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The Roots f/ Amiri

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 get along with
Like
Riding on top of the car peering the windshield for his cue
Something entirely and true
That creeps across your path your evil ways
Like they were yourself passing not smiling
The dead guy you saw me talking to is boss
I tried to put a on him but his spirit is illiterate

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 me down the street
Greeting everybody the good humor man
But an they got the taste of good humor but no ice
It was dat
Me talking across people the houses
And not seeing the beings crowding around me ice picks
You could see
But they like important Negroes on the way to your funeral
Looked like important on the way to your auction
And let them chant the and use an ivory pointer to count your teeth
Remember Fetchit
Remember Fetchit how we laughed
An all Sunday school images giving flesh and giggling
With the ice pick high off his
Made ya anyway

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

My mistake is I kept sayin' "that was proof that God exist"
And you me, "nah, it was proof that the devil do"
But still, its like I see something I hear
I saw words in the white boy's rag
said he was gonna die and frustrated
That them dreams walk which you 'cross
S'gonna die over work
There's garbage on the street tellin' you you ain't shit
And you believe it
Broke and mistaken all the
You some of the words but they ain't the right ones
Your cable back on but nothin' you can see
But I see in the way of things
Something to make us
Something get us drunk from and addicted to sadness
I see something and feel 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 just like you and if God made it
But then we got to
And the light gon' come down us
though we remember where the (light or mic??) is
Remember the Negro at us through the cage
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

Ain't it too bad y'all
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 time he got locked up and hurt, real bad
I seen him walkin' his house and he wasn't smiling
And he didn't say hello
But I knew he'd seen
Something in the way of things it worked on him like it do in will
And he marching faster and faster away from us
And never even muttered a
Then the day he was gone
You know what
You wanna know what I'm talkin'
"I seen something in the way of things"
And how the boys face 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
what you seen in your own mirror and didn't for a second recognize
The face, own face
to get out from behind the glass
Open your mouth like you was gon' say
your eyes and remember what you saw and what it made you feel like
Now, you see something else
Something cold and
Not invisible but blended with the criss-crossing the old man
Squatting by the drug 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 craziness 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 seen
I SEEN
And you it too
You it too
You just can't call it's name name name name name name