Love Is - Common

[00:00.06]Love Is - Common
[00:00.87]Written by：lonnie lynn/james yancey/anna gaye/marvin gaye/james nyx/elgie stover
[00:22.02]How beautiful love can be
[00:23.87]On the streets love is hard to see
[00:27.44]It's a place I got to be
[00:29.79]Loving you is loving me
[00:32.51]How beautiful love can be
[00:34.58]On the streets love is hard to see
[00:37.9]Gotta reach that frequency
[00:40.45]Loving you is loving me
[00:42.59]Yeah you know what love is
[00:44.76]Even found it on the ground where the thugs live
[00:47.61]My man had to dig deep to find his
[00:49.97]Couldn't sleep 'cause on the real he had five kids
[00:53.46]Live nig's real niggaz express and taste it
[00:55.9]At crap games black dames and big faces
[00:58.69]Cases in court fam' showin' love and support
[01:01.15]You and your baby's mom thought that love was a sport
[01:04.25]As men we were taught to hold it in
[01:06.49]That's why we don't know how 'til we're older men
[01:09.42]If love is a place I'm a go again
[01:11.94]At least now now I know to go within
[01:14.75]At time it can take ya for a spin
[01:17.25]Heartbreak hotel then you're home again
[01:19.82]I've seen love make a n**a soul pretend
[01:22.55]Like a story that he don't want to end
[01:25.31]Yo
[01:25.8]How beautiful love can be
[01:27.89]On the streets love is hard to see
[01:31.09]It's a place I got to be
[01:33.65]Loving you is loving me
[01:36.41]How beautiful love can be
[01:38.41]On the streets love is hard to see
[01:41.75]Gotta reach that frequency
[01:44.270004]Loving you is loving me
[01:46.55]It's all love where we come from
[01:48.55]In the hood love we was told to run from
[01:51.6]That same hood where the guns sung
[01:53.630005]We holla love hopin' it would come one
[01:56.630005]Crack got so many lives undone
[01:58.97]From lack of love many hide some run
[02:02.51]I knew this girl with a son
[02:03.94]Who dreamt of actin' in plays
[02:05.38]Demonstration with her man had her trapped in a maze
[02:07.64]Tryin' to find herself again much of that
[02:09.8]She'd have gave
[02:10.61]Love can free us to it some of us
[02:12.38]React as a slave
[02:13.22]Funny we love 'em more when they're relaxed in a grave
[02:15.79]Wonder if a thug is raw is he actin' afraid
[02:18.56]Everybody loves sun why do I attract shade
[02:21.4]Heard of the love of money but compassion it pays
[02:23.78]Talk about it with my youth so she'd understand
[02:26.52]What it is to be loved by a man
[02:28.98]Uh
[02:29.73]How beautiful love can be
[02:31.7]On the streets love is hard to see
[02:34.72]It's a place I got to be
[02:37.66]Loving you is loving me
[02:40.33]How beautiful love can be
[02:42.34]On the streets love is hard to see
[02:45.51]Gotta reach that frequency
[02:48.27]Loving you is loving me
[02:50.4]Some say that I'm a dreamer 'cause I talk about it often
[02:53.17]Seen the hardest n**a soften wit' his homie in a coffin
[02:56.20999]We walk and stand in fall in it
[02:58.58]With the right companion we all in it
[03:01.27]Mary sang a song about it having broad limits
[03:03.65]In the game of life it's the scrimage
[03:06.25]Reminiscing on letters I wrote in my small days
[03:09.17]A letter to the people love always
[03:11.56]Yeah
[03:12.56]How beautiful love can be
[03:14.26]On the streets love is hard to see
[03:17.77]It's a place I got to be
[03:20.1]Loving you is loving me
[03:22.77]How beautiful love can be
[03:24.8]On the streets love is hard to see
[03:28.05]Gotta reach that frequency
[03:30.54001]Loving you is loving me