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This song says, "Brothers from 17th
Street love to get down, " and if you
Do, come on and join us doctor done
Brought rhythm to the hub man
Hands-on rhythm
Some brother man got stick rhythm, 180 B, 360
Degrees gonna add a few more ingredients
Gonna get a little bass, little flute, drums

Favorite brother Robert Gordon on the bass
And the king Larry, our
Rhythm master from JA, on percussion
And we leave you with this idea here, say

Yeah, say you don't have be in no hurry
You don't ever really have to worry
You don't have to think about how you feel

He was groovin'
and that was when he coulda sworn
the room was movin'
But that was only in his mind
He was sailin'
he never really seemed to notice
vision failin'
'cause that was all part of the high

And now it's time
To gather all the things we need to fly
To better days ahead just wave goodbye
We've better things to do now, you and I
In better days ahead just take my hand
You're the one I need to understand
For better days ahead with you, I can stand
As long as you respect me as your man

The economy is in an uproar
The whole damn countries is in the red
Tax and fairs are going up
You say, "Billy Green is dead"?
The government can't decide on bussin'
or at least thats what they said

Yea I heard you, when you told me

Brother Man nowadays living in the ghetto
Where the danger's sure enough real
Well when he's out late at night
and if he's got his head on right
Well, I lay you 9 to 5 he's walking with steal.

Brother Man says he's 'fraid of gangsters
Messing with people just for fun

A junkie walking through the twilight
I'm on my way home
I left three days ago, but no one seems to know I'm gone
Home is where the hatred is
Home is filled with pain and it
Might not be such a bad idea if I never, never went home again

Stand as far away from me as you can and ask me why

Me And The Devil
Early this mornin', when you knocked upon my door
Early this mornin', when you knocked upon my door
And I said, "Hello Satan, I believe it's time to go"

Me and the devil, walkin' side by side
Me and the devil, walkin' side by side
And I'm goin' to see my woman, until I get satisfied

Yeah the doctors don't know, but New York was killing me,
Bunch of doctors coming round, they don't know
That New York is killing me
Yeah I need to go home and take it slow in Jackson, Tennessee

Let me tell ya fast city ain't living all
It's cracked up to be
Fast city living it all

Peace go with you, brother
Though I ain't so proud anymore
Peace go with you brother
Recognition don't come cheap anymore
You're my lawyer, you're my doctor
Yea, but somehow you've forgot about me
And now, now when I see you
All I can say is: Peace go with you brother

If you're driving through the country on a lazy afternoon
Or you're watching your children playin' after school
They seem to be so unaware of I know I know
The things that they soon have to take care of

We got to do something yeah to save the children
Soon it will be their test to try and save the world
Right now they seem to play such a small part of

C'mon everybody got to get it up everyone

Did you feel that rumble?
Did you hear that sound?
Well, it wasn't no earthquake
But it shook the ground
It made me think about power, like it or not
I got to work for earth for what it's worth

See that black boy over there, runnin' scared
His ol' man's in a bottle
He done quit his 9 to 5 to drink full time
So now he's livin' in the bottle

See that Black boy over there, runnin' scared
His ol' man got a problem
Pawned off damn near everything, his ol'

Kick it, quit it home
Told him, kick it, quit it, can't go home
I know when they told me, kick it, quit it
Can't go home
Feeling so much worse now, kick it, quit it
Gotta go home yeah, my friends say "stop"
Told myself a 100 times I'm going stop
Yeah, my friends say "quit it"

"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"

You will not be able to stay home, brother.
You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out.
You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and
skip out for beer during commercials,
Because the revolution will not be televised.

Symbols of democracy
Pinned up against the coast
Outhouse of bureaucracy, surrounded by a moat
Citizens of poverty are barely out of sight
Overlords escape in the evening with
People of the night
Morning brings the tourists
Peering eyes and rubber necks

It stands out on a highway
like a Creature from another time.
It inspires the babies' questions,
"What's that?"
For their mothers as they ride.
But no one stopped to think about the babies
or how they would survive,
and we almost lost Detroit

You always go out of your way to impress me
Don't you know by now, ain't no need to impress me
I'm impressed every time you smile
When I feel like you mean to smile

You can be so very beautiful
When you are who you are

A rat done bit my sister Nell
With Whitey on the moon
Her face and arms began to swell
And Whitey's on the moon

I can't pay no doctor bills
But Whitey's on the moon
Ten years from now I'll be paying still