8 Minutes To Sunrise Lyrics - Common

(featuring Jill Scott) 

[Common] 

Yeah, yo, yo, yo-yo, yo, yo 

Yo, a touch of jazz y'all, yeah, yeah 

? y'all, yo they got us on the run, like 

[Jill Scott] 

8 minutes to sunrise 

Oh baby now, what are we gonna do? (I don't know.) 

Pressure is mountin 

Oh baby now, how we gonna get through? (I, don't, know) 

Can't go left (uh-uh) can't go right (uh-uh) 

Don't know, how we made it through the night (c'mon c'mon c'mon) 

7 minutes to sunrise 

Oh baby now, what are we gonna do? (Do it, do it.) 

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[Common] 

It was once said by Black Thought that +Things Fall Apart+ 

Knew I shouldn't have been messin with dude's girl from start 

But I pimp from the heart, the art of it made it interestin 

Plus me and sister blend before we got intimate 

Friend or no friend, my man caught wind 

This chick is payin me, it'll either cost me or cost him 

Told her she shoulda lost him (when?) a while ago 

Cause dude'll drink a pile of Mo' and defile her yo 

I ain't here to start on this [nigga] for me to wreck his broad 

you could tell what I thought of this [nigga] 

Nickname was Smoke, don't know if that was cause of cigarettes 

(or what?) or guns he tote, he called shots on the deck 

so I wasn't tryin to call his bluff, by his persona 

you could see, he think he tough! 

If that wasn't enough, old girl had his son 

This is Wild like the West I'm like Jesse on the run, uhh 

Photos 

[Jill Scott] 

6 minutes to sunrise 

Oh baby now, what are we gonna do? (I don't know.) 

Pressure is mountin 

Oh baby now, how we gon' get through? (I, don't, know) 

Can't go left and (uh-uh) can't go right and (uh-uh) 

Don't know, how we made it through the night (yo, we got.) 

5 minutes to sunrise 

Oh baby now, what are we gonna do? (Do it, do it.) 

[Common] 

I understand that time is runnin out, I'm thinkin of town-skippin 

Got a Chevy but the alternator be trippin 

I'm hittin rum straight, thinkin of a route to truncate 

The streets is watchin, out is one way I put myself in his Nike's 

His position is, "Aight man, somebody bonin my lady" 

Probably snap like Rod-man 

My plan was to meet at this bar called the Tiki (when?) 

'round four, when she was comin she would beep me 

I sat deep in the corner, drinkin zombies, becomin one by now 

Wonderin if my style would support her and her child 

Out the corner of my eye saw this stud I recognized (who?) 

One of Smoke's guys, to stay out of sight I tried 

Told Jill Scott to meet we coulda picked a better spot 

On some "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here" [shit] like Deborah Cox 

Looked at my watch, [shit] I don't even got a watch 

Felt for my glock, damnit I don't even got a glock, yo 

[Jill Scott] 

4 minutes to sunrise 

Oh baby now, what are we gonna do? (I don't know.) 

Pressure is mountin 

Oh baby now, how we gon' get through? (I, don't, know) 

Can't go left and (uh-uh) can't go right and (uh-uh) 

Don't know, how we made it through the night (c'mon c'mon) 

3 minutes to sunrise 

Oh baby now, what are we gonna do? (Do it, do it.) 

[Common] 

Pressure puh-pressure what? The pressure's cookin 

It ain't good lookin, like a black promoter I'm talkin bookin 

Not that I'm spooked of dude, I could whup him 

But he was on the horn informin the rest of them hoodlums (aight) 

Usually I wouldn't fight over a woman, old girl had a sun-shine 

was messed up, on Smoke's payroll was one-time 

My pager went off, it read one line: "Come get me 

from Halsted," I'm thinkin this is monkey bar [shit] 

Went to the phone quick, called her (what happened?) Her line was busy 

Situation number nine, got my mind dizzy 

Wondered if this plan was designed to get me 

I've been drinkin too strong to be thinkin too long 

Like 40 goin North I'm doin 50, headed for the spot 

Askin God to be with me, and lately 

she has been actin shifty -- (but what?) 

But then it hit me (hit me) it hit me (hit me) 

It hit me (hit me) it hit me 

[Jill Scott] 

2 minutes to sunrise 

Oh baby now, what are we gonna do? (I don't know.) 

Pressure is mountin 

Oh baby now, how we gonna get through? (Yo -- I said I, don't, know) 

Can't go left and (uh-uh) can't go right and (nope) 

Don't know, how we made it through the night (yo, we got) 

1 minute to sunrise 

Oh baby now, what are we gonna do? (one-one, one. ha?) 

1 minute. (we got, we got) one, one 

1 minute. (ahh shit, we got) one, one 

1 minute. (what we got girl?) one, one 

1 minute. (baby, Com Sense on the run) now, now 

1 minute. (Com Sense on the run) one. 

1 minute. (just got on the run, just got on the run) 

(Com Sense on the run, Com Sense on the run) 

(just got on the run, just got on the run) 

(they got us on the run like. they got us on the run) 

(they got us on the. yo, they got us on the run) 

(uhh, yo, they got us on the run) 

(they got us on the. yo, they got us on the run) 

(and we out.)