Bread And Butter(Album Version|Explicit) - The Roots

Truck North
Yeah
Through the sirens the lights is blindin'
Battlecry sound off warriors dyin'
Last call at the bar with the snakes and tyrants
Hands up That's a massacre the cops kept firin'
Run amok keep y'all eternally cryin'
And fed up
Place red stains on global giants
The brain of Orson Welles
Stuck in a masterpiece Citizen Kane's personal hell
It's dark and it's hot where them hustlers dwell
And the air bears a stench of a corpse's smell
Homie down on his luck one foot in a jail
And he down to his last with a quarter to sell
This right here world premiere of the last days
The final paragraphs to the book's last page
You can feel it comin' no runnin' away
Let's get free or let's get paid
Same s**t different day
The cornerstone to where I lay
Is shattered glass and crack bags where they play
And scattered a*s is passed in ridiculous ways
These cats chef like they Isaac Hayes
Parallel to the grave
Stuck in the game with no rules
And we're screaming for some water and some edible food
Man I'm right there rabbit ears nothin' to lose
This is what you ain't learnin' in school
I'm tryin' to tell ya it's hard
A loaf a bread milk and eggs stick of butter man
Somebody mother lies dead in the gutter
Sherrif down by them kids talkin' that gutter
Tell them kids Don't look under those covers man
Loaf a bread milk and eggs stick of butter man
Somebody mother lies dead in the gutter
Sherrif down by them kids talkin' that gutter
Tell them kids Don't look under those covers man
Black Thought
Check it out
A child is born his mother is gone
He in the middle of it literally tusslin' strong
For his life
The tide high in the eye of the storm
A mannish boy arrive and the riot is on
With no time to try to respond or prepare
'Times it's hard not becomin' a headline
Or prayin' in the night when it's bedtime
Or layin' ya head down
'Cause you already know what it is now
You know a lot of leaders ain't honest
And they can't keep a promise
And I hate to speak about it
But it's all freakanomics
Cramped and proud of it you amped and you rowdy
Treadin' water tryin' lift up your head without drownin'
This type of s**t can make ya heart stop poundin'
But you pushin' for the top too scared to stop
Now it get's deep bodies are floatin' around in the streets
Lotta people who won't even be around in a week
Man get the operation gone
What y'all waitin' on
We been patient y'all mu'f**kas takin' long
The television gettin' all the information wrong
Doin' how they do it gettin' they miseducation on
They already late
Somebody been was supposed to regulate
Instead of wait before they let the levee break
You try runnin from the truth but it's givin' chase
Got to ask myself yo
Is any n***a safe
A loaf a bread milk and eggs stick of butter man
Somebody mother lies dead in the gutter
Sherrif down by them kids talkin' that gutter
Tell them kids Don't look under those covers man
Loaf a bread milk and eggs stick of butter man
Somebody mother lies dead in the gutter
Sherrif down by them kids talkin' that gutter
Tell them kids Don't look under those covers man
A loaf a bread milk and eggs stick of butter man
Somebody mother lies dead in the gutter
Sherrif down by them kids talkin' that gutter
Tell them kids Don't look under those covers man