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[foul mouthed girl yelling at Bill on the phone] 

[Bushwick Bill] 
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear 
Gotta start with the right

open out here
Can't make a silk purse, out of a sow's ear
And the fences we build 'round our hearts
Always seem to need mending, in the very same spots

for guys like you
So don't you ever doubt your know-how
cause you know how,
To make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
Don't worry

like you
So don't you ever doubt your know-how
cause you know how,
To make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
Don't worry

This is what you give me to work with
Well, honey, I've seen worse
We're going to turn this sow's ear
Into a silk purse

We'll have you washed

Honor to Us All

Disney

Disney on Ice: 100 Years of Magic

2004

This is what you give me to work with?
Well, honey, I've seen worse
We're going to turn this sow's ear
Into a silk purse

We'll have you
Washed

Honor to Us All

Marni Nixon

Mulan

1998

This is what you give me to work with
Well, honey, I've seen worse
We're going to turn this sow's ear
Into a silk purse

We'll have you washed

This is what you give me to work with?
Well, honey, I've seen worse.
We're gonna turn this sow's ear
Into a silk purse.

We'll have you washed

Charm School

Elvis Costello & the Attractions

Punch the Clock [Ryko Bonus Tracks]

1983

that charm school

You and I as lovers
Were nothing but a farce
Trying to make a silk purse
Out of a sow's arse
Saying 'why don't you watch me'

Charm School

Elvis Costello

Riot Act '83

1992

that charm school

You and I as lovers
Were nothing but a farce
Trying to make a silk purse
Out of a sow's arse
Saying 'why don't you watch me'

When I Was King

Graham Parker

Struck by Lightning

1991

still trying to be a king
But putting the crown on is like putting a silk purse on a sow's ear
And if I want it to be like I want it to be
I'll have

Had to play my hand full of cards cause you dealt them
My children were worried but what could I tell them
Their father was strung out no I couldn't

never switchin'
My customer avatar I know'em like my religion
They whisper silent prayer, same time a crowd cheer
How you tryna make a silk purse from

the best in this town
Music the same, I'm still hearing them sounds
I'll be the one to make it out this town
You reap what you sow, I already know
You reap

You can't get a silk purse from a sows ear
Wrestle with a pig & you both dirty... hear?
Words like this, jewels for my folks
Heard the truth in em I

(That can be missed out by God)
Maitho make monaga
(His eyes see)
Maria me hitho inii
(The hidden things)
Na matu make tii mahinge
(And His ears are not

make her leak where she at
Halloween she want them treats where we at
But I’m masked like purge street sweep and we out
Bullet holes all in the couch

Jesus pieces, you should get him appraised
From day 1 y’all there’s no bitch in me
All this capping that y’all don’t make no sense to me
On the gram

The Filth of Our Underlings

Byzantine

The Fundamental Component

are bleeding
Silk purse from a sows ear is what I'm knitting
Nourishing off the fat of our rendering

Hail to our underlings
Our destinies embraced

make a purse out of a sow's ear

And I was one in a billion fools who fell for it

are bleeding
Silk purse from a sows ear is what I'm knitting
Nourishing off the fat of our rendering

Hail to our underlings
Our destinies embraced

to find out it ain't worth jack
Y'all fools gold
Extremities on a pooh bear
Putos
When it gets grim know talk is cheap
If I say I reap know I do sow
Excuse

Peace is rainfall again
And I can't say we'd be the same as we were when we were friends
Shame shaped a sow's ear
Saved a silk purse for when there's

and I creep so cold
You are the wrong nigga to fuck with
So fuck with me best believe it
You gonna reap what you sow
Reap what you sow, sow, sow, sow