Fugees - Some Seek Stardom lyrics

Ah, check the crippled man
Sittin' in the church my conscience hurts
Flesh like me hit's the dirt
She's paralyzed from her feet to her thighs
And the man who pulled the trigger
Didn't even lose his left eye
I check Jimmy cuttin' hair at the barbershop
He plays the bass guitar like
David plays the harp
His knowledge name is Greek
'cause whenever he speaks
He's got the wisdom of King Solomon
Bags in his eyes from no sleep
Sometimes he thought of the fame
In Madison Square Garden
So some seek stardom, but they forget Harlem
But "Seek ye, first of all
The kingdom of God
" that's what my pops told me
So if I fall, could the choir catch me?
I flew away, on a mountain
Got tempted by Satan got bitten by a cobra
But the Lord took my venom
So who's side am I on? I'm on the righteous
Always check the lyrics
No time to contradict

Some seek stardom, then they forget Harlem
Some seek stardom, then they forget Harlem
Some seek stardom, then they forget Harlem
They keep their pockets full
But their souls run empty

Well, ayo, family
I beseech you in the hopes
That I may reach you
My mother taught me one day that
Judgment Day would come someday
Born a dark Black child with kinky hair
Grown wise and teachers disliked me 'cause I
Knew where my culture be
So now, yeah, my brief history
I can't neglect my passion, see
Rocking's kind of new to me 'cause
My true love was poetry
White was good and bad was black but
Black was just a massa lackey
Built for that B nimble Jack and I'd
Like to save you from the wicked
D-Dog clear I wouldn't be wet
The black to mourn, tomorrow's death
The evil things, glad that I
While angels wrote this violence, why?
Help me make me comprehend my black
Bezerk and why cast it
Time to blaze the angels nappy heads
Are braided that you make me
See what's wrong with me that don't make
You flee when I enter your vicinity
You see my God ain't never asked of me
So, yo, I be wised up with Greek to go and be
But, alas, I clearly see what's wrong with me
It be your insecurity of me and my ability
So, prithee, won't you let me be or has
Thou asked too much from thy
To tell the truth and not to lie? Oh my

Some seek stardom, then they forget Harlem
Some seek stardom, then they forget Harlem
Some seek stardom, then they forget Harlem
Brothers keep their pockets full
But their souls run empty
Some seek stardom, then they forget Harlem
Some seek stardom, then they forget Harlem
Some seek stardom, then they forget Harlem
Sisters keep their pockets full
But their souls run empty

But as I grew
I knew 'cause the master told me
From a baby to a woman
From a woman to a baby life is so short
Hardcore becomes hard-corpse
Stiff in a coffin where the
Money's no longer the source
There we go, there we go, there we go
I got mine
Now won't you get yours? We never open doors
So we neglect
And don't protect the ones that's left
People never really seem to care
And then they cry out
"My people! Why aren't we treated equal?"
As we flee, we flee our own communities
We leave our family in poverty
And then we blame it on another, so, family
Please recover oh c'mon, please
You can come with me now and blow it now
If you want to, we're through

Some seek stardom, then they forget Harlem
Some seek stardom, then they forget Harlem
Some seek stardom, then they forget Harlem
Families keep their pockets full
But their souls run empty
Some seek stardom, then they forget Harlem
Some seek stardom, then they forget Harlem
Some seek stardom, then they forget Harlem
People keep their pockets full
But their souls run empty
Some seek stardom, then they forget Harlem
Some seek stardom, then they forget Harlem
Some seek stardom, then they forget Harlem
We keep our pockets full
But our souls run empty
Some seek stardom, then they forget Harlem
Some seek stardom, then they forget Harlem
Some seek stardom, then they forget Harlem
Brothers keep their pockets full
But their souls run empty

Some seek stardom, then they forget Harlem
Some seek stardom, then they forget Harlem