Now Or Never Lyrics - How I Got Over - The Roots

Everything's changin' around me and I wanna change too 

It's one thing I know, it ain't cool bein' no fool 

I feel different today, I don't know what else to say 

But I'ma get my shit together, it's now or never 

Now or never, now or never 

Now or never, now or never 

Uh, I'm sick, sick of waitin' in vain, tired of playin' the game 

Thinkin' of makin' a change, finally breakin' the chains 

Every phase, every happenin', craze 

When it's said and done, my head is right back in the haze 

I'm ready for the next chapter and page to start actin' my age 

And part ways with Black Thought from back in the days 

I'm stargazin' from the back of the stage 

Questionin' if who y'all praise is worthy of praise 

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What's the phrase, 'Bygones is bygones'? 

Niggaz who used to be the underdog is icons 

People say the light shines once in a lifetime 

Is this meant like kind or crisis a little bit like mine? 

I'm thinkin' not now but right now 

I need some kind of sign that the future is bright now 

I fuck around, 'Do The Right Thing' like Spike now 

The quick and the dead, which one is my lookalike now? 

I'm movin' ahead 

Everything's changin' around me and I wanna change too 

It's one thing I know, it ain't cool bein' no fool 

I feel different today, I don't know what else to say 

But I'ma get my shit together, it's now or never 

Now or never, now or never 

Now or never, now or never 

Photos 

Yo, opportunities lost because I blew 'em 

On the sunniest days of my life, I cried through 'em 

Moms is out the picture and Pops, I barely knew him 

And I would pray to God but I'm tired of lyin' to Him 

Tired of tryin' to run from the things inside of us 

Got a lot of fam and a lot of admirers 

Who tell me that I should aspire to change 

But when I think of changin' 

It's like why even try this shit? 

My mind hazy and my thoughts, they get distorted 

I know my good and bad deeds both get recorded 

You do right so your soul can last 

But my role was cast before I even auditioned for it 

So I don't really see an end to my vice 

It's just false reformation, no end to my strife 

Feel the evil overpowerin' 

You can go 'head, throw the towel in 

'Cause nigga that's the end of the fight 

When you can only see the tunnel at the end of the lights 

Like South party over, it's the end of your life 

And I'm out 

Everything's changin' around me and I wanna change too 

It's one thing I know, it ain't cool bein' no fool 

I feel different today, I don't know what else to say 

But I'ma get my shit together, it's now or never 

Now or never, now or never 

Now or never, now or never 

When I look into the mirror and see my own image 

It feel like there's something else far off in the distance 

Something I wanna see but something that's resistant 

And everyday the heart it in is growin' more persistent 

I never noticed it before but now I can't miss it 

And the constant pounding's drivin' me ballistic 

I ran from it few years but it's still next to me 

And it's growin' stronger, takin', leavin' less of me 

I can't fight it now, I know it's just destiny 

And I just wonder what's gonna happen when it catches me 

Will it leave me face down, in a chest of pee 

Or will it just start bringin' out the best of me? 

But is the best of me really just the worst of me 

And if so, yesterday could be my anniversary 

In sinners' court, it's important to have church with me 

I'm tryin' to get rid of these ghosts that's cursin' me 

I feel a change is an absolute certainty 

'Cause what's goin' on is a state of emergency 

(State of emergency) 

Everything's changin' around me and I wanna change too 

It's one thing I know, it ain't cool bein' no fool 

I feel different today, I don't know what else to say 

But I'ma get my shit together, it's now or never 

It's now or never