Lyrics

[Verse] This town's so hype it's got soul As a Philly cat I'm with the roll And the swing of my things How they work like clockwork Tick tock tick tock Times always lurking in your head Got to go to work and get fed That man didn't eat but he goes to sleep Gets up at dawn not to see the sunrise But because it's too damn cold outside Underneath the bridge they pump the city's bilge Into the alley sweep the city's filth Flowers wilt, the flowers wilt Don't tell me 'bout no game Cause that is a man And his family The revolution family Look at the family Yeah, dig the family They're living the wrong way Can't get nothing Don't got nothing all they wanted was Something like a job (mercy mercy) But it's been robbed (mercy mercy) Yeah and there's so many street side Beggars and disabled veterans Glass-eyed and peddling Drunk and just meddling You conclude it's their fault They like the street they must like the asphalt That is man, woman, and children The system has stalled shelter's home That's not what I call it I call it bad health Some say help themselves Yo if you gots it, dig Every hundred people, that's a dollars 'n change Every hundred people, that's a dollars 'n change [Chorus] Yeah... (This ain't living) This ain't living (This ain't living) This ain't living (This ain't living) This ain't living (This ain't living) (This ain't living) This ain't living (This ain't living) This ain't living (This ain't living) Yeah, this ain't living This ain't living (This ain't living) No, no, no... [Verse] Yeah... You know it's rough, had enough for holding a Cup full of spare change The doctor diagnosed me as a Dome full of bad brains So, toe to toe with employers Cause they're telling me no Hooked on prescription drugs So I stay broke, I'd run away But you can't run away from Yourself or your health so I deal with the cards that I'm dealt Tweet-a-leet-leet The morning birds sounding sweet Though I sleep on the streets I have a feeling I'm free Of society's hand picked hypocrisy (Mercy mercy) don't give a damn for me (Mercy mercy) now what am I going to eat Peek through the windows of a restaurant People eating caviar, fifty bucks on lunch A hand-me-down meal Full of god knows what Put it away in my gut Quick and then I wonder Why I'm sick, brick for brick I know the city like my hand print Just a pit in the gutter Of a skid-row ditch But I'll survive the pain Lets me know I'm alive But I still feel that [Chorus] (This ain't living) This ain't living (This ain't living) Yeah, this ain't living (No, this ain't living) This ain't living (This ain't living) (This ain't living, no) This ain't living (This ain't living) This ain't living (This ain't living, no) This ain't living (No) this ain't living (No) (this ain't living) (No) (No...) (No...) [Verse] Yo, check my beat dig my rhythm Me belly full but me hungry so me fill it Once I start gaining then taxes start taking Cause the governments perfected funk, fake, 'n Breaking me down striking me down What goes around comes around but I keep rising seeing through the lies and The surprise comes when I see myself The music I felt I'm on [Chorus] This ain't living (This ain't living) This ain't living (No,) this ain't living (This ain't living) This ain't living, no This ain't living This ain't living (Oh no) This ain't living, no Oh (no), this ain't living (No, no, no) (This ain't living) (No) This ain't living (This ain't living) This ain't living This ain't living This ain't living This ain't living (This ain't living) [Outro] I let the people in the streets say This ain't living Yeah, I let the peoples in the 'treets say This ain't living This ain't living