[Chorus: sampled singer (Inpsectah Deck)]
   One of these days and you wont be long (It wont be long now)
   One of these days and you wont be long (You bound to come up)
   One of these days and you wont be long (Keep your eyes on us)
   One of these days and you wont be long (Yeah, yeah, yeah, Deck)
  
   [Inspectah Deck]
   I'm from the home where the buffalo roam
   And niggas don't give a flyin' fuck
   Talk with signs up, walk with the iron tucked
   Leave your eyes wide shut
   Money bag's on +The Table+, gots to get locked up
   Rebel I's simply slicker, pick up a pretty sister
   Dig her out on +The Table+, bend off the remy licker
   Head splitter, deliver so cold I send shivers
   From many figures, battle the world or any nigga
   I'm Uptown +Saturday Nite+ like Bill Carr's
   Got weed in the jars with vanilla cigars
   On the strip, eyeballin' the chicks, holdin' the mix
   Blast off of my shit, vibratin' the whip
  
   [Chorus: sampled singer (Raekwon)]
   One of these days and you wont be long (That's what you call it pa)
   One of these days and you wont be long (Chef!)
  
   [Raekwon]
   Yo I'm sicker than the V12 [X5]
   With cracks in the Rolly jumper all we do is Drink fuckin' Drive
   Real niggas raise up, Mommy get your feet off +The Table+
   The cable luck bare, my man got me one on his leckle
   It's nothin' for me to get up with you, guts with you
   Blow off them matches and sit up with you
   Aiyo the streets, what is gettin' more crazy?
   Stressin' me nothin', investin' the leathers, we all into things blazin'
   Slingin' coke is just a normal habit, rappers we wear
   Straddlers with cannons and hatchets gettin' cheers
   Yatzis are fresh off the block, block squeezin', it's real
   If we get real, put pop, poppin' at your blocks equal
   Take these niggas and throw 'em in lakes, it's business
   Rake these niggas on the mic, display your ninjas
   Nines crowns verses your nine towns
   Run up with nine 9's, brown down, get to lyin' you down
  
   [Chorus: sampled singer {U-God} (Raekwon)]
   One of these days and you wont be long {Yo} (That's what you call it pa)
   One of these days and you wont be long {Yo, yo}
  
   [U-God]
   I come from the slums, I ain't no dummy
   My testiment talk, represent money
   This +Verbal Intercourse+, fueled by exhaust
   The bread winner, head spinner, coldest with the force
   No remorse, endorse the rap artist
   So flamboyant cos I pimp slap the hardest
   Ever since the +Triumph+ we've been missin' them soldiers
   We came tonight, boy the mission is cobra, full exploder
   Bulldose through the rubbish, I'm in too deep boy
   I just gotta love this, they call we Too Sweet
   One of the nine brothers, I'm so unique
   Every line that smother, the situation's grim
   It's bloody sin cos every time I want out they pull me back in
   I see my reflection in the chrome mack 10
   Ask the passer who's faster with the pen
   Then pull it, nine hollows, amorettos
   That's how I like it, sweat on my wine bottles
   The automobiles with them shiny assed hubs
   The endo pull, with the bathtub club, my angel's in the mud
   Veteran smile, +Dat's Gangsta+ shit, that American style
   Dig it, prick or prey
   I'm quick to slay with the rectifier shit, caught by the ricochet nigga
  
   "I got to know"
  
   [Chorus x4: sampled singer (Raekwon)]
   One of these days and you wont be long (That's what you call it pa)
   One of these days and you wont be long
  
   "I got to know"