People Everyday [Metamorphosis Mix] lyrics

Song information

Artist: Arrested Development
Album: 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days In The Life Of...

Lyrics

See I was resting at the park minding my own
Business as I kick up the treble tone
On my radio tape player box, right
Just loud enough so folks could hear it's hype, see ?
Outta nowhere comes the woman I'm dating
Investigation maybe she was demonstrating
But nevertheless I was pleased
My day was going great and my soul was at ease
Until a group of brothers started bugging out
Drinking the 40 oz, going the nigga route
Disrespecting my black queen
Holding their crotches and being obscene
At first I ignored them cause see I know their type
They got drunk and got guns and they wanna fight
And they see a young couple having a time that's good
And their egos wanna test a brother's manhood
So they came to test speech cause of my hair-do
And the loud bright colors that I wear [boo !]
I was a target cause I'm a fashion misfit
And the outfit that I'm wearing brothers dissing it
Well I stay calm and pray the niggaz leave me be
But they're squeezing parts of my date's anatomy
Why, lord, do brothers have to drill me ?
Cause if I start to hit this man they'll have to kill me

Chorus:
I am everyday people (2x)

I told the niggaz please let us pass, friend
I said please cause I don't like killing africans
But he wouldn't stop and I ain't ice cube
But I had to take the brother out for being rude
And like I said before I was mad by then
It took three or four cops to pull me off of him
But that's the story y'all of a black man
Acting like a nigga and get stomped by an african

Chorus