Caribou. ☆ Can’t Do Without You

Ok, this how I know you all my fans for real when I do this
Daa da da daant, TECH N9NE
That’s how I know my real fans are in the house!!!
I love you Kansas City, you fuckin supported me
it started here first nigga, then it spread to everywhere
else nigga, you are the reason that I go everywhere I go
you took me to Switzerland, you took me to Amsterdam nigga
you took my to Australia
you put me on the fucking, Paid Dues festival
you put me on Rock the Bells with Damian Marley and
fucking Nas and everybody thank you to all my fans!

[Verse 1]
I was down on my luck
out of my bucks
Growlin’ my gut while in a rut
How I was smilin’ when falice was callin’ on uh
I was proud and I bust loud and enough to rally them up
My style is a child it was roudy and ruff
Such as life, when the dope ain’t sellin’
the soap ain’t smellin’
Ripe dough ain’t swellin’, no hope but nope I ain’t failing tonight
and into the contest with nothin in my palm just
a microphone and god next to Tech to bless and I’m set
I won, the people voted for me to take the paper
was fate the way it happened the show fell on
the day of my graduation day, so I chose the show
to go open for EPMD and Gaume that’s how it was suppose to go
I didn’t know that I was chosen never
expected it but these people saw while the other
haters rejected it, I tore through the hardest part
of this art when most neglected it, I poured out
my soul on to the paper and you accepted it

[Chorus X2]
You are my heart, you are my soul
I thank you for all you done for me
You are my art, you are my flow
my fans made it for everyone to see
Forever accepting N9nes soul

[Verse 2]
In Kansas City
A lot of fans is with me
started doing shows with crazy flows and it expanded quickly
Tech Ninnas band of hippies
Ran the shit we handed strictly
I landed scripts that damaged emcees
Ripped these calamitously
and I ain’t have nothin’
not a cent to my name, man
I just had bussin’ I just vent through my brain
when I went through the rain
you all invented my lane
cause you went to the strange events to see strength in my pain
you saved my life
damn you made my life, grand
I love these times with you all even though it made my wife
scram cause all the time I spent I grind for thine and
rhyme again I sign your skin and bind a friend tonight different kinds of kin
Technicians, Juggalos, Juggalettes, Kottonmouth Kings, and Queens
Gangbangers, Colledge Kids, Metal Heads they all seen the dream
of me being the king this almost brings a string of tears meaning I sing to all
of you that’s been on my team

[Chorus X2]
You are my heart, you are my soul
I thank you for all you done for me
You are my art, you are my flow
my fans made it for everyone to see
Forever accepting N9nes soul

[Verse 3]
you took me over seas to Germany and Sweden, Australia
Switzerland, Amsterdam, and Paris I’m seeing
fans in red clothes in Norway and Spain in Monaco
we honor thoughs that rep the strange lane
couldn’t ask for a better life or better fam, yeah
my fans they set us right so they get a jam and
all of my heart and soul and confusion ready to start
The pollution bring my art from allusion to me rulin’
and I will never let you down I swear to you
industry be aware the clown is up in here to scare a few
and stare at you with a glare that shoos the square that’s not aware of Tech
and caribou but all hail the fans up forever there for you
I didn’t know that I was chosen never
expected it but these people saw while the other
haters rejected it, I tore through the hardest part
of this art when most neglected it, I poured out
my soul on to the paper and you accepted it

[Chorus X2]
You are my heart, you are my soul
I thank you for all you done for me
You are my art, you are my flow
my fans made it for everyone to see
Forever accepting N9nes soul

[Outro]
I’m back stage right before I go on
and I hear everybody screaming my name
Tech N9ne, Tech N9ne
It trips me out like, I can’t believe this is my job
still to this day, and there 60,000 people out there
no matter how many people out there
I fuckin’ love it, my fans what would I do without you
I love you