boy genius

Gnarls Barkley

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen
And now for our feature presentation
The boy genius

A proud mother smiles and said that he s perfect
My first grade teacher was the first to check
Big old head like I was born with a birth defect
The student counselor, swore I was worse than that
Had arguments with my imaginary friend
What kind of medication you want to sell me then
Just acting out until the director yells the end
Life s a kamikaze mission, just tell me when
I like the pictures but I ain t really learning shit
I know who I am, so I m not concerned with it
We playing hide and go get, now who s turn is it?
I dropped out and got a job, start earning it
Thought I was clueless but the savage beast, it love music
My stream of consciousness is fluid maybe I ll pursue it
I put my all into it, proving I can actually do it
You better move it cause you stupid if you think I m stupid
Now you know what they say
Ain t no testimony without the test, come on

It s no surprise that I m the son of a preacher man
And that is why when it comes time to speak I can
And when it comes to turning the other cheek I am
A lying hypocrite, cause you re gonna leak, my man
Stand in the corner, count to fifty, little, crazy nigga
I m on the short bus meaning I ll go crazy quicker
A Rorschach shock test making an amazing picture
I m at my mother s grave wishing they would lay me with you
A girl in school once told me I was ugly
Well why the baby sitter keep touching me
Just a grinding pretending like she fucking me
And now it actually makes sense, it s because it s me
Now I m a somebody, ain t that nice?
My life is a one of one, can t paint that twice
Lord, I m glad I don t look like what I ve been through
Cause it s very ironic but ain t that life
Yeah, I mean what s so strange about that?
I ve seen stranger things happen
I seen a monkey ride a motorcycle
Hey, man, why don t you show him something?

Yo, now I just doodle and diagram a rhymes design
Theories of relativity like Eisenstein
So don t you worry about my mind cause mine is fine
Stigmata, whoever cannot see the signs is blind
They ve made a monster raw materials and melancholy
And I can do everything better than everybody
When I m talking people listen like E. F. Hutton
And I m aging backwards like I m Benjamin Button
I m an occasion, I m an equation
So if you ve had problems cause I m a math problem
But that is why I draw the line like long division
I write songs, but trust me I m the wrong musician
You see, the courage is a verbiage that s simply said
Color you dead, paint the canvas in simply red
And this is all in my head, it s a process
But my therapist says I m making progress

So the moral to the story is
Whatever don t kill you will you stronger
When somebody don t understand you
It s cool, you might be a genius