Common - Faithful Lyrics

Common - Faithful Video

(feat. Bilal & John Legend)

 

(sample) Faithful to the end

(Common) We got to be

(sample) Faithful to the end

(Common) I want to be

(sample) Faithful to the end

(Common) Yes, its for the people, God moves, yeah

 

Verse 1

I was rollin' around, in my mind it occurred

What if God was a her?

Would I treat her the same? Would I still be runnin' game on her?

In what type of ways would I want her?

Would I want her for her mind or her heavenly body?

Couldn't be out gettin' bogus with someone so godly

If I was wit' her would I still be wantin' my ex?

The lies, the greed, the weed, the sex

Wouldn't be ashamed to give her part of my check

Wearin' her cross, I mean the heart on my neck

Her I would reflect on the streets of the Chi'

Ride wit' her, 'Cause I know for me she'd die

Through good and bad call on her like I'm chirpin' her

Couldn't be jealous 'Cause other brothers worship her

Walk this earth for her, glory, I'm grateful

To be in her presence I try to stay faithful

 

Chorus

(sample) Faithful to the end

(sample) Faithful to the end

(sample) Faithful to the end

(sample) I'd like to be her very best friend

 

Verse 2

He worked with her, she was his lady's best friend

Even if they don't try some ladies test men

And this was a test that was bigger than him

Some believe its the nature that is given to men

He had a good gig, a wife, a kid, a decent home

One reason or another couldn't find peace at home

She asked, Why do men always have to stray?

He said, I'm bad, not as bad as Eric Benet

I used to take 'em out to eat but they wasn't really eatin'

Mighta got a little head but I wasn't really cheatin'

It's hard when your lady don't believe what you say

And what you did in the past you gotta live with today

She asked if they could spend the night together

He thought, and said, I'm tryin' to get my life together

Went home to his lady, these were his confessions

Baby you a blessin' and my best friend

 

Chorus

 

(Bilal with his voice overlapping) Faithful to the end

(Bilal) Faithful to the end

(John Legend singing)

(John Legend & Bilal) I'm gonna be, I'm gonna be, I'm gonna be so faithful

(John Legend & Bilal) I'm gonna be, I'm gonna be so faithful

 

(Repeat 3x)

(Bilal) So

(Bilal) So

(Bilal) So

(John Legend) So

(John Legend) So

(John Legend) So

(John Legend & Bilal) So faithful

 

(Bilal) So

(Bilal) So

(Bilal) So

(John Legend) So

(John Legend) So

(John Legend & Bilal) That's what I'm gonna do

(John Legend) Faithful to the end

(John Legend) That's what I'm gonna do

(John Legend) Faithful to the end

(John Legend) That's what I'm gonna do

(John Legend) Faithful to the end

(John Legend) Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

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Common - The Bitch In Yoo Lyrics

Common - The Bitch In Yoo Video

(Yeah, for your nation...

For your nation...)

 

A bitch Nigga wit an Attitude named Cube

Step to Com wit a feud

Now what the fuck I look like dissing a whole coast

You ain't made shit dope since AmeriKKKa's Most

Wanted to cease from the Midwest to the East

On the dick of the East for your 1st release

Your lease is up at the crib, house niggaz get evicted

And videos wit white boys talking you get Wicked

Natural Born Killa? Nigga, you natural born God!

Read, Lench, got the nerve to say you Mob

Hypocrite, I'm filling out your Death Certificate

Slanging bean pies and St Ide's in the same sentence

Shoulda repented on the 16th of October

Get some beats besides George Clinton to rock over

Rap career is over, better off acting

What trouble I see, you're managing WC and Wack 10

You backed in to a four corner hustla

Lying on your dick, said you was fuckin her

Use Higher Learning, don't take my words out of text

Went from gangsta to Islam to the dicks of Das EFX

It'll take the Nation of Millions to Hold Me Back From giving you mouth shots

Or hit wit the pipe Ralph got

Chris Tucker ain't around, it's your Friday, it was good

I wasn't salty, she was wit the 'Boyz N the Hood'

 

I see the bitch in yoo when you don't speak your mind

The bitch in yoo is looking me in my eyes lyin

I see the bitch in yoo is simply hard to find

The bitch in yoo is coming out

 

The ump of this rap shit, Cube, I'm calling out

I break in and smack niggaz that's in the Slaughterhouse

This ain't no East coast, West coast, none of the above

I'm from Chi, I went to Cali, niggaz gave me love

There's a thin line between the fake and the real

Grafted ass nigga, I see through your Glass Shield

Had skills once upon a time on this project, yo

I'm a have to wreck a Ho'shea

I heard a ho say you her favorite rapper

(So what) so I had to slap her

And violate you, a Muslim drinking brew

Your nigga ain't no Mack 10, he's a 22

I seen you (Mack 10), you ain't say shit to ATL

Cube, I like that diamond charm, I might cuff it, then sell

It out, like you sold Kam and Threat

A year ago, you wasn't talking shit about the West

Guess you knew your shit was done plus the one got you cable

Hoo Bangin? You ain't banging shit but the table

And the Circle Madd ain't got no choice but to fight

Ain't none of y'all motherfuckers got a chance on the mic

Anytime you come out, yo, I'm a talk about you

Until you let that bitch in yoo walk up out yoo

Any last words before I hit the switch?

