Silent Treatment - The Roots

[00:37.66]Introrepeat 2x
[00:37.84]Girl you know that you need
[00:39.74]To stop givin' me the silent
[00:43.28]Treatment baby
[00:46.04]Can't you see what you mean to me
[00:49.35]I wanna love you constantly
[01:01.49]But you keep neglecting me
[01:08.91]And treating me silently
[01:18.04]Verse oneblackthought
[01:20.770004]Yo
[01:21.33]I had a queen named amina
[01:24.05]Height 5'7
[01:25.2]Caramel complected
[01:26.13]Body like heaven
[01:27.479996]Met her through the sister of my man big vince
[01:29.979996]Like some s**t from out the flicks we been in love ever since
[01:32.83]She called me her chocolate brotha
[01:34.259995]I call her my sugar sista
[01:35.97]Knew shorty could work it since before I ever kissed her
[01:38.7]I never dissed her
[01:39.75]Painted my picture to hit
[01:41.11]But because s*x she wasn't with
[01:42.65]She started flippin an' s**t
[01:43.979996]Like
[01:44.25]Listen man
[01:44.979996]I'm queen amina
[01:45.729996]Amina's not no freak and
[01:47.119995]That game is weak and keep tryin to hit I could quit speakin
[01:49.729996]Tariq in fact
[01:50.729996]You bein blackthought don't get ya closer
[01:52.78]I dig ya but won't bone ya because I'm so called supposed ta
[02:01.45]Most o' them would
[02:05.67]But that couldn't be me
[02:09.44]That's not my flava
[02:11.88]Go home and think about that
[02:18.5]Maybe later on I'll page ya
[02:23.74]I contemplated
[02:31.07]And then concluded she was bluffin
[02:36.57]Steady pursuin screwin
[02:39.25]Gettin nothin but the silent treatment
[02:43.22]silently bay bee at end
[02:47.88]Verse twoblackthought
[02:48.44]Crazy frustration
[02:53.27]About my lovin situation
[02:55.02]When patience was a virtue
[02:56.25]But I wasn't used to waitin
[02:57.78]I want some marvin gaye healin
[02:59.23]Feelin is real inside
[03:00.11]I slip and slide
[03:01.76]My ride'll keep you occupied
[03:03.3]I'd
[03:03.87]Love to get wit it like that
[03:05.52]But my baby's kitty cat's capped
[03:07.23]And locked
[03:07.77]Love boat is docked at the shore
[03:09.71]And what for
[03:10.71]Later for groupies on tour
[03:12.42]Why won't my sugar call me no more
[03:14.18]I mean
[03:14.7]My queen gets upset
[03:16.51]Rejectin and sexually neglect
[03:17.91]Then sayin I'm more sewer than das efx
[03:19.66]And closed minded
[03:21.17]It's like I'm blinded by the skinnin
[03:22.99]I'm into women
[03:23.97]Because of that
[03:24.68]This one's into communication
[03:26.42]Temptation played the vandal
[03:28.05]Freakin my brain
[03:31.36]My mind
[03:37.08]Rippin the handle on physically scandalous acts
[03:48.7]Yo
[03:49.16]She knew what I wanted
[03:52.17]But she fronted
[03:55.54001]Bust it
[04:03.36]Verse threeblackthought
[04:05.04]Well umm
[04:09.74]Movin right along with the song
[04:14.07]Plus the strong
[04:19.76]Feelings on my mind
[04:24.19]Desire to intertwine
[04:27.89]Combine and blend
[04:29.02]Baby bust a message that I send
[04:30.81]Ain't no need to pretend
[04:32.05]Cause s**t is real 'til the end
[04:33.61]I provide a place to hide from crime
[04:35.66998]Hard times
[04:36.47]And livin trife
[04:37.18]While I open ya mind
[04:38.47]You're in my life
[04:39.31]Like love
[04:40.14]It ain't no way no one can rise above what's real
[04:42.62]That's why I'm feelin like you're makin me bugged
[04:44.8]I puff an el on fifty deuce while I walk in the rain
[04:47.76]Heart feelin killa pain while I hop the train
[04:50.56]Dial her number to the rest
[04:51.84]And ain't no messages left
[04:53.25]Regardless
[04:53.94]My chest thumps from stress
[04:55.39]Yo it's a mess
[04:56.35]I don't know what I got to do to make you understand
[04:59.0]I'm for real and that's no question
[05:00.64]No frontin or no guessin
[05:02.27]Undressin
[05:02.85]Carressin
[05:03.06]In the span
[05:03.8]That I contain in my hand
[05:05.29]Could touch and make you say that I'm such a man
[05:10.37]And call my name
[05:12.47]So let me set your body aflame
[05:28.49]I'll never treat you like a dame or run game
[05:45.0]Now who's to blame
[05:51.1]I know you're not a h*e for n***az with a lot of dough
[06:16.71]But I just wanted you to know
[06:25.16]silently at end
[06:27.73]silently
[06:31.14]Si lent ly at end
[06:35.53]*whistling of music fades away*