Public Enemy - Long and Whining Road(2007)

[00:12.54] That's right
[00:14.88] Public Enemy, number one (one)
[00:17.22] Twenty years
[00:22.05] It's been a long and whining road, even though time keeps a changin'
[00:26.27] I'ma bring it all back home
[00:27.72] I been told I spit lyrics with politics, why wouldn't I?
[00:30.86] It says negro on my birth certificate
[00:33.35] Born in 1960 in a nation throughout
[00:35.93] I've been a spokesperson for a generation
[00:38.68] Within the same old fear of a black planet
[00:41.14] Twenty years of blood, sweat, no tears for fanatics
[00:44.09] So damn it, if times is hard, time is God, understand it
[00:47.93] Never took time for granted
[00:49.55] It's alright, Ma, as a child of the sixties
[00:51.89] Along the watchtower, I can't bet they're going to miss me
[00:54.75] I'm only bleedin' every grain in me
[00:57.13] Fans, if it's not for you, there'd be no PE
[00:59.93] From the Nashville Skyline, to the homeboys and girls of South Country
[01:03.38] In this world gone wrong, here's another love song
[01:05.76] (One, one, one) "num-number one, number-number one"
[01:08.36] (One, one, one) "honest-honestly I need to stop hating, number one" come on
[01:11.27] (One, one, one) no tears
[01:12.42] "Num-number one, number-number one"
[01:13.82] "Honest-honestly I need to stop hating, number one" ("hoo-hah")
[01:15.92] We came a long way, baby, you know what's amazing?
[01:18.84] They're surprised, we told these new guys Flavor's always been crazy
[01:22.16] Hit London '87 like it was an invasion
[01:24.63] Toured the world for three years, a hell with a vacation
[01:27.22] Vocation of vocalization, especially with the impact
[01:29.83] Of "It takes a nation of millions to hold us back"
[01:32.42] You bet there's blood on them Bomb Squad tracks
[01:35.07] "Black steel," "Baseheads," "Party for your right to fight,"
[01:37.82] "Prophets of rage," "Bring the noise," and "Don't believe the hype"
[01:41.03] "Can't do nuttin' for you man", "911 is a Joke"
[01:43.54] 20 years, we got here by actin' like common folk
[01:46.19] Tourin' the world like a Rolling Stone, then the nineties came (yeah)
[01:49.35] Then we welcomed y'all to the Terrordome
[01:51.50] Some threw it away, instead we had somethin' to say
[01:54.05] 'Cause the streets still ended up by havin' no names
[01:56.80] Since "Rebel without a pause," the beats were never the same
[01:59.58] And by 1998, we still had game, we rocked on
[02:02.98] (Rockin' on, rockin' on)
[02:05.28] (One, one, one) "num-number one, number-number one"
[02:07.60] (One, one, one) "honest-honestly I need to stop hating, number one"
[02:09.94] (One, one, one) "num-number one, number-number one"
[02:13.37] "Honest I need to stop hating, number one" "hoo-hah"
[02:15.67] Only a pawn in the game, chastised for naming names
[02:18.76] What was said and who said it, anti-nothing so forget it
[02:21.51] Tears of rage left a friend blowing in the wind
[02:24.04] But time is God, been back for ten years, and black again
[02:26.92] Some of them same cats helped Usher in gangsta rap
[02:29.57] Damn, our interviews were better than a lot of them acts
[02:32.11] Praised the gangsta just because it sold (power)
[02:34.25] While consciousness went from platinum and it shrunk down to gold
[02:37.48] Seen the nation reduce fight the power to gin and juice
[02:40.14] Some people gave it up and they turned it loose (bring the noise)
[02:42.79] They rocked on
[02:47.55] (Come on)
[02:48.87] (One, one, one) "num-number one, number-number one"
[02:51.12] (One, one, one) "Honest-honestly I need to stop hating, number one"
[02:54.09] (One, one, one) "num-number one, number-number one"
[02:56.68] "Honest-honestly I need to stop hating, number one" (hoo-hah"
[02:58.10] Beethoven, Bach, and Brahms, I want some James Brown
[03:01.81] Even Bruce, Brian, Bono, Beck, yeah, Chuck Berry
[03:04.61] Prince, Stevie, Sly, Smokey, Johnny Cash in my Chevy
[03:07.43] Heard some call me Uncle Tom, now that's Petty
[03:10.09] I'm a songwriter, fool, I condense sense from right and wrong
[03:12.97] I'm livin' in the key of protest songs
[03:15.02] From basement tapes, beyond them dollars and cents
[03:17.63] Changing of the guards spent, now where the hell the majors went?
[03:20.75] Most of their time out of mind, hating my mess-age rhymes
[03:23.70] "Can't truss it," "shut 'em down," call it what you want it
[03:26.31] They made a day fit for a king by the time we got to Arizona
[03:29.14] Tomorrow's a long time, got God on our side
[03:31.40] Over bass and drum beats, hear the good rhymes ride
[03:34.34] There's a poison goin' on, there's a shelter from the storm
[03:37.22] Hard rain's gonna fall, still the people rock on
[03:39.57] We rock on (blood, sweat, no tears, Public Enemy)
[03:42.62] (One, one, one) "num-number one, number-number one"
[03:45.03] (One, one, one) "honest-honestly I need to stop hating, number one"
[03:47.82] (One, one, one) "num-number one, number-number one"
[03:50.74] "Honest-honestly I need to stop hating, number one" "hoo-hah"
[03:53.52] (One, one, one) "num-number one, number-number one"
[03:55.94] (One, one, one) "honest-honestly I need to stop hating, number one"
[03:58.79] (One, one, one) "num-number one, number-number one"
[04:01.60] "Honest-honestly I need to stop hating, number one" "hoo-hah"
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