PRACTICING - PJ Morton, Tobe Nwigwe

Everybody says, «Follow the rules,» yeah

But what works for me might not work for you

Sometimes they’re right and sometimes they’re wrong

It just goes to show

We’re just practicing, and no one really knows

No one

No one, yeah, yeah

No one, mmm

They always told me my ideas would never work

Go to college, get your degree so you could go to work

Yeah, 'cause you’re gonna need a backup plan

Just in case anything happens

That’s the only thing they understand

They don’t think that you could do it if they never seen it done

So tell my dreamers, keep dreamin'

And if you got the master plan, keep schemin'

Gon' have some doubters, that’s how it goes

But to be honest, nobody really knows

Everybody says, «Follow the rules,» yeah

But what works for me might not work for you

Sometimes they’re right and sometimes they’re wrong

It just goes to show

We’re just practicing, and no one really knows

My mama prolly thought I was gonna hit the league

But I didn’t

She told me, «Tobe, you should go get a real J-O-B»

But I didn’t

Hell, sometimes disobedience is the ingredient needed

To clear your path of the feces and demons that mislead ya

To the pile of bodies, you’re lyin' with them folk from Egypt

Before they got the receipt, that pharaoh denied them freedom

I know them shackles that’s on ya get comfortable in this system

'Specially when they hit the kill switch on a caterpillar’s vision

To be a butterfly and hover by

Can’t spend that, have been suckered by

Thoughts that bread only come when you make butter fly, ooh

I hope you get it, I do

I might just write the ones in the slums with the drums a haiku

To let them know that there’s plenty of tycoons that come from typhoons

And ain’t no rules, this a game of fools and we all just like you

'Cause…

Everybody says, «Follow the rules,» yeah (Yeah)

But what works for me might not work for you

(It don’t work for everybody)

Sometimes they’re right and sometimes they’re wrong (Yeah)

It just goes to show

We’re just practicing, and no one really knows