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The Roots - I Remember Lyrics and Video

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[verse 1]
i drew a 2 of hearts from a deck of cards
a stock trick from my empty repertoire
another hopeless story never read at all
i’m better off looking for the end
where the credits are
it’s a pain living life against the grain
i’m looking back and y’all look the same
troy, mark, and little what’s his name
memory is rerunning it all
it’s the flight of my fall and it’s right on the wall

[hook]
i remember
can you remember?
how it was
i do
remember, do you?
[repeat]

[verse 2]
i used to ride the train to the same two stops
and look at the graffiti on the rooftops
like the same song playing on the jukebox
joint called “faded polaroids in a shoebox”
regardless to what the cadence is
it can’t be forgotten like old acquaintances
i realize how depressing of a place it is
and when i notice my reflection whose face it is

[hook]
i remember
can you remember?
how it was
i do
remember, do you?
[repeat]

[musical break]

[hook]
i remember
can you remember?
how it was
i do
remember, do you?
[repeat]

[verse 3]
it’s only human to express the way you really feel
but that same humanity is my achilles’ heel
a leopard can’t change his spots and never will
so i’m forever ill
now i can never chill
what’s keeping me from breaking out like benadryl
when my baptism of fire resulted in a kill
sometimes it’s as cut and dry as a business deal
you gotta cause the blood of a close friend to spill
but you remember still

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The Roots - Lighthouse (Ft. Dice Raw) Lyrics and Video

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[intro: dice raw]
if you can‘t swizzim then ya bound to drizzown
passing out life jackets bout to go didown
get down with the captain or go down with the ship
before the dark abyss i’m gon’ hit you wit’ dis
[repeat]

[hook: dice raw]
and no one’s in the lighthouse
you’re face down in the ocean
and no one’s in the lighthouse
and it seems like you just screamed
it’s no one there to hear the sound
and it may feel like there’s no one there
that cares if you drown
face down in the ocean

[verse 1: dice raw]
smoking cheap weed sipping on cheap vodka
you pick your poison down davey jones’ locker
it’s rum we be wanting
by the tons my consumption
take a look at my lungs and my liver
it’s disgusting
take a look at the man in the mirror
we start fussing
only one person gets hurt when throwing the punches – me
and the man behind the glass just laughs
the waves come over my head and just crash
my hand start bleeding water starts receding
a feeling comes into my heart i start believing that
i actually might survive through the evening
survive on my own thoughts of suicide that’s competing
with thoughts of tryna stay alive which been weakened
by the feeling of putting on a smile while being beaten
the fear of drowning still diving in the deep end
the waters carried me so far you can’t reach ‘em
and it feels like there’s no one

[hook: dice raw]
no one’s in the lighthouse
you’re face down in the ocean
and no one’s in the lighthouse
and it seems like you just screamed
it’s no one there to hear the sound
and it may feel like there’s no one there
that cares if you drown
face down in the ocean

[verse 2: black thought]
after the love is lost
friendship dissolves
and even blood is lost
where did it begin
the way we did each other wrong
troubled water neither one of us could swim across
i stopped holding my breath
now i am better off
there without a trace
and you in my head
all the halted motion of a rebel without a pause
what it do is done till you dead and gone
the grim reaper telling me to swim deeper
where the people go to lo and behold the soul keeper
i’m not even breaking out in a sweat
or cold fever but
i’m never paying up on my debt or tolls either
i’ll leave the memories here i won’t need them
if i stop thinking and lie, now that’s freedom
your body’s part of the maritime museum
face down in the past is where i’m being

[hook: dice raw]
and no one’s in the lighthouse
you’re face down in the ocean
and no one’s in the lighthouse
and it seems like you just screamed
it’s no one there to hear the sound
and it may feel like there’s no one there
that cares if you drown
face down in the ocean

[outro: dice raw]
if you can‘t swizzim then ya bound to drizzown
passing out life jackets bout to go didown
get down with the captain or go down with the ship
before the dark abyss i’m gon’ hit you wit’ dis
[repeat]

