Dog Day Afternoon

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Good morning, boys and girls.
 It's a new day, what we call the morning after.
 Ain't nothing changed, though.
 Still the same war, yer' head feelin like it exploded last night, right.
 Verse 1: (Promoe)
 All of the people can't be alright all of the time they tell me
 But some people seem to have a right to have it all
 All of my people let's unite right now
 Don't follow Babylon system because they're capitalistic cannibals
 I'm callin' for equal rights and justice just like the teacher Peter Tosh did
 Tryin' to reach my people in the mush pit at the festivals
 Or at the clubs, the cars, the parks, at homes ' wherever you choose to roam
 Promoe on the microphone, don't care if I'm right or no I just shoot the foam
 Don't know if it's night or afternoon, but I know it's the morning after soon
 And I know I'm gonna pass out soon, too fast too soon, bring me back the tune
 So I can vibe all night like there's no tomorrow
 Come with me on a flight, leave this world so shallow
 Piece of the pie, keys of the ride, E's for the high, dime piece on the side
 That's what they all want aint's it, y'all gon' feel it morning after, no more laughter
 Work in iniquity and we think we are free
 Just because we can't see, the chorus sing it with me!
 Chorus: (Promoe & Rantoboko)
 Oh yes
 - It's been a hard day's night now it's a dog day afternoon
 I'm so tired of the world right now
 - It's been a hard day's night now it's a dog day afternoon
 Never wanna wake up no more
 - It's been a hard day's night now it's a dog day afternoon
 Just wanna take it easy
 - I am with the people when the world unites...
 Verse 2: (Timbuktu)
 No peace ' no justice, they're restless, don't need get busted for questions
 Seek and trust in affection, plus keep in touch with the checks and
 People wieldin' weapons at each other to keep it covered
 And keep it comin', the power that be just wanna see the numbers
 Would probably eat their mothers, don't really speak to others
 Just sit back and watch people fall into deeper slumbers
 Of money and materialistic shit
 That's unequally distributed
 And the things that we're willing to risk for it, to just get a whiff of it
 Ride around town in a crispy whip, get a pretty chick to kiss my lip
 I want every day to be like a festival, I wanna kick back have nothing else to do
 But eat cake in the park, drink makers mark, swim around the pool like a mako shark
 But what am I gonna make the bacon off? And I get no sleep still awake at dawn
 All I wanna do is hold my chest out, all you gonna get is totally stressed out
 Howlin like a Wolf, screaming like Jay Hawkins
 With nightmares of what their dreams might cost them
 Chorus: (Timbuktu & Rantoboko)
 Oh yes
 - It's been a hard day's night now it's a dog day afternoon
 Thinkin' of when times get better
 - It's been a hard day's night now it's a dog day afternoon
 Pointin' my eyes to the sky
 - It's been a hard day's night now it's a dog day afternoon
 And you know
 - I'm chillin' with my people... when the world unites
 Verse 3: (Chords)
 All I hear are clocks tickin', I'm stuck in this hot kitchen
 in the fuckin' wok sizzin', watchin' how the plot thickens
 Watchin' all these cops friskin' little kids for shopliftin'
 Tellin' em to stop, listen! Run and check the job listings
 Nah mister, I don't work for slave wages
 I don't want my playstation to trade places with a pacemaker
 I just relaxed real cool, sat back looked pass the rules
 You and your pack of fools ruined my afternoon
 I swear these motherfuckers got a hold of me, bloodsuckers controllin' me
 Won't let go of me, and they throwin' me to the wall, but I fall on my own two feet
 Could it be cus I'm rollin' trees and my block smells like potpourri
 With my eyes shot red like the Cyclops in the Odyssey when I go to sleep
 It is cus I don't hold the grease? Fuck that man I flow on beats
 Fuck the man patrollin' streets, cuffin' hands and holdin heat
 I'd rather earn a dollar with a dirty collar
 workin' the early hours for something worth the bother!
 Chorus: (Chords & Rantoboko)
 Don't need no 9-5
 - It's been a hard day's night now it's a dog day afternoon
 Not to know that I'm alive
 - It's been a hard day's night now it's a dog day afternoon
 See I know that time will fly
 - It's been a had day's night now it's a dog day afternoon
 Even if I don't climb inside, and vibe...
 - Relaxin' with my people when the world unites!
 

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Duration
04:53
Key
8
Tempo
152 BPM

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