GRANDMASTER FLASH - All Wrapped Up lyrics

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Words: l.dukes, n.glover music: j.saddler - 1987 from the album ba-dop-boom-bang<br><br>All wrapped up(x2)<br><br>You're entangled in a great big ball of confusion<br>Trapped in a world that is just an illusion<br>You're thinking it's real but that's not what's happening<br>Well,we're here to let you know the real deal<br>(that's why we're rappin')<br>(yo)life's just a game,one great big riddle<br>And we're all wrapped up,smack dab in the middle<br>Play the lotto everyday in hopes you're gonna win it<br>But it's just another game and you're wrapped up in it<br>You haven't won it yet,but you ain't had enough<br>'cause you know it like a poet,you're (all wrapped up)<br><br>All wrapped up(x2)<br><br>We're gonna rap about the game that people are playin'<br>(yo)if you're ready,just listen to what I'm sayin'<br>Talking about homeboys and the fly young ladies<br>Men,woman,sons,daughters and the little-bitty babies<br>Speaking on the def jams everybody's be-bopping<br>Super stupid,cold chillin' and the party is rockin'<br>Soap opera in the day got the ladies cold illin'<br>One life to live(you know it) and all my chillin'<br>You know you gotta have it,too much ain't enough<br>Because the fact of the matter is you're all wrapped up<br><br>All wrapped up (x2)<br><br>Doctors wrapped up in the ill and the sick<br>We got wrapped up in politics<br>Some wrapped up in living long<br>(and you're)all wrapped up in the beat of his song<br>Gamblers wrapped up in making bets<br>And the lovers wrapped up in this game called sex<br>(now trouble's)out there and it won't ignore ya<br>Don't look for any trouble,it'll surely look for ya<br>If you try to play tough then it's just your luck<br>That it'll call your bluff and then trouble's gotcha all wrapped up<br>All wrapped up (x2)<br><br>You're seen hanging on the corner nine days a week<br>(you gonna blow)you don't know you're wrapped up in the streets<br>Sporting 50-dollar sneakers and all the money's spent<br>While mom's (all wrapped up) trying to pay rent<br>We got the weekeng girls and all you fly guys<br>Wrapped up in a world of 9-to-5<br>We got the sly,slick and wicked,ain't it funny<br>(yo)how they're (all wrapped up) cold trying to take money<br>If you get it,you're with it,(if) you don't,that's tough<br>And you know the real reason is you're<br>(all wrapped up)<br><br>All wrapped up (x4)