Clock With No Hands - The Roots
Yeah sitting in the staircase
Holding back tears
Looking over mad years worth of photographs
Pictures of some places I ain't never going back
Some people I used to love
Why I ain't show them that
The skies was overcast
When I was sober last
My head is spinning
Couldn't tell you if it's slow or fast
It's starting to get too clear
I got to go and grass
To y'all it's a shame but life is what we know it as
Waiting navigating the plot
Without plans
In the car
It's hard to read as a clock with no hands
How your man's goin' get up and stop with no yams
All it take is one break
It could pop the program
Whether sinning or not
My back bending like I'm sentenced a lot
I feel some brothers is beginning to plot
It might have been a close friend I forgot
Who started up and ain't remember to stop
I bet these niggaz going remember the shop
People think that I'm crazy
Just cause I wanna be alone
You can't depend on friends to help you in a squeeze
We all deal with sh*t on our own
And sometimes the beef can grow
Get out of hand
Yeah you know it gets full blown
I never said that you mean the world to me
Maybe it's best that you never know
Yo I'm like Malcom out
The window with the weapon out
Searching for somehow to find a minute or the second now
Precious time is money that I ain't got to mess about
Need it from the horse's mouth
Or from my eye with less account
Lessons with my back to the wall
Scoping my session out
Stay a little edgy at times when
I ain't stressing bout
Haters don't know sh*t about me
They the ones that talk sh*t
Those that love me send it out
So I ain't got to force quit
Cause I'm doing better now
Don't mean I never lost sh*t
I was married to a state of mind and
I divorced it man
I'm from where brothers moving
Product from the porches
People locking their doors
Clutching to their crosses
The block hot by the law
There ain't too many choices
So what I do is for y'all
There ain't too many voices left
I watch my back
And watch my step
And I might forgive
But I will not forget come on
People think that I'm crazy
Just cause I wanna be alone
You can't depend on friends to help
You in a squeeze
We all deal with sh*t on our own
And sometimes the beef can grow
Get out of hand
Yeah you know it gets full blown
I never said that you mean the world to me
Maybe it's best that you never know
Yo living in turbulent times
The blind leading the blind
Some call it evolution
Some say intelligent design
You say you want a revolution
You out of your mizind
Your sons' destitute
And their pops all
In the prison
My man's back in the jam
He like the back of my hand
He just attracted to scam
He right back in the can
I never sleepwalking you dig
You get your shuteye
I'm on the first thing in
I'm leaving on the red eye
My brother back in rehab
Just had another relapse
But fin himself
It's been like he's been fighting an energy
Half telling me nobody true
When they pretend to be that
So closer than friends
That's where I keep my enemy at
To many parties concerned
It's time to live it and learn
Until we're able to grow
Forever bridges we burn
My thoughts free as a bird
That's just about to emerge
And every action is heard
It speaks louder than words yo
People think that I'm crazy
Just cause I wanna be alone
You can't depend on friends
To help you in a squeeze
We all deal with sh*t on our own
And sometimes the beef can grow
Get out of hand
Yeah you know it gets full blown
I never said that you mean the world to me
Maybe it's best that you never know
