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The Roots f/ Amiri

Something in the Way of (In Town)

In x3

in the way of things
Something that will and won't start
Something you but can't stand
know get along with
Like
on top of the car peering through the windshield for his cue
Something fictitious and true
creeps across your path hallowing your evil ways
Like were yourself passing yourself not smiling
The dead guy you saw me talking to is boss
I tried to put a spell on him but his spirit is

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

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

My mistake is I sayin' "that was proof that God didn't exist"
And you told me, "nah, it was proof the devil do"
But still, its like I see something I things
I saw words in the white boy's rag
said he was die poor and frustrated
That them dreams walk you 'cross town
S'gonna die from work
There's on the street that's tellin' you you ain't shit
And you almost it
Broke and mistaken all the
You know some of the words but they the right ones
Your cable back on but ain't you can see
But I see in the way of things
Something to make us
get us drunk from noise and addicted 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 right to exist just you and if God made it
But then we got to
And the light gon' come around us
Even we remember where the (light or mic??) is
Remember the Negro at us through the cage
You what I see too?
The smile that ain't a but teeth flying against our necks
You see too but can't call its name

it too bad y'all said
Ain't it too bad, such a nice boy always kind to his
say good morning to everybody on his way to work
But that last before he got locked up and hurt, real bad
I seen him toward his house and he wasn't smiling
And he even say hello
But I knew he'd something
in the way of things that it worked on him like it do in will
And he kept marching faster and away from us
And never even a word
the next day he was gone
You know what
You wanna what I'm talkin' about
"I seen something in the way of things"
And how the boys face looked that day just before took him away
The is? in face and remember now, remember all them other faces
And all the many places you've seen him or the sister his child
up the street
Remember what you seen in own mirror and didn't for a second recognize
The face, own face
Straining to get out from the glass
Open your mouth like you was say somethin'
Close your and remember what you saw and what it made you feel like
Now, don't you see something
cold and ugly
Not but blended with the shadow criss-crossing the old man
Squatting by the drug store at the
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 we go to know we gonna be happy

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