John Legend, Common - The Believer lyrics
John Legend [John Roger Stephens] Springfield, Ohio, U.S. 🇺🇸
Common [Lonnie Rashid Lynn] Chicago, Illinois, U.S. 🇺🇸
[John Legend, Common - The Believer lyrics]
I believe in the light that
Shines and will never die
Oh I believe the fire burns, we stay alive
They will talk about us
Like they talked about the kings before us
They will talk about us
These are the words of a believer, achiever
Leader of the globe
Feeding souls of those in need
I bleed the blood of the
Struggle walking over troubled puddles
Hustles in my chest, no hustle no progress
Extremities of life and it's process
Birth of a son, death of another
With love I caress both mothers
And told 'em
Who’s in control is the one that's above us
I walk where money talks and love stutters
Body language of a nation
Going through changes
The young become dangerous
Pain gets spent into anger
Anger gets sent through the chamber
It’s tough when your own look like strangers
We are the sons of
Gangsters and stone rangers
If he could how would Ernie Barnes paint us?
Look at the picture, hard not to blame us
But time forgives in the Chi
Where the young die often
Do they end up in a coffin
Because we haven’t taught them?
Is it what we talking
We really ain't walking?
Dues hustlers pay, how much did it cost 'em?
Find myself on the same corner
That we lost ‘em
Real talking, in their ear like a Walkman
Thoughts spin around the corner to the world
When I see them, I see my baby girl, believe!
I believe in the light that
Shines and will never die
Oh I believe the fire burns, we stay alive
They will talk about us
Like they talked about the kings before us
They will talk about us
The Lord lives among us, the younguns hunger
Become a means to get it by any ways nece-
-ssary, under pressure
Children feeling lesser
With the steel up on the
Dresser killing will aggressors
Destiny’s children survivors, soldiers
In front of buildings their eyes look older
Hard to see blessings in the violent culture
Face against weapons, sirens, holsters
That ain't the way that
Langston Hughes wrote us
Soul controllers on the shoulders
Of Moses and Noah
We go from being Precious to Oprah
Cultivated to overcome ever since
We came overseas today and the way that you
Can see we determined solar keeps burning
Shawty’s know to keep learning
Lesson’s in our life are like
Stripes that we earning
Took gramps' advice that Christ is returning
Like a thief in the night
I write the beacons of light
For those of us in dark
Alleys and parched valleys
Street hit's spark rallies of
The conscience conquerors
Of a contest that seems beyond us
Even through the unseen
I know that God watches
From one King's dream
He was able to Barack us the prophets
Nothing can stop us
I believe in the light that
Shines and will never die
Oh I believe the fire burns, we stay alive
They will talk about us
Like they talked about the kings before us
They will talk about us
Shines and will never die
Oh I believe the fire burns, we stay alive
They will talk about us
Like they talked about the kings before us
They will talk about us
These are the words of a believer, achiever
Leader of the globe
Feeding souls of those in need
I bleed the blood of the
Struggle walking over troubled puddles
Hustles in my chest, no hustle no progress
Extremities of life and it's process
Birth of a son, death of another
With love I caress both mothers
And told 'em
Who’s in control is the one that's above us
I walk where money talks and love stutters
Body language of a nation
Going through changes
The young become dangerous
Pain gets spent into anger
Anger gets sent through the chamber
It’s tough when your own look like strangers
We are the sons of
Gangsters and stone rangers
If he could how would Ernie Barnes paint us?
Look at the picture, hard not to blame us
But time forgives in the Chi
Where the young die often
Do they end up in a coffin
Because we haven’t taught them?
Is it what we talking
We really ain't walking?
Dues hustlers pay, how much did it cost 'em?
Find myself on the same corner
That we lost ‘em
Real talking, in their ear like a Walkman
Thoughts spin around the corner to the world
When I see them, I see my baby girl, believe!
I believe in the light that
Shines and will never die
Oh I believe the fire burns, we stay alive
They will talk about us
Like they talked about the kings before us
They will talk about us
The Lord lives among us, the younguns hunger
Become a means to get it by any ways nece-
-ssary, under pressure
Children feeling lesser
With the steel up on the
Dresser killing will aggressors
Destiny’s children survivors, soldiers
In front of buildings their eyes look older
Hard to see blessings in the violent culture
Face against weapons, sirens, holsters
That ain't the way that
Langston Hughes wrote us
Soul controllers on the shoulders
Of Moses and Noah
We go from being Precious to Oprah
Cultivated to overcome ever since
We came overseas today and the way that you
Can see we determined solar keeps burning
Shawty’s know to keep learning
Lesson’s in our life are like
Stripes that we earning
Took gramps' advice that Christ is returning
Like a thief in the night
I write the beacons of light
For those of us in dark
Alleys and parched valleys
Street hit's spark rallies of
The conscience conquerors
Of a contest that seems beyond us
Even through the unseen
I know that God watches
From one King's dream
He was able to Barack us the prophets
Nothing can stop us
I believe in the light that
Shines and will never die
Oh I believe the fire burns, we stay alive
They will talk about us
Like they talked about the kings before us
They will talk about us