Now many songs do you
figure that I've written
Since I originally started making re
cords in this business
Back beginning in college,
and it's been a menace since then
But the principal challenge,
it ain't really that dif ferent
It's about me not repeating
myself at all
Or at least repeating myself the least amount,
I suppose
The reason being is that
we need some songs
That lead us off the beaten
path between my rhymes
But listen though, it's difficult now a- days
To really go against the grain,
get you some accolades
Especially with these frigid, finicky,
fickle- ass motherfuckers
Think they finally figured you out,
the fake- ass fuckers
Stop complaining
Man, fuck that shit,
I pay my taxes when I'm asked to
I'm not enthusiastic about
it, but shit I make it happen
Yeah, it's last minute,
but goddammit they cash it
"This is fiscal harassment! They
keep touching my assets!"
Now I imagine I might be
feeling different about it
If it was given outright,
witnessing it helping somebody
But it just so happens in life,
the school dis trict's too crowded
There ain't no teachers in sight,
that's why the kids are so rowdy
I just ima gine some asshole with
glasses on up at the capital
One of a thousand pawns packed in an office,
cramped up like animals
Pictures of his sister,
his mixture Lhasa Apso poodle
His 2.6 kids an d the missus
thumb- tacked to his cubicle
So damned detached from the average
man's planet he can't fathom
That he can ever be anything other than stats,
fat and taxable
He's getting his usual,
ritual 2 o'clock cup of noodles on
Fucking you with your W- 2, with
his John Denver music on
"Hey..um.oooh, I love this one. Hey
Is he a role model we can
all follow full throttle
So we don't bother having
to create our own model
That we go by? A fall guy I can
hold accountable?
'cause I don't want to hold
the bottle for my own child
Is it really my place to raise little Billy
when Hilly and William should be building
with him in the living room
Instead of bailing on him, and alienating him,
and basically failing him
Sending him sailing on
a mission to oblivion?
Then, inevitably on his day in court
and Billy ain't to blame
The bailiff asks him to raise his arm
an d say his name in court
Of course his parents ain't in court,
they play it off
Saying it ain't his fault
Blame it on Asian Born,
or his favorite artist
Beg your pardon?
Now, I do admit that in the
music business
people do and say some really stupid shit
Kids are zooming in and using
what we do and say
I can see how you can say "do not
abuse your influence"
But to all the Hillaries and the Williams
of the new millennium
If you really aren't feeling like living with the children
will be a fulfilling experience
Or something you envision
yourself willingly
and unconditionally commit
ted to from the beginning
Maybe you shouldn't be bumping bellies
from the giddyup anyway, dummy