The Corner-Common

[ti:Corner (Last Poet Reprise)] [ar:Common] [al:The Corner (Single) (International Version)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Corner (Last Poet Reprise) - Common [00:15.55]Memories on corners with the fo's and the mo's [00:18.39]Walk to the store for the rose talking straightforward to h**s [00:21.59]Got uncles that smoke and some put blow up they nose [00:24.54]To cope with the lows the wind is cold and it blows [00:27.20] [00:27.79]In they socks and they soles n**gas holdin' they rolls [00:30.78]Corners leave souls opened and closed hopin' for mo' [00:34.11]We know where to go n**gas rollin' in droves [00:37.01]They shoot the wrong way cuz they ain't know and they goes [00:40.10]The streets ain't safe cuz they ain't knowing the code [00:43.30]By the foes I was told either focus or fold [00:45.62] [00:46.37]Got cousins with flows hope they open some doors [00:49.22]So we can cop clothes and roll in a rolls [00:52.32]Now I roll in a olds with windows that don't roll [00:55.07] [00:55.63]Down the roads where cars get broken and stole [00:58.23]These are the stories told by stony and cottage grove [01:01.57]The world is cold the block is hot as a stove [01:04.70]On the corners [01:05.57]I wish I could give you this feelin' [01:07.76]I wish I could give this feelin' [01:09.58] [01:11.40]On the corners n**gas rob or kill [01:13.60] [01:14.14]And dyin' just to make a livin' huh [01:16.15]We overstated we underrated we educated [01:19.30]The corner was our time when time stood still and [01:23.15]Gators and snakeskins and [01:24.72]Yellow and pink and [01:26.23]Powder blue profiles glorifying them [01:28.89]Street lights and deep nights cats tryin' to eat right [01:32.25]Ridin' no seat bikes with work to feed hypes [01:35.32]So they can get sweet Nike's they head and they feet right [01:38.42]Desires of street life cars and weed types [01:41.61]It's hard to breathe nights days are thief like [01:44.65]The beasts roam the streets the police is Greek like [01:47.59]Game that is deep we speak and believe hype [01:50.53] [01:51.04]Banged in the streets has cop left for deep life [01:53.91]Its steep life coming up where n**gas is sheep like [01:56.93]Rappers and hopers we strive to be like [02:00.10]G's with three strikes seeds that need light [02:03.20]Cheese and recite needs and be strife [02:06.10]The corner where struggle and greed fight [02:08.47]We write songs about wrong cuz it's hard to see right [02:12.33]Look to the sky hoping it will bleed light [02:15.48]Reality's a b**ch and I heard that she bites [02:18.44]The corner [02:19.17]I wish I could give you this feelin' [02:21.44]I wish I could give this feelin' [02:23.40] [02:25.09]On the corners n**gas rob or kill [02:27.33] [02:27.85]And dyin' just to make a livin' huh [02:29.98] [02:31.04]The corner was our magic our music our politics [02:34.08] [02:34.64]Fires raised as tribal dances and war cries [02:37.93]Broke out on different corners [02:39.41] [02:39.98]Power to the people [02:41.15]Black power [02:41.83]Black is beautiful [02:42.73]Black church services murderers Arabs serving burgers [02:45.85]As cats with gold permanents move they bags as herbalists [02:49.16]The dirt isn't just fertile its people workin' and earnin' this [02:52.14]The curb getters go where the cats flow and the current is [02:55.18] [02:55.79]It's so hot that n**gas burn to live [02:58.38]The furnace is whether money movin' the determined live [03:01.35] [03:01.88]We talk sh*t play lotto and buy German beers [03:04.75]It's so black packed with action that's affirmative [03:07.50]The corners [03:08.37]I wish I could give you this feelin' [03:10.57]I wish I could give this feelin' [03:12.46] [03:14.17]On the corners n**gas rob or kill [03:16.77]And dyin' just to make a livin' huh [03:19.23]The corner was our rock of Gibraltar our Stonehenge [03:22.96]Our Taj mahal our monument [03:25.72]Our testimonial to freedom to peace and to love [03:30.45] [03:31.11]Down on the corner