This Ain't Living-G. Love & Special Sauce

[ti:This Ain't Living] [ar:G. Love & Special Sauce] [al:G. Love And Special Sauce] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]This Ain't Living (这不是生活) - G. Love & Special Sauce (基爱 & 加料乐团) [00:45.22]This town's so hype it's got soul [00:47.52]As a philly cat [00:49.09]I'm with the roll [00:50.40]And the swing of my things [00:52.15]How they work like clockwork [00:53.71]Tick tock tick tock [00:55.59]Times always lurking in your head [00:57.52]Got to go to work and get fed [00:59.34]That man didn't eat but he goes to sleep [01:02.15]Gets up at dawn not to see the sunrise [01:04.96]But because it's too damn cold outside [01:07.65]Underneath the bridge they pump the city's bilge [01:10.65]Into the alley they sweep the city's filth [01:13.53]The flowers wilt the flowers wilt [01:16.53]Don't tell me about no game [01:18.56]Cause that is a man [01:19.74]And his family [01:20.62]Revolution family [01:22.18]Look at the family [01:23.49]Dig the family [01:25.18]They're living the wrong way [01:26.62]Can't get nothing [01:28.06]Don't get nothing all they wanted was [01:30.06]Something like a job - mercy mercy [01:32.68]But it's been robbed - mercy mercy [01:35.56]And there's so many street side [01:37.82]Beggars and disabled veterans [01:39.70]Glass-eyed and peddling [01:41.45]Drunk and just meddling [01:43.08]So you conclude it's their fault [01:44.34]They like the street they must like the asphalt [01:47.05]But that is man woman and children [01:49.50]The system has stalled shelter's home [01:51.87]That's not what I call it [01:53.37]I call it bad health [01:54.75]Some say help themselves [01:56.00]Yo if you you gots it [01:58.10]Every hundred people that's a dollar in change [02:04.10]Every hundred people that's a dollar in change [02:09.16]This ain't living [02:12.09]This ain't living [02:14.22] [02:47.88]Oh no [02:48.69]You know it's rough, had enough of holding a [02:50.63]Cup full of spare change [02:51.50]The doctor diagnosed me as a [02:52.69]Dome full of bad brains [02:53.82]So, toe to toe with employers [02:55.90]Cause they're telling me no [02:57.35]Hooked on prescription drugs [02:58.62]So I stay broke, I'd run away [03:00.87]But you can't run away from [03:02.24]Yourself or your health so [03:03.94]I deal with the cards that I'm dealt [03:05.96]Tweet-a-leet-leet [03:06.33]The morning bird sounding sweet [03:08.52]Though I sleep on the streets [03:10.02]I have a feeling I'm free [03:11.52]From society's hand picked hypocrisy [03:14.52]Mercy mercy, don't give a damn for me [03:17.33]Mercy mercy, now what am I going to eat [03:20.52]Peek through the windows of the restaurant [03:22.34]People eating caviar fifty bucks on lunch [03:24.90]A hand-me-down meal [03:26.27]Full of God knows what [03:27.46]Put it away in my gut [03:29.21]Quick and then I wonder [03:30.90]Why I'm sick, brick for brick [03:32.52]I know the city like my hand print [03:34.16]Just a pit in the gutter [03:36.04]Of a skid-row ditch [03:37.43]But I'll survive the pain [03:38.80]Lets me know I'm alive [03:40.69]But I still feel that [03:44.07]This ain't living [04:34.38]Check my beat dig my rhythm [04:37.06]Me belly full but me hungry so me fill it [04:39.75]Once I start gaining taxes start taking [04:42.88]Cause the governments perfected funk faking [04:45.44]Breaking me down striking me down [04:48.19]What goes around comes around but [04:50.13]I keep rising seeing through the lies and [04:52.94]The surprise comes when I see myself [04:55.27]The music I felt [04:56.71]I'm on [04:57.54]This ain't living [04:59.72]This ain't living [05:02.78]Oh no This ain't living This ain't living Oh no