《Something In The Way Of Things(In Town)((Explicit))》歌词

歌曲： Something In The Way Of Things(In Town)((Explicit))

所属专辑：Phrenology (Explicit)

歌手： The Roots

时长： 06:46

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Something In The Way Of Things (In Town) (explicit Vinyl Album Version Explicit) - The Roots[00:00:00]

Written by：Amiri Baraka/Ben Kenney/Questlove[00:00:02]

In town[00:00:15]

In town[00:00:23]

In town[00:00:29]

Something in the way of things[00:00:35]

Something that will quit and won't start[00:00:39]

Something you know but can't stand[00:00:42]

Can't know get along with like death[00:00:44]

Riding on top of the car peering through the windshield for his cue[00:00:50]

Something entirely fictitious and true[00:00:55]

That creeps across your path hallowing your evil ways[00:00:58]

Like they were yourself passing yourself not smiling[00:01:03]

The dead guy you saw me talking to is your boss[00:01:10]

I tried to put a spell on him but his spirit is illiterate[00:01:13]

I know things you know and nothing you don't know[00:01:18]

Except I saw something in the way of things[00:01:23]

Something grinning at me and I wanted to know was it funny[00:01:26]

Was it so funny it followed me down the street[00:01:30]

Greeting everybody like the good humor man[00:01:33]

But they got the taste of good humor but no ice cream[00:01:35]

It was like that[00:01:40]

Me talking across people into the houses[00:01:41]

And not seeing the beings crowding around me with ice picks[00:01:44]

You could see them[00:01:48]

But they looked like important Negroes on the way to your funeral[00:01:49]

Looked like important jiggaboos on the way to your auction[00:01:53]

And let them chant the number[00:01:57]

And use an ivory pointer to count your teeth[00:01:59]

Remember steppen fetchit[00:02:02]

Remember steppen fetchit how we laughed[00:02:05]

On all your Sunday school images giving flesh and giggling[00:02:07]

With the ice pick high over his head[00:02:11]

Made you laugh anyway[00:02:13]

I can see something in the way of ourselves[00:02:16]

I can see something in the way of ourselves[00:02:19]

That's why I say the things I do you know it[00:02:20]

But it's something else to you like that job[00:02:23]

This morning when you got there and it was quiet[00:02:27]

And the machines were yearning soft behind you[00:02:30]

Yearning for that ni**a to come and give up his life[00:02:33]

Standin' there bein' dissed and broke and troubled[00:02:36]

My mistake is I kept sayin' that was proof god didn't exist[00:02:41]

And you told me nah it was proof that the devil do[00:02:44]

But still it's like I see something I hear things[00:02:49]

I saw words in the white boy's lying rag[00:02:53]

Said he was gonna die poor and frustrated[00:02:55]

That them dreams walk which you 'cross town[00:02:57]

Is gonna die from over work[00:02:59]

There's garbage on the street that's tellin' you you ain't sh*t[00:03:03]

And you almost believe it[00:03:06]

Broke and mistaken all the time[00:03:08]

You know some of the words but they ain't the right ones[00:03:11]

You cable back on but ain't nothin' you can see[00:03:15]

But I see something in the way of things[00:03:18]

Something to make us stumble[00:03:21]

Something get us drunk from noise and addicted to sadness[00:03:23]

I see something and feel something stalking us[00:03:26]

Like a ugly thing floating at our back calling us names[00:03:29]

You see it and hear it too[00:03:33]

But you say it got a right to exist just like you[00:03:36]

And if god made it[00:03:39]

But then we got to argue[00:03:41]

And the light gonna come down around us[00:03:44]

Even though we remember where the light is[00:03:46]

Remember the negro squinting at us through the cage[00:03:49]

You seen what I see too[00:03:54]

The smile that ain't a smile but teeth flying against our necks[00:03:58]

You see something too but can't call its name[00:04:02]

Ain't it too bad y'all said[00:04:07]

Ain't it too bad such a nice boy always kind to his mother[00:04:12]

Always say good morning to everybody on his way to work[00:04:15]

But that last time before he got locked up and hurt real bad[00:04:19]

I've seen him walkin' toward his house and he wasn't smiling[00:04:26]

And he didn't even say hello[00:04:28]

But I knew he'd seen something[00:04:32]

Something in the way of things that[00:04:34]

It worked on him like it do in will[00:04:35]

And he kept marching faster and faster away from us[00:04:36]

And never even muttered a word[00:04:39]

Then the next day he was gone[00:04:42]

You wanna know what[00:04:46]

You wanna know what I'm talkin' about[00:04:48]

Sayin' I've seen something in the way of things[00:04:49]

And how the boys face looked that day just before they took him away[00:04:52]

There is in that face and remember now remember all them other faces[00:04:56]

And all the many places you've seen him or the sister with his child[00:05:00]

Wandering up the street[00:05:03]

Remember what you've seen in your own mirror[00:05:06]

And didn't for a second recognize the face your own face[00:05:08]

Straining to get out from behind the glass[00:05:12]

Open your mouth like he was gonna say somethin'[00:05:16]

Close your eyes and remember what you saw[00:05:18]

And what it made you feel like[00:05:21]

Now don't you see something else[00:05:22]

Something cold and ugly[00:05:26]

Not invisible but blended with the shadow criss crossing the old man[00:05:29]

Squatting by the drug store at the corner[00:05:32]

With his head resting uneasily on his folded arms[00:05:34]

And the boy that smiled and the girl he went with[00:05:37]

And in my eyes too[00:05:43]

A waving craziness splitting them into the jet stream of a black bird[00:05:47]

With his a** on fire[00:05:52]

Or the solomnotness of where we go to know we gonna be happy[00:05:56]

I've seen something[00:06:03]

I've seen something[00:06:05]

And you've seen it too[00:06:07]

You've seen it too[00:06:10]

You just can't call its name[00:06:16]

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