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It's really real, when I feel the way
That I do right now
I see all my brothers underground
Pushing up daisies, man, it amazes
Me
That you can't see where you gonna
Be
A statistic, everybody's gon' call
Ballistic
If you had a good day, damn, I must
Have missed it
Cause you mad at the Universe,
Going to hell with everybody else
Cause you want your own first
I got the urge to let you in on a little
Secret
Cause you keep dying if I keep it
All the keeling that you're feeling is
From within
For the copper check the color of
Your skin
Why lie? I couldn't try even if I had to
Born with the bullet-proof vest when
I had you
A black woman trying to get through
To the few
So you can leave the next crew
5 o'clock in the morning. Where you
Gonna be?
(Outside on the corner)
You better get yourself together
While you're wasting all your time
Right along with your mind
5 o'clock in the morning. Where you
Gonna be?
(Outside on the corner)
You better get yourself together
While you're wasting all your time
Right along with your mind
Why should I do right and suffer
I rather do wrong making that loopy
And that hustler
Instead of hot-dogs I'm eating porks
Up in their smother
And got a gang of loot up in the safe
Up in my covers
On top of all that I push big fat Lex
And got my hoes that in golf course
Just in case I feel like flexing
So I must ask, for real though, who
Are you
See, I'm a big man
Yeah, you know you'se a big man,
Check it
I went for twelve years to school and
Never could read
A knowledge of my hood is
Something they can never teach me
I never started to step but I kept up
With the Joneses
Having rollers... my little pinky ring
I did a lot of kinky thing the girls
Knew it, flock into it
I'm around my old way, yeah, they
Still wants to do it
Its not about the clothes that you got
On your back
But the money in your pocket and if
You're down like that
Come on
5 o'clock in the morning. Where you
Gonna be?
(Outside on the corner)
You better get yourself together
While you're wasting all your time
Right along with your mind
5 o'clock in the morning. Where you
Gonna be?
(Outside on the corner)
You better get yourself together
While you're wasting all your time
Right along with your mind
Wella, Mr. Black Man tell me where
You're heading
The last few years I watched while
You were sheading
Pounds and pounds on growth for
The population
Soon we won't be able to have a
Strong black nation
A shooting here, a stabbing there
Nowhere to stop
Cause now you're dying from the
Dose of the crack rock
I'm just a Nubian Queen that needs a
King to stand strong
And try to press on
It's not a white man's finger on the
Trigger
Car-jacks, drive-by's, callin' each
Other "nigga"
I'm not here to scold but rather
Shape n' mold
That young black mind that won't live
To grow old
Cause you're fronting smoking on the
Blunt and
Down with your friends cause you
Think you're making ends,
But you're not - and that's the truth
Of the matter
Your brother gettin' skinny, cause
You want your pockets fatter
5 o'clock in the morning. Where you
Gonna be?
(Outside on the corner)
You better get yourself together
While you're wasting all your time
Right along with your mind
5 o'clock in the morning. Where you
Gonna be?
(Outside on the corner)
You better get yourself together
While you're wasting all your time
Right along with your mind
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