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The Roots f/ Amiri

Something in the Way of (In Town)

In x3

in the way of things
Something will quit and won't start
Something you but can't stand
Can't know get along
death
Riding on top of the car peering the windshield for his cue
Something entirely fictitious and
creeps across your path hallowing your evil ways
Like they were yourself 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 things you know and nothing you don't know
I saw something in the way of things
Something at me and I wanted to know, was it funny?
Was it so it followed me down the street
Greeting everybody like the good man
But an they got the of good humor but no ice cream
It was dat
Me talking across into the houses
And not seeing the beings crowding me with ice picks
You could see
But they looked like important Negroes on the way to your
like important jiggaboos on the way to your auction
And let them chant the number and use an ivory pointer to count your
Remember Steppen
Remember Steppen how we laughed
An all your Sunday school giving flesh and giggling
the ice pick high off his head
Made ya anyway

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
that job
This when you got there and it was quiet
And the machines were 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 God didn't exist"
And you told me, "nah, it was that the devil do"
But still, its like I see something I things
I saw words in the white lying rag
he was gonna die poor and frustrated
That them dreams walk which you 'cross
S'gonna die over work
There's garbage on the street that's tellin' you you ain't
And you believe it
Broke and all the time
You know some of the words but they ain't the ones
Your cable back on but nothin' 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 something stalking us
Like and ugly thing floating at our back calling us
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' down around us
Even though we remember the (light or mic??) is
Remember the Negro at us through the cage
You seen what I see
The smile that ain't a smile but teeth flying against our
You see something too but can't call its

it too bad y'all said
Ain't it too bad, a nice boy always kind to his motha
Always say good morning to everybody on his way to
But that last time he got locked up and hurt, real bad
I seen him walkin' toward his house and he wasn't
And he didn't even say
But I he'd seen something
Something in the way of that it worked on him like it do in will
And he kept marching and faster away from us
And never even a word
Then the day he was gone
You wanna know
You wanna know what I'm about
"I seen something in the way of things"
And how the boys face looked day just before they took him away
The is? in that face and remember now, remember all other faces
And all the many places seen him or the sister with his child
up the street
Remember what you seen in your own mirror and for a second recognize
The face, your own
Straining to get out from the glass
Open your mouth you was gon' say somethin'
your eyes 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 store at the corner
is head resting uneasily on his folded arms
And the boy that and the girl he went with

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

I seen
I SEEN
And you it too
You it too
You just call it's name name name name name name name