Been A Long Time - Tq

Yeah

Been a long time

I’m sittin here waitin wonderin and thinkin 'bout our life

Where we gonna end up

So many of them don’t understand how this thing goes

You can only take so much

Sometimes I’m feelin like I had enough

For all the times I feel like you’re not up against me

Anything to try and get me influence my mind

Had me fightin too long

Such a long time

I thank the lord for making me a soldier

Work on the corner every night gotta struggle and fight

I’m on time

So if it’s just the cream that you go for

Such a thin line

Been such a long time

Oh makin me kind of crazy just thinkin 'bout

All the shit that you go through

Just tryin to be you

Listen to me now

So hard these days to find creative ways

For everybody to move they body

We free to speak but warned to watch what you say

I’m sayin feel like you’re not up against me

Anything to try to get me influence my mind

It’s been such a long time

Such a long time

I thank the lord for making me a soldier

Work on the corner every night gotta struggle and fight

I’m on time

So if it’s just the cream that you go for

Such a thin line

Been such a long time

So many waiting for something to happen it’s crazy

Dear lie, you’re not up against me

Anything to try to get me influence my mind

It’s been such a long time

Such a long time

I thank the lord for making me a soldier

Work on the corner every night gotta struggle and fight

I’m on time

So if it’s just the cream that you go for

Such a thin line

It’s been such a long time

I thank the lord for making me a soldier

Work on the corner every night gotta struggle and fight

I’m on time

So if it’s just the cream that you go for

Such a thin line

Such a long time

I thank the lord for making me a soldier

Work on the corner every night gotta struggle and fight

 so tq, I listened to your first album, and now I heard the second one.

I know

How I feel about it.

but why don’t you tell me what makes you different from

Many other r&b male artists?

 huh, what makes me different?

you probably can answer that as good as I can

 how’s that?

 I mean, you see me right here, you see me on stage.

it’s the same thing.

i

Ain’t gotta?

dial?

in my hair with all kinds of funny colors and jump around

Stage like some kind of asshole.

I ain’t gotta do none of that

 is that right?

 I ain’t gotta dress all up, put make-up all on.

all I gotta do is stay real

And deal with the issues that I deal with and my peoples deal with every day

That real shit.

that’s what soul music is about

 where you heard it for yourself.

for all you fake-ass niggas listen and

Learn.

this is neighborhood reporting for headbeat magazine.

stay real