Featured In
Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Q-Tip
Vocals
Yolanda Quartey
Background Vocals
Mark Ralph
Bass Guitar
Ed Simons
Programming
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Q-Tip
Songwriter
Ed Simons
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Steve "Dub" Jones
Engineer
Tom Rowlands
Mixing Engineer
Steve Dub
Mixing Engineer
Blair Wells
Recording Engineer
Gloria Kaba
Assistant Recording Engineer
Richard Adlam
Recording Engineer
Hal Ritson
Recording Engineer
Mike Marsh
Mastering Engineer
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Uh
Uh
[Verse 2]
Can't think, can't sleep
Can't breathe, uh
Can't think, can't
[Verse 3]
Everything getting hard to find
Everybody jumping outta they mind
Everybody going outta they skins
See, we get to the end, but that's where we begin
You feel it?
[Verse 4]
Mannequins and we breaking the mold
Breaking out and we breaking the codes
Similar to the Jacques Cousteau
To the depths and you're wet, so your tank explodes
So get it out
[Verse 5]
Send your body to flight
Everybody got a target tonight
Everybody come along for the ride
All you studs and you duds and your ladies is fly
[Verse 6]
Grip the moment like you gripping the Earth
Feel the weight and you feeling the girth
Now you get it, now you feeling your worth
Feeling the sound you used to make when everything used to hurt
It goes
[Verse 7]
(Oh) No time to rest
Just do your best
(Oh) What you hear is not a test
We're only here to make you
We're only here to make you
We're only here to make you
We're only here to make you go
[Verse 8]
Gotta go, gotta make it in time
Brightest start, gonna be the guide
Gotta get you to the other side
To where the butterflies and where the peace resides
But first
[Verse 9]
Five minutes for the fifteen of fame
Five seconds 'fore you're saying my name
I'm deadly, sharpshooting the game
Gonna hit you and the sole execution is aim
[Verse 10]
Get together and we building a fire
Clear smoke and it's taking us higher
Hands up, everyone is one
If you see yourself making it, you're seeing the sun
[Verse 11]
Metropolis on the edge of control
They take our money but they won't take our soul
Fuck that, ain't gon' do it no more
Won't do what we told and we ain't gonna fold
We go
[Verse 12]
(Oh) No time to rest
Just do your best
(Oh) What you hear is not a test
We're only here to make you
We're only here to make you
We're only here to make you
We're only here to make you go
[Verse 13]
Go
Go
Go
Go
Go
[Verse 14]
Can't think, can't sleep
Can't breathe, uh
Can't think, can't sleep
Can't breathe, uh
[Verse 15]
Everybody jumping outta they mind
Everybody going outta they skins
Everybody jumping outta they mind
Everybody going outta they skins
[Verse 16]
Uh, uh
Uh
Uh, uh
Uh
[Verse 17]
Uh, uh
Uh
Uh, uh
Uh
[Verse 18]
(Oh) No time to rest
Just do your best
(Oh) What you hear is not a test
Uh, we're only here to make you
We're only here to make you
We're only here to make you
We're only here to make you go
[Verse 19]
(G-O)
Written by: Ed Simons, Kamaal Fareed, Tom Rowlands