Dreamer
Uh, yeahBelieve it or not...What kept me alive...Is my DreamsChorus:I'm a dreamer, but I ain't the only oneGot problems but we love to have funThis is our world, from here to your hoodWe alive man, it's okay to feel good!I'm a dreamer, but I ain't the only oneGot problems but we love to have funThis is our world, from here to your hoodLively up now, it's okay to feel good!Verse 1:I got a friend named Fo' Who got a friend named BlowWith a finger named Clap That'll leave you on the side like a Kangol hatHe ain't have no choice he was born this wayThese streets pull your number like a phone displayAnd you gotta be defensive with your lifeYou gotta be like Bush and take pre-emptive strikesAnd "The boys from the hood are always hard"Let alone in Mogadishu it's a mastered artIf you bring the world hoods to a seminarWe from the only place worse than KandaharYo that's kinda hardBut we still like to party and Hardy-harSomething good happens we say "Mashallah"Something bad happens, "Que sera, sera"I close my eyes and all I can see, is you dancing with meChorus:I'm a dreamer, but I ain't the only oneGot problems but we love to have funThis is our world, from here to your hoodWe alive man, it's okay to feel good!I'm a dreamer, but I ain't the only oneGot problems but we love to have funThis is our world, from here to your hoodLively up now, it's okay to feel good!I'm a DreamerIt's okay to feel goodIt's the truth!Ayyo, and check it outVerse 2:What would it take for a boy about my ageTo hear cheers in his head upon that stage?And the cheers they would drown out the tears from my brown eyesC'mon backstageYou see the screams ain't the screams from gunshot screamsIn my dreams these screams are from hot teensAnd I'm barely thirteen and pack a dirtyOl' Russian firearm that shoots thirtyJust then I hear the bus engineI'm transcendin'I'm crowd surfin'I can't see the time burnin' I'm not hurtin'With my mahogany pen"I'm on Award Tour, with Muhammed and them!"And we be overseas, and not in these streetsWhere my peeps stay alive, like the BeegeesAnd the likes of Jay-Z would say my steezSay he handily brought, hip hop peace[Chorus]I'm a dreamer, but I ain't the only oneGot problems but we love to have funThis is our world, from here to your hoodWe alive man, it's okay to feel good!I'm a dreamer, but I ain't the only oneGot problems but we love to have funThis is our world, from here to your hoodLively up now, it's okay to feel good!I'm a Dreamer!!Sometimes we just like to have fun, man we like to forgetAll the fighting, all the guns and the tires burnin[Verse 3]Back on the verseImagine crack wasn't birthedImagine that Earth wasn't hurtImagine no Homeland alertsImagine no record locaterSo I wouldn't have to get a criminal waiverImagine the Piece wasn't in my briefsInstead Peace could stretch across the seasSo finally we could we could just rest in the EastNo RefugeesAnd you, well you could dress in a bookAnd I could read your body with less than a lookI got a dream girl in my mind, that's the hookAn intellectual, sexual and still can cookAnd I feel good right now...I feel good right hereYou feel good right now? You feel good??[Chorus]I'm a dreamer, but I ain't the only oneGot problems but we love to have funThis is our world, from here to your hoodWe alive man, it's okay to feel good!I'm a dreamer, but I ain't the only oneGot problems but we love to have funThis is our world, from here to your hoodLively up now, it's okay to feel good![Repeat 2x][K'Naan speaking to end]We not down and out...just because the times are hardUh-uh...uh-uh...yeah...shout out to the strugglersIn my country...the hardest place on Earth right nowBut still...I still know how to get downI still know how to vibe outStill know how to talk to a pretty girlTake it easy now...YEAH