8 Minutes to Sunrise - Jill Scott/Common.mp3

[00:00.00]Common feat Jill Scott
[00:00.00](Common)
[00:00.86]Yeah, yo, yo, yo-yo, yo, yo
[00:04.28]Yo, a touch of jazz y'all, yeah, yeah
[00:07.46]?? y'all, yo they got us on the run, like
[00:09.91](Jill Scott)
[00:10.28]8 minutes to sunrise
[00:13.23]Oh baby now, what are we gonna do? (I don't know..)
[00:16.89]Pressure is mountin
[00:19.45]Oh baby now, how we gonna get through? (I, don't, know)
[00:23.23]Can't go left (uh-uh) can't go right (uh-uh)
[00:26.54]Don't know, how we made it through the night (c'mon c'mon c'mon)
[00:29.62]7 minutes to sunrise
[00:32.74]Oh baby now, what are we gonna do? (Do it, do it..)
[00:35.33](
[00:35.48]Common)
[00:35.80]It was once said by Black Thought that Things Fall Apart+
[00:39.06]Knew I shouldn't have been messin with dude's girl from start
[00:42.50]But I pimp from the heart, the art of it made it interestin
[00:46.03]Plus me and sister blend before we got intimate
[00:49.03]Friend or no friend, my man caught wind
[00:52.05]This chick is payin me, it'll either cost me or cost him
[00:55.33]Told her she shoulda lost him (when?) a while ago
[00:58.74]Cause dude'll drink a pile of Mo' and defile her yo
[01:01.81]I ain't here to start on this (*****) for me to wreck his broad
[01:05.47]you could tell what I thought of this (*****)
[01:08.57]Nickname was Smoke, don't know if that was cause of cigarettes
[01:12.39](or what?) or guns he tote, he called shots on the deck
[01:15.86]so I wasn't tryin to call his bluff, by his persona
[01:19.46]you could see, he think he tough!
[01:22.51]If that wasn't enough, old girl had his son
[01:25.64]This is Wild like the West I'm like Jesse on the run, uhh
[01:28.97](Jill Scott)
[01:29.35]6 minutes to sunrise
[01:32.41]Oh baby now, what are we gonna do? (I, don't, know)
[01:35.84]Pressure is mountin
[01:38.64]Oh baby now, how we gon' get through? (I, don't, know)
[01:42.14]Can't go left and (uh-uh) can't go right and (uh-uh)
[01:45.31]Don't know, how we made it through the night (yo, we got..)
[01:48.45]5 minutes to sunrise
[01:51.52]Oh baby now, what are we gonna do? (Do it, do it..)
[01:54.12](Common)
[01:54.49]I understand that time is runnin out, I'm thinkin of town-skippin
[01:58.26]Got a Chevy but the alternator be trippin
[02:01.38]I'm hittin rum straight, thinkin of a route to truncate
[02:04.91]The streets is watchin, out is one way I put myself in his Nike's
[02:08.76]His position is, "Aight man, somebody bonin my lady"
[02:12.44]Probably snap like Rod-man
[02:14.61]My plan was to meet at this bar called the Tiki (when?)
[02:18.10]'round four, when she was comin she would beep me
[02:21.41]I sat deep in the corner, drinkin zombies, becomin one by now
[02:25.04]Wonderin if my style would support her and her child
[02:28.37]Out the corner of my eye saw this stud I recognized (who?)
[02:32.18]One of Smoke's guys, to stay out of sight I tried
[02:35.43]Told Jill Scott to meet we coulda picked a better spot
[02:39.11]On some "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here" (****) like Deborah Cox
[02:42.59]Looked at my watch, (****) I don't even got a watch
[02:46.12]Felt for my glock, damnit I don't even got a glock, yo
[02:49.49](Jill Scott)
[02:49.77]4 minutes to sunrise
[02:52.92]Oh baby now, what are we gonna do? (I don't know..)
[02:56.54]Pressure is mountin
[02:59.20]Oh baby now, how we gon' get through? (I, don't, know)
[03:02.82]Can't go left and (uh-uh) can't go right and (uh-uh)
[03:06.07]Don't know, how we made it through the night (c'mon c'mon)
[03:09.07]3 minutes to sunrise
[03:12.23]Oh baby now, what are we gonna do? (Do it, do it..)
[03:14.93](Common)
[03:15.22]Pressure puh-pressure what? The pressure's cookin
[03:18.49]It ain't good lookin, like a black promoter I'm talkin bookin
[03:22.09]Not that I'm spooked of dude, I could whup him
[03:25.10]But he was on the horn informin the rest of them hoodlums (aight)
[03:28.70]Usually I wouldn't fight over a woman, old girl had a sun-shine
[03:32.61]was messed up, on Smoke's payroll was one-time
[03:35.80]My pager went off, it read one line: "Come get me
[03:39.53]from Halsted," I'm thinkin this is monkey bar (****)
[03:42.82]Went to the phone quick, called her (what happened?) Her line was busy
[03:46.43]Situation number nine, got my mind dizzy
[03:49.72]Wondered if this plan was designed to get me
[03:52.88]I've been drinkin too strong to be thinkin too long
[03:56.40]Like 40 goin North I'm doin 50, headed for the spot
[04:00.28]Askin God to be with me, and lately
[04:03.49]she has been actin shifty -- (but what?)
[04:06.60]But then it hit me (hit me) it hit me (hit me)
[04:10.15]It hit me (hit me) it hit me
[04:12.44](Jill Scott)
[04:12.78]2 minutes to sunrise
[04:15.82]Oh baby now, what are we gonna do? (I don't know..)
[04:19.40]Pressure is mountin
[04:22.05]Oh baby now, how we gonna get through? (Yo -- I said I, don't, know)
[04:25.79]Can't go left and (uh-uh) can't go right and (nope)
[04:29.07]Don't know, how we made it through the night (yo, we got)
[04:32.06]1 minute to sunrise
[04:35.12]Oh baby now, what are we gonna do? (one-one, one.. ha?)
[04:38.25]1 minute.. (we got, we got) one, one
[04:41.38]1 minute.. (ahh ****, we got) one, one
[04:44.57]1 minute.. (what we got girl?) one, one
[04:47.70]1 minute.. (baby, Com Sense on the run) now, now
[04:51.17]1 minute.. (Com Sense on the run) one..
[04:54.12]1 minute.. (just got on the run, just got on the run)
[04:57.65](Com Sense on the run, Com Sense on the run)
[05:00.86](just got on the run, just got on the run)
[05:04.09](they got us on the run like.. they got us on the run)
[05:07.48](they got us on the.. yo, they got us on the run)
[05:10.60](uhh, yo, they got us on the run)
[05:13.78](they got us on the.. yo, they got us on the run)
[05:17.18]and we out..)