Trying to keep my head water Selling short to meet the fucking quota Still there's niggas at my heels to get my Stacking up in the bank, the layers on the Thinking like jimmy, tami, oh low down Niggas be getting mad as I go 'round pac The shit don't stop, I hid the in my sock Did my day and a half, now autographs I be signing Instead of papers Caught scheming, not pulling capers, no fed Just mental What you dealing the angelic uplift It's a way to save with your gift (yeah) Now a seed to a was to be (yeah) A boy to a man up quickest like a dream You really understand why you gone and dead So when time comes Just what I said find truth to tell a lie Take away my and don't show me I can fly Sly stone, it's on, you say peace I can't relate homes, I'm on the fucking Believe it or not, I'm sure be calmer situations When dirty cops me joe, I'm on probation could get me took What can I do? Can I take your on your next trip to The islands of alto, so going down like that I'm back to bat dropping on wax To fit the mix of the rich and scan'lous let 'em handle us any kind of way, fuck it And run away, I don't it torn joe I think gay, don't wanna play my shit up north But that's okay, can go a long way And goes around comes around in the a-town
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Have you ever thought what it would be like If woke up and said "fuck work" Webs of small talk, people caught up in thing I try to relax, but I stay shaking like the flame It coming, this and that, that and this Another me, well I add him to the list Flows and flows, the girls with the tight clothes Saying to get off in these back doors Irritating like what's on them Ain't looking for no friends, I got enough buddies A thousand attempts with thirty to their name I got enough pine but I find the flame Sweet like honeysuckles, like that cha cha on the green Jumping fences and with large laughter Original grafter, more and more ways to eat Brews tested by the astronauts, turn the the watts up to what I said Cnn all day in your eyes and head
No longer can I ask when I'm in your Now it's hard to tell whether you're trying to hurt or me At the bottom of barrel scraping time I promise to stand for self-determination Instead of always taking cool Keeping the color as you and me, continue to battle dna Let's travel to a remote get back, have mercy and break the chains of chemical dependency Plastic can explode bits and pieces of my soul Shattering, just not being put together We can rule, but still brothers won't use tool In their shoulders, click Hearts cold as bricks, what better way to cripple An entire race on the paper Getting my toes stepped on, kicked in my face time I open my mouth I represent the south Dirty like red, it was the I led vanity, fornicating out of wedlock Locked in yesterday's trunk of secrets, I Went from to sheet rock Get your rocks, sweet licks sour By the hour, over on tiger If that went on that meant go Say what you really mean, I For all the women I abused as a People got fifths out this dumpster
Compositions should be able to the connections From of living Why breath is god-given Appreciating, waiting Letting time do the In to know Sunshine and the rain are needed Or the seed grow It's given me some of inner vision How the are prepared with precision Unveiling evidence this is no coincidence We've sent Judge not by my skin color but my content In no way is this an to claim to be exempt From my people's situations, but I moral obligations See I want to be all with god Long conversations at night god My arms are gonna be too short to fight with god To all this might not be But I help feeling the way I do I realize that my reward won't from any of you See everybody got a little under the sunshine But unselfishly I still to share mine And what you to do is on you You've got to stand on your own feet cause I got but two I can't you for not knowing But I could for you not to learn Nor for asking, but I for you not wanting to earn No I can't, cause even had to tell me twice So music is my sacrifice, so I'll be dedicated and dependable, to demonstrate directly And use the correctly So forget the gold And uh, and uh Forget the bald it sound country Just remember I said