[Homeboy Sandman: Verse 1]

The carpenter

Sand to the rescue, hipper than ha-choo then bless you
I be in the lab dude, my respect due I should get a tattoo
With a test tube
Monkey that's a baboon
That’s my nephew, funkier than the bathroom
That’s the restroom
Way more than the back room
With the guess whos
I’ll be on the avenue making chess moves
Don't be gettin' fretful, at times I get forgetful, reppin' for the fresh few, whippin' up fresh food

Beard like Moses
Kick it with the opposition to the posers
Planes be going 'neeeow' passing over each and every foe, wake up and smell the Folgers
I don’t wanna hear how it won't work, that just means the whole earth hasn't done their homework
Early on I veered, then I soul-searched, dug deep like a gopher, figured I should go first, reason why I don't curse, reason why I'm sober, reason I feel younger, even though I'm older

Open your eyes and keep them on me

The Carpenter

[Homeboy Sandman: Verse 2]
Shot gunning for the leg room
End all of my fortune cookies "in the bedroom"
Type of cat that always
Repping in the rec room
Paparazzi Boy Sand
Rampant in they red room
As soon as I check one
‘Fore I even check two
You ain’t gotta say it once
Everybody guess who
I be puttin’ checks up
Even when the rent's due
Ain’t nobody next up
Ain’t nobody next to
Moment that I enter
Recognize the emperor
So I be getting’ extra
Places like Bethesda
[Verse 3]
People see the homeboy, and they be like oh snap
And they be like oh boy
Shout to Japanese Cats
Chilling, watching Oldboy
People in New Orleans
Chilling eating po’boys
Just because I’m pro-life
Don’t mean I ain't pro-choice
Reading Dostoevsky don’t mean I read Tolstoy
Used to be had no voice
You can see that’s null and void
Nas is like "I Am" I'mma be like "Yo Soy"
Now I'm making big noise
Playing with the big boys
I don't mean the Big Noids
B, I mean the Sig Freuds

[Bridge]
The sun gon' rise, open your eyes and keep em on me
The sun gon' rise, open your eyes and keep em on me
The sun gon’ rise open your eyes they keep up on me
Indeed, Ben Boogz, and Deep, and homey

The Carpenter
[Verse 4]
I’m never gonna slow, I’m never gonna stall
I’m never gonna cease, I’m never gonna cheat
I’m never gonna cheapen, never gonna eat
I’m never gonna sleep, I'm never gonna sell out
Never gonna lease
More than ever in the streets
I’m never gonna leave, cats claim that they believe
Then never take a leap, you won't never be relieved
You don’t never take a leak, My level is elite
Times in another league
Times the anomoly
Warn the diabolique
Cast blabber on the mic, cats gather on the right
I’d rather make a left, I ain't frightened of the lights
I ain’t tryin to be polite, I’m fighting for my life
I’m fighting to the death, I’m down to pay the price
Ain’t no roll of the dice
Only one way to dive in, take it to the depths, don't mind if money’s tight
I’m done with wearing ties
I’m running out of time, not running out of breath
Next thing you know presto, I'm all up in the press, oh yeah you wanna bet
Make sure to stay abreast
The carpenter