Quest Love

(Jill Scott)
I've been wondering about the Complexity
Of what we have it shouldn't be
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Just can't see
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(Black Thought)
You're physically in this, but how can we tell
If we was meant to be in bliss if you're not mentally as well
This energy you're sending me is tricky as hell
Usually it's like a 50/50 we can take an L
Before we start things
At this point being apart brings
The feeling of somebody plucking at your heart-strings
I know it probably shouldn't feel like this
But any other woman I see is in your likeness
It's from your cheekbones...
To your lips...
To your curves...
To your deep moans...
To that walk...
To your words...
Your love feelin' like a breakdown on the verve
First we on good terms, then you're on my last nerve
Got my back just aching
My Shoes is all tight
It's too complex when we choose to do it right
It's wrong
One minute you a soldier - strong
Then you turn around talking 'bout its over and gone.
(i swear to god...)

(Jill Scott)
I've been wondering about the Complexity
Of what we have it shouldn't be
More
Just can't see
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I've been wondering about the Complexity
Of what we have it shouldn't be
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Just can't see
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(Black Thought)
When your boyfriend's in town it's bound to be trouble, love
His name Black and he known to be a lover of
Gettin' it on with my smokers jacket on
Eyes racin' back and forth
Listening to Chaka Kahn
Tryin' to
Figure the cause
Why you always hackin' off
Like I'm slackin' off
Maybe our signals getting crossed
What the case, love?
You feel like you makin' a waste of
Your precious time? - You need to get a taste of
Some space to breathe, a moment as friends
We shoulda felt ourselves slippin' into it again
'Cuz it's like
Off and on, on and off
Passion - Lost and found, found and lost
Clashin', askin' for nothing but understanding
Your heart's made of glass, use care in handling
Girl - all-in-all I never leave you stranded
'Cuz my respect you commanded
(you figure it out...)

(Jill Scott)
I've been wondering about the Complexity
Of what we have it shouldn't be
More
Just can't see
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I've been wondering about the Complexity
Of what we have it shouldn't be
More
Just can't see
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(Black Thought)
I used to come into the party
And stand around
'Cuz I was kinda too shy to really get down
I used to, play the corner
And watch the scene
Deep down, knowing I wanted, to find me a queen
And I can feel that in my stomach
And up in my chest
Because I knew a lot of women, and some was fresh
But then I found you, girl and just like me
You had a heart that was yearning to be set free
Now listen
See you and me need to take the time
To erase any doubt that's inside your mind
Its not a mountain that I'm ever too tired to climb
And who's counting? - But I know at least a thousand times
I let you know I'm here for you, care for you, and confide in you
Break bread, share with you and provide for you
And that's full time - it's no 9 to 5 with you
That's why I'm tryin' to work it out with you
(Let's go.)

(Jill Scott)
I've been wondering about the Complexity
Of what we have it shouldn't be
More
Just can't see
More

I've been wondering about the Complexity
Of what we have it shouldn't be
More
Just can't see
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(Jill & Black)
La da da da
Da da da da
La da da da
Da da da
Da
da da da
Da

(Jill Scott)
I've been wondering about the Complexity
Of what we have it shouldn't be
More
Just can't see
More

In town [Repeat; x 3]

Something in the way of things
Something that will quit and won't start
Something you know but can't stand
Can't know get along with
Like death
Riding on top of the car peering through the windshield for his cue
Something entirely fictitious and true
That creeps across your path hallowing your evil ways
Like they were yourself passing yourself not smiling
The dead guy you saw me talking to is your boss
I tried to put a spell on him but his spirit is illiterate

I know things you know and nothing you don't know
'cept I saw something in the way of things
Something grinning at me and I wanted to know, was it funny?
Was it so funny it followed me down the street
Greeting everybody like the good humor man
But an they got the taste of good humor but no ice cream
It was like dat
Me talking across people into the houses
And not seeing the beings crowding around me with ice picks
You could see them
But they looked like important Negroes on the way to your funeral
Looked like important jiggaboos on the way to your auction
And let them chant the number and use an ivory pointer to count your teeth
Remember Steppen Fetchit
Remember Steppen Fetchit how we laughed
An all your Sunday school images giving flesh and giggling
With the ice pick high off his head
Made ya laugh anyway

I can see something in the way of our selves
I can see something in the way of our selves
That's why I say the things I do, you know it
But its something else to you

Like that job
This morning when you got there and it was quiet
And the machines were yearning soft behind you
Yearning for that nigga to come and give up his life
Standin' there bein' dissed and broke and troubled

My mistake is I kept sayin' "that was proof that God didn't exist"
And you told me, "nah, it was proof that the devil do"
But still, its like I see something I hear things
I saw words in the white boy's lying rag

Said he was gonna die poor and frustrated
That them dreams walk which you 'cross town
S'gonna die from over work
There's garbage on the street that's tellin' you you ain't shit

And you almost believe it
Broke and mistaken all the time
You know some of the words but they ain't the right ones
Your cable back on but ain't nothin' you can see

But I see something in the way of things
Something to make us stumble
Something get us drunk from noise and addicted to sadness
I see something and feel something stalking us

Like and ugly thing floating at our back calling us names
You see it and hear it too
But you say it got a right to exist just like you and if God made it
But then we got to argue

And the light gon' come down around us
Even though we remember where the (light or mic??) is
Remember the Negro squinting at us through the cage
You seen what I see too?

The smile that ain't a smile but teeth flying against our necks
You see something too but can't call its name

Ain't it too bad why'all said
Ain't it too bad, such a nice boy always kind to his motha
Always say good morning to everybody on his way to work
But that last time before he got locked up and hurt, real bad

I seen him walkin' toward his house and he wasn't smiling
And he didn't even say hello
But I knew he'd seen something
Something in the way of things that it worked on him like it do in will

And he kept marching faster and faster away from us
And never even muttered a word
Then the next day he was gone
You want to know what

You want to know what I'm talkin' about
Sayin' "I seen something in the way of things"
And how the boys face looked that day just before they took him away
The is? in that face and remember now, remember all them other faces

And all the many places you've seen him or the sister with his child
Wandering up the street
Remember what you seen in your own mirror and didn't for a second recognize
The face, your own face

Straining to get out from behind the glass
Open your mouth like you was gon' say somethin'
Close your eyes and remember what you saw and what it made you feel like
Now, don't you see something else

Something cold and ugly
Not invisible but blended with the shadow criss-crossing the old man
Squatting by the drug store at the corner
With is head resting uneasily on his folded arms
And the boy that smiled and the girl he went with

And in my eyes too
A waving craziness splitting them into the jet stream of a black bird
Wit his ass on fire
Or the solomNOTness of where we go to know we gonna be happy

I seen something
I SEEN something
And you seen it too
You seen it too
You just can't call it's name name name name name name name