Nothing at last is sacred. Oh how the great have What I done to myself? It's been way too long!"
We need to reacquaint. Things are different now, I the same man I was Hi, how are you doing? I'm new and improved with less to lose A collector's edition version of a virgin drink ordering teller way wrong...to the point of no rerun
Over the edge and out before I even got my shine Holding my head in doubt Out of insight. Out of things to shout or rhyme about
Yeah, I I was supposed to change the world and all But it looks the world got to me first If you beat em, join 'em.. Then hurt the team by yourself
I'm different...in a way The only that stays the same is change While people claim their states, I state my Sage Francis made a name for For the my mother calls me Paul Which was my middle name, but Ray Stepped in and me It's crazy, but is a game 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 broken I'm mishandling? Gambling away my money issues, owes me big bucks My career depends on explosive sucking me in and blowing me up
Poetry struck a in the listenership Spoken then got 'em all interested Now I don't have to serve ice cream to kids I serve emcees who they're rippin' it And poets who think they're significant Meanwhile both are loud and And don't know how to speak to a crowd in an environment
I am different. In a way The only thing stays the same is change While people claim their states, I my claims I'm a quiet natured player who hates the game I what I got, which is a jingly pocket I do my research and make noise for myself when I walk quick
I talk authority while I question it I ask, "Who am I?" I'm left guessing But if you're a poor man's of ANYTHING It is self-perception
Growing up in a microscopic prepared me well for this petrii dish Where talk is invisible to the eye and they hate the guy speaking with I'm a vegetarian: No chicken...not even fish I'm a underground rapper My tape quality sucks, my records are and my CD skips
Luck is a greedy bitch with itchy palms and a case of the gimmes I've got an outtie if she's got an inny, I'll clean her pipes and sweep her chimney The beat that's in me is polyrhythmic. You're only 60 beats per minute A human second-hand-me-down-to-earth-guy who will his hiphop
I may be too big for my britches but I paid my dues when the was climbing If I burn too bridges I'll never get off of this awful island As long as I've been rhyming, they only listening for a while they didn't like how I wouldn't smoke the pot that I was in
Plus I had no dead homies to pour out the liquor I don't You can flash shiny objects in front of my eyes and I won't blink I'm different. Oooohhhh yyyeeeaaahhhh.. I'm motherfucking different. yyyeeeaaahhhh..