A Tribe Called Quest - The Space Program lyrics

I’mma deal with a bigger insult, man
The heat, the heat, the heat, the heat
It's comin' down hard
We’ve got to get our shit together

It’s time to go left and not right
Gotta get it together forever
Gotta get it together for brothers
Gotta get it together for sisters
For mothers and fathers and dead niggas
For non-conformists, one hitter quitters
For Tyson types and Che figures
Let’s get it together, come on let’s make it
Gotta make it to make it, to
Make it, to make it, to make it
To make something happen
To make something happen
To make something happen
Let’s make something happen

Word to Phifer


Gonna bring it to the overlord
Drinkin' Cisco
Chilling with the gold microphone cords
And we grip our balls every
Time we stuntin' on tour
'Cause we never bore
Responding to the ready crowd's roar
And promoters try to hit us
With the art of war
We about our business, we not quitters
Not bullshitters, we deliver we go-get it
Don’t be bitter 'cause we not just niggas
Jarobi, my fiber wove into different cloth
Ain’t nothing forbidden
This nigga get his written off
Hardest spit in the city y’all
Niggas spitting kitten soft
Confused and amazed
Shook up with your brain missing lost
They planning for our future, people
None of our people involved
Pouring Henny and Smirnoff to
Get it cracking off
Cracking off a Smirnoff to
Quickly turn to Molotov
Molotov the spaceship doors before that
Bitch is taking off
It always seems the poorest persons
Are people forsaken, dawg
No Washingtons, Jeffersons, Jacksons
On the captain's log
They’d rather lead us to the
Grayest water poison deadly smog
Mass un-blackening, it’s happening
You feel it y’all?
Rather see we in a three-by-three
Structure with many bars
Leave us where we are so they
Can play among the stars
They taking off to Mars
Got the space vessels overflowing
What, you think they want us there?
All us niggas not going
Reputation ain’t glowing
Reparations ain’t flowing
If you find yourself stuck in a creek
You better start rowing
Used to see the TV screen as the
Place to land my dream in
And the car stereo where they
Would promote the show
Optimistic little brother with a
Hope you know

(Move on to the stars)
There ain’t a space program for niggas
Yeah, you stuck here, nigga
(Move on to the stars)
There ain’t a space program for niggas
Yeah, you stuck here nigga
(Move on to the stars)
There ain’t a space program for niggas
Yeah, you stuck here, nigga
(Move on to the stars)
There ain’t a space program for niggas
Yeah, you stuck, stuck, stuck
(Move on to the stars)

Sit and wonder sometimes
I read the paper every day
All these happenings is cycular
Just happen different ways
And the president's refined
In her wing she's confined
With about thirty Percocets and
Five bottles of wine
Carolina nothing finer than a
Black woman who climbs
To the top of the State building
Claiming that that flag is mine
Now, people on top of people
Feels like we can’t breathe
Put so much in this muthafucka
Feel like we shouldn't leave
Put it on TV, put it in movies
Put it in our face
These notions and ideas and
Citizens live in space
I chuckle just like all of y'all, absurdity
After all takes money to get it running and
Money for trees to fall
Imagine for one second all
The people are colored, please
Imagine for one second all
The people in poverty
No matter the skin tone, culture or time zone
Think the ones who got it
Would even think to throw you a bone?
Moved you out your neighbourhood
Did they find you a home?
Nah cypher, probably no place to
Imagine if this shit was
Really talkin’ about space, dude
Imagine if this shit was
Really talkin’ about space, dude
Imagine if this shit was
Really talkin’ about space, dude

Time to go left and not right
Gotta get it together forever
Gotta get it together for brothers
Gotta get it together for sisters
For mothers and fathers and dead niggas
For non-conformers, won’t hear the quitters
For Tyson types and Che figures
Let’s make somethin' happen
Let’s make somethin' happen
Let’s make somethin' happen
Let’s make somethin' happen
Gotta get it together for brothers
Gotta get it together for sisters
For mothers and fathers and dead niggas
For non-conformists, one-hitter quitters
For Tyson types and Che figures
Make make make let’s make somethin' happen
Let’s make somethin' happen
Let’s make somethin' happen
Let’s make somethin' happen
Gotta get it together forever
Gotta get it together for brothers
Gotta get it together for sisters
For mothers and fathers and dead niggas
For non-conformists, one-hitter quitters
For Tyson types and Che figures
Let’s make somethin' happen
Let’s make somethin' happen
Gotta get it together for brothers
Gotta get it together for sisters
For mothers and fathers and dead niggas
For non-conformists, one-hitter quitters
For Tyson types and Che figures
Make make make let’s make somethin' happen
Let’s make somethin' happen
Let’s make somethin' happen
Let’s make somethin' happen
Gotta get it together forever
Gotta get it together for brothers
Gotta get it together for sisters
For mothers and fathers and dead niggas
For non-conformists, one-hitter quitters
For Tyson types and Che figures
Let’s make somethin' happen
Let’s make somethin' happen
Gotta get it together for brothers
Gotta get it together for sisters
For mothers and fathers and dead niggas
For non-conformists, one-hitter quitters
For Tyson types and Che figures
Make, make, make
Let’s make somethin' happen
Let’s make somethin' happen
Let’s make somethin' happen
Let’s make somethin' happen

The danger must be growing
For the rowers keep on rowing
And they’re certainly not showing
Any signs that they are slowing!
"We’re there!" "Where?"
"Here!" a small step for mankind
But a giant step for us
Oompa, loompa, doopa dee doo
I’ve got another puzzle for you