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The Roots - Stomp (Ft. Greg Porn) Lyrics and Video

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[just blaze]
it’s about flesh and blood
it’s about heart beat that beats strong
it’s about passion
that’s unyielding
and i want you men to know today
it is your time
it’s your hour
it is your moment
go take it

[verse 1: black thought]
yeah speaking of pieces of a man
staring at a future in the creases of my hand
it reads like a final letter i’m leaving for my fam but
it’s written in language they will never understand
a late repentant
never deviating from a plan
i drive by headed for the valley of the damned
the wheels spin, i’m looking for a sacrificial lamb
then roll tactics like a soldier out in the sudan
listen…
was this a matter of flesh and blood
yes it was
does it matter who win and lose
yes it does
it ain’t about the most blessed love
when you return to the essence
what is it back to the essence of?
greatness i wasn’t in the presence of
cause you was fake and never measured up
you just a n*gga on his regular
but how far am i ahead of ya
it just as easily coulda been me instead of ya

[just blaze]
we gon’ fight till we can’t fight no more
and when we can’t fight no more
we gon’ lie down and bleed a while
we gon’ get up
and fight some more
want you say it with me
repeat it after me when i say it
we gon’ fight

[verse 2: greg porn]
f*ck getting f*ck
immaculate conception
now what’s beef ain’t even a question
calico kisses, cold blood and crime tape
flirt with death every night it’s a blind date
one night stand payback’s a b*tch
shit have you skinny dipping in a pool of your piss
blood sweat and tears broken teeth and spit
put the barrel in your mouth
blow the devil a kiss
put the knife in ya back cut down to the red meat
daddy should’ve let me be a stain on the bed sheets
i’m one shot short of a molotov cocktail
kick in the door like welcome to my world
i’m an evil genius when it comes to this dumb shit
half of the time i’ma keep it one hundred
don’t play chicken when i’m driving them crazy
get hit in the wing thigh breast or drumstick
we like

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The Roots - The OtherSide Lyrics and Video (Ft. Bilal & Greg Porn)

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baby come back

[verse 1: black thought]
yo, we obviously need to tone it down a bit
running round town spending time like it’s counterfeit
everybody catching hay fever like sinuses
step in my arena let me show y’all who the highness is
you might say i could be doing something positive
humbled head down low and broke like promises
soaking and broken in a joke like comics is
not enough paper to be paying folks compliments
but when that paper got low so did my tolerance
and it ain’t no truth in a dare without the consequence
listen if it not for these hood inventions
id just be another kid from the block with no intentions
on the dock of that bay serving a life sentence
even if i’m going to hell i’m gonna make an entrance
yeah let em know i’m getting cheese like omelets is
but i’m the toast of the town like thomas is

[hook: bilal]
we’re all on a journey
down the hall of memories
don’t worry bout what you ain’t got
leave with a little bit of dignity
never loved what i had
always felt like i deserved more
but when i
make it to the other side
make it to the other side
that’s when we’ll settle up the score

[verse 2: black thought]
yo, we did this in remembrance of
faces from the past
we no longer have an image of
carrying cold blood hearts
that never been for love
brothers keep going for theirs but never get enough
world travelers that seen it all
and did enough
only to return to learn
the world wasn’t big enough
damn, how long has it been?
i guess the jig is up
now all i know is i’m about to wake this n*gga up
yeah that hindsight 20/20 now n*ggas dead on the money
trying to take something from me
it’s a wrap like mummy
undone i am becoming and…
when he’s tired of running
through the layers of the onion
he’ll probably shed a tear
cause they’ll be no more fast times
just his weak mind scrolled out like a bad sign
he never had enough and got confused when they asked why
life is only a moment in time and it passed by

[hook: bilal]
we’re all on a journey
down the hall of memories
don’t worry bout what you ain’t got
leave with a little bit of dignity
never loved what i had
always felt like i deserved more
but when i
make it to the other side
make it to the other side
that’s when we’ll settle up the score