From the immortal words of one: A Bitch iz a (Bitch)

 

I see the bitch in yoo when you don't speak your mind

The bitch in yoo is looking me in my eyes lyin

I see the bitch in yoo is simply hard to find

The bitch in yoo... but yo it's coming out

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Common - A Song For Assata Lyrics

Common - A Song For Assata Video

(Common)

In the Spirit of God.

In the Spirit of the Ancestors.

In the Spirit of the Black Panthers.

In the Spirit of Assata Shakur.

We make this movement towards freedom

For all those who have been oppressed, and all those in the struggle.

Yeah. yo, check it-

 

There were lights and sirens, gunshots firin

Cover your eyes as I describe a scene so violent

Seemed like a bad dream, she laid in a blood puddle

Blood bubbled in her chest, cold air brushed against open flesh

No room to rest, pain consumed each breath

Shot twice wit her hands up

Police questioned but shot before she answered

One Panther lost his life, the other ran for his

Scandalous the police were as they kicked and beat her

Comprehension she was beyond, tryna hold on

To life. She thought she'd live with no arm

That's what it felt like, got to the hospital, eyes held tight

They moved her room to room-she could tell by the light

Handcuffed tight to the bed, through her skin it bit

Put guns to her head, every word she got hit

Who shot the trooper? they asked her

Put mace in her eyes, threatened to blast her

Her mind raced till things got still

Opened her eyes, realized she's next to her best friend who got killed

She got chills, they told her: that's where she would be next

Hurt mixed wit anger-survival was a reflex

They lied and denied visits from her lawyer

But she was buildin as they tried to destroy her

If it wasn't for this german nurse they woulda served her worse

I read this sister's story, knew that it deserved a verse

I wonder what would happen if that woulda been me?

All this shit so we could be free, so dig it, y'all.

 

(Cee-lo vocals)

I'm thinkin' of Assata, yes.

Listen to my Love, Assata, yes.

Your Power and Pride is beautiful.

May God bless your Soul.

 

(Common)

It seemed like the middle of the night when the law awakened her

Walkie-talkies cracklin, I see 'em when they takin her

Though she kinda knew,

What made the ride peaceful was the trees and the sky was blue

Arrived to Middlesex Prison about six inna morning

Uneasy as they pushed her to the second floor in

A cell, one cot, no window, facing hell.

Put in the basement of a prison wit all males

And the smell of misery, seatless toilets and centipedes

She'd exercise, (paint?,) and begin to read

Two years inna hole. Her soul grew weak

Away from people so long she forgot how to speak

She discovered frredom is a unspoken sound

And a wall is a wall and can be broken down

Found peace in the Panthers she went on trial with

One of the brothers she had a child with

The foulness they would feed her, hopin she's lose her seed

Held tight, knowing the fight would live through this seed

In need of a doctor, from her stomach she's bleed

Out of this situation a girl was conceived

Separated from her, left to mother the Revolution

And lactated to attack hate

Cause federal and state was built for a Black fate

Her emptiness was filled with beatings and court dates

They fabricated cases, hoping one would stick

And said she robbed places that didn't exist

In the midst of threats on her life and being caged with Aryan whites

Through dark halls of hate she carried the light

I wonder what would happen if that woulda been me?

All of this shit so we could be free.

Yeah, I often wonder what would happen if that woulda been me?

All of this shit so we could be free, so dig it, people-

 

(Cee-Lo)

I'm thinkin' of Assata, yeah.

Listen to my Love, Assata, yeah.

Your Power and Pride, so Beautiful...

May God bless your Soul.

Oooh.

 

(Common)

Yo

From North Carolina her grandmother would bring

News that she had had a dream

Her dreams always meant what they needed them to mean

What made them real was the action in between

She dreamt that Assata was free in they old house in Queens

The fact that they always came true was the thing

Assata had been convicted of a murder she couldna done

Medical evidence shown she couldna shot the gun

It's time for her to see the sun from the other side

Time for her daughter to be by her mother's side

Time for this Beautiful Woman to become soft again

Time for her to breathe, and not be told how or when

She untangled the chains and escaped the pain

How she broke out of prison I could never explain

And even to this day they try to get to her

But she's free with political asylum in Cuba.

 

(Cee-Lo vocals)

I'm thinkin' of Assata, yeah.

Listen to my Love, Assata, yeah.

We're molded from the same mud, Assata.

We share the same Blood, Assata, yeah.

Your Power and Pride, so Beautiful...

May God bless your Soul.

Your Power and Pride, so Beautiful...

May God bless your Soul.

Oooh.

 

(Assata)

Freedom! You askin me about freedom. Askin me about freedom?

