Numba 1 (Tide Is High) [Album Version]

* album version features Rihanna, single version features Keri Hilson

[Intro: Kardinal Offishall]

Light it up!

Everybody light it up!

Come Rihanna light it up!

Kardinal light it up!

[Hook: Rihanna]

The tide is high but I'm holding on

I'm gonna be your number one

Number one

Number one

[Verse 1: Kardinal Offishall]

She just my part time lover, pretty likkle ting

Nothing I would ever think about giving a ring

Nothing but a pretty likkle overnight fling

Even though she wanna be the queen to my king

She ain't nothing but a work for my ginseng

Someone I would use to bust my box spring

She would a number one, not di badda-bing

Bad man nah go badda wid di wife-wife ting

She gotta know she the girl on the side

On the left of the rest, number two on my mind

There's no way she could be my girl

But she steady tryna come into my world, not uh!

[Hook: Rihanna]

The tide is high but I'm holding on

I'm gonna be your number one

Number one

Number one

[Verse 2: Kardinal Offishall]

Yo! She's just my trophy piece, mi hot hot gyal

Never ever would I call her Ms. Offishall

Never ever would I bring her around my fam

She be crying on the phone but she knows who I am

Mr. Kardinal - voice of the people

Black Jays family our verses are lethal

I don't have time for the play play

She a good chick yo but I'm married to the game

Married to the fame, related to the paper

Tryna get my name put up on a skyscraper

There's no way she could be my wife

But she's steady tryna come into my life, not uh!

[Hook: Rihanna]

The tide is high but I'm holding on

I'm gonna be your number one

Number one

Number one

[Bridge: Rihanna]

Those other girls ain't nothing like me

Just give me the chance and boy you will see

That I'm not the kinda girl

Who'll just get down like that

Oh no!

[Verse 3: Kardinal Offishall]

On the real, I ain't gonna front ya

The fox to a lot of hound dogs on the hunt

You the push to a lotta kush, rolling a blunt

You the hottest in the dance but you ain't what I want

I'm a business man! Tryna get the business

Just tryna wuk out ya physical fitness

There's no way you could get that ring

But I hear all the hotty-hotties in the place sing

[Hook: Rihanna]

The tide is high but I'm holding on

I'm gonna be your number one

Number one

Number one

The tide is high but I'm holding on

I'm gonna be your number one

Number one

Number one

[Outro: Kardinal Offishall]

Light it up!

Everybody light it up!

Come Rihanna light it up!

Kardinal light it up!