Way Back - Tanya Stephens.mp3

[00:07.59]Intro
[00:07.74]Ladies and Gentlemen, I hope you're in the mood to travel right now cause
[00:15.33]I want to take you on a journey' we're going back in time. Are you ready?
[00:18.66]Verse 1
[00:22.62]I wanna take you way back to when a girl on a mike's worth
[00:26.82]Wasn't determined by the length of her skirt
[00:29.22]I mean way back to creativity, before MTV before BET
[00:35.13]I mean way back before recycling shit, when the props that you got was for your writing and shit
[00:41.07]Let's rewind before the hype when you used to be low key
[00:44.25]To be a singer you had to actually know key
[00:47.19]I mean way back to before people made a job of seeing who's best at impersonating Bob
[00:52.92]I mean way back to when you sweat blood on every line
[00:56.07]To get one good song didn't cost sixteen ninety nine
[00:59.19]To be considered deep you had to actually say stuff
[01:02.10]And if it wasn't good disc jockeys didn't play stuff
[01:04.89]I mean way way, Marvin Gaye way back, and I pray that you will
[01:11.13]Chorus
[01:11.85]Come with me, let us journey past this melody
[01:27.57]Give us room to exercise our minds
[01:28.32]Take you to another place another time, better hooks better rhymes
[01:31.71]Stronger lyrics every line, you could even press rewind
[01:35.43]Come with me, let us journey past this fallacy
[01:50.94]Give us room to exercise our minds
[01:51.69]Take you to another place another time, better hooks better rhymes
[01:55.32]Stronger lyrics every line, you could even press rewind
[01:58.11]Verse 2
[01:58.47]Well it's ironic that the chronic that I smoke got me singing shit that's bionic every note
[02:03.81]That it's affecting my judgement is what some people would hope
[02:06.72]But I'm not tripping, I'm on a journey, come along now let's float
[02:09.93]I used to be excited going to the record store, but these days I stay pacing the floor
[02:15.51]Somebody please take me back to when the artistes were poor
[02:18.39]Cause when they made less they gave us so much more
[02:21.42]Let's take it back to a ballroom, cloudy microphone' Smokey Robinson, Nina Simone
[02:27.69]James Brown was still occupying the throne when the songs weren't sold off videos alone
[02:33.60]Way back to when a star attitude wasn't defined by somebody being rude
[02:39.42]To when it was a pleasure definitely not a task
[02:42.18]To greet a fan with a smile and sign a damn autograph
[02:45.09]I mean way back to before you used to drive the Maybach
[02:49.74]You dreamt about a mil but never made that
[02:52.59]When you made some shit that we could play back
[02:56.88]I mean way back to a whole 'nother time, further back than your grandad's hairline
[03:02.91]I mean way back, wont you say that you will (Repeat chorus)