Ink Don't Bleed Lyrics - Anderson Paak

Some got hits about the racks that they earn 

Say there's Benjamins and Jacksons in their pocket to burn 

But when they shoot the video producers pass around a bucket full of rented jewelry for them to rock and return 

I know a straightedge rapper who acts like a sheep herder 

A vegan on the mic who's screaming that meat's murder 

but when everybody's sleepin, he be creepin 

slugging back the whiskey, hating himself and sneakin a cheese burger 

There's a pop idol at the top of the charts 

and while her record's being cut she's on the beach in St. Barts 

while a session singer who didn't have the face to make it 

signs a nondisclosure agreement and belts out her parts 

It's hard, cause I got bars that are big uppin Woody Allen 

But maybe he's a predator who's digging in his talons 

there's a balance and often i don't know how to feelIn a fake and tainted world, seek the real 

I can't change the past but a man's gotta man up 

It's hard to believe. Sometimes I get the best of me 

I'm doing what I can but I'm a man, not a damn chump 

You can say it if you need, but I'd rather let the ink bleed 

We dismiss our heroes' skeletons no matter how grimmy fans saying "I'd be honored to be injured by him 

"well fam, this branch is thin, but i'll go out on a limb 

To say she didn't love her ulna poking out of her skin 

being pumped full of morphine and tied to machines 

They cut off my jeans, I heard her in the ambulance scream 

she's in school to do tattoos and might've had nerve damage So I could've cost a girl a chance at her dream 

Meanwhile he pops painkillers, until the dude is numb 

Knew I was a stupidass just not that I'm a ruthless one 

youth is easily influenced so should you be rooting for me 

if I touch a thousand lives but on the way I ruin somethe rule of thumb is all publicity's your advantage 

But human lives are not collateral damage 

bandage the wound and then vanish, blank as the newest of canvases when they zoom in the cameras give em the truth 

Megachurch leaders sleeping with male hookers 

Mayors hitting crackpipes with their cookers 

Each week a crooked politician gets caught 

we're not shocked when they're cheaters, these days we're shocked when they're not 

Are they the person you thought? if they're perfect and hot 

Often we blame the victim, scoffing "they deserved what they got" 

Actors sweep it under the rug and resume with the plot 

But they're amateurs and we can see the boom in the shot 

If perception is reality then this could be a shocker 

I've done my share of fucked up things that didn't get on Gawker 

lots of tiny indiscretions way beyond the public eye 

that if you saw would out probably out me as a complicated guy 

Mike says you gotta separate a person from their art 

but if the art's about that person you can't pull em apart 

So you better watch the choices that you makin now because 

They aren't something that matter, they're the only thing that does 

BRIDGE 

everything they've said conflicts with everything I dobut I must admit I did it so I guess it might be true 

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