Songtext The art of the handshake Hilltop Hoods

The art of the handshake

I used to wake up, bathroom, face wash
Cartoons, Marduks, Fatooks(?), monties, stop tune
Brought to us awful, swine what I scored to
Feather with the weather when your crime is an ?
Warp from the trying, it was covered from the ?
Sellin' in, rafting, stickers up, nine months
Ticket? Can't afford to, life of the payroll
Life rolled up, in my eyes and my ?
Head phones drop like the ? off a kangaroo
Walk like a bango, tiger in the tight roll
And the train roar, and the train roll
And I train roll on(?)
And I stopped bodies who dropped
Gun loud root em out
I said to hold up but you can't do that
(Wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom)
Next stop, what have you got?
The whole damn cruise
So I grab em by the wrist, switch by the grip
Tongue flit, then we clip, then we finish with a fist pump
Rist chump, try to yack cuban me in dis
And right above a handshake I said (marijuana)

(Hook)
There used to be a time like way before this song when
All the handshakes were like twenty seconds long
And they just went, and they just went
And they just went, and they just went on
There used to be a time like way before this song when
All the handshakes were like twenty seconds long
And they just went, and they just went
And they just went, and they just went on

(Interlude)
The handshake is thought to have developed
As a gesture to demonstrate that neither party
At an encounter is carrying a weapon or poses a threat
Over hundreds of years this simple act
Has developed into a sometimes complex ritual
And a way to convey status, mutual affiliations, or just plain respect

(Verse 2)
I used to wake on a Saturday, play in the matinee
Game get faded on the train down to Adelaide
Headphones playing looking at the fresh painted walls
Rakim saying we're about to get paid in full
A man entered, cap and black sweater
Jacks get all up on a fella that act clever
Train tracks with graf with back-to-back letters
But we came to rap and that was back when a
DJ would supply the wax, stage had a liner mat
Place full of writers and orators or a giants' cap
Casing with minors at the crates of hard bar the back would break
Any time and hit the stage and freestyle attack
Walk in like I'm possessed by the beatniks
Clean kicks full of more heart than a phoenix
Move right away 'til my crew's at the stage
Nothing new just this groove how we do night and day
Bring it back, no high-five shit is whack
We bringing that old sucka side finger snap
Fist-poke stop em lock just don't stop the rock
With the way handshake body rock

(Hook)
There used to be a time like way before this song when
All the handshakes were like twenty seconds long
And they just went, and they just went
And they just went, and they just went on
There used to be a time like way before this song when
All the handshakes were like twenty seconds long
And they just went, and they just went
And they just went, and they just went on

(Interlude)
Not all cultures consider a firm handshake as a sign of respect
In fact a grip that's too tight can often be considered as offensive
Scientists at the University of Manchester
Taking into account twelve different variables
Developed a mathematical formula for the handshake
To which people would be the most receptive

(Hook)
There used to be a time like way before this song when
The DJ could put a cut the record right on, put the record right on
Put the record right on, put the record right, put the record right
There used to be a time like way before this song when
The DJ could put cut the record right on, put the record right
Put the record right on, put the record right on, put the record right
Keep on bringing it