
	Long Time by The Roots [Chorus] Oooh It's been a long time Since I been back around the way It's been a long time Let it spin let spin let it spin Since I been back around your way It's been a long time Long time long time [Verse] [Black Thought] Struck by the luck of the draw Real life preservation What I'm hustling for My name black thought The definition of raw I was born in South Philly On a cement floor I had nothing at all Had to knuckle and brawl They swore I'd fall Be another brick in the wall Another life Full of love That lost That's silly This Philly Y'all really ain't stoppin The boy with the pen Like Willie On top of the hall Pure soul is what the city Most popular for Hear the tones That will ease you Smooth As Bunny Sigler's soundtrack Keepin your head boppin and all It's something in the water Where I come from They used to sing it on the corner Where I come from Making somethin outta nothing Because everybody fifty cents From a quarter Where I come from Yeah The streets ain't timid But I feel at home in it Gotta see a couple people I ain't got at In a minute Yeah You can take a brother outta South Philly Can't take it outta him really I forever represent it And it's [Chorus] [Peedi Peedi] Live and dirvet I don't need no mic check Remember mommy told me You ain't write that It started in the bathroom taking a dump Listening to Ultramagnetic Ego tripping you won't Pressure my word I'm the urban vision Of you chump Stomped on a different ground Sound second to none Synthesizers tweet To improvise your feet I calculated every lyric to arrive on a beat It's free Come get high on me Before a nine millimeter shell Hit my pelle pelle In the p Yeah It's somethin in the water Where I come from They used to sing it on the corner Where I come from Making somethin outta nothing Because everybody Fifty cents from a quarter Yo Where I come from It's just a natural reaction For crack to make it happen Let the pen ink sink Into the paper of the pad Think back When I was younger Ghetto could have took me under Young Peedi can't mess with North Philly Never had You don't know about me You ain't stroll my streets Look familiar I feel ya Longtime no see [Chorus] [Black Thought] Uhh Clap somethin But whatever you clap Clap to the record spinnin While I'm takin you back To the top paper era Baby big on that Picture the pool room Where the money getters was at And street people With feather in the cap Or their bossolino Pullin paper As if it's a small casino I was a young boy Sweepin the floors And runnin to stores But all those old heads Woudl talk to me About the way To clutch the eagle On a buck and truck And if I'm down How to get back up Just survival kid And it's a struggle worldwide I'm positive Shit the ghetto might as well Be the Gaza Strip You know where all the monsters is Street walkers You don't see no consciousness I'm coming back to where The core of the problem is We on the job again Y'all know what time it is [Chorus] More lyrics from The Roots .: 100% Dundee .: Act Fore... The End? .: Atonement .: Baby .: Clock with No Hands .: Common Dust .: Datskat .: Distortion To Static .: Do You Want More?!!!??! .: Don't Feel Right .: False Media .: Game Theory .: Good Music .: Good Music (Preclude) .: Grits .: Here I Come .: I Remain Calm .: I'm Out Deah .: In the Music .: Lazy Afternoon .: Leonard I-V .: Livin' in a New World .: Long Time .: Mellow My Man .: Pass the Popcorn .: Popcorn Revisited .: Proceed .: Silent Treatment .: Step Into The Realm .: Swept Away .: Table Of Contents Part 1 .: Table Of Contents Part 2 .: Table Of Contents Part 3 .: Take It There .: The Anti-Circle .: The Lesson Part 1 .: The Next Movement .: The Roots Is Comin' .: The Seed .: The Session (Longest Posse Cut In History) .: The Spark .: The Ultimate .: What Goes On Part 7 .: Writters Block .: You Ain't Fly Click here for all the other lyrics of The Roots !

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