Some Seek Stardom Lyrics - The Fugees

Check the crippled man, sitting in the church 

My conscience hurts, flesh like me hits the dirt 

She's paralyzed from her feet to her thighs 

And the man who pulled the trigger didn't even lose his necktie 

Hi, I check Jimmy cutting hair at the barbershop 

He plays the bass guitar, like David plays the harp 

His knowledge name is Greek, cause whenever he speaks 

He's got the wisdom of King Solomon bags in his eyes from no sleep 

Sometimes he thought of the fame in Madison Square Garden 

So some seek stardom, but they forget Harlem 

But seeking first of all the kingdom of God is what my pops told me 

So if I fall, could the choir catch me 

I flew away, on a mountain, got tempted by Satan 

Got bitten by a cobra, but the Lord took my venom 

So who's side am I on? I'm on the righteous 

Always check the lyrics, no time to contradict 

[Chorus] 

Some seek stardom, then they forget Harlem [Repeat: x3] 

They, brothers, sisters, families, people, we, brothers 

Keep their pockets full, but their souls run empty 

Well aiyyo family I beseech you, in the hopes that I may reach you 

My mother taught me one day that this mid-day would come someday 

Born to talk that jive, with peaky hair grown wild 

And teachers disliked me, cause I knew where my culture be 

So now yeah mom I read history, I can't neglect my passion see 

Rock it's kind of new to me, cause my true love was poetry 

White was good and bad was black but black was just a massa lackey 

Built for that B. Nimble Jack and I'd like to save you from the wicked 

D-Dog clear I wouldn't be wet 

The black to mourn, tomorrow's death 

The evil things, glad that I, while angels wrote this violence why? 

Help me make me comprehend my black berserk and why cast it 

Time to blaze the angels nappy heads are braided that you make me 

See what's hard for me that don't make you flee 

When I enter your vicinity, you see my God ain't never after me 

So yo I be wised up with Greek 

To go and be, the last and good and see what's wrong with me 

And through your insecurity of me and my ability 

So bredren won't you let me be or has thou asked to much from thy 

To tell the truth and not to lie? Oh my 

[Chorus: x2] 

But as I grew, I knew cause the master told me 

From a baby to a woman from a woman to a baby 

Life is so short, hardcore becomes hard-corpse 

Step in a coffin where the money's no longer the source 

There we go, there we go, there we go 

I got mine now won't you get yours, we never open doors 

So we neglect, and don't protect the ones that's not 

People never really seem to care 

And then they cry out, "My people! Why aren't we treated equal?" 

As we flee, we flee our own communities 

We leave our family in poverty 

And then we blame it on another, so family please recover 

Oh see'mon please come now with you can come with me now and blow now 

If you want to, we're through 

[Chorus: x4]