Writer's Block Lyrics - Brother Ali

if i don't get this in one take, imma quit rappin' 

the whole song, i swear to god 

i'm supposed to be a professional 

i ain't tryin' to be one of them dudes 

that make hundreds of new songs and none of them are good 

some of 'em are cool, but ain't say nothin' new 

runnin' through a verse, just for somethin' to do 

i wanna be the cat, that put the straw on the back 

of the camel and send him to the chiroprac 

i wanna write a line that's in your head all day 

songs that make you say you never felt that way 

like i'm tryin' to give myself goosebumps, ok? 

find the truth inside me and put it on display 

many dedicated folks listen to me close 

i open my inner soul and slip it in my clothes 

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some flood the blogs, some flood the streets 

i don't flood nothin', i'm watering the seeds 

i walk away from emcees offerin' me cheese 

to author a 16 and drop it on their beat 

and it's not like money ain't somethin' that i need 

there's a business side and i wanna succeed 

plus i got a wife and a couple kids to feed 

but if i sell my love, then what's left for me? 

sometimes i don't write a lot 

i know some folks call that writer's block 

i just call it my process 

it comes out when it's ready to, i guess 

i don't wanna let nobody down, so 

here's some new shit, you tell me how it sounds 

i ain't tryin' to be difficult or no shit 

it just hurts too bad to try and force it 

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had a week off ... 

i flew out to seattle to go and build with jake 

he can make a break that make the famous do a take 

i'm hyped, imaginin' the magic that we'll create 

i love my family but damn they distract me 

when i'm at home someone's always yellin' "daddy!" 

need to get away badly and focus 

but it's been a couple weeks since i really wrote shit 

i'm strugglin', up late hummin' 

pace around the hotel, the words ain't comin' 

wrote a little somethin', throw it away, fuck it 

have an artist freak out moment and start buggin' 

maybe it's the ..., my fire's just lost 

i'm probably a fraud that got lucky before 

if i let everybody down, then what's it all for? 

lookin' at seattle from the twenty third floor 

cracked the window and swung open wide 

nothin' between me and the world outside 

what if i decide to lean forward and fly? 

they say that's the way donny hathaway died 

such a beautiful life ended in suicide 

maybe tryin' to write was tearin' him up inside 

maybe tryin' to write was tearin' him up inside 

i swear that tryin' to write is tearin' me up inside 

i bet that i'd regret it, the second that i did it 

wish that that instant i could continue livin' 

i pushed the window closed said "man, you trippin'" 

sat down on the bed and wrote this one 

sometimes i don't write a lot 

i know folks out there call that writer's block 

i just call it my process 

it comes out when it's ready to, i guess 

i don't wanna let nobody down, so 

here's some new shit, you tell me how it sounds 

i ain't tryin' to be difficult or no shit 

it just hurts too bad to try and force it