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The Roots f/ Baraka

Something in the Way of (In Town)

In x3

Something in the way of
Something will quit and won't start
you know but can't stand
Can't know get with
Like
Riding on top of the car through the windshield for his cue
Something entirely fictitious and
That creeps across your path hallowing evil ways
Like they were passing yourself not smiling
The dead guy you saw me to is your boss
I tried to put a on him but his spirit is illiterate

I know things you know and nothing you don't
'cept I saw in the way of things
grinning at me and I wanted to know, was it funny?
Was it so funny it followed me down the
everybody like the good humor man
But an they got the taste of good but no ice cream
It was dat
Me talking people into the houses
And not seeing the beings crowding around me with ice
You see them
But they looked like Negroes on the way to your funeral
Looked important jiggaboos on the way to your auction
And let them chant the number and use an ivory pointer to count teeth
Remember Steppen
Remember Steppen how we laughed
An all Sunday school images giving flesh and giggling
the ice pick high off his head
Made ya laugh

I can see something in the way of our
I can see in the way of our selves
why I say the things I do, you know it
But its else to you
Like job
This morning when you got there and it was
And the were yearning soft behind you
Yearning for that nigga to come and up his life
Standin' there bein' dissed and broke and

My is I kept sayin' "that was proof that God didn't exist"
And you me, "nah, it was proof that the devil do"
But still, its like I see something I hear
I saw words in the white boy's rag
said he was gonna die and frustrated
That them dreams walk which you 'cross
S'gonna die from over
There's on the street that's tellin' you you ain't shit
And you believe it
and mistaken all the time
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 in the way of things
Something to us stumble
Something get us drunk from noise and to sadness
I see and feel something stalking us
Like and thing floating at our back calling us names
You see it and it too
But you say it got a right to just like you and if God made it
But then we got to
And the light gon' come down us
Even though we remember the (light or mic??) is
Remember the Negro squinting at us the cage
You seen what I see
The that ain't a smile but teeth flying against our necks
You see something too but can't its name

it too bad y'all said
Ain't it too bad, such a nice boy always to his motha
say good morning to everybody on his way to work
But that last time before he got up and hurt, real bad
I seen him toward his house and he wasn't smiling
And he even say hello
But I knew seen something
Something in the way of things that it worked on him it do in will
And he kept marching faster and faster from us
And never even a word
Then the day he was gone
You wanna what
You wanna what I'm talkin' about
Sayin' "I something in the way of things"
And how the boys face looked that day just before they took him
The is? in face and remember now, remember all them other faces
And all the many places seen him or the sister with his child
Wandering up the
Remember what you seen in your own and didn't for a second recognize
The face, your own
Straining to get out behind the glass
Open your mouth like you was gon' say
Close eyes and remember what you saw and what it made you feel like
Now, you see something else
Something cold and
Not invisible but blended the shadow criss-crossing the old man
Squatting by the store at the corner
With is head resting uneasily on his arms
And the boy that and the girl he went with

And in my too
A craziness splitting them into the jet stream of a black bird
Wit his ass on
Or the solomNOTness of where we go to we gonna be happy

I something
I SEEN
And you it too
You it too
You just can't call it's name name name name name name