Artist: HOUSE OF PAIN

Album: Legend 12" (Single)

Release Date: November 15, 1994

 

 

Artist: HOUSE OF PAIN

Album: Legend 12" (Single)

Title: LEGEND (Lethal Dose Remix)

 

I walk through the valley of death 600 deep

Waking up dead from the sleep

Just like a diamond

Watch me shine

Bright like the sun

Make you wanna pull a gun

And buck 2 shots

For the peckerwood rockin'

Put down your glock

Or your block I'll be knockin'

And dead off your shoulders

Head will roll

Peckerwood P

Funk assassin of soul

Is in control

So have no fear

I'm in this for real

Make it crystal clear

I get a little better each and every year

It's called improvement

Your style's a bowel movement

I'm taking you back to mount CulMcClarin

My whole family's stoned but there aint one sharin'

So whatcha looking at

Huh, why you starin'

Just take a picture

Before I have to hit ya

Ease back kid, gimme some space

Or Whoop there it is upside your face
 

CHORUS
 

'Cause a hero aint nothin' but a sandwich

And a legend aint nothin' but a car

So shoot dope in your veins

And get some fame

And maybe one day you'll be a star

You know a hero aint nothin' but a sandwich

And a legend aint nothin' but a car

So go blow out your brains to get some fame

And maybe one day you'll be a star
 

I live in the house

And it's full of pain

But still out the frame

I'm going insane

I stay on point like a sniper

Chillin' in the viper room

Before it became a tomb

Take the low road

And you hit rock bottom

And keep low riding

All the way to Saddam

And back to Gamora

Now you're set the vault

Dirty little fuckup

Raising hell

But next year we'll all talk about how you fell

Because you're judged on how your records sell
 

CHORUS II
 

A hero aint nothin' but a sandwich

And a legend aint nothin' but a car

So get locked up in chains to get some fame

And maybe one day you'll be a star

You know a hero aint nothin' but a sandwich

And a legend aint nothin' but a car

So go blow out your brains to get some fame

And maybe one day you'll be a star
 

And maybe one day you be a star (4x)
 

Let's break it down

To the bear root essence

Count your fingers

Then count your blessings

True confessions

Ask the questions

Substitute your answers with your obsessions

I take to the break of dawn of time

I do it all the time

But you know it don't come easy

Cause I turn on the TV

I see more and more pain and less and less glory

And it's the same ol' story

Ya see year after year the programs sphered

But I aint subscribing

Till there's live executions on Pay-Per View

Word to Donahue

Put on Melrose Place

Whoop there it is upside your face
 

CHORUS III
 

Cause a hero aint nuthin but a sandwich

And a legend aint nuthin but a car

So shoot dope in our veins

To get that fame

And maybe one day you'll be a star

You know a hero aint nuthin but a sandwich

And a legend aint nuthin but a star

So go blow out your brains

Like Kurt Cobain

And maybe one day you'll be a star
 

Mabey one day you'll be a star (4x)

 

 

 

Artist: HOUSE OF PAIN
Album: Legend 12" (Single)
Title: IT AIN'T A CRIME (UK Remix)
 

Johnny was a bad boy
He was a juvenile delinquent
He had his picture
On the wall of every precinct
He had a rep for hangin' out with his homies
Puffin' on the blunts
And sippin' on the 40's
But when he spoke
Nobody would listen
And when he was home
His parents, they would diss him They called him a bum
A worthless piece of shit
So over this he had a fit
And now he grabs his bag
And heads for the door
And walks to the neighborhood
Liquor store
Pulls out a gat
And tells the old man, "Hit the floor"
Then breaks open his register drawer
Pulls out the money
Stuffs it in his pocket
Points his pistol
Then he starts to cock it
The man panicks and the gun goes off
Stupid old fool
Made Johnny blow his head off
But he don't care
'Cause he was taught
It ain't a crime
If ya don't get caught
 

CHORUS (3x)
It ain't a crime if you don't get caught
That's how it is homie like it or not
 

Now, comin' out of the store
Johnny shot two acpedic Jews
When he got home
His face was on the news
His mom freaked out
Told him, "Get the fuck out"
That's when the pigs rolled up
So, yo he ducked out
He hit the back door
Like his name was Carl Lewis
Dipped to the pay phone
To find out where his crew is
He called up his home boy Jose [word up]
"Can I come over, my man?"
He said, "No way!"
The cop- was here
He was lookin' all over for ya
But I told the pig
I didn't know ya
He said, "Cool,
pick me up at the school
I need a ride 'cause
I'm wanted for homicide"
Johnny's got his gun
And he's on the run
But he don't care
To him, the shit's fun
Now that he's an outlaw
Sorta like Robin Hood
The hard-rock hero
Of the whole neighborhood
If they catch him
He'll wind up in court, but
It ain't a crime if ya don't get caught [ha ha]
 

CHORUS
 

It ain't a sale if it don't get bought
It ain't a show if I don't get paid
She ain't a ho if ya don't get laid
 

 

 

Artist: HOUSE OF PAIN

Album: Legend 12" (Single)

Title: WORD IS BOND (Remix)

 

"Here's the best sound in creation"

"On the strength word is bond" (Repeat 4x)
 

[Diamond]

Check it, word is bond, I'm out for number one

Hit tricks with sticks and carry on like I'm ???

Coming straight from New York, where bitch niggas talk

And end up sketch outlined in chalk

Maintain and play games with the bitches

Stay away from Pritchett, and beat down the snitches

In a bind I can go for mine

Don't run with no niggas that smile all the time

I keep it real and keep the steel on my hip

In case a jealous envious snake wants to flip

And take a trip, the melodrama you can skip

Hit a twenty-dollar stick and I still won't slip

Never had a fat lip, don't ego trip

If there's a line at the flicks, then I just skip

It's like this and a, it's like that and a

I'm more determined than a nigga on cracks and a

Uh, so keep it rolling, it's the mic I'm controlling

With the House of Pain, maintain like a shit stain

Like water on your brain, the beat is redundant

I got em stocked in abundance

I got the diction and conviction

When the session is over, I take the tapes like Nixon

And get away like Steve McQueen

Pull a hat trick, and that's word to St. Patrick

Yeah, so get on down to the Double D sound

Next time on the rebound, cause ya
 

"Here's the best sound in creation"

"On the strength word is bond" (Repeat 4x)
 

[Everlast]

My word is bond like James is to 007

Let Doug E Fresh take you all the way to heaven

Cause I'm a walk through the depths of hell

And reminice on careers of MC's that fell

Then spark an L, while you're standing on the corner

While your thumb's up your ass like your name was Jack Horner

I'm running up on ya, make sure you hide

Cause I lost my mind the last time I fried

The L 25 keeps the party live

Even though I'm hell-bent and still heaven sent

Like the Diamond D, and the Diggin in the Crates

Are psychotic and neurotic like Norman Bates

Making fat dub plates on the reg

Play me too close, kid, I'll bust that egg

You know I'm not kidding, I never told a fib

I did a four-month bid inside my crib

My weapons are concealed, they're stainless steel

And you'd better start running if they get revealed

Cause caps get peeled, and bodies get caught like

Cops are on the take and judges get bought

It's like this and a, it's like that and a

I go deep undercover like ???

Put on a bandana, or a skully

Start acting hard and get smokes like a wooly, when ya
 

"Here's the best sound in creation"

"On the strength word is bond" (Repeat 4x)