Kung Fu

Once about a time there was a kid<br>who didn`t have a bicycle or a car that skid<br>Only thing he had was Pat and Turner<br>He didn`t know the future but the lesson to learn-ah<br>way to get started in the music biz<br>Just listen to the story as I tell it like it is<br>I was a youngster from East Junior High School<br>who thought somebody with Adidas sweat-shirt was cool<br>It symbolized somethin, but I don`t know<br>I wanted to be down really really bad so<br>I asked one of my best friends Derek Mangareu<br>"C`mon man can I be down can I be down witcha crew?"<br>He had one by the name of Masters of Control<br>I wanted to be down, so I could play the role<br>He said, "No you`re not good enough we have ours Mark"<br>I went home and sat in the room with no lights in the dark<br>And this is gonna be a rough rendezvous<br>and that`s why I sing this song to you<br><br> I`m a lonely soldier.. yeah..<br> many miles from home..<br> with a heart that`s heavy..<br> and with.. a will that`s strong<br><br>I got a little older, three years to be exact<br>when a crew named Midnight Express gave me a crack<br>It consist of one MC and two DJ`s<br>And the way Kevin D cut had me amazed<br>It was like I just joined the Lakers<br>or even Rock Steady or the New York City Breakers<br>I was in 11th grade, at ?? High<br>They was sayin they was sayin hey what`s wrong with this guy<br>because all he do, is bang on tables and mumble<br>and doin music with his mouth like a band ensemble<br>or the human beatbox wasn`t thought about<br>and the teachers they thought I was crazy without a doubt<br>I guess they didn`t understand what I was comin from<br>Since I was into MC`n, they thought I was dumb<br>Then there was a teacher by the name of Ms. K Parke<br>Since I was good at rememberin numbers she said I was smart<br>But that don`t got nothin to do with this rendezvous<br>and THAT`S why I sing this song to you!<br><br> I`m a lonely soldier.. yeah..<br> many miles from home..<br> with a heart that`s heavy..<br> and with.. a will that`s strong<br><br>I was a walkin son of a gun before the day I begun<br>I`ma tell you how it started, from day one<br>Well me, I lived in >??<, they lived in C.I.<br>I was ambitious and devoted til the day I`d die<br>I used to get on Fair Islip, take the S-42<br>Get off at Bunanan Street, and go to the house of the crew<br>I would walk from C.I., to Bay Shore<br>just to see if I really had the rhymes galore<br>I`d go to house parties here, go to house parties there<br>Walk the ?? ?? pants off my derriere<br>Like if I was David Carridine who played "Kung Fu"<br>who would walk from China to Japan without a shoe<br>Hummin beats, sayin rhymes, kept me goin<br>from givin up or bein crazy, or just stop flowin<br>My teachers and parents said, I should just stop<br>Just go to army go to college get a job witcha POPS?!<br>I can`t take no more of this rendezvous<br>and that`s why I sing this song to you!<br><br> I`m a lonely soldier.. yeah..<br> many miles from home..<br> with a heart that`s heavy..<br> and with.. a will that`s strong<br><br> I`m a lonely soldier.. <br> many miles from home..<br> with a heart that`s heavy..<br> and with.. a will that`s strong