When We Move - Common, Black Thought, Seun Kuti

Bouncin', mystic, realistic

And simplistic, spirits visit

How we live it, it’s intrinsic

Kismet kissed it, it’s smeared like lipstick

Colorful on our souls

A mouth full of gold or a drummer’s roll

Stories get told about us

That’s why things so blah without us

Wherever we are you can feel the prowess

Whenever we move, yo, we turn the style up

I’ma just give Black power its flowers

Whether in the projects or the palace

Even when the pale horse tried to gallop

And stir, stir it up, we kept the balance

We move in silence, we move the loudest

Ancestors in my dreams, they move the wildest

They prayed about us, praised and shouted

Picture this country bein' brave without us

A slave’s nostalgia move through the woods with vigor

When we got free, the world moved with us

Now they wanna change their bodies, go figure

Used to call us, now they wanna be niggas

We the rivers that move through the jungle, yo

When we move, we make the world wonderful

When we move

The whole world follows in our path

When we move

The whole world follows in our path

And who can move like this?

Let me see what I can do right quick

My people were made in whose likeness?

Boy, fly niggas ain’t never flew like this

Pitch black butterfly from the other side

Somebody’s style was lost, it wasn’t mine

I’m in a small demographic

Of real ones dealin' with all things classic

King’s fabric, linen and silk

From the home of the solid gold honey and milk

The ones who built it from the mud, soil and sand

A Black man, the world in the skin of his hand

when I shine beyond stellar

Fella, Kwamé and, Mandela

Lead a truth-teller, the inkwell dweller

My pen signs a New York Times best-seller

When I move, y’all move in my wake

B-D energy I generate

How to never move weak, I demonstrate

Celebratin' my peeps when I innovate

For my dons and divas weighin' odds and evens

To the non-believers, vagabonds and heathens

Achievers, we ain’t satisfied with dreamin'

Long as I’m still breathin', watch how I move

When we move

The whole world follows in our path

When we move

The whole world follows in our path

When we move (Move)

The whole world follows in our path

When we move (Move)

The whole world follows in our path

Would they feel the pain like we do?

Would they hear a cry like we do?

No one cares, no one cares

But when we move (Move)

The whole world follows in our path

When we move (Move)

The whole world follows in our path

But when we move (Move)

The whole world follows in our path

When we move (Move)

The whole world follows in our path