Yeah, believe it or not, what kept me alive is my dream
I'm a dreamer, but I ain't the only one got problems
But we love to have fun, this is our world, from here to your hood
We alive, man, it's okay to feel good
I'm a dreamer, but I ain't the only one got problems
But we love to have fun, this is our world, from here to your hood
Lock me up now, it's okay to feel good
I got a friend named Foe, who got a friend named Blow
With a finger named Clap, that'll leave you on the side like a Kangol hat
He ain't have no choice, he was born this way
These streets pull your number like a phone display
And you gotta be defensive with your life
You gotta be like Bush and take P-emptive strikes
And the boys from the hood are always hard
Let alone in Mugdashir to master the art
If you bring the world hoods to a seminar
We from the only place worse than Kandahar
Yeah, that's kinda hard
But we still like to party in Mardi Har
Something good happens, we say mashallah
Something bad happens, que sera, sera
I close my eyes and all I can see is you dancing with me
And I'm a dreamer, but I ain't the only one got problems
But we love to have fun, this is our world, from here to your hood
We alive, man, it's okay to feel good
I'm a dreamer, but I ain't the only one got problems
But we love to have fun, this is our world, from here to your hood
Lock me up now, it's okay to feel good
I'm a dreamer, it's okay to feel good
Yeah, it's the truth
Ay yo
Ay yo
Check it out
What would it take for a boy about my age
To hear cheers in his head upon that stage
And the tears they would drown out
The tears from my brown eyes
Come on backstage
You see the screams, ain't the screams from gunshot streams
In my dreams, these screams are from hot teens
And I'm barely 13, a pack of dirty
Old Russian firearm that shoots 30
Just then I hear the bus engine
I'm trancing, then I'm crowd surfing
I can't see the town burning
I'm not hurting with my mahogany pen
I'm on a world tour with Mohammed and them
And we'd be overseas and not in these streets
When my peeps stay alive like the Bee Gees
And the likes of Jay-Z would say my steeze
Sing a handily broad hip-hop piece
I'm a dreamer, but I ain't the only one got problems
But we love to have fun, this is our world
From here to your hood, we alive
Man, it's okay to feel good
I'm a dreamer, but I ain't the only one got problems
But we love to have fun, this is our world
From here to your hood, lock me up now
It's okay to feel good, I'm a dreamer
Sometimes we just like to have fun, man
We like to forget
All the fighting
All the guns and the tires and the burning
Back on the verse
Imagine crack wasn't birthed
Imagine the earth wasn't hurt
Imagine no homeland alerts
Imagine no record locator
So I wouldn't have to get a criminal waiver
Imagine the peace wasn't in my briefs
Instead peace could stretch across the seas
So finally we could just rest in the east
No refugees
And you
Well you could dress in a book
And I could read your body with less than a look
I got a dream girl in my mind that's the hook
And intellectual
Sexual and still can cook
Yeah
And I feel good right now
I feel good right here
You feel good right now
I'm a dreamer, but I ain't the only one got problems
But we love to have fun, this is our world
From here to your hood, we alive, man
It's okay to feel good
I'm a dreamer, but I ain't the only one got problems
But we love to have fun, this is our world
From here to your hood, lock me up now
It's okay to feel good, I'm a dreamer
But I ain't the only one got problems
But we love to have fun, this is our world
From here to your hood, we alive, man
It's okay to feel good
I'm a dreamer, but I ain't the only one got problems
But we love to have fun, this is our world
From here to your hood, lock me up now
It's okay to feel good
Yeah
We not down or out
Just because the times are hard
Uh
Uh-uh
Uh-uh
Yeah
Shout out to the strugglers
In my country
The hardest place on earth right now
But still
I still know how to get down
I still know how to vibe out
Still know how to talk to a pretty girl
I take it easy now
Yeah!
Yeah!