Roots - Hurricane (feat. Common, Mos Def, & The Jazzyfatnastees) lyrics
rate meSame story, same target, different time<br />
Cyclical reaction from the prisoners of the bilnd<br />
Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind<br />
Waiting for redemption, surviving in a bind<br />
<br />
Same story, same target, different time<br />
Cyclical reaction from the prisoners of the blind<br />
Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind<br />
Waiting for redemption, surviving in a bind<br />
<br />
[Black Thought]<br />
Yo, talk about paying the ultimate price<br />
Hurricane been incarcerated all of his life<br />
Started out at like twelve <br />
Trapped in a belly of hell<br />
Grew into a man inside of a cell<br />
Yo, anger just swell up<br />
At a early age that develop<br />
Hot head and now it ain't shit y'all could tell him<br />
They said he's on a road to become a felon<br />
But instead he swung blows that'll spilt your melon<br />
He did his thing and was the king of the ring, undisputed<br />
Started making noise but they tried to mute it<br />
They put him through it<br />
For him to make the system look stupid, [yo]<br />
They rather look you in the face and shoot it<br />
And leave your spot looted [or what]<br />
Or leave your whole life blank futured and caught<br />
When you scream at it and do it<br />
With sweat leaking from the outline of your soluid<br />
Don't understand the point that you at<br />
Or how the hell you came to it?<br />
Flashback to images of that night, out in Patterson<br />
They pulled him over heading home from a gathering<br />
And when they told him the charge it kind of baffled him<br />
Murder in the first for the champ, we on that again?<br />
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Chorus<br />
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Hurricane<br />
Accuse a Hurricane<br />
Ain't change a damned shame<br />
It's life for Hurricane, Hurricane<br />
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[Black Thought]<br />
*overtop of sung chorus*<br />
Forever, imagine your locked down forever<br />
Could y'all stand the weather?<br />
Could you hold it together?<br />
You tell me that you know the pain<br />
Yo, imagine if your life was like a hurricane, a hurricane<br />
Forever, imagine your locked down forever<br />
Could ya'll stand the weather?<br />
You built for that weather?<br />
Yo, know what'm saying?<br />
Know what'm saying?<br />
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[Common]<br />
You gotta fight for what you believe in<br />
Nobody knows the troubles seen<br />
This flick left me wondering<br />
'What can become of kings and young kids?'<br />
Summer dream deferred, incident occured, freedom blurred<br />
A freedom that would only be retrieved again in words, later on<br />
The cops, y'all know what they be on<br />
A nigga's life is like a field that they play upon, away and gone from<br />
Natural lifer, a soul he had to fight,<br />
Learn it himself, sleep days, stay up half the night<br />
Amongst dead man walking, he got afterlife exercising,<br />
Developing his knack to write<br />
Never leaving his cell, in this world he trapped himself<br />
What he loved on the outside world, detached himself<br />
You know the cards Blacks get dealt by the system<br />
He drew a picture of freedom with many dimensions<br />
This picture proved to be bigger than Black and White<br />
A young soul named Lesra brought him back to life<br />
It's amazing to a man what a book could do<br />
And how certain books seem to look for you<br />
This is the story of a champion's fall and rise<br />
The story left me wiping my eyes<br />
Peace Ru<br />
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<br />
Chorus<br />
<br />
Hurricane<br />
Accuse a Hurricane<br />
Ain't change a damned shame<br />
It's life for Hurricane, Hurricane<br />
<br />
[Black Thought]<br />
*overtop of sung chorus*<br />
Yo, yo, forever, imagine your locked down forever<br />
Could y'all stand the weather?<br />
Could you hold it together?<br />
You tell me that you know the pain<br />
Yo, imagine if your life was like a hurricane, a hurricane<br />
Forever and ever yo, locked down forever<br />
