BROTHER ALI – Years

[Verse 1]
A bottle of wine and two glasses
Potato salad and that old picnic basket
Sunday afternoon spread a blanket for so many years that we tend to lose track of it
Those years turn dreams into memories
Much oblige for every one you spent with me
Cant believe the kids that were at our feet all moved out and began their own family
It still feels like just yesterday
I stood in that mirror practicin’ what to say
Just know when I live for the moment
My eyes glowed, held out my hand and felt yours on it
You don’t know the power a touch like that
You have on a lovestruck lad
Everything I ever used to care about fade to the back
I feel that way to this day, matter of fact

[Chorus]
Laughter and tears we had through the years
Like magnets, attract without fear
The sun [?] light that magically appeared
I recall it all and I’m glad that you’re here

Laughter and tears we had through the years
The feeling of companion is near
The first touch, that cant be compared
I recall and I’m glad that you’re here

[Verse 2]
That old tree witnessed the first love we made
I pulled out my pocket knife, gave it my name
But like all trees, he went and grew rings and that carving got harder to read from far away
And the stress of this world, it pressed you
Made you forget you possessed something special
And all of this mess, you tended to neglect the blessing that slept directly next to you
So I’m painfully ignored by a girl masquerading as the lady I adore
And even though I lived as your husband
I cant help missin’ the kiss I fell in love with
What was once huggin’ and kissin’
One day made way to fussin’ and bickerin’
Now cussin’ and no one’s listenin’
Lost all grip on love in the midst of it

[Chorus]
Laughter and tears we had through the years
The challenges you have interfere
The heartbreak and anguish we shared
I recall it all and I’m glad that you’re here

Laughter and tears we had through the years
We snapped and reacted out of fear
Broken promises can’t be repaired
I recall it all and I’m glad that you’re here

[Verse 3]
Those things that we say when we argue
Never go away, they become part of you
Furthermore with every new scar it grew ever harder to open my heart to you
I need you to believe me when I tell you that
I didn’t step out on you to get you back
I was just hungry for affection that the first time another gave attention, I was in the trap
I let her stand in for you
Trying to recapture the magic that I knew
Thats why I fell for it because
When she held me in her arms, I pretended they were yours
I don’t fault you for being mad at me
We were a family, I put you through a tragedy
Can’t blame you for losing sanity
Rolling me over in my sleep and stabbing me

[Chorus]
Laughter and tears we had through the years
Everytime our anniversary nears
You show up with a picnic basket and a beer
I recall it all and I’m glad that you’re here

Laughter and tears we had, it appears
The best talks I’ve had with you in years
Are right here where you laid my casket my dear
I’ll save you a place and catch you when you’re here

BROTHER ALI – The Bite Marked Heart

[Verse 1]
Love struck like dumb luck
See the bite marked heart come untucked
Still scared of the dark yet I’m not
Afraid to fall scale the wall that you construct
Must be the tears of joy that appeared
Rose from the morsel of sole that you bared
Crawled out of your stare Warm to my ears
Cause ohs and yeahs are all I can hear
Every wish is a prayer
Each glistening tear whispers in the ear
Convening clouds that linger in the atmosphere
Leading places for the blissfully sincere
Fore long although sorrows overflow
[?] rise and no longer holds all our woes
Roll down throw out the cold ground below
Sky glows golden the whole garden grow

[Hook]
[?]
Triplicate of tones spoken mighty slow
Echo a language from a long time ago
Trust me I know you don’t even know

[Verse 2]
In the vein of an instant
Love takes us from strangers to intimate
Some day you might change what the distance is
But love can’t be unmade once you witness it
Miracles, science can’t quite describe
Against all odds we arrive
Immaculate hearts and clean slate minds
Mysterious souls that keep poets inspired
Marvelous mankind wonderful woman
Each invited to the world through an act of loving
Even if they were only acting to be loving
The search of loves the origin of our becoming
And it becomes clear two souls oblivious twist in the air
DES tine he tried to get us here
Hit you with the stare that was written somewhere

[Hook]

BROTHER ALI – Stop The Press

Another one of them long ass breaks. Damn, Brother Ali where the hell you been? What, you disappear?

