Hook (×2):
We just everyday people doing everyday sh**
Everyday people doing everyday sh**
Everyday people doing everyday sh**
Everyday people doing everyday sh**
Verse 1:
They try to make us feel like we ain't worth sh**
Worthless curses flung at us by these serpents
In this melting pot, we are roasting in the furnace
I can never worship another man; my purpose -
Is much greater than your status quo (yeah that is so)
They want us to compete for who's the baddest hoe or the maddest bro
Make us smell the cash, but they make sure we can't grab it though
Mouth waters as they stab their forks in their ca**eroles
The further we climb, the more they chop the base of our ladders slow
Promoting those with the whackest flow, and I know that these ba*tards know
If we come together, they are finished, so what they do
Is pit us 'gainst each other with some trivial a** craze
Dude, yes you've got a job, but how much do they pay you?
Quit that motherf**er yo; you can make your lane too
We're everyday people, but we've got bigger hearts and
We are kings and queens in this jungle; we are Tarzan
Hook (×2):
We just everyday people doing everyday sh**
Everyday people doing everyday sh**
Everyday people doing everyday sh**
Everyday people doing everyday sh**
Verse 2:
Catastrophic casualties can't create commodities
Confrontations can't communicate all our qualities
We have the ecology to shape our own economies
So why are we still on our knees, still acting like their colonies?
Individual greed, yeah my people's eyes are colored green
Ain't talkin' 'bout no vegetable (ya nahmean?)
Where's that collective mentality we had?
Such a paradox that we'll happily be sad
Make cheap deals abroad and watch the people in the Homeland
Beg for common goods from foreigners in their own land
Enslaved by oppressors who could well be our own kind
Every time we cosign, we prove how much we don't mind
We go blind deliberately, yet we stretch out our hands like we want something for free
No more handouts till we learn to read between the lines
Break out this prison if we really wanna free the mind
Hook (×2):
We just everyday people doing everyday sh**
Everyday people doing everyday sh**
Everyday people doing everyday sh**
Everyday people doing everyday sh**
Outro:
When we don't fight back
They take our souls
How would you react
If they came and stole -
All your self-esteem? (uh)
Would you know how to fight?
So don't let them
Get that far tonight...
Mama Africa