Lost in Space Lyrics

[Woman's voice] Caution -- warning -- overload
[Robot's voice] Zero Nine El Que ready for report
[Woman's voice] System, overload
[Kool Keith] The year 2005
[Woman's voice] Caution -- warning -- overload
[Kool Keith] Are you ready on the right?
[Woman's voice] System, overload
[Kool Keith] Ready on the left?

[Woman's voice] Caution -- warning -- overload
[Robot's voice] Metric bypass computes on overload retrace cause we're
[Second female] Lost in space
[Woman's voice] System, overload
[Robot's voice] Metric bypass computes on overload retrace cause we're
[Woman's voice] Caution -- warning -- overload
[Second female] Lost in space
[Woman's voice] System, overload
[Robot's voice] Metric bypass computes on overload retrace cause we're
[Woman's voice] Caution -- warning..
[Second female] Lost in space

[Verse 1: Kool Keith]
Blast bulletin, Keith still solo with no manager
Time clock out, studios, need to block out
Here's my number call me direct, get no feedback
No interviews,
channel four, see me on the news
Erase your message walk streets with my cellular phone
Address you wonder, don't try to catch me home alone
Up seven o'clock, while you trying to find me on my block
I'm at the airport, you think I'm strange, boardin the plane
Turn off my pager, then quickly, relax my feet
Hotel unknown drinkin brew watchin Sesame Street
You thought you saw me with a wig on, at 7/11
Disguised like Shakespeare with blue chrome behind your ear
My George Washington robe, I still travel the globe
On Pan-Am airflights, I roll in cities after midnight
Stand in your lobby unsuspected, you get neglected
Traffic was hectic..
[Robot's voice] Metric bypass computes on overload retrace cause we're
[Woman's voice] Caution -- warning -- overload
[Second female] Lost in space
[Woman's voice] Caution -- warning -- overload
[Robot's voice] Metric bypass computes on overload retrace cause we're
[Second female] Lost in space
[Woman's voice] Caution -- warning -- overload
[Robot's voice] Metric bypass computes on overload retrace cause we're
[Second female] Lost in space
[Woman's voice] Caution -- warning..

[Verse 2: Kool Keith]
Order room service, transfer quick to Holiday Inn
Check out time nine o'clock, coat on, I'm out again
You comin so wack you sound like the Bulworth Soundtrack
I'm in the mall steady shoppin while you tryin to call
It's on my answering machine, to speak to me is a dream
Pacific Bell known, the phone is off, and I'm well known
1-800 number, cancel code see to summer
Extreme complicated businessman, can't be reached
No type of headquarters, deserted land, by the waters
Target my focus on, internal thinkin by myself
You catch the treatments hiatus like jam on the shelf
Move out your zip code with U-Haul, watch you fall
I tape up boxes callin Mayflower, every hour

You scratch your brain out, askin neighbors what, now you wonder
(Where could I be)
{+growl sound+}
[Woman's voice] One, two, three, four, five
[Kool Keith] Who could that be?
[Robot's voice] Xena
[Robot's voice] Metric bypass computes on overload retrace cause we're
[Woman's voice] Caution -- warning -- overload
[Second female] Lost in space
[Robot's voice] Metric bypass computes on overload retrace cause we're
[Woman's voice] Caution -- warning -- overload
[Second female] Lost in space

[Verse 3: Kool Keith]
While you search lookin deep in your Rolodex, I flex, I tell the truth
When I'm serious you think I'm mysterious, drop rap in minutes
Become your problem like Dennis the Menace
Hold up your meetings papi, let's cancel the papparazzi
Unseen heard of your magazine got the nerve of a two-year old crayon writing
Talkin to y'all, decidin
Communication leads one step to aggravation
I got my ears closed, back to bookin my own shows

Level seven eight nine - second dimension

[Woman's voice] Stand by
[Robot's voice] Metric bypass computes on overload retrace cause we're
[Woman's voice] Caution -- warning -- overload
[Second female] Lost in space
[Robot's voice] Metric bypass computes on overload retrace cause we're
[Woman's voice] Caution -- warning -- overload
[Second female] Lost in space
[Robot's voice] Metric bypass computes on overload retrace cause we're
[Woman's voice] Caution -- warning -- overload
[Second female] Lost in space
[Robot's voice] Metric bypass computes on overload retrace cause we're
[Woman's voice] Caution -- warning -- overload
[Second female] Lost in space
[Robot's voice] Metric bypass computes on overload retrace cause we're
[Woman's voice] Caution -- warning -- overload
[Kool Keith] .. lost in space .. {+whispering+}
[Woman's voice] System, overload
[Woman's voice] All systems ready
[Woman's voice] Enter voice authorization sample
[*Black Elvis*] .. lost in space ..
[Woman's voice] Enter security access code
[Woman's voice] Systems accessed
[Kool Keith] .. lost in space ..
[Woman's voice] Access denied
[Woman's voice] Activate
[Kool Keith] .. lost in space ..

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“Lost in Space” is a full diatribe to the futuristic visions of the Black Elvis persona, created by Kool Keith. The song describes a day in the life of Black Elvis traveling through space and time, and Keith throws in exaggerated usage of technology to make is seem that much more surreal.

Black Elvis/Lost in Space is the fourth studio album by emcee Kool Keith, but recorded under the alias of Black Elvis. This is the first album performed under this alias. It was intended to be released the same day as First Come, First Served, but was pushed back by Columbia and ended up being released four months later through Relativity Entertainment Distribution rather than Sony Music Distribution, denoted by the WK prefix instead of the customary CK prefix and the legal copy on the release. Kool Keith uses very complex rhymes on various subject matters from Black Elvis' viewpoint on half of the album and on the other half elaborates on space travel and being lost in space. This is the first album for which Keith handled all of the production, although drum programming was done by Kutmasta Kurt and Marc Live. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Elvis/Lost_in_Space)

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August 10, 1999
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