Good Lord-Brother Ali

[ti:Good Lord] [ar:Brother Ali] [al:The Truth Is Here] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Good Lord - Brother Ali [00:06.40]I said the good lord made me what [00:08.61]I am and I play this game for keeps [00:11.42]Got to use what I have to get what I want [00:14.18]All the dreamer got is his dream [00:16.12] [00:17.00]And the good lord made me [00:18.55]What I am and I play the hand I'm dealt [00:21.74]Said sometimes the hardest thing to be in this world is just yourself [00:26.67] [00:27.37]Best believe the qur'an influenced all of my songs [00:30.09]My fans run and tattoo 'em all on they arms [00:32.79]Wanna travel be there every time I perform [00:35.32]Now look me in my eye and tell me how am I wrong [00:37.91]And who would of thought [00:38.92]Just giving 'em the truth from my heart [00:40.89]Both the ugly and the beautiful part [00:42.89]Would give 'em food from thought let 'em chew it apart [00:45.47]And they'd all crowd around me and my movement would start [00:47.92]And how you gonna hate me for being what god made me [00:50.58] [00:51.15]It's not a game I ain't saying it playfully [00:53.27] [00:53.84]They relate to the joy and the pain in me [00:56.11]And seeing me make it be watching a slave get free [00:58.37] [00:59.20]Holler like bilal in the tower [01:01.10]Hiya Ala AL fallah Allah is the power [01:03.73]Giving voice to the dream and let it be seen [01:06.11]I admit it's obscene but deen recognize deen [01:08.67]So it isn't pristine when I spit a sixteen [01:11.32]Clean words don't describe the sh*t that I've seen [01:14.00]But laying in the alley I whispered to shahada [01:16.11] [01:16.82]Bullets fly by from the drive by [01:19.13]So imam Mohamed might pound on the podium [01:21.64]Popmaster fabel work it out on the linoleum [01:24.19]Chappelle bust funnies mos def bust rhymes [01:26.81]Muhammad Ali is the greatest of all time [01:29.18]I said the good lord made me [01:30.66]What I am and I play this game for keeps [01:34.02]Got to use what I have to get [01:35.65]What I want all the dreamer got is his dream [01:38.93] [01:39.56]And the good lord made me [01:41.00]What I am and I play the hand I'm dealt [01:44.35]Said sometimes the hardest thing to be in this world is just yourself [01:49.54] [01:50.04]Something spiritual happen when them hands get to clapping [01:53.12]Can you tell me what language do you laugh in [01:55.37]The human reaction of smiles and cries [01:57.73]What language are the tears when they're falling from your eyes [02:00.45]You've probably seen the sunrise hundreds of times [02:02.91]But let a painter paint it or a poet describe [02:05.46]The very moment where heaven and earth might collide [02:08.12]And god let the breath of life come outside [02:10.61]Uh Satan doubted it angels bowed to it [02:13.49]I'm so beautifully human and I'm proud of it [02:16.25]Soul of a soldier heart of a scholar [02:18.58]I wrote this poem with the blood of a martyr [02:21.03]Imam Mohamed might pound on the podium [02:23.43]Popmaster fabel work it out on the linoleum [02:26.25]Chappelle bust funnies mos def bust rhymes [02:28.72]Muhammad Ali is the greatest of all time [02:31.05]I said the good lord made me [02:32.63]What I am and I play this game for keeps [02:35.94]Got to use what I have to get [02:37.72]What I want all the dreamer got is his dream [02:40.92] [02:41.47]And the good lord made me [02:42.78]What I am and I play the hand I'm dealt [02:45.53] [02:46.26]Said sometimes the hardest thing to be in this world is just yourself [02:50.92] [02:51.62]I said the good lord made me [02:53.29]What I am and I play this game for keeps [02:56.12] [02:56.64]Got to use what I have to get [02:58.45]What I want all the dreamer got is his dream [03:01.58] [03:02.21]And the good lord made me [03:03.74]What I am and I play the hand I'm dealt [03:06.32] [03:06.97]Said sometimes the hardest thing to be in this world is just yourself [03:11.88] [03:36.05]A lot of cats [03:36.74] [03:38.03]Get up in an age around [03:39.30] [03:40.03]In their early 30's [03:41.15] [03:42.77]And they start to think of like lifetime companionship [03:45.34] [03:47.00]And that's when they start to meet ladies who [03:48.73] [03:50.14]Are not too prone to trust anybody [03:51.93] [03:53.73]And they got plenty of history to prove to you [03:56.05]Why they shouldn't trust nobody [03:57.24] [04:00.65]I didn't know you then when all that stuff was going down [04:03.48] [04:07.24]Put them other cats away man [04:08.65] [04:09.28]And let me try to make something in your life