Work Everyday-Brother Ali

[ti:Work Everyday] [ar:Brother Ali] [al:Mourning In America And Dreami] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Work Everyday - Brother Ali [00:02.69]Damn man [00:03.51] [00:05.88]I'm broker than an old VCR man [00:07.75] [00:09.37]I need a job [00:10.48]Are they hiring at your job [00:11.66] [00:12.88]I got a stack of red bills at my house [00:15.06]It looks like Valentine's Day at the crib [00:16.81] [00:19.80]My kids are eating left-over leftovers man [00:21.98]I can't fool them no more [00:23.21]It's job time [00:23.81]Every day every day [00:24.75]Got to work every day [00:25.81]Every day every day [00:28.24]Got to work every day [00:30.88]My God there's got to be more to life than this [00:33.87]There's got to be a bigger reason that I exist [00:36.43]Work to eat to earn my keep [00:38.61]To ensure somewhere to sleep and spend the weekend buying sh*t [00:41.49]Don't need economists to know I need pot to piss [00:44.11]Follow politics man I ain't got time to think [00:46.66]What I got to set aside for my retirement [00:48.98]Cop a double shift pay somebody to watch the kids [00:51.78]Sick of all this but can't take an off day [00:54.28]Doctor's office I can't swing the co pay [00:56.78]Trapped in a network luck just to get work [00:59.40]They celebrate every week nobody gets hurt [01:01.95]Greed could never leave well enough alone [01:04.27]They keep on squeezing till we bleed from every bone [01:07.01]And we'll strive hard and stress about the rent [01:09.38]Probably still die poor and in debt without a cent but [01:12.38]I guess I'll carry my a** down to the county and see what they're talking about But [01:16.79]You know they treat you like you shot somebody just because you need a little help [01:20.36] [01:20.98]You're telling my you ain't never been down on your luck [01:24.22]Never tried to make them ends meet but just got stuck [01:26.60]Never slaved at a gig like a bum with a cup [01:29.15]Added all your pennies up and you still ain't had enough [01:31.40]And the jobs full up they ain't hiring [01:34.40]I'm barely surviving not enough to get by with [01:37.08]Hunger is a constant problem stomach steady growling [01:40.14]People getting shot in my environment [01:42.32]Study go to college is what them people hollering [01:44.82]Too many road blocks in the way it's not an option [01:47.31]To say that it's impossible I would be lying [01:49.75]But you ain't got a chance if you're not up in that top ten [01:52.68]A couple got a scholarship but I am not them [01:54.99]Ain't got the skills to pay the bills so my pockets are thin [01:57.72]So until I cop a gig and my hardship ends [02:00.53]Fixing to line my self up at your welfare office again [02:03.16]And I expect to be accepted as the man that I am [02:05.91]Respectfully and appreciatively Ma'am [02:08.46]God damn you must be out of your mind [02:12.65] [02:13.71]Every day every day [02:16.08]Got to work every day [02:18.66]Every day every day [02:21.21]Got to work every day [02:23.91]People stressing here's the question [02:26.53]How they get people drinking tea in a recession [02:29.21]It's deception how absurd is this [02:32.02]How are so many poor people conservative [02:34.45]A pro artist I put it in the good music [02:37.26]A con artist job's to make you look stupid [02:39.82]Lookie here I'll teach you how to look trough it [02:42.07]First thing you need to know every con got a hook to it [02:44.94]They seduce you with a little wealth [02:46.87]Say you could have some of these crumbs for yourself [02:49.43]If the government doesn't make us help anyone else [02:51.93]You stuck a red sign on your foreclosed house [02:54.92]Make you think you're taking back your nation [02:57.36]Then they turn it over to a major corporation [02:59.91]Those companies took the jobs overseas [03:02.35]And you handed them the wallet out your pocket for free [03:04.97]You're staring in the sky with dollar signs for eyes [03:07.52]The blind right wing of a bird that can't fly [03:10.08]Just a peacock with a poked out gut [03:12.64]Who's too fat to fly so his a** just strut but [03:15.70]Every day every day [03:17.76]Got to work every day [03:20.26]Every day every day [03:22.81]Got to work every day [03:25.19]They're so criminal minded we've been blinded [03:28.27]Looking for an honest job and can't find it [03:30.76]They got a job bill we got a light bill [03:33.38]If we don't pay ours our life is quite real [03:36.25]Every day every day [03:38.25]Got to work every day [03:40.75]Every day every day [03:43.37]Got to work every day