Strumming dub plates with our fingers,
Eliminate sounds with our song,
Killing a sound boy with this sound,
Killing a sound boy with this sound,
Taking sound boys' lives with this dub,
Killing him softly with this sound.
Strumming my pain with his fingers,
Singing my life with his words,
Killing me softly with his song,
killing me softly with his song,
Telling my whole life with his words,
Killing me softly with his song.

[LAURYN]
I heard he sang a good song, I heard he had a style,
And so I came to see him and listen for a while.
And there he was this young bwoy, stranger to my eyes,
Strumming my pain with his fingers,
Singing my life with his words,
Killing me softly with his song,
killing me softly with his song,
Telling my whole life with his words,
Killing me softly with his song.
I felt all flushed with fever,
Embarrassed by the crowd,
I felt he found my letters and read each one out loud.
I prayed that he would finish,
But he just kept right on strumming my pain with his fingers,
Singing my life with his words,
Killing me softly with his song,
Killing me softly with his song,
Telling my whole life with his words,
Killing me softly with his song

[CLEF]
Yo L-Boogie, take it to the bridge

[LAURYN]
(Bust it)

Strumming my pain with his fingers,
Singing my life with his words,
killing me softly with his song,
Killing me softly with his song,
Telling my whole life with his words,
Killing me softly with his song.
Strumming my pain with his finger, yeah he was . . .
[shoutouts and fade]

Chorus: Lauryn Hill

Ready or not, Here I come, You can't hide
Gonna find you, and take it slowly
Ready or not, Here I come, You can't hide
Gonna find you, and make you want me

Verse One: Wyclef

Now that I escape sleep walk away
those who convolate knows the world they hate
Jails bars ain't golden gates
those who fake they brake when they meet they four hundred pound mate
if i could rule the world, everyone who have a gun
and together of course we'd get the up in our their horse
I kick a rhyme drinking moon shine
I poor sip on the concrete, for the deceased
but no don't weep, Wyclef in a state of sleep
thinking about the robbe-RY that I did last WEEK
Money in the bag, bank a look like a drag
I wanna play with pelicans from here to Bagdad
Gun blast, think fast I think I'm hit
My girl pinch's my hips to see if I still exist
I think not, I send a letter to my friends
A born again, hooligan only to be king again

Chorus.

Verse Two: Lauryn Hill

yo, I play my enemies like a game of chess
where I rest no stress if you don't smoke cess, less
i must confess my destany's manifest
to some gortex and sweats I make tracks like i'm homeless
Rap orgies with Porgie and Bess
capture your bounty like Eliot Ness YES!
Bless you if you represent the FU
but I hex you, with some witches vu if you do-do
Voodo, I could what you do, EASY!
Believe me, frontin' niggaz
gives me heebe-geebes
so why you imitatin' Al Capone
I be Nina Symone and defacating on your microphone

chorus.

Interlude: Lauryn Hill

You can't run away from these styles I got
Oh baby, hey baby cause I got a lot oh yeah...

Anywhere you go, my whole crew gonna know
Oh baby, hey baby you can't hide from the black gold no...

Verse Three: Pras

Ready or not, refugees taking over
The buffalo soldier, dread like rasta
On the twelve hour flyby in my bomber
crews went for cover now they under pushin' up flowers
Superfly, true lies do or dies
toss me high only profile with my crew from Lacaille
I refugee from Guatanamo Bay,
dance around the border like I'm Cassius Clay

Chorus.

Chorus 
(Bounty Killer, Wyclef, Lauryn)
Michael Jackson brought you Thriller
It made all the gun-man hollar
Refugees with Bounty Killer
Mack 11 guard your grilla

First verse
(Lauryn Hill) 
Why you gwan, watch out for Babylon, MC's babble on and on I
phenom, bomb like Ethiopians, not Italions, Queen Asheba, balance like a
Libra, rain like meteor storms, that change forms like the pillars of
Islam, make the best rule, and--- the rest who'll, it takes one drop of
purity to clean the cess pool, the next crew, will be comprised of kings
and queens wearing crowns and holiday scepters, facing Mecca, making
records, raiding biblio-techas, I sip nectars with the gods in the street
apparel, keep the path straight and narrow while we bombin' on Pharaoh, so
Bounty Killer pour the sorrel let's make plans for tomorrow,

(Bounty Killer) 
Cause if it's down a Sodom and Gommorah Refugees we nah go so.

Chorus 
(Bounty Killer, Wyclef, Lauryn)
Michael Jackson brought you Thriller
It made all the gun-man hollar
Refugees with Bounty Killer
Mack 11 guard your grilla

Second Verse
(Bounty) 
So talk well if you vex, try and jump in a mi chest, you Mr. Punk,
well come and do your next best, mi end you distress, mi lay you to rest,
askel 45, Fugees dem tech.  Well talk well if you vex, try and jump in a mi
chest, you Mr. Punk well come and do your next best, mi end you distress,
mi lay you to rest, rappers from the east and rappers from the west, well.

(Wyclef) 
Yo, five years old I heard shots out the window, I thought that it
was Zorro, driving in from Mexico, I asked my father Pablo who the hell is
this Paco, He said It's Bounty Killer, He's driving from Montego.

(Bounty Killer) 
That's when shots start to echo from yah so and from deh
so, well that is the life of a --- from the ghetto, moving 40 kilo, from
here to Puerto Rico, smoke my manifico, but I never do perico.

(Wyclef) Yo, this is a sound clash, you ain't fit for the job, you're----,
and you're making my ---hard, you wanna rap, here's presents, go rap it in
a box, you versus me is like a mouse versus a ox, Wyclef, preacher's son, I
sing a hymn the lights get dim, reflection of the end, is your face facing
a coffin, oops, to abstract so you kill me with gaps, figments of your
imagination, you never dealt with incarceration.

(Bounty Killer)  
Thought I heard you want to be my rival, askel 45 a it a
idol, them start war and no seek survival, Refugees we gonna treat them
detrimental, Punks, fools.

Bridge
(Wyclef, Bounty)  
Another sound boy dies, slow death, Refugee camp, Bounty Killer...

Chorus 
(Bounty Killer, Wyclef, Lauryn)
Michael Jackson brought you Thriller
It made all the gun-man hollar
Refugees with Bounty Killer
Mack 11 guard your grilla

Third Verse
(Praz)  
Through the temples of doom somehow we managed to bloom like
blossoms, by any means necessary said Malcolm, nights before battle we play
dead like possums, minimizing our losses like caution to the maximum,
strategies for the Refugees, how many mics do you rip, I say not too many,

(Wyclef)  
Yo, which man runs from my magnum,

(Praz)  
Haitian shot a man

(Bounty) 
Them blame Jamaicans.

Chorus 
(Bounty Killer, Wyclef, Lauryn)
Michael Jackson brought you Thriller
It made all the gun-man hollar
Refugees with Bounty Killer
Mack 11 guard your grilla

(Bounty Killer) 
Yeah, Yeah Yeah...

Outro
(Bounty Killer) 
Well talk well if you vex, try and jump in a mi chest well
come and do your next best, mi end you distress, mi lay you to rest, askel
45 New York gun take, well talk if you vex, try and jump in a mi chest, so
Mr. Punk, well come and do your next best, mi end you distress, mi lay you
to rest, askel 45, California take, well, well.

(Wyclef)
Bounty Killer on the borderline, Refugee camp, Wyclef, L. Boogie, Praswell
and it don't stop.