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lirik lagu no city for young men: the forethought – timothy welbeck

introduction
i will endeavor in the short time which is allowed to do away with this evil opinion of me which you have held for such a long time; and i hope i may succeed, if this be well for you and me, an d that my words may find favor with you. but i know that to accomplish this is not easy — i quite see the nature of the task. let the event be as god wills: in obedience to the law i make my defense

verse 1
allow me to reintroduce myself; my name is timothy, but you can call me tim though /been known for giving hymnals off these instrumentals /for anyone who may question the mixture/this is for those who find scripture in the psalms of public figures/i have much to give them/i’m one to whom much was given/i know what’s required of me, you can trust the intent/yeah, i’m an emcee, yeah i’m professor, and attorney/but if you’re paying attention, that’s not where i began my journey/i was born by the river, in a land where the vehicle of choice was a ‘lac or chevy pick up /my mother was colored and saw some “white only” signs /lived in memphis when king was k!lled, my mother was only a little more than nine/my father came from ghana, from the ocean’s other side/came to the states and saw southern pride wasn’t so benign /so when you see i’m so inclined to move above the color-line /see where i come from, realize i can do no other wise

verse 2
born in the bedrock of the blues, raised in the home of r&b /cl-ssically trained in violin and piano partially/from mos def to mozart—the music’s part of me/from bach to ‘pac, it flows from the heart of me/straight from the arties/but the words of the artistry are from the god in me/they are his authoring/because i was reared in the fear of the most of high/so when i grow old, i would go as i should go by/and not depart from it, but know where my hope lies /and not just roar with metaphors and a couple of dope lines/i have to lift my lord high/and honor him; life is but a vapor, we are here but a short time

verse 3
the fall of my freshman year, i learned statistics have name and faces /the one i met was “sedrick”/and it pains to say it/he was fifteen in the 6th grade wrestling with the basics/he wore his ignorance like an ankle bracelet/i volunteered in his cl-ss/he sat in one of the backseats/teacher said, “help him with the stuff he wasn’t grasping”/i said, “write your name down, this stuff isn’t that deep”/he said, “aight shawty, jus luned ha tuh spel it las weeek”/his muttering grabbed me/others were laughing/and i realized he struggled because he could only half read/and his hopes and dreams would go up in the trash heap/and i was mad he didn’t have the same struggle as me/i went to a school in the same county, same state/where children like sedrick didn’t have the same fate/the bell rang saying cl-ss had come to an end/but for me, this wasn’t’ over, to do nothing was sin/to do nothing was sin

verse 4
ha, i’m realer than your average/tim spits the truth on instinct, don’t care what men think/those are my big words for my fishburnes, rapping like they’re acting in a motion picture /thinking that they’re gold when they glow with glitter/they’re has ben like that team with its home in pittsburgh /what they say is of the lowest consequence/even jay wanted to flow like common sense/he sold five mil, and he ain’t flowed like common since/when he didn’t see no cents flowing like uncommon men /and folks follow the trends/so what comes through the consoles has us sounding like nothing but fiends, wh-r-s, and mongrels/but we can be more, so i’m sure to rock shows/from singapore, all the way to chicago/but we need god so, when i’m sure to rock show/what you’ll hear from timothy is sure to be gospel

- timothy welbeck

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