Aquarius

[Intro: Common]

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Semoc eh ereh, tuo hctaw os

Yeah (Suirauqa, suirauqa, suirauqa, suirauqa)

Yeah

[Verse 1: Common]

Nigga deep in the rhythm, experience speaks

I'm keepin' the wisdom, the life hustlers seek

I seekin' it with 'em

I'm dope, the streets need me to hit 'em

With some of that (Revolutionary rap) revolutionary blunted rap

My peoples want hits, I hit it from the back

Under the cherry moon, I hold notes and carry tunes

My guys pack heat, enough to bury June

On my feet, I'm getting married soon

Walking in the clouds like Mary Bethune

Fumes of a real nigga seep into your room

Or through fifthteens of the Jeep that you boom

Sonned so many cats, they call me high noon

Offerings to Oshun, hoping war is over soon

Guard your grill like George Foreman

Time to build, as far as building, I'm the doorman

Opening doors, my blood I expose on the floors

Tell them the game ain't only the score

Hold on to your life as I carry these styles

To have you tapping your head like Darius Miles

You ain't supposed to rhyme, better off with a clothing line

In this business of pimps, many hoes get signed

A poster shines of me holding the blinds

Mixing goldenseal and wine, holding a nine

[Chorus: Bilal & Erykah Badu, Common]

The water that arrives (In the age of Aquarius, do-ba-ba, ba, ba)

To purify the world (Do-ba, ba, ba)

Flying through the night (Do-ba-ba, ba, ba)

So watch out, here he comes (Do do-ba-ba, ba)

Aquarius (Aquarius, Aquarius)

[Verse 2: Common]

Between churches and liquor stores, my mic meets

With raps all over your head like Tweet

Playing with yourself, thinking the game is just wealth

Hot for a minute, watch your name just melt

Same spot where it's joyous where the pain is felt

As you build and destroy, Joe, remain yourself

They say I'm slept on, now I'm bucking in dreams

And rhyme with the mind of a hustler scheme

Or the struggle of fiends, I flow over waters

That's as troubled as teens for the love of the team

Trying to double the dream

Be grateful like the church psalm my grandmother sings

I'm rubbing my rings across the domes of clones

Punchlines like Roy Jones with poems

While you and your dogs foam at the mouth

Thinking rap is the only way out

The Black pool of genius'll never play out

I take you way out, where you never been before

Been it since birth, sent to replenish the Earth

That truck that you roll is like a miniature hearse

I deaded your shit before you finished a verse

From niggas to gods, from bitches to earths

From Nat to Truck Turner that lives in my verse

Realness is an act that you cannot rehearse

Holla back, but listen first

[Chorus: Bilal & Erykah Badu, Common]

The water that arrives (We in the age of Aquarius, do-ba-ba, ba, ba)

To purify the world (Do-ba, ba, ba)

Flying through the night (Do-ba-ba, ba, ba)

So watch out, here he comes (Do do-ba-ba, ba)

Aquarius (Aquarius, Aquarius)

[Instrumental Bridge]

[Chorus]

The water that arrives (Do-ba-ba, ba, ba)

To purify the world (Do-ba, ba, ba)

Flying through the night (Do-ba-ba, ba, ba)

So watch out, here he comes (Do do-ba-ba, ba)

Aquarius (Aquarius, Aquarius)

[Outro: Bilal & Erykah Badu]

Aquarius (Aquarius, Aquarius)

Aquarius (Aquarius, Aquarius)