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Come True
03:54
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I told you I loved you at least 10 times a day.
Spoke it loud without speaking didn't think I should say.
That you're improbable like that hailstorm in June;
that I'd pick up my life, set it down next to you.
You stood with me in the rain so I'll grab my umbrella and sing you a song.
My road leads to you there's ar rainbow a big pot of gold and the sun shining through.
It's an honor to please you - you give like a river, receive like an ocean, you do.
Your laughter is golden, last summer was golden. Life would be so golden with you.
You're a dream, I'm a dream. Let's come true. Let's be dreams together baby, oh let's come true.
Fortune favors the bold, and it's not over yet.
Took a chance and I told you. Life's too short for regret.
Said you want me with you, so I'll move. Fortune pours when it rains. I'm so grateful for you.
And I'll tell you in kisses and twinkling eyes and I'll whisper it soft in your ear.
I'll wake up to you every day with the joy of a child and my lips on your face.
To thank God I found you, you found me, we found out how blessed love can be when it's true.
To thank God I made it this far with some faith and a leap left to bring me to you.
And a simple love for a special lady, and I feel elated when in your presence heavenly fated
And I was debatin whether or not to tell you truth but it was too late to save myself from you
and it's true we could grow we could go separate ways yeah I know
you've been thinking different things but I've been thinking we could glow
No no rush but love won't wait for us, so let's go in 50/50 and keep it one undo
You're a dream, I'm a dream. Let's come true. Let's be dreams together baby, oh let's come true.
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2. |
Millenial Babies
03:11
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grown up, kept it one hundo
fast life, know I had to run yo.
and as I reminisce, it would be remiss, to think we didn’t have fun yo.
26, years in the jungle.
cold shoulders, hope we all bundled
and i hope we still cordial, cordless phones, hooked to my earlobes
“we’re closed” says the sign
ergo, went home
slept on the stairs tho
cause i was feeling up and down
but aint here to air
laundry, clean clothes
love’s supreme
yep its spharaoh
hate breeds hate
gotta keep it sterile
and ima keep it sterling
we the future
herald, hurting
beats when we can,
beats being, meh,
thats boring,
this morning
got a text, martron whats good
chuck still drumming
yo alexa.
dani still fam
and ima be me
thats still in the plans
anything else is uncivil
breaking bad habits
dad, malcolm in the middle
did you feel the quake just a little?
did you take a break just to mingle.
with a body you don’t know?
with nobody, you won’t grow?
or so they say?
don’t forget to laugh okay?
homie do the math always,
2 heads better, than a single brain
single stain,
dang, with a bang bang
homie laid
lifeless, stole his chain
stole everything
priceless its a dang shame
wish i rang rang,
wish the game change,
why my brain, thinnk so many things
millenial babies
no wonder we all crazy
wrote a letter put a poem in it
bout a person with a golden vision
was our meet up really our decision
or did did universe said to listen
im really sorry for the distance
cut you off, but ima let you finish
use to have problems with commitment,
now my problem is my commitment
We run so fast - and we're always runnin
No finish line - runnin, chasing after somethin
I keep the faith - Millenial Babies
Just take my time - No wonder we all crazy
We run so fast - all i wanted was some time
No finish line - to slow it down
I keep the faith - just get my feet back under me
Just take my time
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3. |
Colorblind
04:58
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Born colorblind I never, understood the meaning of our skins.
I never learned, that we are equal but so different, running in a race that white began, with such a lead.
Running on the backs of others. Cotton dollars grown on Native soil, by toil of Slave.
Race invention; walls between us. Race is used against us building fear, and breading hate.
White supremacy pervasive; written in the laws and taught in schools; learned on TV.
White is taught to wonder why brown, can't just pick himself right of the ground, and be like white.
Just like white-washed Jesus, white like, founding fathers, sheriffs, judges, white, like stars and stripes.
Once was colorblind, but now I start to see. How my skin of white has opened doors for me.
Oh amazing grace please open up my eyes, and help others see if they too have been blind.
Born colorblind I never saw what it takes to make change and talk race at all,
and we're walkin on egg shells, rooms full of elephants, comments from the past sayin that it's irrelevant but,
if we don't know where we're come from, how are we gonna get where we gotta go, how we make that grow?
We are born as equals but then, some of us are fed with golden spoons, while others starve.
We are born as equals with 5 hundred years of horror drawing lines, into the sand.
Drafting laws and separating, housing, schooling so we may not learn, that we are one.
"One but many, equal, different, woven of so many vibrant strands. THe warmest quilt.
Equal and so beautiful, and, strongest for our great diversity - not prophecy....
But description" - Ralph Ellison, making Invisible visible for all to see.
Open eyes and open hearts lets, learn to see the world for what it is, and build a bridge.
