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I Am Music

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I Am Music

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Can you speak your words of bedtime

I was just saying to myself the other day

Most of believing the magician

But you're bewitching

Because of this I must say

I (I)

I (oh I)

I

Appreciate what you give to me

Yeah (I)

I (oh I)

I

Appreciate what you give to me

[Verse 1: Common]

People say I got soul look at all the records I hold

The lives I've affected, connect and control

With me in your basement, your mama got blown

I provide the vibe to keep the strippers on poles

Through me the black experience is glorious told

From a school that's old bold, so I rock gold

And platinum, so cats I hold notes and cash for them

On streets I rap for them, in ghettos I blast for them

Mash with them, at the party and all

Peep the universal language that's embodying all

Put the Billie Holiday, Bob Marley in y'all

Y'all feel most high when I be in y'all

System, with the rhythm I up jump the boogie

Shame I rely on record labels to push me

Since the bush, I been y'all way to escape

Through eight-tracks wax CDs and tapes

I am music

[Chorus]

[Verse 2]

You can feel me all over alive, I help culture survive, I opened

the eyes of

many

Styles y'all wrote in the skies, with your lows and highs, open

your mind to

hear me

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In the streets I beat cops and obsolete

On every station it's hot you can't stop my heat

I taught J and Dre how to rock the beat

On what's going on today yo, I gots to speak

I take the stand, yo you could feel me bam

Whether in Larry Graham or Steely Dan

Live I be killing it man

For how long I survived yo I'm realer than man

Got a soft side but I'm still a man

For me women cry and children dance, I'm trying to eat

I could'a got a mil and ran

But like Sly for the fam still I stand

I am music

[Chorus]

[Verse 3]

I been here since the beginning

Beginning of time yo beginning of time

Deep in the mind of the ancient ones

Everybody love me like they do the sun

I shine at times yo at times I'm dark

You can't categorize me, my mind's a art

Inside my heart, it ain't about climbing charts

I'm the one you roll with when your ride is smart

The change that came, the change that comes

I change with chords and I kick it with drums

Get blow with horns and did it on the one

Riffed for guitars, for the Lord I sung

Spun around the world at parties and weddings

Wherever I go I create the setting

You know me from lessons or your pops collections

Whether whole or half stepping I'm a blessing

Yo I am music

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