I Don’t Know

I don't know
What is this feeling I feel
I don't like it no, honey

[Hook]
I don't know
What it is that you want from me
Or what it is that you need from me
Or why it is that you keep at me
When you hate the conclusion
I'm always in a state of confusion
I don't know
Why you keep asking like it has to change
Jada asked Why? the answer
I don't know
And that's how it's gon' be
I don't know this'll mean yes or no, it means
I don't know

It all started in the fifth grade, shit changed
When my family split ways, it was a bit strange
Father thinking ways to cope with it
I didn't know it then but I don't know would be almost a nickname
Sixth grade, tryna kick game but it wasn't workin
I asked this girl to be mine but, she wasn't certain
She kept singing those three words that it wasn't hurtin
But more discouraging cause I had a thing for her and
I was never really a public person but
I was the new kid in town so I was buggin first and
After I fell in love it worsened
Like my attittude when I had to move and then it wasn't workin
A young virigin for what it's worth
And I'd rather light up or sip something, to divert it
And kept all my emotions inside my soul
Living my book, look I'm silent yo
I, don't, know

[Hook]
I don't know
What it is that you want from me
Or what it is that you need from me
Or why it is that you keep at me
When you hate the conclusion
I'm always in a state of confusion
I don't know
Why you keep asking like it has to change
Jada asked Why? the answer
I don't know
And that's how it's gon' be
I don't know this'll mean yes or no, it means
I don't know

It's as simple as that, listen relax
Either I don't know or I don't feel like sharin the meticulous facts
So I'ma be a dick if you ask
Don't take it personal, unless I start personally kickin your ass
Nah, I'm too exquisite for that
Sophisticated, yeah my style is slick as a cat
Investigated, now that they play my shit in Iraq
I didn't know they didn't need permission for that
Wishin I had, not that it make a difference it's sad
But you can bet your last dollar what I do know, it's spittin these raps
Let off a blue note, as if this was jazz
Get all up in your head like Buttafuoco and then it's a wrap
I'm super, kept my cool though
When this idiot asked, don't you support the troops yo?
It's like he didn't know jack
And he didn't know the system was whack
You better ask somebody, and take a more difficult path

[Hook]
I don't know
What it is that you want from me
Or what it is that you need from me
Or why it is that you keep at me
When you hate the conclusion
I'm always in a state of confusion
I don't know
Why you keep asking like it has to change
Jada asked Why? the answer
I don't know
And that's how it's gon' be
I don't know this'll mean yes or no, it means
I don't know

Yes, but on a serious note
That was the only thing out my mouth for years when I spoke
All my fears and my hopes, dreams and my goals, things that I wrote
Once it hit my throat it just turned into
I don't know
Yeah, and I hated this shit then
I couldn't sit and wait I had to make it be different
Get on stage and from the gates, speak with laser precision
Make em listen, humbly though
I don't know
Couldn't be in my vocab
I need it to go at it, assertive and not hold back
And since I started performing
Even off stage the thoughts gave way and started formin, into sentences
That I could share with a listener
Opinions that before I wouldn't dare to administer
I wanna go back, yell it on my teachers and principles
My family and the kids in school, listen
I don't know
And even though I live for a cause
Feel like one of the few people who admits that I'm lost
Religion to laws, all types of different topics
I'm not talking about the simple knowledge
From relationships to physically and spiritually growin
Anyone can study, I'm talkin about actually knowin
And that's how it's gon' be
I don't know this'll mean yes or no, it means
I don't know

[Outro]
Yeah, wise man once said
Well, I don't know who said it but somebody once said that uh
"A wise man knows that he knows nothing at all"
So uh, stop frontin
Silent Knight, yeah, K.O.N., on the beat, on the boards