Luyện nghe bài hát Something in the Way of Things (In Town)

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Something in the way of
Something that quit and won't start
Something you but can't stand
Can't know, get along with death
on top of the car
Peering the windshield for his cue
entirely fictitious and true
That creeps across your path hallowing your ways
Like they were yourself, yourself not smiling

The dead guy you saw me to is your boss
I tried to put a spell on him but his spirit is
I know things you know and nothing you know
Except I saw something in the way of
Something at me and I wanted to know, was it funny?
Was it so funny it followed me the street
Greeting everybody like the humor man
And they got the of good humor but no ice cream
It was that

Me talking across people into the
And not the beings crowding around me
ice picks, you could see them
But they looked like important Negroes on the way to funeral
Looked like important on the way to your auction
And let chant the number
And use an ivory pointer to your teeth
Steppen Fetchit
Remember Steppen Fetchit how we
An all your Sunday school giving flesh and giggling
With the ice pick off his head
Made you anyway

I can see in the way of ourselves
I can see something in the way of
That's why I say the things I do, you it
But something else to you, like that job
This morning when you got and it was quiet
And the machines were yearning soft you
for that nigga to come and give up his life
Standin' there bein' and broke and troubled

My mistake is I sayin', "That was proof
God exist"
And you me, "Nah, it was proof that the devil do"
But still like I see something, I hear things
I saw words in the white lying rag
Said he was gonna die and frustrated
That dreams walk which you 'cross town
He's gonna die from work

There's garbage on the street tellin' you, you ain't shit
And you believe it
Broke and mistaken all the
You know some of the words but they ain't the ones
Your back on but ain't nothin' you can see
But I see something in the way of
Something to make us
Something get us drunk from noise and to sadness
I see something and feel something us
Like and ugly thing at our back calling us names
You see it and it too

But you say, "It got a to exist
Just like you and if God it but then we got to argue"
And the gon' come down around us
Even though we remember the mic is
Remember the Negro at us through the cage
seen what I see too?
The smile that ain't a smile but teeth against our necks
You see too but can't call it's name

"Ain't it too bad" y'all
Ain't it too bad, such a boy always kind to his mother
say good morning to everybody on his way to work
But last time before he got locked up and hurt, real bad
I him walkin' toward his house and he wasn't smiling
And he didn't even say
But I knew he'd seen something, something in the way of
That it worked on him it do in will
And he kept marching and faster away from us
And never even a word
Then the next day he was

You wanna know, You wanna know what I'm talkin' about
Sayin', "I've seen something in the way of
And how the boys looked that day"
Just before they him away
is in that face and remember now
Remember all them faces
And all the many places you've him
Or the sister his child wandering up the street
Remember what you've in your own mirror
And didn't for a second recognize the face, own face
Straining to get out from behind the

your mouth like you was gon' say somethin'
Close eyes and remember what you saw
And what it made you feel
Now, don't you see something
Something cold and
Not invisible but blended the shadow
Criss-crossing the old man, squatting by the drug
At the corner with is head uneasily on his folded arms
And the boy that smiled and the girl he with

And in my eyes too, a waving
Splitting into the jet stream of a black bird with his ass on fire
Or the solemn of where we go to know we gonna be happy
I seen something, I something
And you it too, you seen it too
You just call it's name