Common - Real People(2005)

[00:03.47] Yeah, yeah, you know how me and 'Ye do, yeah
[00:09.89] Real People walk in the streets, the streets is talkin'
[00:12.88] Often it's beef this city never does
[00:14.93] People walk and talk in they sleep
[00:16.83] Cold sweats and wet dreams
[00:18.48] On how to get green our faith is all in a Jeep
[00:20.68] Black souls raw and they deep
[00:22.71] Hypes tryna talk with no teeth
[00:24.41] Shorties sayin' ball or retreat
[00:25.96] A lesson we all speak at one point or another
[00:28.54] Whatchu expect from one who smoke a joint with his mother
[00:31.16] Anointed hustlers in a fatherless region
[00:33.73] Through the pain wish they know that God was just teachin'
[00:36.36] We want decent homes
[00:37.85] So dreams we say out loud like speakerphones just to keep em on
[00:41.68] It's like a colored song that keep keepin' on
[00:44.38] I guess knowin' I'm weak is when I'm really bein' strong
[00:46.96] Somehow through the dust I could see the dawn
[00:49.58] Like the Bishop Magic Juan, that's why I write freedom songs
[00:52.16] For the real people
[01:02.53] I wonder if the spirits of Bob Marley and Haile Selassie
[01:05.42] Watch me as the cops be tryna and pop and lock me
[01:08.16] They cocky, plus they mentality is Nazi
[01:10.54] The way they treat blacks I wanna snap like paparazzi
[01:13.18] We're the children of a better God searchin' for better jobs
[01:16.16] We could cop ghetto cars tryin' not to catch a charge
[01:18.69] They say the dope game is sour
[01:20.32] Now they doin' homework that's when they follow you for hours
[01:23.38] Come to your crib and devour all that you work for
[01:26.33] Must be more than paper these niggaz hurt for
[01:28.99] Through the purple haze I circle days to rhyme that work for pays
[01:31.85] Tryna reverse the slave's mind and insert the brave mentality
[01:34.93] Heard that it's drama at home
[01:36.58] Can a dude break free and still get honored at home
[01:39.17] I was told by a chief it's the games nature
[01:41.75] When you're glowin' some will love and some will hate ya
[01:44.16] It's real people
[01:55.26] Black men walking wit white girls on they arms
[01:58.15] I be mad at 'em as if I know they moms
[02:00.46] Told to go beyond the surface, a person's a person
[02:02.92] When we lessen our women our condition seems to worsen
[02:05.49] The weary cursin' the sky
[02:07.04] Talkin' to themselves givin' the version of why help and hurt in they eye
[02:10.45] I live across from it, some of it I do be in
[02:13.04] I be showin' niggaz lives
[02:14.48] Like UPN
[02:15.74] It's real people
[02:19.73] Yeah
[02:21.54] For you and yours
[02:25.21] Good music
[02:26.98] Forever
[02:28.68] Yeah
[02:31.53] Rock on
[02:34.04] We keep on
[02:37.32] Uh Yeah
[02:40.61] Yeah, yeah
[02:47.29] The real
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