Ain't Got Nobody

It be like, uh, when you meet that someone that you met the

First time in your life and the person you've been looking

For all your life and you know from the vibrations and you

Know from that certain look, it's so warm, it's so mellow

(I ain't got nobody)

Mmm, ow

I'm getting the feeling

(I ain't got nobody)

I'm getting the feeling

(I ain't got no)

I ain't got no sugar and I ain't got no spice

I ain't got no knife and I won't take no life

The mic is nice and the feeling is right

I sprinkle some herb but that ain't no vice

Ain't got no gold rings and I ain't got no dice

Just ain't my thing so I don't need to think twice

Ain't got no fleet of cars, I walk down the street

But if your heart stops, well, I'll keep the beat

See that's my job, to make it all throb

And I thank God for the lightning rod

And the desert and the rivers and the sweat and the shivers

For my eyes, body, soul, liver and my life givers

On soil I stand, fist to hand, the middle finger

Whichever way I look at it, will I always be a sinner?

For fatter or thinner, if I'm loser or a winner

Unadorned or looking like a dog's dinner

Going out like a light or like a dying ember

A sudden gust of wind made the old flames remember

Consuming my mind so the body is free

But until you light my fire, girl, I ain't got nobody

(I ain't got nobody)

And that's the way it is

(I ain't got nobody)

Come on

I ain't coming on strong and I ain't coming on grand

I'm just Teddy and I'm part of the stereo band

Ain't telling no fairy tales 'cause this ain't Twinkieland

Just give me a nod if you're taking a stand

'Cause I'm ready when you are, you're a woman, I'm a man

These things stay the same since, well, time began

See it ain't no use me telling you no untruths

I ain't knee-deep in riches but I'll find us a room

Four walls and a bed and, girl, we got it made

I'm playing for keeps so you can abolish your cage

'Cause I ain't got no locks and I ain't got no keys

In reality, I ain't got nobody

(I ain't got nobody)

And now the time has come

(I ain't got nobody)

Ain't got no qualms about using my bare palms

Some read the future in former psalms

But to the alarm bells, I'm trying to bring some calm

Using all of my prayers, using all of my charms

I'll grow rhymes to feed like my brain was a farm

So if you are for real, now's your chance

I ain't a follower, I don't run with no packs

They call me Robbie 'cause MC is my rap

I'm not a number, I'm a free man

And I say that I can if they say that I can't

If our paths run together, it's the Lord that I thank

For giving me the seeds that allow me to plant

I ain't got no Ferrari but I got two strong arms

Won't give you no fur coat but I'll keep you from harm

I say these words in order to be me

As I've come to grow from my family tree

So if you're the one, now I want you to see

I want you to know, I ain't got nobody

(I ain't got nobody)

Sweating's all, all I can

Come on, come on, come on

(I ain't got no)

(I ain't got no)

And now the time has come

(I ain't got nobody)

Come on

(I ain't got nobody)