Bucket - AllttA, 20 SYL, Mr. J. Medeiros

Yeah

They’ll never lock me up

They’ll never lock me up, yeah

Got the new job but it ain’t my speed

Run me down when my walk is free

They’ll never lock me up, no

They’ll never lock me up, yeah

I guess it started with my father working at his pizza parlor

Washing dishes, folding boxes, and taking people’s orders

Back when all the phones were chorded, you know, when Desert Storm hit?

Begging parents for some Jordans, unaware it’d short the mortgage

Before sixth grade, I had a job, though it paid

Waking up at six on the weekdays was a bitch

They had me in the stix, throwing paper on the steps of the rich

Every step I was taking felt like less than an inch, so I quit

And stayed with Pops mowing lawns since the parlor had gone out of business

And this was just the way he moved on, though everyday he would wake

With a yawn that I knew was way different

Got the new job but it ain’t my speed

Run me down when my walk is free

They’ll never lock me up, no

They’ll never lock me up, yeah

Got a new job but it ain’t my speed

Run me down when my walk is free

They’ll never lock me up, no

They’ll never lock me up, yeah

I guess you gotta work just as work permits

At fourteen, sure thing, you could work with a work permit

All clean over the table get paid under if you’re able

What I mean is watch your claims if you work for tips

That advice came from a waiter I was busing, but in training

I was too nice then to take it, but grew wiser as I waited

Watched the president comment how they use it for schools

Instead they build another bomber for the clueless to use

Now I’m out here tryna see the buck as deer

As these country club members who mount them for us to fear

I fill their cups and then I park their cars

And sit and wonder why their luck ain’t as sparse as ours

Got the new job but it ain’t my speed

Run me down when my walk is free

They’ll never lock me up, no

They’ll never lock me up, yeah

Got the new job but it ain’t my speed

Run me down when my walk is free

They’ll never lock me up, no

They’ll never lock me up, yeah

Before I learned to have a way with words and live off it

I cooked, bused, served, valeted, and dish-washed

I watched and observed kids play in a maze

Then later walked through the maze to wash the piss off it

I built homes and nature trails, man, I pulled weeds

Worked retail and detailed schedules for special needs

I wore animal noses and steel-toed boots

I held hammers and roses and filled those scoops

With ice cream 'til my team killed those loops

Called ourselves The Procussions 'til we lost two

Came back with empty buckets, gotta fill those too

Always ignoring the hole that the fill goes through

Got the new job but it ain’t my speed

Run me down when my walk is free

They’ll never lock me up, no

They’ll never lock me up, yeah

Got the new job but it ain’t my speed

Run me down when my walk is free

They’ll never lock me up

They’ll never lock me up, yeah