Thought Process-Goodie Mob

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[00:00.00]Thought Process - Goodie Mob
[00:12.24]Let me get a chop at this lumber niggas
[00:14.28]From da down underground
[00:15.11]Are hangin' around the A-Town
[00:17.19]Lookin' for a come up workin' from 9 to 5
[00:19.67]Just to get some change so T-Mo can stay alive
[00:22.18]Not greedy or living' lavish yet
[00:23.63]But you can bet that when I do
[00:25.46]Nobody from my crew will I forget
[00:27.21]And if I start to get large and come up on some change
[00:30.53]I won't change everybody know they down
[00:32.46]It's not the same everyday life can be different
[00:35.06]These laws got me ready to ball
[00:36.80]Cause I fall a victim so I still be slanging them fat pillows
[00:39.52]To make 'em meet each and
[00:40.96]Every day as I comb my city streets
[00:42.77]Sometimes I wish I never had been apart of this mess
[00:45.51]Cause the system got us f**ked up
[00:47.51]It put us to the test women and men if you black you in
[00:50.72]Food for the soul listen to
[00:52.40]What I tell you it don't matter
[00:54.12]Young or old it's time we loc' up and do like we suppose
[00:57.04]We killin' each other over this b******t and some clothes
[01:00.12]We're trapped off in this world and
[01:01.74]Society with no place else to go
[01:04.19]So how U feel
[01:05.68]Frustrated irritated sometimes
[01:08.16]I don't know myself I be too numb
[01:11.13]To feel something sometimes so I dig deep
[01:14.02]Get in the Cherokee
[01:15.53]Let my mind fly free into the wilderness
[01:18.43]So I can get this sh*t off my
[01:20.41]Mind
[01:21.01]That's why I be smokin' that dank sometimes
[01:23.89]It keeps me from snappin'
[01:25.31]Keeps me calm keeps my mind open
[01:27.79]Keeps me fond of what I gots to do
[01:30.56]Off in the studio to get my old burd back
[01:33.25]On her feet and my little
[01:34.87]Bro'
[01:35.08]In Statesboro and my little 'cause Mark Twain all my
[01:38.51]Folks that hang with me when
[01:40.23]I was out in the trap or when I was goin'
[01:42.14]Thru one of our episodes only god knows
[01:44.44]Whut I go thru so I get down
[01:46.81]On my knees sometimes I come home too high to pray
[01:49.67]But I get on my bed
[01:51.16]Lay on my back and meditate anyway
[01:53.38]In the ceilings the four walls
[01:55.38]It's
[01:55.70]Like cell therapy I got nothing to do
[01:57.69]But write about my L-I-F-E put it
[01:59.71]Down on paper So whut chu feel
[02:04.47]I live for today motherf**k another hour it might be sour
[02:07.69]Never know my day so I'm prayin' in the shower
[02:10.03]Look up and thank the Lord for forgiveness a witness to bad
[02:12.93]I'm lookin' for good in the Southwest
[02:14.53]God bless my neighborhood
[02:15.38]It's people killin' in da street to eat
[02:18.01]Surviving the day is the only goat that I set
[02:20.67]Just to make it home I'm not alone
[02:22.76]Someone's out to get me when
[02:24.30]I haven't done sh*t wrong
[02:25.27]My head felt swoll mista couldn't see past my mouth
[02:28.24]What route did you take man
[02:29.56]Caught me by that loops of my pants
[02:30.96]Got me on the curb lettin' tha traffic pass me by
[02:33.54]No questions I said nothing
[02:34.81]Lookin' for tha mutant to be buckin'
[02:36.82]Tha law naw man Gipp show him my sh*t
[02:38.91]Close my mouth then I dip
[02:40.50]See to me G is a person who understand tha plan
[02:42.88]Can't make no moves
[02:43.86]When you in tha hands of tha man
[02:45.71]They got some new suites down Peachtree
[02:47.90]Left wing for tha Feds right wing for tha hardheads
[02:50.65]Makin' more deals than Buddy Folks made with Hartsfield
[02:53.06]Somebody don't want my face in tha place
[02:55.02]For 96 sh*t's slick
[02:55.82]Got me clean lookin' fresh dogs be scratchin' at my chest
[02:59.29]Under the order of who
[03:00.42]Guess who ain't non-iller than miller
[03:01.71]Wanna 1 2 your a** no more life
[03:04.34]What you gave was tha past
[03:05.85]'Cause ain't no future wanna millicamp your case
[03:08.20]Disgrace your face make it seem to be safe
[03:10.79]But ain't no place to run
[03:17.43]Sometimes I don't even know how I'm gon' eat
[03:19.66]'Bout twenty dollars away from being on the street
[03:21.81]Sh*t you might see a ni**a on tv
[03:24.07]But hell it's almost like I'm rappin' for free
[03:26.50]That little money be gone got dammit I'm grown
[03:29.91]Gotta help keep the heat and tights on
[03:32.07]It would be nice to have mo'
[03:33.76]But I kinda like being po'
[03:35.27]At least I know what my friends here fo'
[03:37.56]I wanna lie to you sometimes but I can't
[03:39.85]I wanna tell you that it's all good but it ain't
[03:42.45]It's ni**a's hurtin' and uncertain
[03:43.65]'Bout if they gon' make it or not
[03:46.02]That's why we got ni**a's killing
[03:47.57]Feelin like they coming up off a little d**e they sold
[03:50.38]You can get some gold but we won't make it as a whole
[03:53.41]Cause without you there'd be no me
[03:54.85]And without no unity there will never be any happiness
[03:57.40]You could smoke a pound of sess
[04:00.32]And it still won't relieve yo' stress
[04:02.12]God bless my thought process
[04:05.10]The thought process
[04:07.10]Now as an Outkast I was born wasn't warned of the harm
[04:10.76]That would come to meet me like Met Life but yet life
[04:13.75]Done sent me through a lot of up's
[04:15.73]And down like it ain't nothing'
[04:17.04]Like elevators but I ain't the one that's pushin' the buttons
[04:18.94]I got off at the 13th floor when they told me that it wasn't one
[04:21.64]They said it skipped from 12 to 14
[04:23.48]Still smoking still drinking no I'm sittin' on the Lincoln
[04:27.33]4 A M thinkin' that in reality the world is like a ball full of playas
[04:31.21]We trapped off in this maze with walls made of layers
[04:33.63]And only prayers is the tightest game that you can have
[04:36.21]The devil's takin' a swing that might explain the broken glass
[04:38.76]But my crystal ball see the pistol fall to the wayside
[04:40.74]Nobody would die in cops and robbers
[04:42.55]When we used to play right
[04:44.10]Huh the only thang we feared was Williams Wayne
[04:46.88]Never though about hittin' licks or slangin' caine
[04:49.19]Didn't think I'd be the one to give in to abortion
[04:51.54]Label me murder because my a** is scorchin'
[04:54.21]Hot from the glock that sits under my seat
[04:56.50]Yeah it's real f**ked up that my floks come to get me
[04:59.16]And it's like dat yeah and it's like dem