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Oh Snap!
(Oh Snap!)
Going out to Mr. Lee (Yeah, Mr. Lee)
In the first days, in the very first days, we was going all about things in the primitive ways.
I was chillin' by the sea with Run-DMC. We were cooking up ways to get the holy me.
Coming down the current, the Huluppu tree came.
So I put it in my garden for my personal gain.
I was wanting a bed and also a throne
I begged to the gods, but these they didnt condone.
I looked back to the tree to see the problem.
And I saw three things, and I was ready to maul 'em.
There was a bird in the branches. It was making a nest.
And some chick in the trunk who was being a pest.
Then I looked down and saw a snake on the ground.
Needless to say, I didn't like what I found.
So I went to see my main homeboy Utu.
I said, "No one can get rid of this stuff quite like you do."
[Unintelligible]
I'm like 8-foot-4, you surely never seen that I be doing the love machine.
My name is Gilga (mesh)
I come from the hood (hood)
And I've been wooing Inanna, because that body feel good.
I like Inanna, because she don't ---
And I carve her bed with my battle-ax.
Down from the heavens Inanna descended.
To gain knowledge is what she intended.
For this journey, she got dressed to look her best.
She let the double strand of beads fall down on her chest.
For Ninshubur, instructions she left, saying
"If I don't return, doing these would be best."
As she went down, she commanded the gates open, but to pass through she had to leave her worldy tokens.
At the toll, Inanna's payment ---
Inanna entered the throne room and bowed real low.
But back to the heavens, she would not be let go.
Ereshkigal on Inanna fastened the eye of death.
Inanna had no time before she took her last breath.
When she was dead, they took her body, and they hung it from a hook.
It wouldn't be so easy now for her to clean and cook.
So these little sexless creatures were sent down by Enki.
And they got there just in time, 'cause that corpse was getting stanky.
They brought back Inanna using the essence of life.
And she went back up to land, leaving behind all that strife.
As she went back up to earth, she saw that it was real nice.
But that was only up until she saw her life came with a price.
She went and looked behnd her,
didn't like what she found.
She saw these weird little demon things, following her around.
They said, "If y'all leave, we need someone to take your place.
So while you go and look around,
let's turn up the bass."