The Other Side Of Town-Masta Ace

[ti:The Other Side Of Town] [ar:Masta Ace] [al:Take A Look Around] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Other Side Of Town - Masta Ace [00:04.51]Excuse me ladies and gentlemen sorry to bother you today my name is [00:10.12]Joe and um I'm not on crack I don't do drugs I'm just trying to get [00:15.98]Something to eat if you can give just a penny a nickel a dime a [00:21.21]Quarter anything will be greatly appreciated thank you for your time [00:25.92]And have a nice day [00:30.10] [00:39.89]How do you do [00:41.14]I'm from the other side of town [00:42.58]The place where the only skin you see is the color brown [00:44.95]The sun never shines in this place where I live [00:47.13]And it's hard to do right when you feel negative [00:49.32] [00:50.13]I have no compassion [00:51.31]I only know agression [00:52.50]And there is nothing great about this opression [00:54.25] [00:55.10]People I see on tv in there towns live the good life [00:58.50]But I live out of bounds [01:00.00]Where nobody comes unless they're forced to come [01:02.25]In school they call me the bum from the slum [01:04.46]But they don't know [01:05.40]My sista has no food to eat [01:07.17]And her hand-me-down shoes are too tight for her feet [01:09.73]The way I see things life isn't fair [01:11.48] [01:12.11]So I never learned how to share or to care [01:14.35]But to hope - and hope [01:15.91]Instead of feeling down [01:16.97]And that's how it is [01:18.77]On the other side of town [01:21.52] [01:28.26]I live on the other side of town [01:31.06] [01:58.68]Pardon me brotha [01:59.42] [02:00.22]As you stand in your glory [02:01.64]I hope you don't mind as I tell the whole story [02:04.20]Some people livin life like fun in the sun [02:06.20]But yo others are givin strife and that's all they know [02:08.76]I feel no comfort in talks from the president [02:11.44]So put back on cosby [02:12.63]A shack is my resident [02:13.87]I think if I ever die it might be a blessin [02:16.31]Some say I never try but why are they stressin [02:18.87]I'll never get ahead; my raps have a better chance [02:21.30]I'm livin on wonder bread with holes in my leather pants [02:23.86]I'm not on the drug scene; they call me a crack head [02:26.35]I just had a bugged dream that I was a black man [02:28.85]Workin in the hospital [02:30.01]Then in came in a half-dead rich b**ch [02:32.44]Yo they must be insane [02:33.63]You think I would save her [02:34.94]Yo she wouldn't save me [02:36.06]I asked for a quater once and guess what she gave me [02:38.87]A f**kin penny [02:39.75]A quarter costs half a mill [02:41.24]If it's up to me yo she's pushin up dafodils [02:43.76]In a casket [02:44.91]Payback's a female dog [02:46.28] [02:46.82]Yo send her a** to the morgue [02:48.63]Then I woke up and I sat with a frown [02:51.01]Damn I woke up [02:52.50]But on the other side of town [02:53.74] [02:57.82]The other side of town [03:02.44] [03:18.13]My teacher's a fat man [03:19.19]Yo how can they tempt me so [03:20.70]F**k geometry my stomach is empty yo [03:23.07]Can't you teach me to win this crazy game [03:25.56]You and I are in so many ways the same [03:28.18]People tell me but I don't believe that sh*t [03:30.78]Why do you sell me a dream then leave me spit [03:33.21]The truth is bare and so is my cupboards too [03:35.58]I wonder what could even l ron hubbard do [03:37.95]Because my mind right now is on the brink of breakin [03:41.45]Yo look how I think [03:43.05]I think I'll stick up the store with the arab guy [03:45.30]I'm sick of him anyway; his prices are too high [03:47.67]Or maybe I'll start sellin avon door-to-door [03:49.30] [03:50.17]Then pull a jammy and make a bigger score [03:52.67]Nah maybe I'll start sellin d**e for my cous [03:55.22]Then I could drive the same car he does [03:57.53]The life of a poor man [03:58.91]Consider me desperate [03:59.96]I sleep in a cold room [04:01.33]And wish I could just get [04:02.64]A piece of the pie [04:03.70]Is that asking too much [04:04.78]I can't even reach what others have in their clutch [04:07.34]I wish I could go on but I have to end this [04:09.96]And get back to livin a life that is winless [04:12.39]There's no use swimmin so I might as well drown [04:14.83]In my sorrows [04:15.83]Cause tomorrow's the other side of town [04:18.82] [04:26.68]The other side of town [04:27.73] [04:36.71]The other side of town