![]() Can U Get It (2000) [ larger cover art ] |
I'm undaunted,
Yes, and I'm a wanted man;
I got rhymes so sleek and smooth
It's like I'm haunted
And possesed by the news
Of the hip and the hop.
Pay my dues
âTil I reach the top
Of the heap
And then the crown is mine to keep.
I burn the midnight oil while they're all asleep,
I bring home the jams without skipping a beat.
Keep the party going, get you off of your feet.
Break!
Well, in disbelief you stare in wonder
Circular time has gone asunder
You surrender to the bass line thunder
âCause I'm groovin it, all without a blunder
No drugs, no drinking
But you're in a trance,
No doubt start thinkin'
And you start to dance
And you can't resist.
So I persist and you enlist,
And it goes like this:
Sing!
Chorus
I must be doing something right!
Just keep it moving, âcause I'm dancing in the light.
I must be doing something right, right, right,
Out of the darkness âcause I'm dancing in the light!
Now don't you touch that dial
âCause you know you'd walk a mile
For rhymes in style
Brought to you by this smile.
I'm a man for all seasons;
If your chillin', I'm freezin'.
That's the reason
I'm always seekin'
About the moment
My mind is constantly roamin',
Searchin', seekin',
Like a missile I'm hoamin'
With a word I can dazzle
With a minimum hassle
From the top of my castle,
So fast
Break!
Now your pickin' up the broadcast
And at long last
Cut to the riff-raff,
Right to the Chief of Staff,
El Presidente, o'solomente,
Because the jams
Make you feel,
Explore the realms of the rythym,
Hands are on the wheel.
I'm tough and I'm driven
Like a Maserati or somethin'.
Like a Ninja, got to wind
Your body rhymes,
So hot, they're gonna singe you!
âChorus
Faster than a runaway train,
Quicker than a speeding bullet,
Burnin' hot like a flame,
Don't even try to cool it
Electric third rail packin' a thunder-like voltage
Better tuck your tail and run back underground
âCause that's where you'll end up
If it's me you try to set up
âCause I'm rock rollin' hard
And I'm a rippin' it up like a rattlesnake
I'm shakin' and you can't get enough
Quick like the viper
Bring them down like a sniper
To your microphone shakin' it
This party's an all-nighter
If you think your Superman, then I'm the Kryptonite;
If you think your Lancelot, then I'm the black night.
(I'm sayin' that)
If you think your Superman, then I'm the Kryptonite;
If you think your Lancelot, then I'm the black night.
Sing!
Chorus [twice]
Yes, and I'm a wanted man;
I got rhymes so sleek and smooth
It's like I'm haunted
And possesed by the news
Of the hip and the hop.
Pay my dues
âTil I reach the top
Of the heap
And then the crown is mine to keep.
I burn the midnight oil while they're all asleep,
I bring home the jams without skipping a beat.
Keep the party going, get you off of your feet.
Break!
Well, in disbelief you stare in wonder
Circular time has gone asunder
You surrender to the bass line thunder
âCause I'm groovin it, all without a blunder
No drugs, no drinking
But you're in a trance,
No doubt start thinkin'
And you start to dance
And you can't resist.
So I persist and you enlist,
And it goes like this:
Sing!
Chorus
I must be doing something right!
Just keep it moving, âcause I'm dancing in the light.
I must be doing something right, right, right,
Out of the darkness âcause I'm dancing in the light!
Now don't you touch that dial
âCause you know you'd walk a mile
For rhymes in style
Brought to you by this smile.
I'm a man for all seasons;
If your chillin', I'm freezin'.
That's the reason
I'm always seekin'
About the moment
My mind is constantly roamin',
Searchin', seekin',
Like a missile I'm hoamin'
With a word I can dazzle
With a minimum hassle
From the top of my castle,
So fast
Break!
Now your pickin' up the broadcast
And at long last
Cut to the riff-raff,
Right to the Chief of Staff,
El Presidente, o'solomente,
Because the jams
Make you feel,
Explore the realms of the rythym,
Hands are on the wheel.
I'm tough and I'm driven
Like a Maserati or somethin'.
Like a Ninja, got to wind
Your body rhymes,
So hot, they're gonna singe you!
