Released on September 21, 2004

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[Intro]

Well if she rocks like a spitter, and she flows like a spitter

Then you know she’s a spitter and she probably is

And if she walks like a spitter and she talks like a spitter

Don’t floss please forgive her, she probably is

And if she writes like a spitter, hold the mic like a spitter

Pause boys, ain’t no gutter, you know that she is

And if she rhymes like a spitter, know she rhymes like a spitter

Who rhymes like a spitter, you know who it is


[Verse 1]

A burnt sky scorched the earth’s flesh

At the same time the murderous text arose like a phoenix with the glow of death

A poet two steps ahead like Noah just left

Mo’ and sex holding techs, no, I’m not what you’d expect

Golden pen, exposing men false like a fallen disciple

All in the bible, the cause is the calling haiku

The love of words language liquor phrased

Slang in Mecca raised skyscraper, look a future brighter then your jewels of praise


[Chorus]

This life must be what divorce court be like

I fall apart right just to stay right

Call this caught like night calls to daylight

We a-alike see alike but you don’t hear me though

(You don’t hear me though)

When everything else just don’t go right

Even if we just pretend that we alright

Call this caught like night calls to daylight

We a-alike see alike but you don’t hear me though


[Verse 2]

For lack of better words, well that’s actually the worst

The vernacular must map first a path of better verse

Heads are cursed I rap backwards, like a roll, backwards

Flip the same line another track yes, accurate

I’ve mastered it, fucked rhymed, killed it’s father, bastardized it

Masqueraded, I roll drive by and patronize it

Must analyze it slow, mathematical

Crack addicts pull, my rock will take you high like astronomical planes

The money changes hands this year

With this here lisp, you disappear, my bliss is ripping spheres of discs

The wax hedonist, bleeding black blacker

Dreaming of a Caddie, black leather seated, beats banging, heat stack

Serial scratch Nina, police tracking us all

Side track ‘em in an alley and laugh at the law

You see my way of doing things is sort of different

Never resort to riffing, I just snuff and keep it stepping, listen

Heavy stomp like I’m gravity in hand smashing the floor

Splashed jagged, shrapnel slap in your jaw

I’m like Bill’s wife packing a sword, you must be out of your gourd

The girl’s insane but I told you before


[Chorus]

This life must be what divorce court be like

I fall apart right just to stay right

Call this caught like night calls to daylight

We a-alike see alike but you don’t hear me though

(You don’t hear me though)

When everything else just don’t go right

Even if we just pretend that we alright

Call this caught like night calls to daylight

We a-alike see alike but you don’t hear me though


[Verse 3]

Irrational thoughts often, but find me squeezing the cork often

Competing with wino heathens to squeeze in a coffin

The alcoholic in me almost slaughtered like the traveling door to doors-men

Who was found in doors with the foreman’s daughter Lauren

I freak a little forward, speak a little proper grammar

Rapper with the capital R, back with no capital (Aahh)

Fact is I’m hazardous, Angela’s hell immaculate

Poem’s rap like I’m in an obsessive compulsive cabinets

Neat but still dirty, elite but still worldly

To peak maybe at thirty, I speak that I ain’t worthy yet

So grab your drinks and toast them up to the future

Jean’s a trooper so they say but I ain’t met no one truer


[Interlude]

Y'all niggas don't hear me, know what I'm sayin'? (Yeah, niggas)

This is Jean Grae, motherfuckers


[Chorus]

This life must be what divorce court be like

I fall apart right just to stay right

Call this caught like night calls to daylight

We a-alike see alike but you don’t hear me though

(You don’t hear me though)

When everything else just don’t go right

Even if we just pretend that we alright

Call this caught like night calls to daylight

We a-alike see alike but you don’t hear me though


[Outro]

Act like you motherfuckers know whats goin' on

You hear that shit, and who fuckin' with it, nobody, nigga