Stop the presses give me couple seconds
Let tell my friends what’s up with big brethren
New year new beard a new record
Made a few adjustments I want to discuss it

In a life of pain and sadness
Never would’ve guessed that a taste of success
Would’ve been the first time I ever got depressed
I know I’m blessed I just couldn’t adjust

In life all I ever knew how to do is fight
Scrapped on the playground fighting for the mic
Trying to build a life with an insane wife
Fighting for a little bit of time in the light

Then I got a daughter a car and house
No one left to fight with but myself
Gained a lot of weight wasn’t thinking about my health
Maybe the music I’m making could help

I can’t drive ‘cause this albino shit
Told you I was legally blind that’s legit
I ain’t want Ant to have to come scoop the kid
So I bought a crib a couple blocks from his

That’s the greatest friend I ever had
Like a brother to me a borderline dad
Maybe making a record will get me on track
Help fix whatever’s wrong with my head

I jumped back in the basement at once
Made the album Us in a couple of months
But I can’t lie to y’all I felt lost
Energy I brought might’ve been a bit off

Couple great moments though of course
Babygirl Puppy Love and The Travelers
I toured two years off that album
Was on the road ten months out of one of them

Did the globe with my brother BK
My life coach slash DJ
Literally been with me since day one
Had a lot of hard times had a lot of fun

Long story short he got hell of a wife
Catastrophe damn near ended her life
Brought our wifeys out to Hawaii
These fuckers got pregnant on Waikiki

He said “I need to talk to you Ali
This is what you were born to do, but not me”
So after Soundset two thousand and ten
Say goodbye to my Deejay but not my friend

My career ain’t stop it just grew
I rock(ed) the bells and Glastonbury too
Close enough to smell Beyonce’s perfume
But it just ain’t the same without dude

Couldn’t slow me down no lord
Stayed on the planes and the busses and cars
Brought a young DJ into the squad
Sucker quit on me cause I toured too hard “Wahhhh”

On to the next one
Then me and Ant had trouble connecting
If I was here then he was always there
Touring or recording with Atmosphere

What the hell’s goin on with my career
Within a year my team disappeared
Got a phone call on the 4th of July
My dad died, he committed suicide

Shit should’ve been there for him
Had to fly home from Europe to bury him
Im sorry, I need a minute
Bismillah…) Alright, listen

Trying to hold this marriage together
But me and my baby barely see each other
I’m in France with the fans taking pictures
She’s with the kids making dinner doing dishes

She ain’t got to worry bout me screwing other [?]
But that ain’t enough to make a woman feel precious
If we don’t start to intersecting
We got no choice but grow in different directions -Damn

I got that phone call again
You know the kind you never want to get
Mikey’s mom couldn’t get a hold of him
And found him dead in his apartment

Just drowning in tears
Probably won’t get over that in all my years
I’ll remember forever
A day later boarded a plane to Mecca

And the next month changed my life
Listening to God in the holy sites
Inklings I had all my life
Suddenly presented themselves in plain sight

Any doubts I had about the mic
And whether or not what I write is right
Fell out of sight like the tears on the floor
Now I’m going harder than I ever did before

Got a couple of beat tapes from Jake
Genuine dude and his music is great
I told Zach to hold my tour dates
Roll the tape I got something to say

So, I’m gonna go make this album. Let me start it off right though

BROTHER ALI feat. Nikki Jean – Shine On

[Hook x2: Nikki Jean]
Don’t pay me no mind, baby
Shine shine shine
Don’t pay me no mind, sugar
Shine shine shine

