Ready or Not Lyrics
Ready or not, here I come, you can't hide
Gonna find you, and take it slowly
Ready or not, here I come, you can't hide
Gonna find you, and make you want me
Now that I escape sleep walk away
those who convolate knows the world they hate
Jails bars ain't golden gates
those who fake they brake when they meet they four hundred pound mate
if i could rule the world, everyone who have a gun
and together of course we'd get the up in our their horse
I kick a rhyme drinking moon shine
I poor sip on the concrete, for the deceased
but no don't weep, Wyclef in a state of sleep
thinking about the robbe-RY that I did last WEEK
Money in the bag, bank a look like a drag
I wanna play with pelicans from here to Bagdad
Gun blast, think fast I think I'm hit
My girl pinch's my hips to see if I still exist
I think not, I send a letter to my friends
A born again, hooligan only to be king again
yo, I play my enemies like a game of chess
where I rest no stress if you don't smoke cess, less
I must confess my destany's manifest
to some gortex and sweats I make tracks like i'm homeless
Rap orgies with Porgie and Bess
capture your bounty like Eliot Ness YES!
Bless you if you represent the FU
but I hex you, with some witches vu if you do-do
Voodo, I could what you do, EASY!
Believe me, frontin' niggaz
gives me heebe-geebes
so why you imitatin' Al Capone
I be Nina Symone and defacating on your microphone
You can't run away from these styles I got
Oh baby, hey baby cause I got a lot oh yeah...
Anywhere you go, my whole crew gonna know
Oh baby, hey baby you can't hide from the black gold no...
Ready or not, refugees taking over
The buffalo soldier, dread like rasta
On the twelve hour flyby in my bomber
crews went for cover now they under pushin' up flowers
Superfly, true lies do or dies
toss me high only profile with my crew from Lacaille
I refugee from Guatanamo Bay,
dance around the border like I'm Cassius Clay
I live and work with asylum-seekers in the UK. The Fugees parents were refugees, and the band honours that, such a contrast with the hostility surrounding refugees here. Although the chorus is about the lover's determination to find her beloved, it could equally be the refugee's determination to make it to and in their new country; it speaks of the hope of youth in a big and terrifying world.
The references to Baghdad and Guantanamo are eerily relevant today.
tha song wasnt really made to be a sad one..if you want a sad one, u should listen to mista mista..that is pretty sad. hm..mayb its just me, but when i listen to tha fugees i am in a different mind frame and tha whole world seems so much better...and then this particular song doesnt seem like it should be sad...
''Gun blast, think fast I think I'm hit My girl pinch's my hips to see if I still exist I think not, I send a letter to my friends A born again, hooligan only to be king again''
cause that screams happiness .. o_0
how you feel about the group has nothing to do with what the song means ..
what is the song about tho?!?! i dnt get it is it about like the difficulties of love?
IMHO this song is clearly about death. Verse 1 is about a robber dying, verse 2 could be Death itself speaking, verse 3 is about a soldier ("they are under pushing up flowers"=they are now buried). There are several typos though: I poor sip->I pour a sip, dread like rasta -> dreadlock rasta (a quote from Bob Marley, "Buffalo Soldier". Quotes from Marley recur often in the Fugees' discography).
"Now that I escape sleep walk away those who convolate knows the world they hate"
um..what? is convolate even a word?
"those who could relate, know the world ain't cake.." some real geniouses on this site!! lol
"those who could relate, know the world ain't cake.." some real geniouses on this site!! lol
seems like someone just listened to the song over and over again until they "thought" they got the lyrics down. theres so many mistakes on here i dont even know where to begin. if your gonna be the one putting the lyrics up, get em right so we can try to interpereat them.
hearing this song makes me feel like its the end of the world . i also get sad cause i remember when i was a young teen and when this came out .sigh.. fugees are amazing..