stream this song | back to album page | back to homepage | buy this album on itunes | watch the ASL video! Life Is Work Track 11 from "My God!" by proGrammar Yo, you better forget the myth that there might ever be an end to this: the struggle + the toil to stay vertical above the soil. Inaction spoils the innards. Lynyrd Skynyrd believed the bird is free, but -- word is 'b' -- even the chickadee expends ATP to get the sticks he see. Makes me so sick to see these ladies wish to be the wife of someone rich. High-paid whores suckin' dicks is all they are in the back of their cars. They think they got off easy. They're getting someone else off, for sheezy. There's no escape, believe me. If there were, I woulda figured it out by now. Or how 'bout these bums who litter our streets like butts of cigarettes, beggin' me for cigarettes, or perhaps some change? I find it strange; we all fall on hard times, and whether or not they actually need it, they're actin' like they need it, and actin' is a job. The same with robbery. The lottery, as well, is no escape. You give a third to Uncle Sam, the rest you take the rest of your life to give away, just like in "Brewster's Millions". Life'll always find a way to make you work for your every breath, you can finally rest on your dying day, Holmes. So, why you cryin'? Trying to bring the inevitable closer? Or perhaps you still hope for a flaw in the logic I promote for your ultimate well being + benefit, so please remember it. Yo, I'm not out here mouthing meaningless words like these degenerate emcees who seemed concerned only with the sound of their own voices. I'm concerned with sound choices, and you can make 'em like I do if you remember that... I f you remember that... if you can remember that Life is work. Work is life. And don't you ever let nobody tell you that ain't right. Life is work. Work is life. And don't you ever let nobody tell you that ain't right, aight?! (repeat) Hip-hop is my life's work and that's why I hurt whenever incapable or unable to do it. More true to it than the North Star was to ancient mariners. Grammar's inconceivable without it + my greatest wish is that one day the opposite or inverse might be true. But, regardless of whether or not you + your homies've ever heard of me, words'll be spillin' out of me like anatomy out of a gun-shot-wound victim. That's why its so sickening seeing these kids mouth worthless words. 'Cause their lives at this time have no meaning, and I've got no time in mine anymore for things that sound good, but bore, or don't help my soul soar. They wouldn't do it, I'm sure, if only they knew that Life is work. Work is life. And don't you ever let nobody tell you that ain't right. Life is work. Work is life. And don't you ever let nobody tell you that ain't right, aight?! (repeat) stream this song | back to album page | back to homepage | buy this album on itunes | watch the ASL video!