L.A. River Drive lyrics

[Intro:]

From the time I ride out until the time I’m home

I pray for a safe travel, God, while I’m gone

[Verse:]

Overstanders vs. overseers

Overseas or over here

Classic overachiever

Holding glass for non-believers

Hold your pass at will call

Biggest giants will fall

Lightning bolt your ear like LT

But this ain’t football

Mid-city magic

It's parades after the rat race

Wreck the grand Marshals

Buffet until they stack plates

Sparking martial arts

Heavy metal on the podium

Head spinning like Caesar

No cardboard or linoleum

Breaking history out the freezer

Finding future where the seeds are

Roll with Jesus types

Knowing these lights

Downtown Skyline

'Til the plates shifted

Big brain-teaser scriptures

Moving major motion pictures

Put the night to sleep

Then I rise

And wake the morning up

Study the Queen Calafia, California

Sprinkle holy water

Blessed oil anointed

Sell rap to spit

Some would say a circle is pointless

[Hook:]

Live from LA River Drive

But some are happy enough

To know they're getting by

Where some are at their lowest

When they're getting high

Where others try to wake them up

And open up their eyes

Where the cold streets are warming up

(Put the night to sleep

When I rise wake the morning up)

[Verse 2:]

From the time I ride out until the time I’m home

I pray for a safe travel, God, while I’m gone

They watch our moves

Every step becomes the cinema

With cameras in the street lights

The city life I live it up

Only my notable moments are here for quoting

The rest are over

Gone With The Wind

It’s like the cold is blowing

But fuck it

The pen's in motion like my Venice Ocean

Like my city done switched up

But I'm still devoted

I ride the coping out

My reputations spoke about it

A Westsider killing

'Til I'm paid in full and bills are folded

Damn, it's nothing new

Like this the cutting room floor

Picking up a scrap too less

And break the rules more

So who’s up for being up to something

Used to be a nothing

Used to be confused

But ain’t no future in yo frontin’

Times is hard as fuck

Like back when the carter struck

I'm talking new Jack

And not a new rap or some artist, look

I been different from the coast of the Pacific

The shit is scripted

Just directors with a vision... what

[Hook:]

Live from LA River Drive

But some are happy enough

To know they're getting by

Where some are at their lowest

When they're getting high

Where others try to wake them up

And open up their eyes

Where the cold streets are warming up

(Put the night to sleep

When I rise wake the morning up)

[Verse 3:]

From the time I ride out until the time I’m home

I pray for a safe travel, God, while I’m gone

Every morning that I get up

Wake up thankful that I wasn’t set up

Blessed with another day

So I bow my head and shut up

Cause anything can happen on the streets

I don’t mean I’m out of reach

Cause I’m rappin’ over beats

Ask B.I.G., ask Pac

Ask pigs, ask blocks

Disrespect

Ass drop

It don’t matter if you have props

Enemies I have not

So I don’t gotta deal with this

Been able to avoid the drama

Cause I kept it real with it

Disregard the negative

Cause all that shit is relative

Sedative with Dilated

Alchemist is editing

Rep los evidently

It’s good to be home

A microphone some moonshine

And I’m in the zone

It's on

Concrete and palm tree

Constantly we're off beat

Everything I saw today

Determines how the song be

All around the world with this

So you can say you saw me

And if you didn’t know

Double-S got an army

Like that..

[Hook:]

Live from LA River Drive

But some are happy enough

To know they're getting by

Where some are at their lowest

When they're getting high

Where others try to wake them up

And open up their eyes

Where the cold streets are warming up

(Put the night to sleep

When I rise wake the morning up)

• Artist:Dilated Peoples