Man I Used To Be

I tried it, I couldn't fight it

Now I just wanna get back to me

Awe, baby, hoo, hoo

Back into the man I used to be

I tried it, I couldn't fight it

Now I just wanna get back to me

Awe, baby, hoo, hoo

Back into the man I used to be

Things I said I wouldn't do, I did 'em

Secrets below the surface of truth I hid 'em

This mankind is past, but can erase

The tears of a million years is human race

Of animals, that taught to walk upright

Then slave all day and fall in a trance at night

Flowin' the planet, tryin' to find missin' links

Like the men we used to be and always suppose to think

Mystery, maybe not

It's gettin' hot, we better configure the plot, but

I hold a pen with a grip so tight

That's squeeze the ink outta the page and write a song for the people

Came up from the underground, now I write above on a hovercraft sound

This microphone, like an amphetamine

Keepin' me clean, speakin' in dreams

So nature can intervene, it's over scene

I tried it, I couldn't fight it

Now I just wanna get back to me

Awe, baby, hoo, hoo

Back into the man I used to be

I walk the long path alone, my feet hurt

Lost some friends along the way, I did dirt

I went to church, I tried everything

From leaving my body, to watchin' the birds sing for hours

So I can feel heavenly powers

Had been across the universe and inside of flowers

But what is it worth? I'm still just a man on the earth

Rappers are actin' like man tan, can I be candid? I can't stand it

Rap bandit, got Kevin actin' frantic

I wanna swing my sword decapitate

But what is a man if he acts like an ape

So I sit back, plannin' my great escape

Load up my EP's and peruse my record crate

The man I used to be, I can only see by lookin' through all these

So what is reality, I don't know

I tried it, I couldn't fight it

Now I just wanna get back to me

Awe, baby, hoo, hoo

Back into the man I used to be

Back into the man I used to be

Back into the man I used to be

I tried it, I couldn't fight it

Oh, baby, ooh, ooh

Oops, wrong song, stop it, stop it

You know what?

I woke up in the morin'

I took a trip to the corner store

That's when I heard my callin'

But I'd never heard the voice of truth before

So I kept on walkin'

Pretended I didn't see

Walked by a window and my reflection said to me

You can try all the same

But you'll never know this mystery

There's no pilot on your plane

So you're not the man you used to be

Try all the game, but you'll never know this mystery

When your pilot has no plane

Said your not the man you used to be

Singin', holler in your holla, you folla, you fall

Your holler in your holla, you folla, you fall

Your holler in your holla, you folla, you fall

Your holler in your holla, you folla, you fall

Your holler in your holla, you folla, you fall

Your holler in your holla, you folla

Yo, microphones get ripped holdin' us back

K-Dash, rockin' and grab, rockin' the cold style

Makin' it up, go along singin' my song

Woke up, in the early morn' didn't know what was goin' on

Whatever, I don't really know

Flows like an immaculate go what up