所属专辑:Be
歌手: Common
时长: 02:48
Real People - Common (凡夫俗子)[00:00:00]
Written by:Lonnie Lynn/Kanye West/Caesar Frazier[00:00:00]
Yeah[00:00:03]
Yeah[00:00:04]
You know how me and 'ye do[00:00:07]
Real People walk in the streets the streets is talkin'[00:00:10]
Often it's beef this city never does[00:00:13]
People walk and talk in they sleep[00:00:15]
Cold sweats and wet dreams[00:00:17]
On how to get green our faith is all in a jeep[00:00:18]
Black souls raw and they deep[00:00:20]
Hypes tryna talk with no teeth[00:00:22]
Shorties sayin' ball or retreat[00:00:24]
A lesson we all speak at one point or another[00:00:25]
Whatchu expect from one who smoke a joint with his mother[00:00:28]
Anointed hustlers in a fatherless region[00:00:31]
Through the pain wish they know that God was just teachin'[00:00:34]
We want decent homes[00:00:36]
So dreams we say out loud like speakerphones[00:00:38]
Just to keep em on[00:00:40]
It's like a colored song[00:00:41]
That keep keepin' on[00:00:43]
I guess knowin' I'm weak is when I'm really bein' strong[00:00:44]
Somehow through the dust I could see the dawn[00:00:47]
Like the Bishop Magic Juan[00:00:49]
That's why I write freedom songs[00:00:50]
For the real people[00:00:52]
I wonder is the spirits of Bob Marley and Haile Selassie[00:01:02]
Watch me as the cops be tryna and pop and lock me[00:01:05]
They cocky plus they mentality is Nazi[00:01:08]
The way they treat blacks I wanna snap like paparazzi[00:01:10]
We're the children of a better God searchin' for better jobs[00:01:13]
We could cop ghetto cars tryin' not to catch a charge[00:01:16]
They say the d**e game is sour[00:01:18]
Now they doin' homework that's when they follow you for hours[00:01:20]
Come to your crib and devour all that you work for[00:01:23]
Must be more than paper these niggaz hurt for[00:01:26]
Through the purple haze[00:01:29]
I circle days I rhyme that work for pays[00:01:29]
Tryna reverse the slave's mind and insert the brave mentality[00:01:31]
Heard that it's drama at home[00:01:34]
Can a dude break free and still get honored at home[00:01:36]
I was told by a chief it's the games nature[00:01:39]
When you're glowin' some will love and some will hate ya[00:01:41]
It's real people[00:01:44]
Black men walking wit white girls[00:01:54]
On they arms[00:01:57]
I be mad at em as if I know they moms[00:01:57]
Told to go beyond the surface a person's a person[00:02:00]
When we lessen our women our condition seems to worsen[00:02:02]
The weary cursin' the sky[00:02:05]
Talkin' to themselves givin'[00:02:06]
The version of why help and hurt in they eye[00:02:08]
I live across from it some of it I do be in[00:02:10]
I be showin' niggaz lives[00:02:13]
Like UPN[00:02:14]
It's real people[00:02:15]
Yeah[00:02:19]
For you and yours[00:02:21]
Good music[00:02:24]
Forever[00:02:26]
Yeah[00:02:28]
Rock on[00:02:31]
We keep on[00:02:34]
Uh[00:02:36]
Yeah[00:02:38]
Yeah yeah[00:02:40]
Uh[00:02:42]
Yeah[00:02:43]
The real[00:02:47]