Dog Day Afternoon

Good morning, boys and girls.

It's a new day, what we call the morning after.

Ain't nothing changed, though.

Still the same war, yer' head feelin like it exploded last night, right.

All of the people can't be alright all of the time they tell me

But some people seem to have a right to have it all

All of my people let's unite right now

Don't follow Babylon system because they're capitalistic cannibals

I'm callin' for equal rights and justice just like the teacher Peter Tosh did

Tryin' to reach my people in the mush pit at the festivals

Or at the clubs, the cars, the parks, at homes - wherever you choose to roam

Promoe on the microphone, don't care if I'm right or no I just shoot the foam

Don't know if it's night or afternoon, but I know it's the morning after soon

And I know I'm gonna pass out soon, too fast too soon, bring me back the tune

So I can vibe all night like there's no tomorrow

Come with me on a flight, leave this world so shallow

Piece of the pie, keys of the ride, E's for the high, dime piece on the side

That's what they all want aint's it, y'all gon' feel it morning after, no more laughter

Work in iniquity and we think we are free

Just because we can't see, the chorus sing it with me!

Oh yes

- It's been a hard day's night now it's a dog day afternoon

I'm so tired of the world right now

- It's been a hard day's night now it's a dog day afternoon

Never wanna wake up no more

- It's been a hard day's night now it's a dog day afternoon

Just wanna take it easy

- I am with the people when the world unites...

No peace - no justice, they're restless, don't need get busted for questions

Seek and trust in affection, plus keep in touch with the checks and

People wieldin' weapons at each other to keep it covered

And keep it comin', the power that be just wanna see the numbers

Would probably eat their mothers, don't really speak to others

Just sit back and watch people fall into deeper slumbers

Of money and materialistic shit

That's unequally distributed

And the things that we're willing to risk for it, to just get a whiff of it

Ride around town in a crispy whip, get a pretty chick to kiss my lip

I want every day to be like a festival, I wanna kick back have nothing else to do

But eat cake in the park, drink makers mark, swim around the pool like a mako shark

But what am I gonna make the bacon off? And I get no sleep still awake at dawn

All I wanna do is hold my chest out, all you gonna get is totally stressed out

Howlin like a Wolf, screaming like Jay Hawkins

With nightmares of what their dreams might cost them

Oh yes

- It's been a hard day's night now it's a dog day afternoon

Thinkin' of when times get better

- It's been a hard day's night now it's a dog day afternoon

Pointin' my eyes to the sky

- It's been a hard day's night now it's a dog day afternoon

And you know

- I'm chillin' with my people... when the world unites

All I hear are clocks tickin', I'm stuck in this hot kitchen

in the fuckin' wok sizzin', watchin' how the plot thickens

Watchin' all these cops friskin' little kids for shopliftin'

Tellin' em to stop, listen! Run and check the job listings

Nah mister, I don't work for slave wages

I don't want my playstation to trade places with a pacemaker

I just relaxed real cool, sat back looked pass the rules

You and your pack of fools ruined my afternoon

I swear these motherfuckers got a hold of me, bloodsuckers controllin' me

Won't let go of me, and they throwin' me to the wall, but I fall on my own two feet

Could it be cus I'm rollin' trees and my block smells like potpourri

With my eyes shot red like the Cyclops in the Odyssey when I go to sleep

It is cus I don't hold the grease? Fuck that man I flow on beats

Fuck the man patrollin' streets, cuffin' hands and holdin heat

I'd rather earn a dollar with a dirty collar

workin' the early hours for something worth the bother!

Don't need no 9-5

- It's been a hard day's night now it's a dog day afternoon

Not to know that I'm alive

- It's been a hard day's night now it's a dog day afternoon

See I know that time will fly

- It's been a had day's night now it's a dog day afternoon

Even if I don't climb inside, and vibe...

- Relaxin' with my people when the world unites!