Before He Walked-Talib Kweli/Nelly/Abby Dobson

[ti:Before He Walked (feat. Nelly ] [ar:Talib Kweli] [al:Prisoner of Conscious (Bonus T] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Before He Walked - Talib Kweli/Nelly/Abby Dobson [00:32.13]Like a medicine in times of war helps me get over [00:36.44] [00:37.56]The sweetest sounds I ever heard my joy my heart my music [00:42.56] [00:43.19]Like a medicine in times of war helps me get over [00:48.55] [00:49.12]The sweetest sounds I ever heard my joy my life my music [00:53.68] [00:54.74]I'm from a small city but I have big dreams [00:58.18]Had some good ideas but I had better schemes [01:01.05]I thought the hustle way for me was etched in stones [01:03.82]Until my pun to dime and name etched in stone [01:06.76]My daughter's growing up my son on his way [01:09.76]They closing in on me I feel like every day [01:12.75]Music saves me soothing like the navy [01:15.25]But a lifetime of scars only sixteen bars [01:17.44] [01:18.13]So I took the vibe with me using my life [01:20.76]Yep I propose the main music my wife [01:22.63] [01:23.76]If ever need to call a ni**a music's my night [01:26.44]And if I need to bring the girls together music's my dice [01:30.13]If I degraded and I haven't even cried to [01:32.88]I watch purpose prophesize about going through [01:34.82] [01:36.13]Music ain't the knowledge itself [01:37.94]And I'm the knowledge itself then I acknowledge your wealth [01:40.82]Like a medicine in times of war helps me get over [01:45.38] [01:46.82]The sweetest sounds I ever heard my joy my heart my music [01:51.95] [01:52.63]Like a medicine in times of war helps me get over [01:57.06] [01:58.56]The sweetest sounds I ever heard my joy my life my music [02:03.75] [02:06.31]Music a part of me I'm a bully [02:08.19]Beating up the track with brutal lines [02:10.18]The truth inside of me rappers hit the booth and they lie to me [02:13.94]I'm using the inspiration that they provide to me [02:16.18]I'm redefining the space you can call me the new geometry [02:18.75]A picture of you papa when I google monogamy [02:21.43] [02:22.00]Now all the people who go irresponsibly [02:23.88] [02:24.50]Thinking your album is trash is not the root of economy [02:26.99] [02:28.00]So you're expecting the conscious and introspect of use [02:30.44]Each of lyrical vestibule let me tell you what's best for you [02:33.57]My music gives you a message true or respect is due [02:36.43]But music is emotion that's lost for me intellectual [02:38.44] [02:39.37]A tree in form of a far is never heard [02:41.81]Amongst the sparrows and the robbers and even the ghetto birds [02:45.00]You download it for free but what I create the same [02:47.43]Ofcourse you're nothing but a pair in making trust me [02:50.31] [02:50.87]Like a medicine in times of war helps me get over [02:54.88] [02:56.31]The sweetest sounds I ever heard my joy my heart my music [03:01.06] [03:02.00]Like a medicine in times of war helps me get over [03:08.06]The sweetest sounds I ever heard my joy my life my music [03:13.06] [03:13.81]I was born on the afterbeat I'm like ron for Johnson [03:16.94]When you reach the crossroads me and the devil have to meet [03:19.87]It's sort of same thing as clever on when they soar [03:22.81]Lower went looking for God and cleft kept on [03:25.69]Willing to the same songs but we hear them different [03:28.63]Serenade the death like we got a fear of living [03:31.45]Having the sounds on stage cause the spirit rising [03:34.31]Stop the devilish ways where clever displays the lyricism [03:36.44] [03:38.00]The songs are a natural resource of actual street stories [03:40.13] [03:40.81]Attract the police forces [03:42.50]Slay to the rhythm the masses that rip off us [03:47.32]And he could run before he walked