Talib Kweli, Novel, Vinia Mojica - Stand To The Side (Album Version (Explicit))(2002)

[00:04.47] Go right to left, left to right
[00:09.90] Middle passage connection
[00:15.35] Yeah, about to build
[00:21.64] Tell you which way to go
[00:24.45] We go right to left, left to right
[00:26.27] If you fight to the death, what's left to fight
[00:28.97] We go right to left, left to right
[00:31.64] If you fight to the death, what's left to fight
[00:33.47] We go right to left, left to right
[00:35.27] If you fight to the death, what's left to fight
[00:38.08] We go right to left, left to right
[00:40.74] If you fight to the death, yo, here we go
[00:43.43] I wanna write away, I wanna write here
[01:06.18] I wanna write brave words to fight fear, write dreams and nightmares
[01:08.86] Might scare the folks stuck in the day with nothin' to say
[01:11.52] While I'm way ahead by light years so beware and keep the lights on
[01:15.28] I wanna write the songs that right the wrong, right on
[01:17.92] Ridin' the light so you see in the dark
[01:19.77] So deep you gotta be still like your beatin' heart
[01:22.40] My words apply the pressure to make the bleedin' stop
[01:25.17] I see the art of livin' right, eatin' smart
[01:27.93] I wanna right to life, a right to death
[01:29.76] Police read your rights from right to left
[01:32.46] But I never write to remain silent, I fight through police line
[01:36.01] Cops walk the beat that I write to, I teach minds
[01:37.89] Write rhymes with the right sound
[01:40.53] Right now, journalists write up, I write down
[01:41.42] Party people put a hand in the sky
[01:44.17] Grab a cloud and squeeze 'til no man is dry
[01:46.02] Wet it up, go ask the people if they plannin' to die
[01:48.73] Can't stay to live, consumers is plannin' to buy
[01:51.44] Slow death operators is standin' by
[01:53.23] They take you order for the slaughter of the family, why?
[01:56.89] Do they make it so hard for a man to provide
[01:58.69] You better get wit it, or stand to the side
[02:01.39] Stand to the side, stand to the side
[02:05.06] You better get wit it, or stand to the side
[02:06.86] Stand to the side, stand to the side
[02:09.53] You better get wit it, or stand to the side
[02:11.34] And the story line goes on, right to left, who's right who's wrong
[02:27.64] Fuck the politics and pride, I just to try to stay alive
[02:30.42] To witness where the battle lines are drawn
[02:35.87] Speak my mind and I sing my song
[02:37.68] I'm passin' on the moral y'all, this is ain't play
[02:43.10] True, you got to know the way, it's hard now
[02:46.74] Open eyes, see for hopeful lives, sing it now
[02:56.60] Makin' my way through life, talkin' to elders and takin' advice
[03:23.97] Ignorin' their words and payin' the price
[03:26.66] Livin' in the world where false preachers got us prayin' to Christ
[03:28.47] Get with the young girls in the choir and layin' the pipe
[03:31.17] No control of our soul we all wait at the light
[03:32.93] So comfortable they we hatin' to fight to make it right
[03:35.70] Late at night I'm controlled by the DJ on the mic
[03:38.43] I love hiphop and every joint he playin' is tight
[03:41.10] A day in the life is a brick in the foundation, I'm like
[03:43.82] A mason in Egypt, amazin' when I'm creatin' a site
[03:45.63] For the world to behold and the story to last
[03:48.44] So one day ghetto children can visit their glorious past
[03:51.14] After Pac and Notorious passed, what do we have?
[03:52.91] Niggas worth more when they dead, it's so sad
[03:55.66] Started with the slavery we finish the plan
[03:58.38] But I broke the cycle and became a man
[04:00.16] Party people put a hand in the sky
[04:02.99] Grab a cloud and squeeze 'till no man is dry
[04:04.77] Wet it up, go ask the people if they plannin' to die
[04:07.45] Can't stay to live, consumers is plannin' to buy
[04:10.18] Slow death operators is standin' by
[04:11.94] They take you order for the slaughter of the family, why?
[04:14.62] Do they make it so hard for a man to provide
[04:17.33] You better get wit it, or stand to the side
[04:20.18] Stand to the side, stand to the side
[04:22.87] You better get wit it, or stand to the side
[04:25.54] Stand to the side, stand to the side
[04:27.36] You better get wit it, or stand to the side
[04:30.05] Come on
[04:40.94] I got my man Savion in the house
[05:02.70] We about to put it down
[05:05.46] Here we go, come on
[05:57.11] Stand to the side
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