A Dream Songtext

von Common

I am happy
I am I am happy

I got a dream
[One day]
We gonna work it out oh oh
We gonna work it out oh oh
We gonna work it out

I got a dream
We gonna work it out oh oh
We gonna work it out oh oh
We gonna work it out

I got a dream
[that one day]
That one day
All of the people and myself
Are gonna find a better way
My dream is to be free
My dream is to be
My dream is to be
My dream is to be free

A search for brighter days
I ride through the maze of the madness
Struggle is my address
Where pain and crack lives
Gunshots coming from sounds of blackness
Given this game with no time to practice
Born on the blacklist
Told I'm a little average
A life with no cabbage
That's no money if you're from where I'm from
Funny,
I just want some of yours son
Dark clouds seem to follow me
Alcohol that my pops swallowed bottle me
No apology
I walk with a boulder on my shoulder
It's a cold war
I'm a colder soldier
I hold the same fight that made Martin Luther the king
I ain't usin' it for the right thing
In-Between lean and the fiends
Hustle and the schemes
I put together pieces of a dream
I still have one

I got a dream
[One day]
We gonna work it out oh oh
We gonna work it out oh oh
We gonna work it out
[Soundclip: I have a dream]
I got a dream

We gonna work it out oh oh
We gonna work it out oh oh
We gonna work it out

I got a dream
[that one day]
That one day
I'ma look deeper than myself
Are gonna find a better way
My dream is to be free
My dream is to be
My dream is to be
My dream is to be free

The world see me lookin' in the mirror
Images of me gettin' much clearer
Dear self,
I wrote a letter just to better my soul
If I don't express it,
Then forever I hold inside
I'm from a side where we outta control
Rap music and the hood play a fatherly role
My story like yours, yo, gotta be told
Tryin' to make it from a gangsta to a Godlier role
And Jewish people in cold caves
Hate has no color or age
Flip the page
Now my rage became freedom right
Write dreams in the dark
They far, but I can see em
I believe in heaven more than hell
Blessings more than jail
In the ghetto, let love prevail
With a story to tell
My eyes see the glory of, well,
The world waitin' for me to yell
I have a dream

I got a dream
[One day]
We gonna work it out oh oh
We gonna work it out oh oh
We gonna work it out
[Soundclip: I have a dream]
I got a dream
We gonna work it out oh oh
We gonna work it out oh oh
We gonna work it out
[Soundclip: I have a dream]
I got a dream
[that one day]
That one day
All of the people and myself
Are gonna find a better way
My dream is to be free
My dream is to be
My dream is to be
My dream is to be free