No Roots - Straight No Chaser

I like digging holes and hiding things inside them When I grow old, I hope I won't forget to find them 'Cause I've got memories and travel like gypsies in the night I build a home and wait for someone to tear it down Then pack it up in boxes, head for the next town running 'Cause I've got memories and travel like gypsies in the night And a thousand times I've seen this road A thousand times I've got no roots, but my home was never on the ground I've got no roots, but my home was never on the ground I've got no roots I've got no roots I like standing still, but that's just a wishful plan Ask me where I come from, I'll say a different land But I've got memories and travel like gypsies in the night I count gates and numbers, then play the guessing game It's just the place that changes, the rest is still the same But I've got memories and travel like gypsies in the night And a thousand times I've seen this road A thousand times I've got no roots, but my home was never on the ground I've got no roots, but my home was never on the ground I've got no roots I've got no roots I've got no roots, but my home was never on the ground I've got no roots, but my home was never on the ground I've got no roots I've got no roots I like digging holes Hiding things inside them When I grow old I won't forget to find them I like digging holes Hiding things inside them When I grow old I won't forget to find them I've got no roots I've got no roots, but my home was never on the ground I've got no roots, but my home was never on the ground I've got no roots I've got no roots

[Malik b] Check it out, one two M-illi-tant I be the, alias malik b Internationale rationale All the people up 68th ave. And across broad street Or silk lane in south philly And on, et cetera Check it out, check it out Chorus: the roots Here on this agenda, there is no pretenders So when we begin to assassinate your cast members Here on this agenda, there is no pretenders So when we begin to assassinate your cast members Verse one: malik b Dig it, cool calm collect in my perspective Search the premises, I leave no clues for detectives My verbal impact across your back slap You talk about you see me, but your vision's full of cataract It don't matter that, your glass house I shatter that Bad luck I walk under now show me where the ladder at Pull up the urinal organs up in your bladder cat Approachin you with shriller rhetoric, as if you had a sac Now crews down for it, your gas pedal floor it With ammo and artillery and stash spots to keep and store it I used the banner of a slant with a zort Change your strategic plan, my man's getting bored Your vocal chord is fraudulent, and not the true porcelain I bring the fire, earth, and the source of wind The force of sin will endorse the pen We all search for sanity, but I think that it was lost again Now which stick of artists, can be the smartest My beam of sunlight shines the brightest in the forest Regardless, artists dislike because I'm? Control the temper, makin mc's whimper I tilt the earth from off the axis in the center Next I'm in the womb like a placenta M-illi-tant the city ninja, uplift Cause I'm the soul avenger, remember I'm no great pretender Chorus 2x Verse two: black thought Strategis, I bet y'all niggaz can't believe this I read you like a whole avenue that's filled with meters Parked, fuck your back talk, I watch how niggaz cat-walk Over my pit of venom and send em to the asphault For inquisitives, who wanna try to test me What protects me, will make you shake like epilipsy Plague your neighborhood with lyrical le-prosy Stimulate more than ecstasy y'all niggaz check my recipe Dig it, I must observe it, analyze when I'm chillin Peep out who's the villain then make your whole pavillion Of a sicilian, excuse the greed don't want a mill' I want a zillion - stacks of franklins to the ceiling I counts stacks imported, fuck the yacht and the mansion I want pluto and jupiter, political, universal expansion Buy out tommy and halle hanson Kidnap america,? you hold it for ransom Pass it down to my grandson, I got no time to be romancin Only time's for mental food and advancement This game of life is strictly chancein - get to know The nature before I get know the nigga while I'm glancing Enhancing, is my mental - I play in the midst A squad a team most crews is not in the halfs of rentals My utensils, display a whole variety Even when in the cut niggaz can't cut they anxiety Peep, I fill your brain with suspicion, pay attention Like you paid tuition, and stop all your bull-ishin The rap chemist in the lab to the finish The mic is my apprentice, cause I can't stand Courts or tennis, my pigmentation is the menace That's why the system's always tryin to pursue with a blemish Pale asses, think a nigga in this My flow's tremendous, for the meal you can't replenish The question you ask me, situation get worse Fam I won't befriend ya, cause I'm no great pretender Chorus 2x [Malik b] It's like that, one time for your mind Fifth dynasty, interwine and combine M-illi-tant The bad lieuten-ant One hundred x, bahamadia Minds and souls, like that Fifth dynast', my man?, p.r. star My man slick looka Check it out, one time like that Feel the fifth The one-fifth attack Your backbone and spine Check it out Brother q.u.e.s.t. South philly,?

Chorus: If you seen it or heard it, maybe probably I did it Maybe or maybe not, I'll admit what I committed Exhibit the truth because I'm living proof why I had no disguises, no verdicts, no alibis (Malik b) Look into my window, tell me what you see M-ill-i-tant school of philosophy When niggaz get dealt wit mental velocity Connect my sentences and thoughts like apostrophes We represent hypocracy, it ain't no stopping me Until I fulfill the term of my prophecy My attitude is scarred by this inner-city urban Iller dolo stress on my brain just like a turban Who get grazed by the bullet? Triggers, who's quick to pull it? The anti-bullshitter, islamic extortioner You're the forfeiter unfortunately Niggaz who wanna gyp me I cause humidity so come and get me I'm simply, the cat to lay back I chill and what you The silent ninja Intends to injure, now I got you Sanity was lost so now I'm found insane I'm seeking streets to jeeps Hours, days, to weeks I even speak to geeks I hold my fortune, it's sweet I'm discreet in the streets, but that's just the way I play though I lay low, but over your head just like a halo Hell's angel, these thoughts you cannot untangle When I drop jewels, niggaz they wear 'em like a bangel Check it out One time for your mind like that Chorus2x (Black thought) Look into my window tell me what you see Lieutenant university of philosophy While you not possibly escaping what I'm meditating My shackle of thought tackle you while I'm educating Your dome's resonating from inhalation of darkness While I spark the smart shit from what you waiting Since you waiting me at the top of the pile Wild delaware file, pennsylvanian, sub-terranean style Step up into my crevice and taste the medicine of the champagne King like evelyn leaving you leveled and Sabatoged, it's all camaflouge like the devil and guns And coke peddling, olympic medaling flashback That of a war veteran, blast at The programmer bringing lashes 'cross your back On some accuracy of a brainwashed bosnian troop That swooped down through your roof without sound On a lyrical nat turner mission, reacting off of intuition Continuously alert, no intermission If your ears hurt, you shouldn't listen That means you artificial and my style'll poison your brain tissue Your inanes are crippled once the gamma rays hit you My grains habitual and I should never go against The ritual I've been mastering ever since I was among the flavor youth, remain sharper than a saber tooth My deliverance is self-evidance Vi-tal, lyri-cal science Now! Chorus2x (Black thought) Who knows what you snorted Or who support what you recorded But don't get it distorted, in this orbit you're aborted ?, shit's imported, exported Styles, they get sported my paragraphs aortic behold The illest medely got you in the choke hold Illadel epilouge, top league plus plush in vogue Slice tongues from your area code Student of life with the rugged exterior mode Blind a devil with the bold black and gold shine I walk the thin line and hold mine, let the people respond It's mind detect mind Swine decline let the power refine Build like it's 1999 In this day and time The reptillion rooms, the sextillion tons Your armageddon gwan come from the sun Untouchable cuts that's unclutchable for some to understand So y'all sit back and wonder damn I like to take this time to show you who I am Original man, black thought, aka lieutenant Malik b'll be the m-ill-i-tant Known to vanish in the atmosphere We up there like the stratos Chorus