Now Or Never - The Roots/Dice Raw.mp3

[00:00.46]Everything's changing around me
[00:26.01]And I wanna change too
[00:28.34]It's one thing I know
[00:30.22]It ain't cool being no fool
[00:32.64]I feel different today
[00:35.74]I don't know what else to say
[00:38.88]But I'm-a get my shit together
[00:41.08]It's now or never
[00:43.65](Now or never, now or never, now or never, now or never)
[00:48.03]I'm sick, sick of waiting in vain
[00:50.18]Tired of playing the game
[00:51.15]Thinking of making a change
[00:52.55]Finally breaking the chains
[00:53.92]Every phase, every happening craze
[00:55.94]When it's said and done
[00:57.12]My head is right back in a haze
[00:58.43]I'm ready for the next chapter and page
[01:00.36]To start acting my age and part ways
[01:02.84]With Black Thought from back in the days
[01:04.37]I'm stargazing from the back of the stage
[01:06.23]Questioning if who y'all raise is worthy of praise
[01:08.68]What's the phrase, bygones is bygones
[01:10.50]Niggas who used to be the underdog is icons
[01:13.71]People say the light shines once in a lifetime
[01:16.12]Is this mid-life kind of crisis a little bit like mine
[01:18.87]I'm thinking not now, but right now
[01:21.31]I need some kinda sign that the future is bright now
[01:23.90]I **** around, do the right thing like Spike now
[01:26.66]The quick and the dead, which is my lookalike now
[01:29.01]I'm moving ahead
[01:30.32]Everything's changing around me
[01:37.88]And I wanna change too
[01:40.97]It's one thing I know
[01:42.82]It ain't cool being no fool
[01:45.31]I feel different today
[01:48.00]I don't know what else to say
[01:50.98]But I'm-a get my shit together
[01:53.13]It's now or never
[01:55.67](Now or never, now or never, now or never, now or never)
[02:01.11]Yo, opportunities lost because I blew 'em
[02:03.54]On the sunniest days of my life, I cried through 'em
[02:05.98]Moms was out the picture, and Pops I barely knew him
[02:08.40]And I would pray to God, but I'm tired of lying to him
[02:10.96]Tired of trying to run from the things inside of us
[02:13.54]Got a lot of fam and a lot of admirers
[02:16.19]Who tell me that I should aspire to be changed
[02:19.12]But when I think of changing, it's like why even try this shit
[02:21.28]My mind hazy and my thoughts, they get distorted
[02:24.13]I know my good and bad deeds, both get recorded
[02:27.08]You do right so your soul can last
[02:29.33]But my role was cast before I even auditioned for it
[02:31.69]So I don't really see an end to my vice
[02:34.30]It's just false reclamation, no end of my strife
[02:36.76]Feel the evil overpowering
[02:38.09]You can go ahead, throw the towel in
[02:40.33]Cause, nigga, that's the end of the fight
[02:42.06]When you can only see the tunnel at the end of the light
[02:44.43]Lights out, party over, it's the end of your life
[02:47.00]And I'm out
[02:48.27]Everything's changing around me
[02:50.08]And I wanna change too
[02:52.96]It's one thing I know
[02:55.03]It ain't cool being no fool
[02:58.23]I feel different today
[03:00.76]I don't know what else to say
[03:03.06]But I'm-a get my shit together
[03:05.49]It's now or never
[03:08.13](Now or never, now or never, now or never, now or never)
[03:12.88]When I look into the mirror and see my own image
[03:15.59]It feel like there's something else far for the distance
[03:18.06]Something I wanna see, but something that's resistant
[03:20.63]And every day the haunting is growing more persistent
[03:23.22]I never noticed it before, but now I can't miss it
[03:25.13]And the constant pounding is driving me ballistic
[03:28.44]I ran from it for years, but it's still next to me
[03:31.06]And it's growing stronger, taking, leaving less of me
[03:33.75]I can't fight it now, I know it's just destiny
[03:36.42]And I just wonder what's gonna happen when it catches me
[03:38.98]Will it leave me face down in the Chesapeake
[03:41.70]Or will it just start bringing out the best of me
[03:44.44]But is the best of me really just the worst of me
[03:46.86]And if so, yesterday could be my anniversary
[03:49.54]In sinners' court it's important to have church with me
[03:51.92]I'm trying to get rid of these ghosts that's cursing me
[03:54.49]I feel that change is an absolute certainty
[03:57.07]'Cause what's going on is a state of emergency
[03:59.60]Everything's changing around me
[04:02.26]And I wanna change too
[04:05.06]It's one thing I know
[04:07.15]It ain't cool being no fool
[04:10.25]I feel different today
[04:12.75]I don't know what else to say
[04:15.33]But I'm-a get my shit together
[04:17.76]It's now or never
[04:20.14]It's now or never
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