作曲 : Mach-Hommy/Sam Gendel/Fortes .
Don’t take no wooden nickel
As I sit back, reflect, adjust the band on my Rollie and solely remember things that my grandma told me
Words fittin’ right in the Stanza like poetry
They tried to crack the code while ya man is so cold see
Remember lessons taught by my grandfather
How he helped people out the man was a martyr
And when he died those people couldn’t stand to be bothered
Wonder why my heart is colder than Antarctica
Colder than the ice I bought today at the cell
Next to Jimmy’s hot dogs, by Vailsburg Park
Anytime of day you will see that car parked
Still smell the perfume when we went to card shark
Those scenes play in my mind like a documentary
Everything else is just another faded memory
The (?) is thrown, he never took a penny
Many Haitians wouldn’t be in America if it wasn’t for Henry
Can’t tell it like it ain’t
Obtained his brother-in-law
Fellowship to Paris, just to study paint
Wanted everyone to be better
Then the guy disappeared to Paris and never returned a letter
Took care of everyone, that’s a fact
Somehow along the way things went off track
The casualties of carrying a world on his back
The most powerful man on earth might snap
Had to recalibrate see where his life was at
Travel to the states just to get his wife back
From Chi-Town, to BK, to Irvington, New Jersey
Roaches, rats, niggas tryna do my Earth dirty
I seen the same thing happen to my Pops
He was bout to set me up but when he died, it stopped
Sounds grim but it’s so true
They hit me with “oh, I owe him, ion owe you”
So when I pop, make me savor my spot
It’s funny how debts are transferable but favors are not
Never make that fatal mistake
They call you selfish anyway
Might as well be that way from the gate
So I wait til another endeavor
Alright I guess I’m ‘sposed to be just happy with a chain and butter leather
You got me? Yeah whatever
Niggas ain’t gon leave me with two wooden nickels to rub together