The Roots, Dom - Duck Down! lyrics

Yeah we gettin' ready to break y'all
It's winner take all
The game is locked we down to the eight ball
The time is now, it ain't nothin' to wait for
I'm a king by blood, a soldier by nature
I'm somethin' like a threat
To y'all space cadets
Cause you never met a brother
Nothin' like me yet
So push another slice into your toaster
Tighten your vests
Cuz it's a warrior you seein'
Here tonight in the flesh
I give you somethin' high voltage
Double the dosage
Runnin' with these vultures, givin' me ulcers
Which one of these hustlers
Bringin' the thunder?
'Riq Geez not another man takin' us under
Nigga please
Which Philly cat doin' his own thing


Might say Black my give you a code name
Round my neck see the microphone hang
Have your lady lip-synchin' like
On Soul Train the niggas that's a problem's
A minimal margin
The Colonel, Captain, Lieutenant, General
Sergeant black, one man army movin'
In on your squadron
You sittin' still you know you a target
You heard, you better duck down!

See me comin' better tuck those chains
Cuz you don't wanna feel them thangs
If you want it, you can get it baby
You know you need to get low
Duck Down! (Duck Down)

See me comin' better tuck those chains
Cuz you don't wanna feel them thangs
If you want it, you can get it baby
You know you need to get low
Duck Down! (Duck Down)

Yeah we gettin' set to get rid of y'all
That's what it's headin' for
The underdog knuckle and brawl
With the bigger ball
I spit what your wig absorb
Sicker than sycamore
I'm creatin' a circumstance that
You a victim of
The rebel or the renegade out on the quest
The super black man runnin' wit
A S on his chest
That stand for the straight struggle
To escape the stress
You think it's sweet tryin' to eat
You ain't taste this yet
So make y'all steps precautious
Into the darkness
Thoughts cold and heartless
Makin' me nauseous
Gettin' more remorseless for what I done
If the lawyers and courts wonder what I run
Them civil liberties is free
But just for some
How you a gangster when you
Scared to bust your gun for the call
Trust your fam or trust nobody at all
See them brothers gettin' struck down
They better duck down

See me comin' better tuck those chains
Cuz you don't wanna feel them thangs
If you want it, you can get it baby
You know you need to get low
Duck Down! (Duck Down)

Yeah i can feel somethin' fa sho
I've been up in here before
The gladiator in a Colosseum ready for war
That old timer holdin' his
Revolver set to blow
Just like a gladiator at whoever stick
His head in the door
And one who been through it all, anything go
Rather give it to you straight
'stead of speakin in codes cuz man
That bullshit can get you riddled with holes
If you ain't insured then
The hospitals is closed
You got to go uptown while
Ya leakin' on the ground
In cases like these, you need to duck down
You're five dollar toys
I'm a million dollar man
Esquire 'Riq Geez go according to plan
I'm thinkin' outside the box, off the blocks
An outside your concept of time
Off the clocks for real
Well it's Black Thought your boss DJ
However you brothers weigh that's
What you gon' pay

See me comin' better tuck those chains
Cuz you don't wanna feel them thangs
If you want it, you can get it baby
You know you need to get low
Duck Down! (Duck Down)

See me comin' better tuck those chains
Cuz you don't wanna feel them thangs
If you want it, you can get it baby
You know you need to get low
Duck Down! (Duck Down)