Untouchables

You and me are about to Escape in the days of cold Fire, drugs and desire. Gas and ice are a Syncapated sound That sends us back along Where the skins hung out But it was O.K. It was all right We were, we were The untouchables tonight You and me well we're waitin' on a corner Share drag and a joke With only fools to save us We laughed and cried, split our sides At what they told us That it will be O.K. It will be all right We were, we were The untouchables tonight I've coloured my life with voodoo And Ice diamonds they are my life But time is stacked against us It takes some of us home Will pick our souls, turn up in you While it sets me free Old friends young and new, what'll I do When you're gone too It'll be all right It'll be O.K. If I believe tonight If I believe we're right And then we'll be, we'll really be The untouchables tonight The untouchables tonight The untouchables tonight The untouchables tonight The untouchables tonight

Hello to you, my sweet young friends Have you got money perhaps you could lend? I wash my leather face in the afternoon sun My shirt's turn my time's near done Touching the untouchables but they don't know Respect the disrespectables, but in the end you know You turn away, what can I say? Spend my nights in the telephone booth I make sure I leave the phone off the hook There are no Jones' and I pay no rent I have to stand straight because my back's so bent Tell my secretary I ain't takin' any calls, And if you want to find me, just ask the boys... Down at the wall... That's where I'll be... Oh... Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh Park bench and cigarettes Can you help me get off this fence? Can't you see, I'm just an old man Tryin' hard, do what I can Touching the untouchables but they don't know Repect the disrespectables, but in the end you know You turn away, what can I say? You'll never, never know You'll never know

This is poetry in motion Try to catch on, stay close to the host And MC's try to make the road rough but I'm coastin Ladies hear the rhymes rub em on like lotion Hit spots soothin, can't stop movin Go ahead bust a sweat and you can bet I'm still coolin When I detain it's a brainstorm Never the same form, every brain I rained on is warm Takin a trip through Memory Lane to Melody See if you could tell if these thoughts to fell MC's Could do you justice, but you can't touch this Some kid just tried to bust this but he just missed I'm universal and much more merciful So versatile with the style it's reversable I get away even if I say a curse or two First, let me bust another verse for you Your arms too short to box with Ra so quit You don't want no kind of conflict Or you'll get stripped as the rhyme is ripped Pick up the pieces now ain't that peace yeah I'm hip Everything I said flows since my intro I plant a thought extend and then grow Holdin my pen tightly it might be Controversy at first when I write the Chords of research don't just take it for granted When I'm gone my mind remains a planet If I keep buildin, and teach the children So when they read in between the lines it's filled in I break to meditate, not a peep, concentrate Till I'm deep awake, but not asleep At the same time risin and advertisin What is true, keep advised and you can stay wise And I'm untouchable Comin over the bridge take a peak at the skyline Cause that's how I shine not only when I rhyme My culture's makin me stronger, mentally Physically I'm powerful poetry now that could be Labelled as art placed in a museum Style'll make scenery, now you see 'em Exhibit a knowledge that's packed and filled with Nothin illiterate it's facts I build with My mind's untouchable which means intangible Contents never dense it's understandable I study life so I can live it the right way No time to hear what another brother might say Why sell a capsule of crack I don't have to I rhyme and sign million dollar contracts to Put message on records that's graced with hard bass Smugglin microphones, this ain't Scarface Whoever talked that talk, I wanna hawk And don't try to Escape From New York Cross a 110th Street lookin for a problem It's Hell Up In Harlem, watch Ra solve em I hear the music clear as I get near The hundred and twenty fifth street Apollo Theater Take a step back when I rap I step up to you... I'm untouchable Put on my thinking cap pump the track Test your reflex relax but in contact You fold and lose control so hold your partner closer You're supposed to keep your composure But you hear the drum said go then it gets so hype It's like nitro opponents get petro Remember the trademark left by the R That's never soft or smooth it's comin off the hardest In effect, you could die-tect the imposter Takin my props, Rakim is still proper I'm a prophet, you can't stop it, when I drop it Everything I say, coincide with the topic Thoughts bounce around till my skull is fractured Inside my brain it's all manufactured As we go deeper it's hard to find Don't even think about it, cause you can't read my mind It's clear so therefore you need a ear or inclined In the mind with some kind of idea for The style I'm advertisin what is true Keep advised that you stay wise and the mind Is untouchable

G-shock goes off in the early morn See I wake up fly no makeup on Check my two way pager just to stay up on Lord have mercy goes my cellular phone Who dis? It's Penelope tell me what the deal Number 32 he at you say he tryna keep it real Yeah, I saw him in the club he was tryna front Money knows I got a man what the hell he want He got a Benz, we got that too (They say he got ends) Don't he know how we do? Fo' sho yo don't they know we gotta own dough We untouchable when them other chicks are so so Our flow, untouchable Our dough, untouchable What we know, untouchable Everywhere we go Our whips, untouchable The way we spit, untouchable Don't trip, untouchable Don't it make you sick You can't resist 'cuz that's what's it Untouchable You gotta roll wit it 'Cuz we about to take control in it It ain't our fault, you probably end up gettin' froze in it You tryna get on we rockin' fits from Milan We pushin' private jets but what flight you finna get on Struttin' through the club heads turnin' twice Peeped ya'll hatin' but that's alright Now ya all up on us like white on rice Tryna put us on lock take a vow for life What about his keys? You should give those back What about the ice? Now, you should keep that He's so fly, he's so fine So many guy's so little time A'ight T Mo gotta pass the test Independent intellect surpass the rest He gotta comp Timbos, rock corn rolls Make me feel like E-I, keep me up like no doze Our crew, untouchable The Lou, untouchable Our girl Drew, untouchable Everywhere we go Our mates, untouchable What we create, untouchable Ya'll late, untouchable Please try not to hate It'd be a waste, for heaven's sake Untouchable Grasp reality, gain control Stop hatin' on us and how we roll If you really wanna know Be true to yourself, be untouchable Our presence burns holes like fire An untouchables' only desire It's respect don't neglect How we feel keep it real If you do then we'll take you higher Untouchable, untouchable Untouchable, be untouchable Untouchable, untouchable Untouchable, be untouchable Be untouchable Our flow, untouchable Our dough, untouchable What we know, untouchable Everywhere we go Our whips, untouchable The way we spit, untouchable Don't trip, untouchable Don't it make you sick? You can't resist 'cuz that's what's it Untouchable Untouchable, untouchable, untouchable Everywhere we go Untouchable, untouchable, untouchable Please try not to hate It'd be a waste, for heaven's sake Untouchable Untouchable, untouchable, untouchable Everywhere we go Untouchable, untouchable, untouchable Don't it make you sick? You can't resist 'cuz that's what's it Untouchable