[CHORUS:]
  Ready Or Not, Here I Come, You Can't Hide
  Gonna Find You and Take it Slowly
  Ready Or Not, Here I Come, You Can't Hide
  Gonna Find You and Make you want me.
    [CLEF:]
  Now that I escape, sleepwalker awake
  Those who could relate know the world ain't cake
  Jail bars ain't golden gates
  Those who fake, they break,
  When they meet their 400 pound mate
  If I could rule the world
  Everyone would have a gun in the ghetto of course
  When giddyupin' on their horse
  I Kick a rhyme drinkin' moonshine
  I pour a sip on the concrete, for the deceased
  But no don't weep, Wyclef's in a state of sleep
  Thinkin' 'bout the robbery that I did last week.
  Money in the bag, banker looked like a drag
  I want to play with pelicans from here to Baghdad
  Gun blast, think fast, I think I'm hit
  My girl pinched my hips to see if I still exist.
  I think not, I'll send a letter to my friends,
  A born again hooligan only to be king again.
    [LAURYN:]
  I play my enemies like a game of chess, where I rest,
  No stress
  If you don't smoke sess, lest.
  I must confess, my destiny's manifest
  In some Goretex and sweats I make treks like I'm homeless
  Rap orgies with Porgy and Bess,
  Capture your bounty like Elliot Ness, YES
  Bless you if you represent the Fu
  But I'll hex you with some witch's brew if you're Doo Doo
  Voo Doo,
  I can do what you do, easy, BELIEVE ME
  Frontin' niggas give me hee-bee-gee-bees
  So while you're imitating Al Capone
  I'll be Nina Simone
  And defacating on your microphone.
    [Chorus:]
  Ready Or Not, Here I Come, You Can't Hide
  Gonna Find You and Take it Slowly
    [LAURYN'S INTERLUDE]
    You can't run away
  From these styles I got, oh baby, hey baby
  Cause I got a lot, oh yeah
  And anywhere you go
  My whole crew's gonna know
  You can't hide from the block, oh no.
    [PRAZ:]
  Ready or not, refugees takin' over
  The Buffalo soldier, dread-lock rhasta
  On the twelfth hour, fly by in my bomber
  Crews run for cover, now they're under pushin' up flowers
  Superfly true lies, do or die,
  Toss me high - only puff la,
  With my crew from lock high
  I refugee from Guantanamo Bay
  Dance around the border like I'm Cassius Clay
    [Chorus (Lauryn) REPEAT 3X:]
    Ready Or Not, Here I Come, You Can't Hide
  Gonna Find You and Take it Slowly
  Ready Or Not, Here I Come, You Can't Hide
  Gonna Find You and Make You Want Me