[00:00:00] Habitat - Mos Def [00:00:00] Written by:Vinia Mojica/L. Fernandez [00:00:10] We all got to have a place where we come from [00:00:14] This place that we come from is called home [00:00:20] We set out on our travels we do the best we can [00:00:25] We travel this big earth as we roam [00:00:29] We all got to have a place where we come from [00:00:35] This place that we come from is called home [00:00:40] And even though we may love this place on the map [00:00:44] Said it ain't where you from it's where you at [00:00:51] I come up in the street around some real wild brothers [00:00:53] With more than one name and more than one baby mother [00:00:55] More than one chase been on more than one run [00:00:57] Got more than one enemy and more than one gun [00:01:01] While these cats that's less privileged is just more raw [00:01:03] Less space cause the projects laced with more flaws [00:01:05] Less sleep cause the nights ain't peace it's more war [00:01:07] The can is raw like thirsty rainy season thunder claps [00:01:09] On the block with your old pop pleading number act [00:01:12] To the spot with the red top fiends is huddled at [00:01:14] To the crib where the little kids spend their summers trapped [00:01:17] With the jungle cats lions and tigers leopards and cheetahs [00:01:20] For gazelle you get chased like a zebra they blaze cheerer cheerer [00:01:25] And dominate the weaker on the street [00:01:27] Hungry bellies only love what they eat and it's hard to compete [00:01:30] When they smile with your heart in they teeth [00:01:32] And the odds is stacked high beyond and beneath [00:01:34] Son I been plenty places in my life and time [00:01:37] And regardless where home is son home is mine [00:01:40] We all got to have a place where we come from [00:01:44] This place that we come from is called home [00:01:49] We set out on our travels we do the best we can [00:01:54] We travel this big earth as we roam [00:02:00] We all got to have a place where we come from [00:02:04] This place that we come from is called home [00:02:08] We all got to have a place where we come from [00:02:10] And even though we may love this place on the map [00:02:14] Said it ain't where you from it's where you at [00:02:18] Some people live out in New York city [00:02:21] Some people live out in Atlanta [00:02:24] Some people got to live Chicago [00:02:26] Some people do live Miami [00:02:29] All my people at California [00:02:32] And other people got to live London [00:02:34] And everybody got to live in the whole big world [00:02:36] Together just you and me [00:02:38] When I think of home my remembrance of my beginning [00:02:42] Laundromat helping ma dukes fold the bed linen [00:02:44] Chilling in front my building with my brother and them [00:02:47] Spending nights in bush wick with my cousins and them [00:02:49] Wise town and beat street federal relief [00:02:51] Slowly melting in the morning grits we used to eat [00:02:54] Sticking to your teeth and teeth is hard to keep [00:02:57] With every flavor nowlater only a dime apiece [00:02:58] Old timers on the bench playing cards and thanks [00:03:01] Telling tales about they used to be involved in things [00:03:04] Start to drinking talking loud cussing up and showing out [00:03:06] On the phone call the cops pick them up move them out [00:03:10] And it's all too common to start Wilde [00:03:11] I'm a pirate on an island seeking treasure known as silence [00:03:14] And it's hard to find [00:03:15] Block parties in dark lobbies [00:03:17] Funeral homes packed but only dark bodies [00:03:19] I can't sleep hardly stirred up like bob Farley [00:03:21] Marley marl played the symphony remember we recall [00:03:24] Son I been to many places in my space and time [00:03:26] And whatever my home is son home is mine [00:03:29] We all got to have a place where we come from [00:03:34] This place that we come from is called home [00:03:39] We set out on our travels we do the best we can [00:03:44] We travel this big earth as we roam [00:03:49] We all got to have a place where we come from [00:03:54] This place that we come from is called home