Common - Real People Lyrics
[Intro]Yeah, yeah, you know how me and 'Ye do[Verse 1]Real People walk in the streets, the streets is talkin'Often it's beef this city never doesPeople walk and talk in they sleepCold sweats and wet dreamsOn how to get green our faith is all in a jeepBlack souls raw and they deepHypes tryna talk with no teethShorties sayin' ball or retreatA lesson we all speak at one point or anotherWhatchu expect from one who smoke a joint with his motherAnointed hustlers in a fatherless regionThrough the pain wish they know that God was just teachin'We want decent homesSo dreams we say out loud like speakerphones just to keep em onIt's like a colored song that keep keepin' onI guess knowin' I'm weak is when I'm really bein' strongSomehow through the dust I could see the dawnLike the Bishop Magic Juan, that's why I write freedom songsFor the real people[Verse 2]I wonder is the spirits of Bob Marley and Haile SelassieWatch me as the cops be tryna and pop and lock meThey *****y, plus they mentality is NaziThe way they treat blacks I wanna snap like paparazziWe're the children of a better God searchin' for better jobsWe could cop ghetto cars tryin' not to catch a chargeThey say the dope game is sourNow they doin' homework that's when they follow you for hoursCome to your crib and devour all that you work forMust be more than paper these niggaz hurt forThrough the purple haze I circle days I rhyme that work for paysTryna reverse the slave's mind and insert the brave mentalityHeard that it's drama at homeCan a dude break free and still get honored at homeI was told by a chief it's the games natureWhen you're glowin' some will love and some will hate yaIt's real people[Verse 3]Black men walking wit white girls on they armsI be mad at em as if I know they momsTold to go beyond the surface, a person's a personWhen we lessen our women our condition seems to worsenThe weary cursin' the skyTalkin' to themselves givin' the version of why help and hurt in they eyeI live across from it, some of it I do be inI be showin' niggaz livesLike UPNIt's real peopleYeah.For you and yoursGood musicForeverYeahRock onWe keep onUh.. YeahYeah, yeah
