"8 Minutes To Sunrise" lyrics

[Common:]
Yeah, yo, yo, yo-yo, yo, yo
Yo, a touch of jazz y'all, yeah, yeah
[?] y'all, yo they got us on the run, like

[Jill Scott:]
8 minutes to sunrise
Oh baby now, what are we gonna do? (I don't know)
Pressure is mounting
Oh baby now, how we gonna get through? (I, don't, know)
Can't go left (uh-uh) can't go right (uh-uh)
Don't know, how we made it through the night (c'mon c'mon c'mon)
7 minutes to sunrise
Oh baby now, what are we gonna do? (Do it, do it)

[Common:]
It was once said by Black Thought that Things Fall Apart
Knew I shouldn't have been messing with dude's girl from start
But I pimp from the heart, the art of it made it interesting
Plus me and sister blend before we got intimate
Friend or no friend, my man caught wind
This chick is paying me, it'll either cost me or cost him
Told her she shoulda lost him (when?) a while ago
'Cause dude'll drink a pile of Mo' and defile her yo
I ain't here to start on this nigga for me to wreck his broad
You could tell what I thought of this nigga
Nickname was Smoke, don't know if that was 'cause of cigarettes
(Or what?) or guns he tote, he called shots on the deck
So I wasn't trying to call his bluff, by his persona
You could see, he think he tough!
If that wasn't enough, old girl had his son
This is Wild like the West I'm like Jesse on the run, uh

[Jill Scott:]
6 minutes to sunrise
Oh baby now, what are we gonna do? (I don't know)
Pressure is mounting
Oh baby now, how we gon' get through? (I, don't, know)
Can't go left and (uh-uh) can't go right and (uh-uh)
Don't know, how we made it through the night (yo, we got)
5 minutes to sunrise
Oh baby now, what are we gonna do? (Do it, do it)

[Common:]
I understand that time is running out, I'm thinking of town-skipping
Got a Chevy but the alternator be tripping
I'm hitting rum straight, thinking of a route to truncate
The streets is watching, out is one way I put myself in his Nikes
His position is, "Aight, man. Somebody boning my lady"
Probably snap like Rod-man
My plan was to meet at this bar called the Tiki (when?)
'Round four, when she was coming she would beep me
I sat deep in the corner, drinking zombies, becoming one by now
Wondering if my style would support her and her child
Out the corner of my eye saw this stud I recognized (who?)
One of Smoke's guys, to stay out of sight I tried
Told Jill Scott to meet we coulda picked a better spot
On some "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here" shit like Deborah Cox
Looked at my watch, shit I don't even got a watch
Felt for my Glock, damn it I don't even got a Glock, yo

[Jill Scott:]
4 minutes to sunrise
Oh baby now, what are we gonna do? (I don't know)
Pressure is mounting
Oh baby now, how we gon' get through? (I, don't, know)
Can't go left and (uh-uh) can't go right and (uh-uh)
Don't know, how we made it through the night (c'mon c'mon)
3 minutes to sunrise
Oh baby now, what are we gonna do? (Do it, do it)

[Common:]
Pressure puh-pressure what? The pressure's cooking
It ain't good looking, like a black promoter I'm talking booking
Not that I'm spooked of dude, I could whoop him
But he was on the horn informing the rest of them hoodlums (aight)
Usually I wouldn't fight over a woman, old girl had a sunshine
Was messed up, on Smoke's payroll was one-time
My pager went off, it read one line: "Come get me
From Halsted," I'm thinking this is monkey bar shit
Went to the phone quick, called her (what happened?) Her line was busy
Situation number nine, got my mind dizzy
Wondered if this plan was designed to get me
I've been drinking too strong to be thinking too long
Like 40 going North I'm doing 50, headed for the spot
Asking God to be with me, and lately
She has been acting shifty (but what?)
But then it hit me (hit me) it hit me (hit me)
It hit me (hit me) it hit me

[Jill Scott:]
2 minutes to sunrise
Oh baby now, what are we gonna do? (I don't know)
Pressure is mounting
Oh baby now, how we gonna get through? (Yo. I said I don't know)
Can't go left and (uh-uh) can't go right and (nope)
Don't know, how we made it through the night (yo, we got)
1 minute to sunrise
Oh baby now, what are we gonna do? (one-one, one... ha?)
1 minute (we got, we got) one, one
1 minute (ah shit, we got) one, one
1 minute (what we got girl?) one, one
1 minute (baby, Com Sense on the run) now, now
1 minute (Com Sense on the run) one
1 minute (just got on the run, just got on the run)
(Com Sense on the run, Com Sense on the run)
(Just got on the run, just got on the run)
(They got us on the run like... they got us on the run)
(They got us on the... yo, they got us on the run)
(Uh, yo, they got us on the run)
(They got us on the... yo, they got us on the run)
(And we out)