Lookin Up-Prometheus Brown

[ti:Lookin Up] [ar:Prometheus Brown] [al:Walk Into A Bar] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Lookin Up - Prometheus Brown [00:28.36]I got that heart of Bonifacio [00:30.35]Beatin' like a bongo [00:31.95]Wildin' with Barkada Lola used to call me Gago [00:35.25]Hella Ilocano Jesus on the walls though [00:38.61]Lookin' kaka asi with the minds that always follow [00:41.67]Covered up the picture with my girl french kissin' [00:44.70]Went swimming with our fingers [00:46.00]Made our homeboys sniff 'em [00:48.13]It was different back then Sunday mass ten [00:51.12]In the morning peepin' cuties in the church bad sin [00:54.49]My confession was a half-assed repent [00:56.78]Then a couple Hail Mary's like a quarterback's [00:59.50]Desperate attempts for the win [01:01.33] [01:01.89]My pops watchin' boxing through the fence [01:04.22]And my uncles playin' chess [01:05.64]Benson Hedge's cigarettes [01:07.25]Red handed I was caught [01:09.12]They laughed when I coughed [01:10.65]Later on best believe I'm gettin' spanked for the loss [01:14.00]My pops never finished his thoughts he's like ahhhhh [01:17.42] [01:19.58]I'm from a place where the system's still feudal [01:22.09]And the masses still colonized [01:23.98]Landlords light skinned [01:25.58]Stabbin' with their colored eyes [01:27.28]Wonder why the goods ain't no good so we import [01:30.33]Things we can make our damn selves and we export [01:33.61]Fleshbone sister tryna make it home paid [01:36.26]While my privilege let me look at my plate [01:38.75]And complain [01:39.76]Hit the stage to get treated [01:41.21]Like I'm better than the fan [01:42.98]When the fan is for real [01:44.50]I just get it where I can [01:46.15]And my dad [01:46.95]Like to mispronounce words when he mad [01:49.50]So forgive me if I scream [01:51.10]"puckin' sh*t god damn" [01:52.77]It's the blood of a Visaya but we never said "sire" [01:55.58] [01:56.11]Where the Spanish fought hard [01:57.77]But the fighter never tire [01:59.07]To the South [01:59.95]Where the Moros find it difficult to swallow [02:02.22]Where treaty of Paris marries the North [02:04.85]They don't follow [02:05.86]From the bottom of a bottle [02:07.45]To the middle of a joint [02:09.00]Brown people fat noses [02:10.48]Use our lips when we point [02:11.79] [02:12.77]We grit our teeth and work through it all day [02:15.35]Like Prometheus Brown sprainin' his knee on stage [02:18.67]Push forward through the pain [02:20.27]Never show it on your face Aye [02:22.62]Let 'em know we ain't afraid [02:24.05]From the bottom lookin' up [02:25.75] [02:27.00]In up uh-up [02:28.97] [02:30.79]I'm from the bottom lookin' up [02:32.08] [02:33.38]In up uh-up [02:35.43] [02:38.04]Ay yo Bam (what up ) [02:39.79]Play that backwards for me man [02:41.51]We told 'em where we from [02:43.09]Now let's tell 'em where we at [02:44.76]In fact they ain't lettin' us [02:46.29]Leave this bar till we throw a couple back [02:48.28] [02:48.91]Ya and go double on the track [02:51.07]So in fact let it be known [02:52.94]F**k the cops ukininam [02:54.31]It don't stop till the pig get [02:55.63]Cooked in his own blood dinuguan [02:57.45]Number one [02:58.50]With a bullet whenever the scholar is coo with a gun [03:00.97]Who woulda' thunk [03:01.58]Two in the trunk pow ready give 'em some [03:04.07]Sit in the sun soon as we done [03:05.64]We get musubis and get on the drum [03:07.29]Document struggle to lay where we from [03:08.68]Straight outta Maui and straight to my lungs [03:10.64]Choppin' it up when a couple of pigs pass the sisig [03:13.23]Hit the boys in blue like a scholar [03:15.53]Time to get up on my G-Sh*t [03:16.87] [03:17.50]But when in need tinikling bullets to his feet [03:20.50]Havin' him jumpin' around Bambu [03:21.86]Tappin' the ground to a beat [03:23.54]See what I mean ayo G [03:25.15]From the fields to the hills [03:26.68]Ilocanos in the sun pickin' pineapples in the fields yeah [03:30.46]We grit our teeth and work through it all day [03:33.20]Like my man Bambu losin' his shirt on stage [03:36.38]Push forward through the pain [03:38.15]Never show it on your face Aye [03:40.41]Let 'em know we ain't afraid from the bottom lookin' up [03:43.36] [03:44.74]In up uh-up [03:46.62] [03:48.62]We from the bottom lookin' up [03:49.92] [03:51.17]In up uh-up