[00:16.04] Why so sad? [00:17.31] Walking around with them blue faces [00:20.43] She said I'm down on my luck [00:21.66] And it's something I gotta have [00:23.05] Blue faces [00:24.45] I hit the bank today and told them color me bad [00:27.00] Blue faces [00:28.46] Get that new money, and it's breaking me down honey [00:31.20] Two tears in the bucket I cry with you [00:33.30] But I could never lie with you [00:35.06] I could never afford not to afford [00:37.08] I could never put my plans to the side with you [00:39.17] I could never see a red light [00:40.62] Like a deer with a headlight [00:42.22] I freeze up when I re-up [00:43.67] See I barely have patience [00:45.06] And you're relating [00:46.14] Only the moment to complete us [00:47.56] Why you hate to work for it? [00:48.91] The reason I never went to work for it [00:51.06] See a nine to five was so jive turkey [00:53.28] But when Thanksgiving came that check didn't hurt me [00:55.36] You plead the fifth [00:56.25] I read the Fifth Amendment [00:57.83] We both criminals with bad intentions [00:59.84] They say time heals all [01:01.10] But if I can shortcut [01:02.38] My success, Corvettes by tomorrow [01:03.84] Why so sad? [01:06.49] Walking around with them blue faces [01:08.43] She said I'm down on my luck [01:09.78] And it's something I gotta have [01:11.21] Blue faces [01:12.77] I hit the bank today and told them color me bad [01:15.15] Blue faces [01:16.76] Get that new money, and it's breaking me down honey [01:19.12] My home girl got a credit card scam [01:21.55] She got a scholarship to college but she don't give a damn [01:23.63] Intuition she got a broke bitch wishin' [01:25.42] She tell me this on the phone with the noodles in the pan [01:27.64] I know you, woman, I console you, woman [01:29.80] You feel like the universe owes you, woman [01:31.70] Oh the anticipation, of hoping you could make it [01:33.91] Bitches don't prosper chasing education [01:36.02] But you're talented, and can't handle it [01:38.03] And your homegirls can't be your manager [01:39.99] 365 times four, plus more [01:41.78] If yan't get it right, tell me, do you got the stamina? [01:43.97] But shit, ain't no money like fast money [01:45.85] Even today I'm considered a crash dummy [01:47.80] A rapper chasing stardom, how can I fast forward? [01:50.33] My accolades better than all them [01:52.44] Why so sad? [01:53.66] Walking around with them blue faces [01:56.29] She said I'm down on my luck [01:57.58] And it's something I gotta have [01:59.10] Blue faces [02:00.69] I hit the bank today and told them color me bad [02:03.06] Blue faces [02:04.44] Get that new money, and it's breaking me down honey [02:07.29] I wrote this song looking at a broke home baby [02:09.59] You know the poverty stricken the little broke boy and babies [02:14.33] Somebody yell "Kendrick American, they sho' is crazy" [02:18.70] And I said "why?" [02:20.96] Then he looked me in the eye, and said "nigga you fucked up" [02:23.70] You're banking on good luck, you wishing for miracles [02:25.87] You never been through shit, you're crying hysterical [02:27.79] You settle for everything, complain about everything [02:29.95] You say you sold crack, my world amphetamine [02:31.80] Your projects ain't shit, I live in a hut bitch [02:33.72] I'm living to keep warm, you living to pay rent [02:35.89] I paid my way through by waiting on Allah [02:37.81] You played your way through, by living in sci-fi [02:39.83] Bullshitting yourself, you talking to strangers [02:41.70] Same thing goes for the ones you came with [02:43.83] When y'all came on the boat looking for hope [02:45.75] And all you can say is that you're looking for dope [02:47.70] These days ain't no compromise [02:49.62] And your pain ain't mines half the time [02:51.72] A brand new excuse ain't shit to me [02:53.65] Bitch I made my moves, with shackled feet [02:55.82] Cape Town [02:57.46] In today's day and age we practice the self pity of taking the easy way out [03:02.40] You wait on them, him and her [03:05.69] But when a blessing takes long, that's when you go wrong [03:09.25] You selfish motherfucker [03:11.98] Why so sad? [03:13.89] Walking around with them blue faces [03:16.45] She said I'm down on my luck [03:17.84] And it's something I gotta have [03:19.34] Blue faces [03:20.84] I hit the bank today and told them color me bad [03:23.34] Blue faces [03:24.68] Get that new money, and it's breaking me down honey [03:28.27] [03:48.04] Pimp pimp hooray [03:51.09]