[00:00:00] The Roots - The OtherSide [00:00:15] Yo we obviously need to tone it down a bit [00:00:17] Running round town spending time like it’s counterfeit [00:00:20] Everybody catching hay fever like sinuses [00:00:23] Step in my arena let me show y’all who the highness is [00:00:26] You might say I could be doing something positive [00:00:29] Humbled head down low and broke like promises [00:00:32] Soaking and broken in a joke like comics is [00:00:35] Not enough paper to be paying folks compliments [00:00:38] But when that paper got low so did my tolerance [00:00:40] And it ain’t no truth in a dare without the consequence [00:00:44] Listen if it not for these hood inventions [00:00:46] Id just be another kid from the block with no intentions [00:00:49] On the dock of that bay serving a life sentence [00:00:52] Even if I’m going to hell I’m gonna make an entrance [00:00:55] Yeah let em know I’m getting cheese like omelets is [00:00:59] But I’m the toast of the town like Thomas is [00:01:01] We’re all on a journey [00:01:04] Down the hall of memories [00:01:07] Don’t worry bout what you ain’t got [00:01:09] Leave with a little bit of dignity [00:01:13] Never loved what I had [00:01:15] Always felt like I deserved more [00:01:18] But when I [00:01:19] Make it to the other side [00:01:20] Make it to the other side [00:01:21] That’s when we’ll settle up the score [00:01:24] Yo we did this in remembrance of [00:01:28] Faces from the past [00:01:29] We no longer have an image of [00:01:30] Carrying cold blood hearts [00:01:32] That never been for love [00:01:33] Brothers keep going for theirs but never get enough [00:01:36] World travelers that seen it all [00:01:38] And did enough [00:01:39] Only to return to learn [00:01:40] The world wasn’t big enough [00:01:42] Damn how long has it been [00:01:44] I guess the jig is up [00:01:45] Now all I know is I’m about to wake this n*gga up [00:01:48] Yeah that hindsight 20/20 now n*ggas dead on the money [00:01:52] Trying to take something from me [00:01:54] It’s a wrap like mummy [00:01:55] Undone I am becoming and [00:01:57] When he’s tired of running [00:01:58] Through the layers of the onion [00:01:59] He’ll probably shed a tear [00:02:01] Cause they’ll be no more fast times [00:02:03] Just his weak mind scrolled out like a bad sign [00:02:05] He never had enough and got confused when they asked why [00:02:08] Life is only a moment in time and it passed by [00:02:11] We’re all on a journey [00:02:14] Down the hall of memories [00:02:16] Don’t worry bout what you ain’t got [00:02:20] Leave with a little bit of dignity [00:02:23] Never loved what I had [00:02:26] Always felt like I deserved more [00:02:28] But when I [00:02:29] Make it to the other side [00:02:30] Make it to the other side [00:02:32] That’s when we’ll settle up the score [00:02:35] I’m sitting on top of the world ready to jump off [00:02:38] Thinking of various ways to break law [00:02:41] Thinking that enough is enough but still I want more [00:02:43] Thinking of how I’m playing with fire that burned my young boy [00:02:47] By any means necessary don’t give a damn [00:02:49] So every night I’m on a flight that never lands [00:02:52] Be an asshole when the sh*t hits the fan [00:02:55] Or bet your life on a bluff and a bad hand [00:02:58] Can’t win can’t lose [00:03:00] Get ‘em gassed leave em leaking fuel [00:03:02] Either way the market moves [00:03:03] Cash rules kings queens prince and princess [00:03:07] Every night I’m crossing a line that ain’t the finish [00:03:10] Every thought is dark as a glass of f*cking Guinness [00:03:13] Too far gone to come back to my senses [00:03:15] Now I’m on the edge of my bed making love to my meds [00:03:18] Every moments like a pistol to my head [00:03:20] When I’m getting mine [00:03:22] We’re all on a journey [00:03:24] Down the hall of memories [00:03:27] Don’t worry bout what you ain’t got [00:03:30] Leave with a little bit of dignity [00:03:33] Never loved what I had [00:03:36] Always felt like I deserved more