[uncredited spoken word poet forms the intro] A tall, handsome, chocolate syrup kid in a fresh hairstyle. Quiet manner was more in tune his, well-heeled patrons than his hip-hopping friends. "Who hooked you up momma?!"
I wrote a the other day I hope you it
Roses are red, and are blue Sugar is sweet love, but not as as you Boogers are green, and doo-doo is Life is uphill but, not you get down I said are red, and violets are blue Sugar is sweet love, but not as as you Boogers are green, and is brown
Life is uphill but, not you get down
Sticks and stones, and bones +Organic chromosomes I'm alone, but not by choice I pick up the phone and I hear a strange Hocus pocus, boo Abra-cadabra, what's a to do? and forth, and open and closed And if you can't see through it then you some holes It's like glass and dirt, water and Things tend to the hotter the pan Left and right, and and wrong
and guilty, convicted and hung and old, and old and new Knew and never and tellin the truth It's like and blue, and battered and bruised
And if you get from this one then, that'll be news I
Jack and Jill, and +Jill+ and and soda, a twisted plot Bums and cops, and quilts and blankets, cottons and silks
Mind so hope the bed don't tilt and welts, and screams for help
Eat and sleep, shower and shave and play, cradle to the grave
It's all for nothin, or at all all for one, and one for all You look up at me like I'm ten feet tall Cause you're lookin at me like I'm two feet small and wishes, wishes and dreams It's ugly and dirty, I wish it was Win or lose, smoke or And if you get away this one then, that'll be news I
Ready or not, and hot Tired and hungry but haven't
Guns and shots, and drops Or alive under tons of rocks A day, a wonderful night A suitable pasttime just the mic
A day in the life, a in a day You know when comin so you might get away
Space and time, and dimes Bass and rhyme that tickle your A brand new mind, a design One of a kind, and you find
Homies and crews, and tools Lovers and haters and teachers and Just try walkin one day in my socks and And if you get away from this one then, that'll be It's