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Strange Ways

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Strange Ways was released on March 23, 2004 by Stones Throw Records as a part of the album Madvillainy

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LYRICS

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

Madlib

Programming

MF DOOM

Vocals

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Otis Jackson Jr

Otis Jackson Jr

Composer

Daniel Dumile

Composer

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

Madlib

Producer

MF DOOM

Recording Engineer

Dave Cooley

Mastering Engineer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Wreak havoc, beep beep, it's mad traffic

Sleek and lavish, people speaking, leaking to the maverick

He see it as just another felony drug arrest

Any day could be the one he picked the wrong thug to test

Slug through the vest, shot in the street

For pulling heat on a father who baby's gotta eat

And when they get hungry, it ain't shit funny

Paid to interfere with how a brother get his money now

Who's the real thugs, killers and gangsters?

Set the revolution, let them things bust and thank us

When the smoke clear and you can see the sky again

There will be the chopped off heads of Leviathan

My friend, they call 'em strangers

Anybody talk to 'em, end up in some danger

[Verse 2]

Can't reform 'em

[Verse 3]

They pray four times a day, they pray five

Who ways is strange when it's time to survive?

Some will go of they own free will to die

Others take them with you when they blow sky high

What's the difference? All you get is lost children

While the bosses sit up behind the desks

It costs billions to blast humans in half, into calves and arms

Only one side is allowed to have bombs

It's like making a soldier drop his weapon

Shooting him and telling him to get to stepping

Obviously they came to portion up his fortune

Sounds to me like that old robbery extortion

[Verse 4]

Same game

You can't reform 'em

[Verse 5]

That Mary was going around with an old flame

That burned me up

Because I knew he was just feeding her a line

But the guy really spent his money like water

I think he was connected, so I left

Outside, it was raining cats and dogs

I was feeling mighty blue

And everything looked black

But I carried on

Written by: Daniel Dumile, Otis Jackson Jr

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