Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Melle Mel
Performer
Grandmaster Flash
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Melle Mel
Songwriter
Sylvia Robinson
Songwriter
Lyrics
[Intro]
Fun, baby
[Intro]
Freeze
Rock
[Intro]
Bass
Ooh, white
White
Ooh, white
White
Ooh, white
White
Ooh
[Chorus]
White lines
Vision dreams of passion
Blowin' through my mind
And all the while, I think of you
High rise
A very strange reaction
For us to unwind
The more I see, the more I do
Something like a phenomenon
Baby
Tellin' your body to come along
But white lines blow away
Blow
Rockin'
Blow
[Verse 1]
Ticket to ride White Line Highway
Tell all your friends they can go my way
Pay your toll, sell your soul
Pound for pound, cost more than gold
The longer you stay, the more you pay
My white lines go a long way
Either up your nose or through your fame
With nothing to gain except killin' your brain
[Chorus]
Freeze
Rock
Freeze
Rock
Freeze
Rock
Freeze
Rock
Blow
[Chorus]
Higher, baby
Get higher, baby
Get higher, baby
And don't ever come down
Freebase
[Chorus]
Rang-dang diggity dang da-dang
Rang-dang diggity dang da-dang
Rang-dang diggity dang da-dang
Diggity dang da-dang, diggity dang da-dang
[Verse 2]
White lines
Pure as the driven snow
Connected to my mind
And now I'm havin' fun, baby
High rise
It's gettin' kinda low
'Cause it makes you feel so nice
I need some one-on-one, baby
Don't let her blow your mind away
Baby
And go into your little hideaway
'Cause white lines blow away
Blow
Rockin'
Blow
[Verse 3]
A million magic crystals
Painted pure and white
A multi-million dollars
Almost overnight
Twice as sweet as sugar
Twice as bitter as salt
And if you get hooked, baby
It's nobody else's fault
So don't do it
[Chorus]
Freeze
Rock
Freeze
Rock
Freeze
Rock
Freeze
Rock
Rock
Blow
[Chorus]
Higher, baby
Get higher, baby
Get higher, baby
And don't ever come down
Freebase
[Chorus]
Don't you get too high
Don't you get too high, baby
Turns you on
You really turn me on and on
'Cause you gotta come down
My temperature is risin'
When the thrill is gone
No, I don't want you to go
[Verse 4]
A street kid gets arrested
Gonna do some time
He got out three years from now
Just to commit more crime
A business man is caught with twenty-four kilos
He's out on bail and out of jail
And that's the way it goes, rah
[Verse 5]
Cane
Sugar
Cane
Sugar
Cane
[Verse 6]
Athletes rejected
Governors corrected
Gangsters, thugs, and smugglers
Are thoroughly respected
The money gets divided
The women get excited
Now I'm broke and it's no joke
It's hard as hell to fight it, don't buy it
[Chorus]
Freeze
Rock
Freeze
Rock
Freeze
Rock
Freeze
Rock
Rock
Blow
[Chorus]
Get higher, baby
Get higher, girl
Get higher, baby
Come on
[Verse 7]
White lines
Vision dreams of passion
Blowin' through my mind
And all the while, I think of you
High rise
A very strange reaction
For us to unwind
The more I see, the more I do
Somethin' like a phenomenon
Baby
Tellin' your body to come along
But white lines blow away
[Verse 8]
Little Jack Horner sittin' on the corner
With no shoes and clothes
This ain't funny, but he took his money
And sniffed it up his nose
[Outro]
Hey, man, you wanna cop some blow?
Sure, what you got, dust flakes or rocks?
I got China White, Mother of Pearl, Ivory Flake, what you need?
Why don't you let me check it out, man?
Just lemme get a freeze
Go ahead, man, the stuff I got should kill you
Yeah, man, that's, that's raw, uh
[Outro]
Don't do it, baby
Baby
Don't do it, do it, do it, baby
Don't do it
Don't do it, do it, don't do it, do it, do it, do it
[Outro]
Freeze
Rock
Freeze
Rock
Freeze
Rock
Freeze
Rock
Written by: Melle Mel, Sylvia Robinson