Could you stand the weather?<br />
Yo, yo i can't even explain the pain<br />
Just imagine if your life was like a hurricane<br />
<br />
[Mos Def]<br />
Yes, I am the inescapable, the irresistable,<br />
The unnegotiable, the unchallenged [who dat?]<br />
I am time<br />
I scroll in measurements, control the elements,<br />
I hold the evidence, I tell the story [say what?]<br />
I am time<br />
I know no prejudice, I bare no sentiments<br />
For wealth or settlement, I move forward [who you?]<br />
I am time<br />
You can't recover me, conceal or smuggle me,<br />
Retreat or run from me, crawl up or under me,<br />
You can't do much for me besides serve<br />
Me well and have good dividends returned to you<br />
Or attempt to kill me off and have me murder you<br />
Many have wasted me but now they are facing me,<br />
Treated me unfaithfully and now endure me painfully<br />
Plaintively, I wait to see what history will shape to be,<br />
Who's hearts will never die inside the sake of me<br />
Angel's scribe the page for me,<br />
Keep a full account of all the names for me<br />
And make a special mark for Hurricane who (?) patiently<br />
<br />
Chorus<br />
<br />
Hurricane<br />
Accuse a Hurricane<br />
Ain't change a damned shame<br />
It's life for Hurricane, Hurricane<br />
<br />
[Black Thought]<br />
*overtop of sung chorus*<br />
Yo, yo, a Hurricane forever,<br />
Imagine your locked down forever<br />
Could you stand the weather?<br />
Could you hold it together?<br />
I can't even explain the pain<br />
Imagine if your life was like a hurricane, a hurricane<br />
Forever, imagine your locked down forever and ever, ever<br />
Could you hold it together?<br />
Yo, can't explain the pain with words, know'm saying?<br />
Just imagine if your life was like a hurricane<br />
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[Verse 4]<br />
The clouds clashed and the heaven's gave birth to star<br />
God placed it in a man on the day he was born<br />
Convicted minutes after, a true natural disaster<br />
Framed for manslaughter, the Hurricane Carter rising<br />
From out the south water, like torrential rains<br />
In the ring no opponent escaped unscathed<br />
You can't believe the world we live in's injust<br />
All I see is more proof, there's no place for us<br />
They had my man Carter locked in a cage, like an animal<br />
Drive him to the point where the mind work mechanical<br />
Or works by remote control <br />
It was done to all of us, they tapped directly into our soul<br />
Either it's sing-sing, or it's bars around your mind<br />
There's no where to run, no where to hide<br />
In a six-by-six a guilty man cries<br />
For repentance and lost is what innocence is<br />
<br />
<br />
Same story, same target, different time<br />
Cyclical reaction from the prisoners of the bilnd<br />
Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind<br />
Waiting for redemption, surviving in a bind<br />
<br />
Same story, same target, different time<br />
Cyclical reaction from the prisoners of the blind<br />
Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind<br />
Waiting for redemption, surviving in a bind<br />
<br />
<br />
Chorus<br />
<br />
Hurricane<br />
Accuse a Hurricane<br />
Ain't change a damned shame<br />
It's life for Hurricane, Hurricane<br />
<br />
[Black Thought]<br />
*overtop of sung chorus*<br />
Your locked down forever<br />
Could you stand the weather?<br />
Could you hold it together?<br />
I can't even explain the pain, know'm saying?<br />
Your life was like a hurricane, a hurricane<br />
Forever, imagine behind bars forever<br />
Could you stand the weather?<br />
You built for that? Is you cut for that?<br />
Don't be telling me that you know the pain<br />
Your life was like a hurricane, yo<br />
<br />
Same story, same target, different time<br />
Cyclical reaction from the prisoners of the bilnd<br />
Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind<br />
Waiting for redemption, surviving in a bind<br />
<br />
Same story, same target, different time<br />
Cyclical reaction from the prisoners of the blind<br />
Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind<br />
Waiting for redemption, surviving in a bind
