(not) Everybody - Marlon Craft

Tell me why, why it gotta be like this?

All of the deceit like this

When I die, I ain’t tryna be like this

Time pass, we don’t always catch it

Why we worried ‘bout marriage, worried ‘bout life?

While we eatin' dollar slice but we worry ‘bout likes?

Ain’t no value around do we worry ‘bout price if it’s black or it’s brown?

We ain’t worried ‘bout life

Why we wanna tell a story on the Gram, but don’t know our own?

Why life one great big «when in Rome»?

Cause we only do what they say’s cool, man, that’s the only rule, man

And we all end up clones

And my God, I ain’t got no time to waste with my squad

I wanna see all my people evolve

But we in a world where that seem so hard, so hard, so hard

Why the KKK got to stay, but the Panthers didn’t?

While that strange fruit sway in the wind and we still ain’t had to answer to it

Abandon true-ness

Never never never never asked the white man to prove it

The hard truth?

We don’t all get better with time

It’s a matter of the weather and climate and whether the times’ll get better in

time is the only question of mine

I regret I’m inclined to be hesitant cause evidence find

They say wine better with age, I tell ‘em people ain’t the same

What we keepin' in the bottle only recreate the pain

I said no, no, no, not everybody grows

Say you’ll learn when you get older but that shit ain’t guaranteed

Don’t get to be who you could be only who you dare to be

I said no, no, no, not everybody grows

Everybody gets older

Not everybody gets wiser

Make it cold on my shoulder, be the fuel to my fire

Everybody wanna retire, everybody only care ‘bout what they desire

Everybody only do as much as required

Everybody feel the truth inside but speak lies for a long time

I was in the tunnel had to shovel for a minute

Had to make adjustments to the vision

Still go back to the dark just to visit

Still get livid if you try to tell me ‘bout a limit

Muhfucka what’s that?

Try to shoot me down, I’ll bust back

I don’t got time for the lames and neither do you

We all could know what genius could do

I could see it in you, I believe it is true

Just keep fightin' the fight to have dreams like you do

I can hear it it’s proof, I’ll be here when you blew

Here in the booth tryin' to speak it the truth

Yo, yo, yo, yo

Seeds don’t grow if you don’t tend to the garden

Lotta dead roots in the soil, my G

So if I don’t stay around, beg your pardon, I gotta make moves to be who I

could be

I swear, I swear

They say wine better with age, I tell ‘em people ain’t the same

What we keepin' in the bottle only recreate the pain

I said no, no, no, not everybody grows

Say you’ll learn when you get older but that shit ain’t guaranteed

Don’t get to be who you could be only who you dare to be

I said no, no, no, not everybody grows