Counterfeit
by Limp Bizkit

Album: Three Dollar Bill Y'all (1997)
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  • Sloppin' ferry
    You know we figured you out

    Freakin' me out you wear a mask called counterfeit
    You're freakin' me out, you wear a mask
    Freakin' me out you wear a mask called counterfeit
    You're freakin' me out, you wear a mask
    Freakin' me out you wear a mask called counterfeit
    You're freakin' me out, you wear a mask
    Freakin' me out you wear a mask called counterfeit
    You're freakin' me out, you wear a mask
    Freakin' me out you wear a mask called counterfeit
    You're freakin' me out, you wear a mask
    Freakin' me out you wear a mask called counterfeit
    You're freakin' me out, you wear a fake

    Hey man wake up and smell the concrete
    Strange to see you've changed like the LB
    Could be identity crisis but I can't buy this
    Reality bites but that's what life is
    Pitiful you, your hideous behaviour
    Hate what God gave ya, fakin' all the flava

    Artificial minds seekin' out the new trends
    Get in where you fit in
    Quit thinkin' like a has-been
    Diggin' in my culture

    Let me let you punks know
    I'm an old school soldier
    With the funk flow
    A damn shame you want to change yourself
    Because you're sick of yourself

    Well I'm sick of you too
    Fake
    You're a counterfeit
    Fake
    (You know we figured you out)
    Well I'm sick of you too
    Fake
    You're a counterfeit
    Fake

    I wonder, I wonder
    I wonder what it's like to be a clone
    Doin' nothin, nothin' on my own
    Alone in your misery, you're bitin' on my new style

    Filed as a counterfeit
    Going down in history as nothin' but a copy cat (copy cat)
    So if your fakin' that you're phat you need a ball-bat
    Right where your head is at
    All your desperation causes separation
    Now I grab the mic to intimidate
    Your weakness screams from the limb on your siren
    Phonies get the hint quick smacked with funk flick
    Pain for the fakers, fame can't maintain
    Because you're sick of yourself

    Well I'm sick of you too
    Fake
    You're a counterfeit
    Fake
    (You know we figured you out)
    Well I'm sick of you too
    Fake
    You're a counterfeit
    Fake

    All these phonies

    You disregarded your life (disregarded your life)
    You disrespected your friends (you disrespected your friends)
    You've even stolen your appearance (stolen) from hangin' out with my family
    But I should have never dropped my guard (shoulda never dropped my guard)
    So you could stab me in the back (stab me in the back)
    But you were fakin' me out (you were fakin' me out)
    Just fakin' me out you wear a mask (you wear a mask)

    Freakin' me out you wear a mask called counterfeit
    You're freakin' me out you wear a mask called counterfeit
    Freakin'' me out, you wear a mask called counterfeit
    You're freakin' me out you wear a mask called counterfeit

    Freakin' me out you wear a mask called counterfeit
    Freakin' me out you wear a mask called counterfeit
    Freakin' me out you wear a mask called counterfeit
    Freakin' me out you wear a mask called counterfeit

    Now you're steadily startin' to change
    You want to rearrange your lifestyle
    Live like a wild child
    With the vibe alive
    You could lie to try and be so fly
    A lie but you deny you're a fake

    You're a phony, you know we figured you out (fake)
    You know we figured you out
    Figured you out, figured you out (fake)
    Fake
    Fake
    Fake
    Fake
    Fake
    Fake Writer/s: John Everett Otto, Samuel Robert Rivers, Wesley Louden Borland, William Frederick Durst
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Comments: 18

  • Luke from Manchester, United KingdomKorn were influenced by Rage Against The Machine, not Rage.
    Rage are a German thrash metal band.

    Bob Dylan didn't rap and he didn't play rock. His words rhymed because he was a poet and he played folk music or "protest songs".
  • Zero from Nowhere, NjOh, yeah and Biohazard did it too along with many hardcore-punk bands that sang in that style. Anyway, Bob Dylan was the first rap-rocker, okay, I'll shut up now...........
  • Zero from Nowhere, NjThe songfact is correct as far as what the band said it's about, but claiming that Limp Bizkit is the band that inspired all the other rap-metal bands is really the other way around. Bizkit was influenced by KoRn and hed p.e. (yes, hed p.e., look it up), KoRn were influenced by Rage, Faith No More, and Red Hot Chili Peppers, who each had their own influences. Every band has their influences but Bizkit did not invent Rap-Metal they just poularized it.
  • Jimbo from Tahlequah, OkJust the fact he,s and band aren't geeks like Korn in High School! Bizkit speak, deep and brought it the only way they knew how? Real!man this world is filled up with 90 percent of haters! That aint ever even come close to doing what limp did or can do!
  • Kelsey from Rustburg, VaOK i have LB Greatest hits... I'm a fan I guess... But they aren't hard core enough for me... They were taught by KoRn after Durst did Fieldy's tattoo... But they're kinda an insult to Korn to think they they're connected at all...
  • Evin from Cork, IrelandDespite LBs crapiness, "Everything" the last song on $3 Bill, is still class a song...
  • Austin from Smallsville,new England, --$3 Bill Y'all(ok), Significant Other(good)Chocalate starfish(mediocre) everything else horrible.
  • Austin from Smallsville, NeA lot of natural harmonics
  • Daniel from Ada, OkThis is song is similiar to the KoRn song called "Fake." It talks about the the phoniness in people. I like all of the Limp Bizkit albums, but I don't have a favorite one. I agree with the all of the above comments. So who likes STAIND?
  • Chris from Mansfield, Txplus cover the nirvana song "you know you're right" and add all those rap stuff in and mess the song up. the power and anger of nirvana version is disappear.
  • Chris from Mansfield, Txthis band is cheap. they just took the song from the who(behind blue eyes) and without giving credit to them.
  • Mike from Newark, NjI agree with the rest of the comments. Limp Bizkit from 3 dollar bill was original and awesome. Then, biggest sellout ever. But counterfeit remains one of my all-time favorites. I wish I never even bought significant other. It remains the only album out of about 300 i've bought I ever sold to a used CD place. Glad they took it, they probably had plenty.
  • Francv from Chicago, IlLimp Bizkit is the benchmark of sucking. It doesn't get much worse.
  • Alex from Nunya, CaA great example of a sellout.
  • Joe from El Paso, TxThe Limp Bizkit from $3 Bill Y'all is one the most influential and orginal bands ever. The Limp Bizkit of now are cheap and predictable.
  • Belinda from Miami, FlIt's true. $3 Bill Y'all is a lot angrier and screamy.
  • Nick from Paramus, NjThe songs on the $3 Bill are heavier then the stuff they would release afterwords.
  • X from X, MsKeep Rollin'
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