Now or Never - The Roots Everything's changing around me and I wanna change too It's one thing I know, it ain't cool being no fool I feel different today, I don't know what else to say But I'ma get my shit together, it's now or never Now or never, now or never Now or never, now or never Uh, I'm sick, sick of waiting in vain, tired of playing the game Thinking of making a change, finally breaking the chains Every phase, every happening, 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 acting my age And part ways with Black Thought from back in the days I'm stargazing from the back of the stage Questioning 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 thinking 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 moving ahead
Everything's changing around me and I wanna change too It's one thing I know, it ain't cool being no fool I feel different today, I don't know what else to say But I'ma get my shit together, it's now or never Now or never, now or never Now or never, now or never 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 lying to Him Tired of trying 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 changing 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 overpowering 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 Everything's changing around me and I wanna change too
It's one thing I know, it ain't cool being no fool
I feel different today, I don't know what else to say But I'ma get my shit together, it's now or never Now or never, now or never Now or never, now or never 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 growing more persistent I never noticed it before but now I can't miss it And the constant pounding's driving me ballistic I ran from it few years but it's still next to me And it's growing stronger, taking, leaving 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 bringing 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 trying to get rid of these ghosts that's cursing me I feel a change is an absolute certainty Cause what's going on is a state of emergency (State of emergency) Everything's changing around me and I wanna change too It's one thing I know, it ain't cool being no fool I feel different today, I don't know what else to say But I'ma get my shit together, it's now or never
