Millennium

By OutKast

On ATLiens

Released on August 27, 1996

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[Verse 1: André 3000]

Me and everything around me is unstable like Chernobyl

Ready to go at any moment, jumping like a pogo stick

Life never lived up to my expectations, so I accept the patience

Expect the worse, but now I'm pacin'

Back and forth; inside, I'm melting like water on wicked witches

A monster truck done came and ran over my picket fences

I had the best of life in my clenches, but monkey wrenches was thrown

Like chairs kings sit on, my prayers seem too long

I fall asleep before the ending, don't even get to say "amen"

I hope He understand I be on bended knees

At times, I think I'm crazy, then I say, "forget it"

Or maybe it's the devil infiltrating, and, like Riddick

Bowe – I've been fighting this since them fetus days

I count from one to twenty, when I'm through, repeat the phrase

"It's just a phase, it's gon' all pass," but that gets old too

I'm weakenin' like a deacon doing dirt – what am I s'posed do?


[Chorus: André 3000, (ShaJuanna Edghill)]

Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh uh, uh uh uh uh uh (Planets, stars)

Uh uh uh uh uh, uh uh uh uh uh uh (Earth, Jupiter, Mars)

Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh uh, uh uh uh uh uh (Flows, clothes, car)

Uh uh uh uh uh, uh uh uh uh uh uh (It's who you are)


[Verse 2: Big Boi]

Yeah

See, from bedknobs to broomsticks, we lookin' to start some new shit

I'm writing this rhyme in faith, so when you hear it, hope you true it

My nigga, you 'Do It' like Swooshes, the lyrical cleansin' nuisance

Wiping away your germs and filling your craniums with juices

See, mo' goes on, my slick flow flows on

Straight from West Savannah, Georgia, but the SWATS is my home

Never go wrong, 'cause the click is tighter than gnat ass, ain't that bad

Mosquitos, now we goes

"I'm proud of you people – for selling your crack in sacks

I'm glad I'm white, not black"

Shit, on the real, that's how them mighties really act

When your back was turned, them slackers learned and now we fallin' apart

You lookin' me in my eye, but you ain't feelin' me in your heart

Yes, yes, Lord – give me the power, we live in the final hour

These niggas, they leavin' me stranded like Rapunzel in the tower

Now or never, let's stick together – and overcome

But they don't feel like marching, 'cause they shoes is overrun

Ain't that a bitch?


[Chorus: André 3000, (ShaJuanna Edghill)]

Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh uh, uh uh uh uh uh (Planets, stars)

Uh uh uh uh uh, uh uh uh uh uh uh (Earth, Jupiter, Mars...)

Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh uh, uh uh uh uh uh (Flows, clothes, car)

Uh uh uh uh uh, uh uh uh uh uh uh (It's who you are)


[Post-Chorus: ShaJuanna Edghill]

Planets, stars

Earth, Jupiter, Mars

Flows, clothes, car

It's who you are


[Chorus: André 3000, (ShaJuanna Edghill)]

Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh uh, uh uh uh uh uh (Planets, stars)

Uh uh uh uh uh, uh uh uh uh uh uh (Earth, Jupiter, Mars)

Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh uh, uh uh uh uh uh (Flows, clothes, car)

Uh uh uh uh uh, uh uh uh uh uh uh (It's who you are)


[Post-Chorus: ShaJuanna Edghill]

Planets, stars

Earth, Jupiter, Mars

Flows, clothes, car

It's who you are