3.Right Now
featuring Black Thought of The Roots and Styles of Beyond
Someone right now is leaving their apartment looking down at the
street wondering where there car went
Someone in the car sitting at a signal in front of a restaurant
staring through the window at someone
right now with their finger in their teeth who could use a
little floss
Right across the street theres somebody on the curb who really
needs a jacket spent half a grand at a
bar getting plastered now hes gotta walk fourteen blocks to work
at a shop where hes about to get fired.
Someone right now is looking pretty tired staring at a laptop
trying to get inspired Somebody living
right across the street shes wrote the best things shes written
all week but her best friends coughing up
blood in the sink cant even think what happened feeling so
confused and he knows it looks bad but there
nothing he can do I wonder what its like to be right there in
his shoes
But no im just taking it in out the window of a hotel bedroom
again tomorrow ill be gone I dont know
when ill be back and this world everything can change just like
that, that, just like that, just like that
that, just like that, just like that
Yo somebody right now is dropping his vote inside a box and
trying not to get shot in his throat
For the act of freedom right now somebody is stuck in Iraq
hoping that he gets shipped back breathing in
a war that hes not really sure of the reasons so we show our
support when the press mislead them though we
more then remain proud and salute the troops get some I know you
boys got some work to do
Meanwhile right now someones 25 to life and is standing on the
corner with their thumb up hitchhiking
stretching off a lotto ticket hoping for a real winner sneaking
through the water just to work and to eat
a real dinner
Right now someone wishes they were you were not instead of
second guessing freedom thoughts of quiet suicide
But right now im staring at the window at a frame with holes in
his arm and holes in his jeans he pulled
out his siger and sparked the light and walked right around the
corner just outta my sight
But yo im just taking it in from the second story hotel window
again, the TV's on, and my bags are
packed, but in this world everything can change just like that,
like that, like that, like that,
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