[00:00:00] Hot Night (Album Version) - MeShell Ndegeocello [00:00:00] Written by:Meshell Ndegeocello/Dave West/Talib Kweli/Hector Lavoe [00:00:00] I was a member of the communist party [00:00:04] I'm not a member of the communist party anymore [00:00:06] But I consider myself very much a socialist [00:00:09] So we'll get to that later [00:00:11] Let's go [00:00:11] One of the reasons why the war [00:00:13] In vietnam was able to happen as long as it did [00:00:16] Was because this of this fear of communism [00:00:19] And people pointed to the vietnamese as their enemy [00:00:22] As if somehow or another [00:00:25] If to the country defeated the communist enemy in vietnam [00:00:29] Things were gonna be okay at home [00:00:33] But it's a hot night [00:00:34] Let's talk about the sign of the times [00:00:37] Politics [00:00:38] And the plight of the revolutionary soul singer [00:00:43] It's a hot night [00:00:44] Head down to the club [00:00:45] For the pina coladas without the alcohol [00:00:48] And let's talk about the world y'all [00:00:52] Can you pick me up [00:00:53] You know I hate driving in the evil city [00:00:55] And baby read my mind hit la caridad [00:00:58] So I can get some coffee [00:01:00] And we can get our talk on [00:01:02] Seems I got caught up in this romanticized idea of revolution [00:01:05] With saviors prophets and heroes [00:01:07] But in the silence of my prayers [00:01:10] I had a vision of my hatred [00:01:11] Dissolving into grains of sand [00:01:13] Realized [00:01:14] That to the universe [00:01:15] That's all I really am [00:01:16] Just a grain of sand [00:01:17] I know I get caught up in all that spiritual shit [00:01:19] But there ain't much to hold onto [00:01:20] We all living in a world built upon [00:01:23] Rape starvation greed need fascist regimes [00:01:26] White man rich man democracy [00:01:29] Suffer in the world trade paradise [00:01:31] Hear me now [00:01:33] But it's a hot night [00:01:35] Let's talk about the sign of the times [00:01:37] Yeah [00:01:37] Politics [00:01:38] And the plight of the revolutionary soul singer [00:01:41] Word up [00:01:42] Come on [00:01:43] It's a hot night [00:01:44] Head down to the club for the pina coladas without the alcohol [00:01:48] Let's go [00:01:48] And let's talk about the world y'all [00:01:50] And nike has a factory in ho chi minh city [00:01:54] First bitch [00:01:54] That ever asks me to buy her some dumb shit [00:01:56] Come on [00:01:57] Niggers be fighting [00:01:58] For jordan's they can't afford [00:01:59] Bought in a store [00:02:00] Costing more than a hundred yeah [00:02:02] Capitalism got 'em trapped in a vision [00:02:04] That you love to watch way more than a sunset [00:02:06] Ah [00:02:07] I feed my babies with music [00:02:08] I tell the truth [00:02:09] But now I'm a target in they market [00:02:10] Ain't that a summer bitch [00:02:11] It's an urgent emergency [00:02:13] Courtesy of the counterinsurgency [00:02:15] Trying to murder me yeah [00:02:16] And now it's on and ah [00:02:17] It's 'cause I verbally hurdle all their absurdities [00:02:19] Accurate rhyme poem and I [00:02:21] Survive the storm and ah [00:02:22] Certainly words can be weapons [00:02:23] If people heard me they thinking they god [00:02:25] That they decide what's right and wrong [00:02:26] They live in a bubble [00:02:28] I live for the struggle [00:02:28] After the fight [00:02:29] We home on a hot night [00:02:30] My woman is nice and warm but ah [00:02:33] It's a hot night [00:02:34] Yeah [00:02:35] Let's talk about the sign of the times [00:02:37] Politics [00:02:38] Ah [00:02:38] And the plight of the revolutionary soul singer [00:02:42] Come on [00:02:43] It's a hot night [00:02:44] Head down to the club for the pina coladas without the alcohol [00:02:48] Let's talk about the world y'all [00:02:51] Let's do it come on come on [00:02:53] Join the party fist in the air [00:02:55] Everybody for the [00:02:56] Revolutionary soul singer [00:02:58] Side to side [00:02:59] Third eye on the prize [00:03:00] We'll take a ride with the [00:03:01] Revolutionary soul singer