The Space Program-A Tribe Called Quest

[00:00.05](Q-Tip & Jarobi: ) [00:00.22](I’mma deal with a bigger insult, man [00:03.17]The heat, the heat, the heat, the heat… [00:06.31]It's comin' down hard [00:07.25]We’ve got to get our *****t together) [00:09.83]It’s time to go left and not right [00:12.22]Gotta get it together forever [00:14.60]Gotta get it together for brothers [00:17.08]Gotta get it together for sisters [00:19.48]For mothers and fathers and dead *****s [00:21.58]For non-conformers, won’t hear the quitters [00:24.08]For Tyson types and Che figures [00:26.39]Let’s get it together, come on, let’s make it [00:28.66]Gotta make it to make it to make it to make it [00:30.80]To make something happen, to make something happen [00:32.83]To make something happen, let’s make something happen [00:35.03](Q-Tip: ) [00:35.31]Word to Phife, we’re gonna bring it to the overlord [00:37.21]Drinkin’ Sisqo chilling with the gold microphone cords [00:39.50]And we grip our ***** every time we stuntin’ on tour [00:41.97]'Cause we never bored, respond until the ready crowds roar [00:44.38]And promoters try to hit us with the art of war [00:46.71]We about our business, we not quitters, not bull*****tters, we deliver [00:48.99]We go-getters, don’t be bitter 'cause we not just *****s [00:51.36](Jarobi: ) [00:51.67]Jarobi might fire off into different cloth [00:53.65]Ain’t nothing forbidden (?) is hittin' off [00:55.93]Hardest spitting, this sit-in will make you kitten-soft [00:58.31]Confused and amazed (?) ya brain, lost our planet for our future people [01:01.29]None of our people involved [01:03.22]Pouring Henny and Smirnoff to get it cracking off [01:05.53]Cracking off a Smirnoff to quickly turn to Molotov [01:07.69]Molotov the space*****p though before that ***** is taking off [01:10.02]It always seems the poorest persons are people forsaken, dawg [01:12.38]No Wa*****ngtons, Jeffersons, Jacksons on the captain's log [01:14.88]They’d rather lead us to the grave, water poisoned, deadly smog [01:17.10]Mass un-blackening, it’s happening, you feel it y’all? [01:19.47]They’d rather see we in a three-by-three structure with many bars [01:21.84]Leave us where we are so they can play among the stars [01:24.01]We’re taking off to Mars, got the space vessels overflowing [01:26.48]What, you think they want us there? All us *****s not going [01:29.09](Q-Tip: ) [01:29.50]Reputation ain’t glowing, reparations ain’t flowing [01:31.20]If you find yourself stuck in the quick, you better start rowing [01:33.73]Used to see the TV screen as the place I’d land my dream [01:36.17]And the car stereo where they would promote the show [01:38.60]Optimistic flow, brother really know [01:40.90](Hook) [01:41.40]There ain’t a space program for *****s [01:42.41]Yeah, you stuck here, ***** [01:44.41]There ain’t a space program for *****s [01:46.78]Yeah, you stuck here ***** [01:49.54]There ain’t a space program for *****s [01:51.58]Yeah, you stuck here, ***** [01:54.48]There ain’t a space program for *****s [01:56.37]Yeah, you stuck, stuck, stuck [02:06.19](Q-Tip: ) [02:06.90]Sit and wonder sometimes, I read the paper every day [02:09.05]All these happenings is circular, just happen different ways [02:11.58]And the present is refined, in her wings she's confined [02:13.91]With about thirty Percocets and five bottles of wine [02:16.09]Caroline ain't nothing finer than a Black woman who climbs [02:18.67]To the top of the State building claiming that the flag is mine [02:21.00]Now, people on top of people, feels like we can’t breathe [02:23.23]Put so much in this mutha*****a, feel like we should lead [02:25.36]Put it on TV, put it in movies, put it in our face [02:27.82]These notions and ideas and citizens live in this age [02:30.32]I chuckle just like all of y'all, absurdity, after all [02:32.76]Takes money to get it running and money for trees to fall [02:35.27]Imagine for a second all the people are colored, please [02:37.72]Imagine for a second all the people in poverty [02:39.77]No matter the skin tone, culture or time zone [02:42.22]Think the ones who got it would even think to throw you a bone? [02:44.61]Move you out your neighbourhood, did they find you a home? [02:47.13]Not safer, probly no place to [02:49.55]Imagine if this *****t was really talkin’ about space, dude [02:52.06]Imagine if this *****t was really talkin’ about space, dude [02:54.12]Imagine if this *****t was really talkin’ about space, dude [02:59.32](Phife Dawg: ) [03:00.82]Tryna go left and not right [03:02.45]Gotta get it together forever [03:04.52]Gotta get it together for brothers [03:06.53]Gotta get it together for sisters [03:08.96]For mothers and fathers and dead *****s [03:10.68]For non-conformers, won’t hear the quitters [03:13.38]For Tyson types and Che figures [03:17.83]Let’s make somethin’ happen, let’s make somethin’ happen [03:19.94]Let’s make somethin’ happen, let’s make somethin’ happen [03:22.85]Gotta get it together for brothers [03:25.58]Gotta get it together for sisters [03:27.66]For mothers and fathers and dead *****s [03:29.83]For non-conformers, won’t hear the quitters [03:32.01]For Tyson types and Che figures [03:34.27]Make, make, make [03:36.40]Let’s make somethin’ happen, let’s make somethin’ happen [03:38.70]Let’s make somethin’ happen, let’s make somethin’ happen [03:41.57]Gotta get it together forever [03:44.35]Gotta get it together for brothers [03:46.53]Gotta get it together for sisters [03:48.88]For mothers and fathers and dead *****s [03:51.18]For non-conformers, won’t hear the quitters [03:53.42]For Tyson types and Che figures [03:57.69]Let’s make somethin’ happen, let’s make somethin’ happen [04:00.46]Gotta get it together for brothers [04:03.12]Gotta get it together for sisters [04:05.29]For mothers and fathers and dead *****s [04:07.50]For non-conformers, won’t hear the quitters [04:09.83]For Tyson types and Che figures [04:12.35]Make, make, make [04:14.05]Let’s make somethin’ happen, let’s make somethin’ happen [04:17.04]Let’s make somethin’ happen, let’s make somethin’ happen [04:19.98]Gotta get it together forever [04:21.76]Gotta get it together for brothers [04:23.99]Gotta get it together for sisters [04:26.50]For mothers and fathers and dead *****s [04:28.60]For non-conformers, won’t hear the quitters [04:31.08]For Tyson types and Che figures [04:35.69]Let’s make somethin’ happen, let’s make somethin’ happen [04:38.17]Gotta get it together for brothers [04:40.51]Gotta get it together for sisters [04:42.99]For mothers and fathers and dead *****s [04:45.22]For non-conformers, won’t hear the quitters [04:47.76]For Tyson types and Che figures [04:49.93]Make, make, make [04:51.44]Let’s make somethin’ happen, let’s make somethin’ happen [04:54.31]Let’s make somethin’ happen, let’s make somethin’ happen [05:08.82](Outro) [05:09.51]The danger must be growing, for the rowers keep on rowing [05:13.67]And they’re certainly not showing any signs that they are slowing! [05:21.17]We’re there [05:28.18]Where? [05:28.95]Here [05:29.76]A small step for mankind [05:31.85]But a giant step for us [05:33.71]Oompa, loompa, doopa dee doo [05:37.46]I’ve got another puzzle for you