Common - Time Traveling (A Tribute To Fela) Lyrics

f/ Vinia Mojica 

[Vinia Mojica] 
*Singing in
Spanish* 

[Common] 
What what, we do this time 
Rock rock....

Yes, let this music travel through you 
Talk about feelings, yeah yo

Yo wassup world? 
Yo what's happening? 
It's the C-double-O and I'm
back again 
Take this back and then, tell a friend 
Spaces and places you
been, time travelin *echoes* 
Time travelin *echoes* 
Yo, I was a piano
player in my last lifetime 
Now I write rhymes, sip white wine and let my
light shine 
Out the dark space, with the world on my mind like Scarface

though my sex drive like a car chase 
More than a uhh, it's the piece of
mind I chase 
Stakes are high, like my uncle is 
We both got problems, he
never confronted his 
Under the bridge I wrote, some shit to stay afloat

And paint a picture, raw like the first coat 
Send my old man a note to
keep his phone on 
My little cuz'll know cheap tricks are homegrown

Travel to a place sweeter than home, listenin to Nina Simone 
Repeat this
psalm, to the sky I'm keepin my palms 
Facin the east, actions macin the
beast 
Embracin the streets, my god caught a case cuz he beat 
His lady
down, it's two-thou 
That ain't the way we lay it down 
Souls get, found
and lost at the roads they cross 
Many paid dues, but few knew the costs

I ran through the Moss like Randy 
Touchindown wit God, close friends,
and family 
Recognize the voice in the wilderness 
Com Sense, '92 and I'm
still in this 

Time travelin, took my time in hand 
My rhyme learn and
plan 
Jealousy, money and pride can burn a man 
Some walk but never learn
to stand 
Still, afraid to expand what they feel 
I'm dealin wit, wakes,
marriages 
ATM's, Ericsson's 
Loud niggas that whisper carelessness 
If
we livin in Revelation 
Why should the people of the sun have to run?

Come to Esau in a year, he'll have freedom 
He ask why I hadn't been to
see him 
Really, I ain't have a good reason 
He said, "Rah, give back what
you receivin" 
In a race against time, I was caught 
In the same game as
you, but long live the sport 
It's time travelin 
It's the C-double-O and
I'm back again 
Take this back and then, tell a friend 
Spaces and places
you been 
Time travelin *fades out* time travelin.... 

Time travelin
*echoes* 
Time travelin *echoes* 
Yeah, yo wassup world, yo what's
happening? 
It's the C-double-O and I'm back again 
Take this back and
then, tell a friend 
Spaces and places you been 
Time travelin *echoes*