People Like Me-K'naan

[ti:People Like Me] [ar:K'naan] [al:Troubadour] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]People Like Me - K'naan [00:13.39]Heaven is there a chance that you could come down [00:18.13] [00:19.13]And open doors to hurting people like me [00:22.58] [00:24.54]People like me [00:26.07] [00:27.66]People like me [00:29.28] [00:30.45]People like me [00:32.49] [00:33.74]People like me [00:35.18] [00:36.97]Is it fair to say that I am stressing out [00:39.78]I'm stationed in Iraq and they won't let me out [00:42.70]My homeys said I was stupid for even joining [00:45.32] [00:45.88]My counselor said that my decision was disappointing [00:47.95] [00:48.93]How she had good for good state colleges [00:51.82]And with my good grades it wouldn't have been a problem [00:55.16]But they don't understand the power of significance [00:57.57] [00:58.15]More than brilliance and certainly more than difference [01:00.63] [01:01.19]And if you ask me now would I repeat it [01:03.45] [01:03.96]Would I fight in a war I don't believe in [01:06.85]Well the answer is if not me where the cancer is [01:10.44]They been doing this before Jesus of Nazareth [01:12.88]And after all this time it is still deadly hazardous [01:16.06]And bush isn't really being all that inaccurate [01:18.55] [01:19.20]When he says we're winning the war cos it's staggering [01:22.34]But that's cause we're killing everybody that we see [01:25.10]And most of us soldiers we can barely fall asleep [01:27.53] [01:28.05]And time and time again I'm feeling incompetent [01:30.33] [01:30.90]Cos my women back home we're constantly arguing [01:33.86]And I must be crazy cos all I'm obsessing with is [01:37.01]Her Myspace and Facebook and who's commenting [01:39.82]I swear to god if she's cheatin' I'm doing her a** in [01:42.79]I can tell with one look and it came to me [01:45.42]Sounding like something from a song hook [01:47.08] [01:49.44]Heaven is there a chance that you could come down [01:54.04] [01:55.04]And open doors to hurting people like me [01:58.44] [02:00.48]People like me [02:01.28] [02:03.59]People like me [02:04.49] [02:06.37]People like me [02:07.55] [02:09.63]People like me [02:11.60] [02:12.92]Meet Sarah the proud mother of young Sebastian [02:16.11]Suburban professional went to college in shton [02:18.62] [02:19.19]In self pity she suddenly cried [02:21.42] [02:22.00]Would my life be important if I suddenly died [02:24.47] [02:25.00]Neighbors saying what a nice women she was [02:27.19] [02:27.70]Keeping mostly to herself ever since the divorce [02:30.44] [02:30.99]And with the company downsizing and the fall and all [02:34.08]She really shouldn't take it that personal at all [02:36.59] [02:37.14]It wasn't her boss who had his eyes on her thighs [02:40.07]And got a rise from her rising off the desk though [02:42.52] [02:43.06]And despite remembering saying no plenty of times [02:46.03]It was still a damn surprise being let go [02:48.23] [02:48.83]And now stuck with a mortgage she can't afford [02:51.79]And too educated to blame the corporate world [02:54.81]She got on welfare and hated it case work a power tripping [02:58.52]And generally being degraded if [03:00.46] [03:01.07]Nothing else she was treated sick [03:02.99]And ineffective which is the worst thing [03:05.45] [03:05.99]That she'd been left with [03:07.02] [03:08.24]Damn no magic from David Blane [03:11.45]No painter to pain this pain [03:12.73]No Morgan Freeman to narrate the shame [03:14.78] [03:15.79]So she took refuge and prayer [03:17.18] [03:17.97]Kinda like finding god in the phone book [03:20.60]And it came to her sounding something like a song hook [03:23.42] [03:25.08]Heaven is there a chance that you could come down [03:30.06] [03:31.09]And open doors to hurting people like me [03:34.39] [03:36.46]People like me [03:37.67] [03:39.84]People like me [03:40.99] [03:42.43]People like me [03:43.78] [03:45.42]People like me [03:47.01] [03:49.24]I guess I told you about myself to a degree [03:51.63] [03:52.25]Just by telling you about people like me [03:54.56] [03:55.13]But people like me they speak politely [03:57.38] [03:57.95]They don't start no beef or peace why me [04:00.54] [04:01.06]Everybody gotta eat but everybody doesn't [04:03.81]Which is why I want to tell you about my favorite cousin [04:07.04]He and I grew up where the sun shines [04:09.21] [04:09.95]And we both partook with the gun crimes [04:12.91]And we both liked American rap rhymes [04:15.14] [04:15.88]Even though we didn't understand one line [04:18.15] [04:18.80]If you remember my line of notes in my last album [04:21.81]I talked about a close call with a grenade [04:24.77]I think we both must have been about 7th grade [04:27.79]But don't panic we both survived without damage [04:30.81]But we developed a bond like we survived the titanic [04:33.08] [04:33.76]But when the country became frantic [04:35.02] [04:35.54]My mother tried to get us out planned it [04:37.93]To the last detail except the plan got derailed [04:40.72] [04:41.40]Cos there wasn't enough money for the plain tickets [04:44.39]How bitter when my mother had to chose who to take with her [04:47.49] [04:48.08]So my cousin got left in the war and that's just hard to recall [04:52.29] [04:52.88]But now I take refuge and prayer [04:54.49] [04:55.16]Kinda like finding god in the phone book [04:57.79]It came to me sounding kinda like something from a song hook [05:00.73] [05:01.40]Heaven is there a chance that you could come down [05:05.97] [05:06.97]And open doors to hurting people like me [05:10.76] [05:12.43]People like me [05:14.03] [05:15.62]People like me [05:16.76] [05:18.37]People like me [05:19.92] [05:21.42]People like me [05:23.55] [05:25.38]Heaven is there a chance that you could come down [05:30.03] [05:31.22]And open doors to hurting people like me [05:35.55] [05:36.41]People like me [05:37.76] [05:39.47]People like me [05:41.37] [05:42.41]People like me [05:44.42] [05:45.40]People like me