âChorus
Faster than a runaway train,
Quicker than a speeding bullet,
Burnin' hot like a flame,
Don't even try to cool it
Electric third rail packin' a thunder-like voltage
Better tuck your tail and run back underground
âCause that's where you'll end up
If it's me you try to set up
âCause I'm rock rollin' hard
And I'm a rippin' it up like a rattlesnake
I'm shakin' and you can't get enough
Quick like the viper
Bring them down like a sniper
To your microphone shakin' it
This party's an all-nighter
If you think your Superman, then I'm the Kryptonite;
If you think your Lancelot, then I'm the black night.
(I'm sayin' that)
If you think your Superman, then I'm the Kryptonite;
If you think your Lancelot, then I'm the black night.
Sing!
Chorus [twice]
| gjeeg (Syracuse, New York) | Posted: May 28, 2013 - 10:05 Holy shit! Start the Party now! |
| rascal (Toronto) | Posted: Mar 26, 2013 - 14:06 Stereo Mc's meet Bare Naked Ladies' Ed Robertson.....kinda sophistimicated http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8picFNtMak |
| mkelly685 (Hesperia,CA) | Posted: Mar 26, 2013 - 14:04 ![]() |
| Rotterdam | Posted: Nov 21, 2012 - 02:15 sirdroseph wrote: God help me, I like this song! Me too!!!! |
| rdo (DC) | Posted: Oct 20, 2012 - 17:48 I thought this was Poi Dog Pondering. |
| vanmas (Leiden, Netherlands) | Posted: Sep 19, 2012 - 05:05 Makes me nervous! |
| Baby_M (a 100+-year old building in downtown Akron, Ohio) | Posted: Jul 18, 2012 - 06:58 Big dumb goofy fun! |
| iTuner | Posted: May 15, 2012 - 22:20 Had to have been in some movie. In 1990. |
| ckcotton (Adding snarky comments since 2007) | Posted: Mar 13, 2012 - 13:19 bluedot wrote: Has a good beat...so why is it so ANNOYING? I was wondering the EXACT SAME thing |
| bluedot (Long Beach, CA) | Posted: Jan 09, 2012 - 23:10 Has a good beat...so why is it so ANNOYING? |
| anending (In the vicnity) | Posted: Nov 07, 2011 - 11:59 Barenaked Ladies meets post-Lowell George Little Feat. No thanks. |
| annie_fannie (Iowa) | Posted: Nov 07, 2011 - 11:59 something about the 'superman' line in the lyrics just reminded me of Barenaked Ladies "One Week." |
| Huey (Netherlands) | Posted: May 02, 2011 - 14:14 sirdroseph wrote: God help me, I like this song! Me too !!!! |
| ziakut (A place with air, water and chocolate.) | Posted: May 02, 2011 - 14:14 Time to push a poop to the beat! Hmm... |
| vandal (arriving somewhere, but not here. . .) | Posted: May 02, 2011 - 14:14 I like it. . . |
| SuzG (at my desk) | Posted: May 02, 2011 - 14:12 Am in an alternate universe? By myself? I like the soundtrack, don't get me wrong, but... ![]() |
| sirdroseph (Yes) | Posted: Jan 28, 2011 - 04:56 God help me, I like this song! |
| WonderLizard (2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise) | Posted: Dec 27, 2010 - 20:49 craigh wrote: Guessing a mandelbrot is like a fractal/fibonnaci type thing? tres fun-kay. Some would say Benoit Madelbrot invented fractal geometry, but he would disagree. He died this year. ![]() |
| rowdydaisy (Chicago, IL) | Posted: Aug 22, 2010 - 19:26 I had to look. this is fun! |
| Cynaera (South of Neanderthal) | Posted: Aug 22, 2010 - 19:26 Thea wrote: woo! that was the first time in a long time I was compelled, like a little marionette, to get up and SHAKE IT! that was fun. and now I'm awake again. :) Me, too! And it's bad that I'm awake, because it's close to check-out time for me, but I still wanna keep dancing!!! ![]() |
| Cynaera (South of Neanderthal) | Posted: Aug 22, 2010 - 19:23 Never heard this song, or this group, before. FUN! ![]() |
| cohifi (Denver) | Posted: Jul 21, 2010 - 20:33 We be rockin' i think now. Is this the house band? |
| voicers (Sausalito, CA) | Posted: Apr 17, 2010 - 10:18 Just saw them in Lowell, MA. Nice to hear a local favorite on RP! |
