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The "EveryBody" Insider |
| I Ain't Got Time to Vote By Bahati Osayimwese © 2004 ETBlack.com I ain't got time to vote child. Oprah is on TV The NBA is cranking up I'm takin' a course in Japanese. I ain't got time to vote child. The one I like don't ever win I don't want no jury duty Plus I got a kid up in the Pen. I ain't got time to vote child. I got my lady comin' by at ten I gotta pickup my tux from the cleaners I'm gonna smoke some weed up in the den. I ain't got time to vote child. I'm sick of them fools up in my face All them jokers are a bunch of liars It's all a goddamn disgrace! I ain't got time to vote child. My nails gotta get done by Mrs Grace My feets hurt too bad I'm reading a novel and don't wanna lose my place. I ain't got time to vote child. Black folks won't get no better anyway I got a roof overhead and a table with food I got plenty time to relax and play. I ain't got time to vote child. I know that you're sittin' in a foreign land While fightin' in that war that no one can understand. I know they changed language from English into Greek A confusingly strange sort of tongue which neither of us can speak. I know you couldn't get a decent job havin' no clue where to start I know you can't even walk on your own street when it's after dark. I know you cannot have one child I know you can't have a wife. I know you don't have any civil rights But at least YOU can fight for YOUR life Since I'm too damn sorry to fight FOR you By getting off my black ass to VOTE! [Don't just walk to the polls. Why not RUN for office] |