The Roots, Maimouna Youssef - Don't Feel Right lyrics

It don't feel right, it don't feel right
Don't feel it, don't feel it
Can't feel it no more
It don't feel right, it don't feel right
Don't feel it, don't feel it
Can't feel it no more
Seems to me nowadays things have changed
I don't know if I feel the same

Yo, in the land of the
Unseen hand that holds trouble
Theorize your game
It's difficult to roll a double
The struggle ain't right up in your face
It's more subtle
But, it's still coming across like
The bridge and tunnel vision
I try to school these bucks
But they don't wanna listen
That's the reason the system making
This paper from the prison


And that's the reason we living
Where they don't wanna visit
Where the dope slanging
Keep swangin' like Sonny Liston
The money missing and there's mouths to feed
Get the brain kicking
Thinking of a thousand things
Remember back in the days
When the kitchen had eggs and pancakes
Chicken and greens and Kool Aid?
When the refrigerator naked and
The cupboard is bare
People got to strip naked
Stick 'em up in the air
Was it lies when they told
You wasn't nothing to fear?
Something don't feel right out here

It don't feel right, it don't feel right
Don't feel it, don't feel it
Can't feel it no more
It don't feel right, it don't feel right
Don't feel it, don't feel it
Can't feel it no more
Seems to me nowadays things have changed
I don't know if I feel the same

Look, my eyes open 'cause
I'm really a watchman
And when I'm writing my thoughts out, really
I'm boxing
My main adversary any silly concoction
Freeze your face like botulinum toxin
If you ain't trying to get popped
Then give me a option
Helicopters chopping from Philly to Compton
The Jones, the Richardsons
The Smiths and the Johnsons
If you ain't saying nothing
You the system's accomplice
It should play with your conscience
Do away with the nonsense
I'm overseeing anything within
My circumference this ain't a press junket
I ain't seeking responses
I stand where the people got
The heat in they pockets
You mesmerized by the calm nonchalantness
I spin a dark web on some John Hitchcock shit
If you ain't speaking your life
Your rhyme's adopted
If it don't feel right, then stop it
You know what I'm saying?

It don't feel right, it don't feel right
Don't feel it, don't feel it
Can't feel it no more
It don't feel right, it don't feel right
Don't feel it, don't feel it
Can't feel it no more
Things don't feel right over here
Lately, I ain't been seeing it clear
It don't feel right, it don't feel right
Don't feel it, don't feel it
Can't feel it no more
It don't feel right, it don't feel right
Don't feel it, don't feel it
Can't feel it no more
Seems to me nowadays things have changed
I don't know if I feel the same

Yo, children working, weapon-producing
Natural disaster got the planet in a panic
We all got to make that living
Sex, drugs, murder, politics and religion
Forms of hustling
Watch who you put all your trust in
Worldwide, we coincide with who suffering
Who never had shit and ain't got nothing
But more struggling, it makes you wanna run
Up in the motherfuckin'
Hot zone for a piece of the cake back
I can't work for it
I can certainly take that
I'm fired up, thinking about the payback
ASAP
You fuck around, be a enemy of the state
Black ill, but that's too real for TV
It's crazy when you too real to be free
If you don't got no paper, then steal this CD
Listen, man
I'll let you know how it feel to be me

It don't feel right, it don't feel right
Don't feel it, don't feel it
Can't feel it no more
It don't feel right, it don't feel right
Don't feel it, don't feel it
Can't feel it no more
Things don't feel right over here
Lately I ain't been seeing it clear
It don't feel right, it don't feel right
Don't feel it, don't feel it
Can't feel it no more
It don't feel right, it don't feel right
Don't feel it, don't feel it
Can't feel it no more
Seems to me nowadays things have changed
I don't know if I feel the same