J Dilla - HOW WE STILL HAVE JOY lyrics

Hook: I smile and I be laughing when my company come There is power in my people 'cause we've come from the lumps We know the hills and the valleys The seas and the streams When the season is mean We still believe in our dreams Green guava Verse 1: We don't fear the dark 'cause we was born in it Melanin smother the greens and make a song in it The breath of the ruler is in me so I'm long winded Steady knocking at the door, ding-dong get it Growing through What we going through And never settle up Black joy be rebellious Us do cherish us Black joy be in the belly of Where there is heavy love And it got to be that way If no we Who gon' be there for us? We died for dice rolling in the stolen lands of time Now we die for ice holding in a folding land of shine In a foreign land I find us in the middle of a war The battle lines are drawn and I would rather go on tour But your score ain't ready for the healing power in my sword We roll up to the vengeful with a posture wanting more The fake love purports to be an obstacle for sure But we know We're likely eating all imposters with a fork Green guava (Hook) Ay let that breathe You got to let something like this breathe Verse 2: "Breathe baby breathe" What the nurse told me I almost didn't make it That's my birth story First cries more like worship For the the first glory And I'm a rock it like Taraji 'Til the hearse hold me Hold that But don't sacrifice the swing though The groove is something that my hips do have a thing for We can spit it like this or we can sing slow Bring the snare, put it between right where the strings go Seems as though Nobody got no schemes to choke The life out of my folk Ain't nothing we ain't seen before So bring your rope Your policies that squeeze our throats We got hope It's too big for you to heave or throw Even though We're far away from even slopes And degrees is cold That don't stop our feet from leaping, nope So this dance that we got, it ain't escaping nothing It's a portal into something Can't be captured in discussion So we rushing with no masks on Getting our pigskin player in the past on (Hook) Last time yall told me you wanted more bars on this Dilla beat So here's more bars Verse 3: Don't it feel so good when we overcome it We know the good 'cause we've had a lot of overcoming Homies wondering when I'll make it to a jumbotron Well I don't know, I'm just being led So get your wonder on What I know is I'm gonna speak Lie 'Cause I wasn't supposed to have it What I know is if I get a chance I'm a grab it Ain't no number 45 on that What I know is my shorty live in fact What I know is we gotta show up better Center black women and listen to elders What I know is that we're still alive What I know is that we got the light What I know is I'ma let it shine This little light of mine (Hook)