Roadrunner, roadrunner
Going 100 mph
Roadrunner, roadrunner
Going 100 mph
With your radio on
With your radio on
Roadrunner, roadrunner
Going 100 mph
With your radio on

Somalia Angola Ghana Ghana Ghana Ghana
India Sri Lanka Burma Bamboo Banga
It's a Bamboo Banga, I said Bamboo Banga

This a Bamboo Banga, I said Bamboo Banga
And we hitting our rackets like a tennis player
And the drummer do this shit like he makarena

This a jungle banger, I said cold jammer (3x)
I'm bored of banana want gwanabana
I gon warm my buns this summer summer
Coz I'm sitting down chillin on gun powder
Strike match light fire, who's that girl called Maya
M.I.A. coming back with power power
I said M.I.A. is coming back with power power
I said M.I.A. is coming back with power power!!

I'm knocking on the doors of ya hummer hummer (4x)
Yeah we hungry like the wolves huntin dinner dinner
And we moving with the packs like hyena yena
Barbarella looks like she my dead ringer
When I'm dogging on the bonner of ya red Honda
I'm a road runner a world runner
I'm a road runner a world runner

I'm a big timer it's a Bamboo Banga
I' m a big timer it's a Bamboo Banga

BIG BRANCH

BIG BAD WOLF
CAME OVER TO MY RANCH
TOOK ALL MY LAND
LEFT ME WITH A BRANCH
THAT'S HOW I FELT ABOUT THE
LOVING THAT I HAD
THAT I KNOW ABOUT THE GIRLS HE HAD

BRING HER TO MY DOOR NOW
BRING ME THAT HO
PUT HER ON THE TABLE
AND PUT HER IN MY CLAW
I'LL PUT HER DOWN MY JAW
TO MY BELLY TO MY TOE
ILL SHIT ON THAT HO
AND DROP HER TO THE FLOOR

BIG BRANCH

MEN ARE LIKE PEARLS
THEY LOOK GOOD WITH MY CURLS
I STRING EM TO GET THE BEST NECKLACE IN THE WORLD
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I was missin' in action
On the side of a carton
I was taken in a Datsun
From a street in Action [x2]

I was sipping on a Rubicon
Thinking 'bout where I come
Its all this for revolution
Cuttin' up the coupon
Savin for a telephone
Can I call home
Please Can I go Home [x2]

Painted nails, sunsets on horizons
Palm trees silhouette smells amazing
Blindfolds under home made lanterns
Somewhere in the Amazon 
They're holding me Ransom [x2]

Hello This is M.I.A. 
Could you please Come get me [x4]

Smoking on a Benson
Tryin' to get me undone
Let Me Go
I don't want your attention
Under Submission
Out of frustration I'll do it
I'll scream for the nation [x2]

Painted nails, sunsets on horizons
Palm trees silhouette smells amazing
Blindfolds under home made lanterns
Somewhere in the Amazon 
They're holding me Ransom [x2]

Hello This is M.I.A. 
Could you please Come get me [x4]

Minutes turned to hours
And Became our dates
When We Shared raindrops
That turned into Lakes
Bodies started Merging
And the lines got grey 
Now I'm looking at him thinking
Maybe He's okay [x2]

Hello This is M.I.A
It's okay You forgot me [x8]

War war war
Talking bout ya'll 's such a bore
Id rather talk bout moi

Do you know that cost of a.ks
Up in africa
20 dollars aint shit to you
But thats how much they r
Of couse they gonna use it to kill a little da

Is girls, diamonds
Helpin ya?
Dont you like my bandana
My stains hang low
On my shirts like ay yai ay
Monkey brains and banana
Ill hit you with my antana
I put soap in my eye
Make it red so I look raa

Ra ra
So I woke up with my holy quran and found out I like cadillac
So we shooting till the song is up
Little boys are acting up
Baby mothers are going crazy
And the leaders all round cracking up
We goat rich we fry
Price of living in a shanty town jus seem to be high
We still look fly
We still like t.i
Dancing as we shooting up
And lootin jus to get by.

With your feet in the air and your head on the ground
Try this trick and spin it, yeah
Your head 'll collapse if there's nothing in it
And you'll ask yourself
“where is my mind?”

