OutKast — Everlasting

[Sampled Chorus] Everlasting Everlasting Everlasting Everlasting [Verse 1: André 3000] Now sittin' in the bathtub listening to the Isley Brothers and others outside my door want to despise me Reminds me that everyone ain't cool, the world is jealous Never could understand when my mama use to tell us "Don't take your food outside around your friends Unless you got enough to feed the neighborhood" The play has just began, follow me now Act 1 Scene 2 the date 1/1/96 the time I don't know Mood disturbed, Dre goes on to say they trying to get over Like them niggas with the blinker on, I got my thinker on So I'm like 'Word, however you want to act is fine' That is real as fishing rods I might be kissing God but I'm still in the battle So if you got cattle you best be fasting For 7 days and 7 nights we everlasting 20 years young on a quest to get my class ring Just for them fhite wolks, I will if it's the last thing I do [Sampled Chorus] Everlasting Everlasting Everlasting Everlasting Everlasting [Interlude: Big Boi] Yeah, slick, knowhatI'msayin', I'm gonna tell you like this Just 'cause I live the apartment don't mean you can keep puttin' these notes under my windshield, I'm tellin' you Shorty gon' bust your ass about that shit [Verse 2: Big Boi] Check it, hey y'all, hey y'all, hey y'all, hoes Back up in this bitch rippin' tracks like I'm supposed Tommy and Ralph Lauren don't like niggas to wear they clothes Where your proof at? Who's that? Talking shit like those Keepin' the rumors up, I wish I lived in a fuckin' cave I ride the streets in Lexus, all these crows they wanna be saved Go to college, get a job 'cause all you want to do is shake I use to hit Club Nikki's but I gave that shit a break Just like Maaco, Waco, burn it to the ground I bet you eatin' that pork when your partners ain't around Backdraft, scenes of Shaft splackin' these hoes just like he's supposed to Quote you: "Big Boi is the pimp ass nigga that formed you" Like pottery, sloppily, playin' hoes like lotteries OutKast did the dirt and now you swear your shit is poppin' see You bit (beats), we makin' hits, so give me your flag back I'm living in the SWATS so you may call me Daddy Fat Sax Yeah, you know what I'm sayin'? Like this Everlasting [Sampled Chorus] Everlasting Everlasting Everlasting Everlasting Everlasting Everlasting Everlasting Everlasting [Verse 3] [Big Boi] One in a million men passing the J off in the culture Don't y'all smoke a couple of pounds and get tore up y'all And tear the devil headquarters down to the grizzound Is how we hit the house and puff a couple of good pounds Of good weed, PeeWee, my nigga Little Beewee We need a 50 box of Phillies and some bouncin' titties From the Magic, the Flame Nikki's too, and share in Sequel's Never payin' for no pussy You can shake it, you can keep it to yourself, hoe [André 3000] You left your morals at the door, when you stepped in, crept in Naked as babies at the beach, so Now you wonder why your nigga done bust you in the fore Head, ain't no respect there, so now you just assed out like breech Delivery, slivery got you swung on These types of things go on from here to Bowen Home to London England, Wall Street to y'all street Sometimes I get bewildered and it throws a nigga like me off beat But I'm back on it Because we lasting 'ever, sound good, don't it? Rattling your trunks like FAMU and the component Said that's it—man, fuck that shit On and on and on and I'm out [Sampled Chorus] Everlasting Everlasting Everlasting Everlasting Everlasting Everlasting