Be (intro) - (with The Last Poets) Lyrics - Be - Common

I want to be as free as the spirits of those who left 

I'm talking Malcolm, Coltrane, my man Yussef 

Through death through conception 

New breath and resurrection 

For moms, new steps in her direction 

In the right way 

Told inside is where the fight lay 

And everything a nigga do may not be what he might say 

Chicago nights stay, stay on the mind 

But I write many lives and lay on these lines 

Wave the signs of the times 

Many say the grind's on the mind 

Shorties blunted-eyed and everyone wonderin' where I'm 

Bush pushing lies, killers immortalized 

We got arms but won't reach for the skies 

Waiting for the Lord to rise 

I look into my daughter's eyes 

And realize that I'ma learn through her 

The Messiah, might even return through her 

If I'ma do it, I gotta change the world through her 

Furs and a Benz, gramps wantin 'em 

Demons and old friends, pops they hauntin' him 

The chosen one from the land of the frozen sun 

When drunk nights get remembered more than sober ones 

Walk like warriors, we were never told to run 

Explored the world to return to where my soul begun 

Never looking back or too far in front of me 

The present is a gift 

and I just wanna BE. 

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