[spoken]
In the tradition of the inner city griots we are...
we take though a journey through a story
to a place and a time
in a small town
but as you listen you`re to pay no mind to the small town
and the time and the place
a place where the moon and the sun does as it pleases
a place where everybody knows everybody else`s business
a place that basically could be anywhere
listen...
check it out...
[Aceyalone]
When the sun took a day off and the moon stood still
The only light that was in sight was the one just past that ol` onion field
if you look from where I`m standing you`ll see that old scarecrow
they say if you look too low he might jump off that window
but between you and me I think that`s a bunch of `hey, you know`
some people believe he`s responsible for the death of Old Man Dan
they found him without his thinking cap with straw in his hand
and the strangest thing about it`s that they never found his head
they never found his head
they never found his head
god dammit they never found Old Man Dan`s head...
[Self Jupiter]
and they`ll never find it
`cause I took it
nah, didn`t go like that at all
see I just hid it and his eye was crooked and I wanted his eyeball
and things got out of hand
and Old Man Dan had to die
because of that eye
I can tell you them scarecrow stories a lie
what I did here
when the moon was full and the sun`s about to rise
people walking by thinking about that head at the crack of dawn they cry
[Acey & Jupiter]
and the sun took a day off and the moon stood still
around my part of town the moon got a frown `cause he can see it all from
the top
and the sun took a day off and the moon stood still
around my part of town the sun be clown`
and the sun took a day off and the moon stood still
around my part of town Th. stars come to work all drunk
and the sun took a day off and the moon stood still
around my part of town the moon got a frown `cause he can see it all from
the top
[Acey]
in the small town of 1500, hundred houses on every corner
lived the oldest lady in the world, a loner
Ms. Desmona
Loraine Cortez
from Barcelona, Spain, said
she came to reclaim her family`s name and put her soul to rest, yes
on sacred ground
her family owned this town
and the people in it, too
but I was just passing through
she said `people around here believe in voodoo,
witchcraft, taboo`
it was kinda hard for me to take this all for true
but she did say that when a stranger comes to town this is what they`ll do
first they`ll stone you
and when you come to
then they`ll own you
there`s no one to run to
and the sun takes a day off and the moon stood still
[P.E.A.C.E.]
well, this is what I heard
the sun blew a fuse and the moon had stood in lieu
the morning came with rain and with the wetness
then the evening sang
the birds ???
and stayed thought the noon
a piano plays a tune in which a woman`s voice softly croons
adamantly
she yells uncharacteristically `dance with me you fool`
well not only was I introduced
but apparently being seduced
but by who?
the namesake
let`s just call the mysterious lady in maroon
??? Cancun
??? things in my ??
and make the flesh of a grown man`s hand move
suspenseful hypnotic
neither erotic nor exotic
but psychotic, in a sense
for instance, she made reference to actually raising the dead
in a sentence she once said with dread
and the sun took a day off and the moon stood still
around my part of town the moon be locked in his room doin` `shrooms
and the sun took a day off and the moon stood still
around my part of town the moon be in a hot air balloon to the moon
and the sun took a day off and the moon stood still
around my part of town the moon just be faded ???
and the sun took a day off and the moon stood still
around my part of town the moon got a frown `cause he can see it all from
the top
and sometimes he`ll stop
and look out with a star gaze
sometimes he`ll cover his face and he wont be seen for days
the sun had took a day off and the moon stood still
the sun had took a day off and the moon stood still
for real
[talking]
Woman: `Hey Baby, come here, look at the sun, I mean, look at the moon, I
ain`t never seen them out at the same time. Baby, tha-that`s pretty`
Man: `Oh girl, come on in here, you don`t want look at the sky line out
there, come on, come on it`s been dark for a whole day, come on, the sun
ain`t gonna come out, come on in here, you`re lettin` all the heat out...