[verse 3: greg porn]
i’m sitting on top of the world ready to jump off
thinking of various ways to break law
thinking that enough is enough but still i want more
thinking of how i’m playing with fire that burned my young boy
by any means necessary… don’t give a damn
so every night i’m on a flight that never lands
be an asshole when the shit hits the fan
or bet your life on a bluff and a bad hand
can’t win, can’t lose
get ‘em gassed leave em leaking fuel
either way the market moves
cash rules kings, queens, prince and princess
every night i’m crossing a line that ain’t the finish
every thought is dark as a glass of f*cking guinness
too far gone to come back to my senses
now i’m on the edge of my bed making love to my meds
every moments like a pistol to my head
when i’m getting mine

[hook: bilal]
we’re all on a journey
down the hall of memories
don’t worry bout what you ain’t got
leave with a little bit of dignity
never loved what i had
always felt like i deserved more
but when i
make it to the other side
make it to the other side
that’s when we’ll settle up the score

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The Roots - Kool On Lyrics and Video (Ft. Greg Porn & Truck North)

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[hook]
come get your kool on
stars are made to shine
[x4]
stars are made to shine

[verse 1: greg porn]
i’m in the double g, three-piece tux
screaming dressed to kill
hope somebody call my bluff
it’s a full house sipping on a royal flush
two queens is on my cuffs
good times is in the cards
living on borrowed time
i’m paying the extra charge
to feel like something small is worth a hundred large
swag is on retard, charm is on massage
wit is on guard, i challenge you to a duel
who needs a chain when every thought’s a jewel
god bless the weirdo when everyone’s a fool
f*ck a genie and three wishes
i just want a bottle, a place to write my novel
i am like heroin to those that hear a rhyme and think
how do you find this upper echelon this time
let’s toast to better days, a beautiful mind, and a flow that never age

[hook]
come get your kool on
stars are made to shine
[x4]
stars are made to shine

[verse 2: black thought]
yo, i’m never sleeping like i’m on meth-amphtamines
move like my enemy ten steps ahead of me
say my reputation precedes me like a pedigree
gentlemanly gangsta steez beyond the seventies
holdin fast money without running out of patience
move in silence without running up in places
cake by the layers, rich but never famous
hustle anonymous still remain nameless

in hindsight gold come in bars like a klondike
the minute before the storm hit is what i’m calm like
suited and booted for a shooting like it’s prom night
it’s suicide right pursuers tried like
to no avail and a hero’s what they died like
i’ve got em waiting on the news like i’m cronkite
not in the lime light or needed for the crime right
no boasts, just bodied, chalked close to the line tight

[hook]
come get your kool on
stars are made to shine
[x4]
stars are made to shine

[verse 3: truck north]
yeah outside where the killers and the dealers swarm
and inside they dressed up like it’s a telethon
black tie affair but they holding heavy arms
straight cash with a stash in the cummerbund
more bacardi and the bouncers of the party hum
riots erupting around and still we party on
made the quantum leap to a king from a pawn
but it was destined the conclusion was foregone
serenade of the former slave promenade
cause them long days in the sun
have now become shade
so we doing high speeds in a narrow lane
say cheese, free falling from the aeroplane
another feather in the cap for all the years
that we spent in luxuries lap without looking back
cause memories could sting like hornet
damn it felt good to see people up on it

[hook]
come get your kool on
stars are made to shine
[x4]
stars are made to shine

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The Roots - Make My Lyrics and Video (Ft. Big K.R.I.T. & Dice Raw)

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[verse 1: big k.r.i.t]
i did it all for the money, lord
that’s what it seems…
well, in the world of night terrors it’s
hard to dream, they hollerin’ cash rules everything
just call it cream, cause when it rises to the top
you get the finer things
oceanfronts, rolling blunts with model chicks
and saying grace over lobster and steak
like please forgive us for
riding benzes with camera plates
too busy looking backwards for jackers to pump my brakes
for help signs to symbolize the lives that hunger takes
addicted to the green, if i don’t ball i’ll get the shakes
i’d give it all for peace of mind, for heaven’s sake
my heart’s so heavy that the ropes that hold my casket break
cause everything that wasn’t for me i had to chase

