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The Roots f/ Baraka

Something in the Way of (In Town)

In x3

in the way of things
Something that will quit and start
Something you know but stand
Can't 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 they were yourself passing 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 you know and nothing you don't know
I saw something in the way of things
Something grinning at me and I to know, was it funny?
Was it so funny it followed me down the
Greeting everybody the good 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 seeing the beings crowding me with ice picks
You could see
But they looked like important on the way to your funeral
Looked like important jiggaboos on the way to auction
And let chant the number and use an ivory pointer to count your teeth
Remember Fetchit
Remember Steppen how we laughed
An all Sunday school images giving flesh and giggling
With the ice pick off his head
Made ya laugh

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

My mistake is I kept sayin' "that was proof that God exist"
And you told me, "nah, it was proof that the do"
But still, its I see something I hear things
I saw in the white boy's lying rag
said he was gonna die and frustrated
them dreams walk which you 'cross town
S'gonna die over work
There's garbage on the street that's you you ain't shit
And you believe it
and mistaken all the time
You know of the words but they ain't the right ones
Your back on but ain't nothin' you can see
But I see something in the way of
Something to us stumble
Something get us drunk noise and addicted to sadness
I see something and feel something us
Like and ugly thing floating at our back 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 come down around us
Even we remember where the (light or mic??) is
the Negro squinting at us through the cage
You what I see too?
The smile that ain't a smile but teeth flying against our
You see too but can't call its name

Ain't it too bad said
Ain't it too bad, such a nice boy always kind to his
Always say morning to everybody on his way to work
But that last before he got locked up and hurt, real bad
I seen him walkin' toward his house and he smiling
And he didn't say hello
But I knew he'd seen
Something in the way of things that it worked on him like it do in
And he kept marching and faster away from us
And never even muttered a
Then the next day he was
You know what
You know 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 that and remember now, remember all them other faces
And all the places you've seen him or the sister with his child
up the street
Remember what you seen in your own and didn't for a second recognize
The face, your own
Straining to get out from the glass
Open your mouth like you was say somethin'
Close your eyes and remember what you saw and what it made you feel
Now, you see something else
cold and ugly
Not but blended with the shadow criss-crossing the old man
Squatting by the drug at the corner
is head resting uneasily on his folded arms
And the boy that smiled and the girl he 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