Love Is - Common

How beautiful love can be

On the streets love is hard to see

It’s a place I got to be

Loving you is loving me

How beautiful love can be

On the streets love is hard to see

Gotta reach that frequency

Loving you is loving me

Yeah, you know what love is

Even found it on the ground where the thugs live

My man had to dig deep to find his

Couldn’t sleep cause on the real he had five kids

Live nig’s, real niggas express and taste it

At crap games, black dames and big faces

Cases in court, fam' showing love and support

You and your baby’s mom thought that love was a sport

As men we were taught to hold it in

That’s why we don’t know how 'til we’re older men

If love is a place I’ma go again

At least now, now I know to go within

At times it can take ya for a spin

Heartbreak hotel then you’re home again

I’ve seen love make a nigga soul pretend

Like a story that he don’t want to end, yo

How beautiful love can be

On the streets love is hard to see

It’s a place I got to be

Loving you is loving me

How beautiful love can be

On the streets love is hard to see

Gotta reach that frequency

Loving you is loving me

It’s all love where we come from

In the hood love we was told to run from

That same hood where the guns sung

We holla love, hoping it’d become one

Crack got so many lives undone

From lack of love many hide, some run

I knew this girl with a son who dreamt of acting in plays

Demonstration with her man had her trapped in a maze

Trying to find herself again, much of that she’d have gave

Love can free us, to it some of us react as a slave

Funny, we love 'em more when they’re relaxed in a grave

Wonder if a thug is raw, is he actin' afraid?

Everybody loves sun, why do I attract shade?

Heard of the love of money, but compassion it pays

Talk about it with my youth so she’d understand

What it is to be loved by a man

How beautiful love can be

On the streets love is hard to see

It’s a place I got to be

Loving you is loving me

How beautiful love can be

On the streets love is hard to see

Gotta reach that frequency

Loving you is loving me

Some say that I’m a dreamer 'cause I talk about it often

Seen the hardest nigga soften wit' his homie in a coffin

We walk and stand in, fall in it

With the right companion we all in it

Mary sang a song about it, having broad limits

In the game of life, it’s the scrimmage

Reminiscing on letters I wrote in my small days

A letter to the people, love always, yeah

How beautiful love can be

On the streets love is hard to see

It’s a place I got to be

Loving you is loving me

How beautiful love can be

On the streets love is hard to see

Gotta reach that frequency

Loving you is loving me