作曲 : Brother Ali if i don’t get this in one take imma quit rappin’ the whole song i swear to god i’m supposed to be a professional i ain’t tryin’ to be one of them dudes that make hundreds of new songs and none of them are good some of ‘em are cool but ain’t say nothin’ new runnin’ through a verse just for somethin’ to do i wanna be the cat that put the straw on the back of the camel and send him to the chiroprac i wanna write a line that’s in your head all day songs that make you say you never felt that way like i’m tryin’ to give myself goosebumps ok find the truth inside me and put it on display many dedicated folks listen to me close i open my inner soul and slip it in my clothes some flood the blogs some flood the streets i don’t flood nothin’ i’m watering the seeds i walk away from emcees offerin’ me cheese to author a 16 and drop it on their beat and it’s not like money ain’t somethin’ that i need there’s a business side and i wanna succeed plus i got a wife and a couple kids to feed but if i sell my love then what’s left for me sometimes i don’t write a lot i know some folks call that writer’s block i just call it my process it comes out when it’s ready to i guess i don’t wanna let nobody down so here’s some new shit you tell me how it sounds i ain’t tryin’ to be difficult or no shit it just hurts too bad to try and force it had a week off i flew out to seattle to go and build with jake he can make a break that make the famous do a take i’m hyped imaginin’ the magic that we’ll create i love my family but damn they distract me when i’m at home someone’s always yellin’ daddy need to get away badly and focus but it’s been a couple weeks since i really wrote shit i’m strugglin’ up late hummin’ pace around the hotel the words ain’t comin’ wrote a little somethin’ throw it away **** it have an artist freak out moment and start buggin’ maybe it’s the my fire’s just lost i’m probably a fraud that got lucky before if i let everybody down then what’s it all for lookin’ at seattle from the twenty third floor cracked the window and swung open wide nothin’ between me and the world outside what if i decide to lean forward and fly they say that’s the way donny hathaway died such a beautiful life ended in suicide maybe tryin’ to write was tearin’ him up inside maybe tryin’ to write was tearin’ him up inside i swear that tryin’ to write is tearin’ me up inside i bet that i’d regret it the second that i did it wish that that instant i could continue livin’ i pushed the window closed said man you trippin’ sat down on the bed and wrote this one sometimes i don’t write a lot i know folks out there call that writer’s block i just call it my process it comes out when it’s ready to i guess i don’t wanna let nobody down so here’s some new shit you tell me how it sounds i ain’t tryin’ to be difficult or no shit it just hurts too bad to try and force it
作曲 : Brother Ali if i don’t get this in one take imma quit rappin’ the whole song i swear to god i’m supposed to be a professional i ain’t tryin’ to be one of them dudes that make hundreds of new songs and none of them are good some of ‘em are cool but ain’t say nothin’ new runnin’ through a verse just for somethin’ to do i wanna be the cat that put the straw on the back of the camel and send him to the chiroprac i wanna write a line that’s in your head all day songs that make you say you never felt that way like i’m tryin’ to give myself goosebumps ok find the truth inside me and put it on display many dedicated folks listen to me close i open my inner soul and slip it in my clothes some flood the blogs some flood the streets i don’t flood nothin’ i’m watering the seeds i walk away from emcees offerin’ me cheese to author a 16 and drop it on their beat and it’s not like money ain’t somethin’ that i need there’s a business side and i wanna succeed plus i got a wife and a couple kids to feed but if i sell my love then what’s left for me sometimes i don’t write a lot i know some folks call that writer’s block i just call it my process it comes out when it’s ready to i guess i don’t wanna let nobody down so here’s some new shit you tell me how it sounds i ain’t tryin’ to be difficult or no shit it just hurts too bad to try and force it had a week off i flew out to seattle to go and build with jake he can make a break that make the famous do a take i’m hyped imaginin’ the magic that we’ll create i love my family but damn they distract me when i’m at home someone’s always yellin’ daddy need to get away badly and focus but it’s been a couple weeks since i really wrote shit i’m strugglin’ up late hummin’ pace around the hotel the words ain’t comin’ wrote a little somethin’ throw it away **** it have an artist freak out moment and start buggin’ maybe it’s the my fire’s just lost i’m probably a fraud that got lucky before if i let everybody down then what’s it all for lookin’ at seattle from the twenty third floor cracked the window and swung open wide nothin’ between me and the world outside what if i decide to lean forward and fly they say that’s the way donny hathaway died such a beautiful life ended in suicide maybe tryin’ to write was tearin’ him up inside maybe tryin’ to write was tearin’ him up inside i swear that tryin’ to write is tearin’ me up inside i bet that i’d regret it the second that i did it wish that that instant i could continue livin’ i pushed the window closed said man you trippin’ sat down on the bed and wrote this one sometimes i don’t write a lot i know folks out there call that writer’s block i just call it my process it comes out when it’s ready to i guess i don’t wanna let nobody down so here’s some new shit you tell me how it sounds i ain’t tryin’ to be difficult or no shit it just hurts too bad to try and force it
