WYCLEF JEAN - Apocalypse lyrics

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Intro:<br><br>Yeah, I was looking out my window<br>When I heard this sound<br>Look up into the sky<br>Saw the moon turned to blood<br>Looked at my little brother<br>Said, you high as hell maaan<br><br>Chorus:<br><br>Apocalypse..<br>1,2 the headlines youths just rolled through<br>Apocalypse..<br>3,4 solder, 100 horsemen at your door<br>Apocalypse..<br>5,6 you wanted dead or alive, hit or miss<br>We we y'all, yeah, we we y'all<br><br>Verse one:<br><br>Arrival of the carnival<br>New beats, I never recycle<br>While your looking for samples<br>You might get trampled<br>Surprise, hey<br>I'm back with lightning and thunder<br>I heard you over saying that I was a one year wonder<br>You dumb or some, I went to refugees<br>Silly felony, when I'm done<br>Collect royalty from record company's<br>Clouds getting darker<br>Suns getting nearer<br>I'll turn a atheist into a God fearing believer<br>The back of a building<br>Your body's found by children<br>Playin' hide go seek<br>All we found was his skeleton<br>In the back of a car<br>You spawned with the wrong guard<br>You know my empire strikes back hard<br>Listen hard, war<br>This is the day after action<br>Projects, cannons<br>Being launched at the palace<br>Vision, revelation<br>Sky know apocalypse<br>Enemy pilots kamikaze into the abyss<br><br>Chorus:<br><br>Apocalypse..<br>1,2 the headlines youths just rolled through<br>Apocalypse..<br>3,4 solder, 100 horsemen at your door<br>Apocalypse..<br>5,6 you wanted dead or alive, hit or miss<br>We we y'all, yeah, we we y'all, yeah, we we y'all<br><br>Verse two:<br><br>Aiyyo, back on earth<br>The party is in the tunnel<br>On the west side of the river<br>Went mad quiver<br>Rats get fed to the alligator<br>Gun blast equivalent to the bombs in pearl harbor<br>Rescue choppers broke the turn to hiroshima<br>I'm driving to jersey to escape the terror<br>I was on the highway pushing a black viper<br>A car pulls up, is he a jack or a sniper (sniper)<br>A blue range rover, he says pull over<br>I didn't know he was a dt undercover<br>I screamed out my lungs<br>This is discrimination!<br>He tried, he said you just robbed a gas station<br>Who me? not me! it couldn't be<br>I was in the grammys with brandy<br>Didn't you see me on tv? <br>Bullshit, y'all all in the same game<br>He tried to run me off the road<br>Like he was rosco, rico or dre<br>I stayed calm, gave him a hell of a show<br>Cause when it's time to go<br>All I gotta press is turbo<br>Heard it on his walkie, road block on 280 west<br>Things got serious, that's when I bust a left<br>U-turn, my eyes burned<br>My concern was a truck coming<br>Head on collision within a chase position<br>Close one, I almost went up in a blaze<br>Running from what appears to be a masquerade<br>Least that what I thought, it was all in my mind<br>Reality stuck when I got to the borderline<br>The headline reads every ghettos sad story<br>A rookie shoots a boy over mistaken identity...<br>(crash)<br><br>Chorus repeat (2x)