The Grouch – Clean Nikes lyrics

(in

background) "you're

tryin to cover up the holes in your sneakers "..x 2 [The

Grouch] When
you first get it it's shining and sparkling you
hold it high like a trophy and start targeting what
you goin to use it on where
does it belong and for how long you
can barely sleep and when you wake you hope it isn't gone (gone
gone..gone..)..for
it's still livin at
the very least you're given energy and a lot of it you're, drivin you
wrap it in a ribbon and
you look at it all day you
hook it up in a way that
with it you can play regardless
of anything else it isn't yourself seen
in a reflection it's a super-clean resurrection of you're better half measure
that and multiply it hope
to buy it and treat it as good as how much you think you need it I
bet later you won't feed it like my puppy and
leave it in the gutter for some other to think he's lucky but
of course you broke it cause
you had no patience with it probably
didn't deserve it in this life time but you lift it now
what do you know now can?
you recall and recognize how it goes down when it does (does?
does..does..)..Chorus

[The: Grouch] How

many times have you had a pair of clean nikes and?
scuffed 'em up hella bad kinda, like these on?
my feet man, I, used to fucking clean 'em toothbrush
and everything now
I'm just mean to 'em How

many times have you had a pair of clean nikes and?
scuffed 'em up hella bad kinda, like these on?
my feet man, I, used to fucking clean 'em toothbrush
and everything now
I'm just mean to 'em now
I'm just mean to 'em now
I'm just mean to 'em now
I'm just mean to 'em [The

Grouch] Seen
so many waste away what they had it, makes me mad but
they never know 'till it's too late to appreciate and be glad seems
like the ones with nothing are the ones who put in work and
use what they have to get where they're going and showing the jerks leaving
them wishin they would have thought of that or just said it had
it embedded in their minds now they regret it let
it sink in and get to thinking 'bout what you got how
you can freak it or treat it right so you don't experience a loss later whether
it's a cross-fader girlfriend, or a thought when
you're mind is in a whirl-wind you better remember to stop and
smell the roses between dosing cause
for every breath you take upon this planet you're one of the chosen Chorus

[The: Grouch] How

many times have you had a pair of clean nikes and?
scuffed 'em up hella bad kinda, like these on?
my feet man, I, used to fucking clean 'em toothbrush
and everything but
now I'm just mean to 'em [The

Grouch] At
what point was this ok I?
gotta ask myself (self) let
me retrace my steps will
I surpass myself or?
am I destined to be lazy because?
honestly lately, I, really just don't amaze me it
drives me crazy 'cause I'm searchin constantly
getting shit then throwing it away thinking I'm workin really
I know the answers but they hurtin covering
curtains over my problems so they worsen drinkin
and cursin invades my person it becomes urgent sometimes
I can't live it but I can word it and
that's my therapy so dear to me and I know this but
often it's too hard to keep my focus Chorus

[The: Grouch] How

many times have you had a pair of clean nikes and?
scuffed 'em up hella bad kinda, like these on?
my feet man, I, used to fucking clean 'em toothbrush
and everything now
I'm just mean to 'em now
I'm just mean to 'em (The

Grouch) Fuck
'em up..
in this creek.. scratched..

in background (and
I talkin 'bout sneakers neither )..