Stand to the Side

[Intro: Talib Kweli, with Vinia Mojica & Novel]

What the fuck is that?

Go right to left, left, right (Oh)

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Middle passage connection (Uh)

Yeah (Oh-oh), about to build (Come on, yeah-yeah-yeah)

C-come on (Yeah), tell you which way to go

We go right to left, what's left to right

If you fight to the death, what's left to fight? (We go)

We go right to left, what's left to right

If you fight to the death, what's left to fight? (Oh-oh)

We go right to left, what's left to right

If you fight to the death, what's left to fight? (We go)

We go right to left, what's left to right

If you fight to the death, yo, here we go (Oh, yeah)

[Refrain: Talib Kweli & Novel]

We go bada-bada-bada-ba (Da-da-da)

Bada-bada-bada-dadada

Bada-bada-bada-ba

Bada-bada-bada-dadada (Yeah, one more time, here we go)

Bada-bada-bada-ba

Bada-bada-bada-dadada

Bada-bada-bada-ba

Bada-bada-bada-dadada

[Verse 1: Talib Kweli]

I wanna write away, I wanna write here

I wanna write brave words to fight fear

I write dreams and nightmares

Might scare the folks stuck in the day with nothin' to say

While I'm way ahead by light years, yeah (Yeah)

So beware, I'ma keep the lights on

I wanna write the songs that right the wrong, right on

Ridin' the light so you can see in the dark

So deep, you gotta be still like your beatin' heart

My words apply the pressure to make the bleedin' stop

I see the art of livin' right, eatin' smart

I wanna write to life or write to death

Police read your rights from right to left

But I never write to remain silent, I fight through police line

Cops walk the beat that I write to, I teach minds

Write rhymes with the right sound

Right now, journalists write up, I write down

[Chorus: Talib Kweli & Vinia Mojica]

Party people, put a hand in the sky

Grab a cloud and squeeze 'til no man is dry

We wet it up while askin' the people if they plannin' to die

They can't stay to live, consumers is plannin' to buy

Slow death, operators is standin' by

They take you order for the slaughter of the family, why

Do they make it so hard for a man to provide?

Yo, you better get with it or stand to the side, stand to side

[Refrain: Novel, Talib Kweli & Vinia Mojica]

Bada-bada-bada-ba (Stand to the side)

Bada-bada-bada-dadada (You better get with it or stand to the side)

Bada-bada-bada-ba (Stand to the side, stand to the side)

Bada-bada-bada-dadada (You better get with it or stand to the side)

Bada-bada-bada-ba

Bada-bada-bada-dadada

Bada-bada-bada-ba (Yeah)

Bada-bada-bada-dadada

[Verse 2: Vinia Mojica, Talib Kweli & Novel]

And the storyline goes on, right to left, who's right, who's wrong

Fuck the politics and pride, I just to try to stay alive

To witness where the battle lines are drawn

Speak my mind and I sing my song (Sing)

I'm passin' on the moral y'all

'Cause this is ain't play, true God

Know the weight is hard now (Yeah, Vinia Mo, yeah)

Open eyes, see for hopeful lives, sing it now (Now, keep it alive, see it y'all, yeah, come on)

[Refrain: Novel & Talib Kweli]

Bada-bada-bada-ba (Da-da-da)

Bada-bada-bada-dadada

Bada-bada-bada-ba

Bada-bada-bada-dadada

Bada-bada-bada-ba (bada-baba-ba, yeah)

Bada-bada-bada-dadada (Right in, right in)

Bada-bada-bada-ba

Bada-bada-bada-dadada (Yeah, yeah)

[Verse 3: Talib Kweli]

Makin' my way through life, talkin' to elders and takin' advice

Ignorin' their words and payin' the price

Livin' in the world where false preachers got us prayin' to Christ

Get with the young girls in the choir and be layin' the pipe

No control of our soul we all wait at the light

So comfortable, that we hatin' to fight to make it right

Late at night I'm controlled by the DJ on the mic

I love hip-hop and every joint he playin' is tight

A day in the life is a brick in the foundation, I'm like

A mason in Egypt, amazin' when I'm creatin' a site

For the world to behold and the story to last

So one day ghetto children can visit their glorious past (Uh)

After Pac and Notorious passed, what do we have?

Niggas worth more when they dead, it's so sad

Started with the slavery, we finished the plan

But I broke the cycle and became a man

[Chorus: Talib Kweli & Novel]

Party people, put a hand in the sky

Grab a cloud and squeeze 'til no man is dry

We wet it up while askin' the people if they plannin' to die

They can't stay to live, consumers is plannin' to buy

Slow death, operators is standin' by

They take you order for the slaughter of the family, why

Do they make it so hard for a man to provide?

Yo, you better get with it or stand to the side, stand to side (Yo, just stand to the side)

[Refrain: Novel & Talib Kweli]

Bada-bada-bada-ba (Stand to the side)

Bada-bada-bada-dadada (You better get with it or stand to the side)

Bada-bada-bada-ba (Stand to the side, stand to the side)

Bada-bada-bada-dadada (You better get with it or stand to the side, come on)

Bada-bada-bada-ba (Yeah)

Bada-bada-bada-dadada (Come on)

Bada-bada-bada-ba

Bada-bada-bada-dadada

Bada-bada-bada-ba (Yeah)

Bada-bada-bada-dadada (Come on)

Bada-bada-bada-ba, bada-bada-bada-dadada (Oh, yeah, sing this time, fantasize, yeah)

Bada-bada-bada-ba (Come on)

Bada-bada-bada-dadada (Yo, I got my man Savion in the house)

Bada-bada-bada-ba

Bada-bada-bada-dadada (He 'bout to put it down, here we go, come on)

[Outro: Novel & Talib Kweli]

Yeah

Novel, where you at?

Da-da-da-da-da-da (Yeah)

Da-da-da-da-da-da (Right, right here, you know I didn't want to stand to the side)

Da-da-da-da-da-da (Come on)

Da-da-da-da-da-da (Yeah)

Da-da-da-da-da-da (Uh)

Da-da-da-da-da-da (Uh)

Da-da-da-da-da-da (Yeah)

Da-da-da-da-da-da (Woo)

Da-da-da-da-da-da (Yeah)

Da-da-da-da-da-da (Come on)

Da-da-da-da-da-da

Da-da-da-da-da-da (Stand to the side, stand to the side)

Da-da-da-da-da-da (Stand to the side, stand to the side)

Da-da-da-da-da-da (Stand to the side, stand to the side)

Da-da-da-da-da-da (Stand to the side, stand to the side)

Da-da-da-da-da-da-dum

In order to expand, I'm just thinking

I don't wanna ever drop, I don't wanna lose the moniker

The Talib Kweli moniker, but I'm thinking over headlights, it doesn't fly

I wanna just put it in your head, you don't have to answer me now

We don't have to come with anything now

I wanna maybe talk about, you know, like, P. Diddy, he changed it

Talib Kweli, AKA "T-Kwilly" (Oof)

"T-Biggity," something, you figure it out, you're the artist, see

That's why you get paid the big bucks