If Not Me, Then Who? - Penn Davis

What would you say if I told you, day and night you're in my head? I can only imagine how this could be like having beside me someone like you One thing I know, you won't see me wasting any time It doesn't pay to be careful when my starving heart is on the line What will you say when I ask you, who would love you more than I? This could be right and every cliche in a love song will be applying to us Take me as I am If not now, then when? You don't want to miss the best thing in your life What would you say if I told you, day and night you're in my head? I can only dream how this must be like having with me someone exactly like you One thing I know, you won't see me wasting any time It doesn't pay to be careful when my starving heart is on the line What will you say when I ask you, who would love you more than I? This could be right and every cliche in a love song will be applying to us Take me as I am If not now, then when? You don't want to miss the best thing in your life Oh yes, oh yes Best thing in your life Yeah Ohh, what would you say if I told you, day and night you're in my head? I can only dream how this must be like, having with me someone exactly like you I will waste no time, one thing I know now It doesn't pay to be careful when my starving heart is on the line Line, line, line, line, wooh Oooh, what will you say when I ask you, who would love you more than I? Oh, this could be right and every cliche in a love song will be applying to us Take me as I am If not now, then when? You don't want to miss the best thing in your life... I could sit and cry Instead I'll risk my pride 'Cause baby I'm determined not to miss the best thing in my life Yes you are, oh, the best thing in my life Oh, best thing in my life Yes, you are, the best thing in my life 'Cause if not now then when? Ooh, if not now then when? Ooh, if not now then when? Ooh, if not now then when? If not now then when? If not now then when? (Wooh) If not now then when? If not now then when? If not now then when? If not now then when? What would you say? What would you do? Why wait? Why not now, why not now, why not now, why not now?

If not now, then when? When the forest's nearly gone When the hole's in the ozone When the bees are gone If not now, then when? When the ocean's coming up When the rain just won't stop When the fire's burning If not now, then when? If not now, then when? When Big Pharma's ripping me When my data's tracking me When my phone is spying If not now, then when? When my choicе is monitored When computers arе cleverer When our food is poison If not now, then This is an emergency Need to act more quickly This is no quandary This is an emergency Woo! This is an emergency Need to act more quickly This is no quandary This is an emergency When the oceans turn to black When the animals are dead When the birds are gone If not now, then when? When the blue sky turns to black When Gaia hangs by a thread When all the people die If not now, then when?

He said, "mama I know you have a lot of plans for me College in the fall Hey I'm almost eighteen I've been doing lots of thinking about a lot of stuff Went down to the recruiter today and I signed up." If not there, then where? If not now, then when? If not this, then what else can I defend? Being gone and being scared, What else can I do? If not me mama, If not me then who? He's upstairs shaving His cloth is starched and pressed I'm down here praying, my mind is a mess I ask, "where he got, these crazy ideas anyway?" He just smiles and says, "It's the way that I was raised" If not there, then where? If not now, then when? If not this, then what else can I defend? Being gone and being scared, What else can I do? If not me daddy, If not me then who? We wait for his letters, emails and satellite calls Then the politics, Thats number 84 wide receiver for the Wildscats Who's pictures is hangning in my home next to the soldier Standing proud and tall He said, "If not there, then where? If not now, then when? If not this, then what else can I defend? Being gone and being scared What else can I do? If not me dear God, If not me then who?"

They say I'm so laid back I been living life on recline Joyful is the hiker that find beauty in the climb Grateful is the artist that can navigate his mind Why would I buy a watch when I get paid for my time The feeling is divine I'm traveling cross the globe My back against the wall I'm using my frontal lobe When you got the light you could fade or you could strobe Everybody got a role you could wash or you could fold It's seems to me that niggas done got lost looking for gold Forgot about they goals too distracted by these hoes I'm no better than them They no better than me I know better than most But I'm no better than most I'm still healing from pain Still running from growth Still smoke til I'm numb Still fucking to cope Life is funny til niggas start stealing ya jokes Start stealing ya masters Then calling you broke Start taking ya credit like they the reason you on Start taking yo pub like they been writing yo songs What a shame Can't even own the rights to ya name And niggas chalk it up as just a consequence of fame I'm just talking, ventin, pardon my reach The stronger the system gets the harder it is to beat I'm not against ya deals or the chains you wear I'm not against the trauma or the pain you share I'm not against the future or the young niggas comin up Shit be so divided it be hard for me to sum it up Most the shit I hear be lacking passion and a purpose Half the shit I hear just don't even scratch the surface I don't know what it's worth so I question if it's worthless I barely hear new shit I'd wanna purchase Maybe I'm disconnected Maybe I'm washed up Maybe I'm out of touch Or maybe this shit suck I don't seek validation from my peers like before Live from the underground got they ear to the floor I don't seek validation from my peers like before Live from the underground they ear to the floor We're gonna have a good day And all my homies gonna ride today And all these mommies look fly today And all we wanna do is get by today Hey We're gonna have a good day And ain't nobody gotta cry today 'Cause ain't nobody gonna die today Save that drama for another day Hey, we're gonna have a good day

Just another victim of the... victim of the ghetto Just Another victim, that's how it goes, ooh Heavy foot traffic jam the hallway all day Adolescence working for small pay World so little he could never leave his block His home bullet riddled so he always need his Glock He coast with his eye open, keep his metal smoking Young wasted minds fiending on dimes, coking Forgot kids quick to break rules and known to make fools Out of many, down the streets we more safe than school There's no diploma that can break you from the coma Of a bloody war in the country, the youth hungry On the corner hyenas amongst me Yapping about the stories they be hearing, always swearing Can't even spell the shit that he be wearing Caught up in the silk web of material Superficial stains ya brain tissue, that's the issue The young is lost at their own cost, dreaming Screaming how we never hold positions, that's the meaning Mothers of murder victims share the same grief The elderly shake their head in disbelief And no relief came till I aimed And blast one shot and left my name... the GZA Just another victim of the... victim of the ghetto Just Another victim, that's how it goes, ooh My residence is a city where army veterans smoke rocks On torn down blocks, drug spots set up their shops And cops watch innocent niggas roaming flocks Romanism in tops, papers and knots Churches and liquor stores on every corner plot To get money knots some funny niggas act like They could pop Glocks and those who can't cop Sisters giving up ass a lot, brothers giving up cash a lot Babies struggling to become someone because their parent's not Just another victim of the ghetto, where lost minds settle When the devils uncivil society and die free With double 'W' followed by J-D around the necks and wrists The God is now a dog, the Earth is called a bitch And all my people wish to get rich in this wilderness to push a Lexus Ice on everything from rings and bracelets to the necklaces Children molested within these pest infested buildings Seeds uneducated in these schools, paint on the ceilings Is peeling off, but all I see is lost black babies calling "Please somebody save me, please somebody save me" Just another victim of the... victim of the ghetto Just Another victim, that's how it goes, ooh Just another victim of the... victim of the ghetto Just Another victim, that's how it goes, ooh Just another... just another... victim of the ghetto