Something In The Way Of Things (In Town) (explicit Vinyl Album Version Explicit)-The Roots

[ti:Something In The Way Of Things (In Town) (explicit Vinyl Album Version Explicit)] [ar:The Roots] [al:Phrenology (Explicit Version)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.10]Something In The Way Of Things (In Town) (explicit Vinyl Album Version Explicit) - The Roots [00:02.91]Written by：Amiri Baraka/Ben Kenney/Questlove [00:04.07] [00:15.58]In town [00:16.00] [00:23.78]In town [00:24.28] [00:29.31]In town [00:30.16] [00:35.65]Something in the way of things [00:37.03] [00:39.12]Something that will quit and won't start [00:40.65] [00:42.68]Something you know but can't stand [00:44.11]Can't know get along with like death [00:48.88] [00:50.24]Riding on top of the car peering through the windshield for his cue [00:53.69] [00:55.80]Something entirely fictitious and true [00:57.80] [00:58.50]That creeps across your path hallowing your evil ways [01:01.77] [01:03.02]Like they were yourself passing yourself not smiling [01:06.14] [01:10.74]The dead guy you saw me talking to is your boss [01:12.80] [01:13.63]I tried to put a spell on him but his spirit is illiterate [01:16.48] [01:18.88]I know things you know and nothing you don't know [01:21.41] [01:23.09]Except I saw something in the way of things [01:26.08]Something grinning at me and I wanted to know was it funny [01:29.12] [01:30.25]Was it so funny it followed me down the street [01:32.65] [01:33.74]Greeting everybody like the good humor man [01:35.57]But they got the taste of good humor but no ice cream [01:39.19] [01:40.06]It was like that [01:40.76] [01:41.79]Me talking across people into the houses [01:43.93] [01:44.98]And not seeing the beings crowding around me with ice picks [01:48.08]You could see them [01:48.75] [01:49.64]But they looked like important Negroes on the way to your funeral [01:52.53] [01:53.50]Looked like important jiggaboos on the way to your auction [01:56.07] [01:57.46]And let them chant the number [01:58.59] [01:59.30]And use an ivory pointer to count your teeth [02:02.65]Remember steppen fetchit [02:03.99] [02:05.53]Remember steppen fetchit how we laughed [02:06.80] [02:07.33]On all your Sunday school images giving flesh and giggling [02:10.49] [02:11.26]With the ice pick high over his head [02:12.76] [02:13.81]Made you laugh anyway [02:14.79] [02:16.06]I can see something in the way of ourselves [02:17.90] [02:19.03]I can see something in the way of ourselves [02:20.78]That's why I say the things I do you know it [02:23.28]But it's something else to you like that job [02:26.47] [02:27.82]This morning when you got there and it was quiet [02:30.01] [02:30.71]And the machines were yearning soft behind you [02:33.10]Yearning for that ni**a to come and give up his life [02:35.34] [02:36.62]Standin' there bein' dissed and broke and troubled [02:38.71] [02:41.12]My mistake is I kept sayin' that was proof god didn't exist [02:43.44] [02:44.54]And you told me nah it was proof that the devil do [02:48.17] [02:49.54]But still it's like I see something I hear things [02:52.49] [02:53.20]I saw words in the white boy's lying rag [02:55.36]Said he was gonna die poor and frustrated [02:57.17]That them dreams walk which you 'cross town [02:58.92] [02:59.95]Is gonna die from over work [03:01.34] [03:03.46]There's garbage on the street that's tellin' you you ain't sh*t [03:05.62] [03:06.72]And you almost believe it [03:07.67] [03:08.87]Broke and mistaken all the time [03:10.25] [03:11.06]You know some of the words but they ain't the right ones [03:13.40] [03:15.23]You cable back on but ain't nothin' you can see [03:17.57] [03:18.64]But I see something in the way of things [03:20.06] [03:21.46]Something to make us stumble [03:22.43] [03:23.87]Something get us drunk from noise and addicted to sadness [03:26.51]I see something and feel something stalking us [03:29.90]Like a ugly thing floating at our back calling us names [03:32.91] [03:33.89]You see it and hear it too [03:35.06] [03:36.20]But you say it got a right to exist just like you [03:39.22]And if god made it [03:40.40] [03:41.63]But then we got to argue [03:42.64] [03:44.34]And the light gonna come down around us [03:46.16] [03:46.88]Even though we remember where the light is [03:49.25]Remember the negro squinting at us through the cage [03:52.28] [03:54.40]You seen what I see too [03:55.62] [03:58.13]The smile that ain't a smile but teeth flying against our necks [04:01.16] [04:02.19]You see something too but can't call its name [04:05.52] [04:07.91]Ain't it too bad y'all said [04:09.29] [04:12.12]Ain't it too bad such a nice boy always kind to his mother [04:15.54]Always say good morning to everybody on his way to work [04:17.83] [04:19.60]But that last time before he got locked up and hurt real bad [04:24.72] [04:26.20]I've seen him walkin' toward his house and he wasn't smiling [04:28.50]And he didn't even say hello [04:29.41] [04:32.05]But I knew he'd seen something [04:32.98] [04:34.00]Something in the way of things that [04:35.06]It worked on him like it do in will [04:36.88]And he kept marching faster and faster away from us [04:39.82]And never even muttered a word [04:41.03] [04:42.54]Then the next day he was gone [04:43.89] [04:46.25]You wanna know what [04:47.34] [04:48.24]You wanna know what I'm talkin' about [04:49.59]Sayin' I've seen something in the way of things [04:51.65] [04:52.49]And how the boys face looked that day just before they took him away [04:55.32] [04:56.02]There is in that face and remember now remember all them other faces [04:58.94] [05:00.39]And all the many places you've seen him or the sister with his child [05:03.99]Wandering up the street [05:04.86] [05:06.97]Remember what you've seen in your own mirror [05:08.74]And didn't for a second recognize the face your own face [05:11.49] [05:12.49]Straining to get out from behind the glass [05:15.03] [05:16.42]Open your mouth like he was gonna say somethin' [05:18.08] [05:18.88]Close your eyes and remember what you saw [05:21.11]And what it made you feel like [05:22.59]Now don't you see something else [05:24.13] [05:26.80]Something cold and ugly [05:27.87] [05:29.01]Not invisible but blended with the shadow criss crossing the old man [05:32.37]Squatting by the drug store at the corner [05:34.10]With his head resting uneasily on his folded arms [05:36.81] [05:37.93]And the boy that smiled and the girl he went with [05:41.44] [05:43.65]And in my eyes too [05:45.77] [05:47.70]A waving craziness splitting them into the jet stream of a black bird [05:51.95] [05:52.82]With his a** on fire [05:53.89] [05:56.00]Or the solomnotness of where we go to know we gonna be happy [05:59.93] [06:03.52]I've seen something [06:04.08] [06:05.53]I've seen something [06:06.50] [06:07.99]And you've seen it too [06:08.83] [06:10.86]You've seen it too [06:11.82] [06:16.90]You just can't call its name [06:18.44]Name [06:18.95]Name [06:19.59]Name [06:20.38]Name [06:20.99]Name [06:21.63]Name [06:22.26]Name [06:22.88]Name [06:23.57]Name [06:24.21]Name [06:24.89]Name [06:25.52]Name [06:26.14]Name 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