[00:00:00] Some Seek Stardom - Fugees [00:00:10] AhhhhhH [00:00:11] Check the crippled man sittin in the church [00:00:13] My conscience hurts flesh like me hits the dirt [00:00:16] She's paralyzed from her feet to her thighs [00:00:18] And the man who pulled the trigger didn't even lose his necktie [00:00:21] Hi/I check Jimmy cuttin hair at the barbershop [00:00:24] He plays the bass guitar like David plays the harp [00:00:26] His knowledge name is Greek cause whenever he speaks [00:00:28] He's got the wisdom of King Solomon bags in his eyes from no sleep [00:00:32] Sometimes he thought of the fame in Madison Square Garden [00:00:35] So some seek stardom but they forget Harlem [00:00:37] But seeking first of all the kingdom of God is what my pops told me [00:00:40] So if I fall could the choir catch me [00:00:43] I flew away on a mountain got tempted by Satan [00:00:46] Got bitten by a cobra but the Lord took my venom [00:00:48] So who's side am I on I'm on the righteous [00:00:50] Always check the lyrics no time to contradict [00:00:53] Some seek stardom then they forget Harlem [00:00:56] Some seek stardom then they forget Harlem [00:00:58] Some seek stardom then they forget Harlem [00:01:01] They [00:01:01] Keep their pockets full but their souls run empty [00:01:03] Well aiyyo family I beseech you in the hopes that I may reach you [00:01:06] My mother taught me one day that this mid-day would come someday [00:01:09] Born to talk that jive with peaky hair grown wild [00:01:12] And teachers disliked me cause I knew where my culture be [00:01:14] So now yeah mom I read history I can't neglect my passion see [00:01:17] Rock it's kind of new to me cause my true love was poetry [00:01:20] White was good and bad was black but black was just a massa lackey [00:01:23] Built for that B Nimble Jack and I'd like to save you from the wicked [00:01:25] D-Dog clear I wouldn't be wet [00:01:27] The black to mourn tomorrow's death [00:01:28] The evil things glad that I while angels wrote this violence why [00:01:30] Help me make me comprehend my black bezerk and why cast it [00:01:33] Time to blaze the angels nappy heads are braided that you make me [00:01:36] See what's hard for me that don't make you flee [00:01:38] When I enter your vicinity you see my God ain't never after me [00:01:41] So yo I be wised up with Greek [00:01:43] To go and be the last and good and see what's wrong with me [00:01:46] And through your insecurity of me and my ability [00:01:48] So bredren won't you let me be or has thou asked to much from thy [00:01:52] To tell the truth and not to lie Oh my [00:01:55] Some seek stardom then they forget Harlem [00:01:57] Some seek stardom then they forget Harlem [00:02:00] Some seek stardom then they forget Harlem [00:02:02] They keep their pockets full but their souls run empty [00:02:05] Some seek stardom then they forget Harlem [00:02:08] Some seek stardom then they forget Harlem [00:02:10] Some seek stardom then they forget Harlem [00:02:13] They keep their pockets full but their souls run empty [00:02:16] But as I grew I knew cause the master told me [00:02:19] From a baby to a woman from a woman to a baby [00:02:21] Life is so short hardcore becomes hard-corpse [00:02:24] Step in a coffin where the money's no longer the source [00:02:26] There we go there we go there we go [00:02:29] I got mine now won't you get yours we never open doors [00:02:32] So we neglect and don't protect the ones that's not [00:02:35] People never really seem to care [00:02:37] And then they cry out "My people Why aren't we treated equal " [00:02:40] As we flee we flee our own communities [00:02:42] We leave our family in poverty [00:02:45] And then we blame it on another so family please recover [00:02:49] Oh c'mon please come now with you can come with me now and blow now [00:02:51] If you want to we're through [00:02:54] Some seek stardom then they forget Harlem