People Like Me

Текст песни K\'naan - People Like Me <br/> Heaven, is there a chance that you could come down<br />and open doors to hurtin people like me<br />People like me (4x)<br /><br />Is it fair to say that I am stressing out<br />I'm stationed in Iraq and they won't let me out<br />My homeys said I was stupid for even joining<br />My counsellor said that my decision was disappointing<br />( )<br />How she had good for good state colleges<br />and with my good grades it wouldn't have been a problem<br />but they don't understand the power of significance<br />more than brilliance and certainly more than diffedence<br />and if you ask me now would i repeat it<br />Would i fight in a war i don't believe in<br />Well the answer is if not me where the cancer is<br />they been doing this before Jesus of Nazereth<br />and after all this time it is still deadly hazardous<br />and bush isn't really being all that innacurate<br />When he says we're winning the war cos its staggering<br />but thats cos we're killing everybody that we see<br />and most of us soldiers we can barely fall asleep<br />and time and time again i'm feeling incompetent<br />cos my women back home, we're constantly arguing<br />and i must be crazy cos all i'm obbsessing with is<br />her myspace and facebook and who's commenting<br />I swear to god if she's cheatin' I'm doin her ass in<br />I can tell with one look and it came to me sounding like something from a song hook<br /><br />Heaven, is there a chance that you could come down<br />and open doors to hurtin people like me<br />People like me (4x)<br /><br />Meet Sarah, the proud mother of young sabastian<br />suburban professional went to college in ...shton<br />In self pity she suddenly cried,<br />would my life be important if I suddenly died?<br />Neighbours saying what a nice women she was<br />keeping mostly to herself ever since the divorce<br />and with the compant downsizein and the fall and all<br />she really shouldn't take it that personal at all<br />It wasn't her boss who had his eyes on her thighs<br />and got a rise from her risin off the desk though<br />and despite rememberin sayin no plenty of times<br />it was still a damn surprise being let go<br />and now stuck with a mortgage she cant afford<br />and too educated to blame the corporate world<br />She got on welfare and hated it case work a power trippin<br />and generally being degraded if,<br />nothing else she was treated sick<br />and ineffective which is the worst thing<br />that she'd been left with<br />Damn, no magic from david blane,<br />no painter to pain this pain,<br />No morgan freeman to narrorate the shame<br />So she took refuge and prayer<br />kinda like findin god in the phonebook<br />and it came to her sounding something like a song hook<br /><br />Heaven, is there a chance that you could come down<br />and open doors to hurtin people like me<br />People like me (4x)<br /><br />I guess I told you about myself to a degree<br />just by telling you about people like me<br />but people like me they speak politely<br />they don't start no beef or peace ...<br />Everybody gotta eat but everybody doesn't<br />which is why i want to tell you about my favourite cousin<br />he and I grew up where the sun shines<br />and we both partook with the gun crimes<br />and we both liked american rap rhymes<br />even though we didn't understand one line<br />if you remember my line of notes in my last album<br />I talked about a close call with a grenade<br />I think we both must have been about 7th grade<br />but dont panic we both survived without damage<br />but we developed a bond like we survived the titanic<br />but when the country became frantic<br />my mother tried to get us out, planned it<br />to the last detail except the plan got derailed<br />cos there wasn't enough money for the plain tickets<br />how bitter when my mother had to chose who to take with her<br />so my cousin got left in the war and thats just hard to recall<br />but now i take refuge and prayer,<br />kinda like finding god in the phonebook<br />it came to me sounding kinda like something from a song hook .<br /><br />Heaven, is there a chance that you could come down<br />and open doors to hurtin people like me<br />People like me (4x)<br /><br />Heaven, is there a chance that you could come down<br />and open doors to hurtin people like me<br />People like me (4x)