A Bright Tomorrow

Bomber P.E. from my B-E-D room

Third floor boombox loud enough from here to the boondocks

Speak to an apartment block in Mascot

No one ever told me rap was hot up in that spot

Not to discount the one and only Steve B

Who said "trick is business, like eating a D"

Dub and tapes by Too Short, Quik and LL

Ice-T, Rakim, ha, now raising hell

Kick like Spike Lee and not John Singleton

Don't assume the next rapper up is a simpleton

Silver tongued Zorro who's a fiend for mics

And he'll speak to a crowd like cats that seen the light

And I'm extremely hyped to bring my dream tonight

When the timing's right it's the moment of truth

Put the onus on you just to keep you moving

While the weatherman says the day will keep improving

We don't know where we stand

But see a bright tomorrow

The lessons of yesterday

Are the guides I follow

I'm inclined to swallow my pride

The dark of the bay, tide turned high

See the patterns of life

Pass me by

Lord let it rain, run for the bus that I gotta catch

Formal coming up, and no perfect match

Gotta do the mad dash with a Walkman and comics

Then home to check the telescope, what? No Halley's Comet?

Then off to play hoops after psych-up sessions

And Scarface's "Fuck 'Em All" had left an impression

When I got fouled out in the first forty seconds

It was a valuable lesson, "Man, check that aggression"

No time for depression, put the Kwik-E-Mart shirt on

Pedal to the store just in time to get my work on

And pray that you payin' for your petrol pump

What you want me to do man? Wrestle the chump?

Not the best of the month, cop my five bucks and run

'Cause this shit is heaps far from my idea of fun

Home to hit the Amiga with this soundtrack on

And kick pixelated ass to my favourite song

We don't know where we stand

But see a bright tomorrow

The lessons of yesterday

Are the guides I follow

I'm inclined to swallow my pride

The dark of the bay, tide turned high

See the patterns of life

Pass me by

They looked at me odd when I dropped De La once

Then all of a sudden the shit was flavour of the month

And they were bumping Dobalina at the Blue Light disco

While PSK rolled kids for shoes and wristwatch

Hot shots like MJ at North Carolina

They can always find ya but you're safe at the diner

Hide out for a minute, ha, our night is finished

But we still got our pumps and Casios so we're winning

I know we're sinning, but I skipped church to play ball

The priest was a good man who said nothing at all

But on the court got taught a lot of J.J. Cale

There's many ways to get that rock into the pail

So if it's His way then let me be, now let me see

I could go Wolverine on your ass in one, two, three

Prefer to set it free like some Owens on Sunday

Think of how it'd be when I grow up one day

We don't know where we stand

But see a bright tomorrow

The lessons of yesterday

Are the guides I follow

I'm inclined to swallow my pride

The dark of the bay, tide turned high

See the patterns of life

Pass me by