Way Back Lyrics - Tanya Stephens

Ladies and gentlemen, I want to invite you on a journey 

I sincerely hope you are in a mood to travel right now 

'Cause we're going back in time 

Are you ready? 

I wanna take you way back 

To when a girl on a mikes worth 

Wasnt determined by the length of her skirt 

I mean way back to creativity before MTV, before BET 

I mean way back before recycling shit 

When the props that you got was for your writing and shit 

Lets rewind before the hype when you used to be low key 

To be a singer you had to actually know key 

I mean way back to before people made a job 

Of seeing whos best at impersonating Bob 

I mean way back to when you sweat blood on every line 

To get one good song didnt cost sixteen ninety nine 

To be considered deep you had to actually say stuff 

And if it wasnt good, disc jockeys didnt play stuff 

I mean way way, Marvin Gaye way back and I pray that you will 

Come with me, let us journey past this melody 

Give us room to exercise our minds 

Take me to another place, another time, better hooks, better rhymes 

Stronger lyrics every line, you could even press rewind 

Come with me, let us journey past this fallacy 

Give us room to exercise our minds 

Take you to another place, another time, better hooks, better rhymes 

Stronger lyrics every line, you could even press rewind 

Well, its ironic that the chronic that I smoke 

Got me singing shit thats bionic every note 

That its affecting my judgment is what some people would hope 

But Im not tripping, Im on a journey, come along now lets float 

I used to be excited going to the record store 

But these days I stay pacing the floor 

Somebody please take me back to when the artistes were poor 

'Cause when they made less they gave us so much more 

Lets take it back to a ballroom, cloudy microphone 

Smokey Robinson, Nina Simone 

James Brown was still occupying the throne 

When the songs werent sold off videos alone 

Way back to when a star attitude wasnt defined 

By somebody being rude 

To when it was a pleasure definitely not a task 

To greet a fan with a smile and sign a damn autograph 

I mean way back to before you used to drive the Maybach 

You dreamt about a mil but never made that 

When you made some shit that we could play back 

I mean way back to a whole nother time 

Further back than your granddads hairline 

I mean way back, won't you say that you will 

Come with me, let us journey past this melody 

Give us room to exercise our minds 

Take me to another place, another time, better hooks, better rhymes 

Stronger lyrics every line, you could even press rewind 

Come with me, let us journey past this fallacy 

Give us room to exercise our minds 

Take you to another place, another time, better hooks, better rhymes 

Stronger lyrics every line, you could even press rewind 

And it came to pass in the glorious days of charts 

That the music hailed and we danced to it 

And threw a party but in our hearts we knew the musicians failed 

And then came along brothers, Napster and Aimster 

And though they were definitely wrong I think it's worse 

To be forced to buy a whole bullshit album 

Just to get that one good song , can I get an Amen 

Come with me, let us journey past this melody 

Give us room to exercise our minds 

Take it to another place, another time, better hooks, better rhymes 

Stronger lyrics every line, you could even press rewind 

Come with me, let us journey past this fallacy 

Give us room to exercise our minds 

Take it to another place, another time, better hooks, better rhymes 

Stronger lyrics every line, you could even press rewind