[hook]
they told me that the ends
won’t justify the means
they told me at the end
don’t justify the dreams
that i’ve had since a child
maybe i’ll throw in the towel
make my (make my)
make my (make my)
departure from the world

[verse 2: black thought]
tryin’ to control the fits of panic
unwritten and unraveled, it’s the dead man’s pedantic
whatever, see it’s really just a matter of semantics
when everybody’s fresh out of collateral to damage
my splaying got me praying like a mantis
i begin to vanish
feel the pull of the blank canvas
i’m contemplating that special dedication
to whoever it concern, my letter of resignation
fading back to black, my dark coronation
the heat of the day, the long robe of muerte
that soul is in the atmosphere like airplay
if there’s a heaven i can’t find a stairway

[hook]
they told me that the ends
won’t justify the means
they told me at the end
don’t justify the dreams
that i’ve had since a child
maybe i’ll throw in the towel
make my (make my)
make my (make my)
departure from the world

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The Roots - Sleep Lyrics and Video

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[verse 1: aaron livingston]
like when autumn leaves fall
down from the trees
there goes my honey bee
i’ve lost a lot of sleep to dreams
and i do not miss them yet
i wouldn’t wish them on than worst of enemies
let them burn, go from here
like when autumn leaves

[verse 2: black thought]
to catch a thief, who stole the soul i prayed to keep
insomniac, bad dreams got me losing sleep
i’m dead tired, my mind playing tricks, deceit
a face in the glass, unable to admit defeat
all that i am, all that i was is history
the past unraveled, adding insult to this injury

i’m fighting the battle for the soul of the century
destiny is everything that i pretend to be
look, and what i did came back to me eventually
the music played on, and told me i was meant to be awake
it’s unresolved like everything i had at stake
illegal activity controls my black symphony
orchestrated like it happened incidentally
oh, there i go, from a man to memory
damn, i wonder if my fam will remember me

[verse 3: aaron livingston]
i’ve lost a lot of sleep to dreams
and i do not miss them yet
i wouldn’t wish them on the worst of enemies
let them burn, go from here
like when autumn leaves

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The Roots - Tip The Scale Lyrics and Video

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chorus (dice raw)
i’m a side of suicide
heads or tails
some think life is living hell
some live life just living well
i live life tryna tip the scale
my way, my way
my way, my way
verse 1 (black thought)
yo, i’m always early
i never take off cause i got a job
rob peter to pay paul
now i realize it’s the winner that takes all
do what i gotta do cause i can’t take loss
picture me living life as if i’m some animal
that consumes it’s own dreams like i’m a cannibal
i won’t accept failure unless it’s mechanical
but still the alcohol mixed with the botanical
i guess i be referred to the owners manual full of loaners
full of all the homeless throwaways and the stoners
soldiers of the streets with 8th grade diplomas
and the world awaiting their shoulders as a bonus
look, let he without sin live without sin
until then, i’ll be doing dirty jobs like swamp men
counting the faces of those that might have been
it’s like living that life but i won’t live that life again
chorus
verse 2 (dice raw)
lotta niggas go to prison
how many come out malcolm x
i know i’m not shit
can’t even talk about the rest
famous last words
you under arrest
will i get popped tonight
it’s anybody’s guess
i guess a nigga need to stay cunning
i guess when the cops coming need to start running
i wont make the same mistakes
from my last run in
you either done doing crime now or you done in
i got a brother on the run and one in
wrote me a letter he said when you comin
shit man i thought the goal’s to stay out
back against the wall
then shoot your way out
getting money’s a style that never plays out
till you in a box
and your stash money’s paid out
the scales of justice
ain’t equally weighed out
only two ways out
digging tunnels or digging graves out

chorus

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John Legend & The Roots - Wake Up Everybody Lyrics and Video

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Wake Up Everybody Lyrics - John Legend & The Roots (Ft. Common & Melanie Fiona)
This brand new, okay not so brand new song is a rendition of Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes' "Wake Up Everybody". The track features The Roots band.. They also sang it during the World Cup 2010. Now, it has a female singier (Melanie Fiona) in it. Watch out for the album dropping this September.

