The Roots, Mercedes Martinez - Clock With No Hands lyrics

Yeah, sitting in the staircase
Holding back tears
Looking over mad years worth of photographs
Pictures of some places I
Ain't never going back
Some people I used to love
Why I ain't show them that?
The skies was overcast, when I was sober last
My head is spinning
Couldn't tell you if it's slow or fast
It's starting to get too clear
I got to go and grab
To y'all it's a shame but life
Is what we know it as
Waiting, navigating the plot, without plans
In the cards
It's hard to read as a clock with no hands
How your mans gonna get up
His stock with no yams
All it take is one break
It could pop the program
Whether sinning or not
My back bending like I'm sendin' salaat
I feel some brothers is beginning to plot
It might have been a close friend I forgot
Who started up and ain't remember to stop
I bet these niggas going remember the shop

People think that I'm crazy
Just cause I wanna be alone
You can't depend on friends to
Help you in a squeeze
We all deal with shit on our own
And sometimes the beef can grow
Get out of hand
Yeah, you know it gets full blown
I never said that you mean the world to me
Maybe it's best that you never know

Yo, I'm like Malcolm out the
Window with the weapon out
Searching for somehow to find a
Minute or the second now
Precious time is money that I
Ain't got to mess about
Need it from the horse's mouth
Or from an eyewitness account
Lessons with my back to the wall
Scoping my session out
Stay a little edgy at times
When I ain't stressing bout
Haters don't know shit about me
They the ones that talk shit
Those that love me send it out
So I ain't got to force quit
'Cause, I'm doing better now
Don't mean I never lost shit
I was married to a state of
Mind and I divorced it, man
I'm from where brothers moving
Product from the porches
People locking their doors
Clutching to their crosses
The block hot by the law
There ain't too many choices
So what I do is for y'all
There ain't too many voices left
I watch my back, and watch my step
And I might forgive, but I do not forget
Come on

People think that I'm crazy
Just cause I wanna be alone
You can't depend on friends to
Help you in a squeeze
We all deal with shit on our own
And sometimes the beef can grow
Get out of hand
Yeah, you know it gets full blown
I never said that you mean the world to me
Maybe it's best that you never know

Yo, living in turbulent times
The blind leading the blind
Some call it evolution
Some say intelligent design
You say you want a revolution
You out of your mizind your sons' destitute
And their pops all in the prison
My man's back in the jam
He like the back of my hand
He just attracted to scam
He right back in the can
I never sleepwalk when you dead
You get your shuteye
I'm on the first thing in
I'm leaving on the red-eye
My brother back in rehab
Just had another relapse within himself
It's been like he's been
Fighting an inner Jihad
Telling me ain't nobody true when
They pretend to be that
So closer than friends
That's where I keep my enemy at
To any parties concerned
It's time to live it and learn
Until we're able to grow
Forever bridges we burn
My thoughts free as a bird
That's just about to emerge
And every action is heard, it
Speaks louder than words, yo

People think that I'm crazy
Just cause I wanna be alone
You can't depend on friends to
Help you in a squeeze
We all deal with shit on our own
And sometimes the beef can grow
Get out of hand
Yeah, you know it gets full blown
I never said that you mean the world to me
Maybe it's best that you never know