[t-mo]      Trying to keep my head above water   Selling myself short to meet the fucking quota   Still there's niggas at my heels to get my paper   Stacking up in the bank, the layers on the cake-a   Thinking like jimmy, tami, oh it's low down   Niggas be getting mad as I go 'round like pac   The shit don't stop, I hid the rock in my sock   Did my day and a half, now it's autographs I be signing   Instead of police papers   Caught scheming, not pulling capers, no fed time   Just mental healing   What you dealing with? the angelic uplift   It's a way to save everything with your gift   (yeah)   Now a seed to a tree was to be   (yeah)   A boy to a man comes up quickest like a dream   You really don't understand why   'til you gone and dead   So when your time comes   Just remember what I said   Human'll find truth to tell a lie   Take away my past and don't show me I can fly   Sly like stone, it's on, you say peace   I can't relate homes, I'm on the fucking streets   Believe it or not, I'm sure there be calmer situations   When dirty cops approach me joe, I'm on probation   Hesitating could get me took   What can I do? mildew?    Can I take your place on your next trip to   The islands of alto, so it's going down like that   I'm back to bat dropping wits on wax   To fit into the mix of the rich and scan'lous   Can't let 'em handle us any kind of way, fuck it   And run away, I don't want it torn joe   I think they gay, don't wanna play my shit up north   But that's okay, jealousy can go a long way   And what goes around comes around in the a-town      [big gipp]      Have you ever thought about what it would be like   If everybody woke up and said "fuck work"   Webs of small talk, people caught up in this thing   I try to relax, but I stay shaking like the blue flame   It keeps coming, this and that, that and this   Another suing me, well I add him to the list   Flows and flows, with the girls with the tight clothes   Saying anything to get off in these back doors   Irritating like what's on them thirties   Ain't looking for no more friends, I got enough buddies   A thousand attempts with thirty cents to their name   I got enough pine but I can't find the flame   Sweet like honeysuckles, country like that cha cha on the green   Jumping fences and rooms with large laughter   Original gene grafter, more and more ways to eat   Brews tested by the astronauts, turn the turn the watts up   Listen to what I said   Cnn all day in your eyes and your head      [khujo]      No longer can I ask when I'm in your presence   Now it's hard to tell whether you're trying to hurt or help me   At the bottom of this barrel scraping   Next time I promise to stand for self-determination   Instead of always taking from cool   Keeping the same color as you and me, continue to battle dna   Let's travel to a remote city get back, have mercy   Unravel and break the chains of chemical dependency   Plastic can eventually explode bits and pieces of my soul   Shattering, just not being put back together   We can rule, but still brothers won't use that tool   In between their shoulders, click   Hearts cold as bricks, nipples what better way to cripple   An entire race on the paper chase   Getting my toes stepped on, then kicked in my face   Every time I open my mouth I represent the south   Dirty like red, it was the lifestyle I led   Worshipping vanity, fornicating out of wedlock   Locked in yesterday's trunk of secrets, I fled   Went from sugar to sheet rock   Get your rocks, sweet licks turn sour   By the hour, over on tiger flower   If that light went on that meant go   Say what you really mean, I atone   For all the women I abused as a youngster   People got four fifths out this dumpster      [cee-lo]      Compositions should be able to make the connections   From reflections of living   Why every breath is god-given   Appreciating, especially waiting   Letting time do the educating   In order to know   Sunshine and the rain are both needed   Or the seed can't grow   It's given me some form of inner vision   How the paragraphs are prepared with precision   Unveiling evidence that this is no coincidence   We've been sent   Judge not by my skin color but my character's content   In no way is this an attempt to claim to be exempt   From my people's situations, but I have moral obligations   See I want to be all right with god   Long conversations at night with god   My arms are gonna always be too short to fight with god   To all this might not be appealing   But I can't help feeling the way I do   I realize that my reward won't come from any of you   See everybody got a little light under the sunshine   But unselfishly I still want to share mine   And what you choose to do is on you   You've got to stand on your own feet cause I ain't got but two   I can't knock you for not knowing   But I could for you not wanting to learn   Nor for asking, but I could for you not wanting to earn   No I can't, cause somebody even had to tell me twice   So this music is my sacrifice, so I'll be dedicated   Determinated and dependable, to demonstrate directly   And use the opportunity correctly   So forget the gold teeth   And uh, and uh   Forget the bald head   Forget it sound country   Just remember what I said