(feat. Phonte, Dice Raw)
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Everything's changing around me
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and I want to change too
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It's one thing I know
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It ain't cool being no fool
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I feel different today
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I don't know what else to say
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But Imma get my shit together
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It's now or never
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[Black Thought]
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I'm sick, sick of waiting in vain, tired of playing the game
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Thinking of making a change, finally breaking the chains
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Every phase, every happening ?craze?
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When it's said and done, my head is right back in a haze
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I'm ready for the next chapter and page to start acting my age
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and part ways with Black Thought from back in the days
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I'm stargazing from the back of the stage
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Crushing in the ??york craze it's worthy of praise
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Was the phrase "bygones is bygones"
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Niggas who used to be the underdogs is icons
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People say the light shines once in a lifetime
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Is this meant like ?? or price just a little bit like mine
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I'm thinking not now, but right now
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I need some kinda sign that the future is bright now
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I fuck around, do the right thing like Spike now
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The quick in the day, which one is my lookalike now
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I'm moving and hey
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[Phonte]
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Yo, opportunities lost because I blew them
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On the sunniest days of my life I cry through them
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Mom's out the picture and Pops, I barely knew him
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And I would pray to God but I'm tired of lying to him
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Tired of trying to run from the things inside of us
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Got a lot of fam, and a lot of admirers
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Who tell me that I should aspire to be changed
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But when I think of changing, it's like why do you try this shit
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My mind hazy and my thoughts, they get distorted
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I know my good and bad deeds both get recorded
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You do right so your soul can last
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But my role is cast before I even audition for it
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So I don't really see an end to my vice
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It's just false reformation, no end of my strife
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Feel the evil overpowering, you can go ahead throw the towel in
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'Cause nigga, that's the end of the fight
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When you can only see the tunnel at the end of the light
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Like South party, oh that's the end of your life
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and a mountain
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[Dice Raw]
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When I look into the mirror, and see my own image
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I feel like there's something else far in the distance
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Something I wanna see, but something that's resistant
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And everyday the heartin' is growing more persistent
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I never noticed it before, but now I can't miss it
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And the constant pounding is driving me ballistic
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I ran from it few years, but it's still next to me
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And it's growing stronger, taking even less of me
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I can't fight it now, I know it's just destiny
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And I just wonder what's gonna happen when it catches me
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Will it leave me face down, and a ??
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Or will it just start bringing out the best in me
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But is the best in me really just the worst in me
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And if so, yesterday could be my anniversary
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And sinners court, is it important to have church with me
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I'm trying to get rid of these ghosts that's cursing me
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I feeling change is an absolute certainty
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'Cause what's coming on is a state of emergency
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Now Or Never
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The Roots |