[Andre 3000 Speaking]

Ahhhh I stank I can, I stank I can

The funky engine that could

Oooo oooo yosky, wosky, pisky, wisky

All aboard the Stankonia Express

The underground smell road

Everybody's lookin' for an excuse to let loose

What's your locomotive, the chatter and the choo choo



[Hook:Andre 3000 and Erykah Badu]

Humble as a mumble in the jungle

Of shouts and screams

That's the way the cracker crumbles

So I guess I've got to re-route my dreams

[Repeat]



[Big Boi]

Back on the microphone, your number one controller

I rock the microphone like a blizzard;

I'm so cold I'm tryin' to hold ya

Life is like a great big roller coaster

Everything in life don't happen like it's suppose to

Trials and tribulations make you stronger live longer

You wanna reach the nation nigga start from ya corner

Everything in life don't always happen like you plan it

Demand it; over stand it then you handle it

Fuck wishing you, you missing the ambition on your mission

Now you switching why you quitting 'cause it's heated in the kitchen

Sloppy slipping in your pimping nigga

You either pistol whoop the nigga or you choke the trigger

You've got to follow through, struggle to complete your dreams

"No Weapon Formed Agains Prospers" 54:17

From Isaiah lay a nigga down and spray 'em

If the dealer dealt a fucked up hand of cards you've gotta play 'em



[Hook]



[Andre 3000]

Too Democratic, Republic fuck it

We chicken nugget, we dip in the sauce like mop and bucket

Blue-collar scholars, who'll take your dollar and wipe my ass wit it

You living for the lotto never hit it, I met a critic

I made her shit her draws

She said she tought Hip Hop was only guns and alcohol

I said "Oh hell naw!" but yet it's that too

You can't discrimahate because you done read a book or 2

What if I looked at you in a microscope saw all the dirty organisms

Living in your closet would I stop and would I pause it "whoo"

To put that bitch in slower motion, got the potion and the antidote

And a quote for collision the decision

Is do you want to live or wanna exist

The game changes everyday so obsolete is the fist and marches

Speeches only reaches those who already know about it

This is how we go about it



[Hook]



[Erykah Badu]

I'm wild just like a rock, a stone, a tree

And I'm free, just like the wind the breeze that blows

And I flow, just like a brook, a stream, the rain

And I fly, just like a bird up in the sky

And I'll surely die, just like a flower plucked

And dragged away and thrown away

And then 1 day it turns to clay

It blows away, it finds a ray, it finds its way

And there it lays until the rain and sun

Then I breathe, just like the wind the breeze that blows

And I grow, just like a baby breastfeeding

And it's beautiful, that's life and that's life

And that's life and that's life



[Hook]



[Andre 3000 Speaking]

Humble as a mumble in the jungle

Of shouts and screams

That's the way the cracker crumbles

So I guess I've gotta re-route my dreams

Y'all can't harm me, it's over