Take It There-The Roots/Wadud Ahmad

[ti:Take It There] [ar:The Roots] [al:Game Theory] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.83]Stand up stretch for the stars [00:03.36]Get somebody else involved right next to ya [00:05.96]Y'all elected me to keep it so fresh for ya [00:08.25]Just cause I make it possible for the rest of ya [00:11.15]To just take it there come on and [00:13.02]Get your head ringin' from the sting of the snare [00:15.14]Spine tingle elevating every singular hair [00:17.74]All the way from south philly on a wing and prayer [00:20.28]And still bringin' it yeah [00:21.64]C'mon take it there [00:22.96]C'mon take it there [00:24.50]Let's take it there [00:25.60]C'mon take it there [00:26.93]I'm from the side of town [00:28.17]Where shots get sprayed around [00:29.23]Where the expectancy rate be twenty-eight around [00:32.00]Downtown battleground where cops parade around [00:34.68]Have your whole view of life beyond jaded [00:37.06]How everybody sick of breaking down tryin' a make it out [00:39.96]Hand over fist the only way to get the paper down [00:42.70]People tired of getting pushed around getting gangsta now [00:45.24]Discipline the only way to bring some kinda change around [00:47.88]Chain cirgarette smokin' with bad nerves [00:50.14]And brothas with bad lungs from smokin' mad herb [00:53.13]Whoever in the dark is unseen and heard [00:55.52]Let's submerge I can feel something close we on the verge [00:58.11]Talking bout to my street sweepers hotel housekeepers [01:00.77]And my people spillin' this out through jail house speakers [01:03.66]Some people rather use than might than use heaters [01:06.13]Some people rather lose they life than lose freedom [01:08.57]For real [01:09.18]C'mon take it there [01:10.62]Let's take it there [01:11.81]C'mon take it there [01:13.13]C'mon take it there [01:14.60]Let's take it there [01:15.79]C'mon take it there [01:17.15]I'm take it there [01:18.30]C'mon take it there [01:19.54]Society's time bomb laying dormant [01:20.79]Our people disenfranchised for the free world [01:23.14]Oil for food but they still hungry [01:25.63]No democracy [01:26.94]They said one vote equals one voice [01:28.87]But he told you if he can't work to make it [01:30.94]He'll rob to take it [01:32.61]The villains [01:33.80]Abandoning the planet and the people [01:35.54]Another hot summer yo they 'bout to flood the prisons [01:38.35]This ain't no do diddley it's a do something [01:40.71]Flash light red light proceed ahead right [01:43.25]Straight into them headlights you get your head right [01:46.01]Head right get a third strike hit the turnpike [01:48.64]Life quicker than spliff that wouldn't burn right [01:51.09]Make you wanna holla 'bout it [01:52.65]It ain't no doubt about it [01:53.68]Every now and then you gotta stand up and shout about it [01:56.56]And I'll be shoutin' it to as if a shout'll count [01:58.96]Yo they got accountin' to do reamount the ballot [02:01.76]The sh*t more puzzlin' than a jigsaw [02:04.11]Raw pitbulls hustlin' through the pitfalls [02:06.99]Some of y'all toys let the laughter rip roar [02:09.57]Heart felt truth in every lyric I spit forth [02:12.31]Raise up time to lift off [02:14.31]Written on a lega pad poetry that sizzle the clip board [02:17.21]My O G my homey who taught me deal [02:19.75]Said in prayer that's the only time you should ever kneel [02:22.39]And that's real I'm a take it there [02:24.26]C'mon take it there [02:25.69]Let's take it there [02:26.88]C'mon take it there [02:28.55]I'm take it there [02:29.58]Let's take it there [02:30.88]C'mon take it there [02:32.34]I'm take it there [02:33.66]C'mon take it there [02:35.08]Let's take Let's take Let's take [02:37.01]C'mon C'mon C'mon [02:38.82] [02:39.67]Let's take Let's take Let's take [02:42.04]I'm take I'm take I'm take [02:44.65]C''mon let's take let's take let's take [02:46.88]Take It There - The Roots