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No City for Young Men: The Forethought Lyrics by Timothy Welbeck

No City for Young Men

2017

Introduction
I will endeavor in the short time which is allowed to do away with this evil opinion of me which you have held for such a long time; and I hope I may succeed, if this be well for you and me, an d that my words may find favor with you. But I know that to accomplish this is not easy -- I quite see the nature of the task. Let the event be as God wills: in obedience to the law I make my defense
Verse 1
Allow me to reintroduce myself; my name is Timothy, but you can call me Tim though /Been known for giving hymnals off these instrumentals /For anyone who may question the mixture/This is for those who find scripture in the Psalms of public figures/I have much to give them/I’m one to whom much was given/I know what’s required of me, you can trust the intent/Yeah, I’m an emcee, yeah I’m professor, and attorney/But if you’re paying attention, that’s not where I began my journey/I was born by the river, in a land where the vehicle of choice was a ‘Lac or Chevy pick up /My mother was colored and saw some “White Only” signs /Lived in Memphis when King was killed, my mother was only a little more than nine/My father came from Ghana, from the ocean’s other side/Came to the States and saw Southern pride wasn’t so benign /So when you see I’m so inclined to move above the color-line /See where I come from, realize I can do no other wise
Verse 2
Born in the bedrock of the blues, raised in the home of R&B /Classically trained in violin and piano partially/From Mos Def to Mozart—the music’s part of me/From Bach to ‘Pac, it flows from the heart of me/Straight from the arties/But the words of the artistry are from the God in me/They are His authoring/Because I was reared in the fear of the Most of High/So when I grow old, I would go as I should go by/And not depart from it, but know where my hope lies /And not just roar with metaphors and a couple of dope lines/I have to lift my Lord high/And honor Him; life is but a vapor, we are here but a short time
Verse 3
The fall of my freshman year, I learned statistics have name and faces /The one I met was “Sedrick”/And it pains to say it/He was fifteen in the 6th Grade wrestling with the basics/He wore his ignorance like an ankle bracelet/I volunteered in his class/He sat in one of the backseats/Teacher said, “Help him with the stuff he wasn’t grasping”/I said, “Write your name down, this stuff isn’t that deep”/He said, “Aight shawty, jus luned ha tuh spel it las weeek”/His muttering grabbed me/Others were laughing/And I realized he struggled because he could only half read/And his hopes and dreams would go up in the trash heap/And I was mad he didn’t have the same struggle as me/I went to a school in the same county, same state/Where children like Sedrick didn’t have the same fate/The bell rang saying class had come to an end/But for me, this wasn’t’ over, to do nothing was sin/To do nothing was sin
Verse 4
Ha, I’m realer than your average/Tim spits the truth on instinct, don’t care what men think/Those are my Big words for my Fishburnes, rapping like they’re acting in a motion picture /Thinking that they’re gold when they glow with glitter/They’re has Ben like that team with its home in Pittsburgh /What they say is of the lowest consequence/Even Jay wanted to flow like Common Sense/He sold five mil, and he ain’t flowed like Common since/When he didn’t see no cents flowing like uncommon men /And folks follow the trends/So what comes through the consoles has us sounding like nothing but fiends, whores, and mongrels/But we can be more, so I’m sure to rock shows/From Singapore, all the way to Chicago/But we need God so, when I’m sure to rock show/What you’ll hear from Timothy is sure to be Gospel
Credits
Timothy Welbeck

Timothy Welbeck

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