Common Sense

Book Of Life

Common Sense


I got so much trouble on my mind 
So I take time 
Out my day 
To pray and I say 
Now I lay me down to sleep 
Hopin' that I keep 
My soul 
Peep I'm gettin' old 
And it's a cold cold world 
And I ain't even got a bomber 
Livin' with my momma 
It's the same routine 
Keep my room clean 
I'm lookin' to do some new things but ain't shit to do 
I'm twenty two catch 
In the prime of my life 
I have no time for a wife 
I funnel through the tunnel 
Disgruntled, tryin' to find me some light 
In the rim of darkness 
Aiight you sing, I may not be the darkest 
Brotha 
But I was always told to act my age and not my color 
Knowin' that my color was that of the original 
So now I sing the new negro spiritual 
It goes get up stand up...etc. 
It's like how can you understand the pain 
When you never had to stand under the rain 
When it rains it pours, and it's about to come down hard 
Thank God I found you 
As I walk down the road of existence 
I get resistance 
From all angles 
I tangle 
For cash 
Hopin' it'll last 
'Til the end of the week 
But all I eat is fast food 
And you know how junk food goes right through ya 
So I return to the arab 
And on the way back 
I stop and the liquor store 
Grab me a six pack 
Knowin' that once I'm done with that I'll be back 
To get some more 
Once I get started I don't wanna stop 
And I can't turn around 
Brew - I can't turn it down 
Ironically I turn it up 
My liver I burn it up (Fat line) 
It's my life I live it up 
The cup I gotta give it up 
One day 
I'm cruisin' down a one way street and I done passed fun day 
Three blocks ago 
It itself life is an obstacle 
As I maneuver through the manure I try to be responsible 
I want a job but I ain't lookin - how come 
I ain't tryin' to degrade myself bein' nobody's Calvin 
But I'm a couch bum what makes it bad I had incentive 
But I disintegrated 
To a state that's stagnated 
I procrastinated 
I can't recall a day without bein' intoxicated 
or blowed 
Ain't dealin' with a full deck and any day I could fold 
What makes it bad, I wasn't dealt that bad a hand 
And I had a plan 
But things didn't go through 
The way they were supposed to 
Thank God I found you 
It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder 
How I keep from goin' under, I ponder 
And try to keep my concentration 
In this idiotic nation 
They say become I doctor, but I don't have the patients/patience 
Adjacent 
To that situation 
I want an occupation 
That I'm into 
'Cause yet if I begin to 
Live to my potential 
I went to 
School for fourteen years and my best teacher was experience 
I reminisce and wish 
I could go back in time to eighty-nine 
When there was just sunshine 
But now it's like I'm gettin' older to so much strain and stress 
I don't think I'll ever be happpy until I rest 
In peace 
Of mind 
And find 
Who I am 
But thank God I found you