Now or Never-The Roots

[ti:Now or Never] [ar:The Roots] [al:How I Got Over] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Now or Never - The Roots [00:24.19]Everything's changing around me and I wanna change too [00:29.37]It's one thing I know it ain't cool being no fool [00:34.36]I feel different today I don't know what else to say [00:39.54]But I'ma get my sh*t together it's now or never [00:45.53]Now or never now or never [00:46.97]Now or never now or never [00:48.79]Uh I'm sick sick of waiting in vain tired of playing the game [00:52.04]Thinking of making a change finally breaking the chains [00:54.22]Every phase every happening craze [00:55.66]When it's said and done my head is right back in the haze [00:59.15]I'm ready for the next chapter and page to start acting my age [01:02.21]And part ways with Black Thought from back in the days [01:05.14]I'm stargazing from the back of the stage [01:07.14]Questioning if who y'all praise is worthy of praise [01:09.57]What's the phrase Bygones is bygones [01:11.38]Niggaz who used to be the underdog is icons [01:13.75]People say the light shines once in a lifetime [01:16.44]Is this meant like kind or crisis a little bit like mine [01:19.74]I'm thinking not now but right now [01:21.68]I need some kind of sign that the future is bright now [01:24.67]I f**k around Do The Right Thing like Spike now [01:27.10]The quick and the dead which one is my lookalike now [01:29.81]I'm moving ahead [01:31.00] [01:37.29]Everything's changing around me and I wanna change too [01:41.66]It's one thing I know it ain't cool being no fool [01:47.16]I feel different today I don't know what else to say [01:51.83]But I'ma get my sh*t together it's now or never [01:56.72]Now or never now or never [01:58.48]Now or never now or never [02:01.10]Yo opportunities lost because I blew em [02:03.85]On the sunniest days of my life I cried through em [02:06.53]Moms is out the picture and Pops I barely knew him [02:09.10]And I would pray to God but I'm tired of lying to Him [02:11.85]Tired of trying to run from the things inside of us [02:14.34]Got a lot of fam and a lot of admirers [02:16.90]Who tell me that I should aspire to change [02:19.21]But when I think of changing [02:20.77]It's like why even try this sh*t [02:23.08]My mind hazy and my thoughts they get distorted [02:24.83]I know my good and bad deeds both get recorded [02:28.34]You do right so your soul can last [02:30.71]But my role was cast before I even auditioned for it [02:33.27]So I don't really see an end to my vice [02:35.39]It's just false reformation no end to my strife [02:37.39]Feel the evil overpowering [02:38.88]You can go head throw the towel in [02:41.26]Cause ni**a that's the end of the fight [02:43.31]When you can only see the tunnel at the end of the lights [02:45.81]Like South party over it's the end of your life [02:48.25]And I'm out [02:49.31]Everything's changing around me and I wanna change too [02:53.06] [02:53.94]It's one thing I know it ain't cool being no fool [02:58.07] [02:59.07]I feel different today I don't know what else to say [03:04.25]But I'ma get my sh*t together it's now or never [03:08.75]Now or never now or never [03:10.86]Now or never now or never [03:13.30]When I look into the mirror and see my own image [03:16.05]It feel like there's something else far off in the distance [03:18.60]Something I wanna see but something that's resistant [03:21.10]And everyday the heart it in is growing more persistent [03:23.67]I never noticed it before but now I can't miss it [03:26.36]And the constant pounding's driving me ballistic [03:28.93]I ran from it few years but it's still next to me [03:31.86]And it's growing stronger taking leaving less of me [03:34.55]I can't fight it now I know it's just destiny [03:36.98]And I just wonder what's gonna happen when it catches me [03:39.73]Will it leave me face down in a chest of pee [03:42.47]Or will it just start bringing out the best of me [03:44.90]But is the best of me really just the worst of me [03:47.53]And if so yesterday could be my anniversary [03:49.90]In sinners court it's important to have church with me [03:52.65]I'm trying to get rid of these ghosts that's cursing me [03:55.27]I feel a change is an absolute certainty [03:57.45]Cause what's going on is a state of emergency [04:01.88](State of emergency) [04:02.57]Everything's changing around me and I wanna change too [04:06.25]It's one thing I know it ain't cool being no fool [04:11.05]I feel different today I don't know what else to say [04:16.55]But I'ma get my sh*t together it's now or never [04:22.58] [04:24.26]It's now or never