Explanations
Oh, when I was, I was, oh, if you was, like-
Gimme just a, a second
What I was tryna say was, what happened was...
When I was, can I get a word in edgewise?
When I do what I do
Why must I keep giving you an explanation?
I am sure enough at a loss
When I have to deal with cross examinations
I thought it was surely well beyond
Any harm it may confirm investigation
But this is lucid and defensive
When I'm bumping up against your imagination
So we sat down and we talked it under
'Til there wasn't nothing left of it
And it always makes me wonder
If I'm sitting here and talking to myself
When I say what I say
Why do you get in my way with intimidation?
I am only wasting time
Knowing you don't want to find no information
It's like stepping under water
And getting nowhere fast
I wonder if it's really worth the bother
And sometimes I feel like I may not last
Feeling like a treasure hunter looking for an explanation
Now what really happened was somethin' that you might believe
Looking for an argument and not an explanation
But you can't get one with me
Take off
Feeling like a treasure hunter looking for an explanation
Now what really happened was somethin' that you might believe
Looking for an argument and not an explanation
But you can't get one with me
Do what I do
Why must I keep giving you an explanation?
Girl it surely ain't no change
When it's always the same investigation
It's like stepping under water
And getting nowhere fast
I wonder if it's really worth the bother
And sometimes I feel like I may not last
Can you dig it?
When I say what I say
Why do you get in the way with intimidation?
Girl it surely ain't no change
I know it's always the same confrontations
Yeah I'm just a couple minutes late
And you look like the jury great Perry Mason
Gimme just a, a second
What I was tryna say was, what happened was...
When I was, can I get a word in edgewise?
When I do what I do
Why must I keep giving you an explanation?
I am sure enough at a loss
When I have to deal with cross examinations
I thought it was surely well beyond
Any harm it may confirm investigation
But this is lucid and defensive
When I'm bumping up against your imagination
So we sat down and we talked it under
'Til there wasn't nothing left of it
And it always makes me wonder
If I'm sitting here and talking to myself
When I say what I say
Why do you get in my way with intimidation?
I am only wasting time
Knowing you don't want to find no information
It's like stepping under water
And getting nowhere fast
I wonder if it's really worth the bother
And sometimes I feel like I may not last
Feeling like a treasure hunter looking for an explanation
Now what really happened was somethin' that you might believe
Looking for an argument and not an explanation
But you can't get one with me
Take off
Feeling like a treasure hunter looking for an explanation
Now what really happened was somethin' that you might believe
Looking for an argument and not an explanation
But you can't get one with me
Do what I do
Why must I keep giving you an explanation?
Girl it surely ain't no change
When it's always the same investigation
It's like stepping under water
And getting nowhere fast
I wonder if it's really worth the bother
And sometimes I feel like I may not last
Can you dig it?
When I say what I say
Why do you get in the way with intimidation?
Girl it surely ain't no change
I know it's always the same confrontations
Yeah I'm just a couple minutes late
And you look like the jury great Perry Mason
Credits
Writer(s): Lonnie Liston Smith
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Other Album Tracks
Altri album
- Legend In His Own Mind (feat. Amnesia Express) [Live, Bremen, 1983]
- Ghetto Ghosts (Live 1977)
- Plug In, Turn On, Cop Out (Live 1983)
- Live in The Bottle
- Spirits
- Aint Really A Life
- The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
- Small Talk at 125th and Lenox
- Nothing New
- When You Are Who You Are / Free Will (Alt Take 1)
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