Like Really - Oddisee

[00:16.18]Why you want to catch my eye, when you already know that I'm taken (nah like really)
[00:20.18]How you past due on payments, and I'm seeing you on vacation (nah like really)
[00:24.18]How you gonna make us great, when we were never really that amazing (nah like really)
[00:28.61]Take it back to what, I don't find hanging black lives entertaining (nah like really)
[00:32.66]How do you police the streets of a neighborhood you do not engage in (nah like really)
[00:36.60]Why a brother get three for a sack while your brother go free for a raping (nah like really)
[00:40.53]How you make a film about Egypt with all leading roles caucasian (nah like really)
[00:43.79]How you saying all lives matter when the stats say we are not adjacent (nah like really)
[00:48.46]Tell me if I got it all wrong, like I signed on the line but I didn't read the form
[00:52.02]And the fine print is all about the times we mourn, and the color of my skin means I gotta be strong
[00:55.96]And your hand me down faith said if I was reborn, when I take my last breath that you'll let me breathe on
[00:59.90]And as of right now we could never be pals, so how are we supposed to get along (nah like really)
[01:04.44]This now more than ever though, all about force and measure though (nah like really)
[01:08.34]Why am I forced to let it go, and clean your messes though (nah like really)
[01:12.31]You take jobs to Mexico, pay us less and lesser though (nah like really)
[01:21.91]Really (repeated)
[01:36.52]I be on the grind all day, I don't pay mind to the date (nah like really)
[01:40.24]Missed call vibrate, I find most times it could wait (nah like really)
[01:44.26]I don't talk blue in the face, just to make movement in place (nah like really)
[01:48.23]Out of breath watching other man steps and you wonder why you’re losing the race (nah like really)
[01:52.21]I was sleeping on floors, making bread instead of bed on tour man (nah like really)
[01:56.17]If you ain't never cry about a loss, don't speak about the situation you’re in (nah like really)
[01:59.55]I ain't got a big deal but I'm still a big deal and I feel important (nah like really)
[02:04.31]Yeah you got a big deal running on a big wheel I ain't with extorting (nah like)
[02:08.34]Yeah I'm independent and I'm making hella noise, and I'll never let a woman make a Helen out of Troy
[02:11.66]Got no suckers in the circle that pretend to be boys, I don't lend them an extension I just send them decoys
[02:15.84]Chilling in the cut is when I'm really feeling voids, 'cause the movements getting muted and it really needs a voice
[02:19.54]We're just picking between the evils of the lethals and the liars
[02:21.70]People tired and they really need a voice (nah like really)
[02:24.12]This now more than ever though, all about force and measure though (nah like really)
[02:28.04]This that calm collected flow, done right, wrong correctional (nah like really)
[02:31.96]Enough about peace and blessings bro I want that deeper message though (nah like really)
[02:35.99]If you on top that surface, drop that lesson though, preach (nah like really)
[02:41.29]Really (repeated)