I Remember-The Roots

[0:21.986][Verse 1: Black Thought] [0:23.007]I drew a 2 of hearts from a deck of cards [0:25.729]A stock trick from my empty repertoire [0:28.537]Another hopeless story never read at all [0:30.773]I’m better off looking for the end where the credits are [0:34.064]It’s a pain living life against the grain [0:35.944]I’m looking back and y’all look the same [0:38.085]Troy, Mark, and little what’s-his-name, memory is rerunning it all [0:42.042]It’s the flight of my fall, and it’s right on the wall [0:44.755][Hook: Mercedes Martinez & Tracey Moore] [0:44.973]I remember [0:47.113]Can you remember [0:49.767]How it was? I do [0:52.646]Remember, do you? [0:55.907]I remember [0:58.199]Can you remember [1:00.976]How it was? I do [1:03.837]Remember, do you? [1:06.751][Verse 2: Black Thought] [1:07.390]I used to ride the train to the same two stops [1:10.590]And look at the graffiti on the rooftops [1:12.917]Like the same song playing on the jukebox [1:15.584]Joint called "Faded Polaroids In A Shoebox" [1:18.756]Regardless to what the cadence is [1:21.320]It can’t be forgotten like old acquaintances [1:24.087]I realize how depressing of a place it is [1:26.898]And when I notice my reflection whose face it is [1:29.364][Hook: Mercedes Martinez & Tracey Moore] [1:29.669]I remember [1:31.792]Can you remember [1:34.463]How it was? I do [1:37.297]Remember, do you? [1:40.509]I remember [1:42.782]Can you remember [1:45.610]How it was? I do [1:48.336]Remember, do you? [1:54.464][Interlude: Instrumental] [2:15.252][Hook: Mercedes Martinez & Tracey Moore] [2:16.732]I remember [2:19.140]Can you remember [2:21.911]How it was? I do [2:24.715]Remember, do you? [2:27.824]I remember [2:30.376]Can you remember [2:33.068]How it was? I do [2:35.985]Remember, do you? [2:38.959][Verse 3: Black Thought] [2:39.493]It’s only human to express the way you really feel [2:42.199]But that same humanity is my Achilles’ heel [2:45.035]A leopard can’t change its spots and never will [2:47.855]So I’m forever ill, now I can never chill [2:50.650]What’s keeping me from breaking out like Benadryl [2:53.231]When my baptism of fire resulted in a kill [2:56.073]Sometimes it’s as cut and dry as a business deal [2:58.779]You gotta cause the blood of a close friend to spill [3:01.678]But you remember still [3:05.015]