[Verse 1: Brother Ali]
I had seen you when the hosted seated you
In a station of mine still I’m taking my time
Made sure the moment got seized, made up my mind
Through a napkin over my sleeve, straightened my tie
Mind if I behold you through the fold of your menu
Couture, all up against you, oh lord
How could I convince you? I just met you
And I’m instantly listening to your instrumental
Poor me, I poured water inside your glass
For a brief moment our eyes had kind of met
I confess, I felt that inside my chest
Almost made quite a mess yet I digress
I would guess you’re meeting a date here
I offer, she order hors d’oeuvres while she wait here
She brushed her bangs to clear off her face, yeah
Parted her lips and turned crab cakes to Shakespeare

[Hook x2]

[Verse 2]
The way the lady bait a trap, I’m afraid to ask
My imagination act, I run away with that
Run away with me, I swear I’m not a maniac
I’ll give you that pretty diamond ring and last name to match
I ain’t saying that, I practiced waiting in the back
I know I better make it fast before her date get back
Yeah, I place her order, grabbed the plate, relaxed
Here, let me fix my face get my game in tact
Fear, I chased the clock as I can’t make it stop
I played the waiter job, made it to the table top
Time to play your cards, ace got to take your shot
Before I could speak he showed up to devastate the plot
Her real server showed up, my plan fell through
“Sir, are y’all together? Ma’am, can I help you?”
She looking puzzled, I stand without words
I’m sorry, I don’t really work here – awkward

[Hook x2]

[Verse 3]
Let me explain, you see I ain’t much for wait and see
So when I seen you take a seat I played maitre d’
She replied angrily, “Mister, I can’t believe
You’d stand your grown ass in this place and play games with me
Crazy freak, wait, how did you get all that food?”
I ordered from the table around the corner and brought it to you
Can’t say I thought it through, ma’am it’s all sort of new
But when I saw you I sort of knew I had to talk to you
And nothing in my arsenal seemed possible
So I called an audible, Serve you? I’m honored to
I didn’t mean to bother you, I just want to watch a few
Moments of your life much like a fly on a wall would do
Never mind me, the light from your unusually bright shine blinded me
So that was all I could see, (I) understand if you don’t want to talk to me
I’ll just leave, pardon me, I’ll just take this little broken heart and leave
“Wait, that was a stupid thing to do
But my date didn’t show up and my table’s set for two”
I pulled on my coat like, aw look at you
That’s all I really wanted ma’am enjoy your afternoon
I’m through

BROTHER ALI – Only Life I Know

[Hook:]
(It’s my life)
Yeah, the only one that I’ll ever know
Feeling extra low
Please let me go
Hold on, no
(It’s my life)
Yeah, the only that I’ll ever know
And it stressed me so
Oh God, bless me soul
Hold on

[Verse 1:]
Wether it’s the projects or a trailer park mess
Raggedy the apartment complex
With a stressed out single mom sitting on the steps
Waiting on the mailman, looking for a check
Boys on the corner, pushing out the chest
Questing for anything that resembles respect
Young girls swinging their hair with every step
Looking for affection, settling for sex
Bodies decorated with tattoos and chains
Trying to put armor between you and pain
Wood grain steering wheel, the bass bang
But not enough to drown out the hatred in your brain
The only out is smoking out
Get lean, get wet, get meth, get tore down
Cause who the hell would want to stick around?
Put me in a haze, I ain’t never coming out

[Hook]

