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Manchuria by Busdriver

Lyrics

Busdriver

Manchuria

From Jhelli Beam2009

Lyrics

Manchuria

[Chorus: Busdriver, Myka 9, Both]

I am awestruck

Sino mother

Tight hand construct

Manchuria

Open market

Loaded starlet

Hope well hearted

Manchuria

Closed off money

Closed off cunning

Black ops funding

Manchuria

Peking Beijing

Ancient painting

Raging daydream

Manchuria

(x3)

[Verse 1: Busdriver]

My coffee-stained black husband should have been pulled in the nineteen-hundreds

And it is fi-ne but trust my skin looks like the drying pumpkins

[?] Tenderonis

Give girls some reddish buttocks

After that see them club members only

Before those photosynthetics of war covers up my mummified culp

[?] big-headed Welson blares on me through hundreds of high volts

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Due to me being old as fuck

When all of y'all were going on and on about fighting power

I just assumed you were talking about Eisenhower

(Go home old man!)

Descended seed or really looks like we desensitized the shish kebab

But I hog her with my dogs like I'm in the Iditarod

[Chorus: Busdriver, Myka 9, Both]

I am awestruck

Sino mother

Tight hand construct

Manchuria

Open market

Loaded starlet

Hope well hearted

Manchuria

Closed off money

Closed off cunning

Black ops funding

Manchuria

Peking Beijing

Ancient painting

Raging daydream

Manchuria

[Verse 2: Myka 9]

Manchuria near Siberia

Nineteen-hundreds, Asian-esque

Northeast of the Chinese wall

Railroad empire dusk to dawn

Mongolia morning to night

Earlier to late, breakfast to dinner

Consider great Genghis Khan

Waking moment, dozing off

Dreamscape, design garmed forces, spicy meals

Spirited work ethic culture

Colorful, vast dynasties closing eyes

Open wide, stretch and yawn

Hope in sight, ticking second minute

Hour to light, to dark, to sun, to sky

Moon, solar, major rickshaw candidate

Cuisine, Kung Chi, chopsticks, monks

Temples, rice fields

Buddha is in everything

[Chorus: Busdriver, Myka 9, Both]

Manchuria

Peking Beijing

Ancient painting

Raging daydream

Manchuria

[Verse 3: Busdriver]

They caught me pack that's a 'le-a-tardedly'

Appalled with a pentry flow

A free market in that neat assault

But what I mentioned

Like it made Garth Trinidad barf in a bag marketing ads

Or slipping in and out of my arthritic hands

My inner eye is a carbonate vag

My Ivy Leaguers and Tai Chi teachers probably think I read Faulkner

Because my understudy I'm a hundred and twenty

For bringing it onstage I need a walker

My deliberate confronts are not gold fronts [?]

With my AARP car limit

[?]But then I eager put my middle finger up to commander in chief archbishop

I boast a post-apocalyptic preface in my motherfucking Keynote speech

The conservatives murder kids and put them under sheets on the skis, so obsolete

I've been liberating caramelized fiction nugget, I went in popping the cults and drop the cults

Then throw all the new money, new peace, innocent marine lobbyists

[Chorus: Busdriver, Myka 9, Both]

I am awestruck

Sino mother

Tight hand construct

Manchuria

Open market

Loaded starlet

Hope well hearted

Manchuria

Closed off money

Closed off cunning

Black ops funding

Manchuria

Peking Beijing

Ancient painting

Raging daydream

Manchuria

(x2)

[Outro Busdriver, Myka 9, Both]

Manchuria

Manchuria

Manchuria

Your boy's old as shit

Send me away

Manchuria

Manchuria

Manchuria

Manchuria

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