[Chorus: Reek Ruffin]
Echoes of the images I can't unsee
Grown folks business wasn't 'llowed at the old playground
Everybody turns into food when you're hungry
Tears drop from the rooftop, it's a long way down
Ah, we never harbored ill intent y'all
Necessity, she will invent now
Though you may not have done the same
I've only got myself to blame
Should have known I was getting in over my head
There was a time I was well enough to have left it alone
Vault full of secrets of my deepest regrets
Wish I wasn't so stone cold and bad to the bone
Bad to the bone (Bad to the bone)

[Verse: Black Thought]
How'd I go from Aaron Jones to Van Jones?
How'd I get to muscle tone from bare bones?
I was Smokey and Robinson, no Miracles
It's dirty and nasty as Russell Jones, Nasir Jones
Bobby Womack blasting through the headphones
The pimps, gamblers and grifters, they was the heroes
Many a midnight run, young DeNiros
For every life cut short, another beard grows
In the distance between silence and a whisper
There's no time for taking pictures, you mentally note
The way the pavement had eventually spoke
To say the wavelength was just a rule of thumb and it was meant to be broke
[Bridge: Reek Ruffin]
We never harbored ill intent, y'all
Necessity, she will invent now
Though you may not have done the same
I've only got myself to blame

[Chorus: Reek Ruffin]
Echoes of the images I can't unsee
Grown folks business wasn't 'llowed at the old playground
Everybody turns into food when you're hungry
Tears drop from the rooftop, it's a long way down
Ah, we never harbored ill intent y'all
Necessity, she will invent now
Though you may not have done the same
I've only got myself to blame
Should have known I was getting in over my head
There was a time I was well enough to have left it alone
Vault full of secrets and my deepest regrets
Wish I wasn't so stone cold and bad to the bone
Bad to the bone