| plaice3 | Posted: Apr 17, 2010 - 10:07 Local band! Always fun! |
| Ja300Mes (North Fork) | Posted: Mar 16, 2010 - 20:06 That was cool! |
| helgigermany (Germany) | Posted: Dec 12, 2009 - 10:06 Nice! |
| craigh | Posted: Aug 08, 2009 - 11:11 fredriley wrote: Love the blarting, honking trombone. And the funked-up Mandelbrot set on the cover :) (which is probably a bit dated in these days of complexity rather than chaos, but wtf). Guessing a mandelbrot is like a fractal/fibonnaci type thing? tres fun-kay. |
| fredriley (Nottingham, UK) | Posted: May 05, 2009 - 07:02 Love the blarting, honking trombone. And the funked-up Mandelbrot set on the cover :) (which is probably a bit dated in these days of complexity rather than chaos, but wtf). |
| lawman (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK) | Posted: May 05, 2009 - 07:01 jjbix wrote: weak HA HA! You provocative little tinker, you! (8) |
| mr_toad | Posted: May 05, 2009 - 07:01 how many humans does it take to become human?????? |
| Al_Koholic (Exit 82, New Joisey) | Posted: Jan 30, 2009 - 15:45 stkman wrote: gave it a 7 but think its goin to a 8 next time I hear it, great drums just makes ya smile Ditto-moving to 8 as we speak |
| Xeric (Up on the Roof) | Posted: Jan 30, 2009 - 15:45 bronorb wrote: Very "Little Feat"-like. Which is a good thing, BTW. Yeah, okay, I can hear where you're hearing that. But the Feats was Gods, and this sucks, anyway. . . . |
| stkman (Texas) | Posted: Dec 30, 2008 - 00:47 gave it a 7 but think its goin to a 8 next time I hear it, great drums just makes ya smile |
| giotto (Vienna/Austria) | Posted: Dec 30, 2008 - 00:45 Cool Stuff. A real mover. Solid 8. |
| kaybee (Lost in the Wilds of Toronto) | Posted: Nov 28, 2008 - 19:41 Hey, it's Joe Jackson with ADS disorder... oh, wait Joe Jackson does have ADS!! ![]() |
| jjbix (san diego) | Posted: Aug 25, 2008 - 15:35 weak |
| macadavy (Cascadia's attic, eh?) | Posted: May 23, 2008 - 00:35 Kick-ass jungle drummin' - I like! |
| phoenix (southern tip of the melting pot) | Posted: Feb 18, 2008 - 13:13 a little desk dancing to snap out of that afternoon funk |
| Thea (Sacramento) | Posted: Dec 17, 2007 - 16:13 woo! that was the first time in a long time I was compelled, like a little marionette, to get up and SHAKE IT! that was fun. and now I'm awake again. :) |
| reviep (Ontario, Canada) | Posted: Nov 16, 2007 - 06:26 catchy |
| slithytove (Martha's Vineyard, MA) | Posted: Nov 16, 2007 - 06:25 One of the great Martha's Vineyard bands |
| sdn (Philadelphia) | Posted: Nov 16, 2007 - 06:24 Well, I'm awake now! |
| danagraves (Oklahoma) | Posted: Sep 14, 2007 - 11:22 Driving drums a-rama!! Dancing in the light for sure...keep it movin'! |
| bronorb (Wisconsin) | Posted: Sep 14, 2007 - 11:22 Very "Little Feat"-like. Which is a good thing, BTW. |
| rtkmusic (SoCal) | Posted: Sep 14, 2007 - 11:22 I initially thought this was acceptable, but never ho-hum. After a few moments I realized it was quite likeable!! |
| sukilau (cellar dweller) | Posted: Sep 14, 2007 - 11:20 does anyone else think that the dude Bill is playing cards with (his son, I think) on the home page looks like Ralph Fiennes???? (a compliment) |
| Raechel | Posted: Jul 13, 2007 - 13:31 Yes, they are doing something right Most excellent |
| smackiepipe (Western North Carolina) | Posted: Jun 12, 2007 - 04:00 Great driving song. The live version of this takes it up even another notch! It's been played here, too. |
| firedog13 (Boston, Ma. USA) | Posted: Jun 12, 2007 - 03:52 sounds like a backtrat from ghost buters,movie god wake up music.a 4.0Wizzuvv_oz wrote: very good! lol. I'll have what he's having!! |
| Wizzuvvoz (middle of the road in the groin of America) | Posted: May 11, 2007 - 19:00 sqqqrly wrote: Acceptable...lol |




