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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Ladies and gentlemen,
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I want to invite you on a journey
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I sincerely hope you are in
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a mood to travel right now
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'Cause we're going back in time
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Verse 2
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I wanna take you way back
To when a girl on a mike?s worth
Wasn't determined by
the length of her skirt
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I mean way back to creativity before MTV,
before BET
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way back before recycling shit
When the props that you got was
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for your writing and shit
Let's rewind before the hype
when you used to be low key
To be a singer you had to actually know key
Verse 4
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I mean way back to before
people made a job
Of seeing who's best at impersonating Bob
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I mean way back to when you
sweat blood on every line
To get one good song didn't
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cost sixteen ninety nine
Verse 5
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To be considered deep you had
to actually say stuff
And if it wasn't good,
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disc jockeys didn't play stuff
I mean way way,
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Marvin Gaye way back and I pray that you will
Verse 6
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let us journey past this melody
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Give us room to exercise our minds
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Take me to another place, another time,
better hooks, better rhymes
Stronger lyrics every line,
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you could even press rewind
Verse 7
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let us journey past this fallacy
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Give us room to exercise our minds
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Take you to another place, another time,
better hooks, better rhymes
Stronger lyrics every line,
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you could even press rewind
Verse 8
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Well, it?s ironic that the
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Got me singing shit that's
That it?s affecting my judgment is
what some people would hope
But I'm not tripping, I'm on a journey,
come along now let's float
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used to be excited going
to the record store
But these days I stay pacing the floor
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Somebody please take me back to when
the artistes were poor
'Cause when they made less
they gave us so much more
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let's take it back to a ballroom,
cloudy microphone
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Smokey Robinson, Nina Simone
James Brown was still
occupying the throne
When the songs weren't
Verse 11
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Way back to when a star
attitude wasn't defined
To when it was a pleasure
definitely not a task
To greet a fan with a smile and
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sign a damn autograph
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I mean
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used to drive the Maybach
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You dreamt about a mil
but never made that
When you made some shit that
we could play back
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?nother time
Further back than your
I mean way back,
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won't you say that you will
Verse 14
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let us journey past this melody
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Give us room to exercise our minds
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Take me to another place, another time,
better hooks, better rhymes
Stronger lyrics every line,
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you could even press rewind
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let us journey past this fallacy
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Give us room to exercise our minds
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Take you to another place, another time,
better hooks, better rhymes
Stronger lyrics every line,
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you could even press rewind
Verse 16
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And it came to pass in the glorious
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That the music hailed
and we danced to it
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And threw a party but in our hearts
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we knew the musicians failed
Verse 17
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And then came along brothers,
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Napster and Aimster
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And though they were definitely
wrong I think it's worse
To be forced to buy a whole bullshit album
Just to get that one good song
Verse 18
, can I get an Amen
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let us journey past this melody
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Give us room to exercise our minds
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Take it to another place, another time,
better hooks, better rhymes
Stronger lyrics every line,
Verse 19
you could even press rewind
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let us journey past this fallacy
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Give us room to exercise our minds
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Take it to another place, another time,
better hooks, better rhymes
Stronger lyrics every line,
Outro 1
you could even press rewind
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