(Verse 1) I find myself through a bottle and amphetamines/ Zoned out, closed up, anticipating weathering/ Son, it's Stephen, can we speak about redemption?/ I'm on pins and needles, frozen in suspension/ Backyard, Victoria, working on a cigar/ Pen in my hand, man, devising up my next bar/ Out and about, they asking 'bout my head scar/ Others, bout my music, ask if I'm the next star/ D's in the basement, mixing up the medicine/ I'm on a stage, loud, b**hing like a reverend/ 'Till the next club, politicking like a candidate/ Bandit's in the back room, playin' with a mandolin/ Plotting out the next move, area we canvasing/ Tryin' for some net worth, scheming on the back end/ Take turns on the soapbox, speakin' on our hate of/ The puppets on the radio and how they try and play us.../ (Hook) Why so simple?! Why so simple?! Oh...Oh! Why so fickle?! Why so fickle?! Why so simple?! Why so simple?! Oh...oh! Why so fickle?! Why so fickle?! {Walter Kronkite](Verse 2) /It's a cold world, so you better bundle up/ No socks, no shoes, no Daddy Warbucks/ Took sh** promised to the center of the heart/ Being told the game's over before I start/ That sh** hit you like bricks if you ain't ready/ I want to make it rain, surprise, no confetti/ I'm racing for the money like my name is Andretti/ And my lines stay heavy, smooth like I'm riding Chevy/ Hands stay steady, right on track, never leftie/ The rest are going backwards like Go!, set, ready/ Just really know how hard I want to / And I'll do anything besides sell my soul / And I can put it on life, you count on / Like I put on for Hip Hop, instead of rap/ And I guess that's why all the others are wack/ I'm fact, they fiction as a matter a fact/ *Repeat Hook* (Verse 3) /Now...Look at the doggy in the window/ /Another cute mutt that's impeding on your kinfolk/ /Singing along to hoes and endo/ /Wonderin' why in the hell should I sit for?/ /I said "sh**, ask Rosa"/ Or any other pioneer or dope composer/ They say "Naw Son, spark that doulja"/ "Write another joint that ride for me and my soldiers"/ I respond with "Read a book son, find some composure"/ "Learn about culture and looking for closure"/ Told me I'm a a square, "We can't bop to this"/ "Man, shorty won't rock or gimme wop to this"/ "My box in the back won't knock to this"/ "Man Crock, no offense, but this a crock of sh**"/ I said "Son there's more than being on the block with chips"/ They say you piss in the wind, but can't stop the rich/