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Common - Book Of Life (Official Audio)
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Common
Common
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COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Lonnie Lynn
Lonnie Lynn
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Dion Wilson
Dion Wilson
Songwriter
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(Here's a little story that must be told) (From beginning to end) (Here's a little story that must be told) (From beginning to end) I got so much trouble on my mind So I take time out my day to pray and I say Now lay me down to sleep, hoping that I keep my soul Peep I'm getting old and it's a cold cold world And I ain't even got a bomber Living with my momma, it's the same routine Keep my room clean, I'm looking to do some new things But ain't shit to do, I'm twenty two catch In the prime of my life, I have no time for a wife I funnel through the tunnel, disgruntled Trying to find me some light in the rim of darkness A'ight, you sing, I may not be the darkest, brother But I was always told to act my age, not my color Not knowing that my color was that of the original So now I sing the new negro spiritual It goes, get up stand up, stand up for your rights Get up stand up, don't give up the fight It's like how can you understand the pain When you never had to stand under the rain? When it rains it pours and it's about to come down hard Thank God I found you (Here's a little story that must be told) (My life, my life, my life, my life) (Here's a little story that must be told) (My life, my life, from beginning to end) As I walk down the road of existence I get resistance from all angles I tangle for cash, hoping it'll last Until the end of the week, but all I eat is fast food (yeah) And you know how junk food goes right through ya So I return to the Arab and on the way back I stop and the liquor store, grab me a six pack Knowing that once I'm done with that I'll be back To get some more Once I get started I don't wanna stop, ah And I can't turn around brew, I can't turn it down Ironically I turn it up, my liver I burn it up It's my life, I live it up, the cup I gotta give it up One day I'm cruising down a one way street And I done passed fun day, three blocks ago It itself life is an obstacle As I maneuver through the manure I try to be responsible I want a job but I ain't looking, how come? I ain't trying to degrade myself being nobody's Calvin I'm a couch bum, what makes it bad I had incentive But I disintegrated to a state that's stagnated, I procrastinated I can't recall a day without being intoxicated or blowed I'm dealing with a full deck and any day I could fold What makes it bad, I wasn't dealt that bad a hand And I had a plan, but things didn't go through The way they were supposed to Thank God I found you (Here's a little story that must be told) (My life, my life, my life, my life) (Here's a little story that must be told) (My life, my life, from beginning to end) (Here, here's a little story that must be told) (My life, my life, my life, my life) (Here's a little, little story, story, that must be told) (My life, my life, my life, my) It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder How I keep from going under, I ponder And try to keep my concentration in this idiotic nation They say become I doctor, but I don't have the patients Adjacent to that situation, I want an occupation That I'm into, 'cause yet if I begin to live to my potential I went to school for fourteen years And my best teacher was experience I reminisce and wish I could go back in time to eighty-nine When there was just sunshine But now it's like I'm getting older to so much strain and stress I don't think I'll ever be happy until I rest in peace Of mind and find who I am But thank God I found you (Here's a little story that must be told) (My life, my life, my life, my life) (Here's a little story that must be told) (My life, my life, from beginning to end) (Here, here's a little story that must be told) (My life, my life, my life, my life) (Here's a little, little story, story, story) (That must, must, must, must, must, must, must be told) (Must, must, must, must, must) (Must be told) (Must, must, must, must, must be told) (Must, must, must be told) (Must, must must, must, must be told)
Writer(s): Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Ernest Dion Wilson Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com
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