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The Roots f/ Baraka

Something in the Way of (In Town)

In x3

in the way of things
Something that will quit and won't
you know but can't stand
Can't get along with
Like
on top of the car peering through the windshield for his cue
Something entirely fictitious and
That creeps across path hallowing your evil ways
Like they were yourself passing yourself not
The guy you saw me talking to is your boss
I tried to put a spell on him but his spirit is

I know you know and nothing you don't know
'cept I saw in the way of things
Something grinning at me and I to know, was it funny?
Was it so funny it followed me the street
everybody like the good humor man
But an they got the of good 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 like Negroes on the way to your funeral
Looked like important jiggaboos on the way to auction
And let them chant the number and use an pointer to count your teeth
Steppen Fetchit
Remember Steppen how we laughed
An all your school images 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 I do, you know it
But its else to you
Like job
morning when you got there and it was quiet
And the machines were soft behind you
Yearning for that to come and give up his life
Standin' there bein' dissed and broke and

My mistake is I kept sayin' "that was that God didn't exist"
And you told me, "nah, it was proof the devil do"
But still, its like I see I hear things
I saw in the white boy's lying rag
said he was gonna die and frustrated
That them walk which you 'cross town
die from 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 the right ones
Your cable on but ain't nothin' you can see
But I see in the way of things
to make us stumble
Something get us from noise and addicted 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
though we remember where the (light or mic??) is
Remember the squinting at us through the cage
You what I see too?
The smile that ain't a but teeth flying against our necks
You see something too but can't its name

it too bad y'all said
Ain't it too bad, such a boy always kind to his motha
Always say good to everybody on his way to work
But that time before he got locked up and hurt, real bad
I seen him walkin' toward his house and he smiling
And he didn't say hello
But I knew seen something
Something in the way of that it worked on him like it do in will
And he kept marching faster and away from us
And even muttered a word
Then the next day he was
You wanna know
You wanna know what I'm talkin'
"I seen something in the way of things"
And how the boys face looked that day just before took him away
The is? in that and remember 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
Straining to get out behind the glass
Open your mouth you was gon' say somethin'
Close your eyes and remember 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
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 into the jet stream of a black bird
Wit his ass on
Or the solomNOTness of where we go to know we 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