We were colorblind but may we start to see, that you can't just close your eyes to history. Oh amazing grace please open up our eyes, and help others see if they too have been blind.
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4. |
Fallin for You
02:32
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We hit the town was a solid weekend
But that late night conversation has me thinking losing sleep and
I wanna approach you , is it kosher? Situation vegan?
I want no beef but I need a brief on last night's bombshell speech yea.
I mean I thought about it surely
And I really don't want to be surly
If this doesn't work out and I'm out of a friend who I really truly adore we
both know theres a chance so I aint even frontin
I rather try and risk it all than live life always wondering.
So we get back to the city and you get back to your family
I get back to the mission the movement moving without me
I hit you up for some coffee
We sit back and start talking
And there's an elephant in the room wow
It's just watching us talk we
Try to keep it real cool
We try to keep it real cool
We try to keep it together like feathers holding with glue
That didn't work out for Icarus, he fell in that pool
Then 4 words fall out my mouth.
I say "I'm falling for you"
Oops, did I say it?
I look and you look elated.
And I'm thinking it'll never be the same its strange
how quick things change its crazy
And you say its about dang time
I'm like you coulda told me
Then you hold out your hand understand the plan is for our hands to
hold sweet
so week
Walk the warm streets under the darkest moon
And as we're walking and talking
I know its true
I mean I met some other loves but not quite as cool
I mean the truth is, I think I'm falling for you.
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5. |
Grow Our Souls
02:24
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We just grow and grow, can't stop us though
Tenacious like the weeds.
Tried to round us up, you're not fast enough, and we've been saving seeds.
Got my CSA (community supported agriculture) farmer's market today, and my garden's bloomin, it's a greatful harvest.
And I thanked those plants that I grew from seed that my grandpa gave me, his grandma gave he.
Wise Fukuoka said, "let the plants perfect you." And wise Grace Lee Boggs said, "Time to grow our souls." So let's just grow our souls, let's just grow our souls, let's just grow our souls, let's just grow our souls.
Chorus - And we grow - and we grow and we grow, we're growin roots and wings - grow the roots and the wings, we're growin change - grow the change be the change, we grow community - grow community, we're growin hope - grow hope in our souls, we're growin hearts and minds - hearts and minds all the time, we grow our souls - in our souls let it grow, our love just grows and grows - it just grows and grows.
Verse - Lovely seeing you here
You there, you hear?
The movement has arrived so alive
for the new year
Plant a seed in your heart let it grow
with love that shows
the love, the ebb and the flow
of life
No need for unnaturals right?
If the future looks dark, we must all be the light
History repeats.
Let us sow what we reap
Make our ancestors proud of all that they see
Chorus
Verse -
Let's just grow our souls (repeat)
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6. |
Lately
02:12
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Lately, I been thinking
I been thinkin, well thinkin bout you
for as long as i can remember
your love was tender
like a river it flowed it was cool
and if heaven permits us, let's get real love
cause time ain't gonna wait for no fool
but as long as we're honest, I promise
we can sit back and watch love do what it do
so true
Lately, not so lately
I been lovin you lady, and I've
tried to patient, but I've got to let you know
that you're lovely, darlin, dreamy
I just want to make babies, with you
family, tree of life, we
could build one so ably
passionately, see what I mean?
Be my tai tai ("wife" in Mandarin Chinese) be my lady
Should we try, should we try, cause there's not use fighting nature she's too wise
should we try, out this love from above, from below let's just grow
in between, burst the seems, we're just dreams, we're just dreams, we're just dreams, we're just dreams
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7. |
Let Them In
03:29
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A broken man was once a boy. Broken heart.
Or broken school. Or broken home. And we start.
To see him slip, down through the cracks, and then he cracks.
And then he's broke, and then he breaks. A broken man has been made.
What happens, when the boy becomes a man?
And the chains around his hands
drive him insane and change his plans?
for the life he was to live
no more hugging moms
no kids
just a wandered mind, a tragic time,
he'll pay this fine til he's dead.
And us outside those walls
say it must be all their fault
but we don't look inside ourselves
to see weve been doing wrong
This that song for introspection
allow yourself time reflection.
Is the person in the mirror
more criminal than the rest in?
400 years, and the past is at our feet
And the people on the streets
Look for fathers, they're all sweeped
into cells, 1/3
Of descents of africans
Are struggling thats no probs
they dont deserve to be free
O the horrors, the demise
Theres no men, but no surprise
A quarter of the worlds prison population us alive
in our nations backyard
now we can do better
cause what we do today
Is how we're remembered forever
In - This is how we should begin
just let them in - We should let em all in
Before they're out. Pentience, forgiveness is the word
If they been out then let them in -
If there out let em in, let em begin to be heard
That background check, cant earn that check. let them in.
