I stank I can, I stank I can   The funky engine that could   Yowsky, wowsky, 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 chatta nigga choo choo?      Humble as a mumble in the jungles   Of shouts and screams   That?s the way the cracker crumbles   So I guess I've got to re-route my dreams      Humble as a mumble in the jungles   Of shouts and screams   That?s the way the cracker crumbles   So I guess I've got to re-route my dreams      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 don?t always happen like you planned it   Demand it, over stand it then you handle it      Fuck wishing, you missing the ambition on your mission   Now you switching, why you quitting ?cause it?s heated in the kitchen?   Stop ya slipping and ya 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 against 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      Humble as a mumble in the jungles   Of shouts and screams   That?s the way the cracker crumbles   So I guess I've got to re-route my dreams      Humble as a mumble in the jungles   Of shouts and screams   That?s the way the cracker crumbles   So I guess I've got to re-route my dreams      Yeah, 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 livin' for the lotto never hit it      I met a critic, I made her shit her drawers   She said she thought hip-hop was only guns and alcohol   I said, "Oh hell naw!" But yet it?s that too   You can?t discrimi-hate 'cause you done read a book or two      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?   To put that bitch in slower motion, got the potion and the antidote   And a quote for collision the decision      Do you wanna live or wanna exist?   The game changes every day so obsolete is the fist and marches   Speeches only reaches those who already know about it   This is how we go about it      Humble as a mumble in the jungles   Of shouts and screams   That?s the way the cracker crumbles   So I guess I've got to re-route my dreams      Humble as a mumble in the jungles   Of shouts and screams   That?s the way the cracker crumbles   So I guess I've got to re-route my dreams      I?m wild just like a rock, a stone, a tree   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 is thrown away and then one 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   It?s beautiful, that?s life and that?s life   And that?s life and that?s life      Humble as a mumble in the jungles   Of shouts and screams   That?s the way the cracker crumbles   So I guess I've got to re-route my dreams      Humble as a mumble in the jungles   Of shouts and screams   That?s the way the cracker crumbles   So I guess I've got to re-route my dreams      Humble as a mumble in the jungles   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