John Legend, The Roots, Black Thought - Hard Times lyrics

Yeah yeah, ooohhhhhhhhh so many hard times
Yea yeahhh, ooohhhhhhhhhh
Yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah
YeahH, yeah yeah yeahHHHHHH

Cold, cold eyes upon me they stare
People all around me and they're all in fear
They don't seem to want me
But they won't admit i must be some kind of
Creature up here having fit's
From my party house
I'm afraid to come outside
Although I'm filled with love
I'm afraid they'll hurt my pride
So I play the part I feel they want of me
And I pull the shades so I
Won't see them seeing me

Having hard times, in this crazy town
Having hard times
There's no love to be found

Having hard times, in this crazy town
Having hard times
There's no love to be found

Yeah, yeah, yeah
In my party house I feel like meeting others
Familiar faces, creed and race, a brother
But to my surprise I find a man corrupt
Although he be my brother
He wants to hold me up

Having hard times, in this crazy town
Having hard times
There's no love to be found

Having hard times, in this crazy town
Having hard times
There's no love to be found

Check it out, seventeen years and counting
Of tryna climb up the rough
Side of the mountain
Friends warned me I'mma have to
Do it without them
No problem really, it was never about them
So my house, I never come out from
Cause every day a drought
Then a shadow of doubt come
I'm down to do whatever if
It betters my outcome
The city's like the Audubon
Ballroom waiting on Malcolm
Cause people wanna see my
Blood flow like fountains
I got nowhere to go and
Still feel like bouncing
I'm looking for the closest window
I can rap from
Or for the highest speaker-box that
I can shout from
And I'm hoping to feel like something is real
But it's no hope when you are
But a spoke in a wheel a brick in a wall
Tryna find an opening still
Having hard times, tryna climb over the hill

Yeah, so many hard times, yeah, yeah
Sleeping on motel floors, yeah, yeah
Knocking on my brother's door
Eating Spam, Oreos
Drinking Thunderbird baby, yeaaaa-a ahh

Having hard times, in this crazy town
Having hard times
There's no love to be found

Having hard times, in this crazy town
Having hard times
There's no love to be found

Having hard times, in this crazy town
Having hard times
There's no love to be found

Having hard times, in this crazy town
Having hard times
There's no love to be found

Yea yeah, yea yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yea-a ah, yeah
Yeah, mmmmm, yeah, yeaaah
So many hard times, yeah, yeah
Sleeping on motel floors, yeah, yeah
Knocking on my brother's door
Eating Spam and Oreos
Drinking Thunderbird baby, ohhhhhhhhh, yeah
I don't wanna do it no more no no no, no no
I don't wanna go back there no more
No ohhhhhh
I don't wanna, I don't wanna, I don't wanna
I don't wanna