Artist: Sin Assassinz f/ Justine Simmons Album: Rev. Run Presents... Song: Things Ain't What They Used to Be/Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) Typed by: kirenamloh@msn.com [Intro/Hook 2X] Thiiiiiiiiiings... - Things ain't what they used to be [Verse One] Emergency, ambulance patrollin my storm The ground's bloddy, bodies blasted, bastards {?} fall Lost and found...confusion... A murder mystery fusion; for me to R&B/behave that's an illusion I need not no white man's hand to give 'em the five on the black hand's side 'Cause that's that bull jive, I've thrive to survive since nine-seven-seventy-five My date of birth when my Timbs first touched the EARTH... Now there's a hood headed for riches Later for these blind swine witches Cornball cops is throwin curves all pitches Man hunt, for big mouth snitch Who sold out for three crack rock, teeth start to twitch as he points the finger for 5-0 and thens ta pull the trigger QUICKA...(quicka...) ..Please! Things ain't what they used to be! [Chorus: Justine Simmons] Mercy, mercy meeeee-heeeeeeee... I said things ain't what they used to be, no..no-oh.... [Hook 4X] [Verse Two] What's resurrected with the old school ways? They got the microphone grip in times to save todays Bullets through bodies while it sees it seems around the block the fiends be catchin wreck for greens Daily battles on the hot playgrounds and hear the sound, "buck BUCK" and then the rain comes down True blues on my tube, I'm lookin and my hip-hop's dead 'cause all these wannabes a bred Whatever happened to the real "Summer Madness?" Run-D.M.C., wit "My Adidas" was the baddest! The bomb step, with the Kangol hats Gold chains around the necks of crew who made the name Funny, that people crave for the rug {?} Jump around BUCKTOWN, there the {?} it's at I know the world's +Doggy Dogg+, but stop +Snoopin'+, G ..cause things ain't what they used to be [Chorus and hook] [Justine Simmons] I can't take the memories, of once upon a time It only gets the best of me, and it's always on my mind Just show them how to love and/or teach 'em to be kind The children are our future, they always on my miiiiiiiiiiind-dah! I said mercy, mercy meeeee-heeeeeeee... I said things ain't what they used to be, no..no-oh.... Mercy, mercy meeeee-heeeeeeee... I said things ain't what they used to be, no..no-oh.... [Hook until fade]