Roots - Take It There lyrics

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Stand up, stretch for the stars<br />

Get somebody else involved right next to ya<br />

Y'all elected me to keep it so fresh for ya<br />

Just cause I make it possible for the rest of ya<br />

To just take it there come on and<br />

Get your head ringin' from the sting of the snare<br />

Spine tingle elevating every singular hair<br />

All the way from South Philly on a wing and prayer<br />

And still bringin' it yeah<br />

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C'mon take it there<br />

C'mon take it there<br />

Let's take it there<br />

C'mon take it there<br />

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I'm from the side of town<br />

Where shots get sprayed around<br />

Where the expectancy rate be twenty-eight around<br />

Downtown battleground where cops parade around<br />

Have your whole view of life beyond jaded<br />

How everybody sick of breaking down, tryin' a make it out<br />

Hand over fist the only way to get the paper down<br />

People tired of gettin' pushed around, gettin' gangsta now<br />

Discipline the only way to bring some kinda change around<br />

Chain cirgarette smokin' with bad nerves<br />

And brothas with bad lungs from smokin' mad herb<br />

Whoever in the dark is unseen and heard<br />

Let's submerge, I can feel something close we on the verge<br />

Talkin' bout, to my street sweepers, hotel housekeepers<br />

And my people spillin' this out through jail house speakers<br />

Some people rather use than might than use heaters<br />

Some people rather lose they life than lose freedom<br />

For real<br />

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[poem interlude]<br />

Society's time bomb laying dormant<br />

Our peopledisenfranchised for the free world<br />

Oil for food but they still hungry<br />

No democracy<br />

They said one vote equals one voice<br />

But he told you if he can't work to make it<br />

He'll rob to take it<br />

The villains<br />

Abandoning the planet and the people<br />

Another hot summer yo, they 'bout to flood the prisons<br />

This ain't no do diddley, it's a do somethin'<br />

Flash light, red light, proceed ahead right<br />

Straight into them headlights, you get your head right<br />

Head right get a third strike, hit the turnpike<br />

Life quicker than spliff that wouldn't burn right<br />

Make you wanna holla 'bout it<br />

It ain't no doubt about it<br />

Every now and then you gotta stand up and shout about it<br />

And I'll be shoutin' it to, as if a shout'll count<br />

Yo they got accountin' to do, reamount the ballot<br />

The shit more puzzlin' than a jigsaw<br />

Raw pitbulls hustlin' through the pitfalls<br />

Some of y'all toys let the laughter rip roar<br />

Heart felt truth in every lyric I spit forth<br />

Raise up time to lift off<br />

Written on a lega pad, poetry that sizzle the clip board<br />

My og, my homey who taught me deal<br />

Said in prayer that's the only time you should ever kneel<br />

And that's real, I'm a take it there<br />

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