The Roots - I Can't Help It lyrics

[Hook - Mercedes Martinez] I, I, I Can't Help It, I, I, I Can't Help It I Can't Help It, I Can't Help It I Can't Help It, I Can't Help It I, I, I Can't Help It, I, I, I Can't Help It I Can't Help It, I Can't Help It I Can't Help It, I Can't Help It [Verse 1 - Malik B] Live with it, that's how I survive with it Talk jive with it, you take a dive with it Connive with it, depart and arrive with it Harsh thrive, that's why it's part I with it I did it, make rhymes in five minutes Mind of a dentist, crimes of a menace Press rewind, see what you find in my image Take you n***as back to the line of the scrimmage 'Riq, you know we pull a freak with the flow Talk's cheap, that's why we speak with the dough Ill technique show I'm sleek with the flow It's cold outside, n***a, sleep with the snow I tweek in the low tone, freak with the ozone I can't help hiding my secrets that's so known I only do what I got to 'cause it's possible And climbin' over whatever's known as an obstacle [Hook - Mercedes Martinez] I, I, I Can't Help It, I, I, I Can't Help It I Can't Help It, I Can't Help It I Can't Help It, I Can't Help It I, I, I Can't Help It, I, I, I Can't Help It I Can't Help It, I Can't Help It I Can't Help It, I Can't Help It [Verse 2 - Black Thought] Ugh, I Can't Help It, maybe I'm selfish Maybe the way I'm runnin' is becomin' a health risk All I can see is smoke through tortoise shell Gazelle 650's, I'm feelin' like I'm makin' a sales pitch My head already so heavy, it's makin' the scales tip I got my own pressure and got everyone else's I'm rehabilitated, still feelin' rebellious Candidate of heart failure, more pills then Elvis In a layer cake, half-chocolate, half-velvet I'm listenin' to some Howe Melvin I got too many options, there's so many toxins Yo, ain't no really tellin' what we k**in' ourselves with I lit a cigarette and inhaled it I'm thinkin' of some rhymes more iller then a threatening ailment I'm on some bomb threat in the mail sh** Because of all the things I dealt with, n***a, I Can't Help It [Hook - Mercedes Martinez] I, I, I Can't Help It, I, I, I Can't Help It I Can't Help It, I Can't Help It I Can't Help It, I Can't Help It I, I, I Can't Help It, I, I, I Can't Help It I Can't Help It, I Can't Help It I Can't Help It, I Can't Help It [Verse 3 - p**n] I never said I'm ready to die, but I accept it Never said I'm ready for war, but I'm protected I don't even know when it's comin', but I expect it Lost all semblance of hope, so now I'm left with Nervous conditions, addictions, in addition to vixens that mixed in with the wrong crowd My life is on a flight that's goin' down My mother had an abortion for the wrong child With the time I felt love, that's gone now Been replaced by purple rains and some storm clouds Misery love misery So why make friends? Let's make some enemies And now I got a habit that wasn't meant for me Now I'm in a marriage that wasn't meant to be One more reason to change identity The cars, the crime, K's, penalties [Hook - Mercedes Martinez] I, I, I Can't Help It, I, I, I Can't Help It I Can't Help It, I Can't Help It I Can't Help It, I Can't Help It I, I, I Can't Help It, I, I, I Can't Help It I Can't Help It, I Can't Help It I Can't Help It, I Can't Help It