Brand Nubian - Maybe One Day Lyrics
[grand puba]Yeah, yeah yeah yeahOne time as we do it like this, yeahGrand puba, common sense[common]Yeah, yeah, yeahIts all love yall (3x) what you say?Intro/chorus: all, common[all] maybe one day we can work it outStrive to understand what lifes aboutAll it seems to be is sadness and painBlood like rain clogs urban drains[com] when we gonna realize and make the changeAnd take the blame, erase the shameCause new millenium is knockin at your doorThe new world orders what they got in store[grand puba]Now I cant stress this enough, life sure is roughYou gotta go through a whole lotta shitJust for you to get a little bitBorn into existence where your existence is non-existantBut your persistance overcomes their resistanceYour daily mechanism is your defense, whether it bePast or present tense, dont be denseIm droppin this with common sense (true indeed)As we linger on into the darknessPoisoned by society where high-anxiety is just one varietyHatin each other is another, brothaI mean Im really true to the shit, my spit aint just spitMy duty is to save my people from all of this shitAnd if I can get somethin for doin that then Im gon getAnd I wont quitMy ways and action manifest in my way of thinkinI just cant stand around and do nothinWhile my people sinkinI told you that I stay trueAnd I gotta do, what I can do, when I can do, soChorus[common]Grand pu...ima do....what I gotta do....what I can doIts one for all like brand nu-bian, feedin the multitudesOf five loads, dead men walkin with lost soulsSome say the games are strange, our ways have been tribalSince the days of kemet, now displayed on bennettRevolutions like a *****, Im tryin to stay up in itAnd our music is a message, though some is afraid to send itI dont know much about the new world order; I know iGot a new daughter, direction and protection I must provide for herThe moral of the story Im building...Like odb say, we for the childrenNike make a killin off us, we kill each other, it kills me to see thatYou take a life for gold, nigga did you really need that?We try to escape the mixtapes, rims and weed sackAnd to the new age, they say the womens gonna lead that, soChorus[pub] oh say it aint so[com] it aint so[pub] my peoples at a all time low[com] double oh pu[pub] nowadays we doin anything for dough[com] for the dough doe[pub] dont you know that knowledge is the note[com] what?[pub] know the ledge, dont hit the edgeThe negativity pulls us down like gravity[com] yup[pub] devilish ways and actions poisons us like a cavity[com] yessir[pub] as we send this one throughout our whole proximity[all] grand pu and common strive to come together[common]In this era of prepaid calling cardsI roll with squads called the godsIgnorance is at large, struggles in our backyardI slapbox with life and see we wasnt that hardLong as you got god, even got gramps off lahIts stray lies and bullets directed, to lead the villageOf lies disconnected like ghetto phones***** a search through a magazine for better homesIt aint gonna happenTil the devils gone with the breezeAnd niggas get off they knees so...Chorus
