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