[00:00.00] 作词 : William Griffin/ERIC BARRIER[00:00.21] 作曲 : William Griffin/ERIC BARRIER[00:00.42]Artist:eric b. & rakim[00:01.92]Songs Title:run for cover[00:03.23][00:04.97][00:20.01]Run for cover.[00:29.50]Here I go again, ready to flow again.[00:31.91]Better hope my mic dont blow again.[00:33.66]Warned by alarms when the mic gets warm.[00:35.91]Crowdll get critical, cant keep calm.[00:37.91]Jet for the exit, why hang around?[00:40.34]Words that I found make the mic melt down.[00:42.52]If you stay, better cooperate, cuz I amputate,[00:44.77]And whoever dont break, im-a suffocate.[00:47.58]Leave em with asthma, you better pass the[00:49.33]Mic to the massacre master who has the[00:50.70]Power to build and destoy at the same time,[00:53.51]So track the wack at the right, and exact could[00:56.18]Shine.[00:56.50]Meant to beat overheat, but I wont stop,[00:58.44]So evacuate the spot when the mics hot.[01:00.81]Switch it from one hand to another,[01:02.74]And thats a hint, my brother, run for cover.[01:05.11]Cuz Im armed, my brain contains a bomb,[01:07.10]As if I escaped from vietnam.[01:08.41]Some people label me lethal, lyrics I made then put[01:11.23]Beats to.[01:11.67]Format, collapse your lungs twist your tongues,[01:13.47]You cant bump your gums off of none of the drums.[01:18.34]Words that I madell create an iller scene,[01:20.21]Eric b. is the fly human being on the guillotine.[01:23.21]Hook em up to a respirator, cuz its the mista[01:25.64]Suffocator.[01:25.83]What I write is like shovin a mic down your[01:28.76]Windpipe.[01:29.02]Dont let him bite rhymes rakim write.[01:31.19]No mic-to-mouth resuscitation is neccessary;[01:32.32]No obituary, and nothing left to bury.[01:36.19]As it strikes on the same mic twice and then,[01:38.75]Cut it on, and im-a strike again.[01:40.68]I meditate off the breaks, till the place shakes,[01:42.68]Then I make rain, hail, snow and earthquakes.[01:44.23]Speak the truth, tear the roof off the mother.[01:46.79]The stage is stompin grounds -- run for cover.[01:49.17]Evacuate the building, danger, cuz I came to[02:01.50]Explain the[02:02.56]Strategy thatll be tragic automatically,[02:03.87]Havin me to cause another catastrophe.[02:07.62]All you gotta do is give rakim the[02:09.74]Microphone and the crowdll yell timber.[02:10.99]Buildings collapsin, rappers gettin trapped in,[02:13.04]Areas closed off, no one gets back in.[02:16.04]So set up roadblocks, barricade the doors,[02:18.04]Fade, put a detour sign on the stage.[02:20.59]Hold my microphone as evidence, the weapon I use[02:23.28]And been usin ever since[02:24.84]The days in the park when, rap was an art then.[02:27.46]Plus I was dominant, determined and dark-skinned.[02:29.09]Makin it hard to walk the streets at night[02:31.71]For those who talk the weak beats on the mic.[02:34.07]Whoevers livin large better wear camouflage.[02:35.52]Prepare to be bumrushed when I yell charge.[02:37.51]Surround by sound of the beat-down another brother,[02:40.63]This is stompin grounds, run for cover.[02:42.69]Wheels or foot, better not stay put.[02:44.99]Whole place shook till the mics unhooked.[02:46.62]Then youve got seven minutes to vacate the[02:49.18]Premises.[02:49.42]Lyricsll echo soon as the break finishes.[02:51.24]Dont act wild, single file to the door.[02:52.86]No need for an encore, just clear the floor.[02:56.11]Cuz my mics about to self destruct,[02:57.72]The stagell blow up when my rhymes erupt.[03:00.78]So make sure the place is cleared out and abandoned,[03:03.04]Cuz minutes from now it wont be standin.[03:04.90]Then send out and a.p.b.: all poets beware of a[03:08.40]Brother like me.[03:09.52]Now how many rhymes could your man manufacture?[03:11.40]How many bitin mcs can I capture?[03:13.51]Trap rappers who try to run off at the mouth;[03:16.26]Take over their route, play em out like a cub[03:18.45]Scout.[03:18.69]So leave troopin for mcs at war,[03:20.32]And if its a battle let the crowd keep score.[03:22.68]Cuz me and the drummer make drama, and thats word[03:25.00]To mother...run for cover.