Sometimes - Joseph Hines, Loretta

Sometimes I rhyme slow, sometimes I rhyme quick

Sometimes I love rhyming, sometimes it gets me sick

Sometimes I wanna skip the struggle and just be rich

Win the lottery or something or move a couple of bricks but shit

Sometimes I think about jail, when I get letters from my dog in the mail

Sometimes I feel like I failed, because I’m eating, gaining weight

But my dude next to me is starving, staring at my plate

Sometimes I wanna reach 'em sometimes I wanna teach 'em

Tell the kids stay in school, study hard, live decent

But I was raised in these streets

Where either we moving keys, shooting threes or you weak

Sometimes I think how long I been doing music

Back when I couldn’t get a beat CD from any producer

It makes me think about why I’m still doing it

Sometimes it’s for the children, they the future, other times it’s for the loot

I know you looking at me wishing that you had my job

Thinking 'oh it can’t be that hard

To put words together and find more words that rhyme with those'

But sometimes at 5'o'clock I wish I could go home

You lucky

Well not lucky, but your life has simplicity, mine doesn’t and I’m so

contradictory

One day I wanna help, give to charities, spread out the wealth

Next day I wanna make it, spend it all on myself

Sometimes I don’t wanna be alone then

Sometimes I wanna be on my own and

Sometimes I wanna have me a drink

Sometimes I wanna smoke and just sit there and think about

My life, knowing I’mma die, don’t know when, don’t know why

No I can’t change, no I can’t cry

But I sit and analyze a lotta things through my mind sometimes

I think about my people’s division

Vice lords, gangta disciples, blooding and crippin'

And would we be tripping on getting ice

If we was still out fighting for civil rights?

Sometimes I’m up at night, thinking bout my career

I wonder will I make it this year

Sometimes I wish the label wasn’t so scared

Of making something like this a single, but in the club this ain’t what I wanna

hear

Some rhymes I wanna be like Mos Def and Kweli

Another verse I’ll sound like MOP

God listen to me, does poppin' at people that’s hating on me

Mean eventually it’s meant that the devil is waitin' on me huh?

There’s days I’m quoting biblical scriptures

Other days I walk around toting militant pistols

I spot a happy couple thinking ooh I want a commitment

But then I see a fat ass and think I want someone different

Sometimes I want a ho sometimes I like to trick

Sometimes I want a woman sometimes I want a chick

Sometimes I want somebody I can really kick it with

Other times I want a girl that won’t say shit

I really wanna bless you wit knowledge

You wanna vote? I want to break down thee electoral college

But who the hell cares? I’ll just tell you some garbage

Like bust guns, stack ones, sell drugs

Hit the club, that’ll get you much farther you know

Sometimes I wanna be so famous I can’t go to the mall

Sometimes I don’t wanna be noticed at all

I wanna fall so deep in love I forget other broads

But then I get a phone call from a shorty wit no drawers

Sometimes I want a smart girl with a nice brain

Other times I just want some nice brain

Or a light rain then a bright sun

Sometimes I wanna have a daughter or a bright son

It don’t matter, sometimes I want a Benz or maybe a Cadillac

Sometimes I wanna turn back time and bring Daddy back

Sometimes I want real estate, stocks and property

Other times I’m on some nigga shit chains and watches

Pieces and bracelets, half my budget on colored diamonds

With the transparent setting I told you I’m sometimey

Sometimes it’s Benihana’s

Sometimes it’s Wendy’s, McDonalds sometimes I’m making you dance

Other times I tell you my problems

Outro

Sometimes I feel up

Sometimes I feel down

Somedays I feel like I still wanna get around

Sometimes I wanna be mainstream

Other days I’m underground

Wanna be on the big screen

Next day don’t wanna be found

Some days I don’t wanna wake up

Some nights I can’t go to sleep

At times I wanna be myself

Other days I don’t wanna be me