The Believer (feat. John Legend) Common, John Legend

[00:00.65] I believe in the light that shines and will never die
[00:08.99] Oh I believe the fire burns, we stay alive
[00:16.98] They will talk about us
[00:21.63] Like they talked about the kings before us
[00:26.36] They will talk about us
[00:27.40] These are the words of a believer, achiever, leader of the globe
[00:30.27] Feeding souls of those in need
[00:31.98] I bleed the blood of the struggle
[00:33.51] Walking over troubled puddles
[00:35.07] Hustles in my chest, no hustle no progress
[00:37.20] Extremities of life and it's process
[00:38.96] Birth of a son, death of another
[00:41.34] With love I can rest both mothers
[00:43.05] And told 'em, who's in control is the one that's above us
[00:45.97] I walk where money talks and love stutters
[00:48.27] Body language of a nation going through changes
[00:50.64] The young become dangerous, pain gets spent into anger
[00:53.77] Anger gets sent through the chamber
[00:55.37] It's tough when your own look like strangers
[00:57.18] We are the sons of gangsters and stone rangers
[00:59.73] If he could how would Ernie Barnes paint us
[01:02.03] Look at the picture, hard not to blame us
[01:03.98] But time forgives in the Chi where the young die often
[01:07.16] Do they end up in a coffin because we haven't taught them?
[01:10.02] Is it what we talking we really aint walking
[01:12.17] Dues hustlers pay, how much did it cost 'em?
[01:14.42] Find myself on the same corner that we lost 'em
[01:16.96] Real talking, in they ear like a walkman
[01:19.10] Thoughts spin around the corner to the World
[01:21.47] When I see them, I see my baby girl
[01:23.63] Believe
[01:24.66] I believe in the light that shines and will never die
[01:32.86] Oh I believe the fire burns, we stay alive
[01:40.91] They will talk about us
[01:45.49] Like they talked about the kings before us
[01:50.43] (They will talk about us) The lord lives among us
[01:52.82] The younger's hunger become a means to get it
[01:55.37] By any ways necessary, under pressure
[01:57.62] Children feeling lesser, with the steel up on the dresser
[02:00.03] Killin' will aggressors, destiny's children
[02:02.24] Survivors, soldiers, in front of buildings they eyes look older
[02:05.73] Hard to see blessings in a violent culture
[02:08.09] Face against weapons, sirens, holsters
[02:10.39] That ain't the way that Langston Hughes wrote us
[02:12.39] Soul controllers on the shoulders of Moses and Noah
[02:15.06] We go from being precious to Oprah
[02:16.96] Cultivated to overcome ever since we came overseas
[02:19.64] Today and the way that you can see we determined
[02:22.04] Solar keeps burning, shawty's know to keep learning
[02:24.44] Lesson's in our life, are like stripes that we earning
[02:26.72] Took Gramps advice that Christ is returning
[02:28.98] Like a thief in the night, I write the beacons of light
[02:31.29] For those of us in dark alleys and parched valleys
[02:33.41] Street kids spark rallies of the conscience conquerors of a contest
[02:37.14] That seems beyond us, even through the unseen, I know that God watches
[02:40.71] From one King's dream he was able to Barack us
[02:44.47] The prophets, nothing can stop us
[02:48.46] I believe in the light that shines and will never die
[02:56.57] Oh I believe the fire burns, we stay alive (Believe)
[03:04.87] They will talk about us
[03:09.23] Like they talked about the kings before us
[03:14.10] They will talk about us
[03:17.73] I know, I know, I know our dreams won't turn to dust
[03:23.50] They will talk about us
[03:27.02] I know, I know, I know our dreams won't turn to dust
[03:32.73] They will talk about us
[03:36.24] I know, I know, I know our dreams won't turn to dust
[03:42.04] They will talk about us
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