A Day in the Life

Aw yeah

Back to basics, kicking shit in Asics

It's like this

Ha, it's just a day in the life (Of three black men)

It's just a day in the life (Of three black men)

It's just a day in the life (Of three black men)

Day one

I wake up to the Sun in the morning, after Justice hour

Refinement is in order, so I bust this shower

Get dressed, but first my mind gets blessed

Not words, but best cess compressed in a Philly

Silly of me, to think that I

Could ever have a morning where the phone didn't ring, I am sir

A sweet young thing, once a romancer

I didn't really fancy her, so build equality

I get a beep downstairs from Y.Z.O

Knowledge in his head, beats pump the red Geo Tracker

And in it, we get much blacker

Ride around town, running down crackers

Last Sunday of the month, so to Harlem we went

Not clubbing, the Parliaments of Harriet Tubman

Peace to the gods (The gods)

Peace to the earths (The earths)

Peace to the seeds (The seeds)

Peace to the birth of the nation of the five percent, that's sent

Intelligent brothers to represent

We left the rally, now we're maxing uptown

8th Ave, 25th, 45th and the Polo Grounds

And when it's time to refuel

Lord Jamar jump in the car, say, "Back to the Rule"

It's like that y'all (Y'all)

You know it's as sharp as a knife, it's just a day in the life

It's just a day in the life

It's just a day in the life (Of three black men)

It's just a day in the life (Of three black men)

It's just a day in the life (Of three black men)

Day two

Yo, check this out

Now every mornin' when I wake up, phone calls seem to take up

My time, but I don't mind 'cause it's fine

I don't get heated, even though I can't sleep

Jump in the shower, then I brush the teeth

Hit the stereo in an instant (An instant)

And then I twist up a bud, light an incense (An incense)

Call up a honey if I'm not feeling sunny

Or call up my boys, when I want to make noise

The brother Lord Jamar

The brother Derek X, ahem

Oh, I forgot, I meant "Sadat"

X and I flex when I'm writing a rhyme

I got thousands in the bank, but I never did a crime

Afternoons, I go shopping, but I don't lift

Back in '84, I used to wear K-Swiss

Catch me in Yonkers at the mall buying gear

Take in a movie and sit in the rear

I might be in the studio, hard at work

Making hype tracks, that sell by the stacks

When it gets dark, I chill with my cutie

We almost broke up because 'cause she started acting snooty

When I'm with the fellas, we hit the clubs

The Building, Red Zone, always see a head flown

But I walk away from the bullshit

And you don't stop (Stop)

And you don't quit (Quit)

It's just a day in the life (Of three black men)

It's just a day in the life (Of three black men)

It's just a day in the life (Of three black men)

Day three

I wake up at the eight-ish hour, then I take a shower

See a tip from last night still left in the tray

Some stick of boom music 'cause I found a fat L

Nine times out of ten, I used to start this way

Then I study jewels and gems instead of Christianity hymns

Then walk past him to see my man Marco Polo who works in sports stuff (Stuff)

Your two shirts that's tough (That's tough)

A baldie that's rough (That's rough)

Call up the gods, slide to three main places

We know a lot of faces, so the romp game came work

Do you think that I'm a jerk 'cause on my face there's a smirk?

Used to, party to party, rock from body to body

But my nightly smokes are spent on the cool down low

Rolling up dough and doing mad shows

Not dealing with hoes 'cause AIDS is a bitch

In the nightime I get rich 'cause kids pump the tape

Uptown Bronx, from the porch to the fire escape (Scape)

And you don't stop

So to my prehistoric days and dinosaur phase

I was completely energized using Islamic rays

I'm the, royal highness, so clear your sinus

Put your trust in the plus and conceal the minus

Your head's unravelling, my force is of a javelin

Your tongue is in a knot (Knot)

And you're babbling on

To the pretense, that is the god, human?

Come from the darkness to where I'm looming

The hardest working man ever, sea or land

I got the power to devour what MC's withstand (Withstand)