Through college school, college pro
Didn’t have nowhere to go;
Except for pro
But the poem’s gone, and all i’m left is prose.
And the school is gone, and now I suppose
That it is what it is.
I’ll get divorced and have two kids.
I dream about a different life.
Dream about having a different wife
But there’s no escaping this existence in life.
Cause it is what it is.
And there’s no escaping it.
I dream about one day on the basketball courts I play
I shoot the three pointers from long deep
And they all sink into hoops, everybody would want the scoop.
There’d be reporters and video recorders.
They’d be shooting me, watching me
As i was shooting three’s
But that would not exist
It didn’t happen like this.
Because it is what it is.
And that is all that I can see.
That's all that exists.
That’s all that exists.
Instead, I’m just a drunk.
Living in the drunk tank at the college Funk
All the kids look at me, they’re the worst enemy.
I’m like their uncle, they’re so glad they’re not related.
But I see them inside of the courtroom
And they are so elated to see when I get locked down
In the infirmary and there’s no escaping.
Because it is what it is, when there’s no escaping
The ecstasy of infirmary and incarceration
Spending your whole life in a different form of education
Infirmary; there’s just no escaping these 6 foot walls.
An infirmary.
I was famous, I did a million things.
I made a million bucks.
And everyone wanted to be on top of the game
They all wanted my beautiful looks.
And one day there was a woman, and she entered inside of my life
And she wanted to be my wife. She made my children for me
but I was still on the inside of the infirmary, inside of my mind.
I was still locked down deep inside, I was so deeply unkind.
There was no escaping, there was no erasing the past.
The past can not be erased, it will last.
Because it is what it is.
Is what it is, yo.
Because it is what it is what it is, yo.
Cause it is what it what it is.