The Believer (feat. John Legend) - Common & John Legend

Only just a friend The love story begins Now here's a happy ending to believe in. You're always there for me Now you're with me in my dreams It's got me wondering if you ever Dream of me I don't wanna risk losing everything But I'll take the chance and tell you what I'm thinking Girl, you'll be my best friend Can we put this to bed then? Tonight's the night To cross the line Baby won't you be mine? Not just my homegirl Time that I take you home girl Tonight's the night To cross the line Let me love you tonight I... I... I... Kiss. Kiss. Kiss me on my lips We've been dancing 'round the moment Now we're doin' it Breathe. Breathe. And sigh your sweet relief We've been holding it so long The wait was killing me Oh and we are what we have been waiting for So baby, open your mind, while I close the door Oh girl, you'll be my best friend Can we put this to bed then? Tonight's the night To cross the line Baby won't you be mine? Not just my homegirl Time that I take you home girl Tonight's the night To cross the line Let me love you tonight I... I... I... Don't let this moment just slip away 'Cause we'll never know, unless we try someday If you're ready, I'm so ready Tonight's the night Tonight's the night Oh girl, you'll be my best friend Can we put this to bed then? Tonight's the night To cross the line Baby won't you be mine? Not just my homegirl Time that I take you home girl Tonight's the night To cross the line Let me love you tonight I... I... I...

Yeah, we used to flirt with freedom 'Fore everybody knew our name We became their favourite secret Love for love and not for fame Oh, when I was your user, your FaceTime abuser Dose after dose 'til we crashed Now they bet on our game Say we'll go down in flames It's too good, but we never could last But oh, we was undercover 'Til it overflowed, overexposed, yeah Oh, chained our love together Never took it slow And now we know life on overload (Love, love) Don't we always make a show (love) of love (Love, love, yeah) Let that cellphone ring, let that bluebird sing Let that message say I'm red, yeah Let them talk about us Let them talk too much While we rule the whole world from our bed 'Cause oh, we was undercover 'Til it overflowed, overexposed Oh, chained our life together Never took it slow And now we know, life on overload Don't we always make a show of love Life on overload, must we make a spectacle of love? Oh, yeah And oh, we was undercover 'Til it overflowed, overexposed Oh, chained our love together Never took it slow And now we know life on overload Don't we always make a show of love? Life on overload, must we make a spectacle of love?

For the world, world, world My name is Common, No I.D Ferrari testers, Armani dressers Exquisite thick bitches that body bless us Rest assured, we getting festive in Miami now Told my nigga 'Ye I'm about to win the Grammys now Getting Johnny Cash old white folks know me now Standing close to the mic like I'm Kobe now We celebrate disaster, they hate because we got love It's the pop life, a lot of faces pop up Known to tear the club and the block up Going through the airport with more lie than an opera New crooks who move books like Harry Potter Get cleaners to get it cleaner A legend like John, Lennon, I'm a dreamer Tried to fuck the world she only let me finger Mind trips to Medina to visit the redeemer A hero, I'll drop out like Hiroshima Off Sangria with two broads Still opening roads for I'm a dreamer It's for the world, world, world, world, world Dream on We take, uh, we make, uh, paper And build skyscrapers Walking on water, building my faith up Niggas with no heart, I'm the pace maker Get the beat from No I, feel the pulse of the Chi Survival of the fit with hope in they eye Taking notes from the sky to fly above understanding They notes from the most high, so I gotta land them Career ain't random, make anthems, streets chant them Rock rolls like a phantom Mad hoes like they throwing tantrums I tell them I need space like Richard Branson Dancing, with wolves and stars getting full at bars And then pass out like a pamphlet Never taking Grants for granted It's Common, I'm high above standard Fly nigga, keep my feet planted To rock the planet, I don't stop for panic Maybe I'm a hopeless hip-hop romantic I'm a dreamer It's for the world, world, world, world, world Dream on He introduced me, I stepped to the podium Said peace, gave thanks to the holy one Put my water up, thought about my daughter for a second The youth, the living resurrection Reflections of the sun glaring through the window Now the audience staring at my mental Feeling like the world, the world is at my fingers 'Bout to speak to an auditorium full of dreamers Kinda took me back to when I first had a dream To be like the king that sang Billie Jean Now it's gold records, and I'm on silver screens At the mountaintop, you still gotta dream To the dreamers If I dream you're here Angel dreaming there You should just come here If I wake you up Only difference is You can live the dream Just believe in it Once you find your shoulders dropping And your speech gets slow and hazy You better change your way of being Before you found your brain got lazy You can build a better future when you join the winning team If you desire a bright tomorrow, you must build a brighter dream Dare to let your dreams reach beyond you Know that history holds more than it seems We are here alive today because our ancestors dared to dream From Africa they lay in the bilge of slave ships And stood half naked on auction blocks From eastern-Europe they crowded in vessels overloaded with immigrants And were mis-named on Ellis island From South America and Mexico, from Asia, they labored in sweat shops From all over the world, they came to America Many shivering in rags, and still they dared to dream Let us dream for today and for tomorrow Let us dare to dream