[Verse 2:]
They just wanna get you in the system, stick you into prison
List you in the military ship you to the desert
Pigs don’t exist for you to make a decent living
But we got three illegal wars to shoot the pigs from
Keep stressing marvels and personal decisions
Tell me what’s marvel about these conditions
Who decided you don’t got enough to teach children?
Stay spending billions, on stadiums and prisons
How many roles can folks really choose?
When you’re oppressed only three lead to you
First one is follow the rules and stay in school
Be the square dude, that’s a society approves
Get a little job or a shitty apartment
Or a sub-par mortgage in a failing house margin
The after your life dedication and hardship
You died just as poor as you was when you started
Fuck that, what’s up with the second option?
You could always hit the corner and try to get it popping
Get fast guap when you’re out dropping and clocking
But, chances are that you’ll probably die violent
The best hope that you got is getting nada
And end up with a job in a prison metal shop
They ain’t paying nothing but three [?]
Don’t you know that’s the biggest hustle they got?
Or door three you can get on that welfare
But they ain’t trying to help, they’ll put you in hell there
Give you just enough so you’re not gonna starve
And constantly harass you while you’re looking for a job
Do lock up and someone that got you to punch a clock
And they found about it and your check is getting dot
Can’t win for losing, dehumanizing
You’ll never get caught up, you caught up in a cycle

[Hook]

BROTHER ALI – Mourning In America

I don’t usually use those big words
Cause I don’t usually deal with big people
I find you can get a whole lot of small people
And whip hell out of a whole lot of big people

Murder murder murder kill kill kill
Cannibals walk the earth and get ill blood spill
Eyes sunk deep in their skull their bone chill
Few for survival most for the thrill

Terrorism is the war of the poor
Hold up a mirror so the script get flipped
Cause when it’s in reverse it ain’t wrong no more
Warfare’s the terrorism of the rich

Who’s the true guerilla
When the bomb on your body killing innocent civilians
But a life is a life and a killer is a killer
You’re at a desk chillin’ push a button kill a million

See the anguish of the parents
When they’re carrying the body of the baby that they cherish
When innocent people perish
It’s a very thin line between a soldier and a terrorist

Murder murder kill kill kill
Death and destruction a cap get pealed
Harm or heal destroy and rebuild
Shots still ring out the blood still spill

Murder murder kill kill kill
Death and destruction a cap get pealed
Harm or heal destroy and rebuild
Shots still ring out the blood still spill

Overseas we can mutilate and mangle
Let me give you an example what our troops are coming back to
Cold cities where the youth are getting strangled
The community in peril and our future looking narrow

Your school already failed you

The boys in blue will nail you they salute you with a barrel
The streets are a certified dead zone
Decorated with chalk lines and headstones

All the way live and every night the bullets flying
Even if you ain’t dying you a traumatized survivor
When you grow up in a climate of overriding violence
You will never get beyond it it’s always alive inside you

And death just surrounds you
Fallen classmates’ ghosts haunt you
Crime just calls you cause you look at what you walk through
Ain’t certain if you’ll make it ain’t sure you even want to

Murder murder kill kill kill
Death and destruction a cap get pealed
Harm or heal destroy and rebuild
Shots still ring out the blood still spill

Murder murder kill kill kill
Death and destruction a cap get pealed
Harm or heal destroy and rebuild
Shots still ring out the blood still spill

[Choir:]
Tears and sorrow block the sunlight
Head low heart broke eyes closed tongue-tied
Waters raise the tide is climbing
Speeding time the sky is crying
Shots are fired bombs and sirens
War and riots mourning in America

Now that society forgot you
And they locked you in an obstacle course where nothing’s possible
If you slip up and they caught you
They got boxes where they lock you make a million dollars off you

They rule you too rude to school
They screw you in a booth shoot electricity through you
Or inject death into you
On a television set and let it ooze through you

Every time a leader tries to stand up for our freedom
Someone claps them with the heater their brain and back leaking
A shame their family grieving the only way to see them
Is a displaced dream displayed in a museum

They say they built our nation for a reason
Then they stained it with the bleeding of the slaves that never seen it
I ain’t hating I still want to believe it
And I’m not trying to leave it I just call it how I see it

Murder murder kill kill kill
Death and destruction a cap get pealed
Harm or heal destroy and rebuild
Shots still ring out the blood still spill

Murder murder kill kill kill
Death and destruction a cap get pealed
Harm or heal destroy and rebuild
Shots still ring out the blood still spill

