Before He Walked
Talib Kweli

Like a medicine in times of war, helps me get over

The sweetest sounds I ever heard, my joy, my heart, my music

Like a medicine in times of war, helps me get over

The sweetest sounds I ever heard, my joy, my life, my music

I'm from a small city, but I have big dreams

Had some good ideas, but I had better schemes

I thought the hustle way for me was etched in stones

Until my pun to dime and name etched in stone

My daughter's growing up, my son on his way

They closing in on me, I feel like every day

Music saves me, soothing like the navy

But a lifetime of scars only sixteen bars

So I took the vibe with me using my life

Yep, I propose the main music my wife

If ever need to call a nigga music's my night

And if I need to bring the girls together music's my dice

If I degraded and I haven't even cried to

I watch purpose prophesize about going through

Music ain't the knowledge itself

And I'm the knowledge itself, then I acknowledge your wealth

Like a medicine in times of war, helps me get over

The sweetest sounds I ever heard, my joy, my heart, my music

Like a medicine in times of war, helps me get over

The sweetest sounds I ever heard, my joy, my life, my music

Music a part of me, I'm a bully

Beating up the track with brutal lines

The truth inside of me, rappers hit the booth and they lie to me

I'm using the inspiration that they provide to me

I'm redefining the space, you can call me the new geometry

A picture of you, papa, when I google monogamy

Now all the people who go irresponsibly

Thinking your album is trash is not the root of economy

So you're expecting the conscious and introspect of use

Each of lyrical vestibule, let me tell you what's best for you

My music gives you a message true or respect is due

But music is emotion, that's lost for me intellectual

A tree in form of a far is never heard

Amongst the sparrows and the robbers and even the ghetto birds

You download it for free but what I create the same

Of course you're nothing but a pair in making, trust me

Like a medicine in times of war, helps me get over

The sweetest sounds I ever heard, my joy, my heart, my music

Like a medicine in times of war, helps me get over

The sweetest sounds I ever heard, my joy, my life, my music

I was born on the afterbeat, I'm like ron for Johnson

When you reach the crossroads me and the devil have to meet

It's all the same thing as clever Lauryn when they saw it

Lauryn went, looking for God and 'Clef kept tourin'

Willing to the same songs but we hear them different

Serenade the death like we got a fear of living

Having the sounds on stage cause the spirit rising

Stop the devilish ways where clever displays the lyricism

The songs are a natural resource of actual street stories

Attract the police forces

Slay to the rhythm the masses that rip off us

And he could run before he walked


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  \   2000 Seasons   A Game   A Game   Abra Cadabra   Africa Dream   After The Rain   Ain\u2019t Waiting   Around My Way   Around My Way   Art Imitates Life   Astronomy (8th Light)   Back Again   Back It Up   Back Up Offa Me   Back Up Offa Me   Ballad Of The Black Gold   Beast   Beautiful Struggle   Big Nel from Da Natti   Black Girl Pain   Bridge To Bama(HI Tek Remix)   Brown Skin Lady   Celebration Flow   Chaos   Children's Story   City Playgrounds   Cold Rain   Colors Of You   Come Here   Come Here feat. Miguel   Country Cousins   Definition   Delicate Flowers   Demonology   Distractions   Down For The Count   Drugs, Basketball & Rap   Due Process [Instrumental]   Eat to Live   Eternalists   Everything Man   Everywhere I Go   Expansion Dedication   Favela Love   Favela Love feat. Seu Jorge   Fly That Knot   Friends & Family   Fuck The Money   Funny Money   Game   Get Back Pt. II   Get By   Ghetto Afterlife   Ghetto Show   Ghetto Show - Anthony Hamilton   Go With Us   Going Hard   Good Mourning   Good to You   Got Work   Great Expectations   Guerilla Monsoon Rap   Guerrilla Monsoon Rap   Gun Music   Gutter Rainbows   Hamster Wheel   Hater Players   Hell   High Life feat. Rubix Cube & Bajah   Hold It Now   Holy Moly   Hostile Gospel Pt. 1 (Deliver Us)   Hostile Gospel, Pt. 1 (Deliver Us)   Hostile Gospel, Pt1 (Deliver Us)   Hostile Gospel, Pt2 (Deliver Me)   Hot Thing   How You Love Me   I Try   I Try   I Try   I Try - Mary Jblige   I Try [Instrumental]   I\u2019m On One   In the Mood   In The Red   In This World   Inner Monologue   Intro   It Only Gets Better   It's Like That   Joy   Just Begun (Ft. Jay Electronica, J Cole & Mos Def)   K.o.s. (determination)   Keynote Speaker   Kindness for Weakness   Let Me See (Remix)   Lifting Off   Listen   Listen!!!   Lonely People   Long Hot Summer   Lord Of The Light   Love Language   Lover's Peak   Make It Classy   Memories Live   Midnight Hour   Mood Swing   More or Less   Move Somethin'   Move Something   Ms Hill   Ms. Hill   My Life   Name Of The Game   Nature   Never Been In Love   New Leaders   Niggas Lie Alot   NY Weather Report   Old School   On My Way   Outstanding   Palookas   Perfect Beat   Purest Hearts   Push Thru   Put It In The Air   Raise the Bar   Rare Portraits   Ready Set Go   Ready Set Go feat. Melanie Fiona   Real Women   Respiration   Right About Now   Rocket Ships   Rocket Ships feat. Busta Rhymes   Rush   Say Something   Self Savior   Sharp Shooters   Sharp Shooters   Shock Body   So Good   So Low   Some Kind Of Wonderful   Soon A New Day   Soon the New Day   Soul Music   Space Fruit   Space Fruit (Interlude)   Stand to the Side   State of Grace   Stay Around   Strangers   Supreme, Supreme   Talib Kweli Come Here feat. Miguel. Off of Talib ...   Talk To You (lil' Darlin')   Tater Tot   Testify   The Beast   The Blast   The Nature   The Nature (Feat. Justin Timberlake)   The Nature [*]   The Perfect Beat   The Proud   The Show   The Wormhole   Theives In The Night   This Means You   This Means You (Ft. Mos Def)   Too Late   Twice Inna Lifetime   Two & Two   Uh Oh   Upper Echelon   Violations   Wait For You   Waitin' For The Dj   We Got the Beat   We Got the Beat   We Know   We Know - Faith Evans   What I Feel   What's Real   Where Do We Go   Work It Out   Work It Out

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