The Believer (Remix)

[Verse 1: Common] These are the words of a believer Achiever, leader of the globe Feeding souls of those in need I bleed the blood of the struggle Walking over troubled puddles Hustles in my chest, no hustle no progress Extremities of life and it's process Birth of a son, death of another With love I caress both mothers And told 'em, who’s in control is the one that's above us I walk where money talks and love stutters Body language of a nation going through changes The young become dangerous, pain gets spent into anger Anger gets sent through the chamber It’s tough when your own look like strangers We are the sons of gangsters and stone rangers If he could how would Ernie Barnes paint us? Look at the picture, hard not to blame us But time forgives in the Chi where the young die often Do they end up in a coffin because we haven’t taught them? Is it what we talking, we really ain't walking? Dues hustlers pay, how much did it cost 'em? Find myself on the same corner that we lost ‘em Real talking, in they ear like a Walkman Thoughts spin around the corner to the world When I see them, I see my baby girl Believe! There are times... [Verse 2: Common] The lord lives among us, the younguns hunger Become a means to get it by any ways nece- -ssary, under pressure, children feeling lesser With the steel up on the dresser killin' will aggressors Destiny’s children survivors, soldiers In front of buildings they eyes look older Hard to see blessings in the violent culture Face against weapons, sirens, holsters That ain't the way that Langston Hughes wrote us Soul controllers on the shoulders of Moses and Noah We go from being Precious to Oprah Cultivated to overcome ever since we came overseas Today and the way that you can see we determined Solar keeps burning, shawty’s know to keep learning Lesson’s in our life are like stripes that we earning Took gramps' advice that Christ is returning Like a thief in the night, I write the beacons of light For those of us in dark alleys and parched valleys Street hits spark rallies of the conscience conquerors of a contest That seems beyond us, even through the unseen I know that God watches From one King's dream, he was able to Barack us The prophets, nothing can stop us Believe! The prophets, nothing can stop us Yo yo yo, yeah yeah yeah