[Black Thought]   Yeah, sitting in the staircase, holding back tears   Looking over mad years worth of photographs   Pictures of some places I ain't never going back   Some people I used to love, why I ain't show them that?   The skies was overcast, when I was sober last   My head is spinning, couldn't tell you if it's slow or fast   It's starting to get too clear, I got to go and grass   To y'all it's a shame but life is what we know it as   Waiting, navigating the plot, without plans   In the car, it's hard to read as a clock with no hands   How your man's goin' get up and stop with no yams   All it take is one break, it could pop the program   Whether sinning or not, my back bending like I'm sentenced a lot   I feel some brothers is beginning to plot   It might have been a close friend I forgot   Who started up and ain't remember to stop   I bet these niggaz going remember the shop      [Hook]   People think that I'm crazy, just cause I wanna be alone   You can't depend on friends to help you in a squeeze   We all deal with shit on our own   And sometimes the beef can grow, get out of hand   Yeah, you know it gets full blown   I never said that you mean the world to me   Maybe it's best that you never know      Yo, I'm like Malcom out the window with the weapon out   Searching for somehow to find a minute or the second now   Precious time is money that I ain't got to mess about   Need it from the horse's mouth or from my eye with less account   Lessons with my back to the wall, scoping my session out   Stay a little edgy at times when I ain't stressing bout   Haters don't know shit about me, they the ones that talk shit   Those that love me send it out, so I ain't got to force quit   Cause I'm doing better now, don't mean I never lost shit   I was married to a state of mind and I divorced it, man   I'm from where brothers moving product from the porches   People locking their doors, clutching to their crosses   The block hot by the law, there ain't too many choices   So what I do is for y'all, there ain't too many voices left   I watch my back, and watch my step   And I might forgive, but I will not forget come on      [Hook]      Yo, living in turbulent times   The blind leading the blind   Some call it evolution, some say intelligent design   You say you want a revolution, you out of your mizind   Your sons' destitute, and their pops all in the prison   My man's back in the jam, he like the back of my hand   He just attracted to scam, he right back in the can   I never sleepwalking, you dig   You get your shuteye   I'm on the first thing in, I'm leaving on the red-eye   My brother back in rehab, just had another relapse   But fin himself, it's been like he's been fighting an energy   Half telling me nobody true when they pretend to be that   So closer than friends, that's where I keep my enemy at   To many parties concerned, it's time to live it and learn   Until we're able to grow, forever bridges we burn   My thoughts free as a bird, that's just about to emerge   And every action is heard, it speaks louder than words, yo      [Hook]