Lyrics Bread And Butter.lrc The Roots
[id: pshkqrpr]
[ar: The Roots]
[al: Game Theory Deluxe Edition (Explicit Version)]
[ti: Bread And Butter]
[length: 03:41]
[00:06.36](Feat. Truck North)
[00:07.21]Ooh, Ooh, Yeah
[00:10.06]It’s Hard, Hard, Hard, Hard, Yeah
[00:10.98]Oh, Yeah
[00:39.86][Verse 1: Truck North]
[00:40.76]Yeah
[00:41.73]The Sirens, The Lights Is Blindin
[00:44.44]Battle Cries Sound Off, Warriors Dyin
[00:46.20]Last Call At The Bar For Snakes And Tyrants
[00:48.98]Hands Up, That’s A Massacre The Cops Kept Firin
[00:50.74]Run Amok, Keep Y’all Eternally Cryin
[00:53.49]Fed Up, Place Red Stains On Global Giants
[00:56.13]The Brain Of An Orson Wells
[00:57.98]Stuck In A Masterpiece, Citizen Kane’s Personal Hell
[01:01.61]It’s Done, And It’s Hot Where Them Hustlers Dwell
[01:04.36]And The Air Bears The Stench Of A Corpsey Smell
[01:06.15]Homie Down On His Luck One Foot In The Jail
[01:08.87]And He Down To His Last Wit A Quarter To Sell
[01:11.53]This Right Here, World Premiere Of The Last Days
[01:14.25]The Final Paragraphs To The Book’s Last Page
[01:17.03]You Could Feel It Comin, No Runnin Away
[01:19.72]Let’s Get Free, Or Let’s Get Paid
[01:21.54]Same Shit Different Day
[01:22.40]The Cornerstone To Where I Lay
[01:25.10]It’s Shattered Glass And Crack Bags Where They Play
[01:26.91]And Scattered Ass Is Passed In Ridiculous Ways
[01:29.62]These Cats Chef Like They Isaac Hayes
[01:31.43]Paralell To The Grave
[01:33.29]Stuck In The Game Wit No Rules
[01:35.18]And We Screamin For Some Water And Some Edible Food
[01:37.87]Man I’m Right There, Rabbit Ears, Nuttin To Lose
[01:40.55]This Is Whatchu Ain’t Learnin In School
[01:42.30]I’m Tryin Tell You It’s Hard
[01:43.23][Chorus:]
[01:44.14]A Loaf Of Bread, Milk And Eggs, Stick Of Butter Man
[01:45.96]Somebody Mother Lies Dead In The Gutter
[01:48.69]Sheriff Down By Them That’s Talkin That Gutter
[01:50.48]Tell The Kids Don’t Look Under Those Covers, Mayne [X2]
[02:01.30][Verse 2: Black Thought]
[02:04.09]Check It Out
[02:04.96]A Child Is Born, His Mother Is Gone
[02:05.84]He In The Middle Of It Literally, Tusslin Strong
[02:07.69]For His Life, The Tide High
[02:10.40]In The Eye Of The Storm A Mannish Boy Arrive
[02:12.23]And The Riot Is On
[02:14.00]Wit No Spare Time To Try To Respond
[02:15.86]Or Prepare Times It’s Hard Not Becomin A Headline
[02:18.59]Or Prayin In The Night When It’s Bedtime
[02:20.37]Or Layin Ya Head Down
[02:22.20]Cuz You Already Know What It Is Now
[02:23.04]You Know A Lot Of Leaders Ain’t Honest
[02:25.70]And They Can’t Keep A Promise
[02:27.51]And I Hate To Speak About It But It’s All Freakanomics
[02:29.49]Cramped And Proud Of It, You Amped And You Rowdy
[02:31.21]Treadin Water Tryina Lift Up Ya Head Without Drownin
[02:34.82]This Type Of Shit Can Make Ya Heart Stop From Poundin
[02:37.50]Butchu Pushin For The Top Too Scared To Stop
[02:39.33]Now It Gets Deep, Bodies Are Floatin Around In The Streets
[02:42.05]Lotta People Who Won’t Even Be Around In A Week
[02:44.70]Man Get The Operation Gone
[02:46.52]Whatch’all Waitin On?
[02:48.42]We Been Patient, Y’all Mo’fuckas Takin Long
[02:51.15]The Television Gettin All The Information Wrong
[02:52.92]Doin How They Do It Gettin They Miseducation On
[02:55.66]They Already Late
[02:58.30]Somebody Been Was ‘posed To Regulate
[02:59.29]Instead Of Wait Before They Let The Levee Break
[03:01.05]You Try Runnin From The Truth But It’s Givin Chase
[03:03.78]I Got To Ask Myself Yo, Is Any Nigga Safe?
[03:06.59][Chorus X3]
[03:39.45]Year of Release: 2006