BENEATH THE DECK

We been suffering
For like way too long
We're not satisfied
With this path we're on
There's no way you can
Tell me that I'm wrong
Tried to pacify with that same ole' song
"You just wait your chance
Your day soon gone come."
Tryna move my man
In this game we're on
Every step I take
Trip and make me fall
over and over and over...

Cus we been tryna figure out the reasons why...
Why we cry, why we're lost
Cus your ends don't justify your means, my...
My life is not your cost,
Still beneath the deck
Still beneath the deck
(Repeat 3 more times)

Are the deuces wild (yeah)
Cus what we compose
Is the only card
That we have to hold
I get skipped my chance
Always lose my turn
Paying poor tax on
Every cent I earn
'Fore I'm twenty-one
Hear my number called
Whether parole, Uncle Sam, or my angel fall
Think you making moves
Sold my blackness off
over and over and over...

Cus we been tryna figure out the reasons why...
Why we cry, why we're lost
Cus your ends don't justify your means, my...
My life is not your cost,
Still beneath the deck
Still beneath the deck
(Repeat 3 more times)

Need my belly full,
Need my baby warm
"this here our juke joint"
Need my lights back on
Need my 'scription filled
Need my check to come
"this here our juke joint"

Now don't get me wrong
I don't want free turns
Just to know the rules
At no cost to learn
Foolish of me to
Let you piss me off
over and over and over...

Cus we been tryna figure out the reasons why...
Why we cry, why we're lost
Cus your ends don't justify your means, my...
My life is not your cost,
Still beneath the deck
Still beneath the deck
(Repeat 3 more times)

Said now I, I, I, just can't keep on with you
When you keep changing rules
And you keep us confused
Said now I, I, I, need the people to choose
Be the free or the fools
There can be no excuse
Said now I, I, I.... Said now I, I, I....
Still beneath the deck