Long Time Lyrics - Game Theory - The Roots

Oh 

It's been a long, Long Time 

Since I been back around the way 

It's been a Long Time 

Let it spin, let it spin, let it spin 

Since I been back around your way 

It's been a Long Time 

Long Time, Long Time. 

Yeah, Struck by the luck of the draw 

Real life preservation what I'm hustlin' for 

My name Black Thought the definition of raw 

I was born in South Philly on a cement floor 

We had nothin' at all, I had to knuckle and brawl 

They swore I'd fall or be another brick in the wall 

Another life full of love that lost 

That's silly, this Philly 

Y'all really ain't stoppin' the boy 

With the pen like Willy on top of the hall 

Pure soul what the city most popular for 

Hear the tones that will ease you 

Smooth as Bunny Sigler's soundtrack 

Keepin' your head boppin' and all 

And it's somethin' in the water though 

/where I come from 

They used to sing it on the corner yo 

Where I come from 

Makin' somethin' outta nothin' 

Because everybody 50 cents away from a quarter 

Where I come from 

Yeah, the streets ain't timid but I feel at home in it 

Gotta see a couple people I ain't got at in a minute 

Yeah, you can take a brother outta South Philly 

Can't take it out of him really 

I forever represent it and it's 

Oh 

It's been a long, Long Time 

Since I been back around the way 

It's been a Long Time 

Let it spin, let it spin, let it spin 

Since I been back around your way 

It's been a Long Time 

Long Time, Long Time. 

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Pressure my word, I'm the urban vision of you chump 

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Synthesizers tweet to improvise your feet 

I calculated every lyric to arrive on beat 

It's free, come get high on me 

Before a 9 millimeter shell hit my pelle pelle in the P 

Yeah, it's somethin' in the water though 

Where I come from 

They used to sing it on the corner though 

Where I come from 

Makin' somethin' out of nothin' 

Because everybody 50 cents from a quarter 

Where I come from 

It's just a natural reaction for crack to make it happen 

Let the pen ink sink into the paper of the pad 

Think back, hen I was younger 

Ghetto could have took me under 

Young Peedi can't mess with North Philly 

Never had, you don't know about me 

You ain't stroll my streets 

I look familiar, I feel ya 

Long time no see 

Photos 

Oh 

It's been a long, Long Time 

Since I been back around the way 

It's been a Long Time 

Let it spin, let it spin, let it spin 

Since I been back around your way 

It's been a Long Time 

Long Time, Long Time. 

Uh, clap somethin' but whatever you clap 

Clap to the record spinnin' while I'm takin' you back 

To the top paper era, baby dig on that 

Picture the pool room where the money getters was at 

And street people with the feathers in the cap of their bossolino 

Pullin' paper in as if it's a small casino 

I was a young boy sweepin' the floors and runnin' to stores 

But all those old heads would talk to me though 

About the way to clutch the Eagle on a buck and tuck 

And if I'm down how to get back up, just survival kid 

And it's the struggle worldwide, I'm positive 

Shit the ghetto might as well be the Gaza Strip 

You know where all of the monsters is 

You don't see no consciousness 

Street walkers 

I'm comin' back to where the core of the problem is 

We on the job again, y'all know what time it is 

Oh 

It's been a long, Long Time 

Since I been back around the way 

It's been a Long Time 

Let it spin, let it spin, let it spin 

Since I been back around your way 

It's been a Long Time 

Long Time, Long Time.