Understand Lyrics - The Roots

Never understand 

People ask for god, 'till the day he comes 

See God's face - turn around and run 

God sees the face of a man 

Shaking his head, says "he'll never understand" 

People ask for god, 'till the day he comes 

See God's face - turn around and run 

God sees the face of a man 

Shaking his head, says "man'll never understand" 

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Never understand, never understand 

Never understand 

Gravedigger, dig a hole that fit a black nigga 

My body's stiff as a Madame Tussaud's wax figure 

My transformation: a caterpillar from crack 

Dealing [?] backpedaller was no less, than spectactular 

Yeah I was trappin' money, flippin' like a spatula 

Now put that sucker in a box like Dracula 

I let the devil enter dance 

An electric slide of porcelain I threw up in the sand 

Dead, ended 

Love is like a harlequin's romance 

Lost between sips of liquor, that empty bottle in my hands 

It was a shot of eighth, but I never got away 

Dreamed a little dream of me, but that was an anomaly 

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People ask for god, 'till the day he comes 

See God's face - turn around and run 

God sees the face of a man 

Shaking his head, says "he'll never understand" 

People ask for god, 'till the day he comes 

See God's face - turn around and run 

God sees the face of a man 

Shaking his head, says "man'll never understand" 

Holy, Sugar, Honey, Ice Tea 

I guess that's a prayer for a player like me 

In my church clothes bakin' buzz on the bible 

The sweet temptation of my grand daddy's rifle 

Got me thinking 'bout doing a jihad with these guys 

Who only True Religion look better than Levi's 

Who baptize glasses with beers and blood stain 

You breathing to the choir, that prayer's the drug game 

Hallelujah 

'Til the cops cough me in the back of a cruiser 

[??], wash my soul down the sewer 

I count my blessings and blow it on a nun to resurrect my erection 

I pray, I pray, all thoughts go to heaven 

Or to a new hell with a Wi-Fi connection 

So I can pay for my sins on PayPal 

Or own a holy ghost, a greyhound 

People ask for god, 'till the day he comes 

See God's face - turn around and run 

God sees the face of a man 

Shaking his head, says "he'll never understand" 

People ask for god, 'till the day he comes 

See God's face - turn around and run 

God sees the face of a man 

Shaking his head, says "man'll never understand"