[00:00.00]Joy （Version |Explicit ）-Talib Kweli /Mos Def
[00:05.225]Wooaahh yeah
[00:11.40]On top of the world
[00:12.409]Yeah that's how my seeds got me feeling'right now
[00:15.285]On top of the world
[00:16.665]Yeah you ever felt like you could do anything （Yeah）
[00:18.490]On top of the world
[00:20.936]It was 19964th of July looking off in the sky
[00:24.00]Dealing with thoughts inside
[00:24.945]When something caught my eye
[00:26.125]It was a silhoutte of a beautiful woman
[00:27.875]Bright with life
[00:28.625]Carrying my first seed
[00:29.642]Looking like she gone bear fruit tonight
[00:31.270]We at the African street festival
[00:32.524]And she walking around
[00:33.455]Talking about the midwife said
[00:34.647]that bring the baby down
[00:36.271]I'm about to be a father
[00:37.835]The sights and sounds
[00:38.712]Seem brighter around me
[00:39.646]And for starters
[00:40.594]I know I'ma work harder word
[00:42.159]We got home at three in the morning I was beat
[00:44.470]Them contractions started coming
[00:45.281]As soon as I fell asleep
[00:46.656]3:05like every five minutes
[00:47.973]Then the water broke
[00:49.344]We on the go yelling at the cabbie
[00:51.540]Cause he's sort of slow
[00:52.476]You know them hospitals all
[00:53.412]Trying to get paid no questions
[00:55.476]Hear come the doctor's with they drugs
[00:56.727]Trying to do c-sections
[00:57.702]But my baby stay's strong in labor for yay long
[00:59.641]Eight-pound baby boy
[01:00.515]To carry my name on joy
[01:02.642]Huh yeah
[01:03.330]I know how you feel Kweli I know how you feel
[01:06.331]（That's the sound of joy）
[01:07.830]See my brother I know how you feel
[01:09.703]Kweli I know how you feel
[01:11.640]（That's the sound of joy）
[01:13.17]So when you have a seed
[01:14.391]Come in the world say dog that sh*t's real
[01:16.454]（That's the sound of joy y'all）
[01:18.144]Huh Kweli yo I know how you feel
[01:20.142]Kweli yo I know how you feel
[01:21.893]My baby girl
[01:22.704]June 10th 1999I been on the grind
[01:25.16]Since the birth of my son
[01:26.329]It's been about way more then rhymes
[01:27.828]Baby on the way my lady glowing today at least
[01:30.78]That's what the midwife said on the phone
[01:31.955]Anyway the music got me going away
[01:33.394]Like everyday but it's a blessing
[01:34.829]So I gotta have patience
[01:36.454]And she got pregnant on a Jamaican vacation
[01:39.33]So it's all good this time well have the baby in a house
[01:41.972]I went the hospital route
[01:43.95]I know what they all about （Never again）
[01:44.665]So I'm out on tour in Baltimore
[01:46.167]Get the call around four
[01:47.221]When the water hit the floor （Damn ）
[01:48.976]I gotta rock my show but I gotta go
[01:50.970]Got second thoughts about her not going
[01:52.595]To the hospital
[01:53.410]I left the show early Mos held me down
[01:55.472]Good looking （No doubt）
[01:56.477]Call the car service like
[01:57.534]Take me straight to Brooklyn （Uh huh）
[01:59.101]Got the news in the car stayed sorta calm
[02:00.911]But I cried tears of joy
[02:02.221]When they put my daughter in my arms how precious
[02:04.471]Huh huh
[02:05.222]Said I know how you feel uh
[02:06.721]Said I know how you feel when you
[02:08.409]（My precious joy）
[02:09.222]Said I know how you feel uh
[02:11.598]Kwe I know how you feel
[02:13.227]（I know you do huh my precious joy y'all）
[02:15.480]Huh uh said I know how you feel （yeah）
[02:17.221]Said I know how you feel
[02:18.597]（My precious joy）
[02:19.914]Huh man I know how you feel （yeah）
[02:22.114]Said I know how you feel
[02:23.740]I do it for the seeds y'all
[02:25.302]In they formative years when they need y'all
[02:27.50]We gotta believe
[02:27.806]In what we conceive y'all it's deep y'all
[02:29.431]I give them the truth
[02:30.441]So they approach the situation with ammunition
[02:31.887]I keep nothing away
[02:32.690]They hear everything
[02:33.255]Cause they know how to listen
[02:34.444]Teach them the game
[02:35.382]So they know they position so they can grow
[02:37.257]And make decisions
[02:38.13]That change the world and break old tradition
[02:39.817]They put kids in jail
[02:40.944]For a life they ain't even get to start
[02:42.696]That's murder too and it's breaking my heart
[02:44.882]It's breaking our nation apart
[02:45.816]We gave the youth all the anger it's just
[02:47.646]We ain't taught them how to express it
[02:49.83]And so it's dangerous
[02:50.22]You can't talk to them
[02:51.82]Unless your language is relating to what they going through
[02:53.84]So busy ignoring them
[02:53.959]You can't see what they showing you
[02:55.459]And you wonder
[02:56.148]Why we called baby-daddy's and baby-momma's
[02:57.584]When we grow up
[02:58.771]We can't act like adult mothers and fathers yo
[03:00.895]I'm so blessed to have a boy and a girl
[03:02.958]Everyday they bring joy to my world
[03:04.898]Huh yeah
[03:06.147]I know how you feel Kweli I know how you feel
[03:09.958]（That's the sound of joy）
[03:11.209]Brother Kwe'I know how you feel
[03:13.146]Brother Kwe'I know how you feel
[03:15.83]（Baby girl my precious joy）
[03:16.395]Kweli I know how you feel
[03:18.26]Say bro'I know how you feel
[03:20.22]（Fela be my joy yo）
[03:21.772]Huh if you know how the people feel
[03:23.397]Let me really know how you yo
[03:25.85]I do it for the seeds y'all