Real People - Common

[00:00.0]Real People - Common
[00:01.5]Written by：Lonnie Lynn/Kanye West/Caesar Frazier
[00:03.01]Yeah
[00:04.25]Yeah
[00:07.31]You know how me and 'ye do
[00:10.1]Real People walk in the streets the streets is talkin'
[00:13.04]Often it's beef this city never does
[00:15.22]People walk and talk in they sleep
[00:17.02]Cold sweats and wet dreams
[00:18.54]On how to get green our faith is all in a jeep
[00:20.78]Black souls raw and they deep
[00:22.76]Hypes tryna talk with no teeth
[00:24.43]Shorties sayin' ball or retreat
[00:25.93]A lesson we all speak at one point or another
[00:28.77]Whatchu expect from one who smoke a joint with his mother
[00:31.26]Anointed hustlers in a fatherless region
[00:34.03]Through the pain wish they know that God was just teachin'
[00:36.76]We want decent homes
[00:38.01]So dreams we say out loud like speakerphones
[00:40.68]Just to keep em on
[00:41.75]It's like a colored song
[00:43.2]That keep keepin' on
[00:44.57]I guess knowin' I'm weak is when I'm really bein' strong
[00:47.28]Somehow through the dust I could see the dawn
[00:49.52]Like the Bishop Magic Juan
[00:50.77]That's why I write freedom songs
[00:52.21]For the real people
[01:02.02]I wonder is the spirits of Bob Marley and Haile Selassie
[01:05.55]Watch me as the cops be tryna and pop and lock me
[01:08.07]They cocky plus they mentality is Nazi
[01:10.63]The way they treat blacks I wanna snap like paparazzi
[01:13.09]We're the children of a better God searchin' for better jobs
[01:16.19]We could cop ghetto cars tryin' not to catch a charge
[01:18.71]They say the d**e game is sour
[01:20.64]Now they doin' homework that's when they follow you for hours
[01:23.44]Come to your crib and devour all that you work for
[01:26.43]Must be more than paper these niggaz hurt for
[01:29.07]Through the purple haze
[01:29.96]I circle days I rhyme that work for pays
[01:31.87]Tryna reverse the slave's mind and insert the brave mentality
[01:34.95]Heard that it's drama at home
[01:36.69]Can a dude break free and still get honored at home
[01:39.34]I was told by a chief it's the games nature
[01:41.740005]When you're glowin' some will love and some will hate ya
[01:44.31]It's real people
[01:54.96]Black men walking wit white girls
[01:57.21]On they arms
[01:57.82]I be mad at em as if I know they moms
[02:00.43]Told to go beyond the surface a person's a person
[02:02.86]When we lessen our women our condition seems to worsen
[02:05.65]The weary cursin' the sky
[02:06.86]Talkin' to themselves givin'
[02:08.28]The version of why help and hurt in they eye
[02:10.62]I live across from it some of it I do be in
[02:13.17]I be showin' niggaz lives
[02:14.45]Like UPN
[02:15.8]It's real people
[02:19.75]Yeah
[02:21.28]For you and yours
[02:24.83]Good music
[02:26.70999]Forever
[02:28.74]Yeah
[02:31.25]Rock on
[02:34.11]We keep on
[02:36.63]Uh
[02:38.57]Yeah
[02:40.49]Yeah yeah
[02:42.44]Uh
[02:43.68]Yeah
[02:47.03]The real