所属专辑:Writer’s Block
歌手: Brother Ali
时长: 03:08
Writer's Block - Brother Ali[00:00:00]
If I don't get this in one take imma quit rappin[00:00:02]
The whole song I swear to god[00:00:06]
I'm supposed to be a professional[00:00:08]
I ain't trying to be one of them dudes[00:00:10]
That make hundreds of new songs and none of them are good[00:00:12]
Some of them are cool but ain't saying nothing new[00:00:15]
Running through a verse just for something to do[00:00:17]
I wanna be the cat that put the straw on the back[00:00:19]
Of the camel and send him to the chiroprac[00:00:22]
I wanna write a line that's in your head all day[00:00:24]
Songs that make you say you never felt that way[00:00:27]
Look I'm trying to give myself goosebumps okay[00:00:29]
Find the truth inside me and put it on display[00:00:32]
Many dedicated folks listen to me close[00:00:34]
I open my inner soul and slip it in my quotes[00:00:37]
Some flood the blogs some flood the streets[00:00:39]
I don't flood nothing I'm watering the seeds[00:00:42]
I walk away from mcs offering me cheese[00:00:44]
To author a 16 and drop it on the beat[00:00:47]
And it's not like money ain't something that I need[00:00:49]
There's a business side and I wanna succeed[00:00:52]
Plus I gotta wife and a couple kids to feed[00:00:54]
But if I sell my love then whats left for me[00:00:56]
Sometimes I don't write a lot[00:01:00]
I know some folks call that writers block[00:01:02]
I just call it my process[00:01:05]
It comes out when it's ready to I guess[00:01:07]
I don't wanna let nobody down so[00:01:10]
Here's some new shit you tell me how it sounds[00:01:12]
I ain't trying to be difficult or no shit[00:01:14]
It just hurts too bad to try to force it[00:01:17]
Had a week off and a short tour break[00:01:19]
I flew out to seattle to go and build with jake[00:01:21]
He give me the breaks that the famous dude would take[00:01:24]
I'm hyped imagining the magic we'll create[00:01:26]
I love my family but damn they distract me[00:01:29]
When I'm at home someones always yelling daddy[00:01:31]
Need to get away badly and focus[00:01:34]
But it's been a couple weeks since I really wrote shit[00:01:36]
I'm strugglin'[00:01:39]
Up late hummin'[00:01:40]
Pace around the hotel the words ain't comin'[00:01:41]
Wrote a little something threw it away f**k it[00:01:44]
Have an artist freak out moment start buggin'[00:01:46]
Maybe it's a wash my fire's just lost[00:01:48]
I'm probably a fraud that got lucky before[00:01:51]
If I let everybody down what's it all for[00:01:53]
Looking at seattle from the 23 rd floor[00:01:56]
Crack the window it swung open wide[00:01:59]
Nothing between me and the world outside[00:02:01]
What if I decide to lean forward and fly[00:02:03]
They say that's the way donny hathaway died[00:02:06]
Such a beautiful life ended in suicide[00:02:08]
Maybe trying to write was tearing him up inside[00:02:11]
Maybe trying to write was tearing him up inside[00:02:13]
I swear that trying to write was tearing me up inside[00:02:16]
I bet that I'd regret it the second that I did it[00:02:18]
Wishing that instant that I could continue living[00:02:21]
I pushed the window closed said man you trippin[00:02:23]
Sat down on the bed and wrote this one[00:02:26]
Sometimes I don't write a lot[00:02:29]
I know some folks out there call that writers block[00:02:31]
I just call it my process[00:02:34]
It comes out when it's ready to I guess[00:02:36]
I don't wanna let nobody down so[00:02:39]
Here's some new shit you tell me how it sounds[00:02:41]
I ain't trying to be difficult or no shit[00:02:43]
It just hurts too bad for me to force it[00:02:46]