[ti:Water (explicit Album Version Explicit)] [ar:The Roots] [al:Phrenology (Explicit Version)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Water (Explicit) - The Roots [00:00.92]South philly north side [00:03.59]Oakland texas [00:06.25]Georgia black people [00:08.80]Yo worldwide sup my n**ga [00:13.65] [00:14.91]You know what I'm saying [00:16.46] [00:17.77]Dumb and blind [00:18.52] [00:20.84]They say a record ain't nothing if it's not touching [00:23.55]Gripping draw you in closer make you want to listen to it [00:26.73]And if you real ill at making music [00:28.37]Then lesson will feel like you livin' through it [00:30.50]That's how my n**ga do it [00:31.64]I met slacks back in like '91 rapping [00:34.06]We went to millersville to get away from gun clappin' [00:36.72]It ain't last [00:37.84]I be in class dreaming 'bout [00:39.30]50 000 fans up in the stands screaming out [00:42.22]Encore yo I'm headed back to philly [00:44.71]N**ga you rollin' with me [00:46.17]I'm trying to get busy [00:47.34]We walk dogs that was off the chain [00:49.20]Lot of times at the show people hardly came [00:51.98]I just took it in stride as part of the game [00:54.69]But inside people down with me started to change [00:57.21]It was a couple things [00:58.61]Lil' unknown lil' pills [01:00.32]Instead of driving out on the road you rather chill [01:02.68]I know the way the pleasure feel [01:04.27]I'm not judging [01:05.27]But still I'm on a mission yo I'm not buggin' [01:07.57]I got fam that won't stop druggin' [01:09.41]They can't sleep [01:10.33]They can't stick to one subject they can't eat [01:13.01]Is people steady comin' at me out in the streets [01:15.66]Like riq yo wat up with your peeps [01:17.89]It gets deep n**ga [01:18.72]Yo you need to walk straight master your high [01:21.07]Son you missin' out on was passing you by [01:23.45]I done seen the streets suck a lot of cats dry [01:26.14]But not you and I my n**ga [01:28.17]We got to get [01:29.18]Come on over over the water [01:31.42]Come on over over the water [01:34.45]Water water [01:36.62] [01:38.70]Yo we done made too many meals [01:40.46]A couple of deals [01:41.55]We done share clothes and wills [01:42.98]Killed mics and reels [01:44.12]We done rock [01:44.81]Shows abroad and slept on floors [01:46.73]Trying to figga what the f**k we gettin' slept on for [01:49.43]Oh why we walking with the rep up for [01:51.43]Waited by the cavity law [01:52.90]You know it if you came up poor my n**ga [01:55.13]Picture a bus up north [01:56.52]You know we made of everything outlaws are made of [01:59.23]I'm far from a hater [02:00.54]And I don't say I love you 'cause the way I feel is greater [02:03.27]In illa you a poet son [02:04.40]You a ball creator [02:05.57]And this will probably dawn on you later [02:07.61]Is in you nature letters all up in the wall like they made of paper [02:11.05]You got to find out where you talent take you [02:13.26]You might f**k around finally make it [02:14.95]And that's real but yo [02:16.70]Yo you need to walk straight master your high [02:18.52]Son you missin' out on was passing you by [02:20.94]I done seen the streets suck a lot of cats dry [02:23.60]But not you and I my n**ga [02:25.99]We got to get [02:26.88]Come on over over the water [02:28.89]Come on over over the water [02:31.42] [02:32.29]Water water [02:33.97] [02:36.06]Yo I want you all to understand I come from south philly [02:39.08]And when I walk the street is like a pharmacy [02:41.49]They got all type of sh*t [02:42.91]Anybody could get [02:44.16]It goes from h to ex [02:45.70]To lucy ciggarette [02:46.77]For my ghetto legend [02:47.97]Known from lil' shyst running [02:49.61]Cop codeine by the courts and keep comin' [02:52.15]Dummy just embracing the d**e like it's a woman [02:54.91]You burnin' both sides of the rope and keep pullin' [02:57.61]Tuggin' in between I***m and straight tuggin' [02:59.93]Laying everyday around the way and doin' nothin' [03:02.61]See'em looking shaking their head and start shruggin' [03:05.24]If they don't have a man like mine they got a cousin [03:08.00]Hey yo you better be a true friend to 'em [03:10.34]Before the sh*t put an end to 'em [03:12.10]Or give a pen to 'em [03:13.48]Or lock'em up in the studio with a mic [03:15.45]'Cause on the real it might save his life [03:17.47]Keep tellin'em [03:18.82]Yo you need to walk straight master your high [03:21.03]Son you missin' out on was passing you by [03:23.51]I done seen the streets suck a lot of cats dry [03:25.94]But not you and I my n**ga [03:27.99]We got to get [03:29.08]Come on over over the water [03:31.46]Come on over over the water [03:34.11]Water water [03:36.62] [03:38.43]Yo you need to walk straight master your high [03:41.87]Son you missin' out on was passing you by [03:44.34]I done seen the streets suck a lot of cats dry [03:46.99]But not you and I my n**ga [03:48.84]We got to get [03:49.90]Come on over over the water [03:52.45]Come on over over the water [03:54.92]Water water