Shallow Days-Blackalicious

[ti:Shallow Days] [ar:Blackalicious] [al:Nia] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Shallow Days - Blackalicious [00:10.38]I just keep moving on [00:13.57] [00:20.23]I just keep moving on (moving on ) [00:24.48] [00:30.35]Time and time a brother asks why [00:32.80]The rhyme is not laced with a gangsta touch [00:34.55]I said "Simply because I don't live that way [00:37.11]Still kickin' them rhymes rugged and rough" [00:39.86]"But that won't sell [00:41.05]Cause you gotta keep it real [00:42.61]So that we can feel [00:43.79]Where you're coming from [00:44.74]Because these streets is ill so if you ain't [00:46.67]Killing niggas in rhymes [00:48.05]Your whole sound's just bubble gum" [00:49.42]I said "I won't contribute to genocide; [00:51.67]I'd rather try to cultivate the INSIDE [00:54.11]And try to evolve the frustrated ghetto mind [00:56.99]The devil and his army never been a friend of mine" [00:59.67]"But niggas don't wanna hear that sh*t" said the brother [01:01.94]Who was obviously totally misled and yelled out [01:05.31]"murder murder kill murder" instilled in the influential THOUGHTS [01:08.50]Of our kids' heads [01:10.10]Shallow days you never gonna [01:11.28]Let a brother be a brother [01:12.28]Fully inner to the outer [01:13.27]Caught up in all them hollow nights [01:15.27]Can't escape cause everywhere I look [01:17.78]People frontin' and it just ain't right [01:19.97]Shallow days you never gonna [01:21.35]Let a brother be a brother [01:22.41]Fully inner to the outer [01:23.72]Caught up in all them hollow nights [01:25.17]Can't escape cause everywhere I look [01:27.49]People frontin' and it just ain't right [01:29.61]I said "Don't you know the powers that be [01:31.61]Are using people as pawns devouring we [01:33.61]Until they see us all gone and outta the scene" [01:36.67]And as I passed the chronic he said "look at where I be [01:39.49]I tried to get a job for real [01:41.11]But all the homies HIT LIQS and rob and steal [01:43.68]And keep fat pockets caught in a rut to catch ground [01:46.05] [01:46.76]This way's in plus who could you trust " [01:48.63]I said "I'm all about protecting mine [01:49.88]But neglecting minds BE getting left behind [01:52.57]Why don't you change your environment " [01:55.01]He said "This is all I know [01:56.63]Plus my fam's all that I got I can't go" [01:58.26]I said "You gotta make it for the FAM" [02:00.20]"Damn " he said "I didn't make the ghetto [02:02.14]The ghetto made the man" [02:03.51]I said "You're more than just that " [02:04.88]Shook his hand said "Damn you gotta find a way [02:07.01]To break the devil's master plan yeah " [02:09.56]Shallow days you never gonna [02:11.23]Let a brother be a brother [02:12.30]Fully inner to the outer [02:13.42]Caught up in all them hollow nights [02:15.36]Can't escape cause everywhere that I look [02:17.42]People frontin' and it just ain't right [02:18.92]Shallow days you never gonna [02:20.23]Let a brother be a brother [02:21.48]Fully inner to the outer [02:22.30]Caught up in all them hollow nights [02:24.23] [02:24.82]Can't escape cause everywhere that I look [02:26.88]People frontin' and it just ain't right [02:28.90]The word "peace" is just an expression [02:30.83]Used to say bye when it's time to jet [02:33.02]And them red black and green medallions [02:34.33]Was all just part of A trend I guess [02:36.91]Hardly ever them around brothers' necks no more [02:39.22]Instead of that gold gats [02:41.54]Inspiring gangstas and macks [02:43.03]Who at the young age of four [02:44.60]Be seeing more drama than war veterans [02:46.40]Instead of learning God's laws [02:47.97]And hip-hop is a voice that we enlist that [02:50.72]To express how we be feeling about this and that [02:53.16]But music does reflect life [02:54.72]And kids look up to what you portray [02:56.66]And mimic what you act like [02:58.22]It's time for a new day [02:59.94]An era in rap conscious styles [03:02.00]Makin' them aware of the happenings [03:04.00]But their ears seem more steered towards [03:06.63]Self-annihilation [03:06.82]So many might laugh [03:08.37]And write this off like I'm out here just [03:10.94]Blowing wind maybe label it soft or unreal [03:12.75] [03:13.96]Something they can't feel while they keep yelling [03:15.45]"murder murder murder kill kill kill " [03:18.20]I just keep movin' on (moving on ) [03:24.13] [03:28.27]I just keep movin' on (moving on ) [03:34.84] [03:38.38]Shallow days / hollow nights [03:42.13] [03:43.38]Shallow days / hollow nights [03:46.81] [03:48.53]Shallow days / hollow nights