Habitat-Mos Def

[ti:Habitat] [ar:Mos Def] [al:Black On Both Sides] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.11]Habitat - Mos Def [00:00.80]Written by：Vinia Mojica/L. Fernandez [00:02.09] [00:10.06]We all got to have a place where we come from [00:13.86] [00:14.96]This place that we come from is called home [00:17.90] [00:20.19]We set out on our travels we do the best we can [00:24.25] [00:25.05]We travel this big earth as we roam [00:27.67] [00:29.48]We all got to have a place where we come from [00:34.45] [00:35.05]This place that we come from is called home [00:37.42] [00:40.37]And even though we may love this place on the map [00:43.81] [00:44.90]Said it ain't where you from it's where you at [00:47.58] [00:51.12]I come up in the street around some real wild brothers [00:53.36]With more than one name and more than one baby mother [00:55.64]More than one chase been on more than one run [00:57.93]Got more than one enemy and more than one gun [00:59.73] [01:01.21]While these cats that's less privileged is just more raw [01:03.43]Less space cause the projects laced with more flaws [01:05.33]Less sleep cause the nights ain't peace it's more war [01:07.43]The can is raw like thirsty rainy season thunder claps [01:09.61]On the block with your old pop pleading number act [01:12.04]To the spot with the red top fiends is huddled at [01:14.50]To the crib where the little kids spend their summers trapped [01:17.07]With the jungle cats lions and tigers leopards and cheetahs [01:20.28]For gazelle you get chased like a zebra they blaze cheerer cheerer [01:25.13]And dominate the weaker on the street [01:27.26]Hungry bellies only love what they eat and it's hard to compete [01:30.17]When they smile with your heart in they teeth [01:32.34]And the odds is stacked high beyond and beneath [01:34.62]Son I been plenty places in my life and time [01:37.15]And regardless where home is son home is mine [01:39.46] [01:40.12]We all got to have a place where we come from [01:43.93] [01:44.77]This place that we come from is called home [01:47.29] [01:49.74]We set out on our travels we do the best we can [01:53.85] [01:54.68]We travel this big earth as we roam [01:57.35] [02:00.24]We all got to have a place where we come from [02:04.55]This place that we come from is called home [02:07.16] [02:08.06]We all got to have a place where we come from [02:10.66]And even though we may love this place on the map [02:14.13]Said it ain't where you from it's where you at [02:17.58] [02:18.52]Some people live out in New York city [02:21.98]Some people live out in Atlanta [02:23.80] [02:24.51]Some people got to live Chicago [02:26.21] [02:26.98]Some people do live Miami [02:28.70] [02:29.57]All my people at California [02:30.95] [02:32.00]And other people got to live London [02:33.62] [02:34.22]And everybody got to live in the whole big world [02:36.90]Together just you and me [02:38.91]When I think of home my remembrance of my beginning [02:42.02]Laundromat helping ma dukes fold the bed linen [02:44.44]Chilling in front my building with my brother and them [02:47.17]Spending nights in bush wick with my cousins and them [02:49.35]Wise town and beat street federal relief [02:51.38]Slowly melting in the morning grits we used to eat [02:54.57]Sticking to your teeth and teeth is hard to keep [02:57.01]With every flavor nowlater only a dime apiece [02:58.96]Old timers on the bench playing cards and thanks [03:01.85]Telling tales about they used to be involved in things [03:04.37]Start to drinking talking loud cussing up and showing out [03:06.67]On the phone call the cops pick them up move them out [03:09.38] [03:10.28]And it's all too common to start Wilde [03:11.86]I'm a pirate on an island seeking treasure known as silence [03:14.12]And it's hard to find [03:15.27]Block parties in dark lobbies [03:17.24]Funeral homes packed but only dark bodies [03:19.46]I can't sleep hardly stirred up like bob Farley [03:21.87]Marley marl played the symphony remember we recall [03:24.20]Son I been to many places in my space and time [03:26.95]And whatever my home is son home is mine [03:29.40]We all got to have a place where we come from [03:33.83] [03:34.54]This place that we come from is called home [03:36.98] [03:39.50]We set out on our travels we do the best we can [03:43.42] [03:44.21]We travel this big earth as we roam [03:47.04] [03:49.95]We all got to have a place where we come from [03:53.26] [03:54.34]This place that we come from is called home [03:56.84] [03:58.33]And even though we may love this place on the map [04:03.23] [04:04.19]Said it ain't where you from it's where you at [04:07.05] [04:09.22]Said it ain't where you from it's where you at [04:12.02] [04:13.31]Said it ain't where you from it's where you at [04:17.00] [04:18.45]Said it ain't where you from it's where you at [04:22.75]Said it ain't where you from it's where you at [04:27.03] [04:28.11]Said it ain't where you from it's where you at [04:32.08] [04:32.74]Said it ain't where you from it's where you at