“How I Roll” is the first track from album How to Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell. It was released as a single in April 2011.
This song was co-written by Eliza Glikyson and bassist Pete Briquette.
[Verse 1]
It's hard times try to make it living
You wake up every morning in the unforgiving
Out there somewhere in the city
There's people living lives without mercy or pity
[Verse 2]
I feel good, yeah I'm feeling fine
I feel better then I have for the longest time
I think these pills have been good for me
I think they banished all my blues into infinity
[Chorus]
That's how I roll
That's how I roll
[Verse 3]
Sometimes I wake up at night, I don't know what it is
But I must have got a fright
I thought I heard a scratching underneath the floor
Does the devil come to get you at a quarter to four
[Chorus]
It's how he rolls
It's how he rolls
[Verse 4]
"Too late," she cried out loud
Her voice emerging from her inner shroud
Too much, I heard her choke
It's all she says after last years stroke
[Verse 5]
She has a hard time living in this city
Get up every morning in the unforgiving
Out there somewhere in the city
There's people living lives without mercy or pity
[Chorus]
It's how it rolls
Sweet God, it's how they roll
Sweet God, sweet God
[Outro]
Sweet God
How I Roll was written by Bob Geldof & Eliza Gilkyson & Pete Briquette.
How I Roll was produced by Pete Briquette.
Bob Geldof released How I Roll on Tue Oct 12 2010.