After Dark Lyrics

[Chorus: Pep Love]
After dark, is gripping season
After dark it might happen for the wrong reasons
After dark, and it don't cease
Until the break of dawn, I shoot the breeze
After dark, is gripping season
After dark it might happen for the wrong reasons
After dark, and it don't cease
Until the break of dawn, I shoot the breeze

[Pep Love]
I see the moon and get hectic like the ocean
Who that in the back causing commotion?
Draped in black, killer on the attack
Around the time the hoes hit their stroll and the pros mack
I don't know how to act, so give me a smack
On the blackhand side telling me that I'm intact
It is the, charisma, that gets ya paid
But flame me this is when I got ta vic ya
It never rains in the Northwest
We profess to be the best the rest can Rest In Peace
Cause night time is the right time
For the Hieroglyphic icons to drop bombs

[Chorus: Pep Love]
After dark, is gripping season
After dark it might happen for the wrong reasons
After dark, and it don't cease
Until the break of dawn, I shoot the breeze
After dark, is gripping season
After dark it might happen for the wrong reasons
After dark, and it don't cease
Until the break of dawn, I shoot the breeze
That's how we rock the mic
Hieroglyphics imperial!
Non-stop!
After Dark, the sun ain't shinin
Trail of blood
Mind power, the next level, night time

[Pep Love]
After dark, you see the joint sparkin
Dogs, barkin territory that I'm markin
Cannot be, walked upon
Or your worst fear will be embraked upon
I'm bringin armaggedeon to your chest, and you know the rest
Is history, like Rapunzel's, golden tresses
I, couldn't care less about a nigga in a vest
I was shootin for the knees makin him dance and plead
For me to put em out they misery, my word wizardry
Is a dream you had about, you was coming clean
When you woke up, your heart broke up, be dawn
Leaving you with the reality that the day goes on, until

[Chorus: Pep Love]
After dark, is gripping season
After dark it might happen for the wrong reasons
After dark, and it don't cease
Until the break of dawn, I shoot the breeze
After dark, is gripping season
After dark it might happen for the wrong reasons
After dark, and it don't cease
Until the break of dawn, I shoot the breeze
[Various talk, fade]

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Recorded At
Hyde Street Studios (San Francisco)
Release Date
March 24, 1998
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