This Ain't Living

This town's so hype it's got sould
 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
 Underneat the bridge they punp the city's bilge
 Into the alley they sweep the city's filth
 The flowers wilt the flowers wilt
 Don't tell me about no game
 Cause that is a man
 And his family
 Revolution family
 Look at the family
 Dig the family
 They're living the wrong way
 Can't get nothing
 Don't get nothing all they wanted was
 Something like a job - mercy mercy
 But its robbed - mercy mercy
 And there's so many street side
 Beggars and disabled veterans
 Glass-eyed and peddling
 Drunk and just meddling
 So you conclude it's their fault
 They like the street they must like the asphalt
 But 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 you gots it
 Every hundred people a dollar in change
 Every hundred people a dollar in change
 This ain't living
 This ain't living
 Oh no
 You know it's rough, had enough of 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 bird sounding sweet
 Though I sleep on the streets
 I have a feeling I'm free
 From 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 the 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
 Let me know I'm alive
 But I still feel that
 This ain't living
 Check my beat dig they rhythm
 Me belly full but me hungry so I fill it
 Once I start gaining taxes start taking
 Cause the governments perfected funk faking
 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
 This ain't living
 This ain't living
 Oh no