For the world world world
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My name is Common, No I.D
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[Verse 1]
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Ferrari testers, Armani dressers
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Exquisite thick bitches that body bless us
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Rest assured, we getting festive in Miami now
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Told my nigga a¢æ?Ye I'm about to win the Grammys now
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Getting Johnny Cash old white folks know me now
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Standing close to the mic like I'm Kobe now
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We celebrate the [?], they hate because we got love
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It's the pop life, a lot of faces pop up
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Known to tear the club and the block up
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Going through the airport with more lie than an opera
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New crooks who move books like Harry Potter
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Get cleaners to get it cleaner
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A legend like John, Lennon, I'm a dreamer
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Tried to fuck the world she only let me finger
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Mind trips to Medina to visit the redeemer
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A hero, I'll drop out like Hiroshima
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Off Sangria with two broads
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Still opening roads for
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I'm a dreamer
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[Hook]
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It's for the world world world world world
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Dream on
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[Verse 2]
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We take, uh, we make, uh, paper
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And build skyscrapers
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Walking on water, building my faith up
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Niggas with no heart, I'm the pace maker
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Get the beat from No I, feel the pulse of the Chi
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Survival of the fit with hope in they eye
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Taking notes from the sky to fly above understanding
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They notes from the most high, so I gotta land them
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Career ain't random, make anthems, streets chant them
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Rock rolls like a phantom
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Mad hoes like they throwing tantrums
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I tell them I need space like Richard Branson
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Dancing, with wolves and stars getting full at bars
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And then pass out like a pamphlet
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Never taking Grants for granted
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It's Common, I'm high above standard
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Fly nigga, keep my feet planted
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To rock the planet, I don't stop for panic
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Maybe I'm a hopeless hip-hop romantic
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I'm a dreamer
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[Hook]
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[Verse 3]
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He introduced me, I stepped to the podium
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Said peace, gave thanks to the holy one
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Put my water up, thought about my daughter for a second
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The youth, the living resurrection
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Reflections of the sun glaring through the window
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Now the audience staring at my mental
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Feeling like the world, the world is at my fingers
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a¢æ?Bout to speak to an auditorium full of dreamers
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Kinda took me back to when I first had a dream
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To be like the king that sang Billie Jean
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Now it's gold records, and I'm on silver screens
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At the mountaintop, you still gotta dream
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To the dreamers
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[Bridge]
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If I dream you're here
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Angel dreaming there
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You should just come here
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If I wake you up
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Only difference is
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You can live the dream
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Just believe in it
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[Maya Angelou]
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Once you find your shoulders dropping
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And your speech gets slow and hazy
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You better change your way of being
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Before you found your brain got lazy
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You can build a better future when you join the winning team
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If you desire a bright tomorrow, you must build a brighter dream
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Dare to let your dreams reach beyond you
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Know that history holds more than it seems
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We are here alive today because our ancestors dared to dream
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From Africa they lay in the bilge of slave ships
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And stood half naked on auction blocks
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From eastern-Europe they crowded in vessels overloaded with immigrants
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And were mis-named on Ellis island
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From South America and Mexico, from Asia, they labored in sweat shops
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From all over the world, they came to America
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Many shivering in rags, and still they dared to dream
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Let us dream for today and for tomorrow
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Let us dare to dream
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The Dreamer
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| Common |
