Common - Love is...(2005)

[00:04.90] Yeah
[00:17.34] Yeah
[00:22.36] How beautiful love can be
[00:23.66] On the streets love is hard to see
[00:26.39] It's a place I got to be
[00:28.62] Loving you is loving me
[00:31.68] How beautiful love can be
[00:34.29] On the streets love is hard to see
[00:37.17] Gotta reach that frequency
[00:39.84] Loving you is loving me
[00:42.43] Yeah, you know what love is
[00:44.14] Even found it on the ground where the thugs live
[00:46.87] My man had to dig deep to find his
[00:49.55] Couldn't sleep cause on the real he had five kids
[00:52.39] Live nig's, real niggas express and taste it
[00:55.78] At crap games, black dames and big faces
[00:58.43] Cases in court, fam' showing love and support
[01:00.86] You and your baby's mom thought that love was a sport
[01:03.60] As men we were taught to hold it in
[01:06.57] That's why we don't know how 'til we're older men
[01:08.78] If love is a place I'ma go again
[01:11.11] At least now, now I know to go within
[01:13.87] At times it can take ya for a spin
[01:16.70] Heartbreak hotel then you're home again
[01:19.26] I've seen love make a nigga soul pretend
[01:22.04] Like a story that he don't want to end, yo
[01:24.95] How beautiful love can be
[01:27.37] On the streets love is hard to see
[01:30.17] It's a place I got to be
[01:33.04] Loving you is loving me
[01:36.27] How beautiful love can be
[01:38.27] On the streets love is hard to see
[01:40.88] Gotta reach that frequency
[01:43.33] Loving you is loving me
[01:46.13] It's all love where we come from
[01:48.38] In the hood love we was told to run from
[01:50.86] That same hood where the guns sung
[01:53.32] We holla love, hoping it'd become one
[01:55.97] Crack got so many lives undone
[01:58.62] From lack of love many hide, some run
[02:01.56] I knew this girl with a son who dreamt of acting in plays
[02:05.20] Demonstration with her man had her trapped in a maze
[02:07.27] Trying to find herself again, much of that she'd have gave
[02:09.83] Love can free us, to it some of us react as a slave
[02:12.66] Funny, we love 'em more when they're relaxed in a grave
[02:15.36] Wonder if a thug is raw, is he actin' afraid?
[02:17.82] Everybody loves sun, why do I attract shade?
[02:20.69] Heard of the love of money, but compassion it pays
[02:23.73] Talk about it with my youth so she'd understand
[02:26.52] What it is to be loved by a man
[02:29.57] How beautiful love can be
[02:31.02] On the streets love is hard to see
[02:34.23] It's a place I got to be
[02:36.35] Loving you is loving me
[02:39.63] How beautiful love can be
[02:42.09] On the streets love is hard to see
[02:44.69] Gotta reach that frequency
[02:46.99] Loving you is loving me
[02:49.96] Some say that I'm a dreamer 'cause I talk about it often
[02:53.06] Seen the hardest nigga soften wit' his homie in a coffin
[02:55.63] We walk and stand in, fall in it
[02:58.24] With the right companion we all in it
[03:00.84] Mary sang a song about it, having broad limits
[03:03.72] In the game of life, it's the scrimmage
[03:06.07] Reminiscing on letters I wrote in my small days
[03:08.78] A letter to the people, love always, yeah
[03:11.90] How beautiful love can be
[03:15.04] On the streets love is hard to see
[03:16.30] It's a place I got to be
[03:18.77] Loving you is loving me
[03:21.96] How beautiful love can be
[03:24.27] On the streets love is hard to see
[03:27.57] Gotta reach that frequency
[03:30.13] Loving you is loving me
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