Ordinary Joe (Wch)

I'm hollow to the core, yeah my bones are empty

No marrow, no mass, but heart I got plenty

Though no blood flows through these veins, somethin' is in me

Lyndon, Jimmy, Deloris, Jerry and Uncle Ricky

My whole family tree 'bout as normal as me

Everybody got they own story of what's supposed to be

And what could've been, what should've been

Should've been led on to the fact that I'm destined to never win

How come every record I'm on ends up in the 99 cent bin?

Pick it up if you need something to wipe while you're shittin'

Can't pipe down, boy, rappers need rippin'

I'll never be like Mike or even Scottie Pippen

Goofy A&R tell me the elements are missin'

Chippin' in his two cents, listen, nothin' is smitten

Sittin' on leavin' more brisk than Lypton

Nipped in the bud, how come your bomb record was a dud?

I should reap what I sow,

My life is just so ordinary, I'm a ordinary joe

On the contrary this a new all-time low

This is a new all-time low

I should reap what I sow,

My life is just so ordinary, I'm a ordinary joe

On the contrary this a new all-time low

On second thought I get another chance tomorrow

This plastic life that we fed intravenously

The tubes that we watch religiously

Not real, nothin' is, nothin' begins without an end

This is big business but back to the test again

Justice will fail us we must look from within

This is the truth, I got the blueprints right here in the booth

Is you in? Then jump in, the deadpool is now accepting applications

For the nameless and faceless

The has-beens and the almost famous

Fucked in our anus without a reach-around

Reach way down until you found that dark somethin' hidin' out

Smoke from my lungs and flush from my liver

'Til it slivers out my mouth hole

I remember how life was before my downfall

Before these wars closed in

Soaked in sweat, A.K.A.

Hard work'll get you nowhere, don't forget

A working class hero's nothin' to be

Trust me, don't do it, I watched my old man go through it

And my whole family live with no respect, we give it

Are you here to pay homage are you here to bear witness?

Working class hero's nothin' to be

Trust me, don't do it, I watched my old man go through it

And my whole family live with no respect, we give it

Are you here to pay homage are you here to bear witness?

Smidgeons and digits and acres of paper

Negotiations and crunchin' numbers, contracts

A new savior has attached to this beat like a serial rapist

The girls with short skirts and high heels on they feet

You'll never defeat me, I'm a centipede

You cut off an end of me but I only grow back stronger

There's no remedy

Honestly, I never drank hennessy, I can't afford it

I only drank forties, lordy lordy

No fuckin' bitches'll court me, distort the image of the world

But more importantly, there's more to me than meets the eye

I cordially invite you into the mind of a ordinary joe

With an ordinary name livin' in a ordinary house

Never see things like fame, or money, bitches and champaigne

Your cause are lame, beats are weak and your raps sound the same

Ain't a god damned game, stop sayin' it is

I break my ribs tryin' to fill in these ad-libs

Mad kids can't see with closed eye lids

Still, half these MC's don't know who I is

I should reap what I sow,

My life is just so ordinary, I'm a ordinary joe

On the contrary this a new all-time low

This is a new all-time low

I should reap what I sow,

My life is just so ordinary, I'm a ordinary joe

On the contrary this a new all-time low

On second thought I get another chance tomorrow

A working class hero's nothin' to be

Trust me, don't do it, I watched my old man go through it

And my whole family live with no respect, we give it

Are you here to pay homage are you here to bear witness?

Working class hero's nothin' to be

Trust me, don't do it, I watched my old man go through it

And my whole family live with no respect, we give it

Are you here to pay homage are you here to bear witness?