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Intro |
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Ladies and Gentlemen, I hope you're in the mood to travel right now cause |
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I want to take you on a journey' we're going back in time. Are you ready? |
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Verse 1 |
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I wanna take you way back to when a girl on a mike's worth |
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Wasn't determined by the length of her skirt |
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I mean way back to creativity, before MTV before BET |
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I mean way back before recycling shit, when the props that you got was for your writing and shit |
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Let's rewind before the hype when you used to be low key |
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To be a singer you had to actually know key |
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I mean way back to before people made a job of seeing who's best at impersonating Bob |
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I mean way back to when you sweat blood on every line |
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To get one good song didn't cost sixteen ninety nine |
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To be considered deep you had to actually say stuff |
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And if it wasn't good disc jockeys didn't play stuff |
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I mean way way, Marvin Gaye way back, and I pray that you will |
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Chorus |
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Come with me, let us journey past this melody |
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Give us room to exercise our minds |
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Take you to another place another time, better hooks better rhymes |
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Stronger lyrics every line, you could even press rewind |
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Come with me, let us journey past this fallacy |
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Give us room to exercise our minds |
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Take you to another place another time, better hooks better rhymes |
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Stronger lyrics every line, you could even press rewind |
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Verse 2 |
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Well it's ironic that the chronic that I smoke got me singing shit that's bionic every note |
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That it's affecting my judgement is what some people would hope |
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But I'm not tripping, I'm on a journey, come along now let's float |
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I used to be excited going to the record store, but these days I stay pacing the floor |
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Somebody please take me back to when the artistes were poor |
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Cause when they made less they gave us so much more |
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Let's take it back to a ballroom, cloudy microphone' Smokey Robinson, Nina Simone |
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James Brown was still occupying the throne when the songs weren't sold off videos alone |
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Way back to when a star attitude wasn't defined by somebody being rude |
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To when it was a pleasure definitely not a task |
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To greet a fan with a smile and sign a damn autograph |
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I mean way back to before you used to drive the Maybach |
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You dreamt about a mil but never made that |
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When you made some shit that we could play back |
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I mean way back to a whole 'nother time, further back than your grandad's hairline |
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I mean way back, wont you say that you will (Repeat chorus) |