(feat. Aceyalone, Self Jupiter, P.E.A.C.E.)



[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...