[intro]
\nLadies and gentlemen, I hope you're enjoying your evening
\nI want to thank each and every one of you for your
\nPatience and patronage at this little lounge of ours
\nPrepare for the main attraction of the night
\nFrom our performing group and amazing donators
\nTo this club, Theo and The Journeymen
\nWe got something special for all of you tonight
\nSo be sure to turn them ears up and keep them voices down
\nOr sing along if you like this sound
\n(I love you Theo)
\nThank you, thank you, yeah
\n
\n[Chorus]
\nSo you ain't gotta tell me nothin baby
\nAlready played the game without a name
\nNerodia floatin in the lake
\nIf you ain't careful baby ya boat'll tank
\nNo you ain't gotta tell me nuttin baby
\nIm vigilant no blinders on me
\nYa circle made out of eraser shavings
\nWatch the fan as it blows it all away
\n
\n[verse 1]
\nBy me, are yes men hidden by a mask
\nI can buy me, a best friend and he'll have my back
\nWon't surprise me, if he was poison ivy
\nHe burnin me so slowly i won't even know im dying
\nIts likely, a den of snakes is what im in
\nGon' turn on me once my usefulness comes to an end
\nCan't play pretend cause my wits im at the end
\nI might have an accident
\nThen money goes to my friends when im gone
\n
\n[bridge]
\nIn a crowded room we all stand shoulder to shoulder
\nBack to back
\nClad in black with cabaret masks strapped tit for tat
\nPlastered smiles seem to go on for miles
\nWomen and men socialize to fill their time and all that while
\nIts a game of chess, you playin to fill your pockets and making bets
\nGauge what you can take and give as little back
\nTo settle or cause a debt
\nEnvious faces show their teeth thinking about your death
\nPearly whites show when your pearly gates lie straight ahead
\nCat and mouse
\nEyes watching carefully stalking their prey
\nA game of attrition, and the winners invite you to play
\n
\n[Chorus]
\nNo you ain't gotta tell me nothin bae
\nNo sheep in me, im focused im in my lane
\nThese people love you when they in yo face
\nCan shake ya hand, while they hiding a grenade
\nNo you dont gotta tell nothin bae
\nIve been around so ive heard the same thing
\nNerodia floatin in the lake
\nIf you ain't careful baby ya boat'll tank
\n
\n[verse 2]
\nFellatio from fallacious love interests following interest
\nIn my financial interests, so these girls i give no trust
\nCause if money's gone their love turns pixie dust
\nFairy tales of affinity with femininity, putting me through mental agility
\nThrough infinity gotta be flexible
\nTo buy the lies these people be sellin me
\nWho really got my back there just is no telling
\nSee, i see the horizon
\nWay beyond the ocean
\nDouble-dealing abundantly
\n
\n[bridge]
\nSnakes they sleeping up under me
\nMovin' around uncomfortably
\nUnsure if im layin with vipers ready to puncture me
\nSo i keep a small company
\nOthers, i love em all from a distance
\nBut little did i know
\nSome poisons already been snuck in
\nI danced with the devil and now im bein tucked in
\nBlack robes and velvet wrappings on my crest
\nBeware of the company that you choose to invest
\nDre, Dre you can- you can take us out
\nDre let it go
\n
\n[outro]
\nAight everybody thank you, thank you so much for that- listening to that first track
\nAight quiet down now quiet down now
\nThank you to the amazing Dre brown on horns and backing vocals, and my lovely brother Tommy
\nTommy on drums getting us through the night
\nCan't forget about James killing it on that piano too, but this next song i got for yall is a fan favorite
\nTommy hit the bass and imma need all of yall to snap along if you already know what it is\n\n
