[ti:G O D]
[ar:Common]
[al:One Day It'll All Make Sense]
[offset:0]
[00:00.53]G O D - Common
[00:17.07]After bein' 25, you know,
[00:20.50]just trying to survive in the world
[00:22.69]
[00:23.52]'Bout to have a little boy or baby girl, who knows?
[00:27.03]
[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
[00:43.17]
[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
[02:05.68]
[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
[02:34.60]Let me voice my concern
[02:35.96]So many of my fellow brothers have given themselves a title
[02:38.96]That their actions didn't earn
[02:40.68]Our ignorance is in the same breath as our innocence
[02:42.97]Subconsciously, seeking to find
[02:45.06]An impressionable mind to convince
[02:47.13]I've finally come to the realization
[02:48.60]Why black people in the worse place
[02:49.83]'Cuz it's hard to correct yourself
[02:51.07]when you don't know
[02:51.83]Who you are in the first place ,
[02:53.78]so I try to find the clue in you
[02:55.55]But evidently, white folks know more black history than we do
[02:58.10]Why're we bein' lied to?
[02:59.16]I ain't know our history was purposely hidden
[03:01.45]Damn, somethin' in me wanna know who I am
[03:04.20]So I began my search,
[03:06.05]my journey started in church
[03:07.83]It gave my heartache relief
[03:08.84]when I started to understand belief
[03:10.53]Hustlin' was like a gift spent my share of time in the streets
[03:13.42]Taught me survival from this evil
[03:14.75]I'm just gonna have to deal with
[03:16.44]And I felt like a fool when I tried to learn it in school
[03:19.16]It almost seemed like a rehearsal when the only
[03:20.50]Science and math are universal
[03:22.16]Takin' elder advice, read the Bible, the Koran
[03:24.49]Searched scrolls from the Hebrew Israelites
[03:25.86]Hold on, this ain't right, Jesus wasn't white
[03:28.32]Some leads were granted with insight
[03:29.63]And it's all in the plan,
[03:30.98]but it took me some time to overstand
[03:32.16]He still created with the imperfection of man
[03:33.89]So, with followin' I disagree
[03:35.35]By no means have I forgotten or forgiven
[03:38.19]What's been done to me but
[03:39.62]I do know the devil ain't no white man,
[03:41.68]the devil's a spiritual mind
[03:42.73]That's color blind, there's evil white folk and evil niggas
[03:44.88]You gon surely find there's no positivity without negativity
[03:47.76]But one side you gonna have to choose
[03:49.60]Any chance to speak I refuse to misuse
[03:51.27]So how can you call yourself God
[03:52.77]When you let a worldly possession
[03:54.28]Become an obsession
[03:55.11]and the way you write your rhymes
[03:56.80]And can't follow your lesson
[03:57.90]If a seed's sown, you make sure it's known
[03:59.95]You make sure it's grown
[04:01.02]If you God, then save your own,
[04:02.46]don't mentally enslave your own
[04:03.52]If you God, then save your own,
[04:05.06]don't mentally enslave your own
[04:06.16]If you God, then save your own,
[04:07.83]don't mentally enslave your own
[04:09.11]Well, I've lived and I've learned
[04:11.09]I've taken and I've earned
[04:14.04]I have laughed, I have cried
[04:17.08]I failed and I have tried
[04:20.23]Sunshine, pourin' rain
[04:22.95]I found joy through my pain
[04:25.64]
[04:26.70]Just wanna be happy, bein' me, bein' me
- 专辑：Thisisme Then The Best Of Common
- 歌手：Common
- 歌曲：G.O.D. (Gaining One's Definition) (feat. Cee-Lo)