People Like Me Lyrics - Troubadour - K'naan

Heaven, is there a chance that you could come down 

and open doors to hurtin people like me 

People like me (4x) 

Is it fair to say that I am stressing out 

I'm stationed in Iraq and they won't let me out 

My homeys said I was stupid for even joining 

My counsellor said that my decision was disappointing 

How she had good for good state colleges 

and with my good grades it wouldn't have been a problem 

but they don't understand the power of significance 

more than brilliance and certainly more than diffedence 

and if you ask me now would i repeat it 

Would i fight in a war i don't believe in 

Well the answer is if not me where the cancer is 

they been doing this before Jesus of Nazereth 

and after all this time it is still deadly hazardous 

and bush isn't really being all that innacurate 

When he says we're winning the war cos its staggering 

but thats cos we're killing everybody that we see 

and most of us soldiers we can barely fall asleep 

and time and time again i'm feeling incompetent 

cos my women back home, we're constantly arguing 

and i must be crazy cos all i'm obbsessing with is 

her myspace and facebook and who's commenting 

I swear to god if she's cheatin' I'm doin her ass in 

I can tell with one look and it came to me sounding like something from a song hook 

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Heaven, is there a chance that you could come down 

and open doors to hurtin people like me 

People like me (4x) 

Meet Sarah, the proud mother of young sabastian 

suburban professional went to college in ...shton 

In self pity she suddenly cried, 

would my life be important if I suddenly died? 

Neighbours saying what a nice women she was 

keeping mostly to herself ever since the divorce 

and with the compant downsizein and the fall and all 

she really shouldn't take it that personal at all 

It wasn't her boss who had his eyes on her thighs 

and got a rise from her risin off the desk though 

and despite rememberin sayin no plenty of times 

it was still a damn surprise being let go 

and now stuck with a mortgage she cant afford 

and too educated to blame the corporate world 

She got on welfare and hated it case work a power trippin 

and generally being degraded if, 

nothing else she was treated sick 

and ineffective which is the worst thing 

that she'd been left with 

Damn, no magic from david blane, 

no painter to pain this pain, 

No morgan freeman to narrorate the shame 

So she took refuge and prayer 

kinda like findin god in the phonebook 

and it came to her sounding something like a song hook 

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Heaven, is there a chance that you could come down 

and open doors to hurtin people like me 

People like me (4x) 

I guess I told you about myself to a degree 

just by telling you about people like me 

but people like me they speak politely 

they don't start no beef or peace ... 

Everybody gotta eat but everybody doesn't 

which is why i want to tell you about my favourite cousin 

he and I grew up where the sun shines 

and we both partook with the gun crimes 

and we both liked american rap rhymes 

even though we didn't understand one line 

if you remember my line of notes in my last album 

I talked about a close call with a grenade 

I think we both must have been about 7th grade 

but dont panic we both survived without damage 

but we developed a bond like we survived the titanic 

but when the country became frantic 

my mother tried to get us out, planned it 

to the last detail except the plan got derailed 

cos there wasn't enough money for the plain tickets 

how bitter when my mother had to chose who to take with her 

so my cousin got left in the war and thats just hard to recall 

but now i take refuge and prayer, 

kinda like finding god in the phonebook 

it came to me sounding kinda like something from a song hook . 

Heaven, is there a chance that you could come down 

and open doors to hurtin people like me 

People like me (4x) 

Heaven, is there a chance that you could come down 

and open doors to hurtin people like me 

People like me (4x)