N.E.R.D. Lyrics

Album: In Search Of

Provider

Woke up I had the same clothes on I had on last night 

 Damn 

 I must have passed out 

 And cash is just like the clothes I worn yesterday 

 We are broke 

 Damn 

 I gotta get my ass out 

 I went to see what my friend was talking about 

 Drugs 

 He told me cocaine would get you clout 

 My momma said he's trouble and schools my route 

 But I went to high school and got kicked out 

 So I'm driving this truck down the 95 

 I pray to God I make it home alive 

 I don't get pulled over by the man 

 I just want to make it home to hold your hand 

 

 [Chorus]

 

 Goodbye beloved one 

 Do you know what I am 

 If you don't see my face no more 

 I'm a provider girl, gotta face the streets tonight 

 

 Goodbye beloved one 

 Do you know what I am 

 You don't see my face no more 

 I'm a rider, girl gotta face the streets tonight 

 You say you don't want me to go but I have to 

 Please don't weep 

 I love you 

 

 I refuse to be a bum 

 Especially coming where I'm from 

 I'm a provider girl 

 And I love you 

 

 So it's just like I said before 

 Heading down 95 

 Dodging Johnny law 

 I don't need a ticket though I never got one 

 If he pulls me over 

 He can feel my shotgun 

 I think about life pull down my hat 

 It's just like this road I don't know where I'm at 

 I don't want to be another cocaine story 

 Will I find my sanity 

 Where I find my glory 

 Come on 

 

 [Repeat Chorus]

 

 Someday, Someday, this will be over 

 We'll raise a family 

 I'll get a job and I'll be a voter 

 And if I die 

 It will change you 

 Change you 

 I watch over a family 

 But only as an angel 

 

 So don't tell me you don't know what you see 

 When you're looking at a motherfucker just like me 

 I'm a provider girl 

 I said don't tell me you don't know what you see 

 When you're looking at a motherfucker just like me 

 I'm a rider girl 

 

 [Repeat Chorus]

 

 I love you girl 

 I'm doing this for us 

 I don't know any better 

 What am I supposed to do 

 Nothing I love you