Retarded Fren Lyrics

[Verse: MF DOOM]
An honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay
Stay takin' wages the anonymous way
Calmish, pay to the Amish sellin'
Promise me gold bond, palm itch swellin'

With no tact though, ipso facto
Wonderin' in pictures why his lips is so black, yo!
No question, ounce of prevention
Is more than a pound of raw cure pure intention

Attention! No throwin' stones at the homeless
Or else ye yeself may end up with your dome blessed
Chrome dust, nano-sized particles
Stop tellin' codes through the YouTube, retarded fools!
Defeats the purpose

Greedily slurp up the surplus and burp puss
So nervous, you can hear the shirt must gush
Hush, hush. Trust

Villain til’ the Earth crust bust
Self-defense, think it’s not real
Up until you blink twice and feel the hot steel

Take it how you want it, fake it or flaunt it
Need to put some brakes on it. Shake it, dog-gone it!

Dead drop, leave it right there
Chop it off, heads bop, breathe it like air
You hear?
Study the devil
Played the game and choose to do so on a bloody level
Who sent him? Steady losin' momentum
Oh, eat a rapper one-a-day like Centrum
The mask is like a Gundam, dumb-dumb, um
And it don’t matter where you come from ya bum!

What happens when the poles shift?
Won’t matter for shit who you roll with
Cold and stiff
, hold the if
If in case you need a facelift, sold a gift
Rip it like spacetime foam, fold the rift
The sun still shines in the mornin'
He ain’t promisin' more, but it's definitely scorchin'

Like an iceball, off guard, soft, hard
Ask him do he give an F like report card
Out-spit em’ like Jonah
Add bonuses, intel suggests they had no cojoneses
On this microphone business, it’s slaughter
That’s on his 3 pre-mature daughters' aortas
The thought was, uh, quarters, halfs, wholes. A roll
Like good times sold like good dimes

It’s just begun to began to begin to end
To start back again for smarter men and women

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“Retarded Fren,” the 13th track off of Key to the Kuffs by JJ DOOM.

The song was previously released with less lyrics and a different beat made by Thom Yorke of Radiohead.

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