They haven’t got anything to lose
And they’ve got everything to gain
And they’ll let you know in a minute
It takes two to tango. When I go, you go

BROTHER ALI feat. Phonte & Stokley Williams – I’ll Be Around

[Chorus: Phonte]
The sun still shines and the birds still chirping
Bills all paid, baby everything working
Anything you need to see that I’m holding you down

[Verse 1: Phonte]
Hey Ms. Thanga Thang
What’s happening?
I’ve been all around world and forth and back again
And for you pretty ladies, normally I sing a song
But every now and then I like to do my rapper thang
It seems like lately you don’t like the way I’m travelling
And all that’s going through your mind is that it ain’t the same
And even though I got you chilling where you wanna be
Right there, still you’re having Nightmares like Dana Dane
Well consider this
It seems relationships today can be so hit or miss
I mean, wouldn’t you say the same?
Cause even when I come home to be your Clark Kent
All you do is talk shit about them times I’m Superman
So whenever you get cabin
Fever just imagine
Yourself back in the club with them Orangutans
I mean them monkey ass niggas just hanging around
Maybe then you can appreciate my swanger thangs
Yes sir

[Chorus: Phonte]
The sun still shines and the birds still chirping
Bills all paid, baby everything working
Anything you need to see that I’m holding you down (holding you down)
The music might stop but the party’s not over
You my lucky star I’m your four leaf clover
Baby anytime you need me, you know I’ll be around (I’ll be around)

[Talking: Phonte]
Ladies, I want yo to get a manicure to this one. If you’re feeling really good, I want you to, huh, exfoliate to this one. Haha, yes I do. And if you feeling real nice I want you to get a pedicure to this one. All my fellas, huh, let’s go.

[Verse 2: Brother Ali]
I know them lonely
Nights get old and that bed get mighty cold
And the, wait of this family just be resting on your shoulder
You’re a, Native New Yorker
Freezing to death in Minnesota for a man who almost always on the road
Woman such as you, she may wonder what to do
I know that possibility seem ugly but it’s true
Now he’s got his career but it’s me that’s sitting here
And you just might miss that something special that just for you
Well, my heart long for you when I’m gone from you
Just cause I’m not all up under you don’t mean I don’t love you
To the contrariety I’ve been on every continent
Trying to spit and get it right and get a house for you
That’s why I’m globe trotting so often
I’m trying to put that glowing dot up in your horizon
Go to school, I pay tuition, new shoes, I gave the children
With a little smidgen left so we can go shopping
But if I’m so honest
All that paper don’t mean nothing
When comparing to your loving and the care you give your husband
Wish I could lay up on your chest and hear your heartbeat
Whispering our name together as we fall asleep
The crowd cheering as I close the show
If they only know you only let me go cause you adore me so
And understand that I’m a natural man
Got to be who and what I am
Girl let me stand next to you

[Chorus: Phonte]
The sun still shines and the birds still chirping
Bills all paid, baby everything working
Anything you need to see that I’m holding you down (holding you down)
The music might stop but the party’s not over
You my lucky star I’m your four leaf clover
Baby anytime you need me, you know I’ll be around (I’ll be around)

BROTHER ALI – I Can’t Wait

[Chorus:]
B-b-b-b-baby, I-I-I-I can’t wait, your love
B-b-b-b-baby, I-I-I-I can’t wait

[Verse 1:]
Wait, wait, I done tumbled into love again
Ladies first, safety last, nothing under him
Watch it crumble then, build it up again
Long kiss, good fright, you let it tuck you in
Nothing other than, human suffering
Let your frozen bones shutter in the summer wind
Crash test dummy friend turned up to ten
Loves riding shotgun, never buckled in
Make your blood rush so percussively
That you don’t adjust to see the drum’s new custody
Running full tilt faceless
Eyes wide you collide through that plate glass
Straight smash, open wide, gaping gash
Make this the last time that you late for class
Step in, effect like Armageddon
I thought by now you’d learned your lesson

