Novakane

[Intro] They say what is, is what was But what was could never be Ain't nothing new under the sun Y'all ain't doing nothing but some shit I already did Let me tell you where you're going Yo [Verse 1: Dres] Said I'm not gonna say "you", y'all I'm gonna say "we" Sometimes I sit and think about it Yo, how numb could we be How could it go so far, how'd it get so funky That we could walk a mile in the footsteps of a porch monkey That we could break a barrier without one key Then turn around and try to imitate a mob flunky We're not together, y'all And most of us have forgotten Those at the top don't want nothing to do with those at the bottom And that's bad when you put a pricetag on sad Had aspirations of a kingdom but the plans gone bad And every man's gone mad I'm feelin so defeated Wasted so much time chasing what I never needed 'Til I heard it echo, "Let go" "You'll be richer when you stop chasing crumbs cause the cake's the bigger picture" Got too many pennies in our hands to hold the dollars Got too many problems in the world to kill the scholars [Hook] Said I'm so numb I really couldn't care in the end That I'm so dumb I plied against myself never depended On no one Sometimes I need to pray I find way but I'm So numb, and I'm so dumb And I'm so lost I never thought to put it on a scale What my soul cost The crime, I got no money for my bail Suffered no cause Sometimes I need to pray I find way but I'm So numb, and I'm so dumb [Verse 2: Dres] Sometimes I'm sitting at the window And the world that I see Makes me ask myself the question "Yo, how numb can we be?" We're all descendants of the people That they chose, made slaves Nowadays, they pay my people money not to make waves Now that's a house nigga So glad we're not in the field We're glorified instead trying to destroy and rebuild How many hopes have we killed by doing nothing at all Or planting seeds to succeed by either drugs or basketball Or worse, that a rapper laying your life on the top I listen to the radio and yo, that ain't hip hop So numb to make it big is the way that I chose So I could rip off all the children for my sneakers and clothes I thought we'd lower the prices not give companies the license To divide and conquer us with the modern day devices We take what's priceless with hope for personal wealth Turn a life into a struggle for life itself (can you feel me?) [Hook] Said I'm so numb I really couldn't care in the end That I'm so dumb I plied against myself never depended On no one Sometimes I need to pray I find way but I'm So numb, and I'm so dumb And I'm so lost I never thought to put it on a scale What my soul cost The crime, I got no money for my bail Suffered no cause Sometimes I need to pray I find way but I'm So numb, and I'm so dumb [Verse 3: Dres] Said it's so hard I wonder if the world can feel my pain We've been so scarred We close our eyes and breathe the novacaine I get so numb, and wonder where this road is taking me Has the world mistaken me, and has God forsaken me? Said it's deep down It's out of me, I know we can prevail This sweet sound[?], though most I mind wind up dead or in jail Cause we don't do what we could Cause we can't do what we should We been hoodwinked, I guess that's why we repping the hood Although we don't rep us, it lets us die without a care in the hood Your only thought is to get the fuck outta there And show your children a change, sometimes you give it your all To lose your way the day you say that, "I'll be better than y'all" 'Til we're numb of all the power we possess, unified Eyes closed, like the problems of the world blew inside 'Til we're numb from all the ice pushing a newer ride And the artery we cut, we die, suicide [Hook] Said I'm so numb I really couldn't care in the end That I'm so dumb I plied against myself never depended On no one Sometimes I need to pray I find way but I'm So numb, and I'm so dumb And I'm so lost I never thought to put it on a scale What my soul cost The crime, I got no money for my bail Suffered no cause Sometimes I need to pray I find way but I'm So numb, and I'm so dumbSaid I'm so numb I really couldn't care in the end That I'm so dumb I plied against myself never depended On no one Sometimes I need to pray I find way but I'm So numb, and I'm so dumb And I'm so lost I never thought to put it on a scale What my soul cost The crime, I got no money for my bail Suffered no cause Sometimes I need to pray I find way but I'm So numb, and I'm so dumb