They say what is is what was,
but what was could never be
Ain't nothin' to wonder this on
Y 'all ain't doin' nothin'
but some shit I already did
Let tell you where you goin'
Y 'all
Said I'm not gon' say you, y 'all,
I'm gon' say we
Sometime I sit and think about
it, y how numb could we be?
How could it go so far?
How'd it get so funky?
That we could walk a mile and put
some silver porch monkey
That we could break a barrier
without one key
Then turn around and try
to imitate a mob flunky
Not together, y 'all
And most of us have forgotten
Those at the top don't want nothing to
do with those at the bottom
And that's bad when you
put a price tag on sad
Had aspirations of a kingdom,
but the plan's gone bad
And every man's gone mad
I'm feeling so defeated,
wasting so much time
Chasing what I never needed
till I heard an echo
Let go, you'll be richer when
you stop chasing crumbs
Cause the kicks are big,
the picture got too many pennies in our hands
To hold the dollars,
got too many problems in the world to kill the scholars
Said I'm so numb,
I really couldn't care in the en d
That I'm so dumb, I plied against myself,
never depended
On no one, sometime I need
to pray I find a way
But I'm so numb,
and I'm so dumb, and I'm so lost
I never thought to put it on a scale,
but my soul cost
For crime I got no money for my bail,
except for no cause
Sometime I need to pray I find a way
But I'm so numb,
and I'm so dumb
Sometimes I'm sitting at the window
and the world that I see
Makes me ask myself the question,
yo, how numb could we be?
We're all descending of the people that
they chose to make slaves nowadays
They pay my people money
not to make waves
Now that's the house, nigga,
so glad we're not in the field
We glorify instead of trying
to destroy and rebuild
How many hopes have we killed by
doing nothing at all?
Or planting seeds to succeed by
either drugs or basketball
Or worse, that a rapper
laying your life on the top
I listen to the radio, and yo,
that ain't hip -hop
So numb, to make it big
is the way that I chose
So I could rip off all the children
for my sneakers and clothes
I thought we'd lower the prices,
not give companies the license
To divide and conquer us with
the modern -day devices
We take what's priceless,
with hope for personal wealth
Turning life into a struggle for life itself
Can you feel
Said I'm so numb
I really couldn't care in the en d
That I'm so dumb
I plied against myself, never depended
On no one
Sometime I need to pray I find a way,
but I'm
So numb
And I'm
So dumb
And I'm so lost,
I never thought to put it on a scale
But my soul cost,
the crime I got no money for my bail
Except for no cause,
sometime I need to pray I find a way
But I'm so numb, and I'm so dumb,
said it's so hard
I wonder if the world could feel my pain,
we been so scarred
We close our eyes and breathe the novocaine,
I get so numb
I wonder where this road is taking me,
has the world mistaken me
And it's gone, forsaken me,
said it's deep down
Inside of me, I know we can prevail,
it's a sweet sound
Though most of mine wind up
dead or in jail
Cause we don't do what we could,
cause we can't do what we should
We've been hoodwinked,
I guess that's why we reppin' the hood
Although it don't rep us,
unless it's all without a care in the hood
Your only thought's to get the fuck out of there,
and show your children a change
Sometime you give it your all,
to lose your way the day you say that I be better than y 'all
So we're numb, of all the power we possess,
unified, eyes closed
Like the problems of the world blew aside
So we're numb from all the ice,
pushing a newer ride
And the artery we cut, we died, suicide
Said I'm so numb,
I really couldn't care in the en d
That I'm so dumb I plied against myself,
never depended
On no one
Sometime I need to pray I find
a way but I'm
So numb
And I'm so dumb
And I'm so lost I never thought
to put it on a scale
But my soul cost
The crime, I got no money for my bail
Step at no cost
Sometime I need to pray I find
a way but I'm
So numb
And I'm so dumb
Said I'm so numb I really couldn't
care in the en d
That I'm so dumb I plied against myself,
never depended
On no one
Sometime I need to pray I find
a way but I'm
so numb, and I'm so dumb,
and I'm so lost
I never thought to put it on a scale,
my soul cost
For crime, I got no money for my bail,
except for no cost
Sometime I need to pray I find a way,
but I'm so numb, and I'm so dumb
Black Sheep 
