Trying to my head above water Selling short to meet the fucking quota there's niggas at my heels to get my paper Stacking up in the bank, the on the cake-a Thinking like jimmy, tami, oh it's low Niggas be mad as I go 'round like pac The don't stop, I hid the rock 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 healing you dealing with? the angelic uplift It's a way to save everything with gift (yeah) Now a to a tree was to be (yeah) A boy to a man comes up quickest a dream You really don't 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 there be situations When dirty cops me joe, I'm on probation could get me took What can I do? Can I take your place on your trip to The of alto, so it's going down like that I'm back to bat dropping on wax To fit into the mix of the and scan'lous Can't let 'em handle us any kind of way, it And run away, I don't it torn joe I think they gay, don't wanna my shit up north But okay, jealousy can go a long way And what goes comes around in the a-town
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Have you thought about what it would be like If everybody up and said "fuck work" Webs of small talk, people caught up in thing I try to relax, but I stay shaking like the blue It coming, this and that, that and this Another me, well I add him to the list Flows and flows, with the girls with the tight anything to get off in these back doors Irritating like what's on them Ain't looking for no more friends, I got enough A thousand attempts with cents to their name I got enough pine but I can't find the Sweet like honeysuckles, like that cha cha on the green Jumping fences and rooms large laughter Original gene grafter, and more ways to eat Brews by the astronauts, turn the turn the watts up to what I said Cnn all day in your and your head
No longer can I ask when I'm in presence Now it's hard to tell whether trying to hurt or help me At the bottom of barrel scraping Next time I to stand for self-determination of always taking from cool Keeping the same color as you and me, to battle dna Let's travel to a remote city get back, mercy Unravel and break the of chemical dependency can eventually explode bits and pieces of my soul Shattering, just not being put back We can rule, but still won't use that tool In their shoulders, click Hearts cold as bricks, nipples better way to cripple An entire race on the paper my toes stepped on, then kicked in my face Every time I my mouth I represent the south like red, it was the lifestyle I led Worshipping vanity, fornicating out of Locked in yesterday's trunk of secrets, I Went from sugar to rock Get rocks, sweet licks turn sour By the hour, over on tiger If that light went on that go Say you really mean, I atone For all the women I as a youngster People got four fifths out dumpster
Compositions should be to make the connections From of living Why every breath is Appreciating, waiting time do the educating In to know Sunshine and the are both needed Or the seed grow It's given me some of inner vision How the paragraphs are with precision Unveiling evidence that this is no been sent Judge not by my color but my character's content In no way is this an attempt to to be exempt From my people's situations, but I moral obligations See I to be all right with god conversations at night with god My arms are gonna always be too to fight with god To all this not be appealing But I can't help the way I do I realize my reward won't come from any of you See everybody got a light 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 cause I ain't got but two I knock you for not knowing But I for you not wanting to learn Nor for asking, but I could for you not to earn No I can't, cause somebody even had to tell me So music is my sacrifice, so I'll be dedicated Determinated and dependable, to demonstrate And use the correctly So the gold teeth And uh, and uh the bald head Forget it country Just what I said