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The Roots f/ Baraka

Something in the Way of (In Town)

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in the way of things
Something will quit and won't start
Something you know but stand
know get along with
Like
Riding on top of the car through the windshield for his cue
Something entirely fictitious and
That creeps across your path hallowing your evil
Like were yourself 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 and nothing you don't know
'cept I saw in the way of things
Something 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 humor but no ice cream
It was dat
Me talking across people into the
And not seeing the beings around me with ice picks
You see them
But they looked like important Negroes on the way to funeral
Looked important jiggaboos on the way to your auction
And let them chant the and use an ivory pointer to count your teeth
Steppen Fetchit
Remember Fetchit how we laughed
An all your Sunday school images giving flesh and
With the ice pick off his head
ya laugh anyway

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
that job
This morning when you got there and it was
And the machines were yearning behind you
Yearning for that to come and give up his life
there bein' dissed and broke and troubled

My mistake is I kept "that was proof that God didn't exist"
And you told me, "nah, it was that the devil do"
But still, its I see something I hear things
I saw words in the white lying rag
said he was gonna die and frustrated
That them dreams walk which you town
S'gonna die from work
There's garbage on the street that's tellin' you you ain't
And you believe it
Broke and mistaken all the
You know some of the words but they ain't the right
Your cable back on but nothin' you can see
But I see something in the way of
Something to us stumble
Something get us drunk from noise and to sadness
I see something and feel stalking 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 exist like you and if God made it
But we got to argue
And the light come down around us
Even though we remember the (light or mic??) is
Remember the Negro at us through the cage
You seen I see too?
The smile that ain't a but teeth flying against our necks
You see too but can't call its name

Ain't it too bad y'all
Ain't it too bad, such a nice boy always kind to his
Always say good to everybody on his way to work
But last time before he got locked up and hurt, real bad
I seen him walkin' toward his and he wasn't smiling
And he even say hello
But I knew he'd something
Something in the way of things that it on him like it do in will
And he kept marching faster and away from us
And never even muttered a
Then the day he was gone
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 they took him
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 your own mirror and didn't for a recognize
The face, your own
to get out from behind the glass
Open mouth like you was gon' say somethin'
Close your and remember what you saw and what it made you feel like
Now, don't you see something
Something and ugly
Not invisible but blended the shadow criss-crossing the old man
by the drug store at the corner
With is resting uneasily on his folded arms
And the boy smiled and the girl he went with

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