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Edwin the Hardboiled

from B. Sharpa by Ben Sharpa

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lyrics

Chorus_
Hard-boiled egg headed Ed bled, dead -
Set a predetermined date to rest his head in bed with fate,
A head who never thought ahead – too late!
Caught a lead bullet, gun led to bloodshed
It’s safe to say he should’ve read the red safety gauge

Verse 1_
Nevertheless, rainy days and paramed take-aways
Tailor-made a bitter end to his jaded ways
That wins the bread and paid his rent:
He made a friend who played with Gems
And later Zen while blazing stems, his name was Ben -
Sharpa shaving men like barber’s razor edge,
Together they made the best team – trade secrets
And bravery theft soon became profession -
Many moons raiding dens of crazy gems
Rolex and gold bracelets while maidens slept naked breasted
Yo sometimes Ed would even rape and take the necklace…yesses!
Now close shaves with death closed in as the stakes rose in risk
No wait a sec – it was only lust for greater wealth and stolen gifts
That made a mess of they solid trust, stainless rep and soul eclipse
And scathed a blemish-free relationship like a traitor’s kiss,
Cause in the midst a snake hissed when egos split –
Hate injected the duo with shady methods Edwin had been daily testing
Bust dipping into petty cash for drugs like acid litmus papers
Plus hidden agendas created badly backbitten members
Out of friends, once partners in crime united -
A knot boy scouts could not untie, yet now Ed and Ben sharply divided
Over the sparkle of diamonds – fencing! Caught up in the jewel duel
And all cause of ol’ knucklehead Ed started lying…

Chorus_
Hard-boiled egg headed Ed bled, dead
Set a predetermined date to rest his head in bed with fate
A head who never thought ahead – too late
Caught a lead bullet, gun led to bloodshed
It’s safe to say he should’ve read the red safety gauge…

Verse 2_
After the fall out, they went all-out, and the cold beef never thawed out
Ben rocked the rhyme road while Ed stuck to the wrong route,
So with ten toes, two timbos and one loaded gun with a long snout
Ed stole a small pouch of ice that was found to belong to
A certain Sir Fredrick, son of Cedric von Sedgwick –
A filthy-rich rotton German don in S.A. on pleasure trips,
So anyways, Ed robbed the don’s son armed with a shotgun
Drunk in a Cape nite club parking lot, lots of bling and no bodyguards
Oh what a folly god – and not for Fredrick mind you,
But for half-witted egghead Ed when fucked up on the jobby job,
Cause this one proved to be a truly sloppy jewelry robbery –
Yo lets just say ‘haste makes waste’, and it probably cost him all he got
Cause when he stole the purse he chose the hearse with no remorse,
Not knowing of course that he had just earned himself a holy curse
When Cedric heard the jack occurred he slapped Fredrick and grabbed the horn –
The von Sedgwick don sent his mob task force to track Ed’s course,
What happened next? Gats burst – Ed fell flat first, a collapsed corpse
They clapped and cracked his eggshell in half – flashback to the source
Like Humpty Dumpy, his thick headedness was last resort,
“Congratulations Edwin! You’ve just won an all-expense paid,
One-way holiday, island Hotel Hell vacation with no fuckin’ passport!”
(After they poached that egghead, he knew he wouldn’t be coming back)

Verse 3_
His mother cried like onion eyes,
Her son had died with butterflies her stomach fried…
A tonne of crimes he’d once devised upon her mind
And plus the lies he’d tell her frequently
She couldn’t believe her womb conceived a murderer, thief
Worthless cheat – a cursed fiend and serpentine of delinquency!
From curious keen lurking teen, with pretty dreams of pearly teeth
To petty thief penny schemes – then on to mega cheese jobs
He couldn’t be stopped – turned his greedy wants to many frenzied needs
And by any means, long as the monster breathes constantly it feeds
Off a dead city like hardheaded E. – fell on his dirty felon knees
Last seen shot with hot UNITA diamonds and a Lexus key –
In the end he learned his lesson like Frank Talk, the rest is His-story by Ben…

Chorus_
Hard-boiled egg headed Ed bled, dead
Set a predetermined date to rest his head in bed with fate
A head who never thought ahead – too late
Caught a lead bullet, gun led to bloodshed
It’s safe to say he should’ve read the red safety gauge…

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from B. Sharpa, released July 26, 2008
Prod. Kaptin

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