When your 5’s and 1’s end up in Desire’s panties –
You think that money owns the bitch, but truthfully, can he?
When you save up your loot for a girl that ain’t yours –
Not today, tomorrow, or next week, the door is closed,
And locked down, no entry after 4 –
When you’re working overtime for no overtime pay,
You come a dime a dozen, and can be easily replaced or disposed –
When your daily grind consists of only tuna on rye,
So you can see the pennies that you’ve saved pile high,
Just to be sure the gas still flows in your stove –
When you’re scraping up crumbs off the supermarket floor,
Breaking your back, past the point of being sore,
So you can live another week without your home foreclosed –
The shylock has you hog-tied with both your bows,
Behind your back, wrists hang off your ass,
Ill-exposed –
Your nose grows as you lie about your ends –
Your profits been down 100 percent –
But it looks like the cash money steady flows –
You see, money gives you power because it is the power-U –
Like a broken chicken-head that shit is used and abused –
Flipped and banged around so much, skin’s faded and bruised –
Don’t know where she’ll end up, blind-foldedly confused –
Stretched to the max, marked up black and blue ink tagged up her toe-tag –
Ready to disperse, mad Grants in the Coach bag –
Compelled to dispose that, glad to enforce bad habits though they never pay back –
Best just believe compromise is overdue –
When you’re traded for some goods, strictly for the use –
Dutchmasters and juice, when you’re up a few, get your hair braided if you could –
10 Abes down layaway for Playstation 2 –
You’re not a person, you’re an object of man-ip-u-la-tion –
Contemplation prolonged for spending and wasting –
Save your paycheck as Benjamin gets thick in the basement –
Flippin’ through this cat can cause mad hesitation –
Feenin’ to floss your jewels and your chains and
Knowin’ you’ll be broke right around first payment –
But remember, Benjamin is a bitch –
That’s the end of my statement~