Examination Of What Lyrics - Reachin' (a New Refutation Of Time And Space) - Digable Planets

One day while I was sipping some groove juice 

I realized that in the span of time we're just babies 

It's all relative, time is unreal 

We're just babies, we're just babies, man 

We're just babies, we're just babies, man 

We're just babies, we're just babies, man 

We're just babies, we're just babies, man 

Every man's a planet and the props are there to get it 

Insects roll together with the spirit in our orbit 

Life, it comes and goes and you do not punch a clock 

I don't take shit for granted, I think of Scott la rock 

Also of tyreo and battles at the borders 

My cousins in the joint and the homeless grippin' quarters 

The forests are all shrinking, this deepens to my thinkin 

Don't cover up the nappy, be happy witcha kinkin' 

Dwellin', yes, you're dwellin' as the norm is itty-bitty 

Figure eighty-fifty for a smidgen of the city 

In the Serengeti, be ready for a box 

But beware of the shanks and the pistols and the glocks 

If your peoples don't getcha, you still ain't off clean 

The politicians' mask is worse than Halloween 

I write the funky scripts so you know I got to kick 'em 

Now tell me who's the vice and tell me who's the victim 

So what is really what, is really what 

If the funk don't move your butt 

And if the box don't make you hot 

And if the cats don't dig the raps 

If your life ain't got no spice 

Or if the guns just wreck your fun 

Or if some shouts ain't in the house 

Or if your crew ain't down with you 

Peace, this is Mecca the ladybug 

And I'm sayin' though, what is really what 

If I can't even get comfortable 

Because the supreme court is like 

All in my uterus? 

Peace, this is Cee-Know of the doodlebug 

And I wanna say, what is what if 

You can't walk through your hood 

With Bert, Ernie and Sesame Street 

Mossies trying to give the snuffleupagus 

My father taught me jazz, all the peoples and the anthems 

Ate peanuts with the dizz and vibe with Lionel Hampton 

Now I'm swimming deep in the hip-hop with eclectics 

Now do we got the power or is it getting hectic? 

Scribble swings the paddle at the mantel where I placed it 

Hip-hop grew from roots but some emcees never traced it 

The old jacks buck wild and some babies bore their fists 

But the crew from outer space is here shit 

We grew up digging styles of the fabulous fifth Freddy 

And scoping out for days crazy legs and rock steady 

Now bleach is in the laundry, same old beats is handy 

The label may okay it but radio won't play it 

The censors are about so watch your mouth close your drapes 

The legs that's in the boots is on the corner, watch your tape 

Making papes off the crust, for money and for lust 

You're playing out the planets get slammed, trust 

You think it, see it, run it and slam it 

They peep it, hear it, lynch it and ban it 

It just ain't the haps if they know they can't control it 

Your grass be in the joint but they licked it and rolled it 

So what? 

I'm saying what is really what 

If the funk don't rule your cut? 

Or if the streets don't dig your beats 

Or if my man ain't fifty grand? 

Or if the hoods don't think you're good? 

Or if your church don't really work 

Or if the pigs wanna knock your wigs 

Or if the jeeps don't roll with beats 

'Cause butterfly is baby, I'm just a baby, man 

I'm just a baby, I'm just a baby, man 

I'm just a baby, I'm just a baby, man 

And Mister Doodle? I'm just a baby too 

And Miss Mecca I'm just a baby, man 

And Mister Silk, he's just a baby, too 

And 801s, they just babies, man 

And Miss Venus, she's just a baby, man 

The AC-facts, they just a babies, man 

And DPS, they just a babies, too 

Oh and, Dash, she's just a baby, man 

Danny and Dani, they are my babies, man 

Oh and Liz, she's just a baby, man 

Oh and Stella, she's just a baby, too 

Doc Shane, he's just a baby, man 

Mike Mann, he's just my main man 

And doctor Timba, he's just a baby, man 

And Nappy Jackie, she's just a baby, too 

Benefi-Cent, he's just a baby, man 

Oh, and you? you're just a baby, man