Up in Flames (Explicit)

Some days you just catching up to yesterday

It's a temperature change stepping up on center stage

She worked herself to the bone, always working late

Still dance alone in the dark of night to Marvin Gaye

She say God act like none of us have ever prayed

That's why when She cry the rain leave her window stained

You might hear her singing for those who passed away

Or children out here catching strays every day

She let her eyes speak when there' nothing left to say

Wishin' She could tell you, wishin' you could feel her pain

Hot tears ran down her cheeks as She looked away

Watching out the window as the World is going up in flames

Not the end of days, but She see it so sadly

I tell her that I am thankful for Music and sampling

Good food, warm Love, clean air and family

Some cooking in the kitchen, record playin' Charles Bradley

Tellin' me all about these things that I can't see

I can't live on my knees, Naw Woman, I stand free

No one ever walked in my shoes, they don't understand me

And I got fire in the sky tonight so please don't try to tell me

This World, going up in flame

And nobody wanna take the blame

Don't tell Me how to live my Life

When You never felt the pain

She never watches the News, it always make Her sad

She comes home talking like everything in the World is bad

On Her good days, well it's all to the good

But on Her bad days, it's so bad she can't get up out of bed

She talkin' 'bout how parents raising up they little kids

I tell Her to worry 'bout Herself, mind her own busy-ness

It's hard enough to keep up with our own Bills and the Rent

Hard enough to keep our head above, let alone get ahead

Stay up late singin' songs that I shoulda said

Not sure how to tell Her 'cause I think She's understand

I only make Music late, after She done gone to bed

Paint the World in pictures, the World in still images

But the ***** of it is, I still do it for Her

My Love, my pain, my balls, my word and my hurt

Stand quiet in the Temple, I never curse up in Church

Because the ugliness and violence is burnin' up the World

No one seemed concerned, they just doing their own thang

Standing there doin' a little dance in a line like on Soul Train

People lie, politicians steal, dealers move cocaine

And that man's begging for change to try to get a little Coletrain

And it ain't hard to see that the World is going up in flames

Wake up every day to many Wars on many TV screens

No one knows what to say or how to feel the pain

So everyone gets all quiet and looks the other way

Tryin' to call God on a payphone in the cold rain

Not sure what I'm gonna do or what I am gonna say

Half-hoping He don't exist so I don't have to explain

How we done ****ed up the World and it's burnin' down today

This world, going up in flame

And nobody wanna take the blame

Don't tell me how to live my Life

When you never felt the pain

Now you gotta ask yourself how much warmth can one exactly gather

From the world burning down around them

Is it enough warmth to keep your soul open late at night ?

To get you through the evening, to the late times in the morning when it's cold

Can you find deep down in yourself the warmth

You need to keep this World

From burnin' down around Us ?

Child, one time, You be the Water

Well, You staying awake when You out there livin' the dream ?

The good, the bad, the ugly and everything up in-between

And some Woman never in your Life have You seen

Is sayin' her baby got your eyes, Michael Jackson, Billie Jean

And mama said do your best to always be living clean

And don't be runnin' around in them places you really shouldn't be

And life ain't gonn' be no movie or no glossy magazine

And you ain't gonna get nothin' just sitting underneath the apple tree

All around the world, people just wanna join they-selves

It's the people with the money against the ones who's broke as hell

Everyone's losing their homes, it seems that no one cares

They just wanna go for self, everyone just wanna go for their's

And I understand you wanna get your hustle-on

But the world is on fire and there is something that is very wrong

We always wanna limp-along, always thanking God

With everything around us is steadily burning down

Sometimes when you walking down the wrong road

The shadows of yesterday burn up the light of tomorrows

And it's your choice in Life, Diamonds or Rhinestones

But someone probably died from them Diamonds you call ice-cold

So I'm tryin' to take the high road on my ride home

I'm thinkin' 'bout how they gonna remember me when my time comes

So Sweet Lord, when you send me a chariot down low

Let's take the scenic route and We could bend a couple more side roads

Ha ha, You know ?

This World, going up in flame

And nobody wanna take the blame

Don't tell me how to live my Life

When you never felt the pain