Long And Whining Road Lyrics

Long And Whining Road lyrics

[verse 1]



Its been a long and whining road

Even though time
keeps a changin

Ima bring it all back home

I been told i spit
lyrics wit politics

Why wouldnt i?

Says negro on my birth
certificate



Born in 1960 in a nation

Throughout / ive been a
spokesperson

For a generation

Within the same ol fear of a black
planet

20 years of blood sweat and no tears for fanatics



So
damn it

If times is hard

Time is god

Understand it

Never took time for granted

Its all right ma

As child of the
sixties

All along the watchtower

I cant bet they gonna miss me



Im only bleeding

Every grain in me

Fans if not for you

There be no pe

From the nashville skyline

Girls in south
country

In this world gone wrong

So heres another love song



[verse 2]



We came a long way baby

You know whats
amazin

The surprise we told these new guys

Flav has always been
crazy

Hit london 87 like it was an invasion

Toured the world for 3
years

Hell with vacation

Vocation of vocalization

Especially
with the impact of it takes a nation

Of millions to hold us back

You bet theres blood on them bomb squad tracks

Black steel , baseheads,
party for your right to fight

Prophets of rage , bring the noise

Dont believe the hype

Cant do nuttin for you man

911 is a
joke

20 years we got here by actin like common folk

Touring the
world like a rolling stone

Then the nineties came

Welcomed yall to
the terrordome

Some threw it away , instead of something to say

Cause the streets still ended up havin no names

Since rebel without a
pause beats were never the same

And by 1998 we still had game.



[verse 3]



Only a pawn in the game

Chastised for namin
names

What was said and who said it

Anti nothing so forget it

Tears of rage left a friend

Blowin in the wind

But time is
god

Been back for 10 years and black again

Some of them same
cats

Help usher in gangster rap

Damn our interviews were better
than a lotta them acts.

Praised the gangsta

Just because it
sold

While consciousness

Went from platinum to gold

Seen a
nation reduce fight the power to gin and juice

Some people gave it up and
turned it loose.



[verse 4]



Beethoven, bach brahms

I want some james brown

Even bruce, brian, bono, beck, yeah chuck
berry

Prince stevie sly smokey johnny cash in my chevy

Heard some
call me an uncle tom

Now thats petty

I'm a songwriter fool

I
condense sense from right and wrong

Livin in the key of protest songs

From basement tapes

Beyond them dollars and cents

Changin of the
guards spent

Where the--went

Most of their time out of mind

Hatin my mess age rhymes

Cant truss it, shut em down call it whatcha
wanna

But they made a day fit for a king

By the time we got to
arizona



Tommorrows a long time

We got god on our side

Over bass and drum beats hear the good rhymes ride

A poison goin on

Shelter from the storm

Hard rain gonna fall

Still the people rock
on.