Yeah 'Sup (All my real niggas be the same) Oh Yeah (20-20 hindsight, you just gotta do today, ya'know?) Uh Do you hear me? It's crazy Oh, sometimes I don't know where I'm turning to I look in the mirror and I see the truth But the truth is I don't know what to do now I'm so lost without you Truth is, yeah I wish I was better I was chasing the cheddar I ain't take the time to write you a letter I was too busy chasing the funds I ain't take the time out to take a day and just be your son Middle school, yeah, I got me a pack Yeah, I got me a sack Daddy gone, so I pick up the slack Lord knows that you need a new couch And if I had it my way now, I'd buy you a house If you gon' stay here, be watchin' your mouth Then what I do? Turn around and hid them eight balls all in your house (Damn) Safe to say I was breaking the rules I was posted on Poplar Street, pocket full or rocks and a tune No secret, I was failing the school Had you cryin' so much late at night that you could fill up a pool What's Heaven when you're living in Hell? DA hoping I fail, so they can lock me up and give me a cell (Hey) Sometimes I don't know where I'm turning to I look in the mirror and I see the truth But the truth is I don't know what to do now I'm so lost without you With my hopes and my dreams on the scale All I know is all these hard times keep making you frail (Ayy) And maybe I'm just chasing a dream or maybe caught in the hype We got faith, then we gon' be alright That mean we gon' make it tonight, we gon' live tomorrow Grind it up, no beggin' or borrowin' (Nah) And lately you been all on my mind, spending all of my time Tryin' not to go out of my mind (Yeah) And lately I been having my strap 'Cause I don't know which one of these so-called niggas got my back Just know that you raised you a king, I might live all my dreams (Believe that) Despite the fact that it's hard as it seems, yeah I know you see me rockin' the crowds, hope I'm makin' you proud God plans, He heard you pray for your child (Yeah) And even though I'm feeding my team and I'm doin' my thing Gotta say, all hail to the Queen, hey I don't know where I'm turning to I look in the mirror and I see the truth But the truth is I don't know what to do now I'm so lost without you And last, my Mom I don't think you know what you did You had my brother when you were 18 years old Three years later, I came out The odds were stacked against us One of the best memories I had Was when we moved into our, our first apartment No bed, no furniture, and we just all sat in the living room And just hugged eachother 'Cause we, that's what we, we thought we made it When something happens to you I don't know about you guys But I tend to look back to what brought me here You made us believe, you kept us off the streets Put clothes on our backs, food on the table You went to sleep hungry, you sacrificed for us You the real MVP I look in the mirror and I see the truth But the truth is I don't know what to do now I'm so lost without you

All this trouble in this here town All this shit going down When will they focus on this Streets ride up with the TV crews Look ma, we on the news But they didn't notice before this They float above the city lights Forget the truth, inhale the lies Just enjoy the show They see us reaching for the sky Just in order to survive Maybe we should go Go to the penthouse floor (let's go, let's go, let's go) Go to the penthouse floor (let's go, let's go, let's go) Let's ride the elevator, they can't keep us out no more Go to the penthouse floor (let's go, let's go, let's go) Penthouse floor All that bubbly, all that wine, oh man, look at the times Didn't they notice, notice Only future I can see, ain't what it used to be And I didn't know this, I didn't know this Once you're above the city lights, won't want to spend another night Down there on your own The holding on is made for us, the altitude is dangerous But we ain't going home Go to the penthouse floor (let's go, let's go, let's go) Go to the penthouse floor (let's go, let's go, let's go) Let's ride the elevator, it's what we've been waiting for Can't keep us out no more (let's go, let's go, let's go) Penthouse floor I heard this old joke once, it was like, uh Knock-knock, who there? It's us, us who? Just us, who this? Just playin', just me New phone, new hair, new era I'm in the penthouse, baby Handpicked from bad apples and bad eggs Held back, I had to grab crab legs And then there were only but a few Conversations held with patience, what a party, what a view What a dress, what a song, what a beautiful time My folks downstairs, still waiting in line They never been in these rooms, never stayed with these folks Never laughed at the news, never hated these jokes So as I fly in my suit, in a group, undercover Forcing a new smile, he tells me another He said, "What happened to the boy that climbed up the trunk?" Then he pushed me off the top and said, "Jump, nigga, jump!" Ooh, don't bring me down, I need a room in the clouds I wanna get there babe, I wanna elevate Ooh, my favorite mix, a little ignorance and bliss In the penthouse babe, go to the penthouse Go to the penthouse floor (let's go, let's go, let's go) Go to the penthouse floor (let's go, let's go, let's go) Let's ride the elevator, it's what we've been waiting for We'll tear down those penthouse doors (let's go, let's go, let's go) Those penthouse doors We'll tear down the penthouse doors (let's go, let's go, let's go) Baby, I'm in the penthouse floor (let's go, let's go, let's go) Baby, let's ride the elevator 'til we can rise some more Go to the penthouse floor (let's go, let's go, let's go) Penthouse floor

Silver bells(silver bells), silver bells (silver bells) It's Christmas time in the city, oh Ring-a-ling (ring-a-ling), hear them ring (hear them ring) Soon it will be Christmas day City sidewalks, busy sidewalks Dressed in holiday style In the air there's a feeling of Christmas Children laughing People passing Meeting smile after smile And on every street corner you'll hear Oh they're playing Silver bells (silver bells), silver bells (silver bells) It's Christmas time in the city (La la la la la la) Ring-a-ling (ring-a-ling), hear them ring (hear them ring) Soon it will be Christmas day, ah Strings of street lights Even stop lights Blinking bright red and green As the shoppers rush home With their treasures, yeah Hear the snow crunch See the kids bunch This is Santa's big day And above all the bustle,you hear Oh they're playing Silver bells (silver bells), oh silver bells (silver bells) Yeah, it's Christmas time in the city (La la la la la la) Woah, ring-a-ling (ring-a-ling), hear them ring (hear them ring) Soon it will be Christmas day, ah Soon we will come together We're born to love each other Just like those silver bells play Yeah, people around the word can dance to the sound Of Christmas day Let them play all those Silver bells (silver bells), oh silver bells (silver bells) It's Christmas time in the city (La la la la la la) Oh ring-a-ling (ring-a-ling), hear them ring (hear them ring) Soon it will be Christmas, come on now La la la la la la Yeah, soon it will be Christmas woah Christmas day Hey, soon it will be Christmas day, yeah yeah