Now or Never

Everything's changin around me and I wanna change too

It's one thing I know, it ain't cool bein no fool

I feel different today, I don't know what else to say

But I'm a get my shit together, it's now or never

(Now or never, now or never, now or never ...)

[Verse 1 - Black Thought]

Uh, I'm sick, sick of waitin in vain, tired of playin the game

Thinkin of makin a change, finally breakin the chains

Every phase, every happenin, craze

When it's said and done, my head is right back in the haze

I'm ready for the next chapter and page to start actin my age

And part ways with Black Thought from back in the days

I'm stargazin from the back of the stage

Questionin if who y'all praise, is worthy of praise

What's the phrase "bygones is bygones?"

Niggaz who used to be the underdog is icons

People say the light shines once in a lifetime

Is this meant like kind or crisis a little bit like mine?

I'm thinkin not now but right now

I need some kind of sign that the future is bright now

I fuck around, "Do The Right Thing" like Spike now

The quick and the dead, which one is my lookalike now, I'm movin ahead

[Chorus]

[Verse 2 - Phonte]

Yo, opportunities lost because I blew 'em

On the sunniest days of my life, I cried through 'em

Moms is out the picture and Pops I barely knew him

And I would pray to God but I'm tired of lyin to Him

Tired of tryin to run from the things inside of us

Got a lot of fam and a lot of admirers

Who tell me that I should aspire to

change but when I think of changin, it's like why even try this shit?

My mind hazy and my thoughts they get distorted

I know my good and bad deeds both get recorded

You do right so your soul can last

But my role was cast before I even auditioned for it

So I don't really see an end to my vice

It's just false reformation, no end to my strife

Feel the evil overpowerin

You can go 'head, throw the towel in, 'cause nigga that's the end of the fight

When you can only see the tunnel at the end of the lights

Like South party over, it's the end of your life and I'm out

[Chorus]

[Verse 3 - Dice Raw]

When I look into the mirror and see my own image

It feel like there's something else far off in the distance

Something I wanna see but something that's resistant

And everyday the heart it in is growin more persistent

I never noticed it before but now I can't miss it

And the constant pounding's drivin me ballistic

I ran from it few years but it's still next to me

And it's growin stronger, takin, leavin less of me

I can't fight it now, I know it's just destiny

And I just wonder what's gonna happen when it catches me

Will it leave me face down, in a chest of pee

Or will it just start bringin out the best of me?

But is the best of me really just the worst of me

And if so, yesterday could be my anniversary

In sinners' court, it's important to have church with me

I'm tryin to get rid of these ghosts that's cursin me

I feel a change is an absolute certainty

'Cause what's goin on is a state of emergency (state of emergency)

[Chorus]

Everything's changin around me and I wanna change too

It's one thing I know, it ain't cool bein no fool

I feel different today, I don't know what else to say

But I'm a get my shit together, it's now or never

It's now or never