Maybe One Day

[Grand Puba]<br>Yeah, yeah yeah yeah<br>One time as we do it like this, yeah<br>Grand Puba, Common Sense<br><br>[Common]<br>Yeah, yeah, yeah<br>It`s all love y`all (3X) what you say?<br><br>Intro/Chorus: all, Common<br><br>[all] Maybe one day we can work it out<br> Strive to understand what life`s about<br> All it seems to be is sadness and pain<br> Blood like rain clogs urban drains<br>[Com] When we gonna realize and make the change<br> And take the blame, erase the shame<br> Cause new millenium is knockin at your door<br> The New World Order`s what they got in store<br><br>[Grand Puba]<br>Now I can`t stress this enough, life sure is rough<br>You gotta go through a whole lotta shit<br>Just for you to get a little bit<br>Born into existence where your existence is non-existant<br>but your persistance overcomes their resistance<br>Your daily mechanism is your defense, whether it be<br>past or present tense, don`t be dense<br>I`m droppin this with Common Sense (true indeed)<br>As we linger on into the darkness<br>Poisoned by society where high-anxiety is just one variety<br>Hatin each other is another, brotha<br>I mean I`m really true to the shit, my spit ain`t just spit<br>My duty is to save my people from all of this shit<br>And if I can get somethin for doin that then I`m gon` get<br>And I won`t quit<br>My ways and action manifest in my way of thinkin<br>I just can`t stand around and do nothin<br>while my people sinkin<br>I told you that I stay true<br>And I gotta do, what I can do, when I can do, so<br><br>Chorus<br><br>[Common]<br>Grand Pu...I`ma do....what I gotta do....what I can do<br>It`s one for all like Brand Nu-bian, feedin the multitudes<br>Of five loads, dead men walkin with lost souls<br>Some say the games are strange, our ways have been tribal<br>Since the days of Kemet, now displayed on Bennett<br>Revolution`s like a pussy, I`m tryin to stay up in it<br>And our music is a message, though some is afraid to send it<br>I don`t know much about the New World Order; I know I<br>Got a new daughter, direction and protection I must provide for her<br>The moral of the story I`m building...<br>Like ODB say, "We for the children"<br>Nike make a killin off us, we kill each other, it kills me to see that<br>You take a life for gold, nigga did you really need that?<br>We try to escape the mixtapes, rims and weed sack<br>And to the new age, they say the women`s gonna lead that, so<br><br>Chorus<br><br>[Pub] Oh say it ain`t so<br>[Com] It ain`t so<br>[Pub] My peoples at a all time low<br>[Com] Double oh Pu`<br>[Pub] Nowadays we doin anything for dough<br>[Com] For the dough doe<br>[Pub] Don`t you know that knowledge is the note<br>[Com] What?<br>[Pub] Know the ledge, don`t hit the edge<br> The negativity pulls us down like gravity<br>[Com] Yup<br>[Pub] Devilish ways and actions poisons us like a cavity<br>[Com] Yessir<br>[Pub] As we send this one throughout our whole proximity<br>[all] Grand Pu` and Common strive to come together<br><br>[Common]<br>In this era of prepaid calling cards<br>I roll with squads called the Gods<br>Ignorance is at large, struggles in our backyard<br>I slapbox with life and see we wasn`t that hard<br>Long as you got God, even got Gramps off lah<br>It`s stray lies and bullets directed, to lead the village<br>of lies disconnected like ghetto phones<br>Fuck a search through a magazine for Better Homes<br>It ain`t gonna happen<br>Til the devil`s gone with the breeze <br>and niggas get off they knees so...<br><br>Chorus