Talib Kwel - Hamster Wheel lyrics

rate me

I see you

Yeah I see you

See I'm looking right at you

I eye contact you

You see me

And Imma be me

First I'm saying Hi

Then I'm waving b bye

We get in we get in

Girl you're so fly

You’re so fly

These swallows is horny

As Charlie Parker

Be cutting’em cause I'm studying

These birds like ornithology

Follow’em when they tweeting

Holler instead of speaking

Give it a name she played

Them wicked games every weekend

Broke up with a dude

For almost ending her life

Came over for the closure

Ended up spending the night

Got cozy in this apartment

Wine bottles started popping

Put scratches up on his back

Then questioning where he got them

Forgot it was her she Freddy

Her fingers was like machetes

The fucking was so steady

She shredded him like confetti

Confronted him bout every single chick

She’s like enough already

I need to be with someone else

This stuff is so petty

She was reacting to things

He did in the past

This nigger was no saint

He couldn’t say no to ass

Her behavior so rash

She gave up all her power

He put her out on the street nowhere

To live nowhere to shower

How she gonna make it through the night?

How she's so accepting

Of her station in life?

She always carrying a baby with her

A spitting image

Just like looking at her baby pictures

Her fate is sealed cause

She dependent on a man for real

How she running these streets

But always standing still?

She need to get up off the hamster wheel

She need to get up off the hamster wheel

How she running the streets

But still standing still?

She need to get up off the hamster wheel

She need to get up off the hamster wheel.

Battery in the back

Popping up with the coppertop

Popular with the ass of the Hottentots

Niggers whooping and hollering at Andromeda

When she passing the barber shop

Only job that's an option

McDonald’s or telemarketer

Hard for her making ends

Come together this ain't the Beatles.

She need of some anesthesia

Like she going under needles

She doing so much cutting

It’s a wonder she ain’t bleeding

The money was so seductive

No wonder she ain't leaving

First time she felt like a woman

Was when a dude screamed

Nice ass out the car window driving past.

Nobody showed her how to live

So all she do is dream

They call her Rocky

Cause her makeup is like a mask

Find scars permanently

Lodged on her frontal lobe

Behind bars for credit card schemes

She pulled a month ago

First she getting high

Now we waving b bye

She's waiting out her station

Just the same

As she's waiting at the station late at night

For a train that never came

She always carrying a baby with her

A spitting image

Just like looking at her baby pictures

Her fate is sealed cause

She dependent on a man for real

How she running these streets

But always standing still?

She need to get up off the hamster wheel

She need to get up off the hamster wheel

How she running the streets

But still standing still?

She need to get up off the hamster wheel

She need to get up off the hamster wheel.