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