Common – Home (feat. Bilal) (Black America Again Album)
[Intro: Minister Louis Farrakhan (sample)]
A man who's genius and freedoms and --
Ability to communicate and --
To talk, and to touch chords --
A man who has the ability and the audacity
And the -- of God to stand up, to stand up
[Verse 1]
Heard the sound of the trumpets, the voice from the throne
Seen the twenty-four elders and I knew I was home
I was told to write songs for the people
Take the original Hebrews on an Exodus of Black Excellence
Tell them to invest in us and make testaments about each other
Or how we sisters and brothers
Cover the land in corners of poems and stone
Go hard with it, let em know you God with it
Even though I authored it, let no one margin it
And make it all about paper or first weeks sales
Though this is from Heaven give 'em verses from Hel...