Common - Real People lyrics

Yeah, yeah, you know how me and 'Ye do

Real People walk in the streets
The streets is talkin'
Often it's beef this city never does
People walk and talk in they sleep
Cold sweats and wet dreams
On how to get green our faith
Is all in a jeep
Black souls raw and they deep
Hypes tryna talk with no teeth
Shorties sayin' ball or retreat
A lesson we all speak at one point or another
What you expect from one who smoke
A joint with his mother
Anointed hustlers in a fatherless region
Through the pain wish they know
That God was just teachin'
We want decent homes
So dreams we say out loud like
Speakerphones just to keep em on
It's like a colored song that keep keepin' on
I guess knowin' I'm weak is
When I'm really bein' strong
Somehow through the dust I could see the dawn
Like the Bishop Magic Juan
That's why I write freedom songs
For the real people

I wonder if the spirit's of
Bob Marley and Haile Selassie
Watch me as the cops be tryna
And pop and lock me
They cocky, plus they mentality is Nazi
The way they treat blacks I
Wanna snap like paparazzi
We're the children of a better
God searchin' for better jobs
We could cop ghetto cars tryin'
Not to catch a charge
They say the dope game is sour
Now they doin' homework that's when
They follow you for hours
Come to your crib and devour
All that you work for
Must be more than paper these niggas hurt for
Through the purple haze I circle days
I rhyme that work for pays
Tryna reverse the slave's mind and
Insert the brave mentality
Heard that it's drama at home
Can a dude break free and
Still get honored at home
I was told by a chief it's the games nature
When you're glowin' some will love
And some will hate ya it's real people

Black men walking wit white
Girls on they arms
I be mad at 'em as if I know they moms
Told to go beyond the surface
A person's a person
When we lessen our women our
Condition seems to worsen
The weary cursin' the sky
Talkin' to themselves
Givin' the version of why help
And hurt in they eye
I live across from it, some of it I do be in
I be showin' niggas lives like UBN
It's real people

Yeah for you and yours
GOOD music forever
Yeah rock on
We keep on uh yeah
Yeah, yeah the real