Greatest Show On Earth (feat. Macy Gray) - Outkast

1.) Four Point Six Archaean horizon The first sunrise On a pristine Gaea Opus perfectum Somewhere there, us sleeping After sleeping through a hundred million centuries We have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet Sparkling with color, bountiful with life Within decades we must close our eyes again Isn't it a noble An enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun To work on understanding the universe And how we have come to wake up in it? 2.) Life The cosmic law of gravity Pulled the newborns around a fire A careless, cold infinity in every vast direction Lonely farer in the Goldilocks zone She has a tale to tell From the stellar nursery into a carbon feast Enter LUCA The tapestry of chemistry There's a writing in the garden Leading us to the Mother of all We are one We are a universe Forbears of what will be Scions of the Devonian sea Aeons pass Writing the tale of us all A day-to-day new opening For the greatest show on Earth Ion channels welcoming the outside world To the stuff of stars Bedding the tree of a biological holy Enter life The tapestry of chemistry There's a writing in the garden Leading us to the Mother of all We are one We are a universe Forbears of what will be Scions of the Devonian sea Aeons pass Writing the tale of us all A day-to-day new opening For the greatest show on Earth We are here to care for the garden The wonder of birth Of every form most beautiful Every form most beautiful We are one We are a universe Forbears of what will be Scions of the Devonian sea Aeons pass Writing the tale of us all A day-to-day new opening For the greatest show on Earth 3.) The Toolmaker After a billion years The show is still here Not a single one of your fathers died young The handy travelers Out of Africa Little Lucy of the Afar Gave birth to fantasy To idolatry To self-destructive weaponry Enter the god of gaps Deep within the past Atavistic dread of the hunted Enter Ionia, the cradle of thought The architecture of understanding The human lust to feel so exceptional To rule the Earth Hunger for shiny rocks For giant mushroom clouds The will to do just as you'd be done by Enter history, the grand finale Enter Ratkind Man, he took his time in the sun Had a dream to understand A single grain of sand He gave birth to poetry But one day'll cease to be Greet the last light of the library Man, he took his time in the sun Had a dream to understand A single grain of sand He gave birth to poetry But one day'll cease to be Greet the last light of the library Man, he took his time in the sun Had a dream to understand A single grain of sand He gave birth to poetry But one day'll cease to be Greet the last light of the library We were here! We were here! We were here! We were here! 4.) The Understanding We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones Most people are never going to die Because they are never going to be born The potential people who could have been here in my place But who will in fact never see the light of day Outnumber the sand grains of Sahara Certainly those unborn ghosts include Greater poets than Keats Scientists greater than Newton We know this Because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA So massively exceeds the set of actual people In the teeth of these stupefying odds It is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here We privileged few Who won the lottery of birth against all odds How dare we whine at our inevitable return To that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred? 5.) Sea-Worn Driftwood There is grandeur in this view of life With its several powers Having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one And that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on According to the fixed law of gravity From so simple a beginning Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been And are being, evolved

I'm a pour it out A big block 4x4 I'm a billboard A buckshot that can't be ignored I'm a drift store I was built to invade I'm the realest motherfucker and I'm coming with age I'm rib-cage Broke down, battered, and bruised I was space age Cowboy shooting the moon I'm a full blown Down home rolling stone I'm a cyclone I'll shit wherever I roam Welcome to the greatest Love you when you hate us Welcome to the greatest fuckin' show on earth Welcome to the greatest Love you when you hate us Welcome to the greatest fuckin' show on earth I'm a full blown Freak show somethin' to see Got'em lined up And waiting taking bullets from me I'm a Mack truck I'm trucking down a one-way street You better move bitch My fuck tank's on E Baby come and see me shine I'm a mountain Of fame, the last of my kind Don't test me, oppress me Arrest me or fine me You best bring it on me if you're dying to try me Welcome to the greatest Love you when you hate us Welcome to the greatest fuckin' show on earth Welcome to the greatest Love you when you hate us Welcome to the greatest fuckin' show on earth Welcome to the greatest Love you when you hate us Welcome to the greatest fuckin' show on earth Welcome to the greatest Love you when you hate us Welcome to the greatest fuckin' show on earth Welcome to the greatest Love you when you hate us Welcome to the greatest fuckin' show on earth Welcome to the greatest Love you when you hate us Welcome to the greatest fuckin' show on earth Welcome to the greatest Love you when you hate us Welcome to the greatest fuckin' show on earth

