Something In The Way Of Things (In Town) (Explicit)-The Roots

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[00:00.00]Something In The Way Of Things (In Town) (Explicit) - The Roots
[00:07.79]Written by：Amiri Baraka/Ben Kenney/Questlove
[00:15.58]In town
[00:23.78]In town
[00:29.31]In town
[00:35.65]Something in the way of things
[00:39.12]Something that will quit and won't start
[00:42.68]Something you know but can't stand
[00:44.11]Can't know get along with like death
[00:50.24]Riding on top of the car peering through the windshield for his cue
[00:55.80]Something entirely fictitious and true
[00:58.50]That creeps across your path hallowing your evil ways
[01:03.02]Like they were yourself passing yourself not smiling
[01:10.74]The dead guy you saw me talking to is your boss
[01:13.63]I tried to put a spell on him but his spirit is illiterate
[01:18.88]I know things you know and nothing you don't know
[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
[01:30.25]Was it so funny it followed me down the street
[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
[01:40.06]It was like that
[01:41.79]Me talking across people into the houses
[01:44.98]And not seeing the beings crowding around me with ice picks
[01:48.08]You could see them
[01:49.64]But they looked like important Negroes on the way to your funeral
[01:53.50]Looked like important jiggaboos on the way to your auction
[01:57.46]And let them chant the number
[01:59.30]And use an ivory pointer to count your teeth
[02:02.65]Remember steppen fetchit
[02:05.53]Remember steppen fetchit how we laughed
[02:07.33]On all your Sunday school images giving flesh and giggling
[02:11.26]With the ice pick high over his head
[02:13.81]Made you laugh anyway
[02:16.06]I can see something in the way of ourselves
[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
[02:27.82]This morning when you got there and it was quiet
[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
[02:36.62]Standin' there bein' dissed and broke and troubled
[02:41.12]My mistake is I kept sayin' that was proof god didn't exist
[02:44.54]And you told me nah it was proof that the devil do
[02:49.54]But still it's like I see something I hear things
[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
[02:59.95]Is gonna die from over work
[03:03.46]There's garbage on the street that's tellin' you you ain't sh*t
[03:06.72]And you almost believe it
[03:08.87]Broke and mistaken all the time
[03:11.06]You know some of the words but they ain't the right ones
[03:15.23]You cable back on but ain't nothin' you can see
[03:18.64]But I see something in the way of things
[03:21.46]Something to make us stumble
[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
[03:33.89]You see it and hear it too
[03:36.20]But you say it got a right to exist just like you
[03:39.22]And if god made it
[03:41.63]But then we got to argue
[03:44.34]And the light gonna come down around us
[03:46.88]Even though we remember where the light is
[03:49.25]Remember the negro squinting at us through the cage
[03:54.40]You seen what I see too
[03:58.13]The smile that ain't a smile but teeth flying against our necks
[04:02.19]You see something too but can't call its name
[04:07.91]Ain't it too bad y'all said
[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
[04:19.60]But that last time before he got locked up and hurt real bad
[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
[04:32.05]But I knew he'd seen something
[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
[04:42.54]Then the next day he was gone
[04:46.25]You wanna know what
[04:48.24]You wanna know what I'm talkin' about
[04:49.59]Sayin' I've seen something in the way of things
[04:52.49]And how the boys face looked that day just before they took him away
[04:56.02]There is in that face and remember now remember all them other faces
[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
[05:06.97]Remember what you've seen in your own mirror
[05:08.74]And didn't for a second recognize the face your own face
[05:12.49]Straining to get out from behind the glass
[05:16.42]Open your mouth like he was gonna say somethin'
[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
[05:26.80]Something cold and ugly
[05:29.01]Not invisible but blended with the shadow criss crossing the old man
[05:32.37]Squatting by the ** store at the corner
[05:34.10]With his head resting uneasily on his folded arms
[05:37.93]And the boy that smiled and the girl he went with
[05:43.65]And in my eyes too
[05:47.70]A waving craziness splitting them into the jet stream of a black bird
[05:52.82]With his a** on fire
[05:56.00]Or the solomnotness of where we go to know we gonna be happy
[06:03.52]I've seen something
[06:05.53]I've seen something
[06:07.99]And you've seen it too
[06:10.86]You've seen it too
[06:16.90]You just can't call its name
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