The Roots, Nelly Furtado - Sacrifice(2010)

[00:39.92] Listen, I got you phobic off of this like arachnids
[00:41.74] Drastic, it ain't plastic it's Pro-Blackness
[00:44.40] Grown man tactics, no pediatrics
[00:46.30] The kind of track that make the comeback miraculous
[00:49.01] The catalyst, thought with the knack for splashin'
[00:51.72] I'm dashin' I mastered the craft of mashin'
[00:54.43] The level-headed through bred, the female's passion
[00:56.29] Mag-netic attraction be keepin' them askin'
[00:58.98] The crews in the Cadillacs with the Pendergrassin'
[01:01.67] Swerve half-naked, won't come near crashin'
[01:04.35] But if I go to Heaven, would y'all know my name
[01:06.10] Or would it be the same for you like I was Eric Clapton, huh?
[01:08.83] Clap for your freedom dog, that's what's happening
[01:11.54] My spit take critical political action
[01:13.46] The hustle is a puzzle each piece is a fraction
[01:16.19] And every word that's understood is a transaction
[01:18.88] I'm an S.P. soldier, microphone holder
[01:21.50] Rep Philly set from Bolivia to Boulder
[01:23.39] Paris, France to Tip and Tioga
[01:26.06] How we gonna make it through the dark, I show ya
[01:29.64] I tell you one lesson I learned
[01:31.59] If you want to reach something in life
[01:34.29] You ain't gonna get it unless
[01:36.03] You give a little bit of sacrifice and
[01:39.60] Ooh, sometimes before you smile you got to cry
[01:42.36] You need a heart that's filled with music
[01:45.99] If you use it you can fly, if you want to be high
[01:49.67] Listen, yo kick off your shoes, jump off the jock
[01:51.49] I fly higher than them dudes, from off your block
[01:53.24] My name Black, the style is unorthodox
[01:55.90] It tap chins in your mens till you thought could box
[01:58.61] A couple of people wanted thought to stop, but guess what?
[02:01.39] My man grab the missile, plug for the gut
[02:03.11] Now next time beatty stop being such a glut
[02:05.82] I'm precise with it like Faheim with haircuts
[02:08.50] We up close on 'em with toast but no crust
[02:10.33] It's fructose on 'em they froze and won't bust
[02:13.05] Choke on your face you jewels is lack lust
[02:15.80] Got to put it to you straight, y'all fools is jacked up
[02:18.52] Came close to the utmost but no cigar
[02:20.32] Nose to the grindstone, head to the stars
[02:23.05] The number one runner with the number one drummer
[02:25.72] Grammy award winnin' it's the world's eighth wonder, come on
[02:28.46] I tell you one lesson I learned
[02:31.10] If you want to reach something in life
[02:32.99] You ain't gonna get it unless
[02:35.66] You give a little bit of sacrifice and
[02:38.39] Ooh, sometimes before you smile you got to cry
[02:41.99] You need a heart that's filled with music
[02:44.75] If you use it you can fly, if you want to be high
[02:48.34] Your first impression might be I'm a asshole
[02:50.14] Or say I'm sometimey and give people a hassle
[02:52.84] Or try to sun touch and put the heat in the capsule
[02:55.54] Dog I'm far deeper than that though, I get in the zone
[02:57.38] Recognize I'm a rolling stone
[03:00.04] No time to lolly gag or lounge with scaliwags
[03:02.71] Give me the disc or I put it where your body at
[03:05.47] Old school spit flow laid over Trotter tracks
[03:07.32] With no apology fraud or trick-knowledgy
[03:10.02] Just trust, what I see and I say and follow me my way
[03:12.74] I read an open booklet inside me
[03:15.46] The star of the story that the groove teller got me
[03:18.17] Through all the dark times part of the business
[03:19.99] The light be contingent on small forensics
[03:22.68] My microphone'll make a man a newborn infant
[03:25.32] It's true so the crew gon' sense it, I get in the zone
[03:28.02] I tell you one lesson I learned
[03:29.88] If you want to reach something in life
[03:33.58] You ain't gonna get it unless
[03:35.30] You give a little bit of sacrifice and
[03:38.00] Ooh, sometimes before you smile you got to cry
[03:41.66] You need a heart that's filled with music
[03:44.33] If you use it you can fly, if you want to be high
[03:48.06] I tell you one lesson I learned
[03:49.82] If you want to reach something in life
[03:52.55] You ain't gonna get it unless
[03:54.35] You give a little bit of sacrifice and
[03:57.08] Ooh, sometimes before you smile you got to cry
[04:01.67] You need a heart that's filled with music
[04:04.36] If you use it you can fly, if you want to be high
[04:06.17] I tell you one lesson I learned
[04:09.76] If you want to reach something in life
[04:12.42] You ain't gonna get it unless
[04:14.31] You give a little bit of sacrifice and
[04:17.05] Ooh, sometimes before you smile you got to cry
[04:21.54] You need a heart that's filled with music
[04:23.38] If you use it you can fly, if you want to be high
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