Now or Never (feat. Phonte & Dice Raw)

Everything's changing around me

And I wanna change too

It's one thing I know

It ain't cool being no fool

I feel different today

I don't know what else to say

But I'ma get my shit together

It's now or never

I'm sick, sick of waiting in vain

Tired of playin' the game

Thinking of making a change

Finally breaking the chains

Every phase, every happening craze

When it's said and done, my head is right back in a haze

I'm ready for the next chapter and page

To start acting my age and part ways with Black Thought

From back in the days, I'm stargazing from the back of the stage

Questioning if who y'all praise is worthy of praise

What's the phrase, bygones is bygones?

**** who used to be the underdog is icons

People say the light shines once in a lifetime

Is this mid-life kind of crisis a little bit like mine?

I'm thinking not now but right now

I need some kinda sign that the future is bright now

I fuck around, do the right thing like Spike now

The quick and the dead

Which one is my lookalike now?

I'm moving ahead

Everything's changing around me

And I wanna change too

It's one thing I know

It ain't cool being no fool

I feel different today

I don't know what else to say

But I'ma get my shit together

It's now or never

Yo, opportunities lost because I blew 'em

On the sunniest days of my life, I cried through 'em

Moms was out the picture and, pops, I barely knew him

And I would pray to God but I'm tired of lying to 'em

Tired of trying to run from the things inside of us

Got a lot of fam and a lot of admirers

Who tell me that I should aspire to be changed

But when I think of changing, it's like, why even try this shit?

My mind hazy and my thoughts, they get distorted

I know my good and bad deeds, both get recorded

You do right so your soul can last

But my role was cast before I even auditioned for it

So I don't really see a end to my vice

It's just false reformation, no end of my strife

Feel the evil overpowering

You can go ahead, throw the towel in

'Cause, ****, that's the end of the fight

When you can only see the tunnel at the end of the lights

Lights out, party over, this the end of your life

And I'm out

Everything's changing around me

And I wanna change too

It's one thing I know

It ain't cool being no fool

I feel different today

I don't know what else to say

But I'ma get my shit together

It's now or never

When I look into the mirror and see my own image

It feels like there's something else far off in the distance

Something I wanna see but something that's resistant

And every day, the haunting is growing more persistent

I never noticed it before but now I can't miss it

And the constant pounding's driving me ballistic

I ran from it for years but it's still next to me

And it's growing stronger, take and leaving less of me

I can't fight it, now I know it's just destiny

And I just wonder what's gon' happen when it catches me

Will it leave me face down in the Chesapeake?

Or will it just start bringing out the best in me?

But is the best of me really just the worst of me?

And if so, yesterday could be my anniversary

In sinners court, sip port and have church with me

I'm trying to get rid of these ghosts that's cursing me

I'm feeling change is an absolute certainty

'Cause what's going on is a state of emergency

Everything's changing around me

And I wanna change too

It's one thing I know

It ain't cool being no fool

I feel different today

I don't know what else to say

But I'ma get my shit together

It's now or never

It's now or never