This Ain't Living (Alternate Version)-G. Love & Special Sauce

[ti:This Ain't Living (Alternate Version)] [ar:G. Love & Special Sauce] [al:Playlist: The Very Best Of G. Love & Special Sauce (The Okeh Years)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]This Ain't Living (这不是生活) (Alternate Version) - G. Love & Special Sauce (基爱 & 加料乐团) [00:44.66]This town's so hype it's got soul [00:46.25] [00:46.93]As a Philly cat [00:48.13]I'm with the roll [00:49.52]And the swing of my things [00:50.63]How they work like clockwork [00:52.50]Tick tock tick tock [00:54.08] [00:54.61]Times always lurking in your head [00:56.38]Got to go to work and get fed [00:58.62]That man didn't eat but he goes to sleep [01:01.12]Gets up at dawn not to see the sunrise [01:03.60] [01:04.13]But because it's too damn cold outside [01:06.03] [01:06.54]Underneath the bridge they pump the city's bilge [01:09.02] [01:09.54]Into the alley they sweep the city's filth [01:11.93]The flowers wilt the flowers wilt [01:14.86] [01:15.50]Don't tell me about no game [01:16.83] [01:17.38]Cause that is a man [01:18.74]And his family [01:19.66]Revolution family [01:20.45] [01:21.42]Look at the family [01:22.67]Dig the family [01:23.38] [01:23.98]They're living the wrong way [01:25.49]Can't get nothing [01:26.58]Don't get nothing all they wanted was [01:29.03]Something like a job mercy mercy [01:30.97] [01:31.62]But it's robbed mercy mercy [01:33.47] [01:34.24]And there's so many street side [01:36.75]Beggars and disabled veterans [01:37.98] [01:38.93]Glass-eyed and peddling [01:40.55]Drunk and just meddling [01:41.34]So you conclude it's their fault [01:43.17]They like the street they must like the asphalt [01:45.70]But that is man woman and children [01:48.60]The system has stalled shelter's home [01:50.50]That's not what I call it [01:52.03]I call it bad health [01:53.34]Some say help themselves [01:54.39]Yo if you you gots it [01:55.62] [01:57.15]Everyone hundred people a dollar in change [02:00.10] [02:03.30]Everyone hundred people a dollar in change [02:05.75] [02:08.26]This ain't living [02:09.39] [02:11.24]This ain't living [02:12.07] [02:14.19]This ain't living [02:14.90] [02:16.87]This ain't living [02:17.97] [02:18.88]This ain't living [02:20.04] [02:41.65]You know it's rough had enough for holding a [02:43.27]Cup full of spare change [02:44.68]The doctor diagnosed me as a [02:46.49]Dome full of bad brains [02:47.71]So toe to toe with employers [02:49.27]Cause they're telling me no [02:50.30]Hooked on prescription drugs [02:52.36]So I stay broke I'd run away [02:54.36]But you can't run away from [02:56.14]Yourself or your health so [02:57.13]I deal with the cards that I'm dealt [02:58.80]Tweet a leet leet [03:00.55]This morning bird sounding sweet [03:01.90]Though I sleep on the streets [03:03.54]I have a feeling I'm free [03:05.15]From society's hand picked hypocrisy [03:07.89]Mercy mercy don't give a damn for me [03:11.03]Mercy mercy now what am I going to eat [03:13.71]Peek through the windows of the restaurant [03:15.25] [03:15.80]People eating caviar fifth bucks on lunch [03:17.72] [03:18.56]A hand-me-down meal [03:19.51]Full of god knows what [03:20.68]Put it away in my gut [03:22.41]Quick and then I wonder [03:24.03]Why I'm sick brick for brick [03:26.09]I know the city like my hand print [03:27.96]Just a pit in the gutter [03:29.72]Of a skid-row ditch [03:31.23]But I'll survive the pain [03:32.54]Let me know I'm alive [03:34.07]But I still feel that I still feel [03:37.20]This ain't living [03:38.38] [03:41.03]This ain't living [03:41.78] [03:44.35]This ain't living [03:44.94] [03:46.69]This ain't living [03:47.75] [04:22.93]Check my beat dig they rhythm [04:25.23] [04:25.74]Me belly full but me hungry so I fill it [04:28.47]Once I start gaining taxes start taking [04:30.38] [04:31.48]Cause the governments perfected funk faking [04:33.36] [04:34.21]Breaking me down striking me down [04:37.03]What goes around comes around but [04:38.54]I keep rising seeing through the lies and [04:41.46]The surprise comes when I see myself [04:43.12] [04:43.92]The music I felt [04:45.35]I'm on [04:46.33]This ain't living [04:47.15] [04:47.91]This ain't living [04:48.96] [04:50.12]This ain't living [04:50.89] [04:51.85]This ain't living [04:52.49] [04:54.76]This ain't living [04:55.36] [04:56.17]This ain't living