John Legend, The Roots - Hard Times (Feat. Black Thought)

So many hard times
Cold cold eyes upon me
they stare
People all around me and
they're all in fear
They don't seem to want me
but they won't admit
I must be some kind of
creature up here having fits
From my party house
I'm afraid to come outside
Although I'm filled with love
I'm afraid they'll hurt my pride
So I play the part
I feel they want of me
And I pull the shades
so I won't see them seeing me
Having hard times
in this crazy town
Having hard times
there's no love to be found
Having hard times
in this crazy town
Having hard times
there's no love to be found
Yeah yeah yeah
In my party house
I feel like meeting others
Familiar faces creed and
race a brother
But to my surprise
I find a man corrupt
Although he be my brother
he wants to hold me up
Having hard times
in this crazy town
Having hard times
there's no love to be found
Having hard times
in this crazy town
Having hard times
there's no love to be found
Check it out
seventeen years
and counting
I'm tryna climb up the rough side
of the mountain
Friends warned me
I'ma have to do it
without them
No problem really
it was never about them
So my house
I never come out from
cause every day a drought then
a shadow of doubt come
I'm down to do whatever
if it betters my outcome
The city's like
the Audubon Ballroom
waiting on Malcolm
Cause people wanna see
my blood flow like fountains
I got nowhere to go and
still feel like bouncing
I'm looking for
the closest window
I can rap from
or for the highest speaker box
that I can shout from
And I'm hoping to feel
like something is real
But it's no hope when you are
but a spoke in a wheel
A brick in a wall
tryna find an opening still
Having hard times
tryna climb over the hill
Yeah so many hard times
yeah yeah
Sleeping on motel floors
yeah yeah
Knocking on my brother's door
Eating Spam Oreos
Drinking Thunderbird baby yeah
in this crazy town
Having hard times
there's no love to be found
Having hard times
in this crazy town
Having hard times
there's no love to be found
Having hard times
in this crazy town
Having hard times
there's no love to be found
Having hard times
in this crazy town
Having hard times
there's no love to be found
So many hard times yeah yeah
Sleeping on motel floors yeah yeah
Knocking on my brother's door
Eating Spam and Oreos
Drinking Thunderbird
baby oh yeah
I don't wanna do it no more
No no no no no
I don't wanna go back
there no more
No ohhhhhh
I don't wanna I don't wanna
I don't wanna I don't wanna
So many hard times
Cold cold eyes upon me
they stare
People all around me and
they're all in fear
They don't seem to want me
but they won't admit
I must be some kind of
creature up here having fits
From my party house
I'm afraid to come outside
Although I'm filled with love
I'm afraid they'll hurt my pride
So I play the part
I feel they want of me
And I pull the shades
so I won't see them seeing me
Having hard times
in this crazy town
Having hard times
there's no love to be found
Having hard times
in this crazy town
Having hard times
there's no love to be found
Yeah yeah yeah
In my party house
I feel like meeting others
Familiar faces creed and
race a brother
But to my surprise
I find a man corrupt
Although he be my brother
he wants to hold me up
Having hard times
in this crazy town
Having hard times
there's no love to be found
Having hard times
in this crazy town
Having hard times
there's no love to be found
Check it out
seventeen years
and counting
I'm tryna climb up the rough side
of the mountain
Friends warned me
I'ma have to do it
without them
No problem really
it was never about them
So my house
I never come out from
cause every day a drought then
a shadow of doubt come
I'm down to do whatever
if it betters my outcome
The city's like
the Audubon Ballroom
waiting on Malcolm
Cause people wanna see
my blood flow like fountains
I got nowhere to go and
still feel like bouncing
I'm looking for
the closest window
I can rap from
or for the highest speaker box
that I can shout from
And I'm hoping to feel
like something is real
But it's no hope when you are
but a spoke in a wheel
A brick in a wall
tryna find an opening still
Having hard times
tryna climb over the hill
Yeah so many hard times
yeah yeah
Sleeping on motel floors
yeah yeah
Knocking on my brother's door
Eating Spam Oreos
Drinking Thunderbird baby yeah
in this crazy town
Having hard times
there's no love to be found
Having hard times
in this crazy town
Having hard times
there's no love to be found
Having hard times
in this crazy town
Having hard times
there's no love to be found
Having hard times
in this crazy town
Having hard times
there's no love to be found
So many hard times yeah yeah
Sleeping on motel floors yeah yeah
Knocking on my brother's door
Eating Spam and Oreos
Drinking Thunderbird
baby oh yeah
I don't wanna do it no more
No no no no no
I don't wanna go back
there no more
No ohhhhhh
I don't wanna I don't wanna
I don't wanna I don't wanna
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