Talib Kweli - Hamster Wheel lyrics

I see ya, yeah I see ya
See, I'm lookin right at you
I eye-contact you
You see me, and I'mma be me, Uh
First, I'm sayin Hi, then I'm wavin Bye bye
We get in, we get in
Girl, you're so fly, you're so fly

Yo, these swallows is horny as Charlie Parker
Be cutting em cause I'm studying
These birds like ornithology
Follow em when they tweeting
Holler instead of speaking give it a name
She played the wicked games every weekend
Broke up with a dude for
Almost ending her life
Came over for the closure
Ended up spending the night
Got cozy in this apartment
Wine bottles started popping
Put scratches up on his back


They questioning where he got them
Forgot it was her, she Freddy
Her fingers was like machetes
The fucking was so steady
She shredded him like confetti
Confronted him 'bout every single chick
Shes like "enough already, "
I need to be with someone else
This stuff is so petty
She was reacting to things he did in the past
This nigga was no saint
He couldn’t say no to ass
Her behavior so rash
She gave up all her power
He put her out on the
Street, nowhere to live, nowhere to shower
How she gonna make it through the night?
How she's so accepting of
Her station in life?

She always carrying a baby with her
Her spitting image just like looking
At her baby pictures
Her fate is sealed cause she dependent
On a man for real
How she running these streets
But always standing still?
She need to get up off the hamster wheel
She need to get up off the hamster wheel
How she running the streets
But still standing still?
She need to get up off the hamster wheel
She need to get up off the hamster wheel

Battery in the back
Popping up with the coppertop
Popular with the ass of the Hottentot
Niggas whooping and hollering
At Andromeda when
She passing the barber shop
Only job that's an option
McDonalds or telemarketer
Hard for her making ends come together
This ain't the Beatles
She needing some anesthesia like
She going under needles
She doing so much cutting
It's a wonder she bleeding
The money was so seductive
No wonder she ain't leaving
First time she felt like a woman
Was when a dude screamed
"Nice ass!" out the car window driving past
Nobody showed her how to live so
All she do is dream
They call her Rocky cause her
Makeup is like a mask

Behind bars for credit card schemes
She pulled a month ago
First she getting high, now we waving bye bye
She's waiting out her station just the same
As she's waiting at the station late at
Night for a train that never came