CeeLo Green, Common - G.O.D. (Gaining One’s Definition) lyrics
Common [Lonnie Rashid Lynn] Chicago, Illinois, U.S. 🇺🇸
[CeeLo Green, Common - G.O.D. Gaining One’s Definition lyrics]
After bein' 25 you know just trying
To survive in the world
About to have a little boy
Or baby girl who knows?
Anyway just when you start
Gettin' that little age
And experience to you start
Thinking about stuff
Trying to make the right moves
So bust it out this is what
I was thinkin' check it
Yo the education of the
Lon chicka Lonnie Lynn
Began, began with time
Being my bloodline is one with the divine
In time brother, you will discover the light
Some say that God is Black
And the devil's White
Well, the devil is wrong and
God is what's right i fight
With myself in the ring of doubt and fear
The rain ain't gone
But I can still see clear as a child
Given religion with no answer to why
Just told believe in Jesus cause
For me he did die
Curiosity killed the catechism
Understanding and wisdom became the rhythm
That I played to
And became a slave to master self
A rich man is one with knowledge
Happiness and his health
My mind had dealt with the books of Zen
Tao the lessons
Qur'an and the Bible, to me they all vital
And got truth within 'em
Gotta read them boys
You just can't skim 'em
Different branches of belief
But one root that stem 'em
But people of the venom try to trim 'em
And use religion as an emblem
When it should be a natural way of life
Who am I or they to say
To whom you pray ain't right
That's who got you doing right
And got you this far
Whether you say "in Jesus name"
Or "Hum do Allah" long as you know it's a
Bein' that's supreme to you
You let that show towards others
In the things you do
'Cause when the trumpets blowin'
24 elders surround the throne
Only 144, 000 gon' get home
Only 144, 000 gon' get home
Only 144, 000 gon' get it, baby
I've lived and I've learned
I have taken and I've earned
I have laughed, I've cried
I have failed and I have tried
Sunshine, pouring rain
Found joy through all my pain
I just wanna be happy with being me
Let me voice my concern so many of my fellow
Brothers have given themselves
A title that their actions didn't earn
Our ignorance is in the same
Breath as our innocence
Subconciously, seeking to find an
Impressionable mind to convince
I've finally come to the realization why
Black people in the worse place
'Cause it's hard to correct
Yourself when you don't
Know who you are in the first place
So I try to find the clue in you
But evidently, white folks know more Black
History than we do
Why're we being lied to? I ain't
Know our history was purposely hidden
Damn, something in me wanna know who I am
So I began my search
My journey started in church
It gave my heartache relief when
I started to understand belief
Hustlin' was like a gift spent my
Share of time in the streets
Taught me survival from this evil I'm
Just gonna have to deal with
And I felt like a fool when I
Tried to learn it in school
It almost seemed like a rehearsal when the
Only science and math are universal
Takin' elder advice, read the Bible
The Koran
Searched scrolls from the Hebrew Israelites
Hold on, this ain't right
Jesus wasn't White
Some leads were granted with insight
And it's all in the plan
But it took me some time to overstand
He still created with the imperfection of man
So, with following I disagree
By no means have I forgotten or forgiven
What's been done to me but
I do know the Devil ain't no White man
The Devil's a spiritual mind
That's color blind
There's evil White folk and evil niggas
You gon surely find there's
No positivity without negativity
But one side you gonna have to choose
Any chance to speak I refuse to misuse
So how can you call yourself God
When you let a worldly possession
Become an obsession and the way you write
Your rhymes and can't follow your lesson
If a seed's sown, you make sure it's known
You make sure it's grown
If you God, then save your own
Don't mentally enslave your own
If you God, then save your own
Don't mentally enslave your own
If you God, then save your own
Don't mentally enslave your own
I've lived and I've learned
I have taken and I've earned
I have laughed, I've cried
I have failed and I have tried
Sunshine, pouring rain
Found joy through all my pain
I just wanna be happy with being me
To survive in the world
About to have a little boy
Or baby girl who knows?
Anyway just when you start
Gettin' that little age
And experience to you start
Thinking about stuff
Trying to make the right moves
So bust it out this is what
I was thinkin' check it
Yo the education of the
Lon chicka Lonnie Lynn
Began, began with time
Being my bloodline is one with the divine
In time brother, you will discover the light
Some say that God is Black
And the devil's White
Well, the devil is wrong and
God is what's right i fight
With myself in the ring of doubt and fear
The rain ain't gone
But I can still see clear as a child
Given religion with no answer to why
Just told believe in Jesus cause
For me he did die
Curiosity killed the catechism
Understanding and wisdom became the rhythm
That I played to
And became a slave to master self
A rich man is one with knowledge
Happiness and his health
My mind had dealt with the books of Zen
Tao the lessons
Qur'an and the Bible, to me they all vital
And got truth within 'em
Gotta read them boys
You just can't skim 'em
Different branches of belief
But one root that stem 'em
But people of the venom try to trim 'em
And use religion as an emblem
When it should be a natural way of life
Who am I or they to say
To whom you pray ain't right
That's who got you doing right
And got you this far
Whether you say "in Jesus name"
Or "Hum do Allah" long as you know it's a
Bein' that's supreme to you
You let that show towards others
In the things you do
'Cause when the trumpets blowin'
24 elders surround the throne
Only 144, 000 gon' get home
Only 144, 000 gon' get home
Only 144, 000 gon' get it, baby
I've lived and I've learned
I have taken and I've earned
I have laughed, I've cried
I have failed and I have tried
Sunshine, pouring rain
Found joy through all my pain
I just wanna be happy with being me
Let me voice my concern so many of my fellow
Brothers have given themselves
A title that their actions didn't earn
Our ignorance is in the same
Breath as our innocence
Subconciously, seeking to find an
Impressionable mind to convince
I've finally come to the realization why
Black people in the worse place
'Cause it's hard to correct
Yourself when you don't
Know who you are in the first place
So I try to find the clue in you
But evidently, white folks know more Black
History than we do
Why're we being lied to? I ain't
Know our history was purposely hidden
Damn, something in me wanna know who I am
So I began my search
My journey started in church
It gave my heartache relief when
I started to understand belief
Hustlin' was like a gift spent my
Share of time in the streets
Taught me survival from this evil I'm
Just gonna have to deal with
And I felt like a fool when I
Tried to learn it in school
It almost seemed like a rehearsal when the
Only science and math are universal
Takin' elder advice, read the Bible
The Koran
Searched scrolls from the Hebrew Israelites
Hold on, this ain't right
Jesus wasn't White
Some leads were granted with insight
And it's all in the plan
But it took me some time to overstand
He still created with the imperfection of man
So, with following I disagree
By no means have I forgotten or forgiven
What's been done to me but
I do know the Devil ain't no White man
The Devil's a spiritual mind
That's color blind
There's evil White folk and evil niggas
You gon surely find there's
No positivity without negativity
But one side you gonna have to choose
Any chance to speak I refuse to misuse
So how can you call yourself God
When you let a worldly possession
Become an obsession and the way you write
Your rhymes and can't follow your lesson
If a seed's sown, you make sure it's known
You make sure it's grown
If you God, then save your own
Don't mentally enslave your own
If you God, then save your own
Don't mentally enslave your own
If you God, then save your own
Don't mentally enslave your own
I've lived and I've learned
I have taken and I've earned
I have laughed, I've cried
I have failed and I have tried
Sunshine, pouring rain
Found joy through all my pain
I just wanna be happy with being me