Good Lord - Brother Ali

Good Lord - Brother Ali
I said the good lord made me what
I am and I play this game for keeps
Got to use what I have to get what I want
All the dreamer got is his dream
And the good lord made me
What I am and I play the hand I'm dealt
Said sometimes the hardest thing to be in this world is just yourself
Best believe the qur'an influenced all of my songs
My fans run and tattoo 'em all on they arms
Wanna travel be there every time I perform
Now look me in my eye and tell me how am I wrong
And who would of thought
Just giving 'em the truth from my heart
Both the ugly and the beautiful part
Would give 'em food from thought let 'em chew it apart
And they'd all crowd around me and my movement would start
And how you gonna hate me for being what god made me
It's not a game I ain't saying it playfully
They relate to the joy and the pain in me
And seeing me make it be watching a slave get free
Holler like bilal in the tower
Hiya Ala AL fallah Allah is the power
Giving voice to the dream and let it be seen
I admit it's obscene but deen recognize deen
So it isn't pristine when I spit a sixteen
Clean words don't describe the sh*t that I've seen
But laying in the alley I whispered to shahada
Bullets fly by from the drive by
So imam Mohamed might pound on the podium
Popmaster fabel work it out on the linoleum
Chappelle bust funnies mos def bust rhymes
Muhammad Ali is the greatest of all time
I said the good lord made me
What I am and I play this game for keeps
Got to use what I have to get
What I want all the dreamer got is his dream
And the good lord made me
What I am and I play the hand I'm dealt
Said sometimes the hardest thing to be in this world is just yourself
Something spiritual happen when them hands get to clapping
Can you tell me what language do you laugh in
The human reaction of smiles and cries
What language are the tears when they're falling from your eyes
You've probably seen the sunrise hundreds of times
But let a painter paint it or a poet describe
The very moment where heaven and earth might collide
And god let the breath of life come outside
Uh Satan doubted it angels bowed to it
I'm so beautifully human and I'm proud of it
Soul of a soldier heart of a scholar
I wrote this poem with the blood of a martyr
Imam Mohamed might pound on the podium
Popmaster fabel work it out on the linoleum
Chappelle bust funnies mos def bust rhymes
Muhammad Ali is the greatest of all time
I said the good lord made me
What I am and I play this game for keeps
Got to use what I have to get
What I want all the dreamer got is his dream
And the good lord made me
What I am and I play the hand I'm dealt
Said sometimes the hardest thing to be in this world is just yourself
I said the good lord made me
What I am and I play this game for keeps
Got to use what I have to get
What I want all the dreamer got is his dream
And the good lord made me
What I am and I play the hand I'm dealt
Said sometimes the hardest thing to be in this world is just yourself
A lot of cats
Get up in an age around
In their early 30's
And they start to think of like lifetime companionship
And that's when they start to meet ladies who
Are not too prone to trust anybody
And they got plenty of history to prove to you
Why they shouldn't trust nobody
I didn't know you then when all that stuff was going down
Put them other cats away man
And let me try to make something in your life