Novakane (Clean) - Black Sheep

They say what is, is what was

But what was could never be

Ain’t nothing new under the sun

Y’all ain’t doing nothing but some shit I already did

Let me tell you where you’re going

Yo

Said I’m not gonna say «you», y’all

I’m gonna say «we»

Sometimes I sit and think about it

Yo, how numb could we be

How could it go so far, how’d it get so funky

That we could walk a mile in the footsteps of a porch monkey

That we could break a barrier without one key

Then turn around and try to imitate a mob flunky

We’re not together, y’all

And most of us have forgotten

Those at the top don’t want nothing to do with those at the bottom

And that’s bad when you put a pricetag on sad

Had aspirations of a kingdom but the plans gone bad

And every man’s gone mad

I’m feelin so defeated

Wasted so much time chasing what I never needed

'Til I heard it echo, «Let go»

«You'll be richer when you stop chasing crumbs 'cause the cake’s the bigger

picture»

Got too many pennies in our hands to hold the dollars

Got too many problems in the world to kill the scholars

Said I’m so numb

I really couldn’t care in the end

That I’m so dumb

I plied against myself never depended

On no one

Sometimes I need to pray I find way but I’m

So numb, and I’m so dumb

And I’m so lost

I never thought to put it on a scale

What my soul cost

The crime, I got no money for my bail

Suffered no cause

Sometimes I need to pray I find way but I’m

So numb, and I’m so dumb

Sometimes I’m sitting at the window

And the world that I see

Makes me ask myself the question

«Yo, how numb can we be?»

We’re all descendants of the people

That they chose, made slaves

Nowadays, they pay my people money not to make waves

Now that’s a house nigga

So glad we’re not in the field

We’re glorified instead trying to destroy and rebuild

How many hopes have we killed by doing nothing at all

Or planting seeds to succeed by either drugs or basketball

Or worse, that a rapper laying your life on the top

I listen to the radio and yo, that ain’t hip hop

So numb to make it big is the way that I chose

So I could rip off all the children for my sneakers and clothes

I thought we’d lower the prices not give companies the license

To divide and conquer us with the modern day devices

We take what’s priceless with hope for personal wealth

Turn a life into a struggle for life itself (can you feel me?)

Said I’m so numb

I really couldn’t care in the end

That I’m so dumb

I plied against myself never depended

On no one

Sometimes I need to pray I find way but I’m

So numb, and I’m so dumb

And I’m so lost

I never thought to put it on a scale

What my soul cost

The crime, I got no money for my bail

Suffered no cause

Sometimes I need to pray I find way but I’m

So numb, and I’m so dumb

Said it’s so hard

I wonder if the world can feel my pain

We’ve been so scarred

We close our eyes and breathe the novacaine

I get so numb, and wonder where this road is taking me

Has the world mistaken me, and has God forsaken me?

Said it’s deep down

It’s out of me, I know we can prevail

This sweet sound, though most I mind wind up dead or in jail

'Cause we don’t do what we could

'Cause we can’t do what we should

We been hoodwinked, I guess that’s why we repping the hood

Although we don’t rep us, it lets us die without a care in the hood

Your only thought is to get the fuck outta there

And show your children a change, sometimes you give it your all

To lose your way the day you say that, «I'll be better than y’all»

'Til we’re numb of all the power we possess, unified

Eyes closed, like the problems of the world blew inside

'Til we’re numb from all the ice pushing a newer ride

And the artery we cut, we die, suicide

Said I’m so numb

I really couldn’t care in the end

That I’m so dumb

I plied against myself never depended

On no one

Sometimes I need to pray I find way but I’m

So numb, and I’m so dumb

And I’m so lost

I never thought to put it on a scale

What my soul cost

The crime, I got no money for my bail

Suffered no cause

Sometimes I need to pray I find way but I’m

So numb, and I’m so dumbSaid I’m so numb

I really couldn’t care in the end

That I’m so dumb

I plied against myself never depended

On no one

Sometimes I need to pray I find way but I’m

So numb, and I’m so dumb

And I’m so lost

I never thought to put it on a scale

What my soul cost

The crime, I got no money for my bail

Suffered no cause

Sometimes I need to pray I find way but I’m

So numb, and I’m so dumb