Talib Kweli, Vinia Mojica - To the Side lyrics
[Talib Kweli, Vinia Mojica - To the Side lyrics]
Go right to left, left to right
Middle passage connection
Yeah, about to build
Tell you which way to go
We go right to left, left to right
If you fight to the death
What's left to fight yo, here we go
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
But nothing to say
Well I'm way ahead by light years
So beware we keep the lights on
I wanna write the songs from right to 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
See the art, 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
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
Smoke 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
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
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 of like
A maze in Egypt amazing when
I'm creating a sight
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
Come on i got my man Savion in the house
We about to put it down here we go
Middle passage connection
Yeah, about to build
Tell you which way to go
We go right to left, left to right
If you fight to the death
What's left to fight yo, here we go
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
But nothing to say
Well I'm way ahead by light years
So beware we keep the lights on
I wanna write the songs from right to 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
See the art, 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
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
Smoke 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
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
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 of like
A maze in Egypt amazing when
I'm creating a sight
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
Come on i got my man Savion in the house
We about to put it down here we go