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

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

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

[00:00:15] In town

[00:00:23] In town

[00:00:29] In town

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:01:40] It was like that

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

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

[00:01:48] You could see them

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

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

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

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

[00:02:02] Remember steppen fetchit

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

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

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

[00:02:13] Made you laugh anyway

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:04:46] You wanna know what

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

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

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

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

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

[00:05:03] Wandering up the street

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:05:26] Something cold and ugly

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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