Now Or Never (Explicit)

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 sh*t 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 f**k 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 sh*t 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 sh*t
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 ni**a 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 sh*t 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 sh*t together  it's now or never
It's now or never