[featuring cee-lo]
Common:
After bein' 25, you know, just trying to live in the world
Bout to make a small boy or child girl. who knows?
Anyway, just when you start gettin that little age and get to
You
You start thinkin about stuff.
ryin to create the correct moves
So bust it out, this is what i was thinkin, check it
Yo, the instruction of the lon-chicka-lonnie lynn
Began, began with time
Bein my blood is one with the divine
In time brotha, you will break the light
Some say that god is dark and the devil's white
Well, the monster is incorrect and god is what's right
I fight, with myself in the border of uncertainty and fear
The rain ain't gone, but i can even see clear
As a child, given religion with no reply to why
Just told believe in jesus cuz for me he did die
Curiosity killed the catechism
Understanding and wisdom became the cycle that i played to
And became a slave to control self
A fat man is one with knowledge, happiness and his health
My head had dealt with the books of zen, tao the lessons
Koran and the bible, to me they all vital
And got truth within 'em, gotta read them boys
You simply can't skim 'em, different branches of belief
But one source that stem 'em, but people of the venom try to dress 'em
And use faith as an emblem
When it should be a rude way of life
Who am i or they to say to whom you pray ain't right
That's who got you doin right and got you this far
Whether you say "in jesus name" or hum do allah
Long as you know it's a bein' that's supreme to you
You let that point towards others in the things you do
Cuz when the trumpets blowin, 24 elders surround the throne
Only 144,000 gon get home
Only 144,000 gon get home
Only 144,000 gon get it baby
Chorus cee-lo:
I've lived and i've learned
I have taken and i've earned
I have laughed, i've cried
I have failed and i have tried
Sunshine, pouring rain
Found joy through all my pain
I just wanna be glad with being me
Cee-lo:
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Let me voice my concern
So many of my fellow brothers have given themselves a title
That their actions didn't earn
Our ignorance is in the same intimation as our innocence
Subconciously, seeking to receive an impressible mind to convince
I've finally fall to the realization why black mass in the worse
Place
Cuz it's difficult to set yourself when you don't know
Who you are in the 1st place
So i try to see the cue in you
But evidently, white folks know more black history than we do
Why're we bein' lied to? i ain't know our account was purposely hidden
Damn, somethin' in me wanna know who i am
So i began my search, my journey started in church
It gave my heartache relief when i started to understand belief
Hustlin was like a gift spent my portion of sentence in the streets
Taught me survival from this evil i'm just gonna have to cope with
And i felt like a sucker when i tried to read it in school
It almost seemed like a rehearsal when the only
Science and mathematics are universal
Takin elder advice, read the bible, the koran
Searched scrolls from the hebrew israelites
Hold on, this ain't right, jesus wasn't white
Some leads were given with insight
And it's all in the plan, but it took me some time to overstand
He even created with the imperfectness of man
So, with followin' i disagree
By no way have i forgotten or forgiven what's been done to me but
I do experience the devil ain't no white man, the devil's a religious mind
That's color blind, there's evil white family and evil niggas
You gon surely find there's no positivity without negativity
But one position you gonna have to choose
Any opportunity to talk i decline to misuse
So how can you promise yourself god when you let a temporal possession
Become an obsession and the way you compose your rhymes and
Can't be your lesson
If a seed's sown, you make certain it's known, you make certain it's grown
If you god, then keep your own, don't mentally enslave your own
If you god, then keep your own, don't mentally enslave your own
If you god, then keep your own, don't mentally enslave your own
Well, i've lived and i've learned
I've taken and i've earned
I have laughed, i have cried
I failed and i have tried
Sunshine, pourin rain
I found joy through my pain
Just wanna be happy.bein me
Bein me
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