Common People
Written by Church of Rhythm (from Not Perfect)
6-20-97
These chords are easy, so I'm not gonna' write them down. You can use
power or open chords. They both sound pretty good (I like to mix them).
Chorus:
We are a common people, each of us a fallen man
Let's find that common ground and stop drawing lines in the sand
We are a common people, living in a common life
There are ties that bind us all when we look beyond the lines
Common people you and I
Common people you and I
I see a blind man on the street
He doesn't know what I look like
So he can't judge the man I am
Except by what he sees inside
I see a child on the street
He doesn't know the mistakes I've made
I know he takes me where I am
He sees a friend not a crusade
Chorus.
I see a brother on the other side
of my crusade, my holy fight
I think I know where I went wrong
when I gave up love to be proved right
I saw a man die on a cross
He forgot the mistakes I've made
He died for me the way I was
and He wants me to love the same
Chorus.
Can't we tear the fences down?
Can't we rip the labels off?
Can we share the common ground
instead of judging what is not?
Can't we love instead of hate?
Can't we trust instead of fear?
Can we stop fighting for a moment
and feel our common fear?
Is it us against them, wrong against right,
black against white, my kind your kind?
There comes a time to put the argument down
and have a party on the common ground!
Chorus.