Talib Kweli - Scratch Off lyrics

[Produced by: Statik Selektah] [Hook] Said grandma, can I get a scratch off? Just to show that I inherited your gambling ways Said grandma, can I get a scratch off? Please, buy me a lucky 7 so we both can get paid Said grandma, can I get a scratch off? When I put in all your numbers at the store for the day Said grandma, can I get a scratch off? Grandma can I get a scratch off? [Verse 1: CJ Fly] It's all or nothing, quit with all the bluffing Soon as one of my cards decline, I'm in my wallet shuffling Not so lucky, I guess that's how it's looking I'm a pro and not a rookie, I school you all and I play hookie These were my times with Sookie Tea kettle whistling if she ever left the stove on Old age had kicked in and she sent me for a store run Gambling is in your blood, ain't superstitious but you're definitely knocking on one If I win we all won Behaving, imagine the good grandson that I've been Grandma give me the missing numbers, the cash that I need Used to love the bodegas, now they ask for I.D Had my own two dollars just to get some scratchers for me Around that time things were drastic, worrying 'bout our finances Didn't no one give them to me, I was the one who finance us Said f** whoever doubted, that's when I took my chances Feel strongly about whatever I believe in cause I'm a Cancer Ain't an auction but they gave my mans a bid Damn the CC8 just filled another bed I guess we got some time to k** And you gotta play the hands you're dealt Fly [Hook] Just to show that I inherited your gambling ways Said grandma, can I get a scratch off? Please, buy me a lucky 7 so we both can get paid Said grandma, can I get a scratch off? When I put in all your numbers at the store for the day Said grandma, can I get a scratch off? Grandma can I get a scratch off? [Verse 2: Talib Kweli] Voice of the unheard, louder than the bomb Grandma's boy couldn't be prouder of my mom For this historical perspective, a political education I hardly ever gamble, my risk was too calculated Caught up in the traps, to be highly and discrete Red dollar and rented dream and get you followed by the feds Cause this life is like a lottery, a loser then you'll probably be Living with the ghost, like Demi Moore with the pottery Testing our morality when facing our mortality Betting on a fallacy, handing over our salaries Natural born k**er, they call us Mickey and Mallory 'Til our men become warriors and our women become Valkyries Cussing like some sailors in the open seas Mama got the silk for the apartment smelling like potpourri Shopping for the groceries Got her a pepsi cola and some coke for me Making a quick stop out the OTB [Hook] Said grandma, can I get a scratch off? Just to show that I inherited your gambling ways Said grandma, can I get a scratch off? Please, buy me a lucky 7 so we both can get paid Said grandma, can I get a scratch off? When I put in all your numbers at the store for the day Said grandma, can I get a scratch off? Grandma can I get a scratch off? [Verse 3: Cane] Grandma, uh, and you knew that's all we needed, that's why you plant a seed and you feed it Repeat it and treat it and we play against the odds If we can only defeat it We'd see it, but we steady weeping whenever we read it End up feeling cheated, we deserve better Cause she done earned cheddar and I know she took her turn Being Tina Turner, let her be returned from her debtor You'd know all she want is world peace if you met her And one day we may travel, if you bought that scratch off Like Payola at a DJ battle And it paid off, then we made off like Madoff And ate off that plate, constantly concentrated like Adolf Came all the way, four hours in your auto Showed up at my school, saying we hit the lotto Popped a bottle then saw that we misread it at second glance That's when I learned life isn't up to chance [Hook] Said grandma, can I get a scratch off? Just to show that I inherited your gambling ways Said grandma, can I get a scratch off? Please, buy me a lucky 7 so we both can get paid Said grandma, can I get a scratch off? When I put in all your numbers at the store for the day Said grandma, can I get a scratch off? Grandma can I get a scratch off?