Even the sun goes down, heroes eventually die
Horoscopes often lie
And sometimes, "Y"
Nothing is for sure, nothing is for certain
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Every line is a lyric, and wisdom leads on 9 of the 20, followed by life on 6 and hustle on 5. The songs run wide: Aquemini, Ms. Jackson, Rosa Parks, B.O.B., Da Art of Storytellin (Part 1) and SpottieOttieDopaliscious. The page's theme is impermanence set against hope. Aquemini says the sun goes down and heroes die; Ms. Jackson says you can plan a pretty picnic but "can't predict the weather", and plays with the word forever. Hope and doubt arrive in the same bar.
I came into this world high as a bird
From secondhand cocaine powder—I know it sounds absurd
I never tooted, but it's in my veins
We on our back, starin' at the stars above (Aww, man)
Talkin' bout what we gonna be when we grow up (Mm)
I said, "What you wanna be?" She said, "Alive"
I live by the beat like you live check-to-check
If it don't move your feet, then I don't eat
Hope that we feel this, feel this way forever
You can plan a pretty picnic but you can't predict the weather
On the oak tree, I hope we feel like this forever
Forever, forever ever? Forever ever?
Forever never seems that long until you're grown
My soliloquy may be hard for some to swallow
But so is cod liver oil
I met a critic, I made her shit her draws
She said she thought Hip-Hop was only guns and alcohol
I said "Oh hell naw! But yet, it's that too
You can't discrima-hate 'cause you done read a book or two
Bill Gates don't dangle diamonds in the face
Of peasants when he Microsoft'ing the place
Said, "Baby boy, you only funky as your last cut
You focus on the past, your ass'll be a has-what"
Teddy Pendergrass, cooler than Freddie Jackson sipping a milkshake in a snowstorm
Nothing lasts forever, but until they close the curtain
It's him and I – Aquemini
So now we sittin' in a drop-top, soakin' wet
In a silk suit, tryin' not to sweat
Hit somersaults without the net
But this'll be the year that we won't forget
Don't pull the thang out, unless you plan to bang
I pledge allegiance to the streets, that's where I growed up
And made more money 'cause my daddy never showed up
I started off starvin', now they got me out here Brett Favre'n
Tryna see if I still got it, got it
Stickin' together like flour and water, to make that slow dough
We worked for everything we have and gon' stick up for
Each other, like we brothers from another mother
Kind of like Mel Gibson and Danny Glover
Shit, cops and robbers, niggas be bound to get them dollars and cents
They get in a slump, like baseball players, when they short on they rent
The way she moved reminded me of a brown stallion horse with skates on
You know? Smooth, like a hot comb on nappy-ass hair
And the whole world loves it when you sing the blues
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