Someone I Knew TOBi

[Intro: UPC All Stars]

A young man died today

What have we to show?

A country split in two

A left wing and a joke

What remains when we tear away the mask?

Who will be around to face the coming task?

Never someone I knew

[Chorus]

How much longer 'til we're through? (Yeah)

How much longer 'til we're through?

How much longer 'til we're through? (Yeah)

How much longer 'til we're through?

[Verse 1]

Hardly show up on time to the party, yes, we the tardiest

Never good at chronology, I measure timе in memories (Memoriеs)

Where were you when the towers fell? I was seven

Sittin' at home, Aunty bust through the door in a frenzy

Face in horror, shocked, yelling at Mom's in the kitchen

I pretend I wasn't listenin', but still paying attention

Life is a gift and if God wills it, live it

Inshallah, we don't face the world with a stigma

Where were you when you first held a gun? I was five

Playing hide and seek in my parents' room

Went under the bed, the perfect spot for me to hide

Dark brown mahogany handle on my hand like camouflage

Where were you when Michael died? I was fifteen

The singer I idolized, immortalized in my mind

Livin' with my cousins in a foreign land (Foreign land)

Sittin' in living rooms, wishing my spin move could hang

My nose used to look like his

Maybe God's a magician and we look like twins

Maybe one day, I'm takin' off the runway

And floating with the sun rays around

Though my tongue weighs me down

My mind roamin' 'cause I'm fly, homie

In and out of states, I done spent way too much time zonin'

I try look up to skies with my eyes open

But I'm blindfolded by the lies that they all told me, goddamn