Let me get a at this lumber niggas From da down underground are hangin' the A-Town Lookin' for a up, workin' from 9 to 5 to get some change so T-Mo can stay alive Not greedy or living' lavish yet but you can bet when I do Nobody from my crew I forget And if I start to get large and come up on change I won't change, know they down
It's not the same, everyday life can be These laws got me ready to 'Cause I a victim so I still be slanging them fat pillows To make 'em meet, each and every day as I comb my city Sometimes I I never had been apart of this mess 'Cause the got us fucked up
It put us to the test, and men if you black you in for the soul listen to what I tell you it don't matter Young or old it's we loc' up and do like we suppose We killin' each over this bullshit and some clothes trapped off in this world and society with no place else to go So how you
Frustrated, irritated, sometimes I don't know I be too numb To feel something sometimes, so I dig deep, get in the Let my mind fly free into the wilderness so I can get shit Off my mind, that's why I be smokin' that sometimes It me from snappin', keeps me calm, keeps my mind open Keeps me firm of I gots to do off in the studio To get my old burd on her feet
And my little bro' in and my little cuz Mark Twain, all my Folks that hang with me when I was out in the trap or when I was one of our episodes, only God knows, what I go through So I get down on my knees, sometimes I come Too to pray, but I get on my bed lay on my back and meditate Anyway, in the ceilings, the four walls, it's like cell I got to do but write about my L I F E, put it down on paper So you feel?
I live for today, fuck another hour, it might be sour Never my day, so I'm prayin' in the shower up and thank the Lord for forgiveness, a witness to bad I'm lookin' for good in the Southwest, God my neighborhood It's people in da street to eat surviving the day Is the only goat I set just to make it home, I'm not alone Someone's out to get me when I haven't shit wrong
My head felt swoll, couldn't see past my mouth route did you take man caught me by that loops of my pants Got me on the lettin' tha traffic pass me by No questions I said lookin' for tha mutant to be buckin' Tha law naw, man Gipp show him my close my mouth then I dip See to me G is a person who understand tha Can't make no moves you in tha hands of tha man got some new suites down Peachtree
Left wing for tha Feds, right for tha hard heads Makin' more deals than Buddy Folks with Harts field Somebody don't want my face in tha place, for 96 slick Got me clean, lookin' fresh, dogs be scratchin' at my Under the order of who? who ain't non-iller than miller Wanna 1, 2 your ass no more life you gave was tha past 'Cause ain't no future wanna your case your face, make it seem to be safe ain't no place to run
Sometimes I don't even how I'm gonna eat 'Bout twenty dollars away from on the street Shit, you see a nigga on TV but hell it's almost like I'm rappin' for free that little be gone, got dammit, I'm grown Gotta help keep the and lights on It would be nice to mo' but I kinda like being po' At I know what my friends here fo'
I wanna lie to you sometimes, but I I wanna you that it's all good, but it ain't It's hurtin' and uncertain 'bout if they gon' make it or not That's why we got nigga's killing, feelin like coming up Off a little they sold you can get some gold But we won't make it as a whole 'cause without you be no me And without no there will never be any happiness You could smoke a pound of sess and it still relieve yo' stress God bless my thought
The thought Now, now as an Outkast I was born, wasn't of the harm That would come to me like Met Life, but yet life done me through a lot of ups and down like it ain't nothing' Like elevators but I ain't the one that's pushin' the I got off at the 13th floor, when they me that it wasn't one They it skipped from 12 to 14
Still smoking, still drinking, no I'm sittin' on the 4 A.M. Thinkin' that in reality the world is like a full of playas We trapped off in this with walls made of layers And only prayers is the tightest that you can have The devil's takin' a swing that might explain the glass But my crystal ball see the pistol fall to the would die in cops and robbers when we used to play right
Huh, the only thang we feared was Williams, Never though about hittin' or slangin' caine think I'd be the one to give in to abortion Label me murder because my ass is Hot from the Glock that sits my seat Yeah, it's real fucked up my folks come to get me And it's like dat, yeah, and it's dem