8 Minutes to Sunrise

A touch of jazz, y'all

Yeah, yeah, Madame Zenobia, y'all

Yo, they got us on the run like

Eight minutes to sunrise, my baby, now

What are we gonna do? (I don't know, know, know)

Pressure is mounting, oh baby, now

How we gon' get through? (I don't know)

Can't go left (Uh uh)

Can't go right (Uh uh)

Don't know how we made it through the night (Come on, come on, come on)

Seven minutes to sunrise, my baby, now

What are we gonna do? (Do it, do it)

It was once said by Black Thought that things fall apart

Knew I shouldn't have been messin' with dude's girl from start

But I pimp from the heart

The art of it made it interesting

Plus me and sister blend before we got intimate

Friend or no friend, my man caught wind

This chick is playin' me, it'll either cost me or cost him

Told her she shoulda lost him (When?)

A while ago

'Cause dude'd drink a pile of Mo' and defile her, Joe

I ain't here to start on this ****

For me to wreck his broad, you can tell what I thought of this ****

Nickname was 'Smoke'

Don't know if that was 'cause of cigarettes (Or what?)

Or guns he tote

He called shots on the jack

So I wasn't tryna call his bluff

By his persona you can see he think he tough

If that wasn't enough, old girl had a son

This is wild like the West, I'm like Jess on the run, uh

Six minutes to sunrise, my baby, now

What are we gonna do? (I don't know, know, know)

Pressure is mounting, oh baby, now

How we gon' get through? (Yo, I don't know)

Can't go left and (Uh uh)

Can't go right and (Uh uh)

Don't know how we made it through the night (Yo, we got)

Five minutes to sunrise, my baby, now

What are we gonna do?

I understand that time is runnin' out

I'm thinkin' of town-skippin'

Got a Chevy but the alternator be trippin'

I'm hittin' rum straight

Thinkin' of a route to truncate

The streets is watchin', out is one way

I put myself in his Nikes

His position is: "A'ight, man, somebody bonin' my lady"

Probably snap like Rodman

Our plan was to meet at this bar called the Tiki (When?)

'Round four, when she was comin' she would beep me

I sat deep in the corner, drinkin' zombies, becomin' one by now

Wonderin' if my style would support her and her child

Out the corner of my eye, I saw the stud I recognized (Who?)

One of Smoke's guys, to stay outta sight I tried

Told Jill Scott, to meet we coulda picked a better spot

On some "Nobody's supposed to be here" **** like Deborah Cox

Looked at my watch, and I don't even got a watch

Felt for my Glock

Damn it, I don't even got a Glock, yo

Four minutes to sunrise, my baby, now

What are we gonna do? (I don't know, know, know)

Pressure is mounting, oh baby, now

How we gon' get through? (I don't know)

Can't go left and (Uh uh)

Can't go right and (Uh uh)

Don't know how we made it through the night (Come on, come on)

Three minutes to sunrise, my baby, now

What are we gonna do? (Do it, do it)

Pressure, p-pressure, what? The pressure's cookin'

It ain't good lookin'

Like a black promoter, I'm talkin' bookin'

Not that I'm spooked of dude, I could whoop him

But he was on the horn, informin' the rest of them hoodlums (Aw, a'ight)

Usually I wouldn't fight over a woman

Old girl had the sunshine

Was messed up

On Smoke's payroll was one time

My pager went off, it read one line

"Come get me from Halstead"

I'm thinkin', "This is money-bar ****"

Went to the phone quick, called her (What happened?)

Her line was busy

Situation No.9 got my mind dizzy

Wondered if this plan was designed to get me

I'd been drinkin' too strong to be thinkin' too long

By 40, goin' North, I'm doin' 50

Headed for the spot, askin' God to be with me

And lately she has been actin' shifty (But what?)

But then it hit me, it hit me, it hit me

Two minutes to sunrise, my baby, now

What are we gonna do? (I don't know, know, know)

Pressure is mounting, oh baby, now

How we gon' get through? (I said I don't know)

Can't go left (Uh uh)

Can't go right (Uh uh)

Don't know how we made it through the night (Yo, we got)

One minutes to sunrise, my baby, now

What are we, what are we (What, what, what?)

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