《Excursions》歌词

[00:00:00] Excursions - A Tribe Called Quest

[00:00:01] Written by：Kamaal Fareed/A Tribe Called Quest

[00:00:10] Back in the days when I was a teenager

[00:00:13] Before I had status and before I had a pager

[00:00:15] You could find the Abstract listening to hip hop

[00:00:17] My pops used to say it reminded him of Bebop

[00:00:20] I said well daddy don't you know that things go in cycles

[00:00:23] Way that Bobby Brown is just amping like Michael

[00:00:25] It's all expected things are for the looking

[00:00:28] If you got the money Quest is for the booking

[00:00:30] Come on everybody let's get with the fly mode

[00:00:33] Still got room on the truckload of black boom

[00:00:35] Listen to the rhymes then get a mental picture

[00:00:38] Of this black man and black woman fixture

[00:00:40] Why do I say that cos I gotta speak the truth man

[00:00:43] Doing what we feel for the music is the proof and

[00:00:45] Planted on the ground the act is so together

[00:00:48] Bona fide strong you need leverage to sever

[00:00:50] The unit yes the unit yes the unit called the jazz is

[00:00:53] Delivering each year an LP filled with street goods

[00:00:55] You can find it on your rack in your record store

[00:00:58] If you get the record say your thoughts are adored

[00:01:00] And appreciated cause we're ever so glad we made it

[00:01:03] We work hard so we gotta thank God

[00:01:05] Dishing out the plastic do the dance till you're spastic

[00:01:08] If you diss it gets drastic

[00:01:10] Listen to the rhyme cause it's time to make gravy

[00:01:13] If it moves your booty then shake shake it baby

[00:01:15] All the way to Africa a.k.a the Motherland

[00:01:18] Stick out the left then I'll ask for the other hand

[00:01:20] That's the right hand Black man

[00:01:23] Only if you are noted as my man

[00:01:25] If I get the credit then I think I deserve it

[00:01:28] If you fake moves don't fix your mouth to word it

[00:01:30] Get in the zone of positivity not negativity

[00:01:33] Cos we gotta strive for longevity

[00:01:35] If you botch up what's in that ass

[00:01:38] What

[00:01:38] A pair of Nikes size ten and a half

[00:01:41] We gotta make moves words

[00:01:43] Never ever ever could we fake moves come on come on

[00:01:46] We gotta make moves words

[00:01:48] Never ever ever could we fake moves come on come on

[00:01:51] We gotta make moves

[00:01:53] Never ever ever could we fake moves come on come on

[00:01:57] We gotta make moves

[00:01:58] Never ever ever could we fake moves come on come on

[00:02:02] Time time is a ship on a merciless sea

[00:02:05] Drifting toward an average of nothingness

[00:02:08] Until it can be retarded for its own destiny

[00:02:10] Time is an inanimate object

[00:02:12] Praying and praying and praying with no justification for relief

[00:02:16] Time is dancing boogalooing away all memories of past

[00:02:21] We gotta be a winner all the time

[00:02:22] Can't fall prey to a hip hop crime

[00:02:25] With the dope raps and dope tracks we move blocks

[00:02:27] From the fly girlies to the hardest of the rocks

[00:02:30] Musically the Quest is on the rise

[00:02:32] We on these excursions so you must realize

[00:02:35] That continually I pop my Zulu shit

[00:02:37] If you don't like it get off the Zulu tip

[00:02:40] So what can you do in the times which exist

[00:02:42] You can't fake moves on your brother or your sis

[00:02:45] But if your sis is a bitch brother is a jerk

[00:02:47] Leave 'em both alone and continue with your work

[00:02:50] Whatever it may be in today's society

[00:02:52] Everything is fair least that's how it seems to me

[00:02:55] You must be honest and true to the next

[00:02:57] Don't be phony and expect one not to flex

[00:03:00] Especially if you rhyme you have to live by the pen

[00:03:02] Your man is your man then treat him like your friend

[00:03:05] All it is is the code of the streets

[00:03:07] So listen to the knowledge being dropped over beats

[00:03:10] Beats that are hard beats that are funky

[00:03:13] They could get you hooked like a crackhead junkie

[00:03:15] What you gotta do is know the Tribe is in the sphere

[00:03:17] The Abstract Poet prominent like Shakespeare

[00:03:20] Or Edgar Allan Poe or Langston Hughes

[00:03:22] We gotta make moves

[00:03:23] Never ever ever could we fake moves come on come on

[00:03:27] We gotta make moves

[00:03:28] Never ever ever could we fake moves come on come on

[00:03:32] We gotta make moves

[00:03:33] Never ever ever could we fake moves come on come on

[00:03:37] We gotta make moves

[00:03:38] Never ever ever could we fake moves come on come on

[00:03:42] Time is running out on black power advocates in the day

[00:03:44] And white thigh supporters at night

[00:03:45] Every time you see them they're chasing some white woman

[00:03:47] With their tongue hanging out

[00:03:49] Time is running and passing passing and running

[00:03:51] Running and passing passing and running