Oddisee - Requiem lyrics

rate me

Feat. Phonte

Got my hands in the air

But this is not a concert

It’s a sign of despair

No, I’m not a monster

I’m just out of my head

It’s like the jungle sometimes

Make me wonder how I keep from going under

With the lions, and tigers and bears

Enough to make a sidewalk break out in your tears

It is not the answer

They think we all crazy

Just unruly niggas and tar babies

But what if these fuck-ass Officer Barbradys

Was killin' you all babies?

And the cost of your life was less than a dog's maybe

You probably called some of your boys and had an itch

To go to hunting for something

Pop out the bitch

Go ahead and drop it

Nothing you can do will stop it

Please don’t knock it cause my pocket is still empty bitch

Anything from candy to cigarettes can get a nigga killed

But I’ll be honest an

I’m running out of shit to feel

I ain’t trying to tell my pears

But I got the blues

And I watch the news

Like nigga what the fuck am I supposed to tell my kids?

So fuck the city ordnance

This is for the flourishes

We’ve seen kids shooting

Bring the chords in

I just got to find a better way

I just got to find a better way

I just got to find a better way

I just got to find a better way

I just got to find a better way

Religious like the gang

I guess you adjust me by the way I adjust my name

And it’s a sexy thing

You think I’m on the way to this playing vessel

Since 9-11 I’ve been detained to that plane

No officer I ain’t changing yet

My father came on 1966

About to get a job

See?

Just a piece of heavenly bliss

They takin’ a grip

One side

Cause this is where I go hard

Or go home

Can’t go and turn my court yard in to a war zone

Let me grab this weapon

And load it with no discretion

I ain’t messin’

I’m talkin’ musical lessons

Marchin’ movements and this is

Stop the news from using shock as a weapon for surpressin’ diseases

The pleaders ain’t compared to soldiers

Who are following orders

And kidnap all the daughters

I’m here to drag your taxes

Feed your families and your fears

And kick a little knowledge in your ear

So go ahead and ask me

Get my words loud as your accent

We can get together and something that it’s practice

I think I found a better way

I just got to find a better way

I just got to find a better way

I just got to find a better way

I just got to find a better way

I just got to find a better way

I just got to find a better way

I just got to find a better way

I just got to find a better way

I just got to find a better way