Check the crippled man, in the church My conscience hurts, flesh me hits the dirt She's paralyzed from her to her thighs And the man who the trigger didn't even lose his necktie I check Jimmy hair at the barbershop He plays the bass guitar, David plays the harp His name is Greek, 'cause whenever he speaks He's got the wisdom of King Solomon bags in his eyes no sleep
Sometimes he of the fame in Madison Square Garden So some seek stardom, but they Harlem But seeking first of all the kingdom of God is my pops told me So if I fall, could the catch me I flew away, on a mountain, got by Satan Got bitten by a cobra, but the Lord my venom So who's side am I on? I'm on the Always the lyrics, no time to contradict
Some seek stardom, then they forget Some seek stardom, then they Harlem seek stardom, then they forget Harlem They keep their pockets full, but their run empty
Well aiyyo, family I beseech you, in the hopes that I may you My mother taught me one day that this mid-day would someday Born to talk that jive, with peaky grown wild And teachers disliked me, 'cause I knew my culture be So now yeah mom I read history, I can't my passion see Rock it's kind of new to me, 'cause my love was poetry White was and bad was black but black was just a massa lackey Built for that B. Nimble Jack and I'd like to save you from the
D-Dog clear I wouldn't be wet the black to mourn, tomorrow's The evil things, glad that I, while angels wrote this why? me make me comprehend my black bezerk and why cast it Time to blaze the angels nappy are braided that you make me See what's hard for me that don't you flee
I enter your vicinity, you see my God ain't never after me So yo I be up with Greek to go and be The last and good and see what's with me And through insecurity of me and my ability So bredren won't you let me be or has thou to much from thy To tell the truth and not to Oh my
seek stardom, then they forget Harlem Some seek stardom, then they forget Some seek stardom, then they Harlem Brothers keep their full, but their souls run empty
Some seek stardom, they forget Harlem Some seek stardom, then they forget seek stardom, then they forget Harlem Sisters keep their pockets full, but their souls run
But as I grew, I knew cause the told me a baby to a woman from a woman to a baby Life is so short, becomes hard-corpse Step in a coffin the money's no longer the source
There we go, we go, there we go I got mine now won't you get We never open doors so we And don't protect the ones not never really seem to care and then they cry out "My people! Why we treated equal?" As we flee, we our own communities we leave our family in poverty And we blame it on another so family please recover Oh c'mon please come now you can come with me now And blow now if you to, we're through
Some seek stardom, they forget Harlem Some seek stardom, then they forget Some stardom, then they forget Harlem keep their pockets full, but their souls run empty
Some seek stardom, then they Harlem Some seek stardom, then they Harlem Some seek stardom, then forget Harlem People keep their pockets full, but their run empty
Some stardom, then they forget Harlem Some seek stardom, then they Harlem Some seek stardom, they forget Harlem We keep our pockets full, but our souls run
Some seek stardom, then they Harlem Some seek stardom, then they Harlem Some seek stardom, then they forget Brothers keep pockets full, but their souls run empty