Nothing at last is sacred. Oh how the have fallen What have I done to It's been way too long!"
We need to reacquaint. Things are now, I ain't the same man I was Hi, how are you doing? I'm new and improved with even less to A collector's edition version of a drink ordering cocktail teller Gone way wrong...to the of no rerun
the edge and burned out before I even got my shine Holding my head in pure Out of insight. Out of mindful things to shout or rhyme
Yeah, I I was supposed to change the world and all But it looks like the got to me first If you can't em, join 'em.. hurt the team by beating yourself
I'm different...in a way The only thing that stays the same is people claim their states, I state my claims Sage Francis a name for himself For the my mother calls me Paul Which was my father's name, but Ray in and raised me It's crazy, but this is a I play
"Shut the fuck uuuuuuup!"
Don't bother calling me at all I'm not answering Is that a voice-mail-bomb-threat or a promise I'm mishandling? Gambling away my money issues, owes me big bucks My career on explosive vacuums sucking me in and blowing me up
Poetry struck a in the listenership Spoken word got 'em all interested Now I don't have to serve ice to little kids I serve emcees who they're rippin' it And poets who they're somehow significant both are loud and ignorant And know how to speak to a crowd in an intimate environment
I am different. In a way The only that stays the same is change While people their states, I state my claims I'm a quiet player who outwardly hates the game I shake what I got, which is a pocket I do my mini-market research and make for myself when I walk quick
I talk with authority while I it I ask, "Who am I?" I'm left guessing But if you're a poor man's version of It is your
Growing up in a town prepared me well for this petrii dish Where talk is invisible to the eye and hate the guy they're speaking with I'm a real No chicken...not even fish I'm a real underground My tape quality sucks, my are warped and my CD skips
Lady Luck is a bitch with itchy palms and a case of the gimmes I've got an outtie if she's got an inny, I'll her pipes and then sweep her chimney The beat in me is polyrhythmic. You're only 60 heart beats per minute A human second-hand-me-down-to-earth-guy who will thriftshop-lift his
I may be getting too big for my but I paid my dues when the was climbing If I burn too many bridges never get off of this awful island As long as been rhyming, they only started listening Because for a they didn't like how I wouldn't the pot that I was pissin' in
Plus I had no dead homies to pour out the liquor I don't You can your shiny objects in front of my eyes and I won't blink I'm different. Oooohhhh yyyeeeaaahhhh.. I'm motherfucking different. yyyeeeaaahhhh..