History - Mos Def/Talib Kweli.mp3

[00:02.11]Kweli say, "Everybody act according to the season that they born in"
[00:07.36]Some are the night, some are the morning, some at noon
[00:12.15]Some in winter, some in June
[00:15.48]It's our code, it's the natural
[00:20.22]The science is a jewel
[00:22.27]For me and mines, yours and you
[00:25.40]Let's move, tell you a little about mine, yo
[00:31.29]I was born in a season where the world was quiet and cold
[00:34.50]Celebrations were going on
[00:36.65]Some were happy, some were sad
[00:38.90]Some felt bad from being good
[00:40.59]Some felt good from being bad, feelings pass and change
[00:43.72]But they never leave, they here to stay
[00:46.22]Holiday, holiday, happy birthday
[00:48.22]Teenage love, the first cut run deep
[00:50.58]Soul on flesh, this is the Brooklyn streets
[00:53.77]Year of the Ox, seven and three
[00:56.11]M.D., the history (come on)
[00:59.00]Every soul's got one of these (yes)
[01:01.40]It's where you been and where you be
[01:03.38]And without understanding you cannot proceed
[01:05.65]Complete, the start and the end
[01:09.26]Then it just go round again
[01:14.36]Again and again, brand new
[01:16.94]Again and again, so fresh
[01:19.13]Again and again, newness
[01:21.43]I was born in the decade of decadence where they worship what they have
[01:24.29]Ford was president, do the math
[01:26.45]The war was ended when the Vietnamese stormed the city of Saigon
[01:29.23]We was like, bye; we was gone, let bygones be bygones
[01:31.86]I'm gone, spread love, it's the Brooklyn way
[01:35.14]Where the hug you with the firearm, try it on
[01:37.54]Like new school clothes, Black Star official
[01:39.97]Smash when we do a show, it's facts, no mystery
[01:42.36]I'm down with the crew like Mussolini in Italy
[01:44.93]I rock with the Roots like the Giving Tree
[01:46.87]Powerful, bigotry at work, me and my people got history
[01:49.77]These rappers dumb it down considerably
[01:51.57]We get it poppin' like a hit chorus
[01:53.75]The flow is historic, they can't get rid of us
[01:55.98]Ubiquitous, and we lay the law like Leviticus
[01:58.79]Ten years ago we made history so they missing us
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[02:01.43][Outro]
[02:01.14]And don't call it comeback in particular
[02:03.25]We will never blend into ephemera or
[02:05.54]Fade into peripheral, transition of the minister's original
[02:08.47]We're broadcast clear without diminishing
[02:10.67]Black Star so tight, burning soul temperatures and ministers
[02:13.55]Alkalines, aminos and minerals essentials
[02:16.33]Served over Dilla time signatures
[02:18.34]It's miracle material, remember it's right now foreverness