This Is How It Should Be Done

[Intro: TLC]

This is how is should be done

[Verse 1: Left Eye]

This is how it should be done comin' out of the black shade

Fightin' to lighten a path made back

Let's go way back to the beginnin'

That's when an idea took part from the start

And listen to another Marley beat

I'm impatient

I gotta leave my seat for motivation

Pump the bass what's next

Kickin' the steps me and the mirror's havin' wreck

So hard that I cracked my neck

And I'm poppin sweat now I'm soakin' wet

But I feel it

Grab the beat cause I must

Defeat it's a funky groove

So I steal it

To improve what could

Soon be the Left Eye move

Pin it down and snatch a sample to loop it up

And start makin' my own example, 'cause

[Chorus: TLC, (Chilli), Marley Marl]

This is how it should be done

(This is how it should be done, yeah, yeah)

This is how it should be done

This is how it should be done

This style is identical to none

[Verse 2: Left Eye]

This is how it should be done, steppin' into a shade a bit lighter

Now it's time to write a rhyme, a rhythmic type of memo

Tick-tack it to the track, it is now my demo-kay

What's ta do, where's to go? Yo, I don't know

Who's to see, see ya at the local show?

Me and Mo' takin' a chance and he's dancin'

'Round and 'round the deck as I flow

But what an awkward situation

'Cause there's not much crowd participation

For checkin' me out, I'm too new

It gots to be somethin' else another way to do it

So I sit back and think for a minute

Which city needs a little more talent in it

Maybe A.T.L. is the place packed up, left Philly gotta hit LaFace

[Chorus: TLC, (Chilli), Marley Marl]

This is how it should be done

(This is how it should be done, ooh)

This is how it should be done

(This is how it should be done, hey)

This is how it should be done (Ooh, hey)

This is how it should be done

This is how it should be done

This style is identical to none

[Verse 3: Left Eye]

This is how it should be done and I'm comin' through

Grippin' the mic spittin' down what's after verse two

And ready to rock the spot cause I'm on it

They wanna see what I got

Givin' it all and makin' it seem so simple to be myself

Along wit' doin' what I do

Cool, they want me not knowin' I'm soon to be the "L" of TLC

Word up, T-B-O-Z, that's T-Boz, saucin' it up is Chilli

We three alike all small in height but I'm Left Eye

'Cause the eye is right

So now they thinkin', well, is we ready enough

Yeah it's time to get busy

The aftermath is the brightest path so far

Yo, 'cause here we are

[Chorus: TLC, (Chilli), Marley Marl]

This is how it should be done

(This is how, this is how)

This is how it should be done

This is how it should be done

This is how, it should, should be done

This is how it should be done (Hmm, should be done)

This is how it should be done

This is how, it should, should be done