作词 : Harris, Clifford J.

作曲 : Harris, Clifford J.

[T.I. - talking]

Ay I'm working here, know what I'm saying

Try to put yourself in my shoes for a second

Its not personal I'm just sayin though

[Verse 1]

Ay look

From when the moon came out 'till the sun came up

I was supplyin' the days when where they flame up

Our mamas passing, by trying to explain us

Pissing in the bushes like they never house trained us

But, try to understand thats how we came up

You get to know us, you'll love us but you can't change us (naw)

Really we rather be rich and famous

But in the mean time were forced to slang dust

'Dro or crack *******, Penicillin to Rogaine

Ecstacy, ******, whatever'll get the dough mayne

I'm tired of people misrepresenting my domain

Oh you think we out here killing for nothing, hustling

For no gain (picture that)

[Chorus] (sample playing in the background)

Hey man I'm just doing my job

Hey lady, don't mind me I'm just doing my job

I don't wanna make your life more harder, I'm just doin my job

You live here, I work here I'm doing my job

[Verse 2]

I don't know if you don't know, don't care or can't see

Every time something up in the hood, it ain't me

And I ain't always up to no good and on the creep

So you ain't always gotta pass through the hood without speaking (how you doin'?)

We ain't out here threatening your lives, raping your children

We just out here staying alive, making a million (you know)

Working hard, trying to survive chasing a mill-ion

You hear us talking loud, just think of us as chameleons

Adapting to situations, but accusations of stealing

And burglarizing your house, I mean you just hurting my feelings

We got lives, we wanna live nice too

We got moms, dads, wives, kids just like you

But our options are few, it's hell in high school

When your helping with the rent lights and the gas bill too

So before you go judging us loving us won't hurt

When you're under 25, staying alive's hard work

[Chorus] (sample playing in the background)

Hey man I'm just doing my job

Hey lady, don't mind me I'm just doing my job

I don't wanna make your life more harder, I'm just doin my job

You live here, I work here I'm doing my job

[Verse 3]

And for you to see what I'm saying, open eyes will help

If you could think about somebody besides yourself

Why you pointing fingers at me, ****yze yourself

Quit all that chastising and try to provide some help

Instead of calling the law and busting my *****

With all due respect, we don't even be ****ing with y'all (maan)

And we can't help it cause it is like this

We don't like it no more than you that we live like this

Always stuck in the grind, summertime to wintertime

Cutting school to sell fifty dimes by dinner time

See everything we know we learned from the streets

Since thirteen I've been hustling and earning my keep

[Chorus] (sample playing in the background)

Hey man I'm just doing my job

Hey lady, don't mind me I'm just doing my job

I don't wanna make your life more harder, I'm just doin my job

You live here, I work here I'm doing my job