[Chorus:]
B-b-b-b-baby, I-I-I-I can’t wait, your love
B-b-b-b-baby, I-I-I-I can’t wait, your love
Baby
Your love
Baby

[Verse 2:]
See there kid, heads up
Collect your busted body parts, get a leg up
Chasing your own tail if I don’t fetch ya
Your tail gotta a nice art but the end sucks
Try again
You keep diving in the small child end
And any chance to survive is thin
I pretend the boy won’t cry again
Are they trying to snap or play the world’s smallest violin?
Tragedy and love mine
Play it again Sam, rocking your hindsight blinders
And I insist on meeting love like the visitors
Fuck the other ones, skip the drum and then just be gone

[Chorus:]
B-b-b-b-baby, I-I-I-I can’t wait, your love
B-b-b-b-baby, I-I-I-I can’t wait, your love
Baby
Your love
Baby

BROTHER ALI feat. Aby Wolf – Haunted House

Broken, broken
Broken, broken
Broken, broken
The foundation’s, The foundation’s
Broken, broken
Broken, broken

[Verse 1]
I knew love could be a sunrise
Make an old man see the world with young eyes
Round each corner discover he lies
Summertime, the world full of surprise
Every sunset so it start setting in
But you will never see morning again
The flame that you had was now gone in the wind
Start to get old, feel bored with your friend
Your mind start to wander, your eyes start to follow
And wind up on some young behind trying to holler
The dudes that you think are your guys ain’t trying to stop you
They grab binoculars, sit back and watch the opra
What she thought was hers you now share with another
And you and something got a secret you keep from her
Make her foolish for ever having trusted
Overcoming your shortcomings cuz she loves you

[Hook]
Such a beautiful dawn and we flow right along, so warm till the sun went down
Can the day rise again? I’d wait, my friend, but I don’t know how
Don’t want to leave but I don’t want my demons to return and haunt this house
The foundation’s, The foundation’s
Broken

[Verse 2]
But you know its dead wrong that I ain’t never felt so right
The heart and the mind, they don’t always coincide
Evil dig a ditch, he cover it with pride
He come to webilize we weave to try and hide
The truth is on a mission to make his way to the light
It knows it has its right to take flight
The universal laws are too strong to fight
One day its going to set up shop in plain sight
Time can ice the pain and try to hide the stain
And glue it back together yet it’s never quite the same
Even if she forgives you, she decide to stay
That memory live inside her until her dying day
She goes through the pages of history with a heavy heart
Scratching question marks next to all the precious parts
Your best memories start to develop scars
Would’ve never thought it’d ever fall apart but

[Hook]

[Verse 3]
I use to find a hiding place inside you tight embrace
Now all I see in your face are my mistakes
Too much time I done placed around snakes
Saw the apple, had to know how it tastes
I acted out of ego, acted out of lust
Acted outside of the trust we had in us
I acted out a scene from a film I had seen before
Still casted myself in that leading role
When I was finished playing, I stood there saying “See?”
But there was no director yelling “Cut” to keep it clean
The camera kept rolling and went behind the scenes
The bonus material from the DVD
The audience is watching, yelling at the screen
saying “Say it isn’t so, please tell me it’s just a dream”
I use to be the gleam in your eye but that died out
Now I’m that little streak of white in your eyebrow

[Hook x2]

BROTHER ALI – Electric Energy

Electric relax
Chemical attracts
Search for satisfacts
Electric relax
Chemical attracts
Search

[Verse 1]
She needed relief out on the floor
Drove from Minnesota to watch in Chicago
He forgot her name five minutes ago
Changed majors in college, you know
She could be anybody from out on the road
He trying to get out of here? You already know
He already know how to pick em
Chicks that didn’t bring a whole lot of people with em
And everyone else go home but she lingers
She wants to make it known she’s not a groupie
Didn’t even pull out his room key
He smiled and said, “I know, but we’ll see”
The longer they talk, the closer she stand
Casually touching his shoulder and hand
He telling corny-ass jokes but she laughs
It was over before it began
She said that her ex-boyfriend was a fan
She bout to upgrade while getting back at him

[Hook]
High off the (energy)
Your lips can lie but your eyes can’t hide
You’re so high off the (energy)
She say:
Do you love me, baby? Do you love me?
Do you love me, baby?

