Me & Ms. Pain
The pain is gone!
Nah that bitch never leave
Got me waking up in cold sweats
Yo I never sleep
Properly, I'm no Socrates but
My philosophy is
She gone follow me as long as I live
A minute ago, I was riding bicycle
And I can buy a Now & Laters with 5 nickels
When it was washing dishes and homework
Cable and bullshit
I hit the block and never left
It was exciting watching life bring light
To what I'm writing about like
A lamp in a cave
While I'm trapped in this maze
But Frankie Beverly wouldn't walk in
My all-stars for a day
I watched kids play and
Think ignorance is bliss
Then I watched Kid-N-Play on House Party
And wish I was them
See you could say I'm brainwashed
Cause I came from an era where
Niggas don't care about nothing
And you're judged by how much your J's cost
But me being the rebel I am
I never gave a damn
Leave it to Beaver and the rest of you suckas
I'm complex like the magazine
Say I'm abstract
Like a trigonometry quiz and science lab rats
If I wasn't I
You could see the pain in my eyes
I watched brothers kill brothers over
System of legal tender
Deteriorating my loins with liquor
Looking for joy
I put my soul on a platter, enjoy
I do this for the regular people
Who out the in crowd
Make it popular to be unpopular
Cause if we all came together
Ain't no stopping us and it hurts me so
To think how they divided us like
An island in the road
Just in control if you ain't know and yo
Lock my body can't trap my mind
I got two decades of experience on my resume
Say I don't qualify and I'll call you a lie
I'm on a whole 'nother plateau
You still trynna be fly
And that goes for the narrow-minded
Whose ancestor was the pharaoh
He went from number 1 to zero
Let's take it back
The pain is gone!
Nah she still on me
She stalking my innermost thoughts
I guess she want me
Cause her primary fear is to die lonely
I got no disdain for Ms pain
She leave me love letters sealed with a kiss
Lipstick stains on the mirror
She help me see things a little clearer
Couldn't experience joy if she
Wasn't near us
I remember throwing shots back
'til I collapsed
Waking up hung over in a effort
To give her the cold shoulder
It never worked as soon as I sobered up
I couldn't avoid her tender touch
Like when Hezekaia died
Couldn't look his momma in the eyes
Feeling I contributed to his demise
Guilt stricken, heart victimized
Postpartum Syndrome, blacking out
She wishing it was me, she cried
Each tear was like a symphony orchestra
Beethoven over the organs
A snag of tremendous proportions
Take this recording as the truth distorted
Through the eyes of a man who
Reaped the fruit's of her courtship
And no fortune could ever overturn
The misfortunes I absorbed in
The pain made me impure like foreskin
More that I can bargain
For, still I love her forever more
The pain is gone!
Nah that bitch never leave
Got me waking up in cold sweats
Yo I never sleep
Properly, I'm no Socrates but
My philosophy is
She gone follow me as long as I live
And even when I die, she gon' follow my kids
Soul brother, Ab-Soul dJ Davis
Where'd that name come from?
Ab-Soul, it derives from
Absolute-ly of course absolutely
It's genuine, Precise was my first
One of my first names
Changed that cause of copyright issues
Then it became Absolute
Changed that cause of copyright issues
Then it became Ab-Soulute
Changed that cause of copyright issues
Ab-Soul just stuck
It's just been workin' for me
It's soulful, like, this type of
Music you're doing is soul, hip-hop soul
Is it in that sense or what?
Hey, funny story, like Soul
I added the soul because my
Sister was doing this production
The Dream Girls, right
And I seen Jimmy Hurley jimmy Hurley?
Jimmy Hurley in the part when he be like
"Jimmy got soul, Jimmy got soul
Jimmy got, Jimmy got, jimmy got soulll!"