[ti:Park Bench People]
[ar:Freestyle Fellowship]
[al:Inner City Griots]
[by:]
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[00:00.00]Park Bench People - Freestyle Fellowship
[00:38.02]I see an old man
[00:39.35]Sittin' on a park bench
[00:41.11]Lookin' in the skies when
[00:42.88]He can see the mouth-stench
[00:45.92]Of the range
[00:46.54]Of the people
[00:47.08]Walkin'
[00:47.27]And talkin'
[00:47.71]Nonsense
[00:51.21]In the park
[00:53.37]I see a man
[00:54.66]Sittin' there
[00:56.23]With a newspaper
[00:56.75]Under his head and hair
[00:58.16]I think
[00:58.93]He would be down for me
[01:00.35]To tell him
[01:00.96]That he'd been waiting 'round here
[01:02.34]For all
[01:03.89]Of his life and
[01:06.09]It took time
[01:07.00]For the soul to come
[01:08.44]When it came
[01:09.33]I saw the same
[01:10.46]Old scene
[01:11.09]Over and over again
[01:12.37]My friend
[01:13.31]People's talkin' and squackin' in
[01:14.24]The park
[01:15.33]And
[01:16.11]Sittin' on a bench
[01:17.59]Thinkin' 'bout things
[01:18.88]I think of all the
[01:20.11]People of the park
[01:22.57]Sleepin' in the street
[01:24.50]Livin' from their hearts
[01:26.15]Sleepin' in the street
[01:27.92]Livin's kinda hard
[01:29.60]Sleepin' in the street
[01:31.35]People fall apart
[01:33.55]There's a park bench
[01:34.75]That's painted
[01:35.44]Black and white
[01:37.85]And when you
[01:38.43]Sleep there
[01:40.56]It won't get wet when you wake up
[01:43.18]Because the trees are withered
[01:45.92]And so you dry in the sunlight
[01:48.98]You sit there and you
[01:51.30]Prepare to make
[01:52.37]A move
[01:52.84]And so you go through
[01:54.04]Each and every can
[01:56.05]Lookin' inside
[01:56.83]Tryin' to see somethin'
[01:57.81]That you didn't
[01:59.00]See last night
[02:00.33]Wantin' to get somethin' to eat
[02:01.92]And you go down the street
[02:05.88]You see some friends of yours
[02:07.44]And then they all speak
[02:08.90]Sayin' what's happenin' man
[02:10.74]You sleepin' in the park again
[02:12.78]Yeah nothin' but a survival thang
[02:14.43]You know what I'm sayin'
[02:15.39]Insha'Allah
[02:15.60]Then again my friend
[02:16.70]All they want to
[02:18.32]Do is play you
[02:20.05]Like you are a fool
[02:21.79]But I know better
[02:23.67]You're safe from school
[02:25.32]Through this stay cool
[02:27.08]Mark you are mis-skewed
[02:28.75]An' now I know better
[02:29.83]I maintain black
[02:31.27]We'll overcome
[02:35.21]In the Sun
[02:37.00]On the bench
[02:37.94]In the park
[02:38.64]Where you lay
[02:39.47]When it's dark
[02:40.29]And it's wet
[02:42.23]Cuz it's raining on you
[02:44.06]You have newspapers and you'd like to go home
[02:47.54]But you can't
[02:48.45]Cuz you just got put out
[02:50.53]On your own
[02:53.23]You're thinkin' 'bout your kids
[02:54.99]You're thinkin' 'bout your girl
[02:56.68]You're thinkin' of all the
[02:57.70]Things you did
[03:00.33]You see the children play
[03:02.05]You hear the people barely look at you
[03:03.87]Laughing while they
[03:04.45]Run away
[03:07.48]Sleeping in the street
[03:09.34]Living from the heart
[03:14.57]Sleeping in the street
[03:16.27]People fall apart
[03:19.31]In the park
[03:21.05]Where are
[03:23.63]They's every people
[03:24.81]Walkin' round
[03:25.24]Lookin' at themselves far
[03:26.80]As if they were somethin'
[03:28.57]But they ain't nothin'
[03:29.71]They frontin'
[03:30.11]Not a people nowhere standing
[03:31.69]Aw these people are something
[03:34.51]Earth
[03:35.23]Perched on
[03:35.78]The edge of all time
[03:36.81]And yet they search
[03:38.48]For drums imperial dreams
[03:39.89]Similarly so barred
[03:41.12]Can't buy my soul
[03:42.21]Won't sell my soul
[03:43.11]To the Devil
[03:43.69]On the other level
[03:44.37]Never
[03:44.60]With another rebel
[03:45.20]Under trouble
[03:45.75]Aw no
[03:46.58]I'll never see you go down
[03:49.26]My people can't go down
[03:50.99]Oh no