Yeah, believe it or not, what kept me alive is my dreamI'm a dreamer, but I ain't the only one got problemsBut we love to have fun, this is our world, from here to your hoodWe alive, man, it's okay to feel goodI'm a dreamer, but I ain't the only one got problemsBut we love to have fun, this is our world, from here to your hoodLock me up now, it's okay to feel goodI got a friend named Foe, who got a friend named BlowWith a finger named Clap, that'll leave you on the side like a Kangol hatHe ain't have no choice, he was born this wayThese streets pull your number like a phone displayAnd you gotta be defensive with your lifeYou gotta be like Bush and take P-emptive strikesAnd the boys from the hood are always hardLet alone in Mugdashir to master the artIf you bring the world hoods to a seminarWe from the only place worse than KandaharYeah, that's kinda hardBut we still like to party in Mardi HarSomething good happens, we say mashallahSomething bad happens, que sera, seraI close my eyes and all I can see is you dancing with meAnd I'm a dreamer, but I ain't the only one got problemsBut we love to have fun, this is our world, from here to your hoodWe alive, man, it's okay to feel goodI'm a dreamer, but I ain't the only one got problemsBut we love to have fun, this is our world, from here to your hoodLock me up now, it's okay to feel goodI'm a dreamer, it's okay to feel goodYeah, it's the truthAy yoAy yoCheck it outWhat would it take for a boy about my ageTo hear cheers in his head upon that stageAnd the tears they would drown outThe tears from my brown eyesCome on backstageYou see the screams, ain't the screams from gunshot streamsIn my dreams, these screams are from hot teensAnd I'm barely 13, a pack of dirtyOld Russian firearm that shoots 30Just then I hear the bus engineI'm trancing, then I'm crowd surfingI can't see the town burningI'm not hurting with my mahogany penI'm on a world tour with Mohammed and themAnd we'd be overseas and not in these streetsWhen my peeps stay alive like the Bee GeesAnd the likes of Jay-Z would say my steezeSing a handily broad hip-hop pieceI'm a dreamer, but I ain't the only one got problemsBut we love to have fun, this is our worldFrom here to your hood, we aliveMan, it's okay to feel goodI'm a dreamer, but I ain't the only one got problemsBut we love to have fun, this is our worldFrom here to your hood, lock me up nowIt's okay to feel good, I'm a dreamerSometimes we just like to have fun, manWe like to forgetAll the fightingAll the guns and the tires and the burningBack on the verseImagine crack wasn't birthedImagine the earth wasn't hurtImagine no homeland alertsImagine no record locatorSo I wouldn't have to get a criminal waiverImagine the peace wasn't in my briefsInstead peace could stretch across the seasSo finally we could just rest in the eastNo refugeesAnd youWell you could dress in a bookAnd I could read your body with less than a lookI got a dream girl in my mind that's the hookAnd intellectualSexual and still can cookYeahAnd I feel good right nowI feel good right hereYou feel good right nowI'm a dreamer, but I ain't the only one got problemsBut we love to have fun, this is our worldFrom here to your hood, we alive, manIt's okay to feel goodI'm a dreamer, but I ain't the only one got problemsBut we love to have fun, this is our worldFrom here to your hood, lock me up nowIt's okay to feel good, I'm a dreamerBut I ain't the only one got problemsBut we love to have fun, this is our worldFrom here to your hood, we alive, manIt's okay to feel goodI'm a dreamer, but I ain't the only one got problemsBut we love to have fun, this is our worldFrom here to your hood, lock me up nowIt's okay to feel goodYeahWe not down or outJust because the times are hardUhUh-uhUh-uhYeahShout out to the strugglersIn my countryThe hardest place on earth right nowBut stillI still know how to get downI still know how to vibe outStill know how to talk to a pretty girlI take it easy nowYeah!Yeah!