This Ain't Living

This town's so hype it's got soul

As a Philly cat

I'm with the roll

And the swing of my things

How they work like clockwork

Tick tock, tick tock

Times always lurking in your head

Got to go to work and get fed

That man didn't eat but he goes to sleep

Gets up at dawn not to see the sunrise

But because it's too damn cold outside

Underneath the bridge they pump the city's bilge

Into the alley they sweep the city's filth

Flowers wilt, the flower wilt

Don't tell me about no game

'Cause that is a man

And his family

The revolution family

Look at the family

Yeah dig the family

They're living the wrong way

Can't get nothing

Don't get nothing all they wanted was something like a job

Mercy, mercy

But it's been robbed

Mercy, mercy

And there's so many street side beggars

And disabled veterans, glass eyed and peddling

Drunk and just meddling

You conclude it's their fault

They like the street, they must like the asphalt

That is man, woman and children

The system has stalled shelter's home

That's not what I call it

I call it bad health

Some say help themselves

Yo if you got sick

Every hundred people that's a dollar in change

Every hundred people that's a dollar in change

This ain't living

This ain't living

This ain't living

This ain't living

This ain't living

This ain't living

This ain't living

Yeah, you know it's rough

Has enough for holding a cup full of spare change

The doctor diagnosed me as a dome full of bad brains

So, toe to toe with employers

'Cause they're telling me no

Hooked on prescription drugs

So I stay broke, I run away

But you can't run away from yourself or your health

So I deal with the cards that I'm dealt

Tweet a leet-leet

The morning bird sounding sweet

Though I sleep on the streets

I have a feeling I'm free

Of society's hand picked hypocrisy

Mercy, mercy

Don't give a damn for me

Mercy, mercy

Now what am I going to eat?

Peek through the windows of the restaurant

People eating caviar, fifty bucks on lunch

A hand-me-down meal

Full of god knows what

Put it away in my gut

Quick and then I wonder

Why I'm sick, brick for brick

I know the city like my hand print

Just a pit in the gutter

Of a skid-row ditch

But I'll survive the pain

Lets me know that I'm alive

But I still feel

That this ain't living

This ain't living

This ain't living

This ain't living

This ain't living

This ain't living

This ain't living

This ain't living

Yo, check my beat, dig my rhythm

Me belly full but me hungry so me feelin'

Once I start gaining then taxes start taking

'Cause the government's perfected funk faking

Breaking me down, striking me down

What goes around, comes around

But I keep rising seeing through the lies and

The surprise comes when I see myself

The music I felt

I'm on

This ain't living

This ain't living

No, this ain't living

This ain't living

This ain't living

This ain't living

No, this ain't living

This ain't living

This ain't living

I live with people in the streets say

This ain't living

This ain't living

This ain't living