One Love

Just one

One love yeah

One love yeah

One love yeah

One love yeah

Now from the little Rock nine

To the Jena six

We came a long way

Tell me are we there yet (nope)

From Hip Hop on the block

In the red sweats

We graduated overseas

In them Leer Jets

This generation got on occupation

Inspiration

Cause segregation was the Father of misinformation

They brought back the nation to it's knees

When some brave souls

Stood and rolled

Interlocked elbows

And they screamed no more

John Kennedy the President to grassroot workers

Hollywood to the stage

To the fast food workers

And every now and then

They pull us down again but it's cool

Cause every forty plus years

One love get through (c'mon)

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I got you got

We got to have one love

Or else it's all a lie

We gotta have it

(One love one love)

I got you got

We got to have one love

Or else it's all a lie

We gotta have it

(One love one love)

I want to believe

But nowadays it's so hard

And I'm really trying to see

But my faith it lives in me

It lives in you

It lives in me

It lives in everybody can't you see

That we're all one

We came undone

How'd we become this way?

[CHORUS]

I got you got

We got to have one love

Or else it's all a lie

We gotta have it

(One love one love)

I got you got

We got to have one love

Or else it's all a lie

We gotta have it

(One love one love)

The same bullet

That assassinated Martin the King

Killed Sean Bell

Killed Bobby Kennedy's dream

Turned friends into enemies

The wickedest theme

Atrocious vultures approach us

With intent to bleed

And every now and then

They bring us down again but it's cool

Cause every 40 plus years

One love get through

And all the ignorance

And hatred in the ice just melt

And for the first time in years

The truth get felt

And from the streets

To the burbs to the west and east

Our generation got nerve

Ima speak my peace

It's either time for a change

Or they died in vain

One love's the religion

One bloods the same

[CHORUS]

I got you got

We got to have one love

Or else it's all a lie

We gotta have it

(One love one love)

I got you got

We got to have one love

Or else it's all a lie

We gotta have it

(One love one love)

Spirit come on down say

Spirit bring peace all around

Bring your peace yeah

Peace all around

Bring your peace

(One love)

(One love)

I got we got to got to get One love

I got we got to get it

I got we got to got to get One love

I got we got to get it

I got we got to got to get One love

I got we got to get it

I got we got to got to get One love

I got we got to get it

One love yeah

One love yeah

One love yeah

One love yeah