Common - Love is...

[00:04.90] Yeah [00:17.34] Yeah [00:22.36] How beautiful love can be [00:23.66] On the streets love is hard to see [00:26.39] It's a place I got to be [00:28.62] Loving you is loving me [00:31.68] How beautiful love can be [00:34.29] On the streets love is hard to see [00:37.17] Gotta reach that frequency [00:39.84] Loving you is loving me [00:42.43] Yeah, you know what love is [00:44.14] Even found it on the ground where the thugs live [00:46.87] My man had to dig deep to find his [00:49.55] Couldn't sleep cause on the real he had five kids [00:52.39] Live nig's, real niggas express and taste it [00:55.78] At crap games, black dames and big faces [00:58.43] Cases in court, fam' showing love and support [01:00.86] You and your baby's mom thought that love was a sport [01:03.60] As men we were taught to hold it in [01:06.57] That's why we don't know how 'til we're older men [01:08.78] If love is a place I'ma go again [01:11.11] At least now, now I know to go within [01:13.87] At times it can take ya for a spin [01:16.70] Heartbreak hotel then you're home again [01:19.26] I've seen love make a nigga soul pretend [01:22.04] Like a story that he don't want to end, yo [01:24.95] How beautiful love can be [01:27.37] On the streets love is hard to see [01:30.17] It's a place I got to be [01:33.04] Loving you is loving me [01:36.27] How beautiful love can be [01:38.27] On the streets love is hard to see [01:40.88] Gotta reach that frequency [01:43.33] Loving you is loving me [01:46.13] It's all love where we come from [01:48.38] In the hood love we was told to run from [01:50.86] That same hood where the guns sung [01:53.32] We holla love, hoping it'd become one [01:55.97] Crack got so many lives undone [01:58.62] From lack of love many hide, some run [02:01.56] I knew this girl with a son who dreamt of acting in plays [02:05.20] Demonstration with her man had her trapped in a maze [02:07.27] Trying to find herself again, much of that she'd have gave [02:09.83] Love can free us, to it some of us react as a slave [02:12.66] Funny, we love 'em more when they're relaxed in a grave [02:15.36] Wonder if a thug is raw, is he actin' afraid? [02:17.82] Everybody loves sun, why do I attract shade? [02:20.69] Heard of the love of money, but compassion it pays [02:23.73] Talk about it with my youth so she'd understand [02:26.52] What it is to be loved by a man [02:29.57] How beautiful love can be [02:31.02] On the streets love is hard to see [02:34.23] It's a place I got to be [02:36.35] Loving you is loving me [02:39.63] How beautiful love can be [02:42.09] On the streets love is hard to see [02:44.69] Gotta reach that frequency [02:46.99] Loving you is loving me [02:49.96] Some say that I'm a dreamer 'cause I talk about it often [02:53.06] Seen the hardest nigga soften wit' his homie in a coffin [02:55.63] We walk and stand in, fall in it [02:58.24] With the right companion we all in it [03:00.84] Mary sang a song about it, having broad limits [03:03.72] In the game of life, it's the scrimmage [03:06.07] Reminiscing on letters I wrote in my small days [03:08.78] A letter to the people, love always, yeah [03:11.90] How beautiful love can be [03:15.04] On the streets love is hard to see [03:16.30] It's a place I got to be [03:18.77] Loving you is loving me [03:21.96] How beautiful love can be [03:24.27] On the streets love is hard to see [03:27.57] Gotta reach that frequency [03:30.13] Loving you is loving me [03:33.70]