Someone Great Who Looked Like Me Lyrics

Kicked back in my time machine

Reminiscing everything was so promising

Siblings let me win so I would feel like I was King

Caught the pigskin ran it in then I was high as he

Who's kneeled down when I've cried and brought the sky to me

Like God, the gridiron brought my highest being

Fell in love with the sport when I was high as knees

Then I learned of Jim Thorpe and I knew I could beast

Blow up and get the paper like them Shakopee's

Go up to snag the ball on y'all like Moss and flee

Show up or be shown up because I've got to peace

That was the Jim Thorpe effect on my philosophy

But somewhere down the line I must've lost the beat

Started going in for my feast like I forgot my teeth

Jim Thorpe isn't in the public conscious P

All I'd ever see was black and white on colored screens

All I hear about is chiefs but they're all long deceased

Man I wish could've seen you play ball on TV

I wish that you'd receive the same notoriety

The mass media has given all these other athletes

I just needed someone great who looked like me

Jim Thorpe you could be my Muhammad Ali

Afflicted with addiction alcoholic like P

No submitting both spittin' up in college like G's

My focus not there we probably both got B's

You're the star RB, I'd skip to smoke trees

When I finally got sober I became an MC

Messing up on stage cause I care what people think

I needed your influence I don't care what people think

See for me to feel great man I needed that drink

Graduated school and flushed the liq down the sink

Now I gotta be you for kids who wanna be me

I was young Jim went in one and out one

Cause even though he's goat he was always outdone

How I'm supposed to stay inspired by the top gun

When they'd never say a word about him not one

All I heard was Tyson, Jackson and Jordan

It made me feel like other races were more than

On top of that I had identity crisis

I thought not even sports could save me from how serious my life is

Young Native growing up without his culture

No role models to show me it was out here

Didn't have a dad and mom was gone for weeks

You would think it's romance the way it swept us off our feet

The foster home is the modern day boarding school

Kill the Indian and save the man you know the rule

Matter fact ol' Jim Thorpe knew it too

It took the light from us and made it all dark and blue

We were all athletically gifted

But when we played them white kids somehow we just missed it

In them big street football games

I see now it's more mental than anything

Became resentful of my one true Queen

Started clouding everything with blunts and things

Giving women fits instead of diamond rings

When they deserved my heart and all the finer things

Dang ol' Jim we got a lot in common

I'm glad I finally came around to put the time in

Cause you're the type of hero I know I could vibe with

A legendary native athlete is what I missed

At least I can share your legacy with my kid

Them other athletes are dope but they ain't goat

Sitting Bull was brave but ancient war ain't sport

It's time I shared about your name what they ain't spoke

All I hear about is chiefs but they're all long deceased

Man I wish could've seen you play ball on TV

I wish that you'd receive the same notoriety

The mass media has given all these other athletes

I just needed someone great who looked like me

Jim Thorpe you could be my Muhammad Ali

Afflicted with addiction alcoholic like P

No submitting both spittin' up in college like G's

My focus not there we probably both got B's

You're the star RB, I'd skip to smoke trees

When I finally got sober I became an MC

Messing up on stage cause I care what people think

I needed your influence I don't care what people think

See for me to feel great man I needed that drink

Graduated school and flushed the liq down the sink

Now I gotta be you for kids who wanna be me

First of all let's define what's the greatest

It ain't about marketing and being famous

So it can't exclude the nameless and faceless

Just because they didn't have the frames then to trace it

With that said let's get down to some basics

I don't think a one sport athlete can claim it

Unless all their measurables reach out to the spaces

Haven't seen that it's just facts that I'm stating

There's a lot of great names erased on that basis

In baseball Jordan never made it to the majors

Boxing was the only sport Ali made the papers

But he used his platform to fade all the racists

So next to Jim Thorpe he's my vote for the A-list

Bo was the first two sport all star

But Jim Thorpe epitomized durability

A star in many sports with great versatility

He won gold in the Olympic decathlon

A ten event competition can you grasp on

Played football with no face mask on

A three time champ with the Bulldogs of Canton

And to be clear he put his teams on his back

As a place kicker, punter and a running back

Put the ball in his hands and he'd run it back

An All American college football champ

He was decent playing Major League Baseball

If you don't know about him you should probably face-palm

Got inducted into three major hall of fames

Track and field the NFL and the NCAA

Somehow these sports fans still got none to say

I guess they didn't have sports-center in his day

Leather shoes no drugs no hope

To accomplish all that bro he's gotta be goat

All I hear about is chiefs but they're all long deceased

Man I wish could've seen you play ball on TV

I wish that you'd receive the same notoriety

The mass media has given all these other athletes

I just needed someone great who looked like me

Jim Thorpe you could be my Muhammad Ali

Afflicted with addiction alcoholic like P

No submitting both spittin' up in college like G's

My focus not there we probably both got B's

You're the star RB, I'd skip to smoke trees

When I finally got sober I became an MC

Messing up on stage cause I care what people think

I needed your influence I don't care what people think

See for me to feel great man I needed that drink

Graduated school and flushed the liq down the sink

Now I gotta be you for kids who wanna be me