Long Time-The Roots

[ti:Long Time] [ar:The Roots] [al:Game Theory] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Long Time - The Roots [00:12.62]It's been a long long time [00:15.73] [00:16.25]Since I been back around the way [00:18.59]It's been a long time [00:20.36] [00:20.89]Since I been back around your way [00:22.84]It's been a long time [00:24.87] [00:25.52]Long time long time [00:29.28] [00:30.74]Struck by the luck of the draw [00:32.43]Real life preservation [00:33.38]What I'm hustling for [00:34.77]My name black thought [00:35.80]The definition of raw [00:37.14]I was born in South Philly [00:38.17]On a cement floor [00:39.34]I had nothing at all [00:40.32]Had to knuckle and brawl [00:41.64]They swore I'd fall [00:42.48]Be another brick in the wall [00:44.01]Another life [00:44.35]Full of love [00:45.26]That lost [00:45.66]That's silly [00:46.16]This Philly [00:46.99]Y'all really ain't stopping [00:47.95]The boy with the pen [00:49.36]Like Willie [00:49.65]On top of the hall [00:51.08]Pure soul is what the city [00:52.19]Most popular for [00:53.33]Hear the tones [00:54.00]That will ease you [00:54.77]Smooth [00:54.97]As Bunny Sigler's soundtrack [00:56.46]Keeping your head bopping and all [00:58.09]It's something in the water [00:59.11]Where I come from [00:59.91]They used to sing it on the corner [01:01.45]Where I come from [01:02.73]Making something outta nothing [01:04.06]Because everybody fifty cents [01:05.65]From a quarter [01:06.23]Where I come from [01:07.19]Yeah [01:07.57]The streets ain't timid [01:08.45]But I feel at home in it [01:09.53]Gotta see a couple people [01:10.50]I ain't got at [01:11.18]In a minute [01:12.14]Yeah [01:12.38]You can take a brother outta South Philly [01:14.30]Can't take it outta him really [01:15.48]I forever represent it [01:16.53]And it's [01:17.20] [01:20.03]Long time [01:20.84] [01:21.47]Since I been back around the way [01:23.52]It's been a long time [01:25.49] [01:26.04]Since I been back around your way [01:28.10]It's been a long time [01:30.10] [01:31.12]Long time long time [01:34.55] [01:35.86]Live and dirvet [01:36.33]I don't need no mic check [01:37.87]Remember mommy told me [01:38.75]You ain't write that [01:40.20]It started in the bathroom taking a dump [01:42.33]Listening to Ultramagnetic [01:43.38]Ego tripping you won't [01:44.65]Pressure my word [01:45.29]I'm the urban vision [01:46.24]Of you chump [01:47.31]Stomped on a different ground [01:48.25]Sound second to none [01:49.38]Synthesizers tweet [01:50.44]To improvise your feet [01:51.56]I calculated every lyric to arrive on a beat [01:54.06]It's free [01:54.60]Come get high on me [01:55.66]Before a nine millimeter shell [01:56.51] [01:57.05]Hit my pelle pelle [01:57.68]In the p [01:58.61]Yeah [01:58.80]It's something in the water [01:59.74]Where I come from [02:00.95]They used to sing it on the corner [02:02.25]Where I come from [02:03.24]Making something outta nothing [02:04.16]Because everybody [02:05.50]Fifty cents from a quarter [02:06.85]Yo [02:07.06]Where I come from [02:07.90]It's just a natural reaction [02:09.23]For crack to make it happen [02:10.53]Let the pen ink sink [02:11.45]Into the paper of the pad [02:12.58]Think back [02:13.01]When I was younger [02:13.86]Ghetto could have took me under [02:15.18]Young Peedi can't mess with North Philly [02:16.66]Never had [02:17.03]You don't know about me [02:18.46]You ain't stroll my streets [02:19.59]Look familiar [02:20.01]I feel ya [02:20.69]Longtime no see [02:22.05]Uhh [02:22.68] [02:23.44]It's been a long long time [02:26.55]Since I been back around the way [02:28.78]It's been a long time [02:30.78] [02:31.30]Since I been back around your way [02:33.27]It's been a long time [02:35.53] [02:36.82]Long time long time [02:39.58] [02:41.04]Clap something [02:41.82]But whatever you clap [02:42.97]Clap to the record spinning [02:43.89]While I'm taking you back [02:45.20]To the top paper era [02:46.18]Baby big on that [02:47.55]Picture the pool room [02:48.40]Where the money getters was at [02:49.90]And street people [02:50.52]With feather in the cap [02:51.48]Or their bossolino Pulling paper [02:52.40] [02:53.43]As if it's a small casino [02:54.78]I was a young boy [02:55.92]Sweepin the floors [02:56.59]And running to stores [02:57.62]But all those old heads [02:58.67]Would talk to me About the way [03:00.29]To clutch the eagle [03:01.06]On a buck and truck [03:02.08]And if I'm down [03:02.84]How to get back up [03:03.65]Just survival kid [03:04.86]And it's a struggle worldwide [03:06.00]I'm positive [03:06.57] [03:07.17]Sh*t the ghetto might as well [03:08.47]Be the Gaza Strip [03:09.68]You know where all the monsters is [03:11.34]Street walkers [03:11.90]You don't see no consciousness I'm coming back to where [03:14.53]The core of the problem is [03:15.83]We on the job again [03:16.88]Y'all know what time it is [03:18.26] [03:19.72]It's been a long long time [03:22.63]Since I been back around the way [03:25.13]It's been a long time [03:27.16]Since I been back around your way [03:29.42]It's been a long time [03:31.45] [03:32.58]Long time long time