[Verse 1: Black Thought] Get phobic off of this like we was a arachnids Drastic, it ain't plastic, it's pro blackness Grown man tactics, no pediatrics It's the kind of track that make the comeback miraculous The catalyst thought with a knack for splashing them Dashing and I mastered the craft I'm mashing The level headed, the thoroughbred, the females pa**ion Magnetic attraction, keeping them asking And cruise in the Cadillac with the Pendergra** in Swerve half-naked wouldn't come near crashing If I go to Heaven Would you all know my name Or would it be the same For you like I was Eric Clapton Clap for your freedom dog that's what's happening My spits critical, political action The hustle Is a puzzle Each piece is a fraction Every word is understood as a transaction I'm a SP soldier Microphone holder Rep Philly set from Bolivia to Boulder Paris, France to Tip and Tioga How are we going to make it through the dark I'll show you all [Hook: Black Thought & Let me tell you one lesson I've learned If you want to be something in life You ain't gonna get it unless You give a little bit of sacrifice Ooh sometimes before you smile you've got to cry You need a heart that's filled with music If you use it you could fly [Verse 2: Black Thought] Kick off you shoes and jump off the jock I fly higher than them dudes from off your block My name Black the style is unorthodox It that tens in your mens you thought you bought Couple people want the thought to stop but guess what My man grabbed the nistol plugged for the gut Now next time pity stop being such a glut I'm precise with it like Faheim with haircuts We up close on them with toast but no crust It fructose on them they froze and won't bust It's yolk on your face your j**els is lack lust To put it to you straight you fools is jacked up Came close to the utmost but no cigar Nose to the grindstone head to the stars Number one runner number one drummer Number one squad we the joint for this For real [Hook: Black Thought & Let me tell you one lesson I've learned If you want to be something in life You ain't gonna get it unless You give a little bit of sacrifice Ooh sometimes before you smile you've got to cry [Work it out yo] You need a heart that's filled with music [yo] If you use it you could fly [Verse 3: Black Thought] [Check it out yo] Your first impression might be I'm an a**hole Say that I'm sum-timing you and give people a ha**le Try to sun touch you and put the heat in a capsule Yo see I'm deeper than that though I get in a zone Recognize I am a rolling stone No time to lally-gag or lounge with scholly wag Give the disco I will put it where your body is at I got the spit flow I lay it over trolley track With no apology for all of the tricknology Just trust what I see and I see you follow me my way I am the open book look inside me The star of the story the groove telling Godly All of the dark times part of the business The light be contingent on small forensics My mic a make a man a newborn infant That truth so the truth going to sense it I get in a zone [Hook: Black Thought] I tell you one lesson I've learned If you want to be something in life You ain't gonna get it unless You give a little bit of sacrifice Ooh sometimes before you smile [check it out] you've got to cry You need a heart that's filled with music If you use it you could fly [one more time come again with that] I tell you one lesson I've learned If you want to be something in life You ain't gonna get it unless You give a little bit of sacrifice Ooh sometimes before you smile you've got to cry [All my peoples just work it out Come on come work it out] You need a heart that's filled with music If you use it you could fly