Stay Away

by Menahan Street Band

Menahan Street Band is a Brooklyn, New York-based instrumental band formed in 2007, that plays funk and soul music. The band features musicians from Antibalas, El Michels Affair, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings and the Budos Band. The group was founded by Thomas Brenneck while living in an apartment on Menahan St. in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bushwick. Their debut album, Make the Road by Walking, was released in 2008 on Dunham, a sublabel of Daptone Records. Various songs from Make the Road by Walking have been sampled by hip hop artists, including the title track, which was sampled by Jay-Z on the track "Roc Boys (And the Winner Is)...", "Going The Distance", which was sampled by Kid Cudi on his song "Solo Dolo Pt.II" featuring Kendrick Lamar on Cudi's third…



Monkey see, monkey do
I don't know why
I’d rather be dead than be uncool
I don't know why
Every line had the rhythms
I don't know why
Let’s move, love is blind
I don't know why

Stay, stay away
Stay away, stay away
Oh

Give an inch, take a smile
I don't know why
Fashion shirt, fashion style
I don't know why
Throw it out, keep it in
I don't know why
Help, tap, pull skin
I don't know why

Stay, stay away
Stay away, stay away
Oh

Ooh, ah
Baby

Give an inch, take a smile
I don't know why
Fashion shirt, fashion style
I don't know why

Stay, stay away
Stay away, stay away
Stay away, yeah
Stay away, ooh
Ah
Ah
Ooh, stay away, babe
Don’t know, no, no, no, no
Ah

Written by: Charles Bradley, Homer Steinweiss, Leon Michels, Thomas Brenneck

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