Stand To The Side (Album Version|Explicit)-Talib Kweli/Novel/Vinia Mojica

[ti:Stand To The Side] [ar:Talib Kweli] [al:Quality (Explicit Version)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Stand To The Side (Album Version|Explicit) - Talib Kweli/Novel/Vinia Mojica [00:04.81]Go right to left left to right [00:10.68]Middle passage connection [00:15.37]Yeah about to build [00:18.68] [00:22.25]Tell you which way to go [00:24.08]We go right to left left to right [00:26.52]If you fight to the death [00:27.42]What's left to fight We go right to left left to right [00:31.42]If you fight to the death [00:32.70]What's left to fight We go right to left left to right [00:36.44]If you fight to the death [00:37.88]What's left to fight [00:39.13] [00:39.69]If you fight to the death [00:42.15]What's left to fight [00:43.33]Yo here we go [00:44.31] [01:04.11]I wanna write away [01:05.11]I wanna write here [01:06.18]I wanna write brave words to fight fear [01:08.43]Write dreams and nightmares [01:09.68]Might scare the folks stuck in the day [01:11.55]But nothing to say [01:12.37]Well I'm way ahead by light years [01:14.11]So beware we keep the lights on [01:16.43]I wanna write the songs from right to wrong [01:18.49]Right on [01:19.11]Riding the light so you see in the dark [01:21.05]So deep you gotta be still [01:22.30]Like your beating heart [01:23.49]My words apply the pressure [01:24.93]To make the bleeding stop [01:26.18]See the art living right eating smart [01:28.62]I wanna right to life a right to death [01:30.80]Police read your rights from right to left [01:33.00]But I never write to remain silent [01:35.24]I fight through police line [01:36.68]Cops walk the beat that I write to [01:38.74]I teach minds write rhymes with the right sound [01:41.24]Right now journalists write up [01:42.55]I write down [01:43.37]Party people put a hand in the sky [01:45.36]Grab a cloud and squeeze til no man is dry [01:47.68]We wet it up go ask the people [01:49.39]If they plannin to die [01:50.44]Can't stay to live [01:51.32]Consumers is plannin to buy [01:52.51]Smoke death operators is standing by [01:54.70]They take you order for [01:56.01]The slaughter of the family why [01:57.51]Do they make it so hard [01:58.89]For a man to provide [02:00.07]You better get wit it [02:01.20] [02:02.27]Or stand to the side [02:04.70] [02:23.57]And the story line goes on [02:25.88]Right to left who's right who's wrong [02:28.21]F**k the politics and pride [02:30.33]I just to try to stay alive [02:32.15]To witness where the battle lines are drawn [02:35.71]Speak my mind and sing my song [02:38.96]I'm passin on the moral y'all [02:41.72]This is ain't play [02:44.09]True you got to know the way [02:46.65]It's hard now [02:48.78] [02:51.82]Open eyes [02:53.01]See hopeful lives [02:56.27]Sing it now [02:58.83]Making my way through life [03:23.90]Talking to elders and taking advice [03:25.14]Ignoring their words and paying the price [03:26.77]Living in the world where false [03:28.58]Preachers got us praying to christ [03:29.90]Get with the young girls [03:30.92]In the choir and laying the pipe [03:32.29]No control of our soul [03:33.43]We all wait at the light [03:34.75]So comfortable they [03:35.62]We hating to fight to make it right [03:37.43]Late at night I'm controlled [03:38.55]By the DJ on the mic [03:39.86]I love hip-hop and every joint [03:41.37]He playing is tight [03:42.30]A day in the life is a brick [03:43.93]In the foundation of like [03:45.38]A mason in Egypt amazing [03:46.57]When I'm creating a site [03:47.83]For the world to behold and the story to last [03:49.76]So one day ghetto children [03:50.88]Can visit their glorious past [03:52.08]After Pac and Notorious passed [03:53.39]What do we have [03:54.70]Niggas worth more when they dead it's so sad [03:57.01]Started with the slavery we finish the plan [03:59.63]But I broke the cycle and became a man [04:01.94]Party people put a hand in the sky [04:03.69]Grab a cloud and squeeze til no man is dry [04:06.07]We wet it up go ask the people if they plannin to die [04:08.63]Can't stay to live consumers is plannin to buy [04:11.12]Smoke death operators is standing by [04:13.63]They take you order for the slaughter of the family why [04:15.94]Do they make it so hard for a man to provide [04:18.76] [04:19.39]You better get wit it or stand to the side