Lyrics Criminal (feat. Truck North & Saigon).lrc The Roots
[id: pshkvbde]
[ar: The Roots]
[al: Rising Down]
[ti: Criminal (feat. Truck North & Saigon)]
[length: 04:09]
[00:26.42]Monday they predict the storm
[00:28.54]Tuesday they predict the bang
[00:30.90]Wednesday they cover the crash
[00:33.70]And I can see it’s all about cash
[00:35.91]And they got the nerve to hunt down my ass
[00:38.12]And treat me like a criminal
[00:40.73]Look, it is what it is because of what it was
[00:43.39]I did what I did ’cause it does what it does
[00:45.58]I don’t put nothin’ above what I am, what I love
[00:48.57]My family, my blood, my city and my hood
[00:51.05]Hater for the greater good, I’m back from Hollywood
[00:53.50]And I ain’t changed a lick, though I know I probably should
[00:56.13]But, what I’m doin’ is not a good look
[00:58.74]I never did it by the good book as a lifetime crook
[01:01.36]All the petty crime took a toll on me
[01:04.09]I look around at my homies that’s gettin’ old on me
[01:06.28]But still somethin’ gotta hold on me, maybe it’s faith
[01:08.90]If it’s comin’, yo I’m willing to wait
[01:11.19]I’m not runnin’, I done ran through the muck
[01:13.06]I done scrambled and such
[01:14.14]I done robbed an odd job and gambled enough
[01:16.80]Till I’m put up in handcuffs and pissin’ in a cup
[01:19.49]If there’s a God I don’t know if he listenin’ or what?
[01:24.23]Monday they predict the storm
[01:27.10]Tuesday they predict the bang
[01:29.66]Wednesday they cover the crash
[01:31.99]And I can see it’s all about cash
[01:34.37]And they got the nerve to hunt down my ass
[01:36.89]And treat me like a criminal
[01:41.24]Yeah, it is what it is and that’s how it go
[01:43.60]Get treated like a criminal if crime is all you know
[01:46.11]Get get greeted like a nigga if the nigga is all you show
[01:48.79]A public enemy to send a eye in the scope
[01:51.21]My city like a island where you can’t find a boat
[01:53.92]Have you wishin’ for a raft and prayin’ that hope flows
[01:56.10]Some will [Incomprehensible]
[01:57.63]Who lookin’ for a chair and some real strong rope
[02:01.15]Just to end it all here, screamin’, “Fuck the mayor”
[02:03.80]He see the faces at the bottom of the welfare
[02:06.32]They act like I’m somethin’ to fear trapped in urban warfare
[02:09.33]Pullin’ triggers at a college career
[02:11.45]Can’t ignore the call of the wild that’s drawin’ ’em near
[02:13.92]Try to make fast money last long, some years
[02:16.66]Try to laugh it off still couldn’t lose the tears
[02:19.11]To the rules, I will not adhere, break the law, yeah
[02:25.89]Monday they predict the storm
[02:28.65]Tuesday they predict the bang
[02:30.78]Wednesday they cover the crash
[02:33.39]And I can see it’s all about cash
[02:36.05]And they got the nerve to hunt down my ass
[02:38.14]And treat me like a criminal
[02:40.64]Who wanna challenge mine? I’m sick of St. Valentine
[02:43.14]I did the violent crimes that’s why I got this style of rhyme
[02:46.24]Seek repentance to spittin’ them sentences to senseless
[02:48.58]Experience is the difference, you can’t convince this
[02:51.24]In a crime sense, niggas is infants
[02:52.91]I’m like a senior citizen, still livin’ but gettin’ benefits
[02:56.07]Put emphasis on hittin’ my nemesis in high percentages
[02:58.72]Crooked ass cops is the reason for my belligerence
[03:01.42]And it gets deeper than that
[03:03.14]Remember nights I used to sleep wit a gat
[03:04.76]With a package of crack under my sneaker strap
[03:06.57]D’s sneak attack and raid me, it took a week for that
[03:09.29]Beat the rat, but you’re sayin’, “Look, he think he the mack”
[03:11.88]Fuck ya’ll, niggas who thinkin’ they might try us
[03:14.12]Watch us inside riots, blue cars and light fires
[03:16.52]We already been knocked, scrutinized
[03:18.38]Plus, cops rush to brutalize us
[03:19.98]America’s polluted by lust, who could I trust?
[03:22.20]If I can’t trust you, then I might touch you
[03:24.00]If I ain’t got love for you then fuck you
[03:27.46]Monday they predict the storm
[03:29.83]Tuesday they predict the bang
[03:32.46]Wednesday they cover the crash
[03:34.82]And I can see it’s all about cash
[03:37.55]And they got the nerve to hunt down my ass
[03:39.85]And treat me like a criminal
[03:43.28]Monday they predict the storm
[03:45.57]Tuesday they predict the bang
[03:48.06]Wednesday they cover the crash
[03:50.67]And I can see it’s all about cash
[03:52.96]And they got the nerve to hunt down my ass
[03:55.92]And treat me like a criminal
[04:03.21]Year of Release: 2008