Part 3 of our look back at “Coming Out of Their Shells”, is my favorite song on the track. Song 6, which I still apparently know by heart, and the second most famous Nina Turtle Rap ever, “Walk Straight”:
Lyrics:
Now word up I got a story to tell
It starts way back to when we were coming out of our shells
Back then we were little swimming in the bowl
But something happened when we fell down that manhole
Don’t have to tell you what you all ready know
You should remember that we all have to grow
Everybody does it in a different way
so do it on your own that’s what the turtles say.
Walk straight
No need to mutate
Mutate
You never got to mutate
Got to walk straight
No need to mutate
Mutate no need to if you’re
walking straight
Got to walk
Walk straight
Talk
Talk straight
See
See straight
Hear
Hear straight
Think
Think straight
Huh. I just realized the anti-drug, anti-peer pressure message here. When I was 10 I thought it was just about being a badass.
