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 s**t 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

What`s the phrase, `Bygones is bygones`?
Ni**az 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 f**k 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 s**t together, it`s now or never

Now or never, now or never
Now or never, now or never

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 s**t?

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 ni**a 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 s**t 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 s**t together, it`s now or never
It`s now or never