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Credits
AUSFÜHRENDE KÜNSTLER:INNEN
Common
Stimme und Gesang
Pete Rock
Stimme und Gesang
KOMPOSITION UND LIEDTEXT
Lonnie Lynn
Songwriter:in
Peter Phillips
Songwriter:in
PRODUKTION UND TECHNIK
Pete Rock
Produzent:in
Jamey Staub
Mischtechniker:in
Dave Kutch
Mastering-Ingenieur:in
Phil Joly
Aufnahmeingenieur:in
Lyrics
[Chorus]
Why don't you wise up, show all the people?
Why don't you wise up, show all the people?
Why don't you wise up, show all the people?
Wise up, show all the people in the place
Why don't you wise up, show all the people?
Why don't you wise up, show all the people?
Why? Why don't you wise up, show all the people?
Wise up, show all the people in the place
[Verse 1]
Three wise man came to visit where I've been
They brought gifts with a southside blend
One had Hennessy, the other, a book of street ministry
The third gave a mirror and told me to remember me
Assemblies of similes and metaphors
Analogies that's analog, the reservoirs
I come from, **** got the dog in 'em
They become Gods, no longer with hog in 'em
I saw venom in the eyes of a snake
The Solomon for common men, I wise up the place
Like a prize in a race, that boy hold the medal
By the scars on his face, I can tell he know the ghetto
Where we both trying to get to, it ain't coincidental
His is on the streets, mines is over instrumentals
The Lord set my mental to be more than sentimental
The ventricles that I vent through are temples of what I've been through
[Chorus]
Why don't you wise up, show all the people?
Why don't you wise up, show all the people?
Why don't you wise up, show all the people?
Wise up, show all the people in the place
Why don't you wise up, show all the people?
Why don't you wise up, show all the people?
Why? Why don't you wise up, show all the people?
Wise up, show all the people in the place
[Verse 2]
Holy ground and pillars, Lord willers, drug dealers
Monks with keys, that go realer, Chicago-iller
Some know Dilla, rich cars fulfill us
Parents tryna get their kids to eighteen, so they will us
Youngins is restless, investments in Vestes
My man ain't from Dallas, but he know where the TEC's is, hold 'em
My poker face is golden
Pedigree of a legacy that's stolen
Wise like the old man with food in his beard
And when he cry freedom, it's jewels in his tears
Blues and the beers, outside interferes
A sleuth for the truth, there's clues in the years
I unruled the fears so that I can get Biz
Like the Diabolical and do the improbable
That anything's possible, ill, but it's logical
Touched by black angels so you can feel the molecules
[Chorus]
Why don't you wise up, show all the people?
Why don't you wise up, show all the people?
Why don't you wise up, show all the people?
Wise up, show all the people in the place
Why don't you wise up, show all the people?
Why don't you wise up, show all the people?
Why? Why don't you wise up, show all the people?
Wise up, show all the people in the place
[Outro]
Wise up, show all the people in the place
Wise up, show all the people in the place
Yo, listen
Wise up, show all the people
Wise up, show all the people in the place
Wise up, wise up, yo, listen
Wise up, wise up, yo, listen
Wise up, wise up, yo, listen
Wise up, show all the people in the place
Why don't you wise up, yo, listen
Wise up, wise up
Wise up, show all the people in the place
Yo, listen
Yo, listen, yo, listen
Yo, yo, listen
Love is
Love
Written by: Common, Lonnie Lynn, Peter Phillips