Common, Jill Scott - 8 Minutes to Sunrise lyrics

Yeah, yo, yo, yo yo, yo, yo
Yo, a touch of jazz y'all, yeah, yeah
Y'all, yo they got us on the run, like

8 minutes to sunrise
Oh baby now, what are we gonna do?
Pressure is mountin'
Oh baby now, how we gonna get through?
Can't go left can't go right
Don't know, how we made it through the night
7 minutes to sunrise
Oh baby now, what are we gonna do?

It was once said by Black
Thought that Things Fall Apart
Knew I shouldn't have been messin
With dude's girl from start
But I pimp from the heart
The art of it made it interestin'
Plus me and sister blend
Before we got intimate


Friend or no friend, my man caught wind
This chick is payin' me
It'll either cost me or cost him
Told her she shoulda lost him a while ago
'Cause dude'll drink a pile of
Mo' and defile her yo

You could tell what I thought of this
Nickname was Smoke
Don't know if that was 'cause of cigarettes
Or guns he tote, he called shots on the deck
So I wasn't tryin' to call his bluff
By his persona
You could see, he think he tough!
If that wasn't enough, old girl had his son
This is Wild like the West I'm
Like Jesse on the run, uhh

6 minutes to sunrise
Oh baby now, what are we gonna do?
Pressure is mountin'
Oh baby now, how we gon' get through?
Can't go left and can't go right and
Don't know, how we made it through the night
5 minutes to sunrise
Oh baby now, what are we gonna do?

I understand that time is runnin' out
I'm thinkin' of town-skippin'
Got a Chevy but the alternator be trippin'
I'm hittin' rum straight
Thinkin' of a route to truncate
The streets is watchin'
Out is one way I put myself in his Nike's
His position is, "Aight man
Somebody bonin' my lady"
Probably snap like Rod man
My plan was to meet at this
Bar called the Tiki'round four
When she was comin' she would beep me
I sat deep in the corner, drinkin' zombies
Becomin' one by now
Wonderin' if my style would support
Her and her child out the corner of my eye
Saw this stud I recognized
One of Smoke's guys
To stay out of sight I tried
Told Jill Scott to meet we
Coulda picked a better spot
On some "Nobody's Supposed to
Be Here"like Deborah Cox
Looked at my watch, I don't even got a watch
Felt for my Glock, damnit I
Don't even got a Glock, yo

4 minutes to sunrise
Oh baby now, what are we gonna do?
Pressure is mountin'
Oh baby now, how we gon' get through?
Can't go left and can't go right and
Don't know, how we made it through the night
3 minutes to sunrise
Oh baby now, what are we gonna do?

Pressure puh-pressure what? The
Pressure's cookin'
It ain't good lookin'
Like a black promoter I'm talkin' bookin'
Not that I'm spooked of dude
I could whoop him
But he was on the horn informin'
The rest of them hoodlums
Usually I wouldn't fight over a woman
Old girl had a sun-shine was messed up
On Smoke's payroll was one-time
My pager went off
It read one line: "Come get me
From Halsted"
I'm thinkin' this is monkey bar
Went to the phone quick
Called her Her line was busy
Situation number nine, got my mind dizzy
Wondered if this plan was designed to get me
I've been drinkin' too strong to
Be thinkin' too long
Like 40 goin' North I'm doin' 50
Headed for the spot
Askin' God to be with me, and lately
She has been actin' shifty
But then it hit me it hit me
It hit me it hit me

2 minutes to sunrise
Oh baby now, what are we gonna do?
Pressure is mountin'
Oh baby now, how we gonna get through?
Can't go left and can't go right and
Don't know, how we made it through the night
1 minute to sunrise
Oh baby now, what are we gonna do?
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