Bad to the Bone

[Chorus: Reek Ruffin]

Echoes of the images I can't unsee

Grown folks business wasn't 'llowed at the old playground

Everybody turns into food when you're hungry

Tears drop from the rooftop, it's a long way down

Ah, we never harbored ill intent y'all

Necessity, she will invent now

Though you may not have done the same

I've only got myself to blame

Should have known I was getting in over my head

There was a time I was well enough to have left it alone

Vault full of secrets of my deepest regrets

Wish I wasn't so stone cold and bad to the bone

Bad to the bone (Bad to the bone)

[Verse: Black Thought]

How'd I go from Aaron Jones to Van Jones?

How'd I get to muscle tone from bare bones?

I was Smokey and Robinson, no Miracles

It's dirty and nasty as Russell Jones, Nasir Jones

Bobby Womack blasting through the headphones

The pimps, gamblers and grifters, they was the heroes

Many a midnight run, young DeNiros

For every life cut short, another beard grows

In the distance between silence and a whisper

There's no time for taking pictures, you mentally note

The way the pavement had eventually spoke

To say the wavelength was just a rule of thumb and it was meant to be broke

[Bridge: Reek Ruffin]

We never harbored ill intent, y'all

Necessity, she will invent now

Though you may not have done the same

I've only got myself to blame

[Chorus: Reek Ruffin]

Echoes of the images I can't unsee

Grown folks business wasn't 'llowed at the old playground

Everybody turns into food when you're hungry

Tears drop from the rooftop, it's a long way down

Ah, we never harbored ill intent y'all

Necessity, she will invent now

Though you may not have done the same

I've only got myself to blame

Should have known I was getting in over my head

There was a time I was well enough to have left it alone

Vault full of secrets and my deepest regrets

Wish I wasn't so stone cold and bad to the bone

Bad to the bone