ross added 0 to this song... sounds more complete without his nonsense on here
you know how sometimes you got so much to say but
They on- they only give you 16, heh..
Man it’s like.. I mean, I got so much to say, you know
The world has said like so much to me, and I just wanna give right back to ‘em you know
But… I only get 16, that’s like a cage, you know
I really can’t say what I wanna say, you know it’s just a glimpse
That’s all, just one uh, one little single glimpse
Just a page
But I guess I’m defeating the purpose of doing all this talking
Summer ’88, or was it ’89
Or was it winter-time, ah, nevermind
I’m in my room, booming
Drawin’ LL Cool J album covers with Crayolas on construction paper
I’m trying to fukk my neighbor, I’m tryna hook my waves up
I’m tryna pull my grades up, to get them saddle lace ups
Before lil’ Marc was Jacob, before them girls wore makeup
Before my voice would break up, before we’d tour them shake clubs
Before my mama wake up, before my crumbs would cake up
Before they tell me they love me and we’ll never break up
Before the time she makes love to someone that I thought was my homeboy
But boy, was I wrong, now
I don’t budge, don’t want much, just a roof and a porch
And a Porsche, and a horse and unfortunately
But of course an assortment of torches that scorches the skin, when they enter
Intruders, whose tutors did a lousy job
How’s he God if he lets Lucifer let loose on us?
That noose on us won’t loosen up, but loose enough to juice us up
Make us think we do so much and do it big
Like they don’t let us win, I can’t pretend
But I do admit, it feel good when the hood pseudo-celebrate
Hence, why every time we dine we eat until our belly aches
Then go grab the finest wine and drink it
Like we know which grape and which region it came from
As if we can name ‘em, hint hint, it ain’t, um, Welch’s
Hell just fell three thousand more degrees cooler
Ya’ll can’t measure my worth
But when you try, you’ll need a ruler made by all the Greek gods
Because the odds have always been stacked against me when back’s against the wall
I feel right at home, y’all sitting right at home
All Kelly green with envy while I’m jelly beans descending
Into the palm of a child, looks up at mama and smile
With such a devilish grin, like “where the hell have you been”
She yelling that selling’s a sin, well so is telling young men
That selling is a sin, if you don’t offer new ways to win
A dolphin gon shake his fin, regardless if he gets in
Or out of water, most important thing for him is to swim
And Flipper didn’t hold his nose, so why shall I hold my tongue?
I miss the days of old when one could hold his gal on his arm
And I set off these alarms, when camera’s snap snap snap snap
Return fire, pa-pa-pa, pa, pa-pa, pa, pa, pa
They’ll learn why, mere privacy, so essential
They won’t make no laws, I break their laws til they see out our window
I take the fall to make them all treat human kind more gentle
Forsake them all, I hate them all, don’t like em, don’t pretend to
Yea something tells me we ain’t in Kansas anymore
All that shyt that used to be cool ain’t cool anymore
All the women we were pursuing, now they want more
And they deserve it all, don’t settle for what ain’t yours
[Hook]
[Andre 3000]
Does your mama know you see me, does she know you’re freaky?
Does she ever wonder if it’s ’bout ya I am speaking?
Do you ever ponder where I’m at when you get sleepy?
How the hell I’m gonna tell the youth don’t be me?
Yea
Does your daddy think you perfect, does he know for certain?
Does he know how you act when you pull back all them curtains?
Do he think I’m 2Pac cause I’m black and put the words in?
Does he know his daughter might have caught a real merman?
Yeeah
you know how sometimes you got so much to say but
They on- they only give you 16, heh..
Man it’s like.. I mean, I got so much to say, you know
The world has said like so much to me, and I just wanna give right back to ‘em you know
But… I only get 16, that’s like a cage, you know
I really can’t say what I wanna say, you know it’s just a glimpse
That’s all, just one uh, one little single glimpse
Just a page
But I guess I’m defeating the purpose of doing all this talking
Summer ’88, or was it ’89
Or was it winter-time, ah, nevermind
I’m in my room, booming
Drawin’ LL Cool J album covers with Crayolas on construction paper
I’m trying to fukk my neighbor, I’m tryna hook my waves up
I’m tryna pull my grades up, to get them saddle lace ups
Before lil’ Marc was Jacob, before them girls wore makeup
Before my voice would break up, before we’d tour them shake clubs
Before my mama wake up, before my crumbs would cake up
Before they tell me they love me and we’ll never break up
Before the time she makes love to someone that I thought was my homeboy
But boy, was I wrong, now
I don’t budge, don’t want much, just a roof and a porch
And a Porsche, and a horse and unfortunately
But of course an assortment of torches that scorches the skin, when they enter
Intruders, whose tutors did a lousy job
How’s he God if he lets Lucifer let loose on us?
That noose on us won’t loosen up, but loose enough to juice us up
Make us think we do so much and do it big
Like they don’t let us win, I can’t pretend
But I do admit, it feel good when the hood pseudo-celebrate
Hence, why every time we dine we eat until our belly aches
Then go grab the finest wine and drink it
Like we know which grape and which region it came from
As if we can name ‘em, hint hint, it ain’t, um, Welch’s
Hell just fell three thousand more degrees cooler
Ya’ll can’t measure my worth
But when you try, you’ll need a ruler made by all the Greek gods
Because the odds have always been stacked against me when back’s against the wall
I feel right at home, y’all sitting right at home
All Kelly green with envy while I’m jelly beans descending
Into the palm of a child, looks up at mama and smile
With such a devilish grin, like “where the hell have you been”
She yelling that selling’s a sin, well so is telling young men
That selling is a sin, if you don’t offer new ways to win
A dolphin gon shake his fin, regardless if he gets in
Or out of water, most important thing for him is to swim
And Flipper didn’t hold his nose, so why shall I hold my tongue?
I miss the days of old when one could hold his gal on his arm
And I set off these alarms, when camera’s snap snap snap snap
Return fire, pa-pa-pa, pa, pa-pa, pa, pa, pa
They’ll learn why, mere privacy, so essential
They won’t make no laws, I break their laws til they see out our window
I take the fall to make them all treat human kind more gentle
Forsake them all, I hate them all, don’t like em, don’t pretend to
Yea something tells me we ain’t in Kansas anymore
All that shyt that used to be cool ain’t cool anymore
All the women we were pursuing, now they want more
And they deserve it all, don’t settle for what ain’t yours
[Hook]
[Andre 3000]
Does your mama know you see me, does she know you’re freaky?
Does she ever wonder if it’s ’bout ya I am speaking?
Do you ever ponder where I’m at when you get sleepy?
How the hell I’m gonna tell the youth don’t be me?
Yea
Does your daddy think you perfect, does he know for certain?
Does he know how you act when you pull back all them curtains?
Do he think I’m 2Pac cause I’m black and put the words in?
Does he know his daughter might have caught a real merman?
Yeeah
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