TAKE NO MESS
It's about damn time he pressed the reset and moved right on
You can't clear the mechanism with that same old song
Even with gratitude you can get a little dizzy when you're stuck undercover
Paranoid and codependent like an unsure part-time lover
Pull on down your pink cloud, and save it for a rainy day
You say you're so enlightened, but you aint that proud
It's time to kick up dust boy if you've got something left to say
Watch where you stomping boy, cuz papa don't take no mess.
This conversation is beneath me, and no I'm not impressed
Well it's down home and funkified and pan fried with some ghetto slang
And Papa don't take no mess, so yes you best check when you to do your thang
Boy, you'd better slow your role
You weren't quite ready for a Son Called Soul
I earned this swagger powering through pain
Remind me why I should remember your name
There's something to be said for "what if"
& manifesting your own truth through a little bit of mischief
Drops in the bucket you poured onto the lonely earth
A tale bottled up by fear that you been drinking since your birth
Pull on down your pink cloud, and save it for a rainy day
You say you're so enlightened, but you aint that proud
It's time to kick up dust boy if you've got something left to say
Watch where you stomping boy, cuz papa don't take no mess
This conversation is beneath me, and no I'm not impressed
Well it's down home and funkified and pan fried with some ghetto slang
And Papa don't take no mess, so yes you best check when you to do your thang
Even the weak and purposeless sing
So do you got something new you can bring
To save another brother's neck from the noose
Or a sister's mind in time to shake loose
So, from the hip I'll grip and just shoot
A slip to sing them blues to cut roots
Toeing the line, you know I've taken some knocks
But it's time I climbed back on my soapbox...Yeah
Pull on down your pink cloud, and save it for a rainy day
You say you're so enlightened, but you aint that proud
It's time to kick up dust boy if you've got something left to say
Watch where you stomping boy, cuz papa don't take no mess
This conversation is beneath me, and no I'm not impressed
Well it's down home and funkified and pan fried with some ghetto slang
And Papa don't take no mess, so yes you best check when you to do your thang
...I said, well just step