Tell Me Today - Marlon Craft

This that findin' summer in the wintertime

This that mother callin' you for dinnertime

This that blowup argument in your apartment with your family that almost come

to blows but it finish fine

This that lotta shit was better in the simple times

But you came a long way to be this stressed

Hate to be depressed, love to be alive

I’m tryna put my old soul to rest and let the child grow

Slowed it down, it’s over now

The pain was then, the hope is now

The poster-child for growth and jokes about how folks' noses face the sky is

tasting my aromas now, homie

I never fit into the crowd, now they make crowds for me

If I get too cocky sprinkle lil doubt for me

But there’s a lotta weight in a single pound so if you come, don’t come around

phony

And I don’t got no time for tomorrow

Got no blindness to borrow, listen don’t you do no frontin' for me

Left the disguises and sorrow, fuck a prize or a follow

Listen, that ain’t a discussion to me

I think the bad kinda good too

Sometimes my sad is a good mood

But when I’m down, down, down

You the one I look to

So if you love me please tell me today, yeah

Don’t wait for the right time

I don’t know how long I can wait, yeah

Ain’t a lotta hearts like mine

So if you love me please tell me today, yeah

Don’t wait witcho bitchass

As temptations shallow, soliloquies deepen

And I’m finna be peakin'

You know, critically speakin'

And I vow to keep it cordial with the rappers that I burnt, that’s umbilically

speaking

They could all get cut though so I wouldn’t try yours cause we don’t all get

luck tho

Artilleries deepen but once it was just jaws get snuffed and ain’t no fair ones

in America anyway son, we all get fucked

If you lucky then it’s only your mind

Don’t get me wrong, the spoils is plentiful

But for oil and revenue, warriors and generals toil for men who do bidding for

men who do bidding for men who do sitting atop of these corporate investment

groups who love when you log in and believe everything that you read written

with misled pencils convention be accept degree credentials be how much

oppression we can sustain for gain

In the turmoil turn to empathy

But who am I?

I’m just lil' ol' rapper me

I was the young king of the «well, actually…»

Well actually, shit, still that is me

I had a head start so don’t you feel bad for me

Depressed long before 18 so what am I to do now that sad’s gone mainstream?

I guess that I’ll just mac wit a brew and let the sun hit my face through the

glass in my room

And I don’t got no time for tomorrow

Got no blindness to borrow, listen don’t you do no frontin' for me

Left the disguises and sorrow, fuck a prize or a follow

Listen, that ain’t a discussion to me

I think the bad kinda good too

Sometimes my sad is a good mood

But when I’m down, down, down

You the one I look to

So if you love me please tell me today, yeah

Don’t wait for the right time

I don’t know how long I can wait, yeah

Ain’t a lotta hearts like mine

So if you love me please tell me today, yeah