History Lyrics - The Ecstatic - Mos Def

Kweli say, "Everybody act according to the season that they born in" 

Some are the night, some are the morning, some at noon 

Some in winter, some in June 

It's our code, it's the natural 

The science is a joke 

For me and mines, yours and you 

Let's move, tell you a little about mine, yo 

I was born in a season where the world was quiet and cold 

Celebrations were going on 

Some were happy, some were sad 

Some felt bad from being good 

Some felt good from being bad, feelings pass and change 

But they never leave, they here to stay 

Holiday, holiday, happy birthday 

Teenage love, the first cut run deep 

Soul on flesh, this is the Brooklyn streets 

Year of the Ox, seven and three 

M.D., the history (come on) 

Every soul's got one of these (yes) 

It's where you been and where you be 

And without understanding you cannot proceed 

Complete, the start and the end 

Then it just go round again 

Again and again, brand new 

Again and again, so fresh 

Again and again, newness 

I was born in the decade of decadence where they worship what they have 

Ford was president, do the math 

The war was ended when the Vietnamese stormed the city of Saigon 

We was like, bye; we was gone, let bygones be bygones 

I'm gone, spread love, it's the Brooklyn way 

Where the hug you with the firearm, try it on 

Like new school clothes, Black Star official 

Smash when we do a show, it's facts, no mystery 

I'm down with the crew like Mussolini in Italy 

I rock with the Roots like the Giving Tree 

Powerful, bigotry at work, me and my people got history 

These rappers dumb it down considerably 

We get it poppin' like a hit chorus 

The flow is historic, they can't get rid of us 

Ubiquitous, and we lay the law like Leviticus 

Ten years ago we made history so they missing us