A Long Walk - Jill Scott

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You're here
I'm pleased
I really dig your company
Your style, your smile,
Your peace mentality
Lord, have mercy on me
I was blind, now I can see
What a king's supposed to be,
Baby, I feel free, come on and go with me

Let's take a long walk,
Around the park, after dark
Find a spot for us to spark
Conversation, verbal elation, stimulation
Share our situations,
Temptations, education, relaxations,
Elevations
Maybe we can talk about Surah 31: 18

Your background, it ain't squeaky clean
Shit, sometimes we all gotta swim upstream
You ain't no saint, we all are sinners,
But you put your good foot down to make your soul the winner
I respect that
Man you're so phat,
And you're all that
Plus supreme
Then you're humble
Man I'm numb yo,
With feelin'
I can feel everything that you bring

Let's take a long walk,
Around the park, after dark
Find a spot for us to spark
Conversation, verbal elation, stimulation
Share our situations,
Temptations, education, relaxations,
Elevations
Maybe we can talk about Revelations 3: 17

Or maybe we can see a movie
Or maybe we can see a play
On Saturday
Or maybe we can roll a tree
And feel the breeze
And listen to a symphony
Or maybe chill and just be
Or maybe
Maybe we can take a cruise
And listen to The Roots
Or maybe eat some passion fruit
Or maybe, cry to the blues
Or maybe we could just be silent...
Come on
Come on

Let's take a long walk,
Around the park, after dark
Find a spot for us to spark
Conversation, verbal elation, stimulation
Share our situations,
Temptations, education, relaxations,
Elevations
Maybe we can talk about Psalms in entirety

Let's take a long walk,
Around the park, after dark
Find a spot for us to spark
Conversation, verbal elation, stimulation
Share our situations,
Temptations, education, relaxations,
Elevations
Maybe we can talk about Psalms in entirety

Or maybe we can see a movie
Or maybe we can see a play
On Saturday
Or maybe we can roll a tree
And feel the breeze
And listen to a symphony
Or maybe we can chill and just be
Or maybe
Maybe we can take a cruise
And listen to The Roots
Or maybe eat some passion fruit
Or maybe, cry to the blues
Or maybe we could just be silent...
Come on

Let's take a long walk,
Around the park, after dark
Find a spot for us to spark
Conversation, verbal elation, stimulation
Share our situations,
Temptations, education, relaxations,
Elevations
Maybe baby,
Maybe we can save the nation
Come on
Come on...

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Born Jill Heather Scott in the North Philly neighborhood of the City of Philadelphia, PA on April 4, 1972. She began her career as a performance poet. She was discovered by Amir "Questlove" Thompson of The Roots. Questlove invited her to join the band in the studios. Which resulted in the live version of "You Got Me" in 1999.

Subsequently, she collaborated with Eric Benet, Will Smith, Lupe Fiasco, Common and broadened her performing experience by touring Canada in a production of the Broadway musical Rent. Signed to Steve McKeever's newly formed Hidden Beach Recordings label, she released her debut album Who Is Jill Scott: Words and Sounds Vol. 1 in July 2000. The following summer she released Experience:Jil Scott 826+ after she released the single "A Long Walk." Scott continued to gain more recognition, eventually earning a Grammy nomination in early 2003 for Best Female Vocal Performance for "A Long Walk", Jill Scott won a Grammy award at the 2005 Grammy awards for Best R&B Solo Vocal Performance, Male or Female.

Jill Scott appears in David Chappelle's Block Party performing with The Roots and Erykah Badu.

Scott released a new album, entitled Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol. 2 in 2004. Her book of poetry, The Moments, The Minutes, The Hours was released in April 2005.

Recently, Scott was prominently featured on hip-hop artist Lupe Fiasco's 2006 single "Daydreaming" which also appeared on a new Scott collection called Collaborations on January 30, 2007.
The Collaborations collection served as "an appetizer" for her next studio album, The Real Thing: Words and Sounds Vol. 3 released September 25, 2007. A clip of the title track was released on a bonus disc from Hidden Beach Records and included with Collaborations. The lead single "Hate on Me", gained airplay in May 2007 with a video released in mid-July. In advance of the album's release, Hidden Beach released a 17-minute album sampler through their forums. Interspersed between the dozen songs previewed on the sampler was a personal explanation from Jill for the inspiration behind some of her songs.

Jill Scott is also an accomplished actor, appearing as detective Precious Ramotswe in the BBC's dramatisation of Alexander McCall Smith's series of books: "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency". Scott also appeared as "Sheila" in the Tyler Perrry film, "Why Did I Get Married" (2007) and its sequel, "Why Did I Get Married Too" (2010) .
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