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Go!

Release date: 25th July 2005

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About This Track

The third single from Common's 'Be', 'Go!' is produced by Kanye West, who also provides backing vocals alongside John Mayer. The beat samples Linda Lewis's 1972 track 'Old Smokey', with percussion handled by Num Amuntehu and scratches by A-Trak. It became the most successful single from the album, though it didn't reach the Billboard Top 40. Common maps out a series of sexual encounters with escalating frankness, from a club liaison in a bathroom to a threesome proposition involving a preacher's daughter. The refrain invites everyone to 'run back to your fantasy', the track treating desire as a space of permission rather than consequence. West's production keeps the tempo brisk, the sample looped tight beneath Common's conversational delivery.

"Go!" is a single by Common, released 25th July 2005. Full lyrics are available below.

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Common

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Lyrics

Go!

Go (go, go)
Go, go and on the count of three
Go
Go, go, go, go, go and on the count of three
Go (go)
Go, go, go, go, go, go
Uh, on the count of three
Everybody run back to your fantasy, now

Go (go)
Go, go, go, go, go and on the count of three
Go (go)
Go, go, go, go, go and on the count of three
Go (go)
Go, go, go, go, go, go
And on the count of three
Everybody run back to your fantasy, now

Go (go)
She was a bad, uh, the type at the club niggas would grab her
Go
Fantasized when I had her, in the bathroom sweatin' with her ass up
Go (go)
The body of a dancer, we had chemistry 'cuz she was a cancer
Thought forever it would last for, but forever move faster, so I had to

Go (go)
Still I gotta pause when I think about her in dem draws
Go (go)
And a ooh baby she liked it raw and like rain when she came it poured
Go (go)
And like a car that I can't afford I would want it then want some more
The positions our frames explored let me know she was secure
Back for more I wanna

Go (go)
Go, go, go, go, go and on the count of three
Go (go)
Go, go, go, go, go and on the count of three
Go (go)
Go, go, go, go, go, go
Uh, on the count of three
Everybody run back to your fantasy, now

Go (go)
Go, go, go, go, go and on the count of three
Go (go)
Go, go, go, go, go, go
And on the count of three
Everybody run back to your fantasy, now

Go (go)
Freaky like the daughter of a pastor
Said I was bait for her to master
Go
Little red corvette now she was faster
Wet dreams Le'maire cream the bathroom

Go (go)
We made love and then laughter
And anyway I wanted I could have her
Said there were some girls that did attract her
A new chapter she was after so I said let's

Go (go)
To a place that you wanna be, uh
Get what you want from her and me, uh
Go (go)
Free love I wanna see, uh
Hot sex in the third degree, uh

Go (go)
You gettin' served while servin' me, uh
Dirty words encourage me to
Rock steady and sturdily on, you turnin' me
No turnin' back the further, we

Go (go)
Go, go, go, go, go and on the count of three
Go (go)
Go, go, go, go, go and on the count of three
Go (go)
Go, go, go, go, go, go
Uh, on the count of three
Everybody run back to your fantasy, now

Go (go)
Go, go, go, go, go and on the count of three
Go (go)
Go, go, go, go, go and on the count of three
Go (go)
Go, go, go, go, go, go
And on the count of three
Everybody run back to your fantasy, now

Go (go)
Go (go)
Go (go)
G-go
G-go
Go

Go
G-go
Go (go)
Go (go)
Go (go)

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Go!

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    Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Common, John Mayer, Kanye West, Linda Lewis
    Producer
    Kanye West
    Assistant Mixing Engineer
    Jared Robbins
    Assistant Recording Engineer
    Francis Forde, Ric McRae, Taylor Dow
    Mastering Engineer
    Tom Coyne
    Mixing Engineer
    Manny Marroquin
    Percussion
    Num Amuntehu
    Recording Engineer
    Andrew Dawson
    Scratches
    A-Trak
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