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Wake up everybody no more sleepin’ in bed
No more backward thinkin’ time for thinkin’ ahead
The world has changed so very much
From what it used to be so
there is so much hatred war an’ poverty
Wake up all the teachers time to teach a new way
Maybe then they’ll listen to whatcha have to say
Cause they’re the ones who’s coming up and the world is in their hands
when you teach the children teach em the very best you can.

Chorus
The world won’t get no better if we just let it be
The world won’t get no better we gotta change it yeah, just you and me.

Wake up all the doctors make the ol’ people well
They’re the ones who suffer an’ who catch all the hell
But they don’t have so very long before the Judgment Day
So won’tcha make them happy before they pass away.
Wake up all the builders time to build a new land
I know we can do it if we all lend a hand
The only thing we have to do is put it in our mind
Surely things will work out they do it every time.

Repeat Chorus



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The Roots - The Day Lyrics and Video

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[Chorus: Patty Cash]
When I wake up, I look into the mirror
I can see a clearer, vision
I should start living today
Cause today is gonna be the day, is gonna be the day
Cause today is gonna be the day, is gonna be the day

[Blu]
Yeah, it’s like everyday I wake up, I stare into space and don’t say much
Peer in the mirror, feeling dead from the face up
Coffee pots, cigarettes, morning Js, Baileys
Slowing down my day before it picks up the pace
Beats playing since the night before, thinking bout writing songs
Feeling exhausted from times we toured constant
And plus the toxics I sip got me tall
Still tipsy, staring at the city from the spot we call Los Angeles
Every day is like a blank canvas
Carving my initials in the planet like I brand it
Hand picked to live this life we take for granted
like a child with an upright bass, we can’t stand it
Smiling through the trouble we face, tryna manage
my way without pumping my brakes and staying stagnant
Cause I can sit on my ass or just imagine
the madness I did on my path and paint the canvas

[Chorus]

[Black Thought]
Before I rise and shine like a neon sign
I need the girl of my dreams to give me Einstein
And burn the marijuan’ like Buju Banton
is my only bonafide break from these confines
I need a change of scenery like a montage
These kids bringing me the noise like the bomb squad
And everybody coming at me from the blindside
I’m tired, it’s hard to open up my eyes wide
I listen to some theme music on the iPod
and walk around the crib doing little odd jobs
Checking my breath, take a view from this high rise
Feeling like I’m checking out a game from the sideline
I got to try different things in these trying times
Twenty-ten is different than it was in nine-five
It’s come alive time, I picked a fine time
for getting open off life like a fine wine

[Chorus]

[Phonte]
Uh, yeah, Sunday morning, plan my day out
Whole new blueprint, brand new layout
Deep down still don’t know if it’ll play out
Before the first time, feel like I done found a way out
Skin getting clearer and it feel like I lost weight
Stop and say a prayer for the times I lost faith
Troubles of the world had me in a cross-face
Chicken-wing, sickening, liver so off-base
But now it’s like I’m in the last lap of the car chase
and I finally understand my right to choose
My preacher man told me it could always be worse
Even the three-legged dog still got three good legs to lose
So you can stop and refresh the rules
Breathe in, breathe out, let it heal all your exit wounds
Something inside said that’s the move
and maybe today, I’ll restart fresh and new

[Chorus]

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The Roots - The Fire Lyrics and Video

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[Chorus]
There’s something in your heart,
and its in your eyes
It’s the fire, inside you
Let it burn

You don’t say good luck
You say don’t give up
It’s the fire, inside you
Let it burn

