Artist: Phonte 
Album:  Charity Starts at Home
Song:   Ball and Chain
Typed by: kirenamloh@msn.com

("This is a journey, into sound" <- Geoffrey Sumner)

[Phonte]
She holds me down
She holds me up
She licks my wounds
then cuts me deep
She tells me stay
then plans to leave
She is my cure
and my disease

And it's all complicated
'cause I hate myself for feeling this way
These walls is to protect me, now they're closing in, yeah

[Chorus]
She keeps me so secure
Until I can't escape
So unpredictable
but it's all the same
So many nights I wish
I knew the moment when
your anchor turned into a ball and chain, baby

Brings me to tears
Then wipes me dry
Ask me for truth
then tell me lies
And it's oh so plain (oh so plain)
As clear as eyes can see (eyes can see)
The brokest happiness, this side of miseryyyyyy

And it's all complicated
'cause I hate myself for feeling this way
These walls used to protect me, now they're closing innnn, ohhhh

[Chorus]

[Phonte - Rap Verse]
Yeah, uh..
Aiyyo, ain't nothin wrong with havin both feet on the ground
Until you look artound and realize that you are bound
Realize that you have drowned in the sea, of security
that leads to complacency, now tell me how that sound?
You tell me how you found, your way back to the turnout
when the love flame's burn out, now your house lookin +Smokey+
like "The Teardrops of a Clown," just wanna live in peace
But can't show too many teeth, 'cause she'll take shots at your crown
Pow~! Another shot, another man down
So I'm back on my Moe Dee shit, +How Ya Like Me Now?+
Back on my public speech shit, talkin to the crowd
Standin tall, front and center
When I'm finished, take a bow, holla!
(And it's all complicated
 'cause I hate myself for feeling this way)
Uh, it's cool to be grounded, youknahmsayin?
Just don't get used to bein on the ground
Let's go!

[Chorus]

[Outro: Phonte]
Yeah, uh, yeah, uh
It' Phontigaa, uh
and my man Swiff, Diesel
Yes! Let it, bump
Let it, bump
Let it, bump