Some Seek Stardom-Fugees

[ti:Some Seek Stardom] [ar:Fugees] [al:Original Album Classics] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Some Seek Stardom (Album Version) - Fugees [00:10.63]AhhhhhH [00:11.19]Check the crippled man sittin in the church [00:13.31]My conscience hurts flesh like me hits the dirt [00:16.48]She's paralyzed from her feet to her thighs [00:18.73]And the man who pulled the trigger didn't even lose his necktie [00:21.31]Hi/I check Jimmy cuttin hair at the barbershop [00:24.00]He plays the bass guitar like David plays the harp [00:26.82]His knowledge name is Greek cause whenever he speaks [00:28.81]He's got the wisdom of King Solomon bags in his eyes from no sleep [00:32.37]Sometimes he thought of the fame in Madison Square Garden [00:35.12]So some seek stardom but they forget Harlem [00:37.31]But seeking first of all the kingdom of God is what my pops told me [00:40.86]So if I fall could the choir catch me [00:43.24]I flew away on a mountain got tempted by Satan [00:46.18]Got bitten by a cobra but the Lord took my venom [00:48.80]So who's side am I on I'm on the righteous [00:50.93]Always check the lyrics no time to contradict [00:53.52]Some seek stardom then they forget Harlem [00:56.14]Some seek stardom then they forget Harlem [00:58.59]Some seek stardom then they forget Harlem [01:00.96] [01:01.71]They [01:01.89]Keep their pockets full but their souls run empty [01:03.96]Well aiyyo family I beseech you in the hopes that I may reach you [01:06.96]My mother taught me one day that this mid-day would come someday [01:09.45]Born to talk that jive with peaky hair grown wild [01:12.20]And teachers disliked me cause I knew where my culture be [01:14.83]So now yeah mom I read history I can't neglect my passion see [01:17.65]Rock it's kind of new to me cause my true love was poetry [01:20.03]White was good and bad was black but black was just a massa lackey [01:23.09]Built for that B Nimble Jack and I'd like to save you from the wicked [01:25.90]D-Dog clear I wouldn't be wet [01:27.09]The black to mourn tomorrow's death [01:28.03]The evil things glad that I while angels wrote this violence why [01:30.97]Help me make me comprehend my black bezerk and why cast it [01:33.46]Time to blaze the angels nappy heads are braided that you make me [01:36.21]See what's hard for me that don't make you flee [01:38.28]When I enter your vicinity you see my God ain't never after me [01:41.67]So yo I be wised up with Greek [01:43.67]To go and be the last and good and see what's wrong with me [01:46.68]And through your insecurity of me and my ability [01:48.93]So bredren won't you let me be or has thou asked to much from thy [01:52.18]To tell the truth and not to lie Oh my [01:55.47]Some seek stardom then they forget Harlem [01:56.97] [01:57.53]Some seek stardom then they forget Harlem [02:00.48]Some seek stardom then they forget Harlem [02:02.97]They keep their pockets full but their souls run empty [02:05.60]Some seek stardom then they forget Harlem [02:08.23]Some seek stardom then they forget Harlem [02:10.92]Some seek stardom then they forget Harlem [02:13.63]They keep their pockets full but their souls run empty [02:15.94] [02:16.45]But as I grew I knew cause the master told me [02:19.19]From a baby to a woman from a woman to a baby [02:21.88]Life is so short hardcore becomes hard-corpse [02:24.07]Step in a coffin where the money's no longer the source [02:26.65]There we go there we go there we go [02:29.46]I got mine now won't you get yours we never open doors [02:32.65]So we neglect and don't protect the ones that's not [02:35.15]People never really seem to care [02:37.46]And then they cry out "My people Why aren't we treated equal " [02:40.09]As we flee we flee our own communities [02:42.46]We leave our family in poverty [02:45.32]And then we blame it on another so family please recover [02:48.28] [02:49.22]Oh c'mon please come now with you can come with me now and blow now [02:51.37]If you want to we're through [02:53.12] [02:54.19]Some seek stardom then they forget Harlem [02:56.24]Some seek stardom then they forget Harlem [02:58.94]Some seek stardom then they forget Harlem [03:00.93] [03:01.56]They keep their pockets full but their souls run empty [03:04.53]Some seek stardom then they forget Harlem [03:06.90]Some seek stardom then they forget Harlem [03:09.52]Some seek stardom then they forget Harlem [03:12.49]They keep their pockets full but their souls run empty [03:14.67]Some seek stardom then they forget Harlem [03:17.54]Some seek stardom then they forget Harlem [03:20.29]Some seek stardom then they forget Harlem [03:23.32]They keep their pockets full but their souls run empty [03:25.58]Some seek stardom then they forget Harlem [03:28.26]Some seek stardom then they forget Harlem [03:31.07]Some seek stardom then they forget Harlem