Verbal Anime

(feat. Iriscience)

[Intro: Cartoon Characters]

"Like, uh, this is your lucky day, see.

I will uh like, you know, fill you in how come.

Suppose you like didn't, uuuh,

run up to a couple of sweet guy like us."

"Heavens no!"

"Oh yeah well we wouldn't want that to happen."

"So I tell you what we're gonna do."

"Oh let's just dispense with formalities

And uh, get down to like business."

[Herbaliser Scratching]

[Iriscience] "This is verbal anime, graphic animation"

[Iriscience]

I've seen ghosts in the shell, ninja scrolls, and a curer

But the illest character I've seen was in the mirror

Open up the world, people lend me an ear

It's a family affair and let me make that clear

Raaka, I keep my propaganda proper

In circles I'm high, swing blades like helicopters

In this stage of my life I choose to develop shock words

While cats look lost without the teleprompters

Federado tour duty, medal of honor

Since life is a battle your best bet is betting on it

Check the conference, we on stage with weapons on us

Microphones, straight Robin Hoods, its economics

Yes yes, it all starts with a sketch

Snapshots, motion pictures and special effects

We stretch the game out, we expand the nation

And this is verbal anime graphic animation

[Chorus x2]

Funk imagination

Come to illustration

Then we bring pictures to life

We call it animation

[Iriscience]

You got to know the time like the grand verbalizer

It's time, Iriscience with The Herbaliser

A light this bright might burn through your visor

I know you want to squint, but, open your eyes up!

I jump up and let the earth spin round

And don't come down 'til I'm floating over your town

Nothing to prove, making the people move

Whether double-decker bus, taxi or the tube

Mind the cap, we did crime now we climb the map

Check how I spit rhyme to rap

Yes yes, it all starts with a sketch

Snapshots, motion pictures and special effects

We stretch the game out, expand the nation

This is verbal anime graphic animation

Ohhhhhh, Herbaliser, U.K, CA, LA, all day

[Chorus X2]

Funk imagination

Come to illustration

Then we bring pictures to life

We call it animation

[Iriscience]

I trade money at the Combio, dollars for pounds

Massacre, musical murder I'm killing your sound!

But hardly softly, how's that feel to you now?

I chew raw iron and I spit steel to the crowd

Magnetic attraction don't repel

I attract retail, underground rebel

Dilated Peoples: the few, the proud, the brave

Nice in the studio and +Live On Stage+

Drop so many bars I leave the beat in a cage

Some are courageous, some afraid to turn the page

Rappers stacking rhymes, you can take a quick look

And animate my lyric sheets like a flipbook

Thoughts in effect it all starts with a sketch

Snapshots, motion pictures and special effects

Stretch the game out, expand the nation

This is verbal anime graphic animation

[Herbaliser Scratching]

"I know you would see it our way because we explained it very fully"

[Iriscience] "This is verbal anime"

"I'm not gonna get aneurolized but few except what I said"

[Iriscience] "This is verbal anime graphic animation"