[Intro: Cut Monitor Milo]
Ayo, this is Cut Monitor Milo
Know what you do before you get involved with it
Just when ya

[Verse 1: Charlie Brown & Leaders of the New School]
Just when ya thought it was safe!
Hey yo, now let your homeboy in on the scoop (Scoop)
Yo, but now your life is turning for a loop (A loop)
And things (And things), yo, aren't so great in paradise
Shit, your friend (Friend) is kickin' it to your girl (Girl, girl? Girl!)
Left you (Left you), leavin' you (Leavin' you), and now you just contemplate suicide
Just when you thought it was safe!

[Verse 2: Busta Rhymes & Leaders of the New School]
Man, to smoke that white rock jumbo (Jumbo)
You should have known it was a no-no (No-no)
It's stunning (Stunning)
But now you're living foul and slumming
You thought it was okay (Okay)
To sex that girl without a condom (Condom)
You know you had your sex pandemonium ('Monium)
But instead (Instead) with AIDS you lay on your death bed
Just when you thought it was safe!

[Verse 3: Dinco D & Leaders of the New School]
My man, to take that plane overseas (Overseas)
And then the terrorist group the Killer Bees (The bees)
Claims a bomb is on board your flight and due to explode in the boom (B-b-bang)
Now you're on a mission to nowhere (Nowhere)
Like an innocent victim, it's sad
Quite a shock, and really disturbing
Just when you thought it was safe!

[Interlude: Charlie Brown, Busta Rhymes, Dinco D & Leaders of the New School]
Yo, man, I heard you was with my girl, behind my back, man
I wasn't with her, G
Just when you thought it was safe!
With your base pipe and your rock, now you're slummin', G
Just when you thought it was safe!
I'll pass on the Sandals and walk, you know what I'm sayin'
Just when you thought it was safe!
To live, safe to trust
But then again... nah, nah, nah, it really wasn't

[Bridge: Busta Rhymes & Leaders of the New School]
Safe is the way of the mind (The mind)
To avoid trouble, risk you may find (May find)
All those (All those) we may, (We may) huh, live in a trifling time

[Verse 4: Charlie Brown & Leaders of the New School]
Yo, yo, but then again (Again)
Think of the whole equation (What?)
If life and death are negative (Or a positive)
Judged by the actions of your soul

[Verse 5: Dinco D, Busta Rhymes, Charlie Brown & Leaders of the New School]
I said time after time after time (Time)
Things may fall out of line (Outta line)
So consider (Consider) my whole agenda (Agenda)
The leaders have seen a new sign of peace (Peace)
Equality (Equality)
Amongst man, woman and child
Yo, be safe and secure (Righteous and pure)
'Cause now is when times gets wild
[Outro: Leaders of the New School]
Just when you thought it was safe
Just when you thought it was safe
Just when you thought it was safe
Just when you thought it was safe