[00:00:01] Ahhhh I stank I can I stank I can [00:00:05] The funky engine that could [00:00:07] Oooo oooo yosky wosky pisky wisky [00:00:12] All aboard the Stankonia Express [00:00:17] The underground smell road [00:00:19] Everybody's lookin' for an excuse to let loose [00:00:22] What's your locomotive the chatta nigga choo choo [00:00:26] Humble as a mumble in the jungle [00:00:27] Of shouts and screams [00:00:29] That's the way the cracker crumbles [00:00:30] So I guess I've got to re-route my dreams [00:00:34] Humble as a mumble in the jungle [00:00:36] Of shouts and screams [00:00:37] That's the way the cracker crumbles [00:00:38] So I guess I've got to re-route my dreams [00:00:43] Back on the microphone your number one controller [00:00:44] I rock the microphone like a blizzard; [00:00:46] I'm so cold I'm tryin' to hold ya [00:00:48] Life is like a great big roller coaster [00:00:49] Everything in life don't happen like it's suppose to [00:00:52] Trials and tribulations make you stronger live longer [00:00:53] You wanna reach the nation nigga start from ya corner [00:00:55] Everything in life don't always happen like you plan it [00:00:58] Demand it; over stand it then you handle it [00:01:00] F**k wishing you you missing the ambition on your mission [00:01:03] Now you switching why you quitting 'cause it's heated in the kitchen [00:01:05] Sloppy slipping in your pimping nigga [00:01:06] You either pistol whoop the nigga or you choke the trigger [00:01:08] You've got to follow through struggle to complete your dreams [00:01:11] No Weapon Formed Agains Prospers 54:17 [00:01:13] From Isaiah lay a nigga down and spray 'em [00:01:15] If the dealer dealt a f**ked up hand of cards you've gotta play 'em [00:01:18] Humble as a mumble in the jungle [00:01:20] Of shouts and screams [00:01:21] That's the way the cracker crumbles [00:01:22] So I guess I've got to re-route my dreams [00:01:27] Humble as a mumble in the jungle [00:01:28] Of shouts and screams [00:01:30] That's the way the cracker crumbles [00:01:31] So I guess I've got to re-route my dreams [00:01:35] Too Democratic Republic f**k it [00:01:37] We chicken nugget we dip in the sauce like mop and bucket [00:01:39] Blue-collar scholars who'll take your dollar and wipe my ass wit it [00:01:42] You livin for the lotto never hit it [00:01:44] I met a critic I made her shit her drawers [00:01:45] She said she thought hip-hop was only guns and alcohol [00:01:47] I said Oh hell naw But yet it's that too [00:01:50] You can't discrimi-hate cause you done read a book or two [00:01:52] What if I looked at you in a microscope saw all the dirty organisms [00:01:55] Living in your closet would I stop and would I pause it Whoo [00:01:57] To put that bitch in slower motion got the potion and the antidote [00:02:00] And a quote for collision the decision is [00:02:02] Do you want to live or wanna exist [00:02:03] The game changes everyday so obsolete is the fist and marches [00:02:06] Speeches only reaches those who already know about it [00:02:09] This is how we go about it [00:02:10] Humble as a mumble in the jungle [00:02:12] Of shouts and screams [00:02:13] That's the way the cracker crumbles [00:02:15] So I guess I've got to re-route my dreams [00:02:19] Humble as a mumble in the jungle [00:02:21] Of shouts and screams [00:02:22] That's the way the cracker crumbles [00:02:23] So I guess I've got to re-route my dreams [00:02:27] I'm wild just like a rock a stone a tree [00:02:31] And I'm free just like the wind the breeze that blows [00:02:36] And I flow just like a brook a stream the rain [00:02:40] And I fly just like a bird up in the sky [00:02:45] And I'll surely die just like a flower plucked [00:02:49] And dragged away and thrown away [00:02:51] And then 1 day it turns to clay [00:02:53] It blows away it finds a ray it finds its way [00:02:55] And there it lays until the rain and sun