The Roots f Amiri Baraka
Phrenology
Something in the Way of Things (In Town)

In town x3

Something in the way of things
Something that will quit and won't start
Something you know but can't stand
Can't know get along with
Like death
Riding on top of the car peering through the windshield for his cue
Something entirely fictitious and true
That creeps across your path hallowing your evil ways
Like they were yourself passing yourself not smiling
The dead guy you saw me talking to is your boss
I tried to put a spell on him but his spirit is illiterate

I know things you know and nothing you don't know
'cept I saw something in the way of things
Something grinning at me and I wanted to know, was it funny?
Was it so funny it followed me down the street
Greeting everybody like the good humor man
But an they got the taste of good humor but no ice cream
It was like dat
Me talking across people into the houses
And not seeing the beings crowding around me with ice picks
You could see them
But they looked like important Negroes on the way to your funeral
Looked like important jiggaboos on the way to your auction
And let them chant the number and use an ivory pointer to count your teeth
Remember Steppen Fetchit
Remember Steppen Fetchit how we laughed
An all your Sunday school images giving flesh and giggling
With the ice pick high off his head
Made ya laugh anyway

I can see something in the way of our selves
I can see something in the way of our selves
That's why I say the things I do, you know it
But its something else to you
Like that job
This morning when you got there and it was quiet
And the machines were yearning soft behind




» 100 Dundee
» 100% Dundee
» Act Fore (The End)
» Act Too (The Love Of My Life)
» Act Too-Love of My Life (Remix)
» Act TooThe Love Of My Life
» Act Won (Things Fall Apart)
» Adrenaline
» Ain't Sayin' Nothing New
» Boom
» Break You Iff
» Break You Off
» Break You Off F/ Musiq
» Clones
» Clones (feat MARS Dice Raw)
» Common Dust
» Common Dust (feat. Kid Crumbs)
» Complexity
» Concerto Of The Desperado
» Dat Scat
» Datskat
» Diedre Vs Dice
» Distortion To Static
» Distortion to Static (Freestyle Mix)
» Do You Want More
» Don't Say Nuthin'
» Don't See Us
» Double Trouble
» Duck Down
» Dynamite
» Episodes
» Essawhamah (Live)
» Essaywhuman
» For the Love of Money
» Glitches
» Glitches (feat. Amel Larrieux)
» Good Music
» Good Music (Preclude)
» Grits
» Guns Are Drawn
» Hurricane
» I Don't Care
» I Remain Calm
» I'm Out Deah
» Intro/There's Something Goin' On
» It Just Don't Stop
» It Just Don't Stop (feat. Dice Raw)
» Ital
» Ital (feat. Q-Tip)
» Ital (The Universal Side)
» Lazy Afternoon
» Leonard I V
» Leonard I-V
» Live From the DJ Stretch Armstrong Show
» Loenard I-V
» Meiso
» Mellow My Man
» Mumia 911 (Diamond D Remix)
» No Alibi
» No Great Pretender
» Panic
» Pass The Popcorn
» Peace
» Popcorn Revisited
» Proceed
» Proceed II
» Proceed III
» Proceed III (feat. Bahamedia)
» Proceed IV (AJ Shine's Proceed W/o A Pause)
» Proceed IV (Aj Shine's Proceed Without A Pause)
» Proceed IV AJ Shine's Proceed Wo A Pause
» Proceed V
» Push Up Ya Lighter
» Push Up Ya Lighter (Feat. Bahamadia)
» Pussy Galore
» Quills
» Respond React
» RespondReact
» Return To Innocence Lost
» Rhymes And Ammo
» Rock You
» Rolling With Heat
» Roots and Aphillyation Unreleased
» Sacrifice
» Section
» Seed 2.0
» Silent Treatment
» Silent Treatment (Beatminerz Remix)
» Somebody's Gotta Do It
» Something In The Way Of Things (In Town)
» Somithng in the Way of Things (In Town)
» StarPintro
» StarPointro
» Stay Cool
» Step Into The Realm
» Stolen Moments Pt II
» Super Lyrical
» Swept Away
» Table Of Contents (Parts 1 2)
» Table Of Contents Part 1
» Table Of Contents Part 1 and 2
» Table Of Contents Part 2
» Table of Contents Part 3
» Table of Contents Parts 1 and 2
» Tao of The Machine
» The 'Notic
» The Adventures in Wonderland
» The Adventures In Wonderland (feat. Ursula Rucker)
» The Anti Circle
» The Anti-Circle
» The 'Notic (feat. D'Angelo)
» The Good The Bad And The Desolate
» The Hypnotic
» The Hypnotic (remix)
» The Lesson Part 1
» The Lesson Pt 1
» The Next Movement
» The Notic
» The Return To Innocence Lost
» The Roots Is Comin'
» The Seed
» The Seed (20)
» The Session Longest Posse Cut in History
» The Show
» The Spark
» The Ultimate
» The Unlocking
» The Unlocking (feat. Ursula Rucker)
» Thought @ Work
» Thought At Work
» Thought Work
» U.N.I. Verse At War (feat. Common)
» UNIVerse at War
» Water
» Web
» What Goes On Part 7
» What Goes On Pt 7
» What They Do
» What They Do (feat. Raphael Saadiq)
» What You Want
» Why (What's Goin' On)
» Without A Doubt
» Writter's Block
» Writters Block
» Ya'All Know Who
» You Ain't Fly
» You Got Me

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