Love is... - Common.mp3

[00:21.880] How beautiful love can be
[00:23.785] On the streets love is hard to see
[00:26.991] It's a place I got to be
[00:29.444] Loving you is loving me
[00:32.513] How beautiful love can be
[00:34.824] On the streets love is hard to see
[00:37.667] Gotta reach that frequency
[00:40.289] Loving you is loving me
[00:42.609] Yeah, you know what love is
[00:44.433] Even found it on the ground where the thugs live
[00:47.288] My man had to dig deep to find his
[00:49.780] Couldn't sleep cause on the real he had five kids
[00:52.841]Live niggas, real niggas express and taste it
[00:55.752] At crap games, black dames and big faces
[00:58.592] Cases in court, fam' showing love and support
[01:01.050] You and your baby's mom thought that love was a sport
[01:03.863] As men we were taught to hold it in
[01:06.275] That's why we don't know how 'til we're older men
[01:08.886] If love is a place I'ma go again
[01:11.602] At least now, now I know to go within
[01:14.225] At times it can take ya for a spin
[01:16.985] Heartbreak hotel then you're home again
[01:19.651]I've seen love make a nigga soul pretend
[01:22.325] Like a story that he don't want to end
[01:24.988] Yo
[01:25.716] How beautiful love can be
[01:27.588] On the streets love is hard to see
[01:31.071] It's a place I got to be
[01:33.347] Loving you is loving me
[01:36.407] How beautiful love can be
[01:38.244] On the streets love is hard to see
[01:41.270] Gotta reach that frequency
[01:43.928] Loving you is loving me
[01:46.415] It's all love where we come from
[01:48.364] In the hood love we was told to run from
[01:50.996] That same hood where the guns sung
[01:53.544] We holla love, hoping it'd become one
[01:56.266] Crack got so many lives undone
[01:58.895] From lack of love many hide some run
[02:01.641] I knew this girl with a son who dreamt of acting in plays
[02:05.070] Demonstration with her man had her trapped in a maze
[02:07.622] Trying to find herself again, much of that she'd have gave
[02:10.229] Love can free us, to it some of us react as a slave
[02:12.877] Funny, we love 'em more when they're relaxed in a grave
[02:15.575] Wonder if a thug is raw, is he actin' afraid?
[02:18.330] Everybody loves sun, why do I attract shade?
[02:21.011] Heard of the love of money, but compassion it pays
[02:23.597] Talk about it with my youth so she'd understand
[02:26.295] What it is to be loved by a man
[02:29.469] How beautiful love can be
[02:31.375] On the streets love is hard to see
[02:34.826] It's a place I got to be
[02:37.352] Loving you is loving me
[02:40.217] How beautiful love can be
[02:42.387] On the streets love is hard to see
[02:44.960] Gotta reach that frequency
[02:47.521] Loving you is loving me
[02:50.167] Some say that I'm a dreamer cause I talk about it often
[02:53.076]Seen the hardest nigga soften wit' his homie in a coffin
[02:55.690] We walk and stand in, fall in it
[02:58.589] With the right companion we all in it
[03:01.036] Mary sang a song about it, having broad limits
[03:03.637] In the game of life, it's the scrimmage
[03:05.939] Reminiscing on letters I wrote in my small days
[03:08.965] A letter to the people, love always
[03:11.575] Yeah
[03:12.243] How beautiful love can be
[03:14.031] On the streets love is hard to see
[03:17.259] It's a place I got to be
[03:19.282] Loving you is loving me
[03:22.600] How beautiful love can be
[03:24.758] On the streets love is hard to see
[03:27.868] Gotta reach that frequency
[03:30.519] Loving you is loving me