Lyrics:

''Yes this is Miss Renee King from Philadelphia. I want you to please**lf**Give me a call on area code 215 222 4209 and I''m calling in reference**lf**To the music business. Thank you.''**lf**DOVE:**lf**Hey how ya doin''**lf**Sorry ya can''t get through**lf**Why don''t you leave your name**lf**And your number**lf**And I''ll get back to you**lf**Hey how are ya doin''**lf**Sorry ya can''t get through**lf**But leave your name (uh)**lf**And your number**lf**And I''ll get back to you.**lf**Once again it''s another rap bandit**lf**Fiending at I and I can''t stand it**lf**Wanna be down with the Day-Glo**lf**Knocking on my door, saying, ''a yo yo''**lf**Knocking on my door, saying, ''a yo yo''**lf**''I got a funky new tune with a fly banjo''**lf**I can''t understand what the problem is**lf**I find it hard enough dealing with my own biz**lf**How''d they get my name and number**lf**Then I stop to think and wonder**lf**''Bout a plan, yo man, I gotta step out town**lf**You wanna call me up? Take my number down**lf**It''s 222-2222**lf**I got an answering machine that can talk to you**lf**It goes**lf**POS:**lf**Hey how ya doin''**lf**Sorry ya can''t get through**lf**But leave your name and your number**lf**And I''ll get back to you**lf**Yo, check it, exit the old style**lf**Enters the new**lf**But nothing''s new ''bout being hawked by a crew**lf**Or should I say flock cause around every block**lf**There''s Harry, Dick, and Tom, with a demo in his palm**lf**Now I''m with helping those who want to help themselves**lf**And flaunt a nut that''s doggy as in dope**lf**But it''s not the mood to hear**lf**The tales of limousines and pails**lf**Of money they''ll make like a pro**lf**I be like, ''Yo black, just play me the tape''**lf**But at the show the time to spare I just make**lf**But the songs created in they shacks**lf**Are so wick-wick-wack, situations like this**lf**And now I hate they give me smiles Kool-Aid wide and ask,**lf**''Was it def?''**lf**And with the straighest face I be like, ''Hell yes.''**lf**I slip them the digits to Papa Prince Paul**lf**So I don''t go AWOL but yet I know when they call**lf**They get**lf**MASE:**lf**Hey how ya doing**lf**Sorry ya can''t get through**lf**Why don''t you leave your name**lf**And your number**lf**And I''ll get back to you**lf**Hey how are ya doin''**lf**Sorry you can''t get through**lf**Why don''t you leave your name and your number**lf**And I''ll get back to you**lf**Check it out**lf**Party at the dug-out on Diction Ave**lf**Haven''t been to the jam in quite a while**lf**Figure I''ll catch up on the latest styles**lf**''Stead piles and piles of demo tapes bi-da miles**lf**All I wanna do is cut on the decks wild**lf**But edition up here bi-da miles to the center**lf**Reliever of duty, Plug One mosies in**lf**And I be like, ''Yo G, Pos does all the producing''**lf**POS:**lf**Now woe is me to the third degree**lf**Mase pulls the funny so I make like a bunny**lf**Jettin''**lf**But I''m getting used to this demo abuse**lf**Getting raped and giving birth to a tape**lf**Cause there''s no escape from the clutches of a hawker**lf**Attached to my success, sent like a stalker**lf**Make way to my radius playin'' fly guy**lf**Try to get on my back they force like Luke Sky**lf**Me Myself and I go through this act daily**lf**And rarely do I not**lf**No matter how I dodge some jackal always nails me**lf**No matter what the plot**lf**And even out on tour they be like,**lf**''Yo I got a tape to play you back at the hotel''**lf**I be like ''Oh swell''**lf**Unveil the numeric code to dial my room**lf**And tell them to call me at noon**lf**But of course there''s no answering machine in my room**lf**But a pretty young adorer**lf**Who I swung on tour**lf**And if it rings while we''re alone**lf**She''ll answer the phone**lf**And with the quickness she''ll recite like a poem**lf**DOVE:**lf**''Hey, you done did the right thing, dial up my ring ring**lf**Now you''re waiting on the beep.**lf**Say, I would love if you''d sing**lf**The tune to Tru instead of fronting on the speak.''**lf**So no problemo, just play the demo**lf**And at the end it''s break out time**lf**Please oh please don''t press rewind**lf**''Cause I''ll just lay it down the line**lf**Hey how ya doing**lf**Sorry ya can''t get through**lf**Why don''t you leave your name and your number**lf**And I''ll get back to you**lf**POS:**lf**Hey how ya doing**lf**Sorry ya can''t get through**lf**Why don''t you leave your name and your number**lf**And we''ll get back to you... peace**lf**''Yo what''s up man, this is Ronald Master down with the Fish Tank**lf**Posse, man, you know man, so you know you can just hook**lf**Me up, True. You know we got this fly new jam called ''Swimming In the**lf**Fish Tank'', you know we gonna rock it man, you know**lf**What I''m saying, but I just need your help, Prince Paul gave me your**lf**Number, you know man, you just gotta do that for me,**lf**Got this fly bassline, got these fly trombones in it man, so just hook**lf**Me up, man, just look out, all right, call me back**lf**At 557-2223 all right man, just look out, all right, look out for a**lf**Brother man!''