The Stranglers
Golden Brown
[Verse 1]
Ya talking nonsense cos you've got no sense
Ya making no sense so I bring you to your senses
You'll face the consequences for ya actions
Opposites attract but this is fatal attraction
The latest fashion, now everybody's hooked
Here is the drop, I give it to ya pure and uncut
Listen up, my thoughts get deeper than you think
Think twice, before ya tap it up and make a sacrifice
I'm here to advise you can have it your way
But at the end of the day you'll dig ya own grave
It lays ya down, to sleep underground six feet
But each to his own I won't preach

[Chorus]
Golden Brown, finer temptress
Through the ages, she's heading west
From far away, stays for a day
Never a frown, with Golden Brown

[Verse 2]
It's evident, ghetto medicine is representing in your tenements
Now we're all dead men walking
Drama indisputable, mixing Pharmaceuticals
To make your karma suitable, Drains away the pain
Shooting gods name in vain, and hoping for redemption
Chicken heads on the streets, Increase the tension
Comatose Dose, everybody's getting smacked in the face
I guess we all the Rat race ways
You be amazed how many people spend a pretty penny
Making pounds for the underground industry
Cats got no future, they got ya stitched like a suture
Chasing silver lined smoke, pockets looser
Check the corner where little Jack Horners be sat
Making stacks, cos' misery pays nowadays
Eyes glazed chemical haze up in your gaze
When your god has substance, who you gonna pray for?
Illegal business controls ya area
Shining Path yo we control ya area
Travis big, I control ya area
Everytime we come we come correct taking care of ya

[Verse 3]
As the world go's round I hold it down
From now to the year 2 G Golden Brown texture like sun
Burns when you wanna chase dragons
Ya want to get high but you don't want to tag on
Ya toe I inject another dose of this class "A"
You get addicted to the "D" that I lay
T.R.A. V.I.S. respect mine
I don't do it, cos I can read between the white lines

[Outro]
Never a frown
With Golden Brown (You want to get high, but you don't want to die)
Never a frown (You want to get high, but you don't want to die)
With Golden Brown (You want to get high, but you don't want to die)