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Footprints-A Tribe Called Quest |
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As we start trudging |
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Me and my brothers we be looking and be bugging |
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Vehicles of life they be rolling and be nudging |
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Searching for the virgins of life |
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That be shoving out the door that's crack |
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The valleys of time, are always on my feet |
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As least the beat will combine |
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The calluses and corns with the funky bassline |
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You don't need Underdog for a nickel shoeshine or the shoes that's phat |
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But can I get a level on the bass and on the treble? |
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Footing up and down like a UNLV Rebel |
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The answer be amongst us 'cause we rarely dig acoustics |
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Can't be too much flacking, not too much packing |
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You must container that at least to dip your hand in rap |
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Your feet will be infectious so at least realize the fact |
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The rhythms are inserted and the nurse can be converted |
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This ain't rock 'n' roll 'cause the rap is in control |
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If you're a megastar, words will buy you a car |
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I'd rather go barefooting, for prints I will be putting |
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All over the earth if we can get there first |
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Now that we are in it, footprints are being printed |
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So if you recognize 'em, you can try to size 'em |
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They'll probably be the ones with the size nine flying |
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All over the field, you won't have to yield |
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If you want protection you can hide behind the shield |
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And the musician often tries to capture the new thing so that we might have melody and have rhythm as we do our thing |
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It's rough and tough in this ghetto, a lot of funny stuff going down but you got to walk tall. Walk tall! |
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You can game on the gallons if you really need to rock |
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But we walk while we talk as we stomping through the block |
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Hand in hand 'cross the land as Muhammad cross the fade |
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It's a Tribe who meanders, precious like a jade |
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It's a art, Theo arch rhymes the ground placed upon |
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The mind will unwind, it will soft to beyond |
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Catch the track, track by track, get a map to track a trail |
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You will find yourself behind for a map does not prevail |
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See the levels peaking as the rhythms keep-a screeching |
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A Quest, oh yes a Quest, inside the jam I will keep preaching |
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The point, oh yes the point, because it's close but yet so far |
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The liveliness is mean as we scoot across the star |
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We are bulging, I'm indulging in a rat-a-tat-tat |
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Explanation for the line is that the rhythm is phat |
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Keep it wild, wide and deep, you could dig it in a Jeep |
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But dig it in the ground because the footprint now |
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Walk tall! |
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If there's a storm that's brewing, it won't keep us from doing |
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Our thing as we start swinging, travelling is bringing |
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Joy inside the domes as we hit the road to Rome |
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A chair is not a chair, a house is not a home |
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Because my skin is brown, yo I'm gonna do the town |
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Rub it in the face and rub my feet all through the place |
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When you get your finger on the music it'll linger |
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Sing a song o' sixpence, sing it like a singer |
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A Nubian, a Nubian, a proud one at that |
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Remember me, the brother who said "Black is black" |
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You can come while we Quest, I don't play, I don't jest |
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Get emotions off your chest, we are Black, we been blessed |
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Making moves, making motions, flowing like an ocean |
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The walking will continue, we know that we will bring you |
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The times that you have waited, more anticipated |
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Be gone but not for long because the feet will stay strong |
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