The welfare line won't let them sign. Let them in.
Can't get that loan to buy that home. Let them in.
Old Sally Mae won't help you pay. Let them in.
That ballot box, that ballot locked, let them in.
No where to turn, so they return, and you or I....
Might do the same, try on those shoes, open eyed.
In, just let them in. Before they're out. If they've been out then let them in. In, just let them in. Before they're out. If they've been out then let them in.
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8. |
Forgiveness Is Peace
04:42
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Heaven forgive me, hard times left me feeling empty
old friends dont call, lovers try their best to forget me.
The fame use to tempt me,
Attracted to living simply
Foundations solid,
No heat though it was a crack in the chimney
Half way to 50, +1 done living in envy, pain, strange, i opened up to the same thing,
that i trapped long ago, its a trap
But u know,
I started believin in the love in the people in the globe,
I saw the light, shine bright from the hearts of humans
I looked in the mirror and asked that man what he was doing
U can say a lot of
Things, but even more than talking
The best way to pave the way is to make the road by walking
Only the great forgive, I, wonder how Dr. King did? Jesus of Nazreth, Gandhi, mercy beyond words.
I'll try to emulate, and, pray that I find the grace to, forgive myself, forgive yourself, one lovely day.
It's never easy, but it's, so necessary, perhaps, it's why we're here to try to learn to let it go?
To find compassion in the, darkest of days, to make amends. To make some peace.
To find the strength, to let it go, we let it go, we're free at last, we let it go, we let it go.
I saw the pain, in their eyes. I saw their light, and I cried. I know forgiveness takes love. I know forgiveness is peace.
We've always done our best, it's, not easy being human; we spread our pain, push love away, sorry to say.
What if the pain we cause is, always just born of ours? and, what if the harshest words and violence are just cries for love?
I want to see the needs that, inspire the hurtful deeds and, catch me before, catch you before, we burn the bridges and just multiply our wounds.
Forgive us mother for we, know not what we do, it's just, just me and you, just you and I, the line is thin, let's make it right. Let's make it right.
I saw the pain, in their eyes. I saw their light, and I cried. I know forgiveness takes love. I know forgiveness is peace.
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9. |
Be Love
02:36
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If we could be tender...that softness that sweetness.
But not forget tough...be real draw lines, push through the hard times
If we could see beauty...eyes open see the golden.
When going gets rough...keep blessings on the mind.
If we could be patient...that virtue is potent.
But not wait too long...but power moves are a must.
If we could be peaceful...know courage and mercy.
But stand up to wrong...bring that tender that tough and rise up.
Chorus: Then we would be love. Be love with me, be free.
Oh we could be love. We are humanity.
And if we could dream big...if you dreamt it you can breathe it.
But not forget small...redwood tree was once seed.
If we could stay humble...let goodness do good through you.
But always walk tall....we're all giants a hundred feet tall!
If we could be grateful...giving thanks for our blessings.
And cultivate health...our bodies are temples.
If we could live simply...so others can simply live.
And give of our wealth...take what we need, be rich in our mental.
Oh!
Let us be hope. Cause we know the key to peace is deep growth.
With open eyes and open hearts let's breathe hope.
And happiness is ready to blow like C4.
City love we only want y'all to dream big with the same unabated joy that we see in kids.
It's all love, and you know that, so let your life speak and show that, cause once time is gone there's no goin back!
Chorus
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10. |
I Believe
03:08
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I believe these words are true, cause I believe in you.....
I believe in you, and I believe our love
will open doors once locked, like rain can soften rock.
I believe in you, and I believe our love
can soothe a hardened a heart, like streams make mountains part
I believe that soon they will see what we see - that they'll see what we've dreamed believe. I believe.
I believe in you and I believe our love
can wash this all away, like tide on sandy bay
I know it's hard earthbound dreamin of stars
thinking thatit's too far it'll never be ours
i'm here to tell you that together love will open way the deepest regions of oceans vastly reaching to outer space
nothing's an obstacle, no vision un obtainable, don't believe in impossible
nothin will be the same with you,
and nothin will be the same with us
and all it took was a little trust
I believe that soon, they will see - to see what we been missing
what we see - make realities from wishes
that they'll see - we get caught up in the logical
what we see - and don't realize what has been possible
i believe - i believe in love truth and emptahy
I believe - and you are guaranteed those things when you get with me
Yeah I believe in you, and I believe our love
will bless us all one day
will bless us come what may
will bless us come what may
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City Love Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
We are City Love, a west Philly social justice music and education group making music for the world we need. From the heart.
For the people.
We share assemblies, workshops and performances throughout the country helping heal the racial divide, opening dialogue, building community, and inspiring positive change with our music.
We are Brian Caselli Jordan, Sterling Duns and Emyne Sanders-Rasul.
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