One Good Time - Intellectual

[Intro]

Just give me one good time

Nobody's looking at me anyway

[Verse 1]

I know that I'm hardcore, know how to start wars

Know how to scar yours in a fist fight

'Cause toughness is our floor, warriors that bar nor

But this one is far tore up on this night

Some people show it and then, some people hide it

But other people, they do it whenever they get excited

But me, I can't even do it when the wrongs all mine

I'm saying I've been trying to do it for a long long time

I get jealous when I see people do it and it's like fluid

I'm thinking "how can they swallow that?" When I can't even chew it

I guess God seen it fit to label me the consoler

Bestowed upon a broken show and forever be the shoulder

My mission is plain to see, it's freaking insanity

I'm wishing the pain in me would just leave me, why can't it be?

Simple 'cause on the real this one could die

So I'm asking God, before I go just give me one good cry

[Chorus]

If I could cry maybe one good time

I could wash away all my pain and maybe free my mind

After my shows, it's a lonely road

So I sit up all by myself trying to cleanse my soul

Nobody's looking at me anyway

Just give me one good time

Nobody's looking at me anyway

[Verse 2]

Why I got to be the one to cheer up people until they clear up?

When I sneeze, I tear up, and then I go look in a mirror

So I can see how it looks, when I really wanna know how it feels

When I'm hella down, I try to push, no matter how hard, no water spills for real

My patience is soon to go, waiting for the balloon to blow

I'm thinking back to when I used to go to funerals

No matter how close we were, on the inside, it ached, while

Others be losing it, I'm wishing I could just break down

And I been to a lot of them, and there's not a one

That went on and got it done, no moisture that even try even to come

And this ain't no tough thing, 'cause I've had enough pain

Tears should be runnin' like Mustang's, man, it must rain

Been trying for years, but the crying's been inside

And the Nina so serious that there ain't no lying in his eyes

And it makes me so furious, when I look and I'm in genocide

Please let me break down with the pain I felt when Bryon Dennis died

One time...

[Chorus]

If I could cry maybe one good time

I could wash away all my pain and maybe free my mind

After my shows, it's a lonely road

So I sit up all by myself trying to cleanse my soul

Nobody's looking at me anyway

Just give me one good time

Nobody's looking at me anyway

[Verse 3]

I look at actors, they crying, it's as easy as fondue

But what do you do when extreme hurt is upon you?

Real life ain't no movie, homie, and this ain't John Woo

But I almost lost it at the ending of John Q

And I almost lost it when Jennifer Hudson blew

But I'm still waiting for that real emotion to come through

Then maybe I could get a cry, God

Maybe one, two?

Been red for life, for the first time ever, me want blue

(What?)

Give me the blues, sometimes I turn on the news

And I look at all these feuds, then I try to make them ooze

(Don't cry, no teardrops from your eye

Poetry's music oh my, almost made me tear up about thinking about my children, no lie)

Maybe I'm black hearted, you thinking "damn, he shady"

Or saying "man he crazy", for the way I abandon me lady

One day she can repay me, yes, that woman can betray me

Then I'll probably cry, if not than I do it if I win me a Grammy, maybe

[Chorus]

If I could cry maybe one good time

I could wash away all my pain and maybe free my mind

After my shows, it's a lonely road

So I sit up all by myself trying to cleanse my soul

Nobody's looking at me anyway

Just give me one good time, hey, hey

Nobody's looking at me anyway