Now Or Never

[Chorus] 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'm-a get my shit together It's now or never (Now or never, now or never, now or never, now or never) I'm sick, 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 it's 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 of the stage Questioning if who y'all praise is worthy of praise What's the phrase--bygones is bygones? Niggas who used to be the underdog is icons People say the light shines once in a lifetime Is this mid-life kind of 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 Spike now The quick and the dead--which is my look-a-like now I'm moving ahead [Chorus] Yo, opportunities lost because I blew 'em On the sunniest days of my life I cried through 'em Mom's was out 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, it's like why even try this shit? My mind hazy and my thoughts they get distorted I know my good and bad needs 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 reclamation, no end of my strife Feel the evil overpowering You can go ahead throw the towel in 'Cause, nigga, that's the end of the fight When you can only see the tunnel at the end of the lights Like (?) it's the end of your life And I'm out [Chorus] 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's driving me ballistic I ran from it for years, but it's still next to me And it's growing stronger take and leaving 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 (?) Or will it just start 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 In sinners' court it's important to have church with me I'm trying to get rid of these ghosts that's cursing me I feel that change is an absolute certainty 'Cause 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'm-a get my shit together It's now or never It's now or never --- Now Or Never - The Roots, Dice Raw and Phonte