Yeah, and if I’m ever at the crossroads
And start feeling mixed signals like morse code
My soul start to grow colder than the North Pole
I try to focus on the hole on where the torch goes
In the tradition of these legendary sports pros
As far as I can see I made it to the threshold
Lord knows I waited for this a lifetime
And I’m an icon when I let my light shine
Shine bright as an example of a champion
Takin the advantage never coppin out or cancelin
Burn like a chariot, learn how to carry it
Maverick, always above and beyond average
Fuel to the flame that I train with and travel with
Something in my eyes say I’m so close
To having a prize
I realize I’m supposed to reach for the sky
Never let somebody try to tell you otherwise
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[Chorus - John Legend]
There’s something in your heart,
and its in your eyes
It’s the fire, inside you
Let it burn

You don’t say good luck
You say don’t give up
It’s the fire, inside you
Let it burn

One love, one game, one desire
One flame, one rhyme, fire
Let it burn higher
I never showed signs of fatigue
Or turned tired
cause I’m the definition of tragedy turned triumph
It’s David and Goliath
I made it to the eye of the storm
Feeling tore like they fed me to lions
Before time start to wind down like the Mayans
I show ‘em how I got the grind down like a science
It sounds like a riot on hush
It’s so quiet, the only thing I hear is my heart
I’m inspired by the challenge that I find myself standin eye-to-eye with
To move like a wise warrior and not a coward
You can’t escape
The history you was meant to make
That’s why the highest victory is what I’m meant to take
You came to celebrate
I came to cerebrate
I hate losing I refuse to make the same mistakes

The fire, the fire…

[Chorus - John Legend]
You say don’t give up
It’s the fire, inside you
Let it burn

The fire, inside you (x3)

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The Roots - Dear God 2.0 Lyrics and Video

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Dear God 2.0 Lyrics : The Roots
"Dear God 2.0" is a song recorded by American hip hop band, The Roots off the group's upcoming ninth studio album entitled "How I Got Over" expected for released on June 22, 2010 under Def Jam Recordings.
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Dear God, I’m trying hard to reach you
Dear God, I see your face in all I do
Sometimes, it’s so hard to believe it…
But God, I know you have your reasons
(Uh huh)

[Verse 1]

They said he’s busy hold the line please
Call me crazy, I thought maybe he could mind read
Who does the blind lead?
Show me a sign please
If everything is made in China, are we Chinese?

And why do haters separate us like we siamese?
Technology turning the planet into zombies
Everybody all in everybody’s dirty laundry
Acid rain, earthquakes, hurricane, tsunamis

Terrorist, crime sprees, assaults, and robberies
Cops yellin’ stop, freeze
Shoot him before he try to leave
Air quality so foul, I gotta try to breath
Endangered species
And we runnin’ out of trees

If I could hold the world in the palm of these
Hands, I would probably do away with these anomalies
Everybody checkin’ for the new award nominee
Wars and atrocities
Look at all the poverty

Ignoring the prophecies
More beef than broccoli
Corporate monopoly
Weak world economy
Stock market topplin’
Mad marijuana oxycotton and klonopin
Everybody out of it?

[Hook]

Well I’ve been thinkin’ about
And I’ve been breakin’ it down
Without an answer

I know I’m thinking out loud
But if you’re lost and around
Why do we suffer?
Why do we suffer?
(Uh huh)

[Verse 2]

Yeah… It’s still me, one of your biggest fans
I get off work
Right back to work again
I probably need to go ahead and have my head exam
Look at how they got me on the Def Jam payment plan

Well, I’m in the world of entertainment and
Trying to keep a singing man sane for the paying fans
If I don’t make it through the night, slight change of plans
Harp strings, angel wings, and praying hands

Lord, forgive me for my shortcomings
For going on tour and ignoring the court summons
All I’m trying to do is live life to the fullest
They sent my daddy to you in a barrage of bullets

Why is the world ugly when you made it in your image?
And why is livin’ life such a fight to the finish?
For this high percentage
When the sky’s the limit
A second is a minute, every hour’s infinite

[Outro]

Dear God, I’m trying hard to reach you
Dear God, I see your face in all I do
Sometimes, it’s so hard to believe it..

The Roots - Dear God 2.0

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