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Artist: Royce Da 5'9"
Album:  Tabernacle: Trust the Shooter
Song:   Universe (Interlude)
Typed by: Nickolye16@aol.com 

[Intro: Royce]
You fuck with me, respect me
I fuck with you, respect you
You come for me, expect me
It's natural
Uh, I'm at you

[Chorus: Royce Da 5'9"]
I fuck with you respect you, you fuck with me respect me
You come for me expect me, I'm at you
To me that shit is natural, see that's just, the universe workin
It's natural, see that's just, the universe workin
I fuck with you respect you, you fuck with me respect me
You come for me expect me, I'm at you
To me that shit is natural, see that's just, the universe workin boy
It's natural, see that's just, the universe workin

[Royce Da 5'9"]
I seen it all, done it all, I guarantee y'all
there's gon' be some soul searchin involved if we done lost one of ours
We was taught be a boss, money, cars, beatin off
And somethin with the engine in the trunk dawg with three exhausts
Decision makin free at cost, discount me then we'll talk
Cause talk is cheap, momma 'cross the street tryna see us off
to college, we out here against all of the non-belief
My Walkman is playin Malik, Jamal and Bahamadi'
Still haven't figured out yet what I want my sound to be
Still rough around the edges fightin and wavin around the piece
In response to that 9/11 that night when I got that beep
Or that shit just got tied to me
I just wanted to rhyme and everything that flashed in front of my eyes felt like some trick photography
I had to go to open mics to show a different side of me
There's more to me than hoppin over fences bro, it's gotta be
My callin, I gotta put my all in, the entire me
I'm starvin, momma pressin five, collect callin nine times in like two, days
Now it's time to find new, ways
To put that 5 and that 9 to use, ayy
There's significance in numbers, as a young'n
I thought of my first corny punchline from a chick who sucked my dick the longest
I was like, "If I stick my dick in her ear I wonder if the bitch can hear me cummin/comin"
Haha, niggaz from around the way I grew with is in the kitchen peelin onions
while they momma's drop the tears that's from it
AK's that gunnin to this day I still hear the drummin
I'm A1, I figured I'd end up with straight A's in somethin
Them growin pains were like Novocaine, boy they made us numbin
I followed my gut like I ate a compass
I put all of my trust in my native stomach
My uncle O-Z got rich before me
told me to save my money and showed me dough he gave me none of
And he ain't even my shady or my crazy uncle
That's just on my momma's side, we ain't gon' talk about my father's side
Ain't nothin over there but a bunch of drug use and homicide
I been through some things that should've left me traumatized
But didn't, see these were just experiences, I was 10
My father tried to spank me with his hand not knowin I'm holdin a pen
Before he knew it the pen went straight through his hand
Imagine me, him and my mom at the hospital tryin to explain this one y'all
Doctor like "Wow, you were tryin to that hit that kid pretty hard"
I had to talk to the cops like "Look, this is just who we really are!"
Montgomery's my nigga, Montgomery's my nigga
When my uncle was livin he couldn't baby-sit me for long
Cause he might pop and turn somebody high-top to a Gumby right in front of me
And I'ma need to get blood wiped out my onesie my nigga
Montgomery's my nigga, Montgomery's my nigga
Sometimes I wanna just die, sometimes I just wanna cry rivers
But I got to stay alive for my mother, my son and my sister
My daughter, my wisdom, all that I have is all that I give them

[Outro: Royce Da 5'9"]
I fuck with you respect you, you fuck with me respect me
You come for me expect me, I'm at you
To me that shit is natural, see that's just, the universe workin boy
It's natural, see that's just, the universe workin boy
I fuck with you respect you, you fuck with me respect me
You come for me expect me... {*fades out*}