Let me get a at this lumber niggas From da down underground are around 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 lavish yet but you can bet that when I do from my crew will I forget And if I start to get large and up on some change I won't change, know they down
It's not the same, everyday can be different These laws got me ready to 'Cause I fall a victim so I still be them fat pillows To make 'em meet, each and every day as I comb my streets Sometimes I wish I never had apart of this mess 'Cause the system got us up
It put us to the test, women and men if you you in Food for the soul listen to what I tell you it don't Young or old it's we loc' up and do like we suppose We killin' each over this bullshit and some clothes We're 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 something sometimes, so I dig deep, get in the Cherokee Let my mind fly into the wilderness so I can get this shit Off my mind, that's why I be smokin' that sometimes It keeps me from snappin', keeps me calm, keeps my 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 Statesboro and my cuz Mark Twain, all my that hang with me when I was out in the trap or when I was goin' Through one of our episodes, only God knows, I go through So I get on my knees, sometimes I come home Too high to pray, but I get on my bed lay on my 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 what you
I live for today, mother fuck hour, it might be sour Never my day, so I'm prayin' in the shower Look up and the Lord for forgiveness, a witness to bad I'm lookin' for good in the Southwest, God my neighborhood It's people killin' in da 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 shit wrong
My head swoll, mist couldn't see past my mouth What route did you man caught me by that loops of my pants Got me on the lettin' tha traffic pass me by No questions I nothing 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 tha plan Can't make no moves you in tha hands of tha man They got some new suites down
wing for tha Feds, right wing for tha hard heads Makin' more deals than Buddy Folks with Harts field Somebody don't want my in tha place, for 96 shits slick Got me clean, lookin' fresh, dogs be scratchin' at my Under the order of who? Guess who ain't non-iller miller Wanna 1, 2 your ass no more life what you gave was tha 'Cause ain't no future wanna milliamp your Disgrace your face, make it seem to be ain't no place to run
Sometimes I even know how I'm gonna eat 'Bout twenty dollars away being on the street Shit, you might see a on TV but hell it's almost like I'm for free that little money be gone, got dammit, I'm grown Gotta help keep the heat and on It be nice to have mo' but I kinda like being po' At least I know what my friends fo'
I wanna lie to you sometimes, but I I wanna tell you it's all good, but it ain't nigga's hurtin' and uncertain 'bout if they gon' make it or not That's why we got killing, feelin like they coming up Off a little they sold you can get some gold But we won't make it as a whole 'cause you there'd be no me And without no unity there will be any happiness You could a pound of sess and it still won't relieve yo' stress God my thought process
The process Now, now as an Outkast I was born, warned of the harm would come to meet me like Met Life, but yet life done Sent me a lot of ups and down 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 said it skipped from 12 to 14
Still smoking, still drinking, no I'm sittin' on the 4 A.M. Thinkin' that in the world is like a ball full of playas We trapped off in this maze with made of layers And only prayers is the tightest game that you can The devil's takin' a that might explain the broken glass But my ball see the pistol fall to the wayside Nobody would die in cops and robbers we used to play right
Huh, the only thang we was Williams, Wayne Never though about hittin' licks or slangin' Didn't think I'd be the one to give in to me murder because my ass is scorchin' Hot from the that sits under my seat Yeah, it's real fucked up that my come to get me And it's like dat, yeah, and it's dem