[ti:Stand To The Side]
[ar:Talib Kweli]
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[00:00.00]Stand To The Side (Album Version|Explicit) - Talib Kweli/Novel/Vinia Mojica
[00:04.81]Go right to left left to right
[00:10.68]Middle passage connection
[00:15.37]Yeah about to build
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[00:22.25]Tell you which way to go
[00:24.08]We go right to left left to right
[00:26.52]If you fight to the death
[00:27.42]What's left to fight We go right to left left to right
[00:31.42]If you fight to the death
[00:32.70]What's left to fight We go right to left left to right
[00:36.44]If you fight to the death
[00:37.88]What's left to fight
[00:39.13]
[00:39.69]If you fight to the death
[00:42.15]What's left to fight
[00:43.33]Yo here we go
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[01:04.11]I wanna write away
[01:05.11]I wanna write here
[01:06.18]I wanna write brave words to fight fear
[01:08.43]Write dreams and nightmares
[01:09.68]Might scare the folks stuck in the day
[01:11.55]But nothing to say
[01:12.37]Well I'm way ahead by light years
[01:14.11]So beware we keep the lights on
[01:16.43]I wanna write the songs from right to wrong
[01:18.49]Right on
[01:19.11]Riding the light so you see in the dark
[01:21.05]So deep you gotta be still
[01:22.30]Like your beating heart
[01:23.49]My words apply the pressure
[01:24.93]To make the bleeding stop
[01:26.18]See the art living right eating smart
[01:28.62]I wanna right to life a right to death
[01:30.80]Police read your rights from right to left
[01:33.00]But I never write to remain silent
[01:35.24]I fight through police line
[01:36.68]Cops walk the beat that I write to
[01:38.74]I teach minds write rhymes with the right sound
[01:41.24]Right now journalists write up
[01:42.55]I write down
[01:43.37]Party people put a hand in the sky
[01:45.36]Grab a cloud and squeeze til no man is dry
[01:47.68]We wet it up go ask the people
[01:49.39]If they plannin to die
[01:50.44]Can't stay to live
[01:51.32]Consumers is plannin to buy
[01:52.51]Smoke death operators is standing by
[01:54.70]They take you order for
[01:56.01]The slaughter of the family why
[01:57.51]Do they make it so hard
[01:58.89]For a man to provide
[02:00.07]You better get wit it
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[02:02.27]Or stand to the side
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[02:23.57]And the story line goes on
[02:25.88]Right to left who's right who's wrong
[02:28.21]F**k the politics and pride
[02:30.33]I just to try to stay alive
[02:32.15]To witness where the battle lines are drawn
[02:35.71]Speak my mind and sing my song
[02:38.96]I'm passin on the moral y'all
[02:41.72]This is ain't play
[02:44.09]True you got to know the way
[02:46.65]It's hard now
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[02:51.82]Open eyes
[02:53.01]See hopeful lives
[02:56.27]Sing it now
[02:58.83]Making my way through life
[03:23.90]Talking to elders and taking advice
[03:25.14]Ignoring their words and paying the price
[03:26.77]Living in the world where false
[03:28.58]Preachers got us praying to christ
[03:29.90]Get with the young girls
[03:30.92]In the choir and laying the pipe
[03:32.29]No control of our soul
[03:33.43]We all wait at the light
[03:34.75]So comfortable they
[03:35.62]We hating to fight to make it right
[03:37.43]Late at night I'm controlled
[03:38.55]By the DJ on the mic
[03:39.86]I love hip-hop and every joint
[03:41.37]He playing is tight
[03:42.30]A day in the life is a brick
[03:43.93]In the foundation of like
[03:45.38]A mason in Egypt amazing
[03:46.57]When I'm creating a site
[03:47.83]For the world to behold and the story to last
[03:49.76]So one day ghetto children
[03:50.88]Can visit their glorious past
[03:52.08]After Pac and Notorious passed
[03:53.39]What do we have
[03:54.70]Niggas worth more when they dead it's so sad
[03:57.01]Started with the slavery we finish the plan
[03:59.63]But I broke the cycle and became a man
[04:01.94]Party people put a hand in the sky
[04:03.69]Grab a cloud and squeeze til no man is dry
[04:06.07]We wet it up go ask the people if they plannin to die
[04:08.63]Can't stay to live consumers is plannin to buy
[04:11.12]Smoke death operators is standing by
[04:13.63]They take you order for the slaughter of the family why
[04:15.94]Do they make it so hard for a man to provide
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[04:19.39]You better get wit it or stand to the side