[ti:Now or Never]
[ar:The Roots]
[al:How I Got Over]
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[00:00.00]Now Or Never (Explicit) - The Roots/Phonte/Dice Raw
[00:24.19]Everything's changing around me and I wanna change too
[00:29.37]It's one thing I know it ain't cool being no fool
[00:34.36]I feel different today I don't know what else to say
[00:39.54]But I'ma get my sh*t together it's now or never
[00:45.53]Now or never now or never
[00:46.97]Now or never now or never
[00:48.79]Uh I'm sick sick of waiting in vain tired of playing the game
[00:52.04]Thinking of making a change finally breaking the chains
[00:54.22]Every phase every happening craze
[00:55.66]When it's said and done my head is right back in the haze
[00:59.15]I'm ready for the next chapter and page to start acting my age
[01:02.21]And part ways with Black Thought from back in the days
[01:05.14]I'm stargazing from the back of the stage
[01:07.14]Questioning if who y'all praise is worthy of praise
[01:09.57]What's the phrase Bygones is bygones
[01:11.38]Niggaz who used to be the underdog is icons
[01:13.75]People say the light shines once in a lifetime
[01:16.44]Is this meant like kind or crisis a little bit like mine
[01:19.74]I'm thinking not now but right now
[01:21.68]I need some kind of sign that the future is bright now
[01:24.67]I f**k around Do The Right Thing like Spike now
[01:27.10]The quick and the dead which one is my lookalike now
[01:29.81]I'm moving ahead
[01:37.29]Everything's changing around me and I wanna change too
[01:41.66]It's one thing I know it ain't cool being no fool
[01:47.16]I feel different today I don't know what else to say
[01:51.83]But I'ma get my sh*t together it's now or never
[01:56.72]Now or never now or never
[01:58.48]Now or never now or never
[02:01.10]Yo opportunities lost because I blew em
[02:03.85]On the sunniest days of my life I cried through em
[02:06.53]Moms is out the picture and Pops I barely knew him
[02:09.10]And I would pray to God but I'm tired of lying to Him
[02:11.85]Tired of trying to run from the things inside of us
[02:14.34]Got a lot of fam and a lot of admirers
[02:16.90]Who tell me that I should aspire to change
[02:19.21]But when I think of changing
[02:20.77]It's like why even try this sh*t
[02:23.08]My mind hazy and my thoughts they get distorted
[02:24.83]I know my good and bad deeds both get recorded
[02:28.34]You do right so your soul can last
[02:30.71]But my role was cast before I even auditioned for it
[02:33.27]So I don't really see an end to my vice
[02:35.39]It's just false reformation no end to my strife
[02:37.39]Feel the evil overpowering
[02:38.88]You can go head throw the towel in
[02:41.26]Cause ni**a that's the end of the fight
[02:43.31]When you can only see the tunnel at the end of the lights
[02:45.81]Like South party over it's the end of your life
[02:48.25]And I'm out
[02:49.31]Everything's changing around me and I wanna change too
[02:53.94]It's one thing I know it ain't cool being no fool
[02:59.07]I feel different today I don't know what else to say
[03:04.25]But I'ma get my sh*t together it's now or never
[03:08.75]Now or never now or never
[03:10.86]Now or never now or never
[03:13.30]When I look into the mirror and see my own image
[03:16.05]It feel like there's something else far off in the distance
[03:18.60]Something I wanna see but something that's resistant
[03:21.10]And everyday the heart it in is growing more persistent
[03:23.67]I never noticed it before but now I can't miss it
[03:26.36]And the constant pounding's driving me ballistic
[03:28.93]I ran from it few years but it's still next to me
[03:31.86]And it's growing stronger taking leaving less of me
[03:34.55]I can't fight it now I know it's just destiny
[03:36.98]And I just wonder what's gonna happen when it catches me
[03:39.73]Will it leave me face down in a chest of pee
[03:42.47]Or will it just start bringing out the best of me
[03:44.90]But is the best of me really just the worst of me
[03:47.53]And if so yesterday could be my anniversary
[03:49.90]In sinners court it's important to have church with me
[03:52.65]I'm trying to get rid of these ghosts that's cursing me
[03:55.27]I feel a change is an absolute certainty
[03:57.45]Cause what's going on is a state of emergency
[04:01.88](State of emergency)
[04:02.57]Everything's changing around me and I wanna change too
[04:06.25]It's one thing I know it ain't cool being no fool
[04:11.05]I feel different today I don't know what else to say
[04:16.55]But I'ma get my sh*t together it's now or never
[04:24.26]It's now or never