Tinseltown to the Boogiedown

Time-time keeps slippin'

Time-time keeps slippin'

Time-time keeps slippin'

Yo, the only thing Major don't waste is time in bed

My timin' is rare

Take time, time to prepare

No time for fear, how many times I said it this year?

At what time y'all gonna realize your time is near?

Call a time out — Scritti Politti

Major climbed out the cracks of the streets

Waste no time on beats

Mos Def — most definitely the rap chief

The new release, time to make C.R.E.A.M., time to take a piece

And at the same time, time to build, time is realer

I swear I bring the Heat to tracks like Val Kilmer

You know that time waits for no man, in time you'll see

That you wastin' all you time while you watchin' TV

A-yo, Scritti, I'm on it like walls to graffiti

From night sticks to plungers, to NYPD

From Lucille to BB King, you see me rhyme

You stay away from drama if it's wastin' your time

The time tables keep turnin' (From Tinseltown)

You've got the both ends burnin' up (To the Boogiedown)

Time-time keeps slippin' (They play for time, and work for spaces)

The time tables keep turnin' (From Tinseltown)

You've got the both ends burnin' up

(And clocks are wound, and worked around)

Time-time keeps slippin' (And in their prime, they change their faces)

From Boogiedown to Tinseltown, I had 'em all gettin' down

My baggage claim's got exotic names, I get around

How I'm livin' now? Well, that's a whole lot different now

From where I'm sittin' at, got a whole clearer vision now

I played the tables hard, wild cards I was flippin' down

My partner's hittin' pounds somewhere up in prison now

I'm flippin' how things switch and change so suddenly

You're where you're at today, tomorrow is where you wanna be

You company shift when you start livin' comfortably (Word)

Spotlights switch, and then you dip right from under me

Don't front for me! I wanna be perfectly clear

That time is here, I'm keepin' yesterday in the rear

A current affair, Mos Def and Lee Majors appear

'Bout to rock this little ditty with the Scritti in here

And it's about that time, so if you could, then would you?

Sit back and look at who time's been good to

See that?!

The time tables keep turnin' (From Tinseltown)

You've got the both ends burnin' up (To the Boogiedown)

Time-time keeps slippin' (They play for time, and work for spaces)

The time tables keep turnin' (From Tinseltown)

You've got the both ends burnin' up

(And clocks are wound, and worked around)

Time-time keeps slippin' (And in their prime, they change their faces)

At one time, I thought I had it all, mass of broads

Flash awards, cash cards, time's a double-edged sword

One day you hear applause, next day when you leave

You catch a L in the C like Christopher Reeves

Would y'all believe that these cats threw dirt on my name?

Give 'em time, they couldn't win if I gave 'em point game

At times I used to swerve, now I'm learnin' my lane

Trapped in time, what a shame, with nobody to blame

It waits for no one

The fast and slow ones

The rich and no funds

The samurais and shoguns

The first drinkin' nora

A-yo, dunn! You better hop to it or you blow, son

'Cause time keeps slippin', make no difference if you don't come

It's bein' well recorded how we sport it, I advise we

Get on our game and do our thang, and spend these moments wisely

It's time to make chase, give pace, no time to waste

First you on, then you gone — so long, you been replaced

The time tables keep turnin' (From Cali high)

You've got the both ends burnin' up (To the Do-or-Die)

Time-time keeps slippin' (They set their heart, and fix their courses)

The time tables keep turnin' (And dreams of dreams)

You've got the both ends burnin' up (Of how it seems)

Time-time keeps slippin' (They steel themselves, they are resources)

The time tables keep turnin' (From Tinseltown)

You've got the both ends burnin' up (To the Boogiedown)

Time-time keeps slippin' (They play for time)

(And work for spaces)

The time tables keep turnin' (And clocks are wound)

You've got the both ends burnin' up (And worked around)

(And in their prime, they change their faces)

The time tables keep turnin'

You've got the both ends burnin' up

And all the lies you been learnin'

To keep your future on hold