Going Through It. Video (MV)

Many people have smoked marijuana
Many have seen marijuana
What are the facts? he asks
Easily and with friendly formality the
Officer speaks to Tom
Pot smoking, quite apart from being illegal
Is a problem
The psychological dependency generated by pot
Is probably it's greatest danger
Plus the fact that so many
Young smokers who can't
Cope with the everyday problems of growing up
Seem to ersatz maturity through it
Kids who get high repeatedly don't
Want to come down

Yeah I've been going through it
No one knew it
But I've been growing through it dark day
Big bag and I've been going through it
Light it up, write it down, might as well
F*ck it
Flip the cell on it's face, face myself
F*ck it good herb that I stay crumblin up
To unearth what I've been covering up
Spring clean truth I sweep under the rug
My jade burned to dust
My brain turned to mush
Take a breath, take a sec to reflect
Let it take effect
Relax and let the tape eject
Take a raincheck from the stress
I've been going through
Look up, pick a book up
That's been overdue a year ago
Then kick back turn on the stereo
Someone talking shit about pot smoking
Ah here we go never wanna kill your buzz no
Matter no where you go
Are you addicted? No, I love Mary though
But that don't mean I'm a
Fiend for the green
Just get high sometime for relief
I medicate, meditate to the beat
Levitate, let the brain off the leash
But I don't smoke everyday
Just every second day
Wednesday's a special day
That was yesterday
But you know what they say
Man, better days never stay, Yeah
Might as well get away let them hate
I'm Rick James I love Mary Jane
Lemon Haze, AK, f*ckin' every strain

What were we talking about? Where was I?
Uh I think you were ah damn sorry

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

Yeah I've been going through it
No one knew it
But I've been growing through it
Rent due, baby due, f*ck it overdo it
Overdid it, overdone it, always blunted
What you want, run from it or confront it?
Hit the summit, then plummet
Hit the cupboard then I hit the blunt like
It was the self-destruct button
Just to block it out
Knock it out then pop it out
File it with all the shit that i forgot about
Light it up, jot it down, f*ck it
What the hell? Might as well
What's an ounce when you got a pound?
I smoke just to get away from myself
I smoke 'cause I can't
Afford no proper help

Me and my lady been going through
It like it was my phone
She found some skeleton bones and
She left me alone so I hit my bro up just to
Go get blown off some homegrown
He pulled a cone, I hit the zone
And then I clicked and walked home
Told her I did it, f*ck it I did it
But I hid it 'cause I didn't
Have the balls to admit it
Never considered the fact that the cap fitted
So I figured it'd be too big
For her to forgive it but she did it
And now we're tryna live with it
And there really ain't no other way
That we can circumvent it
Gotta go through it
Talkin' to the homie that I
Knew well all my life
Ask him where we going to
And if we living right
Told him I been going through
It I need some advice
I said, 'what I do?' He said
'your best', I said 'ok, Alright'
I been going through it

This ain't no 'poor little mermaid falls
In love with a prince' shit
It's just simple friendship
Codependent chimp shit
I pick the fleas out of
Your fur and in return
You pick mine and with time if
This shit fades it's fine, Like light
Life tends to be
But we could pretend that we were meant to be
If you want, that makes equal sense to me
When it's all senseless
Let's pretend it's just endless
And dream of parallel dimensions
And picket fences maybe this idea of love is
One of our best defenses
Against this relentless flow of
Time pushing against us
A parable to make the terrible more bearable
While we're staring at this mushroom
Cloud proud and hysterical
This love is summer like a
Plane that never crash
It is rash, this the last episode of MASH
I'm attached
Train coming and I'm strapped to the tracks
Write these tracks to distract
From actual facts this love's like
Living on an active volcano
And everyone is there, but what do they know?
Ask Plato, ask
Nothing over the rainbow just rain bro
F*ck around and get your heart
Ripped out like Kano
This love's like a Shakespearean delirium
A failed fairytale theory
Written by barbarians
A story of a fawn fallen
In love with a scorpion
A long walk along the
Beach to the crematorium
Sitting on this rock
Spinning 'round this burning ball
Worthless with no purpose but
Somehow worth it all your every curve
Design like the earth's curvature
Standing helpless at the mercy of
Murphy and Herbie's law
Thirty-four years old still feel
Like I'm learning more
Far from perfect but I might just
Be who you're perfect for
And I've been singing the same song
That we all heard before
Set a realistic goal that
We could work towards
I've been going through it