G O D-Common

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[al:One Day It'll All Make Sense]
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[00:00.00]G O D - Common
[00:17.07]After bein' 25 you know
[00:20.50]Just trying to survive in the world
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[00:23.52]'Bout to have a little boy or baby girl who knows
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[00:28.39]Anyway just when you start getting' that little age
[00:30.81]And experience to you
[00:31.84]You start thinkin' about stuff
[00:32.85]Tryin' to make the right moves
[00:34.53]So bust it out this is what I was thinkin' check it
[00:37.36]Yo the education of the Lon-chicka-Lonnie Lynn
[00:40.72]Began began with time
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[00:43.95]Bein' my bloodline is one with the divine
[00:46.83]In time brotha you will discover the light
[00:49.61]Some say that God is black and the devil's white
[00:52.67]Well the devil is wrong and God is what's right
[00:55.68]I fight with myself in the ring of doubt and fear
[00:58.59]The rain ain't gone but I can still see clear
[01:01.36]As a child given religion with no answer to why
[01:04.28]Just told believe in Jesus 'cuz for me he did die
[01:07.59]Curiosity killed the catechism
[01:10.41]Understanding and wisdom became the rhythm that I played to
[01:13.47]And became a slave to master self
[01:15.96]A rich man is one with knowledge
[01:17.53]Happiness and his health
[01:18.96]My mind had dealt with the books of Zen Tao the lessons
[01:21.68]Koran and the Bible to me they all vital
[01:25.07]And got truth within 'em gotta read them boys
[01:27.92]You just can't skim 'em different branches of belief
[01:30.82]But one root that stem 'em
[01:32.37]But people of the venom try to trim 'em
[01:34.74]And use religion as an emblem
[01:36.75]When it should be a natural way of life
[01:39.10]Who am I or they to say to whom you pray ain't right
[01:42.35]That's who got you doin' right and got you this far
[01:45.42]Whether you say"In Jesus name" or"Al hum du'Allah"
[01:48.35]Long as you know it's a bein' that's supreme to you
[01:51.13]You let that show towards others in the things you do
[01:53.99]'Cuz when the trumpets blowin'
[01:55.31]24 elders surround the throne
[01:57.10]Only 144 000 gon get home
[02:00.16]Only 144 000 gon get home
[02:02.93]Only 144 000 gon get it baby
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[02:11.96]I've lived and I've learned
[02:13.96]I have taken and I've earned
[02:16.76]I have laughed I've cried
[02:19.74]I have failed and I have tried
[02:22.80]Sunshine pouring rain
[02:25.52]Found joy through all my pain
[02:28.53]I just wanna be happy with being me
[02:34.59]Let me voice my concern
[02:35.95]So many of my fellow brothers have given themselves a title
[02:38.95]That their actions didn't earn
[02:40.67]Our ignorance is in the same breath as our innocence
[02:42.96]Subconsciously seeking to find
[02:45.05]An impressionable mind to convince
[02:47.12]I've finally come to the realization
[02:48.59]Why black people in the worse place
[02:49.82]'Cuz it's hard to correct yourself
[02:51.06]When you don't know
[02:51.82]Who you are in the first place
[02:53.77]So I try to find the clue in you
[02:55.54]But evidently white folks know more black history than we do
[02:58.09]Why're we bein' lied to
[02:59.15]I ain't know our history was purposely hidden
[03:01.44]Damn somethin' in me wanna know who I am
[03:04.19]So I began my search
[03:06.04]My journey started in church
[03:07.82]It gave my heartache relief
[03:08.83]When I started to understand belief
[03:10.52]Hustlin' was like a gift spent my share of time in the streets
[03:13.41]Taught me survival from this evil
[03:14.74]I'm just gonna have to deal with
[03:16.43]And I felt like a fool when I tried to learn it in school
[03:19.15]It almost seemed like a rehearsal when the only
[03:20.49]Science and math are universal
[03:22.15]Takin' elder advice read the Bible the Koran
[03:24.48]Searched scrolls from the Hebrew Israelites
[03:25.85]Hold on this ain't right Jesus wasn't white
[03:28.31]Some leads were granted with insight
[03:29.62]And it's all in the plan
[03:30.97]But it took me some time to overstand
[03:32.15]He still created with the imperfection of man
[03:33.88]So with followin' I disagree
[03:35.34]By no means have I forgotten or forgiven
[03:38.18]What's been done to me but
[03:39.61]I do know the devil ain't no white man
[03:41.67]The devil's a spiritual mind
[03:42.72]That's color blind there's evil white folk and evil niggas
[03:44.87]You gon surely find there's no positivity without negativity
[03:47.75]But one side you gonna have to choose
[03:49.59]Any chance to speak I refuse to misuse
[03:51.26]So how can you call yourself God
[03:52.76]When you let a worldly possession
[03:54.27]Become an obsession
[03:55.10]And the way you write your rhymes
[03:56.79]And can't follow your lesson
[03:57.89]If a seed's sown you make sure it's known
[03:59.94]You make sure it's grown
[04:01.01]If you God then save your own
[04:02.45]Don't mentally enslave your own
[04:03.51]If you God then save your own
[04:05.05]Don't mentally enslave your own
[04:06.15]If you God then save your own
[04:07.82]Don't mentally enslave your own
[04:09.10]Well I've lived and I've learned
[04:11.08]I've taken and I've earned
[04:14.03]I have laughed I have cried
[04:17.07]I failed and I have tried
[04:20.22]Sunshine pourin' rain
[04:22.94]I found joy through my pain
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[04:26.69]Just wanna be happy bein' me bein' me