The Sign (feat. Pase Rock)

You wanna watch it all fall apart

Every time I walk, I watch

I look, I notice, I observe, I read the signs

And the signs are running in the wrong direction

The signs are not naming the streets

Or leading you to the highway

The signs are naming names

Tombstones to mark the dead of children not even born

I don't mean an abortion, I mean what is to come

The signs are telling me to turn back around

The signs are telling me to research my past

The signs are telling me to learn from my mistakes

The signs are asking me questions

Do you want to watch it all fall apart?

Do you have any control?

Is there anything that you can do?

Time is not a nice person

I know because the sign said it

Time can be generous but ultimately time is indifferent

Time does not give two damns or a fuck

So what will you do?

What will we do?

So I'm in the middle of the street talking to the signs

And people are looking at me pointing and laughing

Like this motherfucker is crazy

You may not see the signs

Do you not see the signs?

If there is one thing in this world that you can depend on

That you could bet your last dollar on

It's the ignorance of the American people

But still I have faith

And still I read the signs

They are indeed there

Some of us are lost and will not find our way

No matter what the signs say

Some of us don't see the signs because we are too busy shopping

Some of us don't see the signs because we can't help but stop

And look at the accidents and stare

We are in a daze

We are amazed by the world's displays

Some of us don't see the signs because we are giving spare change

To the homeless

We are getting gas

We are volunteering for duty

And we are watching television

We are driving around in circles

On spinners

And we are working eight to six

We are on our way to the club, we are high, we are drunk

And we are sober

And we do not see the signs

We are listening to a moron babble

While listening to tongues that lie

To give them an air

We give them a hand

We give them both eyes

So we can not see the signs

Slow down, children playing in these streets

And they can not read the signs

They are only children

Stop

Stop

I fear there is no U-turn

And that this road dead ends

Because we can not read the signs

Do you not see the signs?

We must read the signs

And we must turn around

We must turn around

We gotta turn this shit around

And we gotta read the signs

We must read the signs

We must read the signs

We must read the signs

We gotta read the signs

We gotta turn this shit around

We gotta turn this shit around

We gotta turn this shit around

We gotta read the signs