Lookin at the clouds kinda spitting and storming
As i fall through the sky at the top o the morning
Got move through the world let me give you a warning
Gotta fix it, change it
Tear the sucker down rearrange it
Strange, it never seemed impossible before you know?
So just keep it up buck
You might just get a fat lip
Smack you back to the lack you felt back when you were smackin jack
And every body always askin if it pays or not
As if the only thing of value were a bank account
And yet
I value heaters steak and paid rent
So i'm on another plane trying to make a dent
I need to speed up to catch up i'm leavin myself behind
Even i can't keep up with my mind

So pay me (pay me)
Pay me (pay me)
What i'm worth
And i'll think about art when i'm sheltered and fed
Just
Pay me (pay me)
Pay me (pay me)
I'll be high minded and pure as soon as i'm sure
That i'm not about to end up dead

Got you noddin like you got some parkinson's
Pretty beats and the rhymes that i'm barkin son
Bitin lines from the rain in the back of my brain
And i'm fluffy like a big ol' tire chain
Said i'm beatin my head against a big fat piece of lead
When i see a little crack
I step back and look at that
Try to attack again do it til it caves in
Watchin me run away
Feelin kinda stuck
Hangin dead from the bottom of a turnip truck
Bump your head on the speed bumps
Kinda like a drum
Trailin blood in the mud from katy to houston
Better give me
What i need
Or i won't be ok

So pay me (pay me)
Pay me (pay me)
What i'm worth
And i'll think about art when i'm sheltered and fed
Just
Pay me (pay me)
Pay me (pay me)
I'll be high minded and pure as soon as i'm sure
That i'm not about to end up dead

Now i ain't no pop star
Ridin in a fancy red car
Everybody know who i are
Baby gonna take me too far
But i been chokin to death since 75
When i first came alive
What you think it's a joke?
I've got to keep this habit fed
On art i tread
I need the bread

So pay me (pay me)
Pay me (pay me)
What i'm worth
And i'll think about art when i'm sheltered and fed
Just
Pay me (pay me)
Pay me (pay me)
I'll be high minded and pure as soon as i'm sure
That i'm not about to end up dead