《G.O.D. (Gaining One’s Definition) Featuring Ce-Lo》歌词

[00:00:00] G O D - Common (凡夫俗子)

[00:00:17] After bein' 25 you know

[00:00:20] Just trying to survive in the world

[00:00:23] 'Bout to have a little boy or baby girl who knows

[00:00:28] Anyway just when you start getting' that little age

[00:00:30] And experience to you

[00:00:31] You start thinkin' about stuff

[00:00:32] Tryin' to make the right moves

[00:00:34] So bust it out this is what I was thinkin' check it

[00:00:37] Yo the education of the Lon-chicka-Lonnie Lynn

[00:00:40] Began began with time

[00:00:43] Bein' my bloodline is one with the divine

[00:00:46] In time brotha you will discover the light

[00:00:49] Some say that God is black and the devil's white

[00:00:52] Well the devil is wrong and God is what's right

[00:00:55] I fight with myself in the ring of doubt and fear

[00:00:58] The rain ain't gone but I can still see clear

[00:01:01] As a child given religion with no answer to why

[00:01:04] Just told believe in Jesus 'cuz for me he did die

[00:01:07] Curiosity killed the catechism

[00:01:10] Understanding and wisdom became the rhythm that I played to

[00:01:13] And became a slave to master self

[00:01:15] A rich man is one with knowledge

[00:01:17] Happiness and his health

[00:01:18] My mind had dealt with the books of Zen Tao the lessons

[00:01:21] Koran and the Bible to me they all vital

[00:01:25] And got truth within 'em gotta read them boys

[00:01:27] You just can't skim 'em different branches of belief

[00:01:30] But one root that stem 'em

[00:01:32] But people of the venom try to trim 'em

[00:01:34] And use religion as an emblem

[00:01:36] When it should be a natural way of life

[00:01:39] Who am I or they to say to whom you pray ain't right

[00:01:42] That's who got you doin' right and got you this far

[00:01:45] Whether you say "In Jesus name" or "Al hum du'Allah"

[00:01:48] Long as you know it's a bein' that's supreme to you

[00:01:51] You let that show towards others in the things you do

[00:01:53] 'Cuz when the trumpets blowin'

[00:01:55] 24 elders surround the throne

[00:01:57] Only 144 000 gon get home

[00:02:00] Only 144 000 gon get home

[00:02:02] Only 144 000 gon get it baby

[00:02:11] I've lived and I've learned

[00:02:13] I have taken and I've earned

[00:02:16] I have laughed I've cried

[00:02:19] I have failed and I have tried

[00:02:22] Sunshine pouring rain

[00:02:25] Found joy through all my pain

[00:02:28] I just wanna be happy with being me

[00:02:34] Let me voice my concern

[00:02:35] So many of my fellow brothers have given themselves a title

[00:02:38] That their actions didn't earn

[00:02:40] Our ignorance is in the same breath as our innocence

[00:02:42] Subconsciously seeking to find

[00:02:45] An impressionable mind to convince

[00:02:47] I've finally come to the realization

[00:02:48] Why black people in the worse place

[00:02:49] 'Cuz it's hard to correct yourself

[00:02:51] When you don't know

[00:02:51] Who you are in the first place

[00:02:53] So I try to find the clue in you

[00:02:55] But evidently white folks know more black history than we do

[00:02:58] Why're we bein' lied to

[00:02:59] I ain't know our history was purposely hidden

[00:03:01] Damn somethin' in me wanna know who I am

[00:03:04] So I began my search

[00:03:06] My journey started in church

[00:03:07] It gave my heartache relief

[00:03:08] When I started to understand belief

[00:03:10] Hustlin' was like a gift spent my share of time in the streets

[00:03:13] Taught me survival from this evil

[00:03:14] I'm just gonna have to deal with

[00:03:16] And I felt like a fool when I tried to learn it in school

[00:03:19] It almost seemed like a rehearsal when the only

[00:03:20] Science and math are universal

[00:03:22] Takin' elder advice read the Bible the Koran

[00:03:24] Searched scrolls from the Hebrew Israelites

[00:03:25] Hold on this ain't right Jesus wasn't white

[00:03:28] Some leads were granted with insight

[00:03:29] And it's all in the plan

[00:03:30] But it took me some time to overstand

[00:03:32] He still created with the imperfection of man

[00:03:33] So with followin' I disagree

[00:03:35] By no means have I forgotten or forgiven

[00:03:38] What's been done to me but

[00:03:39] I do know the devil ain't no white man

[00:03:41] The devil's a spiritual mind

[00:03:42] That's color blind there's evil white folk and evil niggas

[00:03:44] You gon surely find there's no positivity without negativity

[00:03:47] But one side you gonna have to choose

[00:03:49] Any chance to speak I refuse to misuse

[00:03:51] So how can you call yourself God

[00:03:52] When you let a worldly possession

[00:03:54] Become an obsession

[00:03:55] And the way you write your rhymes

[00:03:56] And can't follow your lesson

[00:03:57] If a seed's sown you make sure it's known

[00:03:59] You make sure it's grown

[00:04:01] If you God then save your own

[00:04:02] Don't mentally enslave your own

[00:04:03] If you God then save your own

[00:04:05] Don't mentally enslave your own

[00:04:06] If you God then save your own

[00:04:07] Don't mentally enslave your own

[00:04:09] Well I've lived and I've learned

[00:04:11] I've taken and I've earned

[00:04:14] I have laughed I have cried

[00:04:17] I failed and I have tried

[00:04:20] Sunshine pourin' rain

[00:04:22] I found joy through my pain

[00:04:26] Just wanna be happy bein' me bein' me