coming from

believe me

when i say

before light

there was dark

where you going

where you going?

where you going

where you going?

where you going?

if i don't know where i'm coming from

where would i go?

if i don't know where i'm coming from

where would i go?

if i don't know where i'm coming from

where would i go?

if i don't know where i'm coming from

where would i go?

places that i've have been

things that i have seen

what you call a nightmare

are what i have as dreams

bad as that may seem

i know is only going to get worse

love

a slug

which one am i gonna get first?

my journey's been a rough one

i'm not sure when it begins

but the way it's looking

i kind of know when it's gonna end

hold me down baby

it's gonna be a rough ride

niggas give us plenty of room

cause i guess enough died

let me travel

cause my intentions are to travel in peace

fuck around i lay you down

you hit the gravel and cease

i could be a beast

or i could be a gentleman

but if you ain't my dog

you gonna be like 'oh

it's him again'

niggas will never win

this whole rap game is mine

hot as you ever been

i was that in eighty nine

seek and you shall find

look within and you will know

where you coming from

and where you gotta go

come on!

if i don't know where i'm coming from

where would i go?

if i don't know where i'm coming from

where would i go?

-got to keep it real with me

if i don't know where i'm coming from

where would i go?

-so the hell with you

if i don't know where i'm coming from

where would i go?

-i think i'm going to the top

me and dmx

i will spend mad time in one spot

plotting my next move

trying to figure out what is it

that x do what x do

some questions go unanswered

that's what i'm afraid of

sometimes i can't show

but i know what i'm made of

they made love

or should i say they made lust

bound

there didn't have to be love there

but they made us

i got quite a few sisters

i was the only boy

but being with my dog

was my only joy

like a kid with a new toy

i forgot about the?

escaped the misery

didn't think about the crime

lost all track of time

was in another world

everybody knew earl

but there was another earl

like the side of the dark

riding the park but wouldn't want to

when they jump me

became a good runner

one by one they all went under

so i had the last laugh

they all thought it all was a joke

but i had the last laugh

ha ha ha ha ha ha

come on!

if i don't know where i'm coming from

where would i go?

-if i don't know

i don't know

if i don't know where i'm coming from

where would i go?

-but i know where i'm going

if i don't know where i'm coming from

where would i go?

-but i know where i'm going

if i don't know where i'm coming from

where would i go?

-do you know

do you know

i feel the ghost from within

coming back to haunt me

stay love in my peoples

even though they don't want me

when i was bad

i was forgotten

like i was dead and rotten

should've been getting love

but instead was plotting

shit wasn't right

and it was all blamed on me

didn't know that i was special till this rap shit came to be

gave me a way out

showed me it was better to teach

than bust niggas with the fo-fo

leave them dead in the streets

over beef that was worth less

than the cost of the slugs

that i bought to kill them

and that's because i thought i ought to kill them

little did i know

death wasn't right

didn't always show every breath was a life

it was to be captured in suspended animation

to be felt by all

understood by every nation

what's the sense of hating

when i can show love

what's the sense of faking

when i can show blood

now what's the moral to this story?

come on!

if i don't know where i'm coming from

where would i go?

if i don't know where i'm coming from

where would i go?

-if i don't know

i don't know

if i don't know where i'm coming from

where would i go?

-but i know where i'm coming from

if i don't know where i'm coming from

where would i go?

-do you know where you're coming from?

yonkers is where we grew

trials we got through

on top is where we staying

till the end

as long as we'll pray

on hot 97 ya hear

dmx all through the year