Clock With No Hands

[Part I: Clock With No Hands] [Verse 1: Black Thought] Yeah, sitting in the staircase, holding back tears Looking over mad years worth of photographs Pictures of some places I ain't never going back Some people I used to love, why I ain't show 'em that? The skies was overcast, when I was sober last My head is spinning, couldn't tell you if it's slow or fast It's starting to get too clear, I got to go and grab To y'all it's a shame, but life is what we know it as Waiting, navigating the plot, without plans In the cards, it's hard to read as a clock with no hands How your mans gonna get up his stock with no yams? All it take is one break, it could pop the program Whether sinning or not, my back bending like I'm sendin' Salaat I feel some brothers is beginning to plot It might have been a close friend I forgot Who started up and ain't remember to stop I bet these niggas gon' remember the shop [Chorus: Mercedes Martinez] People think that I'm crazy, just 'cause I wanna be alone You can't depend on friends to help you in a squeeze We all deal with shit on our own And sometimes the beef can grow, get out of hand Yeah, you know it gets full blown I never said that you mean the world to me Maybe it's best that you never know [Verse 2: Black Thought] Yo, I'm like Malcolm, out the window with the weapon out Searching for somehow to find a minute or the second now Precious time is money, that I ain't got to mess about Need it from the horse's mouth or from an eyewitness account Lessons with my back to the wall, scoping my session out Stay a little edgy at times, when I ain't stressing 'bout Haters don't know shit about me, they the ones that talk shit Those that love me send it out, so I ain't got to force it 'Cause I'm doing better now, don't mean I never lost shit I was married to a state of mind and I divorced it, man I'm from where brothers moving product from the porches People locking their doors, clutching to their crosses The block hot by the law, there ain't too many choices So what I do is for y'all 'cause ain't too many voices left I watch my back and watch my step And I might forgive, but I do not forget, come on [Chorus: Mercedes Martinez] People think that I'm crazy, just 'cause I wanna be alone You can't depend on friends to help you in a squeeze We all deal with shit on our own And sometimes the beef can grow, get out of hand Yeah, you know it gets full blown I never said that you mean the world to me Maybe it's best that you never know [Verse 3: Black Thought] Yo, living in turbulent times, the blind leading the blind Some call it evolution, some say intelligent design You say you want a revolution, you out of your mizz-ind Your sons' destitute and their Pops all in the prison My man's back in the jam, he like the back of my hand He just attracted to scam, he right back in the can I never sleepwalk, when you dead, you get your shut-eye I'm on the first thing in, I'm leaving on the red-eye My brother back in rehab, just had another relapse Within himself, it's been like he's been fighting an inner Jihad Telling me ain't nobody true when they pretend to be that So closer than friends, that's where I keep my enemy at To any parties concerned, it's time to live it and learn Until we're able to grow, forever bridges will burn My thoughts free as a bird, that's just about to emerge And every action is heard, it speaks louder than words, yo [Chorus: Mercedes Martinez] People think that I'm crazy, just 'cause I wanna be alone You can't depend on friends to help you in a squeeze We all deal with shit on our own And sometimes the beef can grow, get out of hand Yeah, you know it gets full blown I never said that you mean the world to me Maybe it's best that you never know [Part II: Dilltastic Vol Two] [Instrumental: The Roots re-create track #15 from J Dilla's 'Another Batch' beat CD]