Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Work in Progress, artist - Nappy Roots. Album song Wooden Leather, in the genre Рэп и хип-хоп
Date of issue: 20.08.2003
Age restrictions: 18+
Record label: Atlantic
Song language: English
Work in Progress |
Intro, spoken: |
Wise words being spoke |
Huh |
Y’all know what it is |
Nap-Nappy Roots. |
Can I start this one off? |
Ok |
Each day I listen what the streets say |
Like a DJ my negroes scratch ghetto recordings, for my peoples |
Got the eyes of an eagle, can’t see us ever being at peace for a reason |
Cause we ain’t never being equal |
And got us believing we heathens, uncivil soldiers of evil |
Reach up and assume the position, you know the procedure |
Can’t even leisure smoke hollow reefer |
With out police and search and seizure by the same police who murdered Ceaser |
It’s brutal |
Seeing them treat us like lower creatures than human beings |
More so like aliens |
Touring the land of Europeans |
Seeming to have the tendency to think we ignorant |
Cause of our pigment, can’t take away a nigga’s dignity though |
Still I pimp the industry hoe |
And even when I’m rich I’m a pretend to be poor |
My life’s a work in progress, soon to be end of the road |
But I don’t stress cause I have been her before, you know |
My life’s a work in progress |
(and even though I’m rich I’m gonna pretend to be poor) |
My life’s a work in progress |
(but I don’t stress cause I have been here before) |
My life’s a work in progress |
(and even though I’m rich I’m gonna pretend to be poor) |
My life’s a work in progress |
(but I don’t stress cause I have been here before) |
In life |
Every step you take |
Every right every left you make |
You can look at it like chess in a way |
Cause life is best when you take your time |
Don’t make a move, unless you done made up your mind |
Play by the rules, don’t ever play the fool |
Sometimes you play and lose but you still pay your dues |
Come on |
Everybody knows the cost to be the boss |
Yea the price is kind of steep but sacrifice is never cheap |
I learned that life can be sweet and bitter at the same time |
It’s the Ying verse the Yang, sorta like rain without shine |
Sometimes against the grain you grind gotta grit your teeth and bear it |
Matthew 5, verse 5 «The earth the meek shall inherit» |
Cherish the day before you perish away |
Cause who can say how many days your power last? |
It’s like a crack in your hourglass |
In a flash, the hours pass |
Then you’re gone |
Long life living (?) will bring you close you dying |
The more laughs one had will bring you close to crying |
Cold unforgiving planet, yea it is |
Racists, communicating those who wrong did |
I daydream back to the 80's when we was all kids |
A stab wound kidnapping (?) experience |
Though at the time not a Glock would blow in da wind |
It’s a good day in the hood to witness a stabbing |
Now stories told to us, without tragedy |
Seem like it involve bloodshed automatically |
If you ever get a chance, just stop and use your mind |
Observe the world for yourself and just check your time |
Yeah, Oh, Yeah, that’s right |
(Scratched: my life’s a work in progress) |
Smoke something with your country people |
Drank something with your country people |
(Scratched: my life’s a work in progress) |
Thinking back in Junior high when sex was the shit |
Fein pussy now a day can get you killed quick |
'Bout shootin ball in now they 'bout getting licks |
I’m playin Nappy Roots just to hear the realest shit |
Expect it to the best of my know how and my rapping wit |
See next to nothing sugar coated in these cold streets |
Whatever you do, be smart, tote your heat |
Did I mention if you don’t work you don’t eat |
If you ever get a chance stop and use your mind |
Observe the world for yourself and check the time |
Yea, Smoke something with your country people |