Talib Kweli, Vinia Mojica, Novel - Stand to the Side lyrics

What the fuck is that?
Go right to left, left, right (Oh)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Middle passage connection (Uh)
Yeah (Oh oh) , about to build (Come on, yeah yeah yeah)
C-come on (yeah) , tell you which way to go
We go right to left, what's left to right
If you fight to the death
What's left to fight? (We go)
We go right to left, what's left to right
If you fight to the death
What's left to fight? (Oh oh)
We go right to left, what's left to right
If you fight to the death
What's left to fight? (We go)
We go right to left, what's left to right
If you fight to the death, yo, here we go
(Oh, yeah)

We go bada bada bada ba (Da da da)
Bada bada bada dadada bada bada bada ba


Bada bada bada dadada
(yeah, one more time, here we go)
Bada bada bada ba bada bada bada dadada
Bada bada bada ba bada bada bada dadada

I wanna write away, I wanna write here
I wanna write brave words to fight fear
I write dreams and nightmares
Might scare the folks stuck in the
Day with nothin' to say
While I'm way ahead by light years, yeah
(yeah) so beware, I'ma keep the lights on
I wanna write the songs that right the wrong
Right on
Ridin' the light so you can see in the dark
So deep
You gotta be still like your beatin' heart
My words apply the pressure to
Make the bleedin' stop
I see the art of livin' right, eatin' smart
I wanna write to life or write 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

Party people, put a hand in the sky
Grab a cloud and squeeze 'til no man is dry
We wet it up while askin' the
People if they plannin' to die
They can't stay to live
Consumers is plannin' to buy
Slow death, operators is standin' by
They take you order for the
Slaughter of the family, why
Do they make it so hard for a man to provide?
Yo, you better get with it
Or stand to the side, stand to side

Bada bada bada ba (Stand to the side)
Bada bada bada dadada
(You better get with it or stand to the side)
Bada bada bada ba
(Stand to the side, stand to the side)
Bada bada bada dadada
(You better get with it or stand to the side)
Bada bada bada ba bada bada bada dadada
Bada bada bada ba (yeah)
Bada bada bada dadada

And the storyline 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 I sing my song (Sing)
I'm passin' on the moral y'all
'Cause this is ain't play, true God
Know the weight is hard now
(yeah, Vinia Mo, yeah)
Open eyes, see for hopeful lives, sing it now
(Now, keep it alive, see it y'all, yeah
Come on)

Bada bada bada ba (Da da da)
Bada bada bada dadada bada bada bada ba
Bada bada bada dadada
Bada bada bada ba (bada baba ba, yeah)
Bada bada bada dadada (Right in, right in)
Bada bada bada ba
Bada bada bada dadada (yeah, yeah)

Makin' my way through life
Talkin' to elders and takin' advice
Ignorin' their words and payin' the price
Livin' in the world where false preachers
Got us prayin' to Christ
Get with the young girls in the
Choir and be layin' the pipe
No control of our soul we
All wait at the light so comfortable
That we hatin' 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 playin' is tight a day in the life is
A brick in the foundation, i'm like
A mason in Egypt
Amazin' when I'm creatin' a site
For the world to behold and the story to last
So one day ghetto children can
Visit their glorious past (Uh)
After Pac and Notorious passed
What do we have?
Niggas worth more when they dead, it's so sad
Started with the slavery
We finished the plan
But, I broke the cycle and became a man

Party people, put a hand in the sky
Grab a cloud and squeeze 'til no man is dry
We wet it up while askin' the
People if they plannin' to die
They can't stay to live
Consumers is plannin' to buy
Slow death, operators is standin' by
They take you order for the
Slaughter of the family, why
Do they make it so hard for a man to provide?
Yo, you better get with it
Or stand to the side, stand to side
(Yo, just stand to the side)

Bada bada bada ba (Stand to the side)
Bada bada bada dadada
(You better get with it or stand to the side)
Bada bada bada ba
(Stand to the side, stand to the side)
Bada bada bada dadada
(You better get with it or stand to the side
Come on) bada bada bada ba (yeah)
Bada bada bada dadada (Come on)
Bada bada bada ba bada bada bada dadada
Bada bada bada ba (yeah)
Bada bada bada dadada (Come on)
Bada bada bada ba, bada bada bada dadada
(Oh, yeah, sing this time, fantasize, yeah)
Bada bada bada ba (Come on)
Bada bada bada dadada
(Yo, I got my man Savion in the house)
Bada bada bada ba bada bada bada dadada
(He 'bout to put it down, here we go
Come on)

Yeah novel, where you at?
Da da da da da da (yeah) da da da da da da
(Right, right here
You know I didn't want to stand to the side)
Da da da da da da (Come on)
Da da da da da da (yeah)
Da da da da da da (Uh)
Da da da da da da (Uh)
Da da da da da da (yeah)
Da da da da da da (Woo)
Da da da da da da (yeah)
Da da da da da da (Come on)
Da da da da da da da da da da da da
(Stand to the side, stand to the side)
Da da da da da da
(Stand to the side, stand to the side)
Da da da da da da
(Stand to the side, stand to the side)
Da da da da da da
(Stand to the side, stand to the side)
Da da da da da da dum
In order to expand, I'm just thinking
I don't wanna ever drop
I don't wanna lose the moniker
The Talib Kweli moniker, but
I'm thinking over headlights, it doesn't fly
I wanna just put it in your head
You don't have to answer me now
We don't have to come with anything now
I wanna maybe talk about, you
Know, like, P diddy, he changed it
Talib Kweli, AKA "T-Kwilly" (Oof)
"T-Biggity, " something, you figure it
Out, you're the artist, see
That's why you get paid the big bucks