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The Roots f/ Baraka

Something in the Way of (In Town)

In x3

Something in the way of
Something that quit and won't start
you know but can't stand
Can't know get along
death
Riding on top of the car peering through the for his cue
Something entirely fictitious and
That creeps across your path hallowing your evil
Like were yourself passing yourself not smiling
The guy you saw me talking 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
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 like the good humor man
But an they got the taste of good but no ice cream
It was dat
Me talking across into the houses
And not seeing the beings crowding around me with ice
You could see
But they looked like important Negroes on the way to funeral
Looked like important on the way to your auction
And let them chant the number and use an ivory pointer to count teeth
Steppen Fetchit
Remember Steppen how we laughed
An all your Sunday school images flesh and giggling
With the ice pick off his head
ya laugh anyway

I can see something in the way of our
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
that job
This when you got there and it was quiet
And the machines were yearning soft you
Yearning for nigga to come and give 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 I hear things
I saw words in the boy's lying rag
he was gonna die poor and frustrated
That them dreams walk you 'cross town
die from over work
There's on the street that's tellin' you you ain't shit
And you believe it
Broke and all the time
You know some of the words but they the right ones
cable back on but ain't nothin' you can see
But I see something in the way of
to make us stumble
Something get us drunk from noise and to sadness
I see something and feel something 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 exist just like you and if God it
But we got to argue
And the gon' come down around us
Even though we where the (light or mic??) is
Remember the Negro squinting at us through the
You seen what I see
The that ain't a smile but teeth flying against our necks
You see something too but call 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 didn't even say
But I knew he'd something
Something in the way of that it worked on him like it do in will
And he kept faster and faster away from us
And even muttered a word
Then the day he was gone
You wanna what
You know what I'm talkin' about
Sayin' "I seen in the way of things"
And how the boys looked that day just before they took him away
The is? in that face and remember now, remember all other faces
And all the many you've seen him or the sister with his child
Wandering up the
Remember what you seen in own mirror and didn't for a second recognize
The face, your own
Straining to get out from the glass
your mouth like you was gon' say somethin'
Close eyes and remember what you saw and what it made you feel like
Now, you see something else
Something and ugly
Not invisible but blended with the 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 he went with

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

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