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The Glass House

from Optimist's Cookbook by Akil Nadir

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lyrics written and performed by Akil Nadir; produced by Tony C for Maseed Productions; recorded, mixed and mastered by Akil Nadir at Humble Ardor Studio in Bowie, MD | Humble Ardor Multimedia, copyright 2013

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We gone crawl, and we gone walk
And we gone fly far away from here
And if we fall, well then we fall
But we gone try until the day we die, my dear
We got nothing to lose but our fear
And all we got to give is blood, sweat, tears
The end is near and this is clear
Crawl, walk, fly, blood, sweat, tears

Remarkable Aston Martin flow
Pockets are Hyundai but growing like fungi
In a petri dish until I dig a deeper ditch
Then dig myself out with a scheme, slightly evil-ish
Somewhat diva-ish, my rider says escovitch
And Glenfiddich scotch whiskey, one fifth in either fist
Pace is feverish, I lost a lot of time
Daydreaming instead of getting on my grind
You know the feeling
The limit is the ceiling, that's if you in the building
What if you outdoors or in a house without doors?
Without walls, without floors?
If you about yours how could they doubt yours?
Who is here without flaws?

Chorus

Shh. My life is calling…
"Claude, I'm waiting for you
Saved a plate for you, ice cream and cake for you."
I'm coming, life!
Last night I dreamed about you.
The real world is hard enough to kick the semen out you
But they don't hate you, they just caught up in the cycle
Chasing paper and more prestigious titles
You gotta listen
Father forgive him, don't mind my brother, he ignorant
He simple-minded, he don't mean no harm, he limited
All he sees is what money buys, he short-sighted
But he still empty on the inside, he can't hide it
So he buy something shiny, a little vroom vroom
Nobody love him, he be paying for the poom poom
And she's a beautiful circus sideshow
Hot-to-trot Hottentot with a wide-load
They both searching for something that doesn't exist
But in a way they both innocent as second cousin kiss
But what would life be if it wasn't this?
What kind of hunter want a gun that doesn't miss?
The purpose is the journey, not the destination
And we are all running late for supper with Satan

Chorus

Christian, Muslim or Jew, Buddhist or Hindu
Who doesn't reap the benefits of evil men do?
The diamond in your wife's ring cost a hundred lives
Nothing compared to the look of love in her eyes
Sweatshops full of teenage seamstresses
So your kids can have 200 dollar jeans for Christmas
Posters of Barack Obama on the wall
He kill 1000 Pakistanis with a phone call
Your son got a partial scholarship to Catholic school
The headmaster want some head in collateral
He got a bad attitude, they keep him after school
And that's what happens when you cannot pay the balance due
Whose hands ain't bloody? Let's conduct a study
Pour me another shot of Cutty while I rap to my buddy
Buddy! Remember me, from Alice Deal
At recess we exchanged words on the field
You and your mans tried to jump me at the bus stop
I gave you a black eye before I finally dropped
We was just a few blocks from my mom's house
Getting mollywhopped, on the ground, and stomped out
Certain memories you can never forget
Seems like the harder you try then the harder it gets
Like the pain and the shame of a beat down
You can chose to retaliate or either leave town
Or you can stand your ground like Nadir did
Squared off at the bottom like a pyramid
Left foot forward, knees bent, guards up
And no friends got called up to squad up
No shots fired, no charges brought up
Just me scared to death with both fists balled up

Chorus

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from Optimist's Cookbook, track released January 1, 2014
produced by Tony C for Maseed Productions

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