Lyrics Why (What’s Goin On?).lrc The Roots
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[ar: The Roots]
[al: The Tipping Point]
[ti: Why (What’s Goin On?)]
[length: 04:21]
[00:09.68]WHY? (6 x’s)
[00:23.27]Sky’s the limit so you know I’m gonna rise and shine
[00:26.66]I gotta do my thing, I’m kinda getting a little tired of all that’s hidden
[00:29.87]That’s the reason I’m a speak my mind, keep from going insane
[00:33.56]Now work with it, we in the last innin’
[00:36.12]The world keeps spinnin’, my peoples steady losin’ while the rich keep winnin’
[00:39.81]It’s like we neva smilin’ and the devil steady grinnin’
[00:42.95]Killin’ what we representin’
[00:44.74]Even our children and women, 2K4, livin’ above and under the law
[00:48.38]Young teen joins the marines, says he’ll die for the core
[00:51.45]Inducted up into the goverment’s war as if the land of money and oil
[00:55.59]Funny how ain’t none of it yours
[00:57.62]I can’t sleep yo I’m paranoid, it’s code orange
[01:00.58]It’s far from right, I guess that’s why it feels so wrong
[01:02.93]To see the world get stripped out of every resource
[01:06.18]And people pray to Coca-Cola now instead of the gods
[01:09.06]What’s goin’ on?
[01:10.03]WHY? (6 x’s)
[01:31.97]Keepin’ your head above water, hustlin’ to survive
[01:35.17]Some people chasin’ a dream, others just chasin’ a high
[01:37.85]Some people blind leading the blind, they chasin’ a lie
[01:40.66]Some people chokin’ backs broken barely makin’ it by
[01:43.56]But still they workin’ all they live, they pushin’ for the light
[01:46.35]Givin’ everything they got to stitch them swishes on ya Nike’s
[01:48.96]Puttin’ pockets on our jeans, mining diamonds for them rings
[01:52.22]Rewarded with small change and bullets in the brains
[01:55.29]And it makes me feel strange everything we take for granted
[01:58.03]At times I feel stranded on this planet of mine
[02:00.85]Now should I pull the hammer, clap it out, and laugh about it
[02:03.74]Or stand up, be counted while I cast my ballot
[02:06.78]When the undertaker’s busy and the prison’s is crowded
[02:09.53]People livin’ in fear because they vision is clouded
[02:12.62]But the sky’s the limit, I ain’t cryin’ you a river
[02:15.34]Gotta move me a mountain, I’m a git up and shout it
[02:18.00]WHY? (6 x’s)
[02:41.08]When I dream it’s hounds on my heels gainin’ momentum
[02:43.87]I’m tired, can’t get uninspired or quit runnin’
[02:46.62]I can feel they only inches behind, I escape, I survive
[02:50.23]Some how I gotta decide how much I want it
[02:52.82]Or is anybody listenin’ without a pot to piss in
[02:55.41]If I disappear I wonder if the world will know I’m missin’
[02:57.89]Who my support system, it’s not the court system
[03:01.11]Gotta letter it said that you’re not avoiding prison
[03:04.13]People ‘neath the microscope ’cause we defining the culture
[03:06.87]They smile and insult you like you shinin’ their loafers
[03:09.65]Them old heads say we need a modern day Moses
[03:12.92]When the leaders is posers we needing some soldiers
[03:15.92]It’s the X generation, The anger is a nature
[03:18.48]Got the writing on the wall so clear that I can taste it
[03:20.89]Like a kid sniffing glue somewhere trying to escape
[03:24.20]Cause we vulnerable and naked
[03:26.13]Gotta show ’em we can make it
[03:27.46]WHY? (hook repeats out)
[04:15.86]Year of Release: 2004