Clean Nikes

(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 ressurection 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..)