I'll be honest with you. I know a whole lot more about what freedom isn't

Than about what it is, cause I've never been free.

I can only share my vision with you of the future, about what freedom is.

Uhh, the way I see it, freedom is-- is the right to grow, is the right to

Blossom.

Freedom is -is the right to be yourself, to be who you are,

To be who you wanna be, to do what you wanna do. (fade out)

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Common - The Light Lyrics

Common - The Light Video

Yeah..

Doo-doo-doo, mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm..

Doo-doo-d-doo, diggy-doo YO..

 

I never knew a luh, luh-luh, a love like this

Gotta be somethin for me to write this

Queen, I ain't seen you in a minute

Wrote this letter, and finally decide to send it

Signed sealed delivered for us to grow together

Love has no limit, let's spend it slow forever

I know your heart is weathered by what studs did to you

I ain't gon' assault em cause I probably did it too

Because of you, feelings I handle with care

Some niggaz recognize the light but they can't handle the glare

You know I ain't the type to walk around with matchin shirts

If relationship is effort I will match your work

I wanna be the one to make you happiest, it hurts you the most

They say the end is near, it's important that we close..

.. to the most, high

Regardless of what happen on him let's rely

 

There are times.. when you'll need someone..

I will be by your side..

There is a light, that shines,

Special for you, and me..

 

Yo, yo, check it

It's important, we communicate

And tune the fate of this union, to the right pitch

I never call you my bitch or even my boo

There's so much in a name and so much more in you

Few understand the union of woman and man

And sex and a tingle is where they assume that it land

But that's fly by night for you and the sky I write

For in these cold Chi night's moon, you my light

If heaven had a height, you would be that tall

Ghetto to coffee shop, through you I see that all

Let's stick to understandin' and we won't fall

For better or worst times, I hope to me you call

So I pray everyday more than anything

Friends will stay as we begin to lay

This foundation for a family love ain't simple

Why can't it be anything worth having you work at annually

Granted we known each other for some time

It don't take a whole day to recognize sunshine

 

There are times.. when you'll need someone..

I will be by your side, oh darling

There is a light, that shines,

Special for you, and me..

 

Yeah.. yo, yo, check it

It's kinda fresh you listen to more than hip-hop

And I can catch you in the mix from beauty to thrift shop

Plus you ship hop when it's time to, thinkin you fresh

Suggestin beats I should rhyme to

At times when I'm lost I try to find you

You know to give me space when it's time to

My heart's dictionary defines you, it's love and happiness

Truthfully it's hard tryin to practice abstinence

The time we committed love it was real good

Had to be for me to arrive and it still feel good

I know the sex ain't gon' keep you, but as my equal

It's how I must treat you

As my reflection in light I'ma lead you

And whatever's right, I'ma feed you

Digga-da, digga-da, digga-da, digga-digga-da-da

Yo I tell you the rest when I see you, peace

 

There are times.. when you'll need someone..

I will be by your side..

There is a light, that shines,

Special for you, and me..

 

(I'll) take my chances.. before they pass..

.. pass me by, oh darling..

You need to look at the other side..

You'll agree..

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Common - Testify Lyrics

Common - Testify Video

Common

She walk into the court her knees buckle

Saying for a man to survive he needn't hustle

Seen and been through struggle her whole life

Made a transition from being his ho to his wife

Stifling, the night upend the ATF bust in

Her daddy was a hustla so she love them

Looked at the jury how can they judge him, she screamed

 

sample

Before you lock my love away, before you lock my love away

Before you lock my love away, before you lock my love away

Please let me testify

 

Common

Fear in her chest her face in tears, had her mans back he was facing years

In her name though the place was his

They trying to take everything except the kids

But years she been through stumbling fights

While he trying to hustle that white

Up all night wondering if hes alive

Seeing him tried she bubbled inside and screamed

 

sample

Before you lock my love away, before you lock my love away

Before you lock my love away, before you lock my love away

Please let me testify

 

Common

The judge called for order the court reporter makin her words shorter

His lawyer sat next to him, she could see how the trial was affecting him

It hurt for her eyes to connect with him, using her lies for protecting him

They arrested him for murder, and gun possession

As they read back her confession she screamed

 

sample

Before you lock my love away, before you lock my love away

Before you lock my love away, before you lock my love away

Please let me testify

 

Common

The court awaited as the foreman got the verdict from the bailiff

Emotional outbursts tears and smeared makeup

He stated, he was guilty on all charges

She's shaking like she took it the hardest

A spin artist, she brought her face up laughing

That's when the prosecutor realized what happened

All that speaking her mind testifying and crying

When this bitch did the crime- the queenpin...

 

sample

Before you lock my love away, before you lock my love away

Before you lock my love away, before you lock my love away

Please let me testify

 

You accuse me of a, you accuse me of a, you accuse

Please let me testify, please let me testify

You accuse me of a, you accuse me of a, you accuse

Please let me testify, please let me testify

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