[00:00.000] 作词 : Davis
[00:09.940]Back in the days when I was a teenager
[00:12.277]Before I had status and before I had a pager
[00:14.929]You could find the Abstract listenin' to hip-hop
[00:17.476]My pops used to say, it reminded him of Bebop
[00:20.037]I said, "Well, Daddy, don't you know that things go in cycles?
[00:22.516]Way that Bobby Brown is just amping like Michael"
[00:24.980]It's all expected, things are for the lookin'
[00:27.532]If you got the money, Quest is for the bookin'
[00:30.037]Come on everybody, let's get with the fly mode
[00:32.595]Still got room on the truckload of black boom
[00:35.072]Listen to the rhymes, then get a mental picture
[00:37.439]Of this black man, and black woman fixture
[00:40.036]Why do I say that? 'Cause I gotta speak the truth, man
[00:42.516]Doin' what we feel for the music is the proof, and
[00:45.244]Planted on the ground, the act is so together
[00:47.455]Bona fide strong, you need leverage to sever
[00:50.111]The unit, yes, the unit, yes, the unit called the jazz is
[00:52.501]Delivering each year an LP filled with street goods
[00:55.130]You can find it on your rack in your record store
[00:57.564]If you get the record, say your thoughts are adored
[01:00.105]And appreciated, 'cause we're ever so glad we made it
[01:03.016]We work hard, so we gotta thank God
[01:04.982]Dishin' out the plastic, do the dance till you're spastic
[01:07.680]If you diss it gets drastic
[01:10.878]Listen to the rhyme, 'cause it's time to make gravy
[01:12.680]If it moves your booty, then shake, shake it, baby
[01:15.146]All the way to Africa, A.K.A. the Motherland
[01:17.653]Stick out the left, then I'll ask for the other hand
[01:20.363]That's the right hand, Black man
[01:22.444]Only if you are noted as my man
[01:24.956]If I get the credit, then I think I deserve it
[01:27.799]If you fake moves, don't fix your mouth to word it
[01:30.269]Get in the zone of positivity, not negativity
[01:33.425]'Cause we gotta strive for longevity
[01:35.447]If you botch up, what's in that (ass)
[01:37.727](What?) A pair of Nikes, size ten-and-a-half
[01:41.326]We gotta make moves (words)
[01:43.350]Never, ever, ever could we fake moves (come on, come on)
[01:46.126]We gotta make moves (words)
[01:48.217]Never, ever, ever could we fake moves (come on, come on)
[01:51.055]We gotta make moves
[01:53.131]Never, ever, ever could we fake moves (come on, come on)
[01:56.267]We gotta make moves
[01:57.749]Never, ever, ever could we fake moves (come on, come on)
[02:01.674]"Time, time is a ship on a merciless sea
[02:05.037]Drifting toward an abyss of nothingness
[02:07.239]Until it can be recharted for its own destiny
[02:09.840]Time is an inanimate object paying and paying and paying for no justification for belief
[02:15.892]Time is dancing, boogalooing-away all memories of past"
[02:20.336]We gotta be a winner all the time
[02:22.416]Can't fall prey to a hip-hop crime
[02:24.736]With the **** raps and **** tracks we move blocks
[02:27.343]From the fly girlies to the hardest of the rocks
[02:29.671]Musically the Quest, is on the rise
[02:32.072]We on these excursions so you must realize
[02:34.664]That continually, I pop my Zulu (****)
[02:37.392]If you don't like it, get off the Zulu tip
[02:39.865]So what can you do in the times which exist
[02:42.369]You can't fake moves on your brother or your sis
[02:44.545]But if your sis is a (*****), brother is a jerk
[02:47.353]Leave 'em both alone and continue with your work
[02:49.771]Whatever it may be in today's society
[02:52.254]Everything is fair, least that's how it seems to me
[02:54.800]You must be honest and true to the next
[02:57.627]Don't be phony and expect one not to flex
[02:59.851]Especially if you rhyme, you have to live by the pen
[03:02.315]Your man is your man, then treat him like your friend
[03:05.515]All it is, is the code of the streets
[03:07.562]So listen to the knowledge being dropped over beats
[03:10.058]Beats that are hard, beats that are funky
[03:12.359]They could get you hooked like a crackhead junkie
[03:15.223]What you gotta do is know the Tribe is in the sphere
[03:17.452]The Abstract Poet, prominent like Shakespeare
[03:20.188](Or Edgar Allan Poe, or Langston Hughes, or...)
[03:21.847]We gotta make moves
[03:23.150]Never, ever, ever could we fake moves (come on, come on)
[03:26.430]We gotta make moves
[03:28.026]Never, ever, ever could we fake moves (come on, come on)
[03:31.406]We gotta make moves
[03:33.133]Never, ever, ever could we fake moves (come on, come on)
[03:36.421]We gotta make moves
[03:38.093]Never, ever, ever could we fake moves (come on, come on)
[03:40.678]"time is running out on black power advocates in the day and white thighed supporters at night
[03:45.124]Every time you see them, they're chasin' some white woman with their tongue hangin' out
[03:48.312]Time is running and passing, passing and running, running and passing, passing and running"