I'm hollow to the core, yeah my bones are empty   No marrow, no mass, but heart I got plenty   Though no blood flows through these veins, somethin' is in me   Lyndon, Jimmy, Deloris, Jerry and Uncle Ricky   My whole family tree 'bout as normal as me   Everybody got they own story of what's supposed to be   And what could've been, what should've been   Should've been led on to the fact that I'm destined to never win   How come every record I'm on ends up in the 99 cent bin?   Pick it up if you need something to wipe while you're shittin'   Can't pipe down, boy, rappers need rippin'   I'll never be like Mike or even Scottie Pippen   Goofy A&R tell me the elements are missin'   Chippin' in his two cents, listen, nothin' is smitten   Sittin' on leavin' more brisk than Lypton   Nipped in the bud, how come your bomb record was a dud?      I should reap what I sow,   my life is just so ordinary, I'm a ordinary joe   On the contrary this a new all-time low   This is a new all-time low   I should reap what I sow,   my life is just so ordinary, I'm a ordinary joe   On the contrary this a new all-time low   On second thought I get another chance tomorrow      This plastic life that we fed intravenously   The tubes that we watch religiously   Not real, nothin' is, nothin' begins without an end   This is big business but back to the test again   Justice will fail us we must look from within   This is the truth, I got the blueprints right here in the booth   Is you in? Then jump in, the deadpool is now accepting applications   For the nameless and faceless   The has-beens and the almost famous   Fucked in our anus without a reach-around   Reach way down until you found that dark somethin' hidin' out   Smoke from my lungs and flush from my liver   'Til it slivers out my mouth hole   I remember how life was before my downfall   Before these wars closed in   Soaked in sweat, A.K.A.   Hard work'll get you nowhere, don't forget      A working class hero's nothin' to be   Trust me, don't do it, I watched my old man go through it   And my whole family live with no respect, we give it   Are you here to pay homage are you here to bear witness?   Working class hero's nothin' to be   Trust me, don't do it, I watched my old man go through it   And my whole family live with no respect, we give it   Are you here to pay homage are you here to bear witness?      Smidgeons and digits and acres of paper   Negotiations and crunchin' numbers, contracts   A new savior has attached to this beat like a serial rapist   The girls with short skirts and high heels on they feet   You'll never defeat me, I'm a centipede   You cut off an end of me but I only grow back stronger   There's no remedy   Honestly, I never drank hennessy, I can't afford it   I only drank forties, lordy lordy   No fuckin' bitches'll court me, distort the image of the world   But more importantly, there's more to me than meets the eye   I cordially invite you into the mind of a ordinary joe   with an ordinary name livin' in a ordinary house   never see things like fame, or money, bitches and champaigne   Your cause are lame, beats are weak and your raps sound the same   Ain't a god damned game, stop sayin' it is   I break my ribs tryin' to fill in these ad-libs   Mad kids can't see with closed eye lids   Still, half these MC's don't know who I is      I should reap what I sow,   my life is just so ordinary, I'm a ordinary joe   On the contrary this a new all-time low   This is a new all-time low   I should reap what I sow,   my life is just so ordinary, I'm a ordinary joe   On the contrary this a new all-time low   On second thought I get another chance tomorrow      A working class hero's nothin' to be   Trust me, don't do it, I watched my old man go through it   And my whole family live with no respect, we give it   Are you here to pay homage are you here to bear witness?   Working class hero's nothin' to be   Trust me, don't do it, I watched my old man go through it   And my whole family live with no respect, we give it   Are you here to pay homage are you here to bear witness?