We all got to have (home)
A place where we come from (place where someone lives, a residence)
(Understand that)
This place that we come from is called home (the, the physical structure)
(Within which one lives, such as a house)
We set out on our travels (a dwelling place with a social unit that occupies it)
We do the best we can (a household)
We travel this big earth as we roam (an environment offering security and happiness)
(A valued place, a native habitat) (understand that)
We all got to have (a place where something is discovered, founded)
To a place that we come from (developed or promoted)
This place that we come from is called home (a source, a headquarters, a home base)
(Understand that)
And even though we may love (although relating to a team's place of origin)
This place on the map (on or into the point)
Said it ain't where ya from (of which something is directed)
It's where ya at (to the center or the heart of people)
I came up in the street around some real wild brothers
With more than one name and more than one baby mother
More than one case, been on more than one run (uh)
Got more than one enemy and more than one gun
Partner, all that's left to want is more
While them cats that's less privileged is just more raw
Less space 'cause the projects laced with more flaws
Less sleep 'cause the nights ain't peace, it's more war
The can is raw like thirsty, rainy season thunder claps
On the block with your old pop pleading number act
To the spot with the red top fiends is huddled at
To the crib where the little kids spend their summers trapped
With the jungle cats, lions and tigers, leopards and cheetahs
For gazelle you get chased like a zebra, they blaze cheeba-cheeba
And dominate the weaker on the street
Hungry bellies only love what they eat and it's hard to compete
When they smiling with your heart in they teeth
And the odds is stacked high beyond and beneath
Son, I been plenty places in my life and time
And regardless where home is, son, home is mine
We all got to have (been in this world)
To a place that where we come from (travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling)
This place where we come from is called home (so many places I go)
We set out on our travels (been in this world)
We do the best we can (travelling, travelling)
We travel this big earth as we roam (roam, roam, roam)
We all got to have, some place where we come from (people all over the world)
I said, the place that we come from is called home
(Got to have some place to call home)
Even though we may love, this place on the map (hey hey, place on the map)
I said, it ain't where ya from (ain't where ya from)
It's where ya at (where you at)
Some people live out in New York City (yeah)
Some people live out in Atlanta (uh-huh, uh-huh)
Some people got to live, Chicago
Some people do live, Miami
All my people that live, California
And other people that live, London
And everybody got to live in the whole big world
Together just you and me (when I think of home)
When I think of home, my remembrance of my beginning
Laundromat helping, ma duke fold the bed linen
Chill in front my building with my brother and them
Spending nights in Bushwick with my cousins and them
Wise town and Beat Street (uh), federal relief
Slowly melting in the morning, grits we used to eat (right)
Sticking to your teeth and teeth is hard to keep
With every flavor Now & Later only a dime apiece
Old timers on the bench playing cards and thangs (right)
Telling tales about they used to be involved in things
(Son, I used to be the man around here)
Start to drinking, talking loud
Cussing up and showing out (where you going? Where you going?)
Get the phone, call the cops (ay, where you-, you better get off me)
Pick 'em up, move 'em out (ooh, oh, ah)
And it's all too common to start wildin'
I'm a pirate on an island seeking treasure known as silence
And it's hard to find
Block parties in dark lobbies (uh)
Funeral homes packed but only dark bodies
I can't sleep hardly, stirred up like Bob Marley
Marley Marl played the symphony, memory recalls
Son, I been to many places in my space and time
And whatever my home is, son, home is mine
We all got to have (been all over this world)
To a place that where we come from (travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling)
This place where we come from is called home (so many places I go)
We set out on our travels (set out on our travels)
We do the best we can (and do the best I can)
We travel this big earth that we roam (with the best I know)
Said, we all got to have (we all got to have)
To a place that where we come from (some place you call home)
This place that we come from is called home
(Some place your heart can be close to, hey)
Even though we may love (we may love)
This place that's on the map (this place on the map)
Said, it ain't where ya from (no, no)
It's where ya at (where you at, where you at)
Said, it ain't where ya from (hey, hey)
It's where ya at
(Huh, say what? Say what?) Said where you at
Said, it ain't where ya from (no, no)
It's where ya at (where you at)
Said, it ain't where ya from (it ain't where you from)
It's where ya at (where you at)
Said, it ain't where ya from (intend to get on to)
It's where ya at (intend to get on to)
Said, it ain't where ya from (ain't where you from)
It's where ya at (where you at)
It's where ya at
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Habitat - Q-Tip and Mos Def
