Pay the Levy - Stanley Okorie

See the way the wind blows Lives are intertwined Watch the way the world goes The man deals out our plight Jester in the corner Laughs without a sound Jester in the corner Malady abounds In our souls See the way the sun sets Twilight of this life The man is making little bets Playing with our lives All that I believe now Anything is possible A simple explanation For the evil in this world And in our souls In our souls Hoo hoo, go! Come down to sorry and sable It's always the man Always keeping you down Bow down cause I see it before me Shadow and light That always keeps you running Oh-oh Shut up, you talk too much Oh-oh-oh Pay the man now yeah Oh-oh Shut up, you talk too much Oh-oh-oh Look at you and your struggle for freedom But you ain't nothing We all pay the man for liv-ing Wouldn't it be nice for a change now To be unchained? My life is for me now But this is life This is life Pay the man (No!) It's the man (No!?) Oh-oh Shut up, you talk too much Oh-oh-oh Pay the man now yeah Oh-oh Shut up, you talk too much Oh-oh Hoo hoo, go! Oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh (Don't!) (No!) Oh-oh-oh (Stop! No!) Oh-oh Shut up, you talk too much Oh-oh-oh Pay the man now yeah My life is for me Oh oh oh Uno dos tres cuatro cinco cinco seis And all the girlies say I'm pretty fly for a white guy Uno dos tres cuatro cinco cinco seis

Well, one of these days gonna pay the road Yeah, one of these days gonna run for fun Yeah, one of these days when you're all alone Out back wishin' for the grass to grow Oh, yeah, one of these days gonna run for fun Yeah, one of these days gonna settle down Yeah, when the cops say catch him and the boys ain't jumpin' Lord, you're gonna wish your heart was thumpin', oh Yeah, but the air keeps sayin' that the water keeps springin' No troubles in life, no girls worth keepin', no Yeah, and everybody's wishin,' nobody's prayin' And the troubles in life are not worth sayin', no Yeah, well, one of these days gonna pay the road Yeah, one of these days gonna run for fun Yeah, one of these days when you're all alone Out back wishin' for the grass to grow Yeah, one of these days gonna pay the road Oh, one of these days I'm gonna run for fun One of these days when you're all alone Out back wishin' for the grass to grow Oh yeah, one of these days when you're all alone You're gonna wish your grass would grow Yeah, one of these days with your eyes wide open You're gonna see your coffin closin'

Things never seem to go according to plan So we always end up compromising We're not smart enough to have a Plan B at hand So we always end up improvising It's killing us to settle with the cards we get When we know there's much more at stake But giving in to pressure is the safest bet And it's also our biggest mistake That's the price we pay That's the price we pay That's the price we pay That's the price we pay We never asked to be put into this position We never had high demands We never claimed to be on some kind of mission Like we had some kind of masterplan It's not as if we know exactly what we came for So we settle for what comes our way We're always unprepared for the final encore What the fuck are we supposed to say? That's the price we pay That's the price we pay That's the price we pay That's the price we pay That's the price we pay That's the price we pay That's the price we pay That's the price we pay Every move we make, every step we take That's the price we pay Every rule we break, every move we fake That's the price we pay Every move we make, every step we take That's the price we pay Every rule we break, every move we fake That's the price we pay