[ti:Give a Man a Fish] [ar:Arrested Development] [al:Classic Masters (Original recording remastered)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Give A Man A Fish - Arrested Development [00:09.39]Written by:Sylvester Stewart/Dick Rudolph/Minnie Riperton/Todd Thomas/Timothy Barnwell [00:18.79]Lately I've been in a life like limbo [00:20.84]Looking out of a smudged up window [00:22.92]We're not sure where our lives are going [00:25.09]Friends it's summer outside but yet we're snowed in [00:27.33]Don't know where our next dollar's coming from [00:29.58]Living the life of a poor musician [00:31.64]Headliner's strong so he keeps his 9 to 5 [00:34.31]Cutting brothers' hair as a means of staying alive [00:36.11]If it wasn't for the rhythm [00:37.98]I think we would have given up by now [00:40.40]This system has gotten the best of me [00:43.02]Now I pray for god to invest in me [00:44.79]My dignity invest his glory [00:46.96]Give me the strength so I can Finnish the story [00:49.04]Keep on searching for the right way to go out [00:51.25]Cuz going out is what it's all about [00:53.22]Huh you can't be passive gotta be active [00:55.57]Can't go with what looks attractive [00:57.77]Gotta learn all I can while I'm able [00:59.86]Headliner expresses his feeling on those turntables [01:02.21]When we get our chance [01:04.37]To make a good living of the music we program [01:06.57]We don't sell out just to be sold out [01:08.73]Brothers and sisters do you know what I'm yapping about [01:11.22]Cuz if they take away our contract [01:12.95]We still got talent and we still got contacts [01:15.11]Cuz we're worked real hard to get this far [01:17.42]We're catching the bus before we bought the car [01:19.41]Ya see [01:19.99]Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day [01:23.91]Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever [01:27.94]Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day [01:32.72]Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever [01:37.22]Got to get political [01:39.03]Political I gotta get [01:41.39]Grown but can't hold my own [01:43.33]So this government needs to be overthrown [01:45.79]Brothers with the AK and the 9 mams [01:48.04]Need to learn how to correctly shoot em [01:50.12]Save those rounds for a revolution [01:52.18]Poor whites and blacks bum rushing the system [01:54.58]But I tell you ain't no room for gangsta [01:56.62]Cuz gangsta do dirty work and get pimped by mobsters [01:58.93]Some fat Italian eating pasta'n lobster [02:01.12]Brothers getting jailed and mobsters own the coppers [02:03.24]So you you want out of the ghetto [02:05.41]First the political prisoners must be let go [02:07.73]And you must let go of your power master [02:09.61]And you must let go of your power master [02:12.05]You'll never get out without much discipline [02:14.11]Raise your fist but also raise your children [02:16.20]So when you die the movement moves on [02:18.46]Cuz with revolution ain't no future in front o yo [02:21.30]Ha ha direct your anger love [02:22.99]Nothing's ever built on hate instead love [02:25.25]Love your life tackle the government [02:26.91]The spooks that break down the door are heaven sent [02:28.82]And my phrase went [02:29.60]Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day [02:33.77]Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever [02:38.36]Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day [02:42.48]Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever [02:46.78]Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day [02:51.18]Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever [02:55.62]Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day [02:59.97]Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever [03:02.99]Alright [04:01.45]Rhythm makes you move your body rhythm makes you move your mind [04:06.48]Rhythm makes your elbows groove rhythm makes that behind move [04:09.72]Rhythm makes the people move rhythm makes you want to move [04:14.12]Rhythm makes your mind soothe next stop is Jerusalem