I Don't See You at the Club - Vaselino Jazz Project, Arrested Development

Nah, nah, I mean like, is anybody feeling y’all?

I think so.

If they’re smart

I don’t even know what to say to y’all.

I don’t-- I don’t-- you know--

Got the pear trees faking like a dogwood

And thunderstorms in the springtime, it’s all good

And rappers killing it in the club, but can we brag now?

Now Black lives just had to die to get a flag down

And my rap is up the map in southside Atlanta

Was just a cell 50 years march in Alabama

Was just at Columbus, Ohio teaching little kids

South?

southwest are teaching sampling

Now gynecologists will do a lot of interviews

And are making some nice figures like a gym will do

And like Sandra Bland, my band be changing lanes

Without a signal at all, now you want us to hang?

You know some things are substantial whether or not financial

And playing us with the other stuff way up on the mantle

So don’t try to adjust your radio, don’t change your channel

We’re taking down the glittering lights and just light a candle

He said, «I don’t see you at the club»

I said, «I don’t see you at the bank»

People gotta live their life and do their thing

Let me live, let me breathe, let me be me

He said, «I don’t see you at the club»

I said, «I don’t see you at the bank»

People gotta live their life and do their thing

Let me live, let me breathe, let me be me

He said, «I don’t see you at the club»

I said, «I don’t see you at the bank»

People gotta live their life and do their thing

Let me live, let me breathe, let me be me

Let me live, let me breathe, let me be me

Let me live, let me breathe, let me be me

Let me live, let me breathe, let me be me

I mean is anybody checking for Arrested Development?

Yeah, I’m seeing marriages dying just like miscarriages

We’ve been at it 2−0 years changing the narrative

Fathered 2 by 2 kids, plus to add to my parody

We took on a teen in a desperate need of a family

He was jacking cars and some other type of insanity

Playing the role like media says, «This is humanity»

Blacks is getting smoked with police taking the toke

They hate it when we do stand up, and yet they like a joke

The people losing hope to where most of them don’t vote

And rap has turned into trap, and dope really means dope

I try not to be someone I don’t know

Look into a mirror, is it friend or is it foe?

Or is it both?

Should I swim or should I float?

Should I blend in within the scene that fits me most?

Should I live life, try to fight for what I know?

What I know is that my real life starts after the show

He said, «I don’t see you at the club»

I said, «I don’t see you at the bank»

People gotta live their life and do their thing

Let me live, let me breathe, let me be me

He said, «I don’t see you at the club»

I said, «I don’t see you at the bank»

People gotta live their life and do their thing

Let me live, let me breathe, let me be me

Let me live, let me breathe, let me be me

Let me live, let me breathe, let me be me

Let me live, let me breathe, let me be me

Finally consoling from years of mine that was stolen

A sea of creativity coming just like an ocean

I’m falling in love with music as if I drank a potion

My rhyming and my producing has never been more potent

I’ve overcome my challenge and life has been more in balance

And people want to judge me on everything but my talent

They’re saying that I’m old like it’s something I can’t control

Aging is part of the package deal of having a soul

And what do we know?

All you gots to do is play the role

Of living life and just breathing, lines start to recede n'

Things you start to believe in, that you seeing

Regardless of your hue, it’s just common to human beings

You tell me that using strength is wasted on the young

And that everything that you have been in has been wasted on some fun

But I believe that I can have fun until I’m deceased

Just please play this song in the clubs and in the streets

I’m out

He said, «I don’t see you at the club»

I said, «I don’t see you at the bank»

People gotta live their life and do their thing

Let me live, let me breathe, let me be me

He said, «I don’t see you at the club»

I said, «I don’t see you at the bank»

People gotta live their life and do their thing

Let me live, let me breathe, let me be me

Let me live, let me breathe, let me be me

Let me live, let me breathe, let me be me

Let me live, let me breathe, let me be me