Say Peace

Say Peace - Common/PJ/Black Thought

Lyrics by：Karriem Riggins/Burniss Earl Travis/Isaiah Sharkey/Lonnie Lynn/Paris A Jones/Andre Smith/Tariq Luqmaan Trotter/Drew Anthony Gavin/William Maragh/Winston Riley/Rexton Gordon/Lloyd Woodrowe James

Composed by：Karriem Riggins/Burniss Earl Travis/Isaiah Sharkey/Lonnie Lynn/Paris A Jones/Andre Smith/Tariq Luqmaan Trotter/Drew Anthony Gavin/William Maragh/Winston Riley/Rexton Gordon/Lloyd Woodrowe James

Hey hey hey hey hey hey

Say peace we don't really want no trouble

Tell me is you down with the struggle

All they really wanna do is cuff you

They don't love you no

Say peace we don't really want no trouble

Tell me is you down with the struggle

All they really wanna do is cuff you

They don't love you no

Starin' into the darkness like Marcus

Garvey I'm an artist

Respect to the goddess

Some say I'm too modest because I'm the hardest

On this path to progress there's been carnage

Regardless this is a harvest for the world to harness

Elder's dreams creator's promise

Bein' free is like payin' homage

I've been on that peace black Dalai Lama

My college was between Stony and Cottage

The knowledge I got it because n***as was 'bout it

Knew I had to pull it the bullet or the ballot

It's like the parable of the story of the talents

Want my people to get paper with no margin

Turnin' ghettos to gardens like Ron Finley

Through stages of life the world's my Wembley

I emcee from the point of entry

Of peace some find it

All through their paper routin'

And some find their peace

Their peace through praise and shoutin'

And some find their peace through

Pullin' the shades like Malcolm

I found my peace

My peace makin' these albums peace

We don't really want no trouble

Tell me is you down with the struggle

All they really wanna do is cuff you

They don't love you no

Say peace we don't really want no trouble

Tell me is you down with the struggle

All they really wanna do is cuff you

They don't love you no

In dystopian ground zero from xenophobia

They love to me and misquote me

They even wrote me out of all accounts

Other than shoulderin' small amounts

Till I called them out

I'm what this story is all about

My arrival wasn't willingly nah

But that's chillingly the truth

Now I fear for shots from cops killin' me

They on the hunt for the blood

And we the auxiliary

The Black power and love

I'm all the above

We'll find peace in the culture

I'm responsible to save

And every piece of the puzzle

Every article the page

I'm at peace in the struggle

I'm awake and not afraid

While I'm channelin' my energy from particle to wave

The peace like Mandela seated on Robben Island

Wise like a prophet arrivin' from the highlands

Look I'm not here for any kind of problem

Keep me out of your gossip column

Thank you I'm calm and tranquil

At the time and place too I shine

Word to God I'm divine and graceful

The grind could break you if you concentrate

You could find your faith

Where the higher conscious takes you

That's peace

We don't really want no trouble

Tell me is you down with the struggle

All they really wanna do is cuff you

They don't love you no

Say peace we don't really want no trouble

Tell me is you down with the struggle

All they really wanna do is cuff you

They don't love you no

Say we done lost

We say we dey pon the right path

Big life only

Liberty freedom

You hear me

Tell me what they fightin' for

Tell me what they fightin' for

Tell me what they fightin' for

Tell me what they fightin' for

Tell me what they fightin' for

Hey hey hey hey hey hey