Dreamer - K'NAAN

Yeah

Believe it or not

What kept me alive

Is my dreams

I’m a dreamer

But I ain’t the only one got problems

But we love to have fun

This is our world

From here to your hood

We alive man

It’s OK to feel good

I’m a dreamer

But I ain’t the only one got problems

But we love to have fun

This is our world

From here to your hood

Lock me up now

It’s OK to feel good

I got a friend named Flow,

who got a friend named blow

With a finger named clap

that’ll leave you on the side like a Kangol hat.

He ain’t have no choice he was born this way

These streets will pull your number like a phone display

You gotta be defensive with your life

You gotta be like Bush and take Pre-emptive strikes

And the boys from the hood are always hard

Let alone in Mogadishu it’s a mastered art

If you bring the words hood to a seminar

We from the only place worse then Kandahar,

Now that’s kinda hard

But we still like to party and hardy har

Something good happens we say Mashalla

Something bad happens Kay Sara Sara.

I close my eyes and all I can see is you dancing with me It’s ok to feel good, it’s the truth

Yo check it out

What would it take for a boy about my age to hear cheers in his head upon that

stage

And the cheers that would drowned out the tears from my brown eyes

Come on back stage you see the screams ain’t the screams from gun shot streams

In my dreams these screams are from hot teens

And I’m barely thirteen but I pack dirty, a Russian fire arm that shoots thirty

Just then I hear the bus engine I’m transcending I’m crowd surfing I can’t see

the time burning I’m

not hurting with my mahogany pen.

I’m on a world tour with Mohammad and them.

And we be over sees and not in these trees where my peeps stay alive like the

Bee gees

And the likes of JZ would save my steeze and singing handily brought Hip-Hop

peace

Sometimes we just like to have fun,

man we like to forget all the fighting

all the guns and the tires burning,

Back on the verse

Imagine crack was in birth

Imagine the earth wasn’t hurt

Imagine no homeland alerts

Imagine no record locater so I wouldn’t have to get a criminal waiver

Imagine if peace wasn’t in my briefs

instead peace could stretch across the sees

So finally we could just rest and in easy no refugees

And you, well you could dress in a book

And I can read your body in less then a look

I got a dream girl in my mind and that the hook,

An intellectually, sexual and still can cook

Yeah, and I feel good right now

I feel good right here

You feel good?

We not down and out, just cause times are hard

Yeah shout out to the struggeler’s,

in my country, hardest place on earth

But still

I still know how to get down,

I still know how to vibe out,

I still know how to talk to a pretty girl.

Take it easy now.