Black Cloud
Album: The Gift of Game
Release Date: 10/26/99
Label: Columbia
Explicit version of "Black Cloud" lyrics
Now people say I'm jinxed
I got some kind of voodoo hex
Life is so complex
There's no telling what could happen next
Life on the edge
It embeds the type of thoughts that's got a lot of brothers dead
The smarter brother knows to keep his foes close
And I'm the type of brother that's smarter than most
A cold hearted overdose of lyrical antidotes
The cure to make sure my karma can't take me down
Up to the same old tricks
Is a penny really lucky if you find it on the ground?
What's the problem with this town?
I can't figure it out
My karma's crashing down
In the form of a black cloud
I've got a little black cloud
That follows me everywhere I go
It takes over me
I've got a little black cloud
That follows me everywhere I go
It takes over me
I'm sick
My intentions are pure but there's a cure for my condition
My decisions put me in the wrong positions
Chasing pipe dreams of fame and recognition
The epic
My game remains no matter the pain
The don of karma
I ain't a saint but I've got joi de vivre
And I'm the one to blame if the cloud rains on me
I can't complain about it or even let regret
Provoke the energy it takes
For me to get upset
A bad boy since birth
What goes around comes around and it ain't got me yet
I've gotten wise in my age and tame the threat of my rage
I've got a lot to learn and I've got money to spend
To pretend is reaping more than sowing ever could mend
Trade my torches for a dime
The pressure's fading away now
Black clouds lifted for the light
The pressure's fading away now
A thousand cigarettes won't change the way we feel
The pressure's fading now
Can you bare the thought of knowing truth?
Knowing truth?
I was rapping in the rain
Hoping then
And if there's any truth
To all those old sayings
'Cuz if I kill a spider
If I walked under a ladder would it matter?
I tend to laugh when black cats cross my path
Break mirrors in half just to test the aftermath
Now here comes the rain
Trying to make sense of these crazy things
I'm a diamond in the rough
I'm getting high for a living
These hard times got me stuck
Stuck in a jam
I'm the monkey on your back
And the crack in the dam
Disastrous
And the past is just a map to capture this
In the darkness
I would change the past if I could have one wish
Trade my torches for a dime
The pressure's fading away now
Black clouds lifted for the light
The pressure's fading away now
A thousand cigarettes won't change the way we feel
The pressure's fading now
Can you bare the thought of knowing truth?
Knowing truth?
Knowing truth
I gotta put that down
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