Derby's Dose Lyrics

A thousand shots on the hour

You can count em

Is it stopping, I doubt it

A thousand different niggas who thinking they really 'bout it

Rife with the gunpowder

Rifles and lil' shouters

Neighborhood of the scoundrels

Sought return of the prodigal, prophesied

Sick and tired of hearing they savior has not arrived

Acting like Janet Jackson

Grab his leg when you ask him

Beg him for winter jackets

Thistlewood'll be happy

Hey

How you turn from the hero into a villain?

Friends turn to enemies

Hey

Derby Dose, the daily nigga condition

I'm a model of black indifference

A callous you can't abrade

I'm defying my own impossible

Watching it all decay, so I'm bitter brash and dismissive

Of pressure to obligate me to making good on the promises

All of you bought and paid

You begging with interest

To the point where I don't care if you call me pretentious

Mamas asking me for favors by sending they children

I'm cutting another tie every time that I visit

Not a time that I miss it

Not a time that I miss it

My stomach tied in a knot and I fear for my safety

Cause if you know what I know you know what a vulture will take

Already know you call me heartless but I'm what's at stake

Started plotting last week on relieving a man of his money

If he's walking your street

I know it cause that was me

I was part of the team when we'd Killer Mike and LP 'em

Making 'em learn his lesson

Aiming it at his head

And then we'd hear his question

When I come around the corner, why you pocket-watching?

When I pull up in the stores, why you pocket-watching?

You just want it cause I got it, I ain't falling for it

Why you looking at me crazy, why you pocket-watching?

Ain't no family love, ain't no family love

When I step inside the city, why you pocket-watching?

I got money problems too, and you ain't gonna solve 'em

Another day, another hater steady pocket-watching

Believe us

We need you, we need you

So, please

I need you, believe me

I need you

I remember my mind in the gutter

Working off prideful assumption

Not enough time for discussing

Options above the disruption

I was pining for nothing

I decline in the rubble

Wasn't kind to myself

Till I shined I was humble

I been in the kicks of niggas who wishin' they had it all

I been in the place of power to clean the blood out the cloth

Generational wrongs

Sitting put in a spot that's on fire for far too long

It'll make you think you belong

But why am I the one responsible

Why am I so guilty?

Is it just cause I'm the one who made it out the quickest?

I'd almost even be inclined to try and help a little bit

But when a nigga takes an inch they want the goddamn stick

That's why when I'm around the corner that's you pocket-watching?

When I pull up in the stores that's you pocket-watching?

You just want it cause I got it, I ain't falling for it

That's why you looking at me crazy, cause you pocket watching

There ain't no family love, there ain't no family love

When I step inside the city, see you pocket-watching

I got money problems too, so what am I supposed to do?

Another day, another way to separate myself from you