Headaches and Woes

Intro:<br><br>oh man i got a splittin` headache<br>and my heart is broken up into a thousand tiny little microscopic pieces<br><br>Chorus:<br><br>i got a head full of headaches a heart that`s full of woes<br>i`m constantly singin` them downhome blues and not many people knows<br>that leaves me with a twisted view of the whole wide world as i know it<br>and i guess i got no choice but to be a poet<br><br>Verse One:<br><br>now in my natural habitat i gravitate towards having that<br>and i elevate on having that<br>and i`ll never get caught in your rabbit trap<br>from Yellowstone to Venezuela<br>Nigeria down through Australia<br>there`s somethin i learned that i gotta tell ya<br>there`s a whole lot of us ain`t wrapped too tight<br><br>now i could been your doctor or your lawyer<br>or come to your house and clean up for ya<br>self destruction won`t destroy ya<br>if you got somebody that`s lookin out for ya<br>men are murdered women raped<br>people gettin beat on videotape<br>and people elsewhere tryin to escape<br>just to come to America to lick the plate<br>helicopters scope the land<br>hell is here so i hope you `stand<br>hip-hop culture is African <br>and rappers like me gon` rule the earth<br><br>Chorus<br><br>Verse One:<br><br>now everyday i manifest and i generate and smoke cannabis<br>and i penetrate and i innovate and i demonstrate from Los Angeles<br>from Amsterdam to the Northern border<br>Panama Spain to Atlanta Georgia<br>somethin` i learned that i haven`t told ya<br>brothers like me don`t live too long<br><br>now i know you know it ain`t who you know but do you know you<br>see cause you could go just like any Joe and that`s for sho` true<br>so if you`re straight and you`re narrow and the snake`s in the barrel<br>and the serpent is under the rainbow<br>and you`re head over heels instead of the reals<br>then you`re bound to be tangled<br>cause brothers are singin` and dancin` and rappin` <br>like they was a vaudeville act<br>but knowledge is wealth and you gotta know self<br>and you gotta know God`s still black<br>cause every so often i sit and i wonder why i even trip at all<br>cause half are down when i get down<br>the other half wanna see me fall<br>waitin around all heaven bound and you seen that your L-7`s round<br>and when the sky falls to the ground <br>and you found that the only way up is down<br>don`t give me no additives no sedatives or preservatives<br>or repetitive rhetoric you give<br>just let it live<br>yet my head is poundin` i`m dealin` with this load on my mind<br><br>i got a head full of headaches a heart that`s full of woes man<br>i`m constantly singin` them downhome blues and not many peoples knows man<br>that leaves me with a twisted view of the whole wide world as i know it<br>and i guess i got no choice but to be a<br>i got no choice but to be<br>i guess i got no choice but to be a poet<br>i guess i got no choice but to be a prophet<br>i guess i got no choice but to be a griot <br>a gangster<br>a athlete<br>a bum<br>a nobody<br>a criminal<br>a convict<br>a black man<br>a MC<br>a MC<br>a MC<br><br>Chorus<br><br>Verse Three:<br><br>mmmhmmm<br>you know that`s right<br>that`s why people got to get their high so they can get high<br>they blast and they passed the pipe to get high<br>just like a Jedi<br>never said i would i<br>even if i could i<br>didn`t do it but i just rather get a little shut eye<br>so i sleep from dawn to dusk in a bomb shelter<br>cause ya never know<br>when the man is gonna drop that big one<br>oh pelting, people burning melting<br>alarm the farmers<br>armageddon karma psychic readings<br>greetings earthlings i`m from mars<br>got two more planets to go and then i`m on my way to the stars<br>oh no there i go through the ozone layer hole<br>where the men are the men and they mean it<br>down where the wind don`t blow where the indo grow in the snow<br>and everybody po`