Way Back-Tanya Stephens

[ti:Way Back] [ar:Tanya Stephens] [al:Gangsta Blues] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Way Back - Tanya Stephens (坦娅·斯蒂文斯) [00:08.12]Ladies and gentlemen [00:09.30]I want to invite you on a journey [00:11.68]I sincerely hope you are in a mood to travel right now [00:14.33]'Cause we're going back in time [00:18.33]Are you ready [00:18.85] [00:22.91]I wanna take you way back [00:25.10]To when a girl on a mikes worth [00:27.16]Wasnt determined by the length of her skirt [00:29.57]I mean way back to creativity before MTV [00:34.00]Before BET [00:35.57]I mean way back before recycling sh*t [00:38.57]When the props that you got was for your writing and sh*t [00:41.51]Lets rewind before the hype when you used to be low key [00:44.69]To be a singer you had to actually know key [00:47.44]I mean way back to before people made a job [00:50.38]Of seeing whos best at impersonating Bob [00:53.14]I mean way back to when you sweat blood on every line [00:56.52]To get one good song didnt cost sixteen ninety nine [00:58.67]To be considered deep you had to actually say stuff [01:02.30]And if it wasnt good [01:03.54]Disc jockeys didnt play stuff [01:04.67]I mean way way [01:06.36]Marvin Gaye way back and I pray that you will [01:11.55]Come with me [01:13.00] [01:14.88]Let us journey past this melody [01:18.63] [01:21.00]Give us room to exercise our minds [01:26.25] [01:28.57]Take me to another place [01:29.82]Another time [01:30.38]Better hooks [01:31.01]Better rhymes [01:31.82]Stronger lyrics every line [01:33.25]You could even press rewind [01:34.63] [01:35.21]Come with me let us journey past this fallacy [01:42.93] [01:44.42]Give us room to exercise our minds [01:50.30] [01:51.99]Take you to another place [01:53.30]Another time [01:53.86]Better hooks [01:54.55]Better rhymes [01:55.36]Stronger lyrics every line [01:56.86]You could even press rewind [01:58.02] [01:58.89]Well its ironic that the chronic that I smoke [02:01.20]Got me singing sh*t thats bionic every note [02:03.64]That its affecting my judgment is what some people would hope [02:07.08]But I'm not tripping [02:07.77]I'm on a journey [02:08.64]Come along now lets float [02:09.90]I used to be excited going to the record store [02:13.27]But these days I stay pacing the floor [02:15.46]Somebody please take me back to when the artistes were poor [02:18.71]'Cause when they made less they gave us so much more [02:21.71]Lets take it back to a ballroom [02:23.40] [02:24.02]Cloudy microphone [02:25.33]Smokey Robinson [02:26.77]Nina Simone [02:27.83]James Brown was still occupying the throne [02:30.40]When the songs werent sold off videos alone [02:32.96] [02:33.55]Way back to when a star attitude wasnt defined [02:38.05]By somebody being rude [02:39.68]To when it was a pleasure definitely not a task [02:42.37]To greet a fan with a smile and sign a damn autograph [02:45.46]I mean way back to before you used to drive the Maybach [02:49.96]You dreamt about a mil but never made that [02:52.83]When you made some sh*t that we could play back [02:56.08] [02:56.83]I mean way back to a whole nother time [03:00.29]Further back than your granddads hairline [03:03.04]I mean way back [03:06.04]Won't you say that you will [03:09.60]Come with me [03:11.03] [03:13.16]Let us journey past this melody [03:16.66] [03:19.16]Give us room to exercise our minds [03:25.04] [03:26.47]Take me to another place [03:27.72]Another time [03:28.35]Better hooks [03:29.10]Better rhymes [03:29.91]Stronger lyrics every line [03:31.34]You could even press rewind [03:32.79] [03:33.60]Come with me [03:34.85] [03:36.66]Let us journey past this fallacy [03:40.54] [03:42.79]Give us room to exercise our minds [03:47.60] [03:50.17]Take you to another place [03:51.35]Another time better hooks [03:52.79]Better rhymes [03:53.48]Stronger lyrics every line [03:54.98]You could even press rewind [03:57.67]And it came to pass in the glorious days of charts [04:00.54]That the music hailed and we danced to it [04:04.29]And threw a party but in our hearts we knew the musicians failed [04:07.92] [04:08.61]And then came along brothers [04:10.42]Napster and Aimster [04:11.93]And though they were definitely wrong I think it's worse [04:14.80]To be forced to buy a whole b******t album [04:16.93]Just to get that one good song [04:18.74]Can I get an Amen [04:19.93]Come with me [04:23.87]Let us journey past this melody [04:27.93] [04:29.99]Give us room to exercise our minds [04:35.30] [04:36.87]Take it to another place [04:38.55]Another time [04:39.24]Better hooks [04:39.99]Better rhymes [04:40.74]Stronger lyrics every line [04:42.18]You could even press rewind [04:44.16] [04:44.74]Come with me [04:46.43] [04:47.55]Let us journey past this fallacy [04:51.92] [04:53.68]Give us room to exercise our minds [04:58.32] [05:00.94]Take it to another place [05:02.25]Another time [05:02.88]Better hooks [05:03.91]Better rhymes [05:04.72]Stronger lyrics every line [05:06.35]You could even press rewind [05:08.83]Come with me