Craftsmanship Lyrics - This Right Here Is - Buck 65

"Craftsmanship" 

Most folks spend their days daydreaming or finding clues 

My whole life I've been here at the train station shining shoes 

I started when I was nine, on my own and taught myself 

No complaints, I'm doing pretty good and I got my health 

Memories and calluses, my hearing's probably next to go 

Sometimes I do a little handy work for extra dough 

But mostly this here is how I spend my time 

And I've perfected a technique I call the dry shine 

Some guys use lots of water on the shoe but then 

When it's out in the open air it's gone in ten minutes 

That whole approach to the job is dumb, in fact 

Dollars to donuts, that customer won't be coming back 

This is the most common mistake of the amateurs 

Going for big numbers to satisfy their managers 

Anyway, the dry shine, the first thing I mean to do 

And this part is very important, I clean the shoe 

The residue and old polish to keep the shoe from being ruined 

All you need to do is use a rag with some cleaning fluid 

If the shoe's all caked up with gunk you need to think 

The shoe can't breathe and that's what causes the feet to stink 

They took Carfoine off the market, I believe 

It was a few years ago cause that leather couldn't breathe 

Now once you've cleaned the shoe and it's dried 

Your base coat of polish can now be applied 

Then you brush, cause what that tends to do 

Is clean the shoe a little more and gets rid of the residue 

And then you do the second coat just like the first one 

You brush it, you rag it, and voila, your work is done 

And that's it, you treat each shoe like it's special 

Care about your work, and be a professional 

There's a right way to go about your job and a wrong one 

I find this way is much better in the long run 

It ain't about the dollar or trying to go fast 

Unless you take pride in what you're doing, it won't last 

Craftsmanship is a quality that some lack 

You got to give people a reason for them to come back 

The world's a different place than what I was introduced to 

They don't wear shineable shoes like they used to 

Casual clothes in the office, what is this 

The villain in sneakers is killing my busines