[04:45.00]V1
[04:45.00]Tired of nine to fives in my case two to tens
[04:45.00]Refuse to choose methods that others use to win
[04:45.00]If my talent ain’t involved. Working got my head hurting
[04:45.00]To the point you couldn’t fix it with a quart of Tylenol
[04:45.00]No stranger to labor. On the whole, it’s pointless
[04:45.00]If in the end I haven’t been working toward my goals
[04:45.00]So I stay hunting for green like Lex Luthor
[04:45.00]So I can dead any beef I might have in the future with my super
[04:45.00]Man rent’s due! We’re on our last roll of toilet tissue
[04:45.00]Plus queen and I be having issues when doe’s tight
[04:45.00]Suddenly I’m less concerned with getting my flow right
[04:45.00]Restless barely caught a wink through the whole night
[04:45.00]Running on fumes could blackout in an instant
[04:45.00]On “E” with barely enough to finish this very sent…
[04:45.00]Tense muscles! Sometime I wonder
[04:45.00]Did blacks invent struggle ‘cause we know it well
[04:45.00]Rich in many things but I’m still broke as hell
[04:45.00]And what’s red and black without some greenbacks
[04:45.00]A fund less revolution is money the solution
[04:45.00]More money more problem more bills less truth
[04:45.00]More lies less you mobilize lets move
[04:45.00]And get that cheese for cats get me
[04:45.00]But I’m clever as Jerry so never you worry
[04:45.00]I’ll provide for fam long after I’m buried
[04:45.00]HOOK
[04:45.00]3 Months past benefits kick in
[04:45.00]6 months past and I feel like quitting
[04:45.00]Promotion after 9 a whole new beginning
[04:45.00]Made insane by these labor pains
[04:45.00]REPEAT HOOK
[04:45.00]V2
[04:45.00]It’s like morning sickness when I wake up for work filled with ill will
[04:45.00]Wanting to murder my boss like Kill Bill
[04:45.00]The real feel what I’m saying ‘cause it’s realer talk
[04:45.00]Wishing I was still a little kid watching Silver Hawks
[04:45.00]Now that’s a distant memory now my days are spent
[04:45.00]At the bar during happy hour sipping hennesy
[04:45.00]Like it’s a remedy for these growing pains
[04:45.00]So insane but I hope for change
[04:45.00]Like homeless pan-handlers yall’d rather ignore me
[04:45.00]‘Cause hearing this song is like listening to your story
[04:45.00]It would be nice to retire at forty
[04:45.00]But my mom hasn’t and she’s over age sixty
[04:45.00]Probably do better if she wasn’t plagued with me
[04:45.00]But they say babies are a gift from God
[04:45.00]But they feel like a burden when **** gets hard
[04:45.00]Over due utilities I’m knowing you is feeling me
[04:45.00]These hard times are meant to be something you learn from
[04:45.00]So hard work essentially is something you should earn from
[04:45.00]Money don’t grow on trees but it leaves
[04:45.00]And even harder to get for underground MC’s
[04:45.00]It’s enough to make you hate breathing
[04:45.00]Working two or three jobs just to break even
[04:45.00]Labor pains is the reason why I ain’t sleeping
[04:45.00]F**k sloppy seconds! Why can’t my people eat like they eating
[04:45.00]Even when we ain’t eating we always cooking
[04:45.00]Like Ope be telling me I’m hoping felonies
[04:45.00]Ain’t in my forecast because lack of my own
[04:45.00]Got me looking at your cash but I earn my shit
[04:45.00]And try to save something never burn my shit
[04:45.00]So we can cop homes a Brooklyn brownstone
[04:45.00]And maybe I’ll own land back in MD
[04:45.00]For whenever we need to escape the big city
[04:45.00]So let’s get busy and start our business
[04:45.00]We’ll succeed if our hearts are in it
[04:45.00]I’ll work for me and not for another
[04:45.00]To provide jobs for all of our brothers and queens ya’nahmeen
[04:45.00]HOOK
[04:45.00]credits
[04:45.00]from Sacrifice, released 08 January 2008
[04:45.00]Lyrics by: Substantial
[04:45.00]Produced by: Tonedeff
[04:45.00]http:substantial.bandcamp.com/track/labor-pains