Talib Kweli - Stand to the Side lyrics

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[Kweli]

Go right to left, left to right

Middle passage connection

Yeah, about to build

Tell you which way to go

[Both]

We go right to left, left to right

If you fight to the death, what's left to fight

X4

Yo, here we go

[Kweli]

I wanna write away

I wanna write here

I wanna write brave words to fight fear

Write dreams and nightmares

Might scare the folks stuck in the day

With nothing to say,

While I'm way ahead by light years

So beware and keep the lights on

I wanna write the songs that right the wrong

Right on

Riding the light so you see in the dark

So deep you gotta be still like your beating heart

My words apply the pressure to make the bleeding stop

I see the art, of living right, eating smart

I wanna right to life, a right to death

Police read your rights from right to left

But I never write to remain silent

I fight through police line

Cops walk the beat that I write to

I teach minds, write rhymes with the right sound

Right now, journalists write up

I write down

[Both] :Chorus

Party people put a hand in the sky

Grab a cloud and squeeze til no man is dry

We wet it up, go ask the people if they plannin to die

Can't stay to live, consumers is plannin to buy

Slow death operators is standing by

They take you order for the slaughter of the family why

Do they make it so hard for a man to provide

You better get wit it, or {stand to the side X7}

[Vinia Mojica]

And the story line goes on

Right to left, who's right who's wrong

Fuck the politics and pride

I just to try to stay alive

To witness where the battle lines are drawn

Speak my mind and sing my song

I'm passin on the moral y'all

This is ain't play

True, you got to know the way

It's hard now

Open eyes

See hopeful lives

Sing it now

[Kweli]

Making my way through life

Talking to elders and taking advice

Ignoring their words and paying the price

Living in the world where false preachers got us praying to christ

Get with the young girls in the choir and laying the pipe

No control of our soul we all wait at the light

So comfortable they we hating to fight to make it right

Late at night I'm controlled by the DJ on the mic

I love hip-hop and every joint he playing is tight

A day in the life is a brick in the foundation I'm like

A mason in Egypt amazing when I'm creating a site

For the world to behold and the story to last

So one day ghetto children can visit their glorious past

After Pac and Notorious passed, what do we have?

Niggas worth more when they dead, it's so sad

Started with the slavery we finish the plan

But I broke the cycle, and became a man

[Both] : Chorus

[Kweli]

Come on,

I got my man Savion in the house

We about to put it down

Here we go