Common - When We Move lyrics

[Verse 1: Common] 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 ni**as We the rivers that move through the jungle, yo When we move, we make the world wonderful [Chorus: Seun Kuti] When we move The whole world follows in our path When we move The whole world follows in our path [Verse 2: Black Thought] And who can move like this? Let me see what I can do right quick My people were made in whose likeness? Boy, fly ni**as ain't never flew like this Pitch black bu*terfly 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 Pop, then I stop when I shine beyond stellar Fela, Kwame Nkrumah, Mandela Leader, 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 [Chorus: Seun Kuti] When we move The whole world follows in our path When we move The whole world follows in our path [Instrumental Bridge] [Chorus: Seun Kuti] When we move (Move) The whole world follows in our path When we move (Move) The whole world follows in our path [Post-Chorus] Would they feel the pain like we do? Would they hear a cry like we do? No one cares, no one cares [Chorus: Seun Kuti] 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