Now or Never Songtext

sick of waiting in vain
tired of playing the game
thinking of making a change
finally breaking the chains
every phase, every happening craze
when its said and done
my head is right back in a haze
i'm ready for the next chapter and page
to start acting my age and part ways
with black thought from back in the days
i'm stargazing from the back in the stage
questioning if ????? is worthy of praise
what's the phrase bygones is bygones
nigga's who use to beat a other dog is icons
people say the light shines once in a lifetime
is this ???? crisis a little bit like mine
i'm thinking not now but right now
i need some kinda sign that the future is bright now
i fuck around do the right thing like spite now
the quick and the dead which is my look-a-like now i'm moving ahead

Everything's changing around me
and i wanna change too
it's one thing i know
it ain't cool being no fool
i feel different today
i don't know what else to say
but i'ma get my shit together
its now or never

yo, opportunities lost because i blew 'em
on the sunniest days of my life i cried through them
mom's was outside the picture and pops i barely knew him
and i would pray to god but i'm tired of lying to him
tired of trying 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 be changed
but when i think of changing its like why don't you try this shit
my mind hazy and my thoughts they get distorted
i know my good and bad needs both get recorded
we do right so your soul can last
but my role's cast before i even audition for it
so i don't really see an end to my vice
its just false repremation no end of my strife
feel the evil overpowering
you can go ahead through the towel in
'cuz nigga that's the end of the fight
when you can only see the ????

everything's changing around me
and i wanna change too
it's one thing i know
it ain't cool being no fool
i feel different today
i don't know what else to say
but i'ma get my shit together
its now or never

when i look into the mirror and see my own image
it feels like there's something else far off in the distance
something i wanna see but something that's resistant
and every day the haunting is growing more persistent
i never noticed it before but now i can't miss it
and the constant pounding is driving me ballistic
i ran from it for a few years but its still next to me
and its growing stronger take and leaving less of me
i can't fight it now i know its just destiny
and i just wonder what's gonna happen when it catches me
will it leave me face down in ??????
????? bringing 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
?????
i'm trying to get rid of these ghosts that's cursing me
i feel that change is an absolute certainty
'cuz what's going on is a state of emergency

everything's changing around me
and i wanna change too
it's one thing i know
it ain't cool being no fool
i feel different today
i don't know what else to say
but i'ma get my shit together
its now or never

its now or never