Let me get a at this lumber niggas From da underground are hangin' around the A-Town Lookin' for a up, workin' from 9 to 5 Just to get some change so T-Mo can alive Not greedy or living' yet but you can bet that when I do Nobody from my will I forget And if I start to get large and come up on some I won't change, everybody they down
not the same, everyday life can be different These laws got me to ball 'Cause I fall a victim so I still be them fat pillows To 'em meet, each and every day as I comb my city streets Sometimes I wish I never had apart of this mess 'Cause the got us fucked up
It put us to the test, and men if you black you in Food for the listen to what I tell you it don't matter Young or old time we loc' up and do like we suppose We killin' each other this bullshit and some clothes We're trapped off in this and society with no place else to go So how you
Frustrated, irritated, I don't know myself I be too numb To feel something sometimes, so I dig deep, get in the Let my mind fly free the wilderness so I can get this shit Off my mind, that's why I be that dank sometimes It keeps me from snappin', keeps me calm, my mind open Keeps me firm of I gots to do off in the studio To get my old back on her feet
And my little bro' in Statesboro and my little cuz Twain, all my Folks that hang with me when I was out in the trap or I was goin' Through one of our episodes, 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 cell therapy I got nothing to do but write my L I F E, put it down on paper So you feel?
I live for today, mother fuck another hour, it be sour know my day, so I'm prayin' in the shower Look up and thank the Lord for forgiveness, a to bad I'm lookin' for good in the Southwest, God bless my It's killin' in da street to eat surviving the day Is the only goat that I set to make it home, I'm not alone Someone's out to get me when I haven't done wrong
My head felt swoll, mist see past my mouth What route did you man caught me by that loops of my pants Got me on the curb lettin' tha pass me by No questions I said nothing lookin' for tha mutant to be Tha law naw, man Gipp show him my shit my mouth then I dip See to me G is a person who understand tha Can't no moves when you in tha hands of tha man got some new suites down Peachtree
Left wing for tha Feds, right wing for tha heads more deals than Buddy Folks made with Harts field Somebody want my face in tha place, for 96 shits slick Got me clean, lookin' fresh, be scratchin' at my chest Under the order of who? Guess who ain't than miller Wanna 1, 2 your ass no more life what you gave was tha 'Cause ain't no future milliamp 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 being on the Shit, you might see a nigga on TV but hell it's almost I'm rappin' for free that little be gone, got dammit, I'm grown Gotta help keep the heat and on It would be nice to have mo' but I kinda like po' At I know what my friends here fo'
I wanna lie to you sometimes, but I I wanna tell you it's all good, but it ain't It's nigga's hurtin' and uncertain if they gon' make it or not That's why we got nigga's killing, feelin like they up Off a little dope they you can get some gold But we make it as a whole 'cause without you there'd be no me And without no unity will never be any happiness You could smoke a pound of sess and it still won't yo' stress God bless my thought
The process Now, now as an Outkast I was born, wasn't warned of the That come to meet me like Met Life, but yet life done Sent me through a lot of ups and like it ain't nothing' Like but I ain't the one that's pushin' the buttons I got off at the 13th floor, when they told me that it one They said it from 12 to 14
Still smoking, still drinking, no I'm sittin' on the 4 A.M. that in reality the world is like a ball full of playas We off in this maze with walls made of layers And only prayers is the game that you can have The devil's takin' a swing that explain the broken glass But my crystal ball see the pistol to the wayside Nobody would die in cops and robbers we used to play right
Huh, the only thang we feared was Williams, Never though about hittin' licks or slangin' Didn't I'd be the one to give in to abortion Label me because my ass is scorchin' Hot from the that sits under my seat Yeah, it's real fucked up my folks come to get me And it's dat, yeah, and it's like dem