Sure do like the way it's going down With you, we could be together for years And I'm ready to make that move cross that line with you We could put some joy in each other's tears And L-O-V-E don't sum it up for me It's much M-O-R-E than any word could mean Baby ah, ah-ah 'cause it's going down Make me sing "la, la" when you come around Make me say "ooh-wee" when you look at me Baby ah, ah-ah 'cause it's going down, and I'm speechless Practicing all day what to say to you But it never seems to come out right Just know the feeling is so perfect for me and you And I want to feel it for the rest of my life And L-O-V-E don't sum it up for me It's much M-O-R-E than any word could mean Baby ah, ah-ah 'cause it's going down Make me sing "la, la" when you come around Make me say "ooh-wee" when you look at me Baby ah, ah-ah 'cause it's going down, and I'm speechless Oh, it's for sure, there is love then there is something more I'm hoping the music can express what I feel when you caress Do you hear when I scream your name? When we're laying Sure do like the way it's going down With you, we could be together for years Baby ah, ah-ah 'cause it's going down Make me sing "la, la" when you come around Make me say "ooh-wee" when you look at me Baby ah, ah-ah 'cause it's going down, and I'm - And L-O-V-E don't sum it up for me (baby ah, ah-ah 'cause it's going down) It's much M-O-R-E than any word could mean Baby ah, ah-ah 'cause it's going down (and L-O-V-E don't sum it up for me) Make me sing "la, la" (it's much M-O-R-E than any word could mean) 'Cause it's going down, and I'm speechless

That day when I made you cry Didn't think you'd say goodbye But I hurt you deep inside and I'm sorry love Hope you can understand when I went to the other man See baby, had to work my plan but you've had enough Yeah, shake me love You wake me love I'm dreamin' of ya (I know that we're) we're broken up but I'm sure it was love, my love Lately, I've been Lately, I've been coming up just like a palm tree People surrounding me Yeah, I'm popular They say I'm pretty You should come back to me (back to me) Lately, lately Yeah, baby I was a crab Didn't realize what I had Took the good and made it bad and I'm sorry love But I landed on my feet, now Lookie here and you will see, now I think you'll like me Check me out Yeah, shake me love Don't wake me love I'm dreamin' of ya (I know that we're) we're broken up but I'm sure it was love, my love Lately, I've been Lately, I've been coming up just like a palm tree People surrounding me Yeah, I'm popular They say I'm pretty (I'm pretty baby) You should come back to me (yeah, yeah) Lately, lately You have what I need and I know how it seems but it's not that way (not that way) I was chasing my dreams (I was chasing my dreams) If you only knew (if you only knew) how I felt about you, you'd be running back) (Running back) back on my street Lately (lately) I've been coming up (coming up) just like a palm tree (palm) People surrounding me Yeah, I'm popular They say I'm pretty You should come back to me (yeah) Lately, lately Lately, I've been coming up just like a palm tree People surrounding me (Yeah, all now get that I'm popular) yeah, I'm popular They say I'm pretty (yeah, that I'm pretty baby) You should come back to me Lately, lately Lately, I've been coming up (come to me) just like a palm tree People surrounding me Yeah, I'm popular They say I'm pretty You should come back to me (alright) Lately, lately

Hey, baby, baby Would you be my man? You're doin' all the right things and I'm a fan Love is a desert, baby, be my sand You do all the right things and I'm a fan And all I wanna do is be close to you Baby, baby, be the most to you The secret is I'm easy, baby I'm easy, baby We don't have to make it complicated Ooh baby, we don't have to fake it I'm ready to give you my Lucy Rhymes with Wanna give you my Lucy Rhymes with Hey, baby, baby I know the rules I'm supposed to play games with you But I'd rather play my cards Don't have to make it hard Mmm, baby when I do Wanna make love to you Baby, when I do Wanna make love to you You know I love the way you ridin' down me Love the way you ridin' down me Make my sun shine, baby Oh, for goodness sakes Ooh, you make me feel Like I'm ready, baby I'm ready to give you my Lucy Rhymes with Wanna give you my Lucy Rhymes with I'm a desert, baby Would you be my sand? I'm the sky, baby Would you be my knight? I'm the love, baby Will you be my love? See I'm ready, baby All I'm tryna say, baby I love the way you ridin' down me But if you look you will find That you really don't have to, baby 'Cause I'm ready to give you my Lucy Rhymes with Ooh, baby, my Lucy Rhymes with Ooh, baby, take my Lucy Rhymes with Ooh, baby Surely isn't easy I'm easy peasy baby Don't have too work hard Mmm, but when you do I'm your Lucy Rhymes with Ooh You're my ocean, my sunshine My ocean, my sunshine Baby love is a desert Be my man, be my sand Say I'm ready, baby Truth is I'm ready, baby Ooh, give you my Lucy Rhymes with Ooh baby Truth is I'm easy baby I'm easy Baby Don't have to work so hard Mmm, but when you do Take my Lucy