain (whoa)
You know it ain't come from Johnny Dang (nah)
Fake watch busta can't bust me, no lie (nah)
Won't catch me with the fake jewelery, I got too much pride (pride)
They killed my nigga Pistol P for a three-five (uh-oh)
I pay the ticket, one day you gon' die (bap)
When I'm in the kitchen, I be cooking crack pies (crack)
I got chickens in the trunk, you think I work at Popeyes (chicken)
The streets is the jungle, my nigga, you better survive ('vive)
Getting married to the money, nigga, that my bride (woo)
My diamonds gon' shine, might poke you in the eye (shine)
You selling by the ounce, my nigga, you just getting by (whoa)
Put the birds in my hands, knows when's it gon' fly
Grrah, grrah, grrah, in that bushes like a spy (bah)
Nigga talking stupid, we don't let that shit fly (nah)
Talking crazy to the Migos, boy, you know we keep the fire (baow)
I got a chopper, flip a nigga like a domino (flip 'em)
Young rich nigga, never made the honor roll (never)
Hit his ass with the .44, make him fold (ah)
Chattahoochee River where that nigga body float (oh)
On the nation, my nigga we throwing up the forks (did it)
She on a mission, trying to fuck me, better get your ho (get her)
Big bank take little bank (woo)
Yellow diamonds on my rella like a moon cake (ah)
Two Glocks on my hip like Tomb Raider (baow, baow)
Arnold Schwarzenegger turn into the Terminator (argh)
Cross the country (woo, go)
Cross the country (woo, go)
You may never been there, catch me cross the country (woo, uh-oh)
Cross the country (uh, oh)
Cross the country (whoa, country)
Coca leaves and palm trees, we cross the country (coca, woo)
Cross the country (uh, ooh)
Cross the country (woo, ooh)
She don't understand English but she want me (Inglés)
Cross the country (where?)
Cross the country
I had to get a Visa 'cause I'm in and out the country
Yeah, yeah, uh (in and out, woo, go)
Cross the country, my plug he in Wyoming (woo, what?)
And the only time I pull up on you, if a nigga owe me (skrrt)
And the whole word know that a young nigga rap
But a pussy nigga better not provoke me (nah)
Came in the game with the formula, sold it
Now I gotta switch it up on you phonies (oh)
Pocket full of macaroni, Mac-11, run up on it (Mac)
All you can eat in my trap like it's Shoney's
Rich Nigga Timeline, that's my motherfucking testimony (uh)
Out in the desert, got bricks in the donkey (woo)
Rich nigga with a pot of gold like a leprechaun (go)
And I'm thinking 'bout moving to Babylon (Babylon)
My niggas collecting extortion funds (extortion)
We built an empire like Megatron (empire, uh)
Qc the label (QC the label)
Migo the gang (gang, gang)
Already told you, I want the M&Ms, fuck the fame (told you, uh)
No shame in the game, I'm a bull with the nine
Like Luol Deng, finna bang with the thing (bang)
Walking through the crowd, ain't gotta tuck the chain (nah)
Get juuged, get capped, that's a part of the game, squad shit (game)
Oh no, I done rolled around the block and I don't see him (skrrt)
I paid a J two hundred just to hit me when he see him (hit me when you see him)
If I was you right now, I wouldn't wanna be him (no)
Caught him two weeks later in the club with his mamacita (go, woo, brrat)
He had some jewelry on him, worth a hundred so I took it from him (give it)
Took the first PJ across the country, got too hot for a moment (hey)
They say he got work, now I own it (I own it)
Now my squad, they going up, no Makonnen
In the players pad at the Caesar's Palace
Out in Las Vegas, like I'm Roman (whoa)
All types of Euros and Yen (tax)
I got money in Berlin (Berlin)
I told the Lord forgive me for my sins (oh)
'Cause I don't wanna do it again (go, go)
Cross the country (woo, go)
Cross the country (woo, go)
You may never been there, catch me cross the country (woo, uh-oh)
Cross the country (uh, oh)
Cross the country (whoa, country)
Coca leaves and palm trees, we cross the country (coca, woo)
Cross the country (uh, ooh)
Cross the country (woo, ooh)
She don't understand English but she want me (Inglés)
Cross the country (where?)
Cross the country
I had to get a Visa 'cause I'm in and out the country
(In and out, woo, go)
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Cross The Country Lyrics as written by Kirshnik Ball Kiari Cephus
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Reservoir Media Management, Inc.
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