Roots - Something In The Way Of Things lyrics

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In town x3<br />

Something in the way of things<br />

Something that will quit and won't start<br />

Something you know but can't stand<br />

Can't know get along with<br />

Like death<br />

Riding on top of the car peering through the windshield for his cue<br />

Something entirely fictitious and true<br />

That creeps across your path hallowing your evil ways<br />

Like they were yourself passing yourself not smiling<br />

The dead guy you saw me talking to is your boss<br />

I tried to put a spell on him but his spirit is illiterate<br />

I know things you know and nothing you don't know<br />

'cept I saw something in the way of things<br />

Something grinning at me and I wanted to know, was it funny?<br />

Was it so funny it followed me down the street<br />

Greeting everybody like the good humor man<br />

But an they got the taste of good humor but no ice cream<br />

It was like dat<br />

Me talking across people into the houses<br />

And not seeing the beings crowding around me with ice picks<br />

You could see them<br />

But they looked like important Negroes on the way to your funeral<br />

Looked like important jiggaboos on the way to your auction<br />

And let them chant the number and use an ivory pointer to count your teeth<br />

Remember Steppen Fetchit<br />

Remember Steppen Fetchit how we laughed<br />

An all your Sunday school images giving flesh and giggling<br />

With the ice pick high off his head<br />

Made ya laugh anyway<br />

I can see something in the way of our selves<br />

I can see something in the way of our selves<br />

That's why I say the things I do, you know it<br />

But its something else to you<br />

Like that job<br />

This morning when you got there and it was quiet<br />

And the machines were yearning soft behind you<br />

Yearning for that nigga to come and give up his life<br />

Standin' there bein' dissed