 Don't sleep, you little baby For the standing man can't you Go take good care of him Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry I'm late, you mad? Pretty strange out there I'm sorry, I lost track Something amazing happened Well, I thought it was something amazing What's up? Let me help you What are you doing, huh? You holding out on me? You drinking? You ruining your hard work? Smiling around Huh, what you say? Nothing I've not been over on purpose Why you do that? Because you're pissing me off Come on, Po That's right I know you serious about this building stuff Opal! I'm sorry It's late, I know But some things happen on the way back Do some stuff You can go through them when you're... You okay? You should see up top, oh It's crazy No one around ghost town We could be the only ones left Well, saw some people but We the only ones brave enough to stay Well, stupid enough I said I was sorry, come on Was it jukebox? What you say? I asked if it was jukebox He said he was leaving the house real early No, no, no, before that You asked me You said somebody was coming around Yeah And I asked who Must have been no one I'm asking if I leave Where I got to go Why I stay Ain't I scared Ain't it a sanitary church kid? What you tellin'? Don't know Maybe I burped in her face Farted Ooh I was rude You did I did I asked her if she was finished Pointed out her pamphlet Had a white man on the cover Asked her the problem with that She didn't know Sent her on her goddamn It's crazy up top, oh No one was around I was telling you God knows where anybody would go Seen Pam down at the liquor store Jack and Lynette They out under the expressway Where are these people who are going to go? Got to be more than a hundred people in a shame The hell I care, I will Well, I guess that's my point Ain't nobody cared before All the homeless people begging for change And shelter nobody cared before Why they care now? Black dumpster trucks and social workers Church folk and police storm in the shade Tomorrow morning Someone was murdered, remember? I've been too When was that? All that screwing them out Turned them into the police, didn't it? Drugs And whatever The point I'm saying Is where these people going Tried to Do you know this new mayor Tried to pass some bill To give folk a bus ticket out of the city? I told you, don't care What about us? No, I don't Well Where are we going to go? Have them smokes They smokes Can't believe we finished our day yesterday What? These are hell What? You mean this? You don't like it, you ain't got the steps What I will say Because I'm devoted You will remember my pops left my mom And I found me on the couch Whispered he was bleeding God damn it, I know this already Will if somebody's got to carry the conversation All the time and they gotta repeat themselves Anyway, I was spoiled Pop said he wasn't leaving my mom Yeah, he wasn't leaving me, he was leaving my mom But he said I was alright Funny how he said it all white But your mother, she's a cunt That's what he said And he left Mom acted like she ain't know the difference She was out of damn mind anyway But I saw her through I saw her through to the end So I ain't leaving Devoted It's important you know that about me I ain't had a wash yet I can tell Whose fault is it? What's it gonna do about it? You're my pit Your words Get to it It's been a day on I didn't ask you Well, I'm gonna tell it Because it needs to be heard Oh, what is it? I forgot to ask you about the rest of yours I woke up Took a shit in that bucket over there Paced around Worked Paced around some more I'm tired of saying it Can't even remember the last time you was out of this hole I do Just keep building the tone You'll never guess who I saw Oh, well first, first I should tell you I found, guess what? Guess! I started the morning The way I normally do, right? Prepared the car Had my breakfast Left you breakfast And I left, made my way Through the shandy everybody Mostly gone except for Except for a few stragglers And just as soon as I'm done Seeing my mornings And my elbows to people I step out the cab I look down Now guess You simple nigga I don't know where you were Well, she asked about you And I told her you never know with her And we laughed about that But I saw Lisa out on the street Just passing each other But she was telling me She was in the shelter for months But all her stuff was stolen And she knew who it was So you know Lisa Of course she joked somebody like She always be doing And they threw her out on the street The shelter You believe that? I want to hear it Well, she was begging And she found out she can't come back to the shandy Because of the cleanup tomorrow And in the end this This pisses me off She got a ticket A ticket Full begging How to make any damn sense A ticket, what? Now she got a big, big fine And what? So what? I can't say no To somebody hungry Somebody begging Around It's five dollars though It's five I would have never had Had I never found it So I figured It never existed in the first place You always doing this I told you Because you always begging them for stuff Asking people the things for money You give till it hurts No I don't You gave deal but you told me To shirt off your back the other day That's generosity Kindness to your fellow man It was raining that day Then you asked him the next day If he could pay you ten bucks for it It wasn't raining the next There came home a mad shirt and hand piss He couldn't pay you for it Nobody got nothing around here And if you got nothing No reason to give I think when nobody got Money's tight in the shanty You right So we share what we got We trade We beg We borrow We don't own We won't own the way you act When I give it to you You could have given me a five Any-I out there Every morning At the crack of dawn Till five at night Begging Crushing cans Scooping out garbage Raking the streets Bring you crap for your project I don't need you Now you're gonna do it I've been To be Excited about something And I'm looking to tell you what it is I'm your penit