Testo Around My Way - Talib Kweli
Testo della canzone Around My Way (Talib Kweli), tratta dall'album The Beautiful Struggle (Edited Version)
Around my way
(Okay, that's better, yeah, I can vibe with that, yeah, Dave)
Around my way
(Nostrand Ave, Flatbush Ave, Myrtle Ave, stand up)
All the corners filled with sorrow
All the streets are filled with pain
Around my way
Around my way
Around my way
(Herkimer, Gates Avenue)
All the corners filled with sorrow
All the streets are filled with pain
(East 48th Street, Glenwood, Vanderveer)
Around my way
(The L, the J, the M, the Z, yeah, yeah)
People let me paint a picture
You know I ain't a Christian
I ain't a Muslim, ain't a Jew
I'm losin' my religion
I speak to God directly
I know my God respect me
'Cause he let me breathe his air
And he really blessed me
I ain't knockin' you
But I don't fuck with hospitals
I spit the gospel truly
Knowin' Jesus like apostles do
Return like the Prodigal Son
And honor Muhammad too
Stay away from ham like Abraham
Lord, I follow you
Even when you took my man Chaka
God, what I'ma do?
You gave the hood a modern day
Modern-day brother, Amadou
I'm on the block, I'm tracin' your footsteps
I keep the faith in you
Your love, plus our work and ambition
We gonna make it through
My songs and psalms are spiritual
When I'm lyrical
This is for my soldier niggas
Lookin' in the mirror hole
Sittin' home, scratchin' on cereal
Seein' serial
The way we find a way to survive
Shit is a miracle
We got mice in the crib
And roaches in the toasters
Rice in the fridge
Bread in the oven by the roaster
We be takin' gypsy cabs
And chasin' fifty bags
They be laced with shitty swag
And really get me mad
The way we be salutin flags
Wrappin' 'em around our heads
When niggas ain't become American till 9/11
Feelin' like you gotta sneak into heaven
When the reverend lookin' like the pimp
And the pimp look like the reverend
Around my way
Around my way
All the corners filled with sorrow
All the streets are filled with pain
Around my way
These conditions make you strong
And we create our own businesses
So later on our children have things in they name
That they can say they own
A mixtape freestyle become your favorite song
No place like home
When the cops ask you about your neighbors
Beat on you, threaten to incarcerate you
'Till you spill your guts like you were Garcia Vega
We roll blunts, not the papers
Cop the greatest
Take it coast to coast
L.A. to Chicago like Smooth Operators
Cop the 'dro or cop the blacks
Cop the four, cock it back
Drop a flow or rock a hat on top a stocking cap
Be a doctor or a lawyer
Or make your mama a promise that you'll finish school
But when you got a dream, you gotta follow that
And make sure when you make it out the hood
You always holla back
Think about what you got from that
And always put your dollars back
On top of that, this is a legacy
And we a part of that
The hood is where my heart is at
Catch me around my way
Around my way
Around my way
All the corners filled with sorrow
All the streets are filled with pain
Around my way
Around my way
Around my way
All the corners filled with sorrow
All the streets are filled with pain
Around my way
Today right now, we're in what we call a prisoner culture, a cold
Culture, where they got guns in here, not here without a struggle
Without force being forced, the art of political leadership
Some points of unity in the struggle. Cold culture, where guns
Is similar to like with the different street organizations, like
Chairman Wade during the 60's. Really, brother, in the struggle
Everybody's gotta be some type of frontline freedom fighter. In
Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh even told the prostitutes they could play
A role. They had put Crazy Face in the jungle, the bees played a
Role. So with this struggle, art is important. Culture, art is
Important. We wanna leave everybody with some concrete commitments
Not just no abstract support like, "Okay, I'm down with this,"
So on and so forth. Concrete commitments, everybody support that?
Credits
Writer(s): Talib Kweli, Gordon Matthew Sumner
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