Common

A Penny For My Thoughts

Common


"Friends.. Romans countrymen.. lend me a dollar!
Ahh-ha!" -> Damon Wayans 
"How much? -- A dollar." 
"One dollar.." -> Dan Akroyd 
"I got your money.. I got your poor, measly.." ->
Eddie Murphy 
"One dollar.." -> Dan Akroyd 
"Can I borrow a dollar?" -> BizMarkie 
"Nigga you ain't shit.. you wasn't shit when you was here! 
I seen you do that shit all that's the same shit 
you was doin round the poolroom nigga 
It ain't nuthin -- let me have a dollar" 
"Can I have a dolla? One dolla" 
"One dollar.." -> Dan Akroyd 
"How much? -- A dollar." 
"One dollar.." -> Dan Akroyd 
"One beer? Man you gotta give me a dollar for a beer" 

[Twilite Tone] 
Check this out 
One time, steps a man 
Common Sense and the Unamerican Caravan 
The true b-boys, dem dere and we in here 
Yeah, ya know, from the Southside of Chicago 
and we don't front 
Who me? I am Twilite Tone 
Babylon dread, Bumstead, and we come like DIS 

[Common] 
This the start of somethin big 
Methink I knows ya gonna dig it 
It's time to plant the seed 
Hip-Hop's the tree and I'ma fig it 
Figure it out, the mic, I'm rippin it like a ligament 
Gimme a light a Bud Light, and shit'll get lit just like a
cigarette 
I'm a b-boy so don't test me, many rappers don't impress me 
You try steppin into my city I'll, Snipe em like Wesley 
So you best be on your way, I'm doper than Marion Berry, hey 
Wake up everyday and make-up rhymes but I'm not Mary Kay 
Some say I'm dope as fuck, some label my rhymes incest 
My flex is kinda mean yo, so hey kid, CATCH 
These nuggets, these nuggets, these nugget ugget uggets 
with some peas and a hole in the bucket (cool, cool) 
Dear Liza, Minelli, I jam like jelly and I got 
helly what, helly what, HELLY RHYMES 
I can remember times when for a 40 I had to beg for bucks 
Nobody really gave a, so I had to beg for fucks 
Now what do niggaz do when they got not food 
Skibbidy skap and busta bust a rap 
So I pick up the pen and then begin the thoughts to get to
pumpin 
Hopin like all the people let me talk, let me say somethin 
Cause nothin for nothin leaves nothin, I got nuthin to lose 
I put, nuttin in my notes, I'm not your host when I got nuttin
to use 
Dues gettin credited, now I debit my bank account 
Not on a blind date, could I see me taken out 
by some glutteus, glutteus, maximus, maximus 
I'm spas-ta-gis-a-mister-gis a mister-gis-ta-spas-ta-gis 
Spectacular, the papes I Count like Dracula 
You can't cut the rug, because you suck, MC Vacumn Up 
Rappers I skip on like Walter Payton 
Their ain't no way or half-step, and flex a rhyme like a bicep 
Some steps with concepts, but umm, WHO cares 
Not even the damn People Under the Stairs 

[Twilite Tone] 
Interruption, interruption 
True b-boys runnin shit 
Unamerican Caravan, beatin you down 
Den dere's de man who don't stop 
Yo Com, come back with some Sense, UHH 

[Common] 
Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo, here I come, here I come (what?) 
A-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo, here I come, here I come (yeah!) 
I'm comin around the mountain high as lower than a valley 
I'm the cat, from the alley, from the back, I'ma rally 
and tally up points, rollin joints, risin to the tops 
Somewhat of a playwright, cause like a stage I got props 
My crew's a strange brew, a drink a day'll keep the stink away 
We been through AA, but hey, what can I say? 
Say say say, what you want, but you'll pay the con-se-quences 
Cause Mister Common Sense is (yeah) 
not gonna take it, so leave you better believe it 
Even if your name ain't Ripley, cause Ripley don't know diddley 
Hit me one time, two times, for the U-AYYY-C 
Heyyyyyy, but anyway 
I hit a skid, and I peel out like MC Eiht, damn I kill it 
Earn my money the old fashioned way - I steal it 
Stop thief in the temple, I hit em with a blow 
Somebody done stole my beeper but I'ma steal the show 
I'm throwin a Heidi Hoe into a bro and tellin her 
go for what you know bruh, the people before me go under 
Yo we gotta gotta get we gotta get we gotta get 
Gotta get, gotta gotta gotta get get over 
Somewhere over the rainbow, I'm still the same old same old 
Ringin around the collar, borrowin a dollar, check my balls 
Dirty drawers, see the kitty suckin titties 
Video watchin lush from the city 
I'm the extra-terrestrial rappers go home cause they have to 
Them marks be callin Ork, come in Ork, Nanu Nanu 
The perfect stranger, comin in to a, fuck a new land 
Cause Jeffrey where Osborne, and see I'm only human 
Doin anything to make a buck, what the fuck I gotta 
do what I gotta go (*echoes*)