War war war
Who made me like this
Was it me and god in co production
My devils on speed dial
Everytime I take the wrong direction

All I want is one thing and that is what you got
Sometimes I go lose my mind then I feel numb

Theres 24 hours in a day
I used to spilt it 8, 8, 8
8 work
8 sleep
8 for play
Now I give it all it takes

People on the internet
A new life for the intellect
People judge me so hard
Coz I dont floss my titty set
I was born out of dirt like im porn in a skirt
I was a little girl who made good with all that I blurt
I put people on the map that never seen a map
I show em somin they aint never seen
And hope they make it back!!!!

Chinna Girl is a little girl
From a town
That's all ya need to know

Lolita was a man-eater
Clocked him like a taxi meter

Fuck gold, she was platinum digger
Shakin-ass-making moves on a mover

Visa, then a plane ride to ya
Peace out, she'll kill you like Uma

She skipped away to the shop
She found she didn't have enough
She clocked him looking right at her
and sucked on a lollipop

Chinna Girl grew up to be a big girl
Had her sights set on a bigger world

Dial-a-Bride from Sri lanka
Found herself a Yorkshire banker

Need a Visa?
Got with a geezer
Need some money?
Paid him with a knees-up
Year later, started to ease-up
Got her own way, shouted out "see ya"

She skipped away to the shop
She found she didn't have enough
She clocked him looking right at her
and sucked on a lollipop

What can I get fo' 10 dollar?
Everything you want
And what can I get fo' 10 dollar?
Anything you want
Yeah what can I get fo' 10 dollar?

Teenage dreams in a teenage circus
Running around like a clown on purpose
Who gives a damn about the family you come from?
No giving up when you're young and you want some

Running around again
Running for running

Waking up
In the midday sun
What's to live for?
You could see what I've done
Staring at emotion
In the light of day
I was running
From the things that you'd say

We are not what you think we are
We are golden, we are golden.
We are not what you think we are
We are golden, we are golden.

Teenage dreams in a teenage circus
Running around like a clown on purpose
Who gives a damn about the family you come from?
No giving up when you're young and you want some

Running around again
Running for running
Running around again
Running for running

I was a boy
At an open door
Why you staring
Do you still think that you know?
Looking for treasure
In the things that you threw
Like a magpie
I live for glitter, not you

We are not what you think we are
We are golden, we are golden.
We are not what you think we are
We are golden, we are golden.

Teenage dreams in a teenage circus
Running around like a clown on purpose
Who gives a damn about the family you come from
No giving up when you're young and you want some

Now I'm sitting alone
I'm finally looking around
Left here on my own
I'm gonna hurt myself
Maybe losing my mind
I'm still wondering why
Had to let the world let it bleed dry

We are not what you think we are
We are not what you think we are
We are not what you think we are
We are golden, we are golden

Teenage dreams in a teenage circus
Running around like a clown on purpose
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Running out of breath 
Chasing down the big parade, rising up my hand, thought I'd beg the marching band to play, for me
All of these illusions, they really mean the world to me, me

Don't make me out to be this hopeless child of misery, maybe love is what I need
But not your sympathy

In and out of space, I'm always somewhere in between, 
I try to make commands but instead I make a mess of things, for me

I try paint by numbers, but nothing's black and white for me

Don't make me out to be this helpless child of misery, maybe love is what I need
But not your sympathy

Nothing and no one can make your lies the truth, and no one can stand inside your shoes but you

Don't make me out to be this helpless child of misery, maybe love is what I need
But not your sympathy
But not your sympathy

I'm a wind up toy
In an up-down world
If you leave me all alone
I'll make a mess for sure

I've a heart of gold
In the smallest size
Leave me in the dark
You never hear me cry

PRE-CHORUS 1:
More than an illustration
Points of articulation
Come to life on a brass spring
Such a wonderful plaything

VERSE 2:
It's a cruel cross
That I have to bear
If you come a little close
I'm going to pull your hair

More than just a toy
In a patched blue suit
When you hold me in your arms
I'm just a boy like you

But your momma thought
There was something wrong
Didn't want you sleeping
With a boy too long

It's a serious thing
In a grown-up world
Maybe you'd be better
With a Barbie girl

PRE-CHORUS 2
You knew that
I adored ya
But you left me in Georgia
Toys are not sentimental; 
How could I be for rental?

