It's a Trip-The Last Poets

[ti:It's a Trip] [ar:The Last Poets/Bernard Purdie] [al:Best of The Last Poets (The Early Years)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.01]It's A Trip - The Last Poets [00:00.02]Written by：Suliaman El Hadi [00:00.03] [00:00.79]How I wish I could stay far away far away [00:04.70]How I wish I could stay far away far away [00:08.64]How I wish I could stay far away far away [00:12.52]How I wish I could stay far away far away [00:16.39]How I wish I could stay far away far away [00:20.35]How I wish I could stay far away far away [00:23.72] [00:24.65]Away from the milling masses [00:27.28] [00:28.61]Filth vermin and gases [00:30.72] [00:32.56]Muggings thuggings near naked bodies as they go marching past [00:35.67] [00:36.26]Shamming at modesty in miniskirt mask [00:39.79]And it's a trip stay far away far away [00:43.74]Yes it's a trip stay far away far away [00:46.89] [00:47.43]From the screaming and cussin' [00:49.35]From the gambling and hustlin' [00:51.33]From the nodding and the fussin' [00:53.10]From the confusion of integration [00:58.34] [00:58.86]And segregation [01:01.29] [01:02.82]Amidst the cries of let's build a nation [01:05.70] [01:06.51]Separation y'all separation y'all [01:10.65]Separation separation [01:14.33]How I wish I could stay far away far away [01:17.62] [01:18.13]How I wish I could stay far away far away [01:21.77]Yes I trip to escape the environmental rape [01:25.73]The industrial waste in the rivers and lakes [01:29.62]The mad mad race for the vastness of space [01:33.44]The clamour and fuss to quicken the pace [01:36.80] [01:37.34]The hypocrites' call of justice for all [01:40.74]Though this cannot be for people like me [01:44.62]There's no place for the poor y'all in this society [01:48.59]How I wish I could stay far away far away [01:52.30]There's no place for the poor y'all in this society [01:55.77] [01:56.27]How I wish I could stay far away far away [01:59.63]So I trip and I flee from the things that I see [02:03.61]Yes I trip and I flee from this brand of liberty [02:07.36]Yes I trip and I flee so perhaps for a moment [02:11.12]I might be free free free [02:12.80]I might be free free free [02:14.75]And it's a wish I could stay far away far away [02:18.52]Yes it's a trip stay far away far away [02:22.31]Yes I split with my mind through the passage of time [02:26.29]Back when men were still men and the sisters were fine [02:30.03]And a man had a friend and a man had allah [02:33.61]And a man had some land and a faith to defend [02:37.34]Back in time before men were deceived by the jinn [02:41.28]How I wish I could stay far away far away [02:44.81]Back in time before men were deceived by the jinn [02:48.69]How I wish I could stay far away far away [02:52.29]But Alas I come back to the real to the fact [02:56.14]Being poor being black being under attack [02:59.95]Being under attack for just being black [03:03.63]Being under attack for just being black [03:07.41]Being under attack for just being black [03:11.07]Being under attack and that is a fact [03:14.82]And it's a trip could stay far away far away [03:18.26]It's a trip stay far away far away [03:22.12]Yes it's time we all took a real hard look [03:25.66]At the lifestyles we have and the ones we forsook [03:29.50]And our past and our present at the future we crave [03:33.18]And at the things we encounter between the womb and the grave [03:37.06]And what we must do and what must be saved [03:40.80]And how we must struggle and how things will be [03:44.29]When truth is revealed y'all and falsehood has died [03:48.19]I wish I could stay far away far away [03:51.58]When truth is revealed y'all and falsehood has died [03:55.81]I wish I could stay far away far away [03:58.99]How I wish I could stay far away far away [04:02.58]How I wish I could stay far away far away [04:06.30]How I wish I could stay far away far away [04:09.84]From the witches and vampires that stalk me each day [04:13.83]How I wish I could stay far away far away [04:17.25]Far away from the hunter that makes me the prey [04:20.95]How I wish I could stay far away far away [04:24.62]Far away from the snare that they lay on the way [04:28.20]How I wish I could stay far away far away [04:31.96]For the soul is the prize in the game that they play [04:35.39]For the soul is the prize in the game that they play [04:39.19]For the soul is the prize in the game that they play