It's really real, when I feel the way I do right now I see all my brothers up daisies, man, it amazes me That you see where you gonna be A statistic, everybody's call ballistic If you had a good day, damn, I have missed it you mad at the Universe Going to hell with everybody cause you want your own first I got the urge to let you in on a little you keep dying if I keep it All the keeling that you're feeling is within For the check the color of your skin Why I couldn't try even if I had to Born the bullet-proof vest when I had you A black woman to get through to the few So you can leave the next
5 in the morning. Where you gonna be? (Outside on the corner) You better get yourself you're wasting all your time Right with your mind
5 o'clock in the morning. Where you be? (Outside on the corner) You better get together While you're wasting all time Right along with your
Why I do right and suffer I do wrong making that loopy and that hustler Instead of hot-dogs I'm eating porks up in their And got a gang of up in the safe up in my covers On top of all that I big fat Lex And got my hoes that in golf course in case I feel like flexing So I ask, for real though, who are you See, I'm a big man
Yeah, you know you'se a big man, it I went for years to school and never could read A knowledge of my hood is they can never teach me I started to step but I kept up with the Joneses Having rollers... my pinky ring I did a lot of kinky thing the girls knew it, into it I'm my old way, yeah, they still wants to do it Its not about the clothes that you got on your But the in your pocket and if you're down like that on
5 in the morning. Where you gonna be? (Outside on the corner) You better get yourself While you're wasting all your along with your mind
5 o'clock in the morning. you gonna be? (Outside on the corner) You better get together While you're all your time along with your mind
Wella, Mr. Black Man me where you're heading The last few I watched while you were sheading Pounds and pounds on growth for the Soon we won't be to have a strong black nation A shooting here, a stabbing there to stop Cause now you're from the dose of the crack rock I'm just a Nubian that needs a king to stand strong And try to on It's not a white man's finger on the Car-jacks, drive-by's, callin' other "nigga" I'm not here to scold but shape n' mold That young black mind won't live to grow old you're fronting smoking on the blunt and Down with your friends cause you think making ends But you're not - and the truth of the matter Your brother gettin' skinny, you want your pockets fatter
5 o'clock in the morning. you gonna be? (Outside on the corner) You better get yourself While wasting all your time along with your mind
5 o'clock in the morning. Where you be? (Outside on the corner) You get yourself together While you're wasting all time Right along with mind