VERSE 3
She's the meanest hag
That has ever been
Pulled out my insides
With an old safety pin

I'm the sorest sight
Now I feel like trash
Clothes are made of rags
And they don't even match

So she dressed me up
As the man she loved
And threw me in a box
When she had had enough

Now the light of day
I no longer see
She stuck her voodoo pins
Where my eyes used to be

PRE-CHORUS 3

Accidentally tragic
Victim of her black magic
Had a boy once who loved me
Now he's so afraid of me

VERSE 4
On a long lost day
When you're grey and old
You'll be there remembering
Your old toy boy

When your only son's
Wondering what to be
Tell him the story of
A boy like me

Bursting through a blood red sky
A slow landslide
And the world I've left behind
It's enough to lose your head
And disappear and not return again... 

When I fall to my feet
Wearin' my heart on my sleeve
All I see just don't make sense 

You are the port of my call
You shot and leavin' me raw 
Now I know you're amazing

'Cause all I need
Is the love you breathe
Put your lips on me and
I can live underwater, 
Underwater, underwater! 
Underwater! 

Bursting through a bright blue sky
A slow landslide 
From the world I've left behind
It's enough to lose your head
And disappear
And not return again

When I fall to my feet
Wearin' my heart on my sleeve
All I see just don't make sense
You are the port of my call
You shot and leavin' me raw 
Now I know you're amazing

'Cause all I need
Is the love you breathe
Put your lips on me and
I can live underwater, 
Underwater, underwater! 
Underwater! 

Underwater, underwater, 
I can live underwater, 
With your love I can breath, 
I can breath, 
Underwater (2X)

From the air I breathe to the love I need
Only thing I know is you're the origin of love
From the god above to the one I love
Only thing that's true the origin is you
X 2

Love is a drug and you are my cigarette
Love is addiction and you are my Nicorette
Love is a drug, my chocolate, my cigarette
I feel sick got to medicate myself

I want your love don't try to stop me
Can't get enough, still hanging on me
Your guilty heart don't let it break you
And if you pray well no one's gonna save you

I gave you all that you feel and everything you hold dear
If you feel broken and... 
You are the sun and the light you are the freedom I fight
God will do nothing to stop
The origin is you
You're the origin of love

Love is a drug and you are my cigarette
Love is addiction and you are my Nicorette
Love is a drug, like chocolate, like cigarette
I'm feeling sick got to medicate myself

Well if god is a priest and the devil is hell
There's a reason for love
Like every word that you preach like every
Word that you teach
And every rule that you breach
You know the origin is you

From the air I breathe to the love I need
Only thing I know is you're the origin of love
From the god above to the one I love
Only thing that's true the origin is you
X 2

Like stupid Adam and Eve they found their love in a tree
God didn't think they deserved it
He taught them hate taught them pride
Gave them a leaf made them hide
Switched their stories aside
You know the origin is you

From the air I breathe to the love I need
Only thing I know is you're the origin of love
From the god above to the one I love
Only thing that's true the origin is you
X 2

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When you've had enough and you need somebody to know
When you're looking tough but you need a way to let it go
Come on now, what's a boy s'posed to do
When I can't seem to leave you alone
Touching me touching you

I wanna be your brother, wanna be your father too
Never make you run for cover even if they want us to
I wanna be your sister, wanna be your mother too
I wanna be wanna be
Whatever else that touches you
Whatever else that touches you
Whatever else that touches you
If you're ever losing, losing your way
Just stop and listen to the things that they say
To avoid confrontation
You walk away

Growing up when I need to compromise
When I've had enough 20 years and I realize
Come on now, what's a boy s'posed to do
When I can't seem to leave you alone
Touching me touching you

I wanna be your brother, wanna be your father too
Never make you run for cover even if they want us to
I wanna be your sister, wanna be your mother too
I wanna be wanna be
Whatever else that touches you

I wanna be your brother, wanna be your father too
Never make you run for cover even if they want us to
I wanna be your sister, wanna be your mother too
I wanna be wanna be
Whatever else that touches you
Whatever else that touches you
Whatever else that touches you
Whatever else that touches you
Whatever else that touches you

When you've had enough and you need somebody to know
When you're looking tough but you need a way to let it go
Come on now, what's a boy s'posed to do
But I can't seem to leave you alone
Touching me touching you