Way In Way Out-Oddisee

[ti:Way In Way Out] [ar:Oddisee] [al:People Hear What They See] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Way In Way Out - Oddisee [00:09.58]Yeah [00:09.92] [00:10.92]We go [00:11.47]One man's trash is another man's treasure [00:13.98]But most men treasure what other men have [00:16.75]Little is thrown away to the many that will never [00:19.40]Grasp what the few view as pennies in the grass [00:22.16]And underneath the grass are the roots of inequality [00:24.93]Creating all the bumps we come across in the path [00:27.68]And I don't have a green thumb and neither do [00:29.58]My niggas [00:30.10]And having a money tree is a luxury of class [00:33.07]The only ho I know had a flattering ass [00:35.47]And when I asked could she dig it she looked [00:37.34]At me and laughed [00:38.29]See we crabs in a barrel and the barrel was glass [00:41.03]So we broke crack was the answer to cash [00:43.57]But the question was never asked how we get off [00:45.83]The path [00:46.52]Steady walking in a maze that was built in the last century [00:49.90]Eventually we'll raise our hands [00:52.02]But the teacher is a part of the scam God d**n [00:54.63]For a way out way out way out [00:57.79]Running down a fire escape to get away [01:00.18]For a way in way in way in [01:03.06]Peeping through your doors and your windows [01:05.65]For a way out way out way out [01:08.66]Running down a fire escape to get away [01:11.02]For a way in way in way in [01:13.75]Got me peeping through your doors and your windows [01:16.46]I'm a product of the environment that I was brought [01:18.90]Up in [01:19.64]Material things I'm caught up in [01:21.62]Hustling a product that creates the production [01:24.16]A plus then for shackles that resemble circumference [01:27.10]My world my word I'm running from my block [01:30.38]Right into your wall street [01:32.43]That when I see up close is just a prop [01:34.36]Designed to keep me cropped [01:35.47]Outside of the picture that pictures my people in defeat [01:38.39]I'm cooking up the books like a communist bonfire [01:41.15]And tell uncle sam I forgot the receipt [01:43.92]He gon' call me a liar and I'mma call him [01:46.05]A thief [01:46.29]The jury looking like him and enjoying looking at me [01:49.61]At my arraignment screaming [01:51.54]All us blacks got is sports and entertainment and a [01:54.22]Belief in [01:55.00]Religion as the answer to the grieving [01:56.90]Believing that the blessed get test and the less get even [02:00.06]For a way out way out way out [02:03.15]Running down a fire escape to get away [02:05.67]For a way in way in way in [02:08.62]Peeping through your doors and your windows [02:11.12]For a way out way out way out [02:14.08]Running down a fire escape to get away [02:16.55]For a way in way in way in [02:19.24]Got me peeping through your doors and your windows [02:21.67] [02:22.27]Running away from trouble got me running into you [02:24.89]Running away from darkness got me running into view [02:27.69]Running towards all the lights [02:28.98]Running from blue and whites [02:30.29]Running for you by day hope I run into you [02:32.32]By night [02:33.06]Running for an election to run the country for who [02:35.70]Run and tell all the news that you run it [02:37.47]For something true [02:38.47]Run it into the ground run it into a tomb [02:41.19]Run until there is nothing run it until we lose