The Answer

Album: Stone Rollin' (2011)
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  • Dream on, dream on

    Stop, saying again it's old and I be told
    Try to help the child that's only four years old
    Why? Why would sit back and relax
    And watch them kids bump off the track
    How? How can you sit on the side line and watch it go down
    You, you need to make someone feel really proud
    Rhythm is the key, can't you see,
    Just don't do it for the ?

    I, I was the boy in the little picture,
    Always asking questions
    But never getting really good answers
    So I screamed out loud,
    I said please give up the answers
    Give up the answers, they need the answers

    So people asked me how was life for me
    Crawling out in a dark pretty city

    It was scary, but life was good, see, in my neighborhood
    In my neighborhood, in my neighborhood, in my neighborhood

    It's all coming back to me now, see when I was growing up
    There was a lot of people raising me
    I didn't know what the time
    But I listened to everything I heard, every man every woman
    Every teacher, every preacher, yes I listened to
    If you gonna do the same things, oh yes you do
    Oh, months in the slums look all around you,
    Help somebody find a way, oh yeah
    We gotta show 'em the way, do it today, show 'em the way

    Show them the way,
    Don't let them find out the hard way
    Show them the way. Writer/s: RAPHAEL SAADIQ
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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