I Am Music-Common

[ti:I Am Music] [ar:Common] [al:Electric Circus] [by:] [offset:0] [00:19.10]Can you speak your words of bedtime [00:23.04]I was just saying to myself the other day [00:27.75]Most of believing the magician [00:31.02]But you're bewitching [00:33.96]Because of this I must say [00:36.21]I （I） [00:38.16]I （oh I） [00:40.36]I [00:42.87]Appreciate what you give to me [00:45.51]Yeah （I） [00:47.26]I （oh I） [00:49.39]I [00:51.78]Appreciate what you give to me [00:53.84]People say I got soul look at all the records I hold [00:55.98]The lives I've affected connect and control [00:57.55] [00:58.21]With me in your basement your mama got blown [01:00.89]I provide the vibe to keep the strippers on poles [01:03.01]Through me the black experience is glorious told [01:04.88]From a school that's old bold so I rock gold [01:06.90]And platinum so cats I hold notes and cash for them [01:09.53]On streets I rap for them in ghettos I blast for them [01:11.98]Mash with them at the party and all [01:13.85]Peep the universal language that's embodying all [01:16.05]Put the Billie Holiday Bob Marley in y'all [01:18.25]Y'all feel most high when I be in y'all [01:20.62]System with the rhythm I up jump the boogie [01:22.95]Shame I rely on record labels to push me [01:25.03]Since the bush I been y'all way to escape [01:26.71] [01:27.85]Through eight-tracks wax CDs and tapes [01:29.54]I am music [01:30.54] [02:05.57]You can feel me all over alive I help culture survive I opened the eyes of many [02:09.65]Styles y'all wrote in the skies with your lows and highs open your mind to hear me [02:14.16]In the streets I beat cops and obsolete [02:16.23]On every station it's hot you can't stop my heat [02:18.42]I taught J and Dre how to rock the beat [02:20.62]On what's going on today yo I gots to speak [02:22.88]I take the stand yo you could feel me bam [02:25.33]Whether in Larry Graham or Steely Dan [02:27.78]Live I be killing it man [02:29.16]For how long I survived yo I'm realer than man [02:31.66]Got a soft side but I'm still a man [02:33.80]For me women cry and children dance I'm trying to eat [02:36.69]I could'a got a mil and ran [02:38.18]But like Sly for the fam still I stand [02:39.88] [02:40.54]I am music [02:42.16] [03:17.13]I been here since the beginning [03:18.94]Beginning of time yo beginning of time [03:21.34]Deep in the mind of the ancient ones [03:23.47]Everybody love me like they do the sun [03:25.59]I shine at times yo at times I'm dark [03:27.66]You can't categorize me my mind's a art [03:29.86]Inside my heart it ain't about climbing charts [03:31.98]I'm the one you roll with when your ride is smart [03:34.68]The change that came the change that comes [03:36.63]I change with chords and I kick it with drums [03:38.83]Get blow with horns and did it on the one [03:41.27]Riffed for guitars for the Lord I sung [03:43.51]Spun around the world at parties and weddings [03:45.70]Wherever I go I create the setting [03:47.32]You know me from lessons or your pops collections [03:50.07]Whether whole or half stepping I'm a blessing [03:51.62]Yo I am music