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The Roots f/ Baraka

Something in the Way of (In Town)

In x3

in the way of things
Something that quit and won't start
Something you know but can't
Can't know get along
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 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 know and you don't know
'cept I saw something in the way of
Something grinning at me and I to know, was it funny?
Was it so funny it followed me the street
Greeting everybody like the good man
But an they got the taste of humor but no ice cream
It was dat
Me talking people into the houses
And not seeing the beings around me with ice picks
You see them
But they looked important Negroes on the way to your funeral
Looked important jiggaboos on the way to your auction
And let them chant the number and use an ivory pointer to count your
Remember Fetchit
Steppen Fetchit how we laughed
An all your Sunday school giving flesh and giggling
With the ice pick off his head
Made ya 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 I do, you know it
But its something to you
that job
This morning when you got and it was quiet
And the were yearning soft behind you
Yearning for nigga to come and give up his life
Standin' bein' dissed and broke and troubled

My mistake is I kept sayin' "that was that God didn't exist"
And you told me, "nah, it was 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 you 'cross town
die from over work
There's garbage on the street that's you you ain't shit
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 ain't you can see
But I see in the way of things
Something to make us
Something get us drunk noise 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 exist just like you and if God it
But we got to argue
And the gon' come down around us
though we remember where the (light or mic??) is
Remember the Negro squinting at us through the
You seen what I see
The smile that a smile 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 kind to his motha
say good morning to everybody on his way to work
But that time before he got locked up and hurt, real bad
I him walkin' toward his house and he wasn't smiling
And he even say hello
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 faster and faster away us
And never even muttered a
Then the day he was gone
You wanna what
You wanna what I'm talkin' about
Sayin' "I seen in the way of things"
And how the boys face looked that day just before they took him
The is? in that face and now, remember all them other faces
And all the many places you've seen him or the with his child
up the street
Remember what you seen in your own mirror and didn't for a second
The face, your own
to get out from behind the glass
Open your mouth like you was gon' say
Close your eyes and remember what you saw and it made you feel like
Now, you see something else
cold and ugly
Not but blended with the shadow criss-crossing the old man
Squatting by the drug store at the
With is 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 the jet stream of a black bird
Wit his ass on
Or the solomNOTness of where we go to 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