Clock With No Hands-The Roots

[ti:Clock With No Hands] [ar:The Roots] [al:Game Theory] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Clock With No Hands - The Roots [00:22.53]Yeah sitting in the staircase [00:24.78]Holding back tears [00:25.89]Looking over mad years worth of photographs [00:28.86]Pictures of some places I ain't never going back [00:31.38]Some people I used to love [00:32.95]Why I ain't show them that [00:34.01]The skies was overcast [00:35.55]When I was sober last [00:37.06]My head is spinning [00:37.69]Couldn't tell you if it's slow or fast [00:39.77]It's starting to get too clear [00:41.30]I got to go and grass [00:42.57]To y'all it's a shame but life is what we know it as [00:45.17]Waiting navigating the plot [00:46.84]Without plans [00:47.71]In the car [00:48.43]It's hard to read as a clock with no hands [00:50.76]How your man's goin' get up and stop with no yams [00:53.05]All it take is one break [00:54.52]It could pop the program [00:55.95]Whether sinning or not [00:57.60]My back bending like I'm sentenced a lot [00:59.62]I feel some brothers is beginning to plot [01:01.56]It might have been a close friend I forgot [01:03.90]Who started up and ain't remember to stop [01:05.85]I bet these niggaz going remember the shop [01:07.56] [01:08.53]People think that I'm crazy [01:10.32] [01:10.93]Just cause I wanna be alone [01:13.06]You can't depend on friends to help you in a squeeze [01:16.20]We all deal with sh*t on our own [01:18.70]And sometimes the beef can grow [01:20.97]Get out of hand [01:22.08]Yeah you know it gets full blown [01:24.28]I never said that you mean the world to me [01:27.34]Maybe it's best that you never know [01:30.28]Yo I'm like Malcom out [01:31.36]The window with the weapon out [01:33.19]Searching for somehow to find a minute or the second now [01:36.03]Precious time is money that I ain't got to mess about [01:38.99]Need it from the horse's mouth [01:40.08]Or from my eye with less account [01:41.80]Lessons with my back to the wall [01:43.30]Scoping my session out [01:44.56]Stay a little edgy at times when [01:46.22]I ain't stressing bout [01:47.29]Haters don't know sh*t about me [01:48.47]They the ones that talk sh*t [01:49.97]Those that love me send it out [01:51.44]So I ain't got to force quit [01:52.87]Cause I'm doing better now [01:53.82]Don't mean I never lost sh*t [01:55.74]I was married to a state of mind and [01:57.40]I divorced it man [01:58.69]I'm from where brothers moving [02:00.04]Product from the porches [02:01.28]People locking their doors [02:02.67]Clutching to their crosses [02:03.73]The block hot by the law [02:05.55]There ain't too many choices [02:06.76]So what I do is for y'all [02:08.15]There ain't too many voices left [02:10.04]I watch my back [02:11.20]And watch my step [02:12.20]And I might forgive [02:13.48]But I will not forget come on [02:15.45] [02:16.20]People think that I'm crazy [02:17.93] [02:18.57]Just cause I wanna be alone [02:20.71]You can't depend on friends to help [02:22.58]You in a squeeze [02:23.90]We all deal with sh*t on our own [02:26.41]And sometimes the beef can grow [02:28.59]Get out of hand [02:29.77]Yeah you know it gets full blown [02:31.93]I never said that you mean the world to me [02:34.94]Maybe it's best that you never know [02:37.76]Yo living in turbulent times [02:39.24]The blind leading the blind [02:40.66]Some call it evolution [02:41.70]Some say intelligent design [02:43.47]You say you want a revolution [02:44.97]You out of your mizind [02:46.46]Your sons' destitute [02:47.40]And their pops all [02:48.28]In the prison [02:49.24]My man's back in the jam [02:50.49]He like the back of my hand [02:51.82]He just attracted to scam [02:53.24]He right back in the can [02:54.75]I never sleepwalking you dig [02:56.52]You get your shuteye [02:57.41]I'm on the first thing in [02:59.04]I'm leaving on the red eye [03:00.33]My brother back in rehab [03:02.04]Just had another relapse [03:03.07]But fin himself [03:03.79]It's been like he's been fighting an energy [03:06.08]Half telling me nobody true [03:07.29]When they pretend to be that [03:08.51]So closer than friends [03:09.72]That's where I keep my enemy at [03:11.61]To many parties concerned [03:13.07]It's time to live it and learn [03:14.65]Until we're able to grow [03:15.91]Forever bridges we burn [03:17.28]My thoughts free as a bird [03:18.89]That's just about to emerge [03:20.16]And every action is heard [03:21.59]It speaks louder than words yo [03:23.17] [03:23.75]People think that I'm crazy [03:25.59] [03:26.18]Just cause I wanna be alone [03:28.30]You can't depend on friends [03:29.88]To help you in a squeeze [03:31.47]We all deal with sh*t on our own [03:33.90]And sometimes the beef can grow [03:36.24]Get out of hand [03:37.31]Yeah you know it gets full blown [03:39.57]I never said that you mean the world to me [03:42.67]Maybe it's best that you never know