Album Cover What's On Your Mind

What's On Your Mind

Eric B. & Rakim

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I seen her in the subway on my way to Brooklyn

Hello good looking is this seat tooken

On the A train picking at her brain

I couldn't get her number I couldn't get her name

I said I still like your style of fashion

But I hate your hostile 'itty attitude wit a passion

Is it because brothers like to hawk alot

Is it because your sign don't talk alot

She turned away no play I said ok

You don't really look good, I hope you have a bad day

Sat back, relaxed though the ride was tight

I was thinking of the rhymes I wrote last night

Next stop was mine, a familar scene

I was meeting my friend, killer Ben in Ft Green

Where the girls are real, they tell ya how they feel

If you're soft, you're soft, or if you're hard like steel

See i don't bend and I won't rust

And I don't break and I won't bust

Stomped up the street and did I hear a treat?

Hard high heels tappin' on the concrete

I took a peek, it was the girl from the train behind me

Did she live in the area, was she trying to find me?

Hm, I didn't wanna play myself out

I played it off, stopped and I bought a Guiness Stout

Now was she shy, she didn't walk by

She came in the store then she even said hi

Curiosity- at a high velocity

Maybe possibly she had the hots for me

i said if we're playing games then we're gonna play mine

I'm a lay the rules 'cause it ain't much time

If you hide your feelings, and they hard to find,

I wanna know what's on your mind

CHORUS

About a week went by and I called her, "Hello"

I said yo, can I speak to, um, she said no

Hey yo, I know I didn't call, I didn't wanna stress you

Go out my way