Common - U, Black Maybe

Can't come around
They gon' wanna bring you down
No one knows
just what's inside
Doing dope and doing time
Why they messing
with your mind
Black maybe
I heard a white man's yes
Is a black maybe
I was delivered in this world
As a crack baby
Hard for me to pay attention
And I act crazy
Gotta get over from the tip
I watch the fat lady
sing and song
On how we guerillas in warfare
And I'm the kingest kong
They say we dreamin wrong
Them same strips that them
older cats lingered on
Now the walgreens is gone
Hope is killed fiends are born
We leanin on a wall
that ain't that ain't stable
Its hard to turn on the
hood that made you
To leave We afraid to the
same streets that raised you
Can aid you What other
black births came suit
the rage up in
harlem and the southside
Brothers is starving
with there mouth wide open
Floating across state
got the workout plans
so they can move weight
The fate of the black
man woman and child maybe
Can't come around
They gon' wanna bring you down
No one knows
just what's inside
Doing dope and doing time
Why they messing
with your mind
Black maybe
Can't come around
They gon' wanna bring you down
No one knows
just what's inside
Doing dope and doing time
Why they messing
with your mind
Black maybe
He had game since
he used to hoop at chattum
Neither the ghetto nor
defenders could trap him
The stones had his
back and they'd pat him
He was living a life
they couldn't fathom
Colleges getting at him
with all type of scholarships
Even if he went they knew
he'd leave college quick
For the pros the one
from the hood that was chose
The black rose that
grew in the jungle
But humble stud still
had rumble in his blood
Women all around giving
him trouble love
You know the love
when you up they down
Cause you wrap a
ball they round
Your win is their crown
Dudes in the circle
he known for years
Shared beers and cheers but
chose different careers
when paper and fame came
they ain't know how to react
Them same studs shot
him in the back
Now that's black maybe
Can't come around
They gon' wanna bring you down
No one knows
just what's inside
Doing dope and doing time
Why they messing
with your mind
Black maybe
Can't come around
They gon' wanna bring you down
No one knows
just what's inside
Doing dope and doing time
Why they messing
with your mind
Black maybe
When we talk about black maybe
We talk about situations
Of people of color
and because you are that color
You endure obstacles
and opposition
And not all the time from
from other nationalities
Sometimes it come
from your own kind
Or maybe even your own mind
You get judged
you getlaughed at
you get looked at wrong
You get sighted for
not being strong
The struggle of
just being you
The struggle of
just being us
black maybe

black maybe
Can't come around
They gon' wanna bring you down
No one knows
just what's inside
Doing dope and doing time
Why they messing
with your mind
Black maybe

Common - U, Black Maybe

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