[Verse 2]
Whether it’s a dive bar or packed coliseum
Some amount of people paid money to see him
So ladies want to be with him, fellas want to be him
Lot of people never got that feeling
Spotlight gleaming, audience screaming
Really can’t blame a poor girl for dreaming
Normal is too big a load to carry
At least this boy is extra-ordinary
So screwing him makes her extraordinary
At least you’re at the head of the line for headliner
If he could be mine even for that hour
Somehow you’ll return and might absorb that power
She’s the winner of the prize
Muse of the music, getting him inspired
Convinced that he sings directly in your eyes
And these fans don’t know nothing
He leave the show, they adore him and love him
But tonight you’re the woman that holds him when he’s cumming

[Hook 2]
High off the (energy)
Your lips can lie but your eyes can’t hide
You’re so high off the (energy)
And then he say:
Do you love me, baby? Do you love me?
Do you love me, baby?

[Verse 3]
He’s talking about, All these bitches in the party wanna fuck me
He treats them the way he feels, which is ugly
Misery hates itself and loves company
So thirsty for that feeling
Desperately need to believe what they’re hearing so
Their smiley face replace the mirror
Feed that ego, let’s just feel, though
Stage got to be extra tall cause he feels low
Libido fill the holes in a beer so
Make em scream, make em cream, make em bend
Make him forget he’s more naked than them
In the land of make-believe and pretend
She loves him up like a husband
But he got hundreds of these, it’s disgusting
Silly little boy, do you think that she doesn’t?
Buzzards need buzzards, these are not lovers
Two scared suckers masturbating on each other
Don’t forget to wear your rubbers
When you’re high off the..

[Hook 3]
High off the (energy)
Your lips can lie but your eyes can’t hide
You’re so high off the (energy)
And they say:
Do you love me, baby? Do you love me?
Do you love me, baby?

BROTHER ALI – Forest Whitiker

And yo whatever comes up comes out
We don’t put our hands over our mouth
And whatever comes up comes out
We don’t put our hands over our mouth
Whatever comes up comes out
Please mister bass-man lay it on me

Ayo, Dependin on the day, and dependin on what I ate
I’m anywhere from 20 to 35 pounds over weight
I got red eyes and one of them’s lazy
and they both squint when the sun shines so I get crazy
I’m albino man, I know I’m pink and pale
And I’m hairy as hell, everywhere but fingernails
I shave a cranium that ain’t quite shaped right
Face tight, shiny, I stay up and write late nights
My wardrobe is jeans and faded shirts
A mixture of what I like, and what I wear to work
I’m not mean and got a neck full of razor bumps
I’m not the classic profile of what the ladies want
You might think I’m depressed as can be
But when I look in the mirror I see sexy ass me
And if that’s somethin that you cant respect then that’s peace
My life’s better without you actually
To everyone out there, who’s a little different
I say damn a magazine, these are gods fingerprints
You can call me ugly but cant take nothing from me
I am what I am doctor you ain’t gotta love me

[Spoken]
If you would please turn in your bible
To beauty tips according to Forest Whitiker
In the third chapter of the third line
Brother Ali would you please read to the choir for me son

[Sung x3]
I’ma be all right, you ain’t gotta be my friend tonight (you ain’t gotta love me)
An I’ma be okay, you would probably bore me anyway (you ain’t gotta love me)

Forest Whitiker y’all