The Roots - Now Or Never lyrics

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<span class="feat">(feat. Phonte, Dice Raw)</span>

Everything's changing around me

and I want to change too

It's one thing I know

It ain't cool being no fool

I feel different today

I don't know what else to say

But Imma get my shit together

It's now or never

<i>[Black Thought]</i>

I'm sick, sick of waiting in vain, tired of playing the game

Thinking of making a change, finally breaking the chains

Every phase, every happening ?craze?

When it's said and done, my head is right back in a haze

I'm ready for the next chapter and page to start acting my age

and part ways with Black Thought from back in the days

I'm stargazing from the back of the stage

Crushing in the ??york craze it's worthy of praise

Was the phrase "bygones is bygones"

Niggas who used to be the underdogs is icons

People say the light shines once in a lifetime

Is this meant like ?? or price just a little bit like mine

I'm thinking not now, but right now

I need some kinda sign that the future is bright now

I fuck around, do the right thing like Spike now

The quick in the day, which one is my lookalike now

I'm moving and hey

<i>[Phonte]</i>

Yo, opportunities lost because I blew them

On the sunniest days of my life I cry through them

Mom's out the picture and Pops, I barely knew him

And I would pray to God but I'm tired of lying to him

Tired of trying to run from the things inside of us

Got a lot of fam, and a lot of admirers

Who tell me that I should aspire to be changed

But when I think of changing, it's like why do you try this shit

My mind hazy and my thoughts, they get distorted

I know my good and bad deeds both get recorded

You do right so your soul can last

But my role is cast before I even audition for it

So I don't really see an end to my vice

It's just false reformation, no end of my strife

Feel the evil overpowering, you can go ahead throw the towel in

'Cause nigga, that's the end of the fight

When you can only see the tunnel at the end of the light

Like South party, oh that's the end of your life

and a mountain

<i>[Dice Raw]</i>

When I look into the mirror, and see my own image

I feel like there's something else far in the distance

Something I wanna see, but something that's resistant

And everyday the heartin' is growing more persistent

I never noticed it before, but now I can't miss it

And the constant pounding is driving me ballistic

I ran from it few years, but it's still next to me

And it's growing stronger, taking even less of me

I can't fight it now, I know it's just destiny

And I just wonder what's gonna happen when it catches me

Will it leave me face down, and a ??

Or will it just start bringing out the best in me

But is the best in me really just the worst in me

And if so, yesterday could be my anniversary

And sinners court, is it important to have church with me

I'm trying to get rid of these ghosts that's cursing me

I feeling change is an absolute certainty

'Cause what's coming on is a state of emergency