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 to get some change so T-Mo can stay 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 change I won't change, everybody know they
It's not the same, everyday life can be These got me ready to ball 'Cause I fall a victim so I still be slanging fat pillows To make 'em meet, and every day as I comb my city streets Sometimes I wish I never had been of this mess the system got us fucked up
It put us to the test, women and men if you you in Food for the listen to what I tell you it don't matter Young or old it's time we loc' up and do we suppose We killin' each other over bullshit and some clothes We're off in this world and society with no place else to go So how you
Frustrated, irritated, I don't know myself I be too numb To something sometimes, so I dig deep, get in the Cherokee Let my mind fly free the wilderness so I can get this shit Off my mind, why I be smokin' that dank sometimes It keeps me from snappin', keeps me calm, my mind open Keeps me firm of what I gots to do off in the To get my old burd on her feet
And my bro' in Statesboro and my little cuz Mark Twain, all my Folks hang with me when I was out in the trap or when 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 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 to do but write about my L I F E, put it down on paper So you feel?
I for today, mother 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 for good in the Southwest, God bless my neighborhood It's people 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 done shit wrong
My head swoll, mist couldn't see past my mouth What route did you take man caught me by that loops of my Got me on the curb lettin' tha pass me by No I said nothing lookin' for tha mutant to be buckin' Tha law naw, man Gipp show him my shit close my then I dip See to me G is a who understand tha plan Can't make no moves when you in tha of tha man They got some new down Peachtree
Left wing for tha Feds, right wing for tha hard Makin' more deals than Buddy Folks with Harts field Somebody don't my face in tha place, for 96 shits slick Got me clean, fresh, dogs be scratchin' at my chest 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 milliamp case Disgrace your face, it seem to be safe ain't no place to run
Sometimes I don't even know how I'm eat 'Bout twenty dollars away being on the street Shit, you might see a nigga on TV but hell almost like I'm rappin' for free that little money be gone, got dammit, I'm Gotta help keep the and lights on It would be to have mo' but I kinda like being po' At least I know what my here fo'
I lie to you sometimes, but I can't I wanna tell you that it's all good, but it It's nigga's hurtin' and uncertain 'bout if they make it or not That's why we got nigga's killing, feelin they coming up Off a little dope they sold you can get gold But we won't make it as a whole without you there'd be no me And without no there will never 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, wasn't of the harm That would come to me like Met Life, but yet life done Sent me a lot of ups and down like it ain't nothing' elevators 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 skipped 12 to 14
Still smoking, still drinking, no I'm on the Lincoln 4 A.M. Thinkin' that in reality the world is like a ball full of We off in this maze with walls made of layers And only prayers is the tightest game you can have The devil's takin' a swing that explain the broken glass But my crystal ball see the fall to the wayside Nobody would die in and robbers when we used to play right
Huh, the only thang we was Williams, Wayne Never though hittin' licks or slangin' caine Didn't I'd be the one to give in to abortion Label me murder my ass is scorchin' Hot from the Glock that under my seat Yeah, it's real fucked up that my